About a letter from a dear friend and about friendship

Today I’ve got a letter from one of my best friends in Germany. We worked for 13 years together in a company and had a very good friendship outside the work place as well.

Walter was always there for me and was more of a dad then my real dad ever was!

It is so wonderful to get a handwritten letter from someone that is so important for you and who lives now so far away. That really made my day because I know that there is still someone who hasn’t forgotten me.
Of course I’ve already handwritten him a reply and hope that he can read my scribbly handwriting. Fingers crossed that I’ll see him in two weeks when I fly back to Germany to celebrate my mum’s birthday and have some time in my old forest.

Shame that I still struggle to make real friends over here in the UK…
Still the best friends I have here are friends from twitter and I know only 2 of them in real life. Weird isn’t it?

But I am not alone with this ‘problem’ and because of that Neil came up with the idea of the Tweet-Up Club to give everyone the chance to finally meet the people behind the @ in real life.  Sadly the response isn’t the best yet but I hope that will change after x-mas!

That reminds me that it is almost time to write my x-mas /Yule cards for my online friends around the world.  So if you want to get one as well, get in touch.

Tanja

Fight for your life!

This week was certainly THE most difficult week I had so far here in the UK. Why you may ask, well let me try to explain what was going on in my crazy mind.

I don’t really know where to start so you have to bare with my mad writing in this post.

This week I decided to go back to Germany. I’ve got a job offer a tool maker plus assisting production manager and I could have started basicly the same day. So I told Neil that I was thinking of taking it to earn my own money and be more independent again. But that also meant that I had to leave him for that.

Of course you are right that this wouldn’t happen if everything was fluffy and happy. But let’s be honest, we all have our little probs and weird things about us and I did the same bloody error like I always did in my life: go the easiest way and walk away.
I did that in my longest relationship I ever had with a person…I just gave up and turned away without fighting for it.

So let’s try to cut it short without getting into too much detail…after a very emotional day, a lot of talking, I decided that this time I won’t run away from the problem, THIS time I would face it! We both did and I feel so relieved that we finally did talked everything through.
I mean I gave up all my life back in Germany to come over here for the man I love. We even have now our own business together and I really enjoy the editing work and much more, work from home! So why should I give all that up? Of course I miss my forests, my mum and my friends but with the new business it will also allows me to drive/fly back home instead of just once a year.

And now, after everything is sorted and I feel so relieved and calm again I will stay here in this weird British Island and will start to conquer the Universe from here .

So let’s fight for your life and your happiness because it is YOUR life and BE happy.

Tanja

Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography

Good afternoon all,

I can now finally tell you on which amazing Doctor Who related audiobook I was working on a couple of weeks ago: It was the Lis Sladen Autobiography. And I can’t tell you how emotional and what a great honour it was.
I mean this was my first ever Doctor Who (related)  audiobook which I edited from start till the very end. Neil then added the music in and did the fine edits for the master CD’s.

Editing this book was very special to me. Sadly I never had the chance to meet Lis but she knew about me through Neil and I still treasure my BIG FINISH CD that she signed  for me. I loved and admired Lis in her role as Sarah Jane Smith and even if I didn’t grew up with Doctor Who, SJS will always be my favourite Companion together with Tom’s Doctor!

And while editing the audiobook version, read by Caroline John, I had so often the feeling that it was Lis telling me her story because Caroline just sounds like her! It was a brilliant choice to get her as the reader!!!

So if you want to have a look into the life of the wonderful Elisabeth Sladen, then pre-order your Elisabeth Sladen Autobiography now!

Enjoy this wonderful, emotional audiobook and let me know what you think.

Tanja