“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”

I'm still here - just. Firstly I feel much better. For goodness sake I went to bed at 9pm last night I felt so ill - I haven't been to bed that early since since about 1979!
Boxing Day at work - very atypical - only three of us , very busy, plus I was about as useful as well, something that isn't very useful at all - so there. However our draconian sickness policy made me to darned scared to stay off sick.

I've just watched "28 Weeks Later" not at all what I expected, but very entertaining nonetheless, and an obvious sequel on the way. I was worried going in that it would portray the US Army as the saviours of the day, thankfully it didn't, they were just as useless as the rest of us...

“I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! . . . HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!” - Bill Watterson

“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.” - Hippocrates

Merry Christmas? I hope so.
Oh woe is me,I somehow developed a cold last night and I'm all aches and pains and snuffly nose today. I just dropped off my daughter, and I'm waiting for my brother to pick me up so I can have a few drinks at my Mothers house. I took a bottle of port with me but no one wants to partake.
I'm so glad I'm off today, not just because it's Christmas, but yesterday was the busiest Christmas Eve I can remember, and I can remember quite a few. Since we are deliberately understaffed on Christmas Day (since it is usually so quiet) it's going to be helluva busy!

Classic!

See you soon for post number 300! (SPARTANS!!!)

“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.” -Lauren Bacall

(Shirley with parents)

“He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad”

I was looking for the Hai Karate (UK) ad I mentioned earlier, but couldn't find it.
Anyway here's three cool videos, which will hopefully give you some insight into how I would like the Ward Christmas night out on Thursday to be - if only!

“If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution” - Emma Goldman

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”

Blimey, I almost forgot about the blog!

I still don't feel "Christmassy" in anyway, there's a different atmosphere, a strange mixture of tension and relaxation, but no, I can't seem to recapture that magic. When Christmas meant good telly, buying The Radio AND TV Times, lot's of sweets, Woolworth's telly ads, QC Sherry, and some genuine surprises. Oh I am such a seventies child! (I was looking at the top 40 earlier - something I never usually do, and Wizzard and Slade are in there - I'm 8 again! - if only!).

I can't remember when I changed from Radio 1 to Radio 2, and when I began to lose familiarity (and actually couldn't care less about it) with the top 40!

Ah remember when Christmas Top of the Pops was a TV highlight, and Hai Karate aftershave was "sophisticated".

I'm off for a ride on my Chipper Bike...

“Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present”

“If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?”

Sorry for the inactivity, you know how it is. Billy is a lazy boy. Also I don't feel as though I have as much to say as I used to? Strange eh?

It's cold eh? I've had the heating on every day. I'm not going to be cold, just to save money, like last year. Remember the year before when my boiler was broken and I couldn't afford to replace it? and I got pneumonia? Well I'd rather forsake my few pleasures (i.e. DVDs and wine!) and be warm. Plus there's my new generally positive outlook on life! My elusive brother Frank is finally going to make a start on installing my new bathroom this weekend (exciting stuff eh readers?).

I think I am just about finished with my Christmas shopping.
This year will be my first Christmas day off in about seven years, I think I'll get drunk - alas mostly alone, although I'm really looking forward to a web cam chat later in the day!

Bye for now...

“I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium."” - Steven Wright

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”

I've gone deaf again, at least in my left ear, it's only wax though ! However it's also made my tinnitus so much worse. Enough moaning (oww!).

I bought a webcam , and now so has Barbara. The guy on the box of mine ( a very posh Philips one) is having a wonderful full screen conversation with his Wife and Daughter. However real life means a little window with a jerky image. However it's great to "see" each other again. Awww! Have to go, I've just got in from a very busy shift and food and a shower is required...

“Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.” - Chinese Proverb

“A cloud cannot cast a shadow unless the sun is shining beyond it”

Sunday morning - I'm off to work soon. Usually I'd feel doom and gloom about this, but hey I Don't! go figure! (despite my above inflation child support bill from last night!)

My holiday still gives me a strange mix of happiness (at the whole experience) and sadness (that it's over, and I'm so far away from Barbara again). Did I mention that we stayed in the Airport Hotel the first night? The Rooms look out over the terminal and runways in a generally northern direction. On a clear day I would have been able to see the mountains north of Vancouver but that day a misty horizon was all that could be seen. - Off for a shower, back soon.

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit” - Billy S