1st January 2018 - And here we go again...

Thought for the day:""If you're excited at finding your name on a coke bottle, then imagine how I feel every time I go B&Q" - Matt White

Start of another year...  A houseful of family. and the occasional small oasis of calm.  
A quiet New year, with no additional guests - other than some mysterious fellow who called just as we sat down for dinner and Freja answered with a "we are just sitting down to eat" so he went!! Have no idea who it was - but we would have brought you in and given you a glass of something while we ate - Honest!

And so we start the New Year...
an new Cover picture for pages ....

So whoever you were - we will see you again next year !!!
Cheers!
and on the subject of political promises for the ensuing year 

31st December 2017 - Cartoons and Collections

Thought for the day:"Apparently having sex while drunk is banned in Iceland - not sure about Farmfoods though."

Found this in my wandering today - a photo remake of a Giles Cartoon
Excellent :

I enjoyed that...

And apparently the collections are still going on ...

Though Carl Giles died in 1995 - the collections are still carrying on ... they started in 1946...
I also did not know that there was a statue of Grandma in Ipswich... made of Bronze where he lived for most of his life,

And yes - we have a few in the Warehouse...

and with those few words and a wish for a Happy New Year

And last festive post for the year .....

30th December 2017 - Just another day

Thought for the day:"I could give up sarcasm - but that would leave interpretive dance as my only means of communication "


Funeral in Aberystwyth ...  Family in from USA... Busy day .. no time to blog !!!

Cheers

29th December 2017 - Take your Pick...

Thought for the day:"Been buying much cheese for Christmas. Sadly, none of it has been little baby cheeses."

So, one of my Christmas Presents turned out to be super useful and Plectrum Factory
Well a Pick master - and I seem to have so many old credit cards I think that it is unlikely that I will ever need to buy a pick again ...

It is such a simple little device, but as with all great ideas it only needs to be simple .

The rest of the day has been as decent a boxing day as any other. Christmas Day yesterday (late) was a day for eating too much and lazing around and learning how to play Munchkin - thus catching up (sort of) with my other geek friends.......

Today is likely to be a little bit the same ....
So - I will reflect upon the fact that there are only a few days left of the year....
Enjoy them ...
Cheers!

28th December 2017 - Missed that too

Thought for the day:"I made a graph of my past relationships: there was an ex axis and a why axis"

Day ran away with me I think

but this sums up the day I reckon
Cheers

27th December 2017 - Missed it

Thought for the day:"Marks & Spencer say it wouldn’t be Christmas without M&S. They’re right – it’d be Chrita"

oops - got caught up in family stuff - back soon 

cheers

26th December 2017 - Boxing Day - Sort Of

Thought for the day:"I think I have reached unproductive o'clock - beer me"

By tradition, this, the second day of Christmas (by most views) is deemed to be boxing day. It is also St Stephen's day and something to do with horses apparently. but enough of that. I have too many boxes in the warehouse to be worrying about traditions.

So yesterday (being a not Christmas day as we were celebrating my daughter's birthday which falls upon the 25th December and not Christmas at all) was a quiet day of birthday celebration with a nice birthday meal of Prawn Cocktail, Spare Ribs and baked potatoes (with butter and sour cream) and for those who could manage it (not me I am afraid) apple crumble and cream!

Good thing that we went out for a walk around Swiss Valley Reservoir first to build up a little appetite...

wet dog !!  wet Scarlett

In other news - I saw this little ditty on a Viking Board and decided to keep it for posterity ...

"Mail links ring,

Are you listening?

On our blades,

Blood is glistening.

We're here for a fight,

We're happy tonight,

Raiding in a Viking wonderland.

In the meadow we will fight the Saxons.

We will form shield wall and cut them down.

We'll get lots of loot out of the abbey.

And then we will incinerate their town!

Later on we'll conspire,

While around the campfire.

To plan a new raid,

With the money we made,

Raiding in a Viking wonderland."

So - on with the day .. Susie, Bunnie and Scarlett are going to the Pantomime today - oh no they're not! Oh yes they are ! so a few minutes to myself later - Seems the cost of theatre tickets is just rising more and more. There are newspaper articles about the rise in prices due to the increase in governmental cuts

prices in 2015

- and it seems that we are now looking at £28 plus per seat... even for littlun's though I suppose everyone takes a seat ...  No longer a cheap day out !!

But then I do not go to the cinema so I have no real point of comparison....

And though Boxing day is a secular holiday - let us return to the religious theme for a moment..
Cheers!