It’s currently snowing here in Hastings, and what I’ve been looking forward to most about the snow is seeing my Puppy Benny’s first encounter with the white stuff. In the last half an hour we put him out for his late night pee. At first he was reluctant to go out, possibly because he wasn’t sure what the hell was laying on the ground. His first reaction – like any other dog – was to start eating all he could get hold of, but he still wouldn’t go out in it fully. We cleared a path for him and he soon got his bravery back as he went to the top of the garden and within seconds was charging back and forth sending the snow flying.

By the time he came back in so much snow had got caught in his long fur he was practically a snow dog!

For the past few months I have been going swimming once a week, its been going pretty well albeit a bit uneventful… Until this week, let me tell you a short story of the worst way to avoid someone.

The open swim was drawing to a close. With about 10 minutes left to run, the girls who were doing Aquafit afterwards started to walk into the area. Amongst these I spotted two girls I went to school with, girls that I didn’t really like and I’m pretty sure weren’t too keen on me. Anyway, because we’re all grown up now and supposedly ‘mature’, I find that you end up speaking to people from school even if you didn’t really know them. The socially awkward me wanted to avoid this at all costs. But oh no, I was at the far end of the pool and needed to get back.

The options available to me were thus:

1. Get out of the pool and walk back, bumping straight into them.
2. Swim back slowly (note: I HATE people watching me swim, I’m the guy that starts swimming when the lifeguard’s heads are turned… yes, it’s that bad!)
3. SWIM LIKE HELL!

Can you guess which option I picked? Yup, you’re correct, it was the latter. I swam back in a quasi-Olympic Swimmer manner, I got almost half way down the pool and was thinking to myself ‘hey, this is going pretty well, my asthma hasn’t kicked in, I haven’t swallowed and chocked on water and I’m maintaining a good speed’. Meanwhile my left leg was like LEG CRAMP MOTHER FUCKER!!! I came to a standstill as my muscle continued to pull… right in front of them, I didn’t look up. I continued to walk the rest of the way with my head down while in complete agony.

The moral of this story? It pays to be nice and just say a quick hello and get the hell out of there.

Ok, ok, the placeholder entry is gone. The reason why this wasn’t posted on the day was because of a late night online Mario Kart 7 session with the good folks on GRCade! Anyway, here’s what I got for Christmas.

Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera (from Moi!)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Tetris (3DS)
American Dad – Season 5
Family Guy – Season 11
Robot Chicken – Season 4
Robot Chicken – Star Wars Episode 3
The Walking Dead Graphic Novel – Vol. 1 – 5
Family Guy slippers
Pack of white T-Shirts
Gloves
Bucket of Malteasers
70cl bottle of Jack Daniels

Not a bad haul this year, yes, I said haul. I will sleep soundly tonight knowing I’ve made someone rage for calling it that!

So Sam and I had to make our way to the merry land of Eastbourne for a team meeting at work. Couldn’t possibly encounter any problems, eh? You would think. Our main stumbling block was Sam only had a twenty pound note on his person, here is the ordeal in pics.

Sam and the twenty, what could possibly go wrong?

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