Rain is Better

We have done really well this winter as far as weather is concerned. Apart from a few windy days earlier in the month, it has been nice and hot during the day. It is a little chilly during the evening though!

It appears that January has replaced November as the 'wet month', it's tipping down but much nicer than that scary wind! The weather report states that it has set in for the next few days. I'm a home bird tomorrow. I don't mind watching it but I'm not going out unless I have to.

Not a bad result for us girls at the bowling today. We played a make-up game against Brian and Jeff, postponed from Sunday. I've been aiming at the centre arrow on the lane for months now and, although I found I had fairly good scores, I've gone off the boil lately. Our first two games weren't too good and so I decided to change my style. I moved over to the left and curled my ball slightly, towards the head pin. It worked wonders! Doreen had a good game too and we completely thrashed them. Too late for a win but at least we had two points.

I'm looking forward to Sunday so that I can check out the new tactics. Hopefully it isn't a fluke!

Catching Up and Such

Firstly, the state of play in Budgie World. There is still such a lot of activity as far as the nesting box is concerned as Juanita spends most of her day in there. I can´t work out what she is doing but José isn´t included. Happen it could be time to practise my Spanish at the pet shop!

Secondly, believe this if you will. Gosh, I´m sounding a little like ´im indoors!! I had a word with Carol at the bowling today concerning matie who alleged he could hypnotise chickens. It appears that the chicken wouldn´t play, his frog was off sick and the lizard had done a runner. I must confess that she almost fooled me but then again, folk will do anything to get a job in Tenerife!

Apologies to Shona, I did get a text to say she wished she could have been with us yesterday. The weather is awful in Scotland at the moment.

Not a lot to say about Monday bowling as we were thrashed.

Finally, I changed my blog to the new one and I don´t like it!

Should I Have Gone Bowling?

It was my choice to postpone bowling until Friday as I had a fancy for a Sunday off. I planned to have a nice stroll around the village but ´im indoors had other ideas.

He did lull me into a false sense of security by proposing a trip to Playa Paraiso, where we looked around a couple of shops and stopped for a cool drink. Ok, it was a beer!! In fact, it was the bar where we used to meet Shona and William whilst they were here last year and I was cheeky enough to send her a ´thinking of you´ text. Needless to say, she never replied!!

As Brian fancied a couple more beers we took Melvyn home and ended up at the Fisherman´s Bar. Strangely enough, we were just in time to watch the Arsenal v Man United match. How things pan out!

It was good fun though and I really enjoyed the match and the banter. Out of around twenty of us there was one bloke supporting Arsenal. He got some stick and gave some back but we did applause when the last goal went in.

Nice, good natured fun, good to see and he bought a round!

A Quiet Day

Really lazy. We played Playstation mostly and argued through it. They do say that the older you get the more childlike you become. Happen we have reached that point!

I made the decision to switch the flippin´ thing off at about six and we had a wander around the village for an hour or two before tea. We got as far as the Church Square and noticed that the English bar had the Blackburn match on and stopped to watch the last twenty minutes or so. Well done to them, a three nil victory over Manchester City. My brother will be well pleased.

Our Sunday bowling has been postponed until Friday and I´m really looking forward to yet another lazy day. I get worse!!

Vernon and Vicky

Surprise, surprise!! A lovely one too!!

When I first moved to Cornwall I met up with Vernon´s Mum, Shirley, and she became one of my greatest friends. Unfortunately, I haven´t seen her for some years (she lives in Cyprus) but I do meet up with her four boys from time to time.

Robert, the eldest, always makes me chuckle. Vernon is next in line, followed by Jeff. Young Greg is the baby or was as he´s clocking on to forty now!

Anyway, back to my tale. Vernon turned up today along with his girlfriend, Vicky. The four of us spent a couple of hours going down memory lane together. It was really lovely. I had a little bit of Cornish village scandal to tell him too! I expect he´ll make great use of that!

Thankfully, I had told Brian about the mad weekend Sam and I had last Easter so he couldn´t dob me in!

José and Juanita

I haven´t mentioned my babies for a while, mainly because they have been pretty boring of late.

Their nesting box has been attached to the side of the cage for at least twelve months and neither of them have been in it..........until TODAY!!

Juanita, the blue one, decided to investigate and keeps scratching around in there. Poor José gets pecked if he tries to enter. They will be a couple of years old come the summer and maybe it´s time to start breeding. We shall see!

How Can He Do That?

I was about to throw my bowling ball on Sunday when I half heard Carol telling Doreen about a man and some chickens. Thankfully, I managed to concentrate and got a strike. Happen she should talk chicken more often!!

To be serious. Carol runs a bar with entertainment and was presented with a business card earlier in the week. This chap has an act where he hypnotises chickens and has asked for a spot in her show. The mind runs riot. How does he do it and what do they do when he does? Five o´clock club lost the plot a little tonight as our imaginations overtook us. Carol did promise that she would check it out. I can´t wait to hear!

Another thing that is amusing me at the moment is an article in one of those crappy magazines I have become addicted to since I took early retirement. A bloke who never found his ideal woman decided to buy a plastic girlfriend. She cost him over five thousand pounds and looks a little like an overgrown Barbie. He now has three of them and they were pictured sharing Christmas dinner! Each with a glass of wine!

His comments were ´they see to my physical needs and take turns in my bed´. He spends most of his spare cash on their clothes and wonders why his friends don´t understand him.

Each to his own.

Saturday Kitchen

Brian´s favourite programme at the moment is Saturday Kitchen. As his father would have said ´there´s bits aboot it´, but I get really disappointed with the amount of cheese that they all throw on.

Then eggs turn up! Some chappie made a nice soup this week and then he chucked a poached egg on top. I know it´s a done thing in Madeira but really it´s quite yucky.

I don´t cook, hate cheese and I´m off eggs and I do wish that these million dollar chefs could come up with something different now and again.

On a high note, Doreen and I won at bowling..............yippee!!!

´Meet You Under the Clock´!!

I found this wonderful photo during my internet wanderings and although Accy buses were wonderful in their own right, I was more interested in the clock that you see in the background. That thing with black legs top left!

I don´t think it is still there now, but during the sixties it was the place to meet for teenagers hoping for a new romance. There you were, skirts showing your knickers, trying to feel confident and praying that matie would turn up!

After all, you only met him last night for a quick snog at Burnley Mecca! Could you even remember what he looked like!!

I was only ´stood up´ once and I ended up marrying him. It would be nice to know how many folk got hitched because of that clock.

Big Sneezes!

Barry gave me a lift to bowling yesterday and confessed to having the worst cold ever. As he had the aircon on, I´m sure the germs have spread. I can´t stop sneezing and my throat is so sore. Hopefully, it´s just the dust from the building site next door, I´m ever hopeful xx

We did catch up with Deal or No Deal tonight and watched the first winner of the quarter of a million. I know I´m sad but it did bring tears to my eyes. It was so nice to see a youngster win it.

That bad Tracy in Corrie has a lot to answer for. Poor Charlie is doomed!

Time for bed. I hope I feel better tomorrow.

Two Poorly Arms

My left arm has been poorly, sick and bad for a couple of months. A trapped nerve at shoulder level, I think, but as long as I don´t reach upwards or backwards, I can cope. Brave little soldier that I am!!

After a few weeks of no bowling, followed by playing two days together, my right arm is aching like fury tonight. I admit to having a bit of a problem today as my locker happens to be at the top and my ten pound ball was hard for me to reach one handed. Thankfully, Michael, lovely lad, was around to fetch it out for me and Kirk played the gentleman and replaced it. Yes, Kirk, wow!!!

None of us seem to have been able to get it together since the Xmas break. I´ve never seen Jeff play so badly. He had a score of 98 on the first game and things didn´t improve much. Ros and I did our best and as our opponents rang in with a sickie, we aren´t sure how we did. We shall see.

A lazy dressing gown day tomorrow. I have some transcribing to catch up with and a PS2 game to play. I´m looking forward to it.

Sunday Bowling

It was really nice to be back there today. Lots of New Year wishes from all the folk we haven´t seen for a couple of weeks. All good stuff.

Not that any of it helped as far as scores were concerned. Brian and Doreen were both pretty useless. Jeff had five strikes in a row but Brian let him down with a 117........well bad for him!! They lost 6 - 2 and so did we! I was above my average in all three games but my mate couldn´t get it together. Oh well, you win some and you............get thrashed.

I´m back there again tomorrow for Monday League. Hopefully, Ros and I might win!

Bloggers´ Block!

I´m not sure why but it´s the first time it has happened to me!

Normally, I can wander on for a page or two, but for some reason I appear to be more boring than normal.

Oh, well, happen things might be better tomorrow..........night all xxx

Happy New Year!!

Five O´Clock Club decided to celebrate the New Year by going on a pub crawl. We started of at Bar Antonio and this is us at our second port of call, San Juan Bar.

From left, Maz, Bernard (trying to hide), Caron, Brian, Dave and me.





Next stop, The Fishermen..............I´m not quite sure what Caron is doing! We moved on to Vitamen bar but the landlord waited until we all got comfy to tell us that he was closing. Not to worry as we managed a quick one at Bar Carla before he closed for the day. (No pictures).





We finished up at Chrissy´s. The only one left open I think.

Brian and Maz putting the world to rights!








Finally, a pic of our photographer, Charlotte, on those dreaded skates. Caron and I took her to the swing park to practice. To be honest, by that time, I´m not sure who was supporting who!

It was a fun day but I must admit to feeling more than a little ´cakey´ today.