Not sure... I'll look up my book later.

Not a fan of mince pies myself, but I guess if you can swap out the stuff you don't like you're sorted. Hope you enjoy them.

 They'll be 10% mincemeat and the rest yummy stuff.

Have you got the Radio Times yet? Do you know if there's a Christmas Top Gear?

Sachertorte. Austrian it seems.

I can't see anything... I'm sure they were filming something. There is a JM's Toy Stories though... not quite the same. Normally the presence of a TG Special is well heralded.

 Shame... well theres James at least.

Have you a tree and decs up yet? I just dug the tree out. 

Yep... It's all plugged in... yay for fibre optics. Wrapping/cards is all that needs done.

Good stuffs.

I don't feel that Christmassy yet - do you Hitch?

No... but Santa will be in the school tomorrow.. that'll help surely.

This has just been the longest month... got really angry at today for being Wednesday... because so far this week has lasted about a month.

Nearly there...

Santa comes to your school? How nice for the  kids... hope he's a good Santa !

Hehe... probably not. Last year all I heard from the kids was "Met Santa. He was George." (the lollypop man... one year it was Lorna the PSA, and she's skinny.)

It's xmas party day tomorrow. Primary 1-3 get a Santa visit.

One more day!

One day... then paaarty  

That's it! Holidays!

I'd go straight to sleep if I didn't have rugby tonight.

Eta: Spoke too soon... Pitch inspection at 6:05.

Happy hols, rugby or not  

Happy festive period to you too! XD

I am home. Warm and snug. Tickets will still count for the rescheduled date.

That's not so bad - its a cold night. 

Torrential. Bit blowy too.

Happy Yule!

Merry Christmas Hitch   how you enjoying your hols? Have you had a good sleep ?

Not yet. Saturday was full of Morrison's and yesterday I drove to Largs and back. (Had a lovely time, but hit a seagull on the way there. )

Today, it begins!

Wyrd Sisters on the DVD, cola, pringles and the pjs on.

You having a nice festive period?

Sounds like you're sorted 

Sorry you hit a seagull. Was it ok? They, like pigeons do tend to play daredevil on the road unfortunately 

I'm all set but still don't feel Christmassey

I had slowed down (only to 30mph... there was a few cars behind me...) It hit the top of my windscreen... went over... I have no idea what happened to it after that.

Sing xmassy songs. that'll help.

*Blows dust off thread*

Hi Hitch  Did you see James May riding his meccano motorbike round the TT course? Even Oz Clarke was sort of fun in the sidecar.

I didn't. *ahem* I got caught in a loop of MST3K and The Darkness videos (I haven't told the girls at work I used the £20 they gave me in my birthday card to buy all three The Darkness albums... I doubt they would approve. Seriously though, the first album was £4 odds.), so I rarely left youtube over the holidays.

Anyhow... more importantly...

Welcome back!

Nice to see you back around.

Thank you thank you thank you 

You've been having a lot of fun. Just googled MST3K 

I got a swanky Sony Xperia L phone for Xmas. My first smartphone  It'll take months to figure out how to use it. I only ever had dirt cheap ones before...

Ooooh! Enjoy your phone. I approve of it's androidiness. I'll have to get you hooked on puzzle games. My mum is addicted to Candy crush saga and angry birds.

Any questions, smart phone wise, I shall endeavour to help.

Ta  Which phone do you have?

Samsung galaxy s3 mini. I wuv it.

 Cool. Samsung phones are supposed to be brill.

They are... alarm clock isn't good though. Apparently if I upgrade the os it'll work... but I never do that.

Whats your OS? Think my OS is Jellybean 4.2

Disappointed it won't play anything requiring Flash player though  Oh maaaaan!

I think you can still download flash on google play. Have a look. 4.1.1 I am... Have you tried talking to google now yet? XD

Talk to google? Wot?  You speak of things I don't understand... 

Neil Oliver's new series was on last night. Only saw half cos I had to switch over to CBB [such a philistine ]

There's voice control on the google search app that can talk back.

Ooh! I was not aware... Iplayer this weekend I think. *nods*

I saw the first ten or so minutes of CBB... My childhood is in tatters! Lionel Blair talking of such things!

 No! That was the only time Lionel was rude!

He started out horrified... they dragged him down to their level.

Well, that's ok then... Apparently all the "young" ones are a bit frisky.

It was really sleazy  on Monday night. See my avatar? Thats how I felt watching it. Last night it concentrated on bickering thank goodness.

Just downloaded avast antivirus onto the phone and reg'd with google play. I feel like a big girl 

Hows you be?

yay! two important phone things.

I'm ok... Little sleepy, nearly fell off my stack of chairs during break yesterday whilst dozing off during kindle time. (Not the books's fault... Book is Neverwhere and is spiffy.) I've also went from liking the Darkness to being a bit excessive about the Darkness.... I've probably mentioned this though. Excessively. *ahem*

How are things with you? Everything been ok here?

Don't ask! Ahhh I'm ok thanks for asking 

Sorry you're so tired. Are you still on overtime?

Love your new avatar b.t.w. Eye candy! 

*mimes zipping up mouth* No asking.

Yes, still doing the overtime. They are starting to audit overtime... making sure you leave and start when you say you have... shouldn't be an issue for me, but annoying.

Thank you, a bit of lovely Mads for our delight. I tried to put the Darkness, but it was cutting down to just Justin and Ed... What with Frankie looking cool and Dan looking... well... like Dan, that just wasn't on.