So we are back home, the Lake District and Full Cumbrian Breakfasts are a distant memory and it’s back to the wall paper paste and healthy food which has taken over my life.


Unfortunately Blogs have been a little thin on the ground recently mainly because of us being away and definitely not as suggested by David in his recent comments left on the blog that I must be suffering from alcohol poisoning or possible choking on a scone or even a dose of pensioner stress. For a start Alex and Dave are back home in the Bahamas so the alcohol intake has reduced, mind you so has the ideas for Blogs so maybe I need a level of alcohol to keep writing my somewhat peculiar view on life in general. I have just mentioned this to Christine and she has re-appeared with a bottle of wine. The day’s looking up. Maybe I need to go ‘on the wagon’ just to make sure I can. But I am pretty sure I’m not an alcoholic, I never have gin before lunch.


And to suggest I may be choking on a scone, well chance would be a fine thing. New cooker, still no scones but I’m sure it will happen soon. But pensioners stress, that of course could be a possibility, it’s not easy sitting here on a sunny Monday morning
watching everyone queue to leave the village on their way to another week at work. I still have some decorating to do you know and I have to juggle that with morning coffee and lunch and it’s only two weeks until we go to the Bahamas for a month. So you can see it is not easy being retired.


And just when you have your day planned, the phone rings and it’s Derek a very good friend and ex colleague saying that he and Mo are on their for coffee, they live in Melton Mowbray which is two and half hours away but they are dropping in for coffee. Absolutely brilliant but remember it puts the wall painting back which has a knock on effect on painting the gutters, see the stress just piles up.







And then what, my new car arrives. You will know if you are keeping up with the Blog that we have a Clio but you will also know that it is Christines, my company car having been confiscated when I left work. And we decided to see if we could manage with one car after retirement, well it is of course very easy for Christine because she had her Clio before and she still has it now, but not so easy for me as I don’t have one. So do we need another and if so should it be like this. Well probably not it’s a little impracticable for us pensioners to even get in and out but it certainly is a little exhilarating to do maybe a squidgeon over the speed limit on the open road.





It is of course Derek’s latest project but with me at the wheel, you may have mistaken the driver for a young Steve Mcqueen but it is actually me. If you look closely you will maybe be able to tell that the real Steve McQueen is on the right. If you look even closer you can see the ladders leaning on the front of the cottage, my target was to get this front wall all painted today but never mind another deadline missed, the stress keeps getting worse. So I think David that you may have been right after all, I could be suffering from pensioners stress, I'd better open another bottle and chill out for a while.


So there we have it another day older and deeper in debt, I loaded 16 tonnes of number nine coal...... Sorry, got mixed up, that’s for another day. Has anyone seen the Doghouse Skiffle Group? Unbelievably Good!