Quiet Day

So gym is closed today so bugger all on. We might pop out for a walk later but I need to have an earlyish bath so I have got time to finish all my creams etc before Brian&Rita and Sam&Emma arrive just after 4

Lordy. Very strange to see them, but pleasant. Later they phoned Julia and spoke to her then said "Oh, we will have to make out own food when we get back" so I offered them some of the stuff that I had made today, so they said "Yep". It was very odd cooking for a total of 6 people but I managed, and a number of people commented on how calm I was the whole way thru

But I forgot to take a picture!!!

Sigh

So we said "Let's go shopping" but only got about half way there when I said "Save fuel, lets go to gym on the way" so we popped to gym, did various machines and now I am about 85% of the way though a 10km cycle

Well after finishing that we made it to More Reasons To Shop At.... and did a bigger pile of shopping than usual. I did some shopping of products that we found cheaper elsewhere but thinking about the extra time driving, parking etc I might not have saved much in the elsewhere shops

Excited

Then after a quiet nooneraft I am waiting for Sam&Emma, Toby and Freya to arrive then we are all heading out for dinner.

After a brief exchange of pressies with Sam&Emma who I haven't seen yet this Crimbly

Well they were find. All 4 of them had dinner and pudding with me. What can I say except "I am not worthy..." which ever direction it was aimed in

Found It

So ages ago I bought another small torch device to keep in my pocket. It was bigger than the one I did use in the end but I was looking for it rather than buying more batteries. Couldn't find it. Neither could 3 or 4 MOS. None of us could find it.

But out "looking for it" technique must have been a bit wonky

Last night I looked in the same place as I had looked in many times, where many other chaps had looked too. Found it

Walkies

So we headed into town for a walk about as my gym timetable says "Swim" s'afternoon and I am too poorly with the cold to do that but it fscking started to rain just as we got there, continued to rain on us as we walked along King St.....

Bank Holiday

And I got my dole s'morning that I was supposed to get 2 days ago but it has been a bank holiday since then.....

Phew, relieved...

Boxing Day

Then we had a kind of Boxing Day usual celebration. No one was being happy within a hundred miles so...... no where to go out and have fun to.....

Out&About

So me&Timmy headed into town and walked down to Next where I had to upsize summat. We swapped it for 2 items as they were on sale prices whereas it was originally bought at full wack.

Then we headed out and stopped at a cafe where Timmy bought me a Xmas pressie of Hot Chocolate & A Bun.

Then we headed back to Next and swapped the 3 quid token they had given us for a little lamp, as I don't think it will ever be spent otherwise

Lunch For Dinner

Then tonight I had my usual lunch for dinner, salad&bread roll etc, as we already had dinner for lunch

Smug, smug, smug

Sorry, this occurred to me t'other day.

Woe Is Me

But I did have to attract the attention of a woman who was serving. "So whassup?" she said. "Discrimination" I replied.

"What, why?". "There's all you members of staff, I haven't seen an ugly one today!"

And one of the staff there must have been absent last Xmas as, earwigging again, I heard her say to a colleague "He was in a wheelchair last time I saw him"

Xmas Dinner

And we are popping out in a bit to The Eating Establishment that IIRC we popped to last year too

And it was a bit lovely. I didn't have too much extra, but first of all some sprouts (as it is Christmas) and a bit of food to accompany my nut roast but it was all nice

Last Night

And it occurs to me....... last night when MM was taking the photo of me&my offspring at first I was struggling to put my right arm around Toby's shoulder, it just felt like too much bend was required. Last year I would have required him to sit down or whatever but now, as my arm is so much better than it was then, it just wriggled into position

COP

So after 648 changes of plan we are popping into town later to pick up that Freya from Naomi's house then Julia is gonna drop Toby over later when his train gets here.

I have asked Freya to meet me outside as it is a bit embarrassing calling at Julia's new chap's Mum's house

No, change of plan #256. Julia brought both the kids here and dropped then off. Then we spent ages chatting and had a lovely dinner which no-one left a mouthful of which was nice.  Later we popped out to the local pub but it was shut so we headed into King St in town, went into the Weatherspoons pub which was as not busy as a shit pub but was actually quite pleasant

Christmas Night Out

So as it was the Saturday before Xmas we popped out to the pub. Oh it was busy. When we got there 1 couple eating dinner and 1 chap sitting around the corner from where we sit at bar.

Later we swapped the eating couple for another pair of drinkers but......

L8R

Well having said "WTF...? I am nipping out s'afternoon. GGtGG had suggested a walk around town but I reckon some cheap frozen food from Farmfoods would fit my bill

Aargh. Twice to Farmfoods. Once did all my shopping, came home, was putting it away when I said to GGtGG 'Whats Pepperoni?' so we had to go back to the shop and change one of the packets of mini pizza that we just picked up with the veggie one on top. Sorted, they didn't even ask me for a reciept

WTF Was I Doing

So I got stuck into cooking the weeks pan of food s'morning, so it will have time to cook later, then I....... dunno but it was midday before I opened the door that leads to the room with my PC in't corner

A whole morning without any......

Strange Exercise/Play

So as RoyGBiv said "You are still a bit poorly today" so we set out for a long walk instead of going gymwards. Started off on Blue St just where it turns into town, parked there, headed down past M&S along The Mount then uphill along Jackson's Lane to King St. There we popped into a charity shop where the MOS was most complimentary about my eye patch especially when I told him the "Why" story. Then we walked back down punishment hill to the car. It took ages, I didn't look at my watch and it was much too late when we got back. I leapt into bath/bed for a bit then got up thinking "Gord, Roy is gonna be well hungry by the time I have baked spuds" but then it occurred to me, it is chips Friday which we had with two halfs of a big french style naan bread pizza. Which was delicious but not too big. A small bowl of oven chips and that as I am on a diet

HTML Crisis

Well I eventually figured out that I had posted summat in the past with a PC version of a webpage and a second version, to be looked at by mobile phone users which is displayed automatically if you are looking on a phone. It took some hours of tearing my hair out as I had forgotten that it could be done but, in the end, the page is finished, multi version automatically etc. I don't need to put up a second link to a mobile phone version which is how I started this process some hours ago.

Just PHEW

No Web

So I woke up s'morning, got breakfast and was sitting down with it. I reached for my iPad, switched Radio 4 on and it sed "No inteweb connection". I looked over my shoulder and the router had indeed a red light on the front. I thought "Bother" but thought I would just finish Muesli and Coffee before buggering off to press restart.

But about 1.5 minutes it fixed itself as if by magic