But now summer holidays have begun. Children are out and about on their bikes, playing around the houses. Parents taking time off work to spend with their children, taking them out on day trips with many people going of on their summer holidays to exotic places.

Whether it is somewhere else in the country, or abroad people are traveling away from home for that well earned break. And with many different ways to travel, peoples options are wide open. From trains, planes, cars or ferries, anyone can really get to anywhere.

Years ago the majority of people would never be able to fly somewhere for a holiday, or even a weekend break. Many had never been abroad. But it is now so open for everyone to travel abroad, and fly abroad.

With flights sometimes as cheap as a penny, who can say no to that? So enjoy your summer break, make the most of that well earned time.

Everyone here at Enigin looks forward tot heir summer vacations, that wind down time after hard work - it help the spirit and the soul and set you up nicely for the rest of the year.

There are constant news flashes coming up all day today speculating at reasons for such an awful defeat, the shocking disallowing of the 2nd England goal, whether the coach Fabio Cappello will leave. And most people ask “did you see it” and quickly follow the question with “I don’t want to talk about it”. And yet we all still do, its impossible not to.

Hard not to go over how bad it was, how embarrassing it was, how the England players appeared to not be bothered at their shocking defeat. But then didn’t we all know it would end like this? It always does.

So I think now its time to move on, quickly and surely. Get past is, forget about it and enjoy the rest of the summer. And maybe even the possibility of winning at Wimbledon instead! Who knows, we have to get somewhere, at some point surely.

How is everyone finding it? As many will know, here in England tension is running high. With less then 48 hours to go until the deciding match, everyone I think is fearing the worst.

I really hate to admit it but I just have lost so much faith that I keep telling myself what I know deep down to be true, Wednesday will be it for England. I have got to a point where I realise there is no point in even hoping, or telling myself “come on they can do it!”. Because quite frankly, I am not so sure they can.

What about everyone else though? There really have been some shockers. Nearly every day there has been a team/country who has come out on top when no one expected it, and really, I think it is brilliant. It is so great to see teams who tend to get brushed off, being the ones to beat the teams who are expected to do well.

This week will truly make for an interesting world cup 2010! Honestly cannot wait to see what happens.

In the darkest, deepest part of South West England, we had the most glorious weekend. Will clear blue sky’s, bright sunshine, and not just bright, hot, very hot. It was hotter here then it was in Spain, Italy and even Los Angeles! Though no doubt for us, that is it. We get one summer weekend, not a whole summer of this sort of weather. But we can only hope!

On Monday morning here at the Enigin office it was all talk of what we did at the weekend, where we went, how burnt you got and how many bbq’s did you have. There were plenty of people ooohing and aaahing at painful red burnt skin.

The shops were ransacked for sun cream and charcoal, bbq food, beer and then after sun! But we do all go so mad in this sort of weather. We get so carried away.

Part of you desperately wants to make the most of it, knowing it won’t last, knowing this could be our only chance, especially here in the UK. But then so many of us go crazy as though summer is suddenly here and this is what it will be like for the next 3 or 4 months. Forgetting that most likely by next weekend it will be grey, cloudy and raining.

So we all rush out and by a brand new BBQ, summer clothes, sunglasses, flip flops, new garden furniture so we can sit out and enjoy the sun. Then again, I don’t want to be putting a damper on it, so I truly do hope it does last, or at least come back again. But still, I want to make the most of it, so as we do in the UK, now it is sunny I am off to sit outside in the sun for my lunch. Can’t miss a second of sunshine!

Well, we will see. With a few weeks of constant change, never knowing what you will wake up to we finally have sun. I say sun, sun, sun. We have it forecast for a week. But for the UK, that is pretty impressive.

Although it is only May we have already started to get into the flow of summer. We have had quite a few bbq’s to the point that we felt a little bbq’d out. And it isn’t even summer yet.

But then that is what we do in this country. The sun comes out and so does the sun cream, flip flops, bbq and sunglasses. And then it rains!

Nothing it different here at Enigin, the windows open, sun shining. Talk of bbq’s at weekend and visits to the beach. We just can’t help ourselves.

And I think this year we are all getting carried away more then usual, but there is a reason. I think it makes us believe and feel confident we WILL have a summer this year, we WILL get to the beach and catch the sun, it must happen this year.

But there is a bigger reason for all the excitement of summer, of course the World Cup. And lets hope, it will be a summer to remember.

I half heartedly agree with that.  Half heartedly because the ‘Old Fuel’ (play on words naturally) conjures up those roaring crackling fires of yester year that would spark into life and warm and unite the family group trying to keep warm on a cold and frosty night.  The fuel that would smoke its way into the atmosphere billowing up through the chimneys of every house in every land chocking the environment and effortlessly moving towards the ozone.  All of this was complete oblivion to us ‘Old Fuel’ users, the need to stay warm was our only consideration.  So in the  Old days one of  the only fuel sources open to us was a fuel that was doing irreparable damage, but one we were completely unaware of.  However, we now know we must help the planet to ensure it survives and live in the constant knowledge that what actions we take affect everyone that wants to preserve a  future for the their families and generations to come.  So I am very proud to be working within a company that takes this issue extremely seriously and is involved in direct action to help that very important task at hand.  Enigin wants to help everyone be very aware of the immediate changes that need to be made to not only help the Planet and address the Greener issues of the day, but to help just as importantly, your pocket and reap the savings that will benefit you immediately.  Working at Enigin has made me a lot more aware of personal ways to save energy and of course in turn save me money, and with a large family to support that is a very real issue for me.  I feel a better person for doing my little bit as I am sure everyone that recycles, and reduces their energy consumption feels.  Central Heating has meant instant heat and hot water, no more boiling kettles for your warm bath in front of the roaring fire that took four attempts to light then coughed smoke into the whole of the house then settle down to warm just the one room..  To feel warm wherever we went within the house was sheer luxury to some that had never had it but now taken for granted to the young who have known nothing else.  But we were ignorant as to the amount of energy we were using, but  Enigin have developed the technical know how to show you how to  reduce the waste of energy and I’m sure we  would agree, none of us would willingly waste our own energy supplies so why waste energy that is costing you money, even more reason to question ‘No Fool, like and Old Fool’ get informed and don’t be fooled into believing you know it all.