The kids were supposed to go back to school today but due to the “broken heating” they have another day off. Jammie little gits, it’s like something from an Enid Blyton story. I didn’t think this happened anymore. Still, gets us into the routine, anyone with kids knows how important the routine is. I’ve been told since I was a boy about getting into good routine, going to bed earlier the day before you’re due back to get into the routine. It’s all bollocks of course. You drag your weary arse out of bed just in time to get the kids up, fed dressed and out to school. They of course think you are trying to kill them just because you had the audacity to wake them up pre-10AM.
Well on a normal day that would be the case but this morning I actually had everyone up, bright as buttons and ready to go. Stupid school heating.
Since I’ve not blogged for a while, Happy New Year 2008 and Merry Christmas 2007. I missed my 2nd blogging birthday which according to my research is the 26th November(ironically I DID post that day!). The essential updates are… the car is still here, partnered now with another, friendlier beast and quite possibly one of the best looking cars ever made…
…OK that’s not necessarily true, especially in purple. Luckily you can’t see what it looks like from the driving position. I got it in Blackburn, Lancs and filled her up. Cost about £60-ish. I drove home, via Kilwinning(this was on Christmas Eve) and was still on the same tank of diesel on Hogmanay! That’s astonishing for me. The same trip in the Astro would have had me filling up again before Kilwinning and again at Aberdeen at £90 a pop or £270 for what cost me £60-odd. Savings galore!
I also traded in my trusty Nokia 3510i after about 5 years worth of use. It’s not broken or anything I just decided that this time I’d keep the free upgrade for myself instead of giving it to Catty. I now have a Nokia 7500 Prism instead and I must say I’m well chuffed with it. Normally I am like, who cares what it can do as long as it can make and receive calls and texts I’m fine. I have a digital camera I have an mp3 player, both do their jobs better than a phone. But bugger me this is neat, it’s got an Opera mini browser so I can soif da webs and bluetooth! Bluetooth ffs. How did I cope without it! It’s a pity the other phone didn’t have it and I’d have saved myself an hour of manually inputting names and numbers. Still, them’s the breaks. It also takes pictures pretty well(see car photo above!) so I reckon it’s a keeper.
We had a Hogmanay party here, well not a huge party but a good one nonetheless. Few friends few drinks few laughs all good. Cat, a friend of ours and fantastic chef, asked the other week if there was anything she should bring. We said well if she wanted to do a couple of nibbles that’d be great. Hogmanay comes and Cat and Brian(yes the same Brian as this story) arrive and I need to go help them out the car with this…
Good eh! We all felt like pigs by the time we went to bed but it was worth it! 
Right, that’s you up to date I think, so I’ll leave you with this picture from our Christmas morning which I think shows the magic as it should be(although Catty won’t thank me for this one)….
Have a good 2008 guys.
btk
