Datchi akounto

In the bar last night, I bumped into a friend of a friend. We all know this guy to be a bit of a wrong'un sometimes but we generally like to think he's a good guy at heart...

He's married, and he's got a lovely little girl. He feels he doesn't get to go out much, so when he does, he hits the town properly. He always ends up being a bit of a liability and generally causes trouble of some sort at the end of the night.

He was about to become a dad for the second time, his wife being nearly two weeks overdue. He was worried about her being late, and they'd been arguing. Last night he said she'd kicked him out, so he was going to drink way too much and go back today. He figured he'd not been out for months because his wife was pregnant and sod's law said that if he got drunk last night, the baby would be born.

Shortly after this conversation, he disappeared... None of us had noticed at first, until my friend got a call saying this guy's wife had gone into labour and he had to go to hospital. But where was he? Tried phoning and texting him, looked around the nearby bars and streets. Put the casino's on alert, if he turned up they would re-direct him to the hospital...

We heard nothing more...

In the early hours of the morning, his second child was born without daddy there. Later today, we found out he's in France... Why, we don't know. Haven't heard anything else yet, but I think it's a really really sad story. I'm sure this was supposed to be a happy ocassion, and I can only guess at how hurt the mum must be feeling, and how this guy is feeling as well. Altogether an amazing mess! I have no idea what happens next... What happens in these situations? So much trouble, and this poor new baby, already caught in the middle.

It really angers me! Good news, the baby is doing well! And the mum is healthy too, although I'm not sure she's really doing well?

Having recently realised quite how bad my eating habits have become, I feel it's time to start eating a healthier diet. I've stocked up on fruit, and got vegetables to cook a proper meal with.

Eating lots of healthy food always makes me feel great! And preparing meals from scratch always gives me a real sense of satisfaction. I like trying to live healthily, eat well and exercise.
I don't know how I ended up not looking after myself very well at all recently...

I've mostly been eating ready meals (although with mostly green indicators on the traffic light system), and in the last week or so, it's just been sandwiches. I've not been eating breakfast at home, instead having the unhealthy option in the restaurant at work. Same for lunch...

So I keep resolving to start sorting these things out, but so far I've not had much success. This is strange because it's only up to me...

So today, breakfast was a little bit healthy and I declined a pizza lunch, but I haven't touched any of the fruit. Later I ate a whole pack of chocolate biscuits, then I had some dry roasted peanuts, some chocolate truffles, toast with jam and cheese, and to top it all off, a KFC meal for dinner... Shocking!

This is obviously how not to go about living a healthy lifestyle... Must read my nutrition books, exercise books and cook books for inspiration and sort myself out!

Slowly but surely, a lot of people around me are getting more and more excited about christmas being just around the corner... The festive season is often a happy time for most of us, with lots of fun things going on.

The weeks leading up to christmas are often lovely as well. Here, the christmas lights were turned on last week. The shops are full of lovely presents, which are often very useless but fun! I love all the lights, lighting up the dark evenings.

I'm certainly getting in the mood for christmas! Each year I organise a christmas party for all my friends. A lot of us have office parties in December, and I like to have a bit of a do with my friends as well! As that has to be more fun!

This year I wanted to do something big and original, so I started organising early in September. The venue this year is Spitbank Fort in the Solent! A lot of people have signed up, and it's promising to be a great night out! The Fort has sold out now which is a real shame as people are still trying to sign up for it, and now I have to tell them no...

It's going to be a lovely night out! I really look forward to spending some christmas time with all my friends!

It's grey, dark and wet outside! A real November day! It's about time too! As much as I loved last weekend with lots of sun and high temperatures, it's not right for the time of year.

This morning, it looked a bit grey but the sun was trying hard to break through. Now it's just grey and raining. Proper autumn weather! Nice!

It's sunday morning, and I feel a little bit worse for wear... But at the same time I feel great! My friends are asleep in the spare room, and I'm drinking cups of tea and being really quiet so I don't wake them.
I'm really pleased they're here.

We went out last night, and it all started a bit weird. We were going to the Little Johnny Russels bar, but when we got there, the bouncers were being strange, saying it was tickets only... They wouldn't let us in.
The birthday boy, however, was already inside with some friends. Another group of friends had already given up and gone to the wine vaults instead and we decided to have a drink in Porter's.

In the mean time, my friends in LJR were having a word with the bouncers, and we got a message saying they would let us in now... It was all very strange. We asked what was going on, and they told us. On our first attempt to get in, there were a group of guys trying to get in as well. Apparently, they don't like to let guys in, and so our timing was the only problem...

All very strange. The bar wasn't hugely busy, but that was quite nice as you weren't bumping into people all the time. The clientele were all too cool for school! We felt quite old and unfashionable...

It's quite a nice bar, but there's something about it... I don't know how to explain it properly. If bars had heads, this bar would have a very big head. Does that make sense? And the bouncers aren't very nice either...

Still, I'm sure I'll go there again because they have nice wine at a very reasonable price.

The rest of the evening was spent in our usual watering hole in Southsea, and Scandals afterwards. The evening ended in a curry house, which always seems like a good idea at the time... Quiet day today perhaps, although I may be persuaded to go out later on.