Remi Jade

Ouch me-thinks. That'll be 2G Dad two then, I'm still trying to accept the title of Grandad achieved last year and here is confirmation of the name.

Remi Jade with her Dad just after arriving home.

Aye Eye

Tried to get a macro shot of wheat but it looked less than good. Then found a dead Wasp on the window-board and came up with this.. I'm sure it could have got better if I had the time and the patience.

Skegvegas. Day trip seaside for Chissits

A day at the seaside, well an afternoon at least. We had a lovely time eating seaside chips, ice creams and waffles as well as a funfair ride or two and quite a while trying to win on the 'tupenny' shove machines.
In Skegness us Leicester and Nott's folk are known as "Chissits", due to our lazy accent and when enquiring the price of goods the retailers have on sale we ask of the price,  "Owmuchissit"?

More bugs than grains of sand

Went to Skeggy (Skegness) on Tuesday afternoon. Four of us as Michael was working, Jac on a half day, kids on summer break and me on days off. Seaside chips,ice cream, waffles, log flume and sand. Millions of Ladybirds all over the rocks at the top of the beach. Some alive, some dead, but more than enough to be a nuisance.

Today oi'll be droyvin the four levered truck

It's a kind of holiday. I get away from the PC screens and my colleague gets away from work. This week he's off, for some of that time I cover his role of Forklift driver. So today I'm driving this truck with enough levers for each of my fingers on the right!
Bit boring I know but I haven't blogged for a few days. Updates comin soon.

Good boy prize

Jac bought me a bar of chocolate to take with me to another night shift. A prize for completing a whole year off the fags.
A work colleague who is recently a one year'er told me a few weeks ago that his understanding is that any weight gain during the withdrawal stages would drop off after a year. Well I stayed up all night to watch but I'm still a fat B :)
Seriously though I am seeing a small but significant reduction in my overall weight, maybe I'm losing a little muscle and replacing it with chocolate, thereby losing weight but gaining size :( Who knows?,,,,or cares?
Anyway, as of 1/8/11 (1st Aug to you Yanks) I became a one year'er off the fagerettes. "Yay go me" one might yelp in delight.