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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Ya Dancer!

Finalists!

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Pots and Kettles

Jimty was on the phone to youngest son. Youngest son wanted to have a friend stay over last night. Jimty tells youngest son that he can't have a friend stay over as his room is too untidy. In order to have firends stay over he will need to tidy his room, and he means really tidy it, not just put stuff in piles on the floor. Below are pictures of Jimty's desk. Enough said.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Ahhhhrgghhhhhh

Catastrophic computer disaster, lost everything, been crying but I'm okay now. If you read this send me an email with your email address as I've lost them all. Its still the same mynameas1wordall lowercase @omne.uk.net.

Normal service will be resumed eventually!

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sugar Plum Nazi






















Its been a few weeks since the Guardian outed this clown. I was going to rant but never got round to it. Maybe the crass stupidity of someone with a Cuban Chinese partner being anti-immigration and a card carrying member of the BNP was a touch too much to take seriously. So serious I won't be.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Difficulties with the parental unit

thewife was round at mumsy's doing various bits and pieces of work. She doesn't eat as well as she should and she needs a bit of prompting. Over the holiday period she's been getting up a bit later in the morning which in one respect is fine, however it does mean a late breakfast and the probability of a skipped lunch. thewife then has concocted a New Year regime, where she will phone mumsy at 9.30 am. get her up and get her to make her own breakfast. Day 1 thewife phones mumsy. She's already up, that's to spite you I say. thewife strolls round about 11.00am to discover mumsy hasn't had breakfast yet. She's been trying to hit the crab in her bed with a shoe. She knows its there she could feel it. Its only after the application of some logic that mumsy agrees there's probably no crab, that she may have been dreaming. We live near the sea, but a bit too far for a crab to walk from the beach to her flat, climb up the stairs and wait for her to open the door and sneak in without being seen.

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Manflu

thewife has been merrily suffering the flu since Wednesday. I thought that I wasn't going to catch it, having not come down with it before now. Sadly that wasn't the case and it beat me with a big stick this morning. Of course I have the more virulent Manflu version.

This might seem like a bad thing and it is, however it meant that I didn't go here to see this. That would have been a lot worse.

Then to compound matters Arsenal stuffed Liverpool. I wave to a happy man across the atlantic!

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Quiet round here

I've almost come to the end of my Christmas New Year Holiday and have pretty much accomplished nothing. Well nothing apart from some culinary triumphs - I have found the perfect Daupinois potato recipe and it is simply fabulous, but thats another post another time.

Our only socialisation over the period was 1) a visit to Lady El, who fed us fabulous meatballs and pasta and an exquisite chocolate pudding. I repaid this by falling asleep and liberally dowsing her NEW suite with Port and Brandy (fortunately it was Scotchguarded) we haven't seen her since as she's been smitten by the bug that's doing the rounds, so I don't know if I'm forgiven yet. 2) New years day at Mumsy where I pigged out on home made steak pie with roast potatoes. 3) The Cooncillors Party, which was by his standards a fairly quiet affair, but gave me the opportunity to catch up on "Soccer" gossip with the manager of Burlington Barons.

thewife too has been laid low by the bug today, so she's pretty much spent it sleeping. I only hope she's recovered by tomorrow as we had plans.

Finally just to keep Reidski sweet, I have to mention his beloved hoopies' umpteenth consecutive victory over plucky, luckless, Killie. Actually I saw the second Celtic goal on tv and have to admit that although previously I thought our current keeper Smith was inept and was costing us at least a goal I game, I have now revised this assessment - the guy is A FUCKING USELESS TWAT!

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Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year

It seems strange, waking up on a New Year morning, the MORNING after Hogmanay. Normally, I only get to bed at some point in the morning, usually the worse for wear having traipsed around the town saying hi to strangers and generally celebrating the passing of the old year and the coming of the new. Stranger still was the remarkable clarity of the head and body. No sweeping nausea, no pounding headache, no horrible notion that a good bottle of malt whisky may well have been rendered empty on account of a) drinking lots of it and b) sharing it with all and sundry.

Nope, the weather put paid to all that. We normally have "the bells" at Mumsy's house before going off to visit friends. That was the plan. Mumsy is getting less and less enamoured with the whole things as the years go by and probably would rather go to her bed. As the wind and torrential rain got up, we thought about just staying at home. We phoned Mumsy who was more than happy with this arrangement. So we stayed in, watched telly, in comfort, had a glass or three of Laphroiag and then went to bed somewhere around 3.00am.
Oh and we enjoyed it. Happy New Year All.

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