A Full House

Today should in theory be Boxing Day but isn’t. If you’re looking for it, you missed it, it was yesterday.

This morning the annual Aston Walk. L and I do it. We skip the bingo number checking, they have numbers tacked to trees and if you get a full house you win a set of clothes pegs or whatever else was on offer at Poundland but it's all for charity so I'm not complaining really.

We just walk it or try to. The congestion is of Pride Park standards and is at first very frustrating but things improve eventually.

We still get to check the numbers later and I actually win something. It’s also not a set of clothes pegs. I win chocolate matchmakers, which I had no idea they still made. Although they are now called Quality Street Matchmakers... which I can't see the relevance of at all!



Then a pub lunch at Packhouse in Kings Newton. The beer is good and the food ok but they took a week to cook it.

Forgot to mention this yesterday. Hardys And Hansons' legendary Rocking Rudolph ale is back, again brewed 'down south' by Greene King and is now down to a watery 4.2%. This once great winter ale was once 5% and 'rocked', it was even briefly 5.5% but last year Greene King sold it at 4.5% and now 4.2%, hardly 'rocking'. Next year... who knows.

It's no wonder it now tastes so naff. I'm not really sure why they still bother with it, not now they have their own Abbot Reserve as a winter ale.

(Monday 27th December)

For The Hell Of It

It’s a bit of a frosty one this morning, which will probably liven the boys up a bit for L. Not that they, particularly MD, need it.

L has recently booked tickets for a theatre trip with her sister. Nothing unusual in that but when she asked me to put the date, which is in May, in my diary I queried it. 'You’re going down to Milton Keynes for the theatre on a Thursday... why?' It turns out this cultural event isn’t next year but in 2012! That’s bizarre. How can any theatre think that far in advance? How can any person!

We have a couple of staff at work, both thankfully male, who are celebrating Movember are growing a moustache. The idea is simple, start November clean shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. It’s supposed to be for charity but I think they’re just doing it for the hell of it. You would catch me doing it! Any any case, they've both grown a full beard which isn’t quite the idea, I don’t think.



I drive over to dog training and throw L out of the car somewhere along the A6. She’ll turn up somewhere later and I’ll bring her home again.

Our new TV arrives, blimey that was quick. I even remember how to watch TV and actually watch a whole programme. Probably be the only one, tomorrow the baton (remote control) will be handed over to Daughter and that’ll be that.