27 October 2010

On holiday until 1st November...having big discussions with Sonia Shuter from NNDC...

8th October 2010

it's now October..I've been doing School Crossing Patrol since June, and I haven't lost anyone yet...it's not too bad...I've also packed the darts in for this season...I've lost the enthusiasm for it...I'll see what happens by next year...

25th June 2010

the year is half done...we have been watching the World Cup and it has been very boring...John and Brenda have just come back from cruising in the Med on Ocean Village 2 ...Steve and Karan are cruising in the Baltic on the Oriana..we're not doing anything this year...I have been doing School Crossing Patrol for 3 weeks now and, glad to say, I have not had anyone run over yet...

19th May 2010

well they've been and gone...time flies by
My brother, James, his wife, Pat, my sister, Margaret, and her partner, Don, arrived down in Norfolk, around 4 o'clock on Friday, 14th, afternoon. They were staying in a local bed and breakfast establishment, Glaven Lodge.
We went down to the local Indian restaurant on Friday evening and had a nice meal, before finishing the night in the Orchard Gardens pub.
On Saturday morning, I took our visitors into Norwich for a walk round the main part of the city, and went to Wroxham, the capital of the Broads. We then headed home, where Liz was organizing a kind of all day buffet for everyone. Our son, Don, with his wife, Mags and son Andy, came over from Lincoln. Our daughter, Suzie, with husband, Mark, came up from Poringland.
We had some friends over to meet them, Steve and Karan Darrall, and John and Brenda West.
We had a nice afternoon, which went well into the evening..finally finishing around midnight.
On Sunday morning we took them to Sheringham and Cromer, finishing off in Wroxham Barns. We had a carvery lunch in the Scarborough Hill Hotel.
After a quiet afternoon, we went to the quiz in our local pub, The Bluebell. We recorded the highest score ever, in winning. so that was alright.
They left to go up the road to Aberdeen first ting on Monday morning...arriving there early evening, and then Don and Margaret left for Caithness on Tuesday, getting back home around 4 in the afternoon.
We very much enjoyed the company and they say that they had a good time down here...so we are glad.

12th May 2010

Well, that's the election over..coalition in place..now back to reality..
we've got the family coming down on Friday...Margaret and Don from Caithness, James and Pat from Aberdeen, Don, Mags and Andy from Lincoln and Suzie and Mark from Norwich...hopefully, we'll have a great weekend...
Cup finals this week-end...Portsmouth for the FA Cup and Ross County for the Scottish Cup
let's hope the weather warms up..it's been very cool for the time of year...

30 March 2010

just back from putting out the leaflets...I'm doing a round of leafletting on Monday-Wednesday for a total of a couple of hours...to get out and have a little bit of exercise as well...the weather has been fine...we were going to Lincoln for the Easter week-end but decided against that now that the girl has cancelled the party with Liz....we are playing the second leg of our semi-final darts match with the Dilham Crosskeys..we won the first leg 6-4. so we only need 4 legs to get through to the final on the 15th April...Liz has a bit of a bad cough just now...can't seem to get rid of it...might have to go to the Doc....going to be watching the European cup game concerning Man Utd this evening...Arsenal tomorrow...

15th March 2010

It's getting into the year now...Nicola and Richie Byrne have produced a little girl today..called her Eva....Liz started getting things to get the garden going..it's later this year than other years, it;s been a long winter....we were out at Suzie and Marks for Mother's Day lunch...very enjoyable...Alonso won the Barhrain Grand Prix...I won £10 on the lottery...first win in a long time..

25 February 2010

the spring seems to have arrived here...I am now on Skype...we ended up in 4th place in the Thursday darts league...Liz is getting fed-up with the cancellations to her parties...they always seem to leave it to the last minute, or not even tell her...our family is all coming down, from the far north of Scotland, in the middle of May...we are looking forward to that...now the weather's getting better, we'll be out tidying up the garden getting ready for Liz to put in her bedding plants...the car is up for it's MOT tomorrow...fingers crossed...back in the good old days we were able to do work on our cars, but not any more..everything is computerised and we can't touch certain parts of the car...

21st January 2010

This is an idea of the snow we had at the beginning of January 2010

It's a cool, cloudy day here, but dry at the moment..the forecast is for tomorrow to be hopeless...my darts team, and I, are going to the Orchard Gardens, North Walsham, this evening to play them in the league at darts...they beat us 7-2 in the first game, last year...hopefully we'll do better than that, this time...Liz has got a few Partylite parties this weekend...I hope she does well..she normally does...

20th January 2010

went to Alison Beales' funeral service yesterday..it was very sad..she was only 30 and died after contracting swine flu...the service was very moving...Liz, my wife, worked with her mum, Shirley, in the local deli in North Walsham...the church was packed.....

January 7th 2010

that's the Christmas and New Year over for another year...I finished my 2 months at Sainsbury's in Norwich...it was ok, but the travelling was terrible..we had our son, his wife and grandson over from Lincoln for the Christmas, our daughter and husband came up from Poringland for Boxing Day...it was nice to be together..they all left by the Sunday after Christmas, and it was quiet again...we went out to friends for the New Year celebrations...it was fairly quiet but at least we were with people to take the New Year in....now it's back to normal...trying to get through the day...we're in the middle of a cold snap, with some snow and lots of frost...my sister just went into hospital today to have a gall-bladder operation...I hope it turns out ok...we're defosting the freezer, and it's taking a while...