Monday 26th January 2015 to Sunday 1st February 2015

Monday 26th January 2015
Bosskat had to get up early to get school off early as they have parent's afternoon today.  So waking up all night to check the time (but didn't set the alarm as I'm trying to develop Jack Reacher-like internal clock accuracy).  Got up at 5.35, dog walked and papers fetched.  Getting stuff ready for tomorrow as might cycle in depending on the weather.  Into the office for 8am.  Busy, busy day ruffling the feathers of folks who think it's okay to use our trademarks to fill their pockets - well that ain't on matey, that ain't happening.  Nasty piece of work,me, oh yes.  Anyroad, busy day, back home a bit after 6pm.   Tea, dog walk. Bit of true detective, bit of Game of Thrones.  Ace.  Bed.

Tuesday 27th January 2015
Didn't get up til after 6am which buggered up plans for cycling to work. Took dog up town, no papers in paper shop, marvellous, back for 6.45 - porridge and off to work.  As we'd got someone doing photos today I thought I'd got and plant the bike in the bike shed! Subterfuge and special ops - got me wanting to get out on the bike again, though.  So went out for a spin on t'bike when got home.  Only 7 miles so not too bad for a start over.  Hopefully get out again before end of week

Wednesday 28th December 2015
The usual dog walking and papers mullarky.  1.5lbs on at group.  Reap as ye sow (snow?)


Thursday 29th December 2015
Up early. Dog walked, papers fetched.  Snow given for today so that's been the topic all day. Got home for about 6.30pm not too bad a drive at all.   Home, tea, dog walks, snow fed up with it already.

Friday 30th December 2015
Got up at  6:45!!! Yikes that;s late, dog walked paper fetched, brekkie on the go.  Into the office for 8.45 so pleased with that after much 20mph driving and arsefaces pulling out on me and then driving 5mph slower than I was going.  Tosspots.

Saturday 31st January 2014
Up earlyish.  Dog walked, paper fetched.  Piccy B.  No golf as course closed.  Lots of work on the computer instead.  Good stuff.  Took pooch a good walk along the river and found a new way back before you get to Sides Mill Farm.

Pooch filfthy when we go back so she had a shower and shampoo - she hates that.  All good stuff, bed earlyish.  Phil gone out boozing with his mates in Derby.

Sunday 1st February 2015
Phil back in at 3.30am.  Hickuping like a misfiring ending at 4am, talking into the big white telephon at 4.45am.   Great start to the day.  Up at 7.30am.  Took Lily on a new walk.  Parking at the cemetery and then walking in big loop - the main aim is to keep her clean for as long as possible!!

Anyroad up, main aim of the day is to get the base dug out for the greenhouse, am itching to get busy with it. So marked it out first using cunningly placed solar lights for markers.

Then set out to dig off all the turf which I've put round the back in the main to sort of level out the bit of grass on the back that is a pig to mow in summers.  Hopefully it will help a wee bit.  Have kept a little bit of turf back just in case.

Have a cunning plan for how to get the cement / concrete base in bang on level.  So that's next weekend's job unless the wee lad lends a hand which he didn't seemed inclined to yesterday, bless.

Took missus for a quick shopping session in the afternoon and then took pooch a last walk up the golf course before it went dark.

17th Green a little bit unplayable - full moon - good for sea-fishing!

Nice sunset at the end of the day

Monday 19th January 2015 to Sunday 25th January 2015

Monday 19th January 2015
Awake super early.  Went down fishing at 6:30 - starry, starry night.  Not as cold as expected.  Caught nowt, missed the one bit I had.  Packed up.  Bacon buttie and hit the road by about 10:25 home before 2pm even with sitting on the M56 for 20 minutes while a crash was cleared out of the fast lane.  Got home.  Took dog for a three mile round trip on a new walk I recently discovered.   Fell asleep on sofa so decided to go bed at 9.20!

Tuesday 20th January 2015
Woke up at 4am.  Got up at 5:30am.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Aldi for 8am.  In office for 8:30am. Back home for about 6pm. Had tea. Took dog a walk,  Watched a bit of telly including Count Arthur which was most excellent.  Did a bit of work on a current project.

Wednesday 21st January 2015
Woke up before 5am, got up at 5:30.  Took dog a walk and fetched papers - snow not too bad but set off for work before 7am, in the office for just after 7:30.  No snow at all in Derby - quite bizarre.  Busy day. Group after work - 1lb off which is a small victory after all the excess of the the boozy weekend.

Thursday 22nd January 2015
Up at 5am to make sure Phil got off to LAMMA at Peterborough. Back to bed for a bit then up at 5.40.   Dog walked, papers fetched. Missus is relief care-taking so got Lucy up and off to school.  Still in office for 8:30.   All good stuff.

Friday 23rd January 2015
An other full on day.  Up early. Dog walk, papers.  Brekko, work, meeting with DR.  Aldi on way home - flamin manic that shop is.  Back home for about 6.45.  Tea. Dog walk. Telly. Dog Walk. Watched some of Cambridge vs Man Utd - not bad game at all and pay day for Cambridge on the replay!

Saturday 24th January 2015
Up at 7am!!!!  Lie in at last!   Took pooch to get papers.  Went up town to piccy B to get brekko for everyone.  Got seed potatoes chitting!  This year trying the following first earlies - Home Guard (in honour of Captain Mainwaring obviously), Swift - as they sound nippy, and Casa Blanca (an oblique reference to the West Wing), for second earlies am going to try Maris Peers - we shall see.

Golf with JH at 1pm.   Started off slow then played last six holes in level par with a spawny birdie on the 7th. Ended up with a decent enough 21points.   Got home.  Got trimming the lilac tree so there will be more light for the greenhouse.  Going to work well I reckon.  Need to get it all took down the recycling tomorrow.

Sunday 25th January 2015
Up at 8am!!!  Blimey.  Walked round the meadow with the daft dog.  Got all the tree bits broken down to manageable size and then taken down to the Recycling.  11am walk was along towards Sides Mill and then round the foresty commission bit on top of the old tip.   Beautfiul day.

Got back and on with the job. First of all emptied the metre sqaured planter thing then shifted all the 45cm x 45cm slabs off the bit where the Greenhouse is going and stacked them where the meter squared was.  All good stuff. Showered and ready for a late lunch at the Shant with ma and pa.  Very nice.  Back home and more walks and then getting stuff ready for work - watched a couple of True Detectives as there's nothing on telly to touch it!

16/12

Monday 12th January 2015 to Sunday 18th January 2015

Monday 12th January 2015
Woke about 4am, didn't get up til 5:30 though - 4am is way too early unless you're fetching someone from Heathrow in my opinion.  Wind woke me in all fairness making the double glazing whistle again. What a pain.  Anyway, fetched papers with the wee dog who had a good bark at the old fella in the newsagent as she's prone to do (funny dog).   Got home, shaved, showered.  Porridge for breakfast and on the road to Darley Dale to pick up a computer desk.  Into the office for 8am, all good.  Funny day in the office - so much brand protection stuff going through at the minute. Anyway, today was a reet good day because I got my tax return submitted and paid off George Osborne so he can p*ss it up a wall in the house of commons bar no doubt.  So that's a good thing.  Continued with the new way of taking the pooch a walk before tea so she's not mithering which was also very good.  Bed at 10.30 after watching a bit more scandal.

Tuesday 13th January 2015
Woke up at bang on 5.31am.  Dog walked, papers fetched by 6.30.  Computer desk stashed in me shed by 7am.  Porridge for brekkie again - 2/3rds of a bowl of me and the rest for the wee dog who seems to absolutely love porridge, bless her. Aldi by 8am, office by 8:30 - everything running on rails!!  Continued the new system of getting home, taking dog walk and then having tea.  No mithering from the pooch at tea-time is great!  Count Strong on the telly after watching a new ITV2 series called Cockroaches.  Bed after 11pm - will pay for that tomorrow, no doubt.

Wednesday 14th January 2015
Woke at just gone 5am, up at 5:36, dog walked and back home with papers by 6.20am!   Cool.  Shave, shower, porridge again - wee dog getting two big spoons worth and loving it.  Into office for about 8am.  Nippy but no sign of the promised snow overnight - rubbishy weather forecasters! Interesting day - quite a few meetings, loads of brand protection work.  Group after work - 4.5lbs of the Xmas weight gain damage gone.  Will do for a start.  During the day I bought and installed a telly for Paddy as his old one (which wasn't all that old stopped working).  The only problem with it is that it won't fit on the old tv table properly.  Want to start running again really.  Watched more scandal. Bed for about 11.

Thursday 15th January 2015
Woke up with no alarm about 5'ish, out of bed for 5.34.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Shared porridge with the hound and in the office a bit after 8am.  Not bad day.  Aldi after work to get me dad two pheasants - bizarrely I found that Aldi had two pheasant products and so got the missus to have a look at the last brochure to make sure I'd got the right thing - I hadn't initially.   Dropped them off at Darley Dale after making a cockup and not getting off A38 until Ripley!  Such is life.

Friday 16th January 2015
Woke at 4am.  Out of bed at 5.40, papers fetched, dog walked, breakfast and into work for 8.15 after loading some bits and bobs into the car in readiness for tomorrow. Got a load done, back home, a few medicinals, a few dog walks.

Saturday 17th January 2015
Up early, paper fetched,  Fetched piccy b for family then car loaded and off to Wales.

Settled in to the cottage.  Couldn't dig any bait - sand was way too hard and worms were down really deep but got bait from Valley Baits so ready for the night's fishing.  Saturday night fished brilliantly - codling, whiting, plaice - loads of bites.

Sunday 18th December 2015
Woke up at 5am as usual.  Went a walk about 8am.  Bit of toast for brekkie.  Trip out to do a reccy on a mark the other side of Wilfa power station - proper full on force 7 wind so didn't hang about long. Over to Amlwch got some bait for the evening session.  Which could only be described as chalk and cheese when compared to Saturday when we were getting bites pretty much all night,  Such is life.  Bed about 10pm.




16/13

Monday 5th January 2015 to Sunday 11th January 2015

Monday 5th January 2015
Up at the crack of dawn (even though had set alarm clock was awake at 4am).  Took dog on a fairly long walk picking up the papers on the way back.  Into the office for 7:50.  All good stuff.


Tuesday 6th January 2015
Up early.  Dog walked.  Bumped into Jonny Bigland for the second day in a row.  Got papers, into the office for 8am.  Mad day doing tons of stuff on Brand Protection and special projects.  Looking at going to Wales soon.  Count Arthur Stong on telly at 10.35 - ace stuff.

Wednesday 7th January 2015
Didn't get up til 5:50 due to watching Count Arthur late at night!   Dog, walked. Papers fetched.  Facing the music at Group tonight.  Time to get back on the plan!  Went to group after work to face the music/scales.  8lbs on since 17/12/2014.  Mortified.   Definitely time to get back on plan.  2lbs heavier than I was in January 2014 (which also wasn't very clever).  Dog walking and working on a website for someone then bed about 10:30

Thursday 8th January 2015
Still going with no alarm and consequently didn't get up until five to six!   Wind blowing a hoolie at night though so perhaps to be expected.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Porridge for breakfast into the office for 8am.  All good so far.

Friday 9th January 2015
Dog walked early.  Porridge for breakfast.  Office fairly early.  All good stuff.  Got home, new tactic is to take dog a walk as soon as I get in.  That way she doesn't mither me all through tea - worked well. Received bill from Golf Club, emailed and told 'em I wasn't renewing this time.

Saturday 10th January 2015
Up early.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Few jobs in the house done.  Fetched piccy B. Golf at 1.03, got beat off full handicap but such is life.  Coffee in clubhouse.  Derby beat Ipswich 1-0 to go second in the league leapfrogging the tractor boys on the way.  All good stuff.  Took pooch a walk along old railway line in dark and she got spooked by something - very wierd.   Started watching Scandal on Sky Boxsets which has a lot of scenery from West Wing I reckon not to mention the chap who plays Will Bailey in West Wing for that matter.  It's not too bad.

Sunday 11th January 2015
Up early.  Mini dog walk first thing - wind blowing a hoolie again. Got 95% of my self-assessment tax return completed - just need to check a couple of things and can have that done by next week. Glad I registered to do them online last year or I'd be up sh*t creek without a paddle (well facing a £100 fine again, perhaps).  

Breakfast then a bit later on went a cracking walk with the pooch, very enjoyable - will plot it next time see how far round it was - probably a couple of miles I think.  Nice sunny day so went down the allotment - got the water off the shed rerouted to fill the water butts (the IBC is full to brim I think) and some other jobs done.   A few tinnies in the afternoon before going to me mum and dads for tea which was very nice, thank you very much.  Got home and bed early.

17st 3.5lbs

Monday 29th December 2014 to Sunday 4th January 2015

Monday 29th December 2014
Have decided to stop using alarm clock unless have got to be up at crack of dawn.  So far so good. Up at 5.30.  Minus 5 when I scraped the car.

Dog walked, papers fetched, into office for 8am.  Loads of Brand Protection eBay work done.  Got musical gear put away so Miles-Bramwell suite can return to it's normal usage.  Back home for about 7pm.  Dog walked.  Soundbar installed on telly - not impressed - that'll teach me.   Watched a couple of episodes of Elementary.  Brought a load of drum pollution out of the car and got it into me shed somehow - it's going up in the attic once I've got all the pollution together in one place!

Tuesday 30th December 2014
No alarm clock again.  Got up at 5.40.  Minus 7 outside, proper cold, in fact so cold I had to carry the dog the last couple of hundred yards of the walk, poor pooch.  Into office for a bit after 8am after getting the lad's car scraped and out of the way of bosskat's so she can go shop, shop.  All good stuff.

Wednesday 31st December 2014
Up early.  Dog walked papers fetched.  Still damn cold but due to warm up a bit.  Another year older - it's not fair you know!!  In the office for 8am.  Did some ace Brand Protection stuff, quite pleased with meself.  Back home for a bit after 5pm.  Got some serious drinking done but over a long period of time so wasn't drunk just convivial and got to be by 1.30am!!!  First time have seen New Year in for donkey's years.

Thursday 1st January 2015
Up at 7.20, woke up a bit earlier.  Feeling fine, took pooch out for a big walk.  Got back coffee. Went up town in motor and got papers.  Bro came over.  Mum and Dad came over.  Went to Stepping Stones for luncheon - it were grand.  Afternoon, I got the red drum kit into the attic with some assistance from Phil.  Put inflatable beds up into the attic as well as the Dog's cage which we don't use any more so all good stuff went to bed early after watching a bit of Elementary and House of Fools Christmas special. Got woke up at 1.48 by the ruddy wind humming through the bedroom window.  At 3.30 still awake so went out to check things weren't being blown all over the shop.  Fastened the off thing down and went back to bed.  Woke up at 6.20.  Took dog out, fetched paper.  Got into the office about 8.30.  Busy on a job that had to be turned round quickly for publishing.  Then some more excellent Brand Protection work done and some new leads started.

Friday 2nd January 2015
In the office early enough.  Loads done, loads of walks.  All good stull


Saturday 3rd January 2015
Up early.  Dog walked.  Papers fetched (except for Times which wasn't in).  Lots of bits and bobs but golf cancelled due to bloody rain.  Watched most of True Detective which is one of the best things I've ever watched ever. Took pooch another walk up golf course in afternoon, Found half a dozen balls.

Sunday 4th January 2015
Dog mithering at 7am.  Got up took her a walk.  Frosty and cold again.  Coffee, shave happy days.  Watched last episode of True Detective.  Absolutely the best series I've ever seen.  Awesome.  Got Christmas stuff took down.  Four dog walks before 3pm!  Bloomin hound.  Not much else to report - banging stuff up into the attic, sorted the boiler out.  Washed mine and the missus' cars.  Went a walk with bosskat in the afternoon.

Bed at 10pm again, making myself stay up so sleep through,

Monday 22nd December 2014 to Sunday 28th December 2014

Monday 22nd December 2014
Up early.  Dog walked.  Into office early. Stuff moved to conference room - it's Xmas party day at head office tomorrow.

Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Xmas party day, up early, dog walked, into office for 8am in Fancy Dress.  Band rehearsal.

Xmas Dinner, band performance, won luxury hamper in raffle.  Ace

Wednesday 24th December 2014
Up at 5.  Dog walked papers fetched super early. At Tescos, Alfreton at 7:30 - mad house.  McD brekko. At Aldi at 7:55 - folks queuing across the car park - stuff that.  Into office for 8am.  Good few hours and got most of the drums took down if not brought home, Back home for 2pm, had a look at Aldi and a look at Sainsburys and both were madhouses so called the whole thing off.  Up in the attic getting stuff ready for the big day.  Dog walks, bit of telly, chippie tea - not so good but never mind.  Bed at midnight!!

Thursday 25th December 2014
Up at 7!!! Yikes, kids in no hurry to come downstairs.  Dog didn't want to go far so a mini walk and comfort break for the dawg.  Shave.  Brekko. Bigger walk with the dog. Fixed my computer by uninstalling the Nvidia driver.  Xmas Dinner with the folks, too much alceehol, lots of walks.

Friday 26th December 2014
Boxing day.  Woken at 7am by Phil's damn alarm, shame it didn't wake him but there you go.  Took dog up town, fetched papers - no queue at paper shop at 7:30!   Computer not sorted.  Think it's definitely the graphics card.  Took pooch on a massive walk round the golf course - got 30 balls!  Then the snow did come.  So took poochie out in wax jacket - ace!

Saturday 27th December 2014
Up early - took pooch on the railway loop walk she is loving this snow!   Then went and fetched papers on me tod.  Piccy B shut so bosskat did a top job of brekko fry up.  Ace.  Went up golf course with pooch in the snow this time - she loves it.   Went homebase to get a bit for the loo upstair to fix the cistern.  Job done, all good.

Sunday 28th December 2014
More of the same.  Took em to Stepping Stones for tea, still getting bugger all done.  Back to work tomoz.

Monday 15th December 2014 to Sunday 21st December 2014

Monday 15th December 2014
Up early.  Dog walked.  Papers fetched. Stuff in car for rehearsal tonight.  Am absolutely full of cold. Never mind, such is life.  Decent day in the office.  Get stuff moved to second rehearsal place.  All good so far.  Stayed til 6.20 but felt rough as so went home a bit earlier than usual.  Got home - West Wing and Game of Thrones.   All good stuff.

Tuesday 16th December 2014
Up at 5:30 before alarm clock.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  New toilet seat fitted.  Into office for 8.15 with hardware for second drum kit. Not too bad a rehearsal after a bit of motivation deflation for some band members at lunch time. First one on an acoustic kit and sooooo much better.   Home for about 8:30pm.  Listened to a bit of the Derby v Chelsea match and it sounded like Derby played well but were somewhat done by a crap referee decision.  Such is life.

Wednesday 17th December 2014
Alarm got me up.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Into the office before 8am.  Got second (or third if you include the Electonic) kit set up before 8:30

Good day at work, lot done.  Hollie's group after - pound off against the grain.  Home. Xmas card. Web work - found out how to do horizontal menus.   West Wing.  Bed really late.


Thursday 18th December 2014
Woke up at 5am.  Closed my eyes for a moment and it was half past.  Up and out with the dog.  Papers fetched.  Brekko.  More Xmas cards off to work.  Into office before 8:30 will do. Funny sort of a rehearsal after work  - beginning to come together.

Friday 19th December 2014
Didn't get to bed until 12:30 am getting that sad feeling of getting towards the end of West Wing and knowing that after the end of series 7 there ain't no more.  Anyway, gave myself an extra 20 minutes in bed.  Dog walked and back home for 6.30 in the office by 8am moving gear.

Saturday 20th December 2014
Up early as always.  Papers fetched with the wee dog.  Piccy B breakfast when the lad finally gets up.  More West wing.  Rubbish to the Tip.  Little bit of golf and a beer.  Back home more Xmas prep.   Over to me mums for fish and chips which were proper grand.  Bed early.

Sunday 21st December 2014
Up early.  Dog walking. Niot sure what else I done. Tea at stepping stones.

Monday 8th December 2014 to Sunday 14th December 2014

Monday 8th December 2014
Up early.  Scraped car.  Took dog up town to fetch paper.  Someone ran into back of me car at roundabout at riverside retail park.  Marvellous start to the week.  Only scratches, not the end of the world.  Into work for a bit after 8am.  Busy day in the office then rehearsal after work.  Quite tired only self to blame.   Home for about 8.30, tea, dog walked then sorted out Phil's CV for him.


Tuesday 9th December 2014
Up at 5.43, managed to switch the radio on rather than switch the alarm off.  That could have gone better.  Scraped car and repeat of yesterday without being rear-ended.  Into office for 8.15  Rehearsal after work.

Wednesday 10th December 2014
Up at the crack.  Dog walked.  Papers. Work early til late.  Xmas Party at 7:30. One glass of red wine. Dull as.   Home for 11pm.  Mini dog walk in rain.  Bed

Thursday 11th December 2014
Up at 5.43.  Dog walk, papers, work - this is life in bloody winter.  Sick of it.  Went to Jayne Scott's group in Hatton to try to see if we can sort out the signal reception problem, Seem to have worked okay.

Friday 12th December 2014
Papers, dog walks.  Hollie's Belper Group - 4.5lbs on, yikes. Work, Down to Burton-on-Trent to get microphone stands etc.  Home.

Saturday 13th December 2014
Up early. Dog walked, papers fetched.  Piccy B fetched. Football with Lucy and bosskat - dog got a big walk.

Lucy's team Aztecs U16s beating Ripley 3-0

Lake at Osmaston all frozen up

Big Buzzard on bottom branch of this tree

Golf at 2pm - lost the shiny poond on the last putt.  Idiot - hit it too hard - still happy with 20 points over nine holes.   Very tired went to bed early.

Sunday 14th December 2014. 
Up early. Dog walked.  Getting stuff ready to fetch a greenhouse from Uttoxeter. Me and Phil at McDs for about 8:50am and on the job by 9:15am.   By 3pm we'd got everything back to Clifton. in two trips. All good stuff.

 Need to get a base down now.

Monday 1st December 2014 to Saturday 6th December 2014

Monday 1st December 2014
Up before alarm clock, up town walking dog for 5.40.  Got papers into the office for about 8am, all good stuff (had shower at work so paint in ours could keep on drying).  All good stuff. Rehearsal after work with a key member missing and it was still very useful.  Back home for about 8:20pm.  Tea. Dog walked.  Three episodes of West Wing and bed by 11:30

Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Up at 5.30.  Dog walked. Papers fetched. Into office for just gone 8am.  All good.

Wednesday 3rd December 2014
It's all got a bit too samey of late in my view.  But that's life.  Dog walk, papers fetched.  Out of office early today for dentist.  Yikes.  Tea, more walking of pooch.  At 9.30 went to put a deposit on a greenhouse probably overpaid a bit but such is life - it's a good un I think and it has some extras - staging for seed trays, shelves and temperature window things.

Thursday 4th December 2014
Bed late last night but still work up before alarm clock.  Walking dog up town at 5.40.  Papers fetched.  Into work early to drop off a ton of games and toys for Red House Charity which is something SW supports particularly at Xmas.  All good stuff.

Just doing a little bit of research - how two google calendars would work.

Rehearsal tonight, then over to Darley Dale to collect Phil's dinner jacket and then back home.

Friday 5th December 2014
Up Early, dog walked, Work , home, tea, dog walked etc.

Saturday 6th December 2014
Up early.  Dog walked.  Papers fetched.  Fetched piccy b breakfast.  Another two walks. And a load of web research.  11.10 set off to catch bus for Derby, got on at Tintown at 11.18, in Derby for about 12.10, first pint at the Alexandra at about 12.30.

Derby vs Brighton - 3-0 in 20 minutes then 70 minutes of passing practice

Now here's the clever part; with excellent pacing me and cousin-in-law (and decorator supreme) Jason only drank five pints all afternoon - 2 at the Alexandra, 2 at the iPro Stadium, 1 in a pub near the bus station whose name I've already forgotten.  Anyway was pleased with that.  Bed early as was knackered.


Sunday 7th December 2014
Up early. Dog walked.

Is this stick long enough???

Fixed the outside light.  Took missus to Uttoxeter to spend a voucher that  would have gone out of date at Wilco. Bit of shopping at Lidl and then back home for about 2pm.  Down the Allotment to put up the alarm fitted signs (that we got on 8th November).  Think the IBC is full as the bucket I put under the tap for leaks was full to the brim.  Need to do a bit of rerouting so that we're filling the water butts up as well.   After tea we fetched the red drum kit that had been lent out for a couple of years!  Bed early again (9.20ish).

Monday 24th November 2014 to Sunday 30th November 2014

Monday 24th November 2014
And so the countdown begins - fetching Phil back from Heathrow on Friday.  Plan in place - up at 4am, dog walk, 4:30 set off for a McDs on Bath Road ten mins from Heathrow.  Watch him come in on flight monitor and then set off for Terminal three.  Anyway, back to today, got up at 5.35am - got ready and then scraped the car (-1 Celsius when set off) got papers and walked the pooch.  Got back - had a bath as the shower room still not 100% dry - think it will be dry tonight.  Think I'm going to need to get the skirting done though for the sake of completeness.   Funny day at work - couldn't quite get what I wanted out of Access but will get there - I have a plan.  After work did another rehearsal - finding out a feet a bit still but we'll get there!  After rehearsal got home for about 7:30, a naughty chippie tea but such is life when you is late.  Took pooch a walk.  Then painted skirting in shower room.  Quite pleased with all that, tomorrow night will need to get door frame done and then we're just about done. An episode of West Wing before bed time.  Bed a few mins before 11 o'clock.

Tuesday 25th November 2014
Up at 5:40.  Dog walked and paper fetched by 6:30.  Got all the masking and other decorating debris out of the bathroom.  Got one little bit more to do tonight then 99.21% of painting before Xmas is done.   Into the office for 8.25 all good.  Funny day in the office, all manner of hassle with Access but some good brand protection work done (I like to think).  Rehearsal after work - coming along nicely.  Back home for 8.45.   Missus told me to have a night off - so I did.  Two episodes of West Wing and in bed by 10:40.  Marvellous.

Wednesday 26th November 2014
Two more sleeps and I'll be fetching the wee lad back.   Bit tired this morning but up before alarm went off.  Walked dog.  Fetched papers in the office by 8.20.  All good. Group after work 3lbs lost somehow. Not complaining.  Got home. Had tea. Took Dog a walk, watched two possibly three more episodes of West Wing.  Marvellous.

Thursday 27th November 2014
Up before alarm.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Did a bit of fillering in the shower room - a bit more to do there.  Breakfast, shower and then into work for just gone 8am.  Good day getting a report off and working on an analysis - quite pleased.  Not in the office tomorrow as am fetching the boy from Heathrow.  Can't wait!  Will be early to bed tonight and no mistake as it will be very early to rise!!!

Friday 28th November 2014 - Return of the Firstborn
Woke up with the alarm at 4am.  Had put coffee and what have you ready the night before.  Got dressed, took dog a quick walk.  Set off for Heathrow at 4.20.   Down A515, A50, M1, (got off at junction 15a and went cross country to get to  M40, M25 and then headed for a McDonalds on Bath Road a few miles from Heathrow.  Had a big breakfast and waited until about 8:40 before setting off for Heathrow, got parked up, waited a bit collected the cowboy.

Anyway, got the lad, paid £6 for an hours parking and set off.  Stopped at Beaconsfield Services and got him some Gregg's sausage rolls which he was happy with.  Got home for a bit after 1pm all good stuff but was seriously knackered.

Saturday 29th November 2014
Up early.  Dog walked, papers fetched.  Piccy B all round - JAS and Lucy off to football.  Painted the door frame for the downstairs loo so painting all but done. Golf at 1:15.  Did just nine holes and had to pay the pound out to John!   Hit the ball fairly well but no touch with the putter at the moment costing me dear.   All good stuff.   Back home more dog walks and West Wing.

Sunday 30th November 2014
Got the shower room dried out by having windows open all the time and a nice day meant I could put some bathroom paint on the ceiling above the shower area that hadn't worked the first time (I think we went back in too soon and used shower before it was totally dry).  So painted that. Took Dog four good walks during the day so she was proper knackered by the end of it.  Top tea over at me mum and dads, back home for 8pm.  Another dog walk.  West Wing and bed by 10pm.