Christmas Foot Golf

So, er, Merry Christmas everyone.

My DVD shelves, already fit to bursting, now have a few more additions to be wedged into spaces which don’t exist.

Yes, I could get rid of some old stuff, but then how would I measure the improvements in taste which have occurred over the last decade? Although it’s possible that the graph would be skewed slightly by the gifts received by the people who really know me!

Christmas day… I’m never that cheery on the morning itself, I’m at my best the night before, when everything is wrapped and ready to go, after I’ve slept, well, it just doesn’t seem as exciting…. until it’s stocking time!

So presents were opened and I ate enough chocolates to make me feel suitably sick.

Best. Present. Ever…

The Ecotronic battery-free torch

Favourite gift given: A Hannah Montana mug for the wonderful Simon!

Oh,oh…. Simon has agreed to join in the Once More With Feeling evening that a few of us are having in Bristol in a few weeks and coming on to Jimbo’s birthday bash the following night in Cardiff! Please spare a moment to think of him.

I shall also be taking Mamma Mia for the evening’s sing along session!

Anyway, I digress…

Christmas afternoon, having done the present thing and been overjoyed at my new duvet, it was time to hit the beach. So off we went to the beach where time spent sat on the sand dunes,talking, laughing and staring out to sea was followed by a game of foot golf on the golf course. It’s quite simple, really – golfers leave LOADS of golf balls lying around, whereas no one I know owns any golf clubs, so you kick the golf balls in the general direction of the holes. I discovered I can kick a golf ball quite successfully.

So yeah, a fun day!

Why does it take so long to cook Christmas dinner? I decided to leave it and watch The Next Doctor instead :D

Best part of Christmas? Not going back to work until the 5th! Huzzah!

I hope yours has been awesome, so far, as well.

Oh… Have a great New Year! 

Something for the weekend…

Well, it has been a busy week – my birthday came and went without my really noticing it. Which was sort of nice.

I went to the pub quiz at my local with a few friends and we won a crate of lager in the music trivia round – I was pleased with that! It wasn’t even out of date!!

Saturday was fabulous – I was supposed to be going out for a quiert meal but on the way out of the door I changed my mind – it’s all so very middle aged, so we got a takeaway and pottered out at about half nine to catch some people in town and got out clubbing instead.

It was great fun. I’d not seen Nick and Jay for MONTHS, but why bother catching up when there’s drinking to be done?!

And now, of course, the weekend is well and truly over and I’m back at work.

Boo.

But I got a couple of job applications completed yesterday, so it’s all good :D

Back to Life....

But BadWolf was fanTAStic. It was so great to meet all those new people.  And the people I’d met before.  It was a hell of an eye-opener. What a bunch of filthy whoers!!  I was SO shocked!!!

One of my favourite moments was the discovery of the BadWolf cocktail.  I had decanted two bottles of WKD Blue into a lighter, plastic, bottle for ease of carrying.  This I left with the rest of the alcohol, but to one side as my personal selection.  My roomie, James, had never seen cloudy lemonade and decided that this blue stuff must be what it looked like.  BadWolf: The Cocktail was then discovered when James mixed WKD Blue with Gin by accident.  It tasted fabulous and was totally lethal!  A pint of this, later, and well…  I’ve just had a friday chunk fall back into place in my head a moment ago…. it was BERGAMOT that I was trying to think of. So anyway….

Saturday was just uncomfortable.  After two hours sleep, it was up for breakfast and over to register, I felt vaguely rough, but I’ve had worse days at work, but the lack of sleep left me unable to really keep my mind focussed on anything for more than a few minutes at a time.  That actually makes queuing a lot easier!  I finally managed to get an hours kip in the evening before dinner, drinking and disco!

I smoked too much, I drank too much and I slept too little, and what a fabulous time I had!  So so great to see people I had met at Oncoming Storm and Invasion again.

Oh and it was my birthday very day of the event, as well :D  Except it wasn’t :o