Monday 11th January 2016 to Sunday 17th January 2016

Monday 11th January 2016
Woke up dead early but didn't get out of bed until 5:50am.  Woke Phil up then went to fetch papers and take poocher a small walk up town. David Bowie dies - thought he was immortal - massive shock just a couple of days after releasing an album

Proper tired but such is life - keep buggering on - as Mr Churchill would say.   Into office for just after 8am - got snagged up on last bit of traffic on A38, such is life.  Took stock replenishment to company we are doing some work with.   Consequently got home a bit earlier than usual which was nice.  Tea.  Dog walk.  Overdose of Stella (not Artois but the Welsh sitcom thang on Sky).   All good stuff but well late for bed in the end!!

Tuesday 12th January 2016
Up at crack of dawn.  Chucking it down with rain and no sign of it stopping.  Took pooch round the block twice but couldn';t get her to do her business bless her,  Never mind.  Into the office for 8.10am.  Not a bad day at work, plenty done.  Back home dog walking and finishing off the booze as am going back to group tomorrow.  About bloody time.   Visited pound shop got some seeds and stuff.  Have got plenty ready.  Am going to need to get some spuds chitting soon.

Wednesday 13th January 2016
Woke at 5am,didn't get out of bed until 6am.  Dog walk in drizzle, got papers back home, into work for just gone 8am.  Pooch update - she did her business big-style so panic over!!!

Traffic bloody awful for last couple of miles near M1 and had made me fractionally later than I'd like for the last couple of days.

Had a load of grief with HMRC website last night - what a bloody pain that is.  Hopefully get that fixed soon.  Update - got into it at last.   Am mighty impressed with the pure guile and cunning the HMRC is employing in getting tax dodgers:

Back to group after many weeks away.  Very silly boy.  First night in a while with zero alcohol and zero anything else that's bad for me.  Took poocher a couple of walks in the rain.  Watched a bit of telly.  Did a bit more tax return.  Got to bed for 10pm.

Thursday 14th January 2015 
Up at 5:57.  Dog walked, into office for 7:50am after getting petrol. Pounded on with various reports.  Back home for a bit after 6pm.  Tea. Dog walk.   Telly. Dog walk. Bed - no alcchol, no junk, lots of coffee.   Got a

Friday 15th January 2015
Phil driving gritter today so up at the 4:30 make sure he buggered off to work. Back to bed, didn;t wake up until 6:20 so only just managed to get up town, take dog walk, fetch papers and back for 7am to get Lucy and bosskat up.  Never mind, into the office for 8am.  Porridge for brekky about 9:30am - all good stuff.  Back home in okay sort of time.  Tea. Dog walk. No alceehol.

Saturday 20th January 2015
Up at 7:00am!!  Good stuff.  Small piccy b brekko..  Golf at 12.27.  Steady nine holes 15 points a bit better than John's 13 ha ha,  Coffee for two at the 10th/19th depending on how you looks at it.

Snow in the distance/ 2nd tee at Ashbourne

 Amazed that England absolutely stuffed South Africa - fantastic stuff.  Back home no alceehol.  Have I said that before?  Phil out snowploughing at silly o'clock so didn't sleep well at all.

Sunday 17th January 2015
Up at 7am.  Quick dog walk. More tax return fun. Cleared snow off path - would have gone on it's own if I'd left it I reckon nevermind.

Pooch not sure what to make of snow.

Aldi for some shopping about 2pm then another walk for el poocher up the golf course - didn't let her off lead as someone shooting a shotgun over towards Wyaston and she don't like that.   On way back saw a fox do the nosedive thing that they do.  Wish I'd had a decent camera with me but such is life - I love foxes - I know they make a mess of hen houses and all that bit that's their nature

Fox in the distance - beautiful creatue

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