the xmas non event thread...

"once"

yeah, *right*.

 

darsy said:

You think I'm so slim and athletic that I must still have it, don't you?

 

I've not seen you in the flesh for a couple of years, but if you want
my honest opinion, medical science isn't yet at nearly an advanced
enough stage to be able to make you slim *or* athletic.

 

That's nice for you, dear.

Oh, joy and delight redoubled.

Deep joy.

This has the hallmarks of an event to be dreaded. I'd pull a sickie,
IIWY.
I used to be forced to "do" Christmas with the in-laws - we'd go to
them, or more commonly they would come to us ... for a fucking week.
Round Two at S-I-L's Boxing Day or the day after in a little house
full of scrapping kids.
Then there would be New Year's Eve at the in-laws perched on a lumpy
sofa watching shite on the box with a small sherry - followed by
rendezvous at B-I-L's New Year's Day in a big house full of scrapping
kids, ending with a 3-hour drive starting at 22:00 taking the in-laws
home and finally getting home at 01:00.

I have such fond memories of tiptoeing across a frozen and deserted
M62, driving between the lines of ice which followed the white lines
in a 60mph crosswind. It summed up the whole period, really - bleak.

 

darsy said:

You want me don't you?

 

sorry, no.

 

darsy said:

At least you have the grace to be sorry...

I luv you I do... You're my bestest mate.

 

Odd that. I have memories of us sitting in the car (ma, pa, brother
and me), on a deserted M62/M6, listening to the chimes of Big Ben on
the radio. We were driving back from Liverpool haveing left the New
Year celebrations at a 'friends' somewhat early. Very bizarre.

The carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" always brings that memory back.

 

Perfect time to go for a ride, surely, with everyone else cooped up
inside or too drunk/hungover to get out on their bike.

 

Oh lucky you.

these would be in laws in southern most France would they?

I look forward to that edition of "Dodger's Tales of the Unexplored" ;-)

 

I was rather hoping to do the fancy dress thing that takes hold of Wigan
around that time. Although this year I've been preparing myself for the
usual christmas parties, so I should enjoy them a bit more.

 

wearing your leathers and going as a giant toddler?

 

"I'm the baby, gotta love me" - it just might work.

 

Mine was loads of fun, but an absolute shitheap.

--
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Champ said....

My best one was sedated to the eyeballs in ICU after my crash in 1981.

--
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Year before last I was in Cornwall, doing all that. It was okay.

Last year I was in South Africa. It was okay.

I get this awful sense of time passing, and missed opportunities.
That's more about me, than NYE, I suppose.

 

You protest too much.

 

"Cheer up, ya miserable bugger!"

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Well I can relate to Champ's comments [1] but Ben - you're more than a
decade younger than Champ. You can't possibly be feeling like this now.
I thought you were a brighter and more adventurous chap than you are
painting yourself.

[1] being only a year or so behind him in the age stakes.

 

Paul Corfield wrote

Makes oi larf it does. All you young studs worrying over a missed life
that you ain't hardly bloody started having yet.


<snigger>