{"id":1263,"date":"2011-10-24T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/nice-busy-old-weekend\/"},"modified":"2011-10-24T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:48:20","slug":"nice-busy-old-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/nice-busy-old-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice busy old weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So then, is this why I never seem to get any jobs done around the house and have a pile in my &#39;to do&#39; bowl like the towering inferno?<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning &#8211; PT at the gym and the joyous&#0160;monthly weigh in &#8211; not an ounce on but not an ounce off, so a stern talking to from Nick, who does for some reason&#0160;blame Hawksey for my lack of weight loss, and I for one and not going to tell him he&#39;s wrong..<\/p>\n<p>Fri afternoon &#8211; off to the (Not So) Affordable Art Fair.&#0160;We may get the entry tickets for free these days as seasoned old arty-farties but it goes not one iota of the way to offsetting the cost of actually buying stuff there! &#39;Affordable&#39;, my shiny pince-nez&#8230;. Still we did emerge with one posh picture and one print, which was highly amusing as Hawksey was very pleased with the &#39;wide-eared dog&#39; print he&#39;d chosen, only to then read the name on it &#8211; &#39;Harry Hare&#39;&#0160;being a very strange name for a canine chum indeed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And then Fri eve &#8211; a night chez nous on the dusty sofa, a small bit of calm in the weekend storm<\/p>\n<p>So to Sat morning &#8211; off at 9am to play hockey at a very sunny Paddington Rec, to burn off a pleasing 1100 calories (the upside) in a rather busy game as we got whopped 0-5 by some rudely-young things, (yes, the downside of us having gome up a league).<\/p>\n<p>And then back for a bath &#8211; the one clean thing in our house &#8211; before heading off to Pamela-la&#39;s house for a fine evening of lamb, fire-throwing (including Hawksey having a go and wrapping the two burning chains first round his head and then his undercarriage, skills) and the usual ripping apart of Pam&#39;s appalling record collection, Yes we are talking 33 inch vinyl, a myriad of obscure French musical artists and a distinct lack of anything from the last 2 decades.<\/p>\n<p>And so, post-rugby viewing and a fine bacon butty in bed,&#0160;to Nursey&#39;s birthday lunch on Sunday. Which started off very well &#8211; 20 chums round a table (me &amp; H sadly being the oldest gits in the room), then descended into wine-fuelled mayhem and a crazed game of musical chairs and trying to let one poor woman out of the lock-malfunctioning toilet. Sorry to Hattie for &#39;hip-bashing&#39; you off your chair to avoid me being out (but not that sorry). And then to me getting home at a sensible school night 7pm&#8230;.. only for a very worse for wear Mr H to arrive at&#0160;a rather&#0160;non-pleasing&#0160;1.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>Or so I thought, as I heard his key in the door and then&#8230;. nothing else. No door closing, no footsteps drunkenly bumbling up the 2 flights, bed-wards, no flinging off of clothes and tripping on the items cunningly left on the darkened stairs to punish his late arrival..<\/p>\n<p>So I waited 10 minutes before finally donning a dressing gown and very grumpy wife-face, and traipsing down to look for him. Cue one utterly hammered husband on the outside doorstep, who (when asked what he was doing standing there) said &#39;I thought I had come in&#39;&#8230;&#8230;. and then a rather&#0160;sad little&#0160;&#39;help me&#39;! Ah&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And thence to a fabulous rest of night with rumbling snores, a disturbed cat and a very grumpy wife who had to get up for work just a few hours later, while hubby rotted merrily on the pit until 12 noon on Monday when I woke him up with a phone call! It&#39;s all right for some&#8230;&#0160;AND he wasn&#39;t sick though god knows how&#8230;. has the alcohol capacity of a narwhal.<\/p>\n<p>Hence updating El Bloggo now as I am too knackered to work and will be creeping homewards when the big hand gets to the bottom of the clock and the little hand is on the magic number 5&#8230;. can&#39;t come soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Bon weeks all round peeps,<\/p>\n<p>Sx<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So then, is this why I never seem to get any jobs done around the house and have a pile in my &#39;to do&#39; bowl like the towering inferno? 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