ha ha jra..you are a one

Plum It sounds like you and you landlady will have a relationship like Inspector Clouseau and that chap that was always doing suprise attacks...

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL

£15 (4 pints of beer and a takeaway).

Just about do-able with a CAMRA card for £12 plus takeaway.

snowy, that's a great mental picture I have now!!!

Lovely quiet day here today as Mr M is back to reality with a vengeance tomorrow - lots of lazing around playing Minion Rush tghis morning, followed by an M and S dinner, Christmas pud and a watch of Cars (which is excellent).

And Sherlock later... yay!

Happy New Year Grumpies. My resolution is to get to bed at a more sensible time than this

New years eve again.

A guy I know, who is gay and works behind the bar in one of the local pubs, was out on the razz and was literally escorted by 4 women he was with, as he could barely stand up. I said 'Hi, I know you' and he said 'Yeah, I'm just getting pissed tonight'. Mission accomplished. He wasn't working in that pub today, probably still being in a semi coma.

Tonight.

In the quiet pub tonight, I was in converse with a few people and this old geezer kept telling me to butt out, it's not your conversation, so I told him to stop being an arsehole and an idiot. The barman, the big guy Don said, 'That's uncalled for', to which I said 'Fair point'. But this guy was being an arsehole.

A pretty uneventful night actually.

At least I wasn't hit upon by some old dude.

Pissing down with rain and all, it was.

That is why I CBA going out all the assholes
Happy New Year one and all wishing you all a Health, Happy and Peaceful 2014

The sleep deprivation is getting on my nerves now and Tabitha has decided to have a mad half hour so fed her thought she would go back to sleep not a hope in hell chance so I am cross with her must be the changeable weather we are having hope she settles soon or she will be shown the door not really.

Our kitties were barmy last night. Think it was cos it was too wet and windy for them to play much during the day... lots of ominous bangs and thuds coming from the kitchen as they battered the cr@p out of each other!

Back to work for Mr M today, so everyone up and about before 7.30.
That was a bit of a shock to he system, I can tell you!!!

evening all

not much to report

I bet that's working out as well as my one to travel less.

I'm back home for two days after about 500 miles clocked up already, then off again.

You got it

Safe travels, oh batty one

Night night grumpers all

Christmas decorations should be taken down by the 6th January at the latest apparently, if you believe in the 12th day after Christmas thing. I like my lights and don't really want to take them down, but needs must, I guess.

I love fags.

Never mind, Sad and bats.
Keep practising!

jra - yep, not long left...

Day out with Granddad here... hope I can keep up with the two of them!

Was up bright and early this morning (well, early anyway) in the hope of breaking the cycle - dragged the eldest to the GP and have force fed breakfast in the hope that on returning to Uni tomorrow the nocturnal pattern will have broken...

Youngest is still asleep - her turn tomorrow - haircut at 10am.

So, thinking of seeing The Hobbit later if we can find a showing at a sensible time - we've missed Catching Fire locally apparently.

Spooky. A friend just called to ask if we want to see the Hobbit with them. Eek. I'll report back!

Huge clap of thunder here about an hour ago. Just the one, then nothing much.

So, not sure what was happening there.

Seems to be all quiet now.

£3 just to send a mobile phone by first class post via RM. That's what it also said on RMs website. More competition needed, I would suggest. That's more than I paid for the phone, if you exclude top up.

A late to the party firework maybe?

The Hobbit was okay, but it's not really my kind of thing. There were all kinds of references that I knew were references but beyond that I was lost. Then it got a bit exciting and then it finished, very, very abruptly actually. Orlando was a hot elf, though, and what that boy can't do with a bow and arrow isn't worth knowing. Woof.

P.S. Also, the dragon was a tad too chatty for my taste.

That's the noise people who piss off Smaug make.

My biorhytms^H^H body clock is spannered. I blame dark Scandinavian drama, you can't watch it in the brief sunny spells between thunderclouds and night.

Lordy those leather trousers.

yoo hoo

TGIF

Hahahahahahaa

I think elves basically rock, but the dragon's definitely as Tolkein intended. The rest of it has strayed way too far into LOTR territory if you ask me. I don't recall The Hobbit being about the rise of Sauron. But maybe I need to re-read it

Anyway in other news, I've finally finished the last of the Christmas day puds. Apart from the chocolate gateaux we were gifted on New Year's eve. *belches*

Do elves rock like Kiss? I wouldn't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_band


It was definitely thunder. I can tell the difference, being a firework enthusiast.

I'm not sure whether any lightning was involved, as it was daylight, but the general rule is that the sound reaches you quite a bit later at a distance, after the lightning.

Morning/evening all

I'm just off to work shortly and it's going to be yet another stinking hot day. It's too hot at the moment for comfort. I normally deal with the heat ok but I'm not liking it these days and it's only the start of summer - wahhhhh!

Had a lovely chat with one of my mighty bro's on the phone last night. We chatted for well over an hour but I think the vast majority of it must have been nonsense as when I potted it down to the facts to tell YoungPlum, there wasn't much to tell - we're so alike - full of drivel

I have to pack away my Christmas decoration - in the singular - I can't imagine it will take long!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

*puts on Geek Hat (wiff propeller)*
The Hobbit was written first, LOTR followed. In The Hobbit it mentions The Necromancer and Gandalf disappears off to investigate who he is and what he is doing, but in the book it's never followed up or made part of the story - I suppose partly because The Hobbit is a children's story and much lighter in tone that LOTR.
In The Silmarillion and the appendices to LOTR it's made clear the The Necromancer is Sauron, and apparently Peter Jackson wanted to put this more front and centre to make his Hobbit films a full prequel to the LOTR movies.
The chatty dragon comes from Icelandic/Norse/Anglo-Saxon myth, in which the hero would often try to out-riddle and outwit the dragon rather than face it in battle, dragons being pretty much invincible and all
*removes Geek Hat*

I don't think we're going to get to see it at the cinema, sadly - no babysitter.

Geek. I've just gone overboard in a train thread.