January 2004

January 1st 2004

Happy New Year.......

Well I feel a lot better than she who drinks all night....... Just as well seeing as we have a ravenous horde descending on us expecting to be fed a delightful curry buffet, Ted eventually serves 12 (I think it was anyway I caught up with Des's drinking by the end) with Chicken Tikka Masala, Chicken Korma, Mutton Palak, a Vegetable Curry, Pilau Rice and Bread.

January 2nd

Back to work for a day ..... if you can call it work I don't think I actually sold anything. Still one days practice for the real thing on Monday

January 3rd

A great day in the history of Gillingham Football club.....FA Cup 3rd Round.. Gillingham 3 Charlton 2 Hooray!!!!! and Match of The Day on the BBC! Still feeling rough so stayed in and watched videos

January 4th

Went and bought a pot of paint for the stairway. Put it in the garage on a work surface, Shut the door and knocked another pot of paint that fell on the new one that fell on the floor and burst ... no not the lid came off.. It burst! Useless plastic paint pots! So there was 5l of peach emulsion paint all over the garage. Loads of stuff covered in paint and ruined.. hours of work tidying up ... and a lovely Peach floor in the garage.

January 5th

Had my annual appraisal this morning an interesting event seeing as my boss has only seen me in front of a customer once at a contract review meeting .... but I'm doing alright!

Finally got round to getting the flat tyre replaced.... 2 weeks after we first noticed it going down. I'm just so quick at sorting these things out

January 6th

January 7th

Des went Salsa Dancing with the girls (I must stop thinking of them as the coven) seemed to have a good time, me I've got 2 left feet and no sense of rhythm .. strange thing for a rhythm guitarist to lack... I've got rhythm alright I just move to it in a different way from Des

January 8th

Lodge Committee meeting in town really depressing thought ... my year as Master is almost over. Where did the time go?

January 9th

Friday Night out .... that staggered Des. The price of a glass of wine staggered me! £3.50 for a glass of wine I'd of thought twice about buying a bottle of for that price. Add to that the food was not served hot, a less satisfactory experience than we expect from Simply Italian

January 10th

Should have been the "1st Barbie of the Year" day but it was postponed due to a family crisis not because of the weather. So in the end we had supper with John the Bass Man and the lovely Glenda. While Des and Glenda got on with girlie supporting and other "well" activities John and I finally got round to sorting out a promised photo display from the Ladies Festival back in March for the Walpole Bay Hotel. Nice "Cave" type thing to do. Yes I did read the first couple of chapters of Men from Mars Women from Venus .... yes it was rubbish !

January 11th

Nice quiet Sunday ... Cleaned up the Garden behind the Cass Bag, Hmmmm my favorite job of all !!!

I would have fixed the roof of the Dog House (My "office") but it rained too much so I had to leave it to carry on leaking.

Vicky called in for a chat during the afternoon and we were graced by a visit from Linda in the evening. Des fell asleep in front of the telly and a half finished bottle of wine ... so .... well it would have gone off if I'd left it, wouldn't it??