Thursday, 28 November 2013

the good bad abd all



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

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