Bring your own disposable bar-b's, food and drink.

Fingers crossed that the weather will be good and the water is warm.

Well done lads.

Sunderland AFC

Well actually she gets to keep her current job that she has been acting on. Well done missus, or should I say Ward Sister, Clinical Leader or whatever of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

More champagne it is then.

Reading Beer Festival
FRIDAY 29th April
Its 10 minutes walk from the train station.

Website: http://www.readingcamra.org.uk/

I think early evening would be a good starting point.

Seeing as Angela was away I had a chance to watch Zatoichi without any disturbance from questions all the way through or fidgetting away from all the scenes of swordplay. I thought it was a really good movie with a good storyline that had some twists. It wasn't overly stylised in the fight scenes. It just got back to basics. There was humour as well and I found myself laughing out loud to daft comic things.

If you want the DVD you can get Zatoichi from Amazon UK but I got mine from CD-WOW which can be great for Asian movies.

Angela and I were talking over the weekend and thought we need to get some beach bar-b-q action on the go very soon. The smell of blackened semi-raw sausages, the downing of copious amounts of booze, rolling around in the sand and swimming in the water. You know you love it.

Maybe a bit too chilly at the moment but I reckon come the end of April or beginning of May we should be cooking on coal.

Let us know when you are around or not around, then we can pencil something in.

Ah, I guess I am not as young as I used to be. All that jumping around doing karate finally caught up with me when I landed in a heap on the floor with some kind of tear at the back of my calf. Thankfully it is not a ruptured Achilles, or even a partial tear although it is painful and I still can't walk properly.

All the text about the condition points to middle aged people who don't exercise too often. Thanks a lot! First the hair and now this, whatever next...!