Monday, January 02, 2006

*Aye, Right!

Spot the difference

Having re-invented themselves with a shiny new face the Tories would now have us believe that they now give a shit about compassion, inequality and world poverty. The scary thing is some people are stupid enough to believe them.

thewife has been saying that Mumsy has been getting increasingly forgetful for some time now. I've always maintained that its to be expected given her age. The worry is that she often forgets her medication, therefore thewife has had to increase monitoring and prompting. Mumsy is quite capable otherwise. For the first time ever though, I realised how concerned thewife was, when during our New Year dinner, Mumsy commented that she hasn't seen "Old Mr. S around for some time. thewife explained that he had been dead for 20 years! When she remembered who her "new" neighbour was, things were fine although we are sure these memory lapses scare her as well.

New Year celebrations are getting increasingly quieter as we get older I find. Where once upon a time I would have been visiting numerous neighbours and friends from midnight onwards, before ending up at some party that would last well into the dawn of the next morning, the past few years have seen us take in the bells with Mumsy and then head off quietly for a few drinks with friends before getting home and going to bed, relatively sober. No parties every night for the duration of January, well okay not the whole month, but most of the first week for sure. Last night we had dinner, Steak Pie of course, with mumsy and came home, put slippers on and settled down to watch the telly. Tonight we are going to the Councillor's party, which often tends to be a focus for a diaspora to gather, tell exactly the same stories and possibly sing a few songs. I think I may make compilation CD just to enhance the proceeding somewhat as his Christie Moore CD can't really be played no-stop for 5 hours.

Finally some new year resolutions, since everybody else is making them. In no particular order:

Pick up the guitar more often and play the bloody thing.
Read many more books, regularly, not just binge reading.
Do more exercise. It is possible to walk in the rain.
Eat less and a bit more healthily, cut down on the Goose Fat, Butter and "Slice" (Squerr for the weegies out there and Lorne Sausage for everyone else)
Blog more regularly
Link to more blogs regardless if it looks like some communal love in

That's quite enough thank you.

Although I am considering a new look for the new year and will discuss with thewife whether to do that now or go for a walk. I suspect it'll be down to the weather and what's on telly.

* Teacher explaining about double negatives to a class of kids, says that when you put two negatives such as I never did nothing, it becomes a positive, whereas two positives never make a negative. Kid at the back says "Aye, right!"

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