2026

Is a rest day a waste

The weather was still really hot so I really did not fancy doing anything today and apart from walking the dog twice I did very little other than sit around watching YouTube and trying to keep cool and it begged the question “Is a rest day a wasted day?” and we both agreed that it definitely was not a waste, it was very much what we all need sometimes and should be encouraged.

It just doesn’t sit very well with me to do nothing when there are things to do but it did feel good to take a break and enjoy the continuing very hot weather before having to go back to work tomorrow

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Planter Sunday

Having bought the wood yesterday and chopped to length I screwed it all together today in really great weather!

I went to see me Mum first and it was already warm and I just thought it was about time we had some nice weather and this was a Bank Holiday so we could enjoy it. I sat outside in the sun talking to me mum for an hour or so until it was time for me and Bill to make our way back home.

It didn’t take too long to screw all the parts together since they were already cut and Lincoln and I delivered to my cousin Ann’s where we met May her new puppy a Goldador

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Hottest day of the year

Not really hard because it had not been great at all up to this weekend and although the forecasters had said it was going to get really hot you never really this it is going to be until it is. Well as the afternoon temperature rose above 30 degrees it was apparent that they were correct and the only thing to do was to relax having spent the morning cutting all the parts for a planter for my cousin. We all spent the rest of the day sat around quenching our thirst and keeping in and out of the sun.

It was still hot at 11pm when we eventually went in and to bed trying to sleep in the heat was nye on impossible

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Date night

Lincoln’s rehearsals meant no skate date for him and with both Jamie and me available we decided to go to Picturedrone for food while we waited for him.

It was good food but too expensive for what we got, a nice chicken salad a burger cheesy fries and Moroccan wings and £11 for a margarita its just a good job the company was first class!

Reagan went out with her mates including Joe Foster…she’ll never admit it but Joe is her boyfriend lol anyway…

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Having an hour

Straight after work I headed to Macclesfield to drop Lincoln off for an hours worth of rehearsal. I packed me darts and cue but as I parked near the Stage Door I just thought I am going to have an hour here.

I nodded off apparently because it seemed like no time at all my phone woke me with Lincoln asking if I was ok to pick him up.

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New watch day

Annoyingly I don’t want a new watch Im happy with the one I am wearing but as is the way my Fitbit Versa 2 stopped holding charge a couple of days ago, so I was forced to buy a new one.

After looking at a hundred types of watch with all kinds of features it was between two a beautiful looking Garmin which was perfect for when Im surfing able to tell me sea depths weather GPS tracking emergency alarms the lot for £1200 or a versa 4 for a hundred quid.

I got the the Versa 4 so it can count me steps when I walk Billy up the canal but I am really going to kick meself if I take up surfing in the near future and need a barometer on me wrist!

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Family

The greatest achievement will always be your children

The rest is just stuff

True!

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Girlfriend Boyfriend

Liv came over for tea tonight and I got to meet her properly while we sat tonight eat the meal, and she lived up to the hype really pleasant chatty and seems a great match for Lincoln, he is 14 and seems to be finding his way in the world. Hopefully he took head of the talk we had with him and he does talk to his mom and says they are taking it slowly just enjoying each others company, which is great.

Reagan says she has no interest in that side of things but constantly refers to Joe a boy who she has “no interest in” even though he has persisted in being her friend for a few years now and has regularly asked her out but she has said no and this has never put him off… I think once they go to college she may soften and allow him in who knows but for now she’s playing hard to get and he keeps trying

In my opinion they are both doing OK its hard as a parent to ever know you are doing a good job but looking at them both I believe they know what a good relationship looks like because of the example we show them every day and I hope they find the same one day!

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The Sunday Club

Pre COVID I would go out every Sunday to see me mates and although I miss it times change and non of us ever got back in the Sunday Club which is a shame, but talking to John last night he suggested meeting up for a pint today…Sunday, and I said why not.

We did invite others but at such short notice it ended up just me and John and I had a brilliant time like we’d never been apart a sign of true friendship that we just spent the next few hours talking drinking and doing the Mail on Sunday Crossword just like old times.

It became very nostalgic when John read out 34 across the answer was one of the very first answers myself and Dave Myles bonded over doing the Crossword in the King’s Lock possibly 30 years ago when I used to do it and use and encyclopedia to get the answers I didn’t know pre Internet.

Apparently its pronounced female not le’mure as I said it back then when I l something m something r and went through the dictionary to fill in the blanks.

They still take the piss out me for that mis-pronunciation…

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Rehearsals

With Jamie away at a Bible convention it was down to me to get Lincoln to Macclesfield for 12 noon and back home at 3. I took Billy for a walk through to leaving for Macc.

Went to see me dad in-between drop off and pickup and listened the Man City vs Chelsea in the FA Cup final on the way home, and watched the second half at home

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