The Good
The USA
trip is starting to get into shape. I know the hotel in DC I want to book into.
Only need to sort out the NY and “spare days” yet-and that is the main draw
back.
The music mags do their “best of the year” free CDs and it
is a good chance to hear some stuff I never heard before.
Email form some members of the legendary Kitty Club –from an
ICS holiday. The club was started on a Donegal Safari in 2011 (I think) I
missed this years holiday –for a few reasons. But there is already talk of another
reunion in 2014-apparently my presence was missed this year-and I was told
other group members were asking “Who is this Gerdy you speak of?” And there may
even be a date change to August-which is my normal holiday time.
The Dr Who 50th Anniversary show was actually
pretty good-well not as disappointing as I thought it was going to be-was a bit
confusing. Billie Piper was looking good too.
The Bad
The USA
trip-I know, I know. Last night I was on very bad form and I was almost set to
cancel the whole thing. Someone at work was saying to me that I should have
gone for longer, because-and I quote “ Sure you have loads of leave left-and
also money.” Huh? Where do people get this idea that I have loads of money.
There are a lot of gold diggers out there that are in for a big let down baby. I also don’t have
that much leave left-enough for the USA trip but that’s about it. And
if I DID cancel it, I would not tell anybody at work until I got back from the
days off.
Those free CDs with the music mags-they NEVER include a
track from the number 1 cd. Number 35 ,22 , maybe even number 4-but never
number 1.
The picture on the cover of this month’s Saga Magazine is of
Kim Wilde. My GAWD has it come to this. Something I never imagined would
happen. For any one who does not know-Saga is a magazine aimed at the over 50s.
Usually has interviews with retired mps or those radio presenters that have
been on radio for 40 or 50 years- or Melvyn Bragg going on about some upper
class twaddle but Kim Wilde?? Kim use to grace the front page of Smash Hits-a
teeny boppers’ pop mag –that was too young for me back when. How long before
it’ll be Kylie on there?
Got an email from someone from the cycling group discussing
which one to do next year-FAR to early for that-let’s get Xmas and Easter out
of the way first-and Xmas? Don’t start me on that-I’m by no means a Scrooge.
But I can’t abide the build up-and the people who moan “oh my gawd it seems to
be starting earlier every year.” Never too early for turkey-that’s what I say.
Xmas presents-at my stage in life now it’s socks,shirts or
slippers-toys are now a thing of the past-shame- xmas( ok Christmas) and
birthday presents should be something you WANT as opposed to something you
need. Point made-ok?
The ugly
People that over do it with the xmas decorations-was down at
the sister’s house on November 24th and her next door neightbour had
his/her house covered in “dancing lights” and had light up figures in the
garden. I wanted to break one of the dancing lights in the hope it would turn
everything off and he’d spend hours looking for the fault.
The American trip-moan moan moan
