A raffle was held and raise the princely sum of £44 for the Help For Heroes and Jinks will putting the money in. Those who won in the raffle are Geoff Simpson , Jinks , Tony, the bar lady, and two other ladies who were in the White Hart at the time . After wards after a few beers and chin wags we departed and re met in the Hawk Inn for the the Festive Meal which went down quiet well . The few photos taken will be put up shortly thanks to Mick when he receives them. A few faces are missing as I did not get them all sorrry about that.
Quiet a few hours later after having drowned our thirst we departed late and hoped to meet again and that more would attend at the next meet.
The snow we missed, as that came mid week . Now don't get me wrong - I think snow is lovely, especially to look out at. It makes a Christmas card of your boring home and transforms even the dullest industrial vista into something quite beautiful. And for kids it’s fantastic; remember the great cry to your parents, “Can we play out in the snow?” Yeah, snow can be wonderful stuff. Creating that huge snowperson (see I’m as PC as ever and still learning ) in the garden and having snowball fights against the grown-ups; until finally the aching cold in your extremities forces you back indoors. Then reviving your feet in a warm bowl of water, while waiting for mum to cook the sausages and heat up the soup.
One of my favourite Just William stories is a winter adventure in the snow. It features our schoolboy hero bringing down an overbearing colonel by means of an extended and unyielding snowball attack. As I say, snow is lovely – well, for about a day and a half. Then you start to get a bit fed up with it.
The more it snows, tiddly pom; the more everything slows, tiddly pom.” And here in the UK, tiddly pom, everything slows right down. That’s the trouble with snow. Everything slows down, everywhere is hard to get to and you slide and fall about.
Now on the subject of falling about, please permit me a brief aside - I don’t know if I’m being a bit age-sensitive here, but when you go base over apex in the snow you don’t expect your kids to say “Dad has had a fall” you expect them to say “Dad fell over in the snow” (followed by a chortle). For some reason “had a fall” seems to refer to someone rather elderly doesn’t it? Well, I think it does. When you hear that someone’s Aunt Mabel “had a fall” you know instinctively that this is someone who at the very least is in possession of a county council bus pass…
So till the next snow fall if the weather for casters can get right just stock up on some bully beef and compo cheese to get you by.
Happy reading till next time magic some where in good old blighty,
Toodle pip Magic
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