Long old day!

I don't really know if it's the fact i slept crap last night or the fact i've spent the best part of twelve and a bit hours driving up to the UK but bloody hell today seems to have been a long old day!!! You can always tell when you're getting close to the UK though, it starts to rain, then goes real cold followed by a nice dose of fog!!, sat at the Euro Tunnel now and fortunately not got far to go when we get to the other side, off to the Czech Republic friday, i'm really looking forward to that, god i'm tired, i'm outta here, talk to you tomorrow!!

Back on it!

Had a pretty good day today, got to go out cycling this morning so i'm real happy, it felt good trying to off load Christmas Turkey and sweets sweating mu n**s off pedaling, i'm hopefully going to be going again tomorrow morning then off to the gym tomorrow afternoon, i might start feeling human again then!!! Hope you're all having a good Christmas break, talk to you soon, Shakey.

Top Gear!!

The last of the chill out days today, Petra's been out running again, i've been out for a cruise on my Harley for half an hour, we've just watched the Bolivia Christmas special of Top Gear, how funny are those three, i need to get on that reasonably priced car challenge thing, that looks like a riot!! Can't wait until tomorrow morning, i'm off cycling, i've got to try to get rid of all the Christmas food, i'd better do some big miles ;-)!!!

The baby sitter!!

Hey all, hope you're well and not too stuffed on Christmas Turkey!!! We had a lovely Christmas, Zack was made up with life, he's got more toys now than he knows what to do with!! We went for a nice walk up in the mountains yesterday and as you'll see from the picture it was far from a white Christmas for us!!! I've been baby sitting this morning and spent most of my time walking with Zack, he's pretty much nailed the walking thing now but gets so excited when he walks that he starts going too fast and nearly crashes, it's highly amusing, back in the gym this afternoon to work off my Christmas dinner's, i'm looking forward to getting back to normal now, 2 days off totally chilled is more than enough!!! Talk to you soon.

The three of us, the dogs are off causing chaos!!

Me, Zack, the dogs and the blue sky!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Hey Shakers and Shakettes!!! Just a real quick one to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year, all the best for 2010, Shakey #67

Me and DIY.....

Well, whilst chilling out and winding down for Christmas we had a last few little jobs that we needed to get done before being able to totally relax, we recently had a new bathroom installed and i had 3 towel rails and a toilet roll holder that needed fixing to the tiled walls, now, with my DIY skills being about as competent as a two year old i have to confess i'd been putting these jobs off forever but it caught up with me, with a quick call to my plumber/electrician i thought i had it nailed, "give me a quick hand with this will you" i said, but in short he explained what to do, left me his drill and sort of said you can do it because if the tiles crack i don't want you to moan at me, GREAT, just what i needed to hear....

believe it or not though i fitted all of it perfectly, i'm actually quite proud of myself, however, there was one slight hiccup, the final grub screw to secure the last towel rail dropped out, fell in the bath and i watched in semi slow motion as it rolled up one side, then the other all the time heading towards you guessed it, the poxy plug hole, that was it down it went, i couldn't believe it!! The long and the short of it was i had to go to the shop where we brought the rails etc and buy another one to get the correct screw, i was fuming!!!! All sorted now though and i've even put a big full body size mirror up on the wall this morning, that never went quite to plan either, the walls here are really really thin, i drilled the hole to fit the raw plug and ended up going right through into the wardrobe in the bedroom behind the wall so now i've got to fill and repair that, this DIY lark just never goes to plan for me, i'm sure it someone's way of telling me to just leave it alone!!!!!

Winding down...

Well, the big christmas wind down has well and truly kicked in here now, having a bit of a lazy day so far, i'm hoping tomorrow's going to be dry as i want to get out cycling again tomorrow, i know the gym's shut for the 24th and 25th so i've got to do something, might have to go for a run if the weather's not so good. It looks like Midlife might have come up trumps on the van front, i think he's found me a new Vito, it's another Dualiner which will have all of my trick stuff from the old one, but this one's only a year old in January. I can't wait to collect it, i think we're going to be over to the UK on New Years eve before heading to Czech on New Years day then finally driving back home in the new van on the 7th or 8th.

Our old Vito, it looks slightly different now, it's got no front end on it!!!