Saturday, 31st December 2011
It has been raining, or at least it has not been dry outside at all since Dad's funeral and today was not exception. Steve and I managed to drag ourselves out to Prescot, at least we got out somewhere, mainly to see if I could get a new strap for dad's watch that we are giving to Liam. I sent him an email about it and he was pleased to be offered it, saying he would get a new strap if it needed one. Mum didn't want to give the watch like, that making a fuss about it. Considering Prescot was the watch making town of the north at one point, there wasn't a single jewellers in the town any more. There was a key cutting place in Pound Stretcher, or whatever its called, but they only had cheap plastic straps.
We hovered outside the Watchmaker pub, the new Wetherspoons and came back that way after getting the things we wanted. Inside, its like any other Wetherspoons, but the local photos where interesting and I'd like to go back again have a look at them all. I had a pint of Pendle Witch's Brew!
After having a roast dinner at the table, we concluded that going out was not on the cards and settled in for a night in front of the TV/laptop. Jools was on too late for my liking, but we enjoyed watching Alan Carr's special and Gok Won's rude rebuttal when Alan Carr did an impersonation of him. They might be in trouble for that.
I didn't call anyone except Sprigg, to wish him a belated birthday and a happy new year. He told me that P's mum died suddenly today, had a heart attack. I was shocked to hear that. After everything that had been happening to me, it was sad to hear that someone else was to go through the same thing. I asked if he would pass on my condolences, but Sprigg said P did not want to hear from me.
Some time ago, Steve bought a chinese lantern, that has been stuck behind the cupboard in the dining room and was fetched out to launch at midnight. However, the wind kept blowing it back at the ground and it didn't get any lift and fearing it would just burn up, I stamped it out in a puddle in the back garden. There were plenty of fireworks, some quite amazingly large for people's back gardens. Another hour of Jools Holland and an amazing pair of legs on Sandy Shaw, and we were off to bed.
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