It's been a couple of weeks since I had anything of interest to say, the weathers been pretty dire, it's been the run up to Christmas (although I've been trying to ignore it in he hope it would go away), the "Old Cheese" hasn't been well and did I mention the fact it's not stopped raining since September. But, on the plus side, Christmas is now behind us, with just the traditional "shall we put the Christmas tree away today" discussion to have on the 27th, and far more importantly, the shortest day is now behind us, so it's all getting better from here on in! I just need a short break in the weather and normal service will be resumed, which as far as I'm concerned can't come fast enough. With the rain putting play to most of my fun I've not even managed to get out on my bike for a couple of weeks, if it carries on much longer I'm going to have to take up swimming and that's just not going to happen. I've not even managed any running to speak of, a couple of mid week efforts in the dark and a very muddy 10 mile off road plod Christmas eve has been about it. Even the Christmas eve effort didn't result in anything worthy of writing about, other than falling over in a muddy puddle when my foot slipped down a big tractor tyre rut that I was trying to run along the edge of avoiding the puddle. Apart from being piss wet through and covered in mud I thought I'd escaped my fall injury free until I got back home and pulled off my leggings, by which time to blood had congealed into my leggings, resulting in them being firmly stuck to my knee. A bit of ice and a day off on Christmas day with a gentle run today shows that yet again I seem to have escaped any lasting damage, which is lucky. Whilst the weathers been dire I did manage to find the time to ice my Christmas cake, I'll happily admit it's not my finest work, but as long as it tastes OK that's fine by me. I also managed to find time one evening to make some home made Christmas crackers, making good use of a load of novelty bit's and bob's I had left over from another idea. The only other thing of interest is part 254585 in a long running series of "How to annoy your boy". For as long as I can remember I've made it my mission to find various ways to brighten up "The Boy's" Christmas day. This mainly consists of me wrapping up various things I know he doesn't want alongside his real presents (Sprouts, lemons, bricks etc) or disguising the things he does want as something else (Flat screen TV into a CRT TV box anyone). I've no idea if "The Boy" enjoys my childish behavior, but either way it amuses me, so it's a tradition I'm going to carry on with until I either run out of ideas or get bored.
As per tradition "The Boy" wanted money for Christmas (boring), so, one large box, one E bay shopping trip for novelty stuff, one large quantity of loose change, some money bags, a few sweets and a large bag of 1970's style bean bag filling and the Christmas lucky dip is born. Not only did "The Boy" have something to open that he wasn't expecting on Christmas day, but he had a couple of hours of trying to clear up loads of static loaded polystyrene balls, counting stacks of loose change back into bank bags and all with a hangover. That will learn him for going out on Christmas eve!
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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