rich_jacko

...or, bits of my life according to my posts on Facebook, anyway!

9 January at 21:06:
Snow Nessie was 8 years ago! That was probably the last really big snow in Hillsborough. We need more!

17 January at 18:33:
The pavements were covered in slush this morning, so I wore my snow boots for the walk into work. I'd forgotten how cosy they are - toasty toes! :o)

26 January at 22:26:
A long day at work today, but I did get to go to the top of the Walkie-Talkie, which wasn't bad. :o)

29 January at 18:48:
"Problems" it's nice to have: I have a week's holiday I need to use up by the end of February. Any ideas for how I should spend it? Anyone got any exciting plans for half term or anything?

3 February at 12:29:
Hmm, I think the parkrun results must've got one token out of sync at some point this morning. I was faster than that, and there definitely wasn't 13 seconds between me and the guy just in front at the end. There wasn't 5 seconds between Dan and Bryony's photo finish either!
Ah well, it happens. It happened when I was on token duty too. Still a big thank you to all the volunteers!

6 February at 21:25:
Go Falcon Heavy! :oD

9 February at 23:15:
"Old Macdonald had a Farm" in the style of Tom Waits; "We're All Going on a Brexit Holiday"; a death metal version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"; "Smoke on the Water" played on cow bells - Bill Bailey, you brilliant, utter loon. A great evening's entertainment at City Hall. At times I was struggling to breathe! :oD

10 February at 10:43:
Yeeeah... I reckon I can do a half-marathon... Ran 17k this morning in about 1h25m (or 2 hours including breaks) - Concord parkrun plus the journey there and back. Pleased with that, but boy it was cold and wet though! Clearly a level of insanity going on here!

It turns out the answer to my Zippleback question the other day was a big yes! Thank you to Ju, Paul and Jamie for coming out to play with me on Saturday afternoon! :o)

Happy Year of the Slytherin, everyone! And thanks to ju_bear for organising an epic dim sum lunch for 19 at Wong Ting! :o)

It has been a good week for food - fish and chips at board games on Tuesday, Tropeiro for Lard Club on Wednesday, Chinese food on Thursday, dinner in the pub on Friday, lots of snackage and more takeaway yesterday at my Doctor Who evening (which was well attended and a success - Yay!), and now CNY.

The only slight let down was yet another promised snowpocalypse today which failed to materialise. What was this one, 'Snowmageddon 3: This Time It's Drizzle'???

Sorry it's taken me nearly a week to get around to writing this up. It's partly that I've been really busy since I came back, what with work, two trips to the cinema (more on the latter in my next post), helping the Chivers decorate their Christmas tree, Lard Club Christmas at Pepe's, Chinese food, and my work Christmas do at Pasta Bar, followed by a pub crawl up Ecclesall Road. It's also partly my reluctance to grapple with LJ's annoying new(ish) photo upload system. (Who'd have thought something on LJ would be less intuitive and easy to use than it's Facebook equivalent?)

Anywaaaay, ( here's what we got up to on holiday. )

All in all it was a great few days away. It was a shame so many people dropped out of the trip, but it was nice to spend time with the Chivers. The goblin and I got through a few more chapters of Harry Potter and a couple of games of Chrononauts. The bug merrily waved "See you later" to anyone he'd see, and then I taught him jazz hands... We fairly thoroughly explored two beautiful towns, I ticked another country that I've been too. Oh, and we had quite a bit of cake :o)


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Happy Year of the Water Dragon to everyone!

I am going to celebrate with yummy, yummy food at Zing Vaa later :o)

I'm off to that London on Tuesday and Wednesday. Predictably, the Met Office say it's likely to snow here while I'm away. (By the way, that's a yellow warning of snow, not a warning of yellow... Oh, never mind.)

Back from spending half a week in Cologne with the Chivers and Anne WINOLJ. In a nutshell, the first half of the holiday went very well, the second half not quite so well (Bloody Belgians!)

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I aim to go back, not just because we lost a day and missed out on some of the stuff we wanted to see, but also because in recent years I haven't had holidays abroad nearly as often as I used to and I'd like to get back into the habit. So where next year, and who's up for coming along? :o)


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Well, that was unexpected...

......I knew I could count on you! Keep up the good work! :o)