Bit Quiet

[guest40]

Sounds like every one had a Merry time of it from all the posts in the last couple of daze

[Bill Rutter]

Christmas Eve was a case  of a very late finish from work. Taxi home (£206  bill for the Company) just to save the nightshift from having to come in. Christmas Day was nice, a couple of hours in the Legion, a quiet dinner for the two of us at home then round a friend's house for parlour games and drinks. Boxing Day, however, was much more manic.....it's all a bit of a haze now   

[guest7]

Christmas eve was spent mostly at home, but at 10pm I decamped to the pub just in time to see an obnoxious 20 year old get a deserved shoeing from the regulars after he attacked the bar manager... nice to see some Xmas traditions haven't died out 

We had my family over on Xmas morning then we drove up to Llangattock to stay at a rented cottage with the in-laws. We were only meant to stay one night, but it was so nice we stayed for two.

Yesterday I dragged my CB500 out to start making templates for the sidecar mounts. Last night our neighbours came over for a meal and much wine was drunk. Their son and my 6 year old spent all night on their respective (new) Nintendo DS's 

Tonight club member Simon Morgan, his wife Sarah and their daughter Sioned are popping in to see us for nibbles and drinks.

I'll be glad to get back to work, it's tiring having fun 
GC

p.s. Best present so far is a book of Don Morley's TT photographs from the 50s to the present day.

[guest146]

It seemed to be mostly l books for me this year. Was given Jupiter's Travels that i had left hints requesting and  a very good book I can recommend called Adventure Motorcycling Handbook. All you could even need to know about long distance touring. And to top it up a couple of QI books although these are a little strange to get into.

Ken.

[guest7]

I had the QI annual, most amusing.
GC

[Richard 003]

I had the QI annual, most amusing.
GC

I got numerous pairs of trousers, but nobody bought me the four foot spirit level I asked for.

R.

[guest18]

I got several reference books of shipwrecks around the Scottish coast 

Very pleased! 

[OMEGAMAN]

I got several reference books of shipwrecks around the Scottish coast 

Very pleased! 

Did you have to dive for them! or were they washed up on the beaches?

[mini-thumper]

Did you have to dive for them! or were they washed up on the beaches?

John
That is one of the few things that have made me lol recently!

Have been at work everyday except Xmas and Boxing Day, so plenty of time to read the some of the present I got. Can recommend, unexpectedly given by my sons girlfriend, "21st Century Smallholder (How to go back to the land without leaving home)" by Paul Waddington. Informative and very readable. I know that there are a few on the site who are into this sort of thing.

Hope you all have a Good New Years Eve and Best Wishes for 2009.

Boyd

[squirrelciv]

Pressies included a candle lantern, a pair of lightwieght binoculars and the book by Aron Ralston called 'Between a rock and a hard place' in which he describes the ordeal of having to cut his own arm off when he gets it trapped deep canyon hiking. Gripping stuff!

Had a fantastic Christmas, enjoyed Good company, good food and plenty of good wine. Don't want to sound Scrooge like, but I'd quite like to get back to normal now though. I'm on first name terms now with our Pharmasist, and Gaviscon sent me a get well soon card

[OMEGAMAN]

 

Has    EVERYBODY      been Ill this christmas/new year??

[Bill Rutter]

I've been laid low with the flu all week. I worked last Saturday but gave my Sunday overtime away. As I had Tues/Wed/Thurs off I thought I might be able to work Monday and then get over it in the next few days, but that hasn't proved to be the case. I have an apppointment with the GP this afternoon but I don't feel like this bout, the worst I have ever suffered, is easing up at all. It b*****ed up my New Year celebrations no end. Still, there are folk far worse off than me - at least I can catch up with some books that need read.

[Richard]

Oh Yes.  Rough as a Badgers a**e.  Everybody I know has as well.

Richard

[robG]

Entire G household has been moby dick . Even Sam the hound . Wall to wall snot and corruption .

[guest24]

We hid in the New Forest in a caravan for the week, and ended up effectively quarantined! Too much flu and stuff around for comfort. Having just endured the latest incarnation of Survivors on BBC1, it all started to feel a little odd watching people 'go' on the telly and then watching people around you fall ill in much the same way. Ho hum, this time we escape the latest Spanish flu again.