29th December, 2007
Summer Holidays
I told SWMBO that you would have to be soft in the head to go away in Australia between Christmas and New Year because it is the peak of the peak season.
So we went away on Boxing Day to a little retreat some three hours north of Sydney. Can you guess what we did whilst we were there?
A nice time was had by all, we are all a lot closer to the after sun bottle and a little bit tired, but the venue was nice, the pool warm and the dolphins in the bay plentiful. We even managed to watch the first season of Saxondale on my laptop on the balcony of our room in the evenings. Which was nice. If you haven’t seen it is definitely worth a view.
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25th December, 2007
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you one and all. Here’s hoping that your day is as festive as you could possibly want and that your present pile doesn’t contain too many socks. For the first time in many years mine today contained absolutely none, although I did receive a couple of ties and some cuff links from SWMBO.
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23rd December, 2007
Recently
Things that I have done recently, in no particular order;
- Pre-ordered the new Marillion album
- Acquired a Blackberry
- Introduced JFGP to the concept of months
- Started using my new laptop almost exclusively at work
- Bought some Christmas presents for my immediate family
- Addressed and sent Christmas cards to the UK - if yours hasn’t turned up I can only blame the postal services of our respective countries
- Given up my Blackberry
- Addressed and sent Christmas cards locally - if yours hasn’t turned up don’t hold your breath
- Completed the first 13 puzzles of the Python Challenge (again)
- Avoided attending a Wiggles concert. Luckily the ankle biters didn’t miss me and had a whale of a time.
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2nd December, 2007
Tis the Season
The decorations have been up in the shops for weeks and the temperature is rising day by day but it hasn’t really much felt like Christmas. Until today, when I cooked up a batch of my homemade mincemeat. All I need to do now is persuade SWMBO to whip up some pastry and we will be knee deep in festive mince pies.
Ding, dong the bells are ringing.
P.S. We appear to have skipped November in this diary, sorry about that.
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