Wii

It was our friend Kathy's funeral last week. Val wanted a more up to date photo than we had and her hubby, Dave, kindly let us have this one. Some of you would have met Kath in Munchengladbach when we were there. Thought it would be nice to have a piccy of her on the blog.

As you will be aware there has been a fair bit of the wet stuff heading in a downward direction in the UK over the past month or so. Add this to the school holidays. Add both to the looking after the granddaughter scenario. The result is alternative entertainment required.

Given all this on Friday Alice and myself headed in the direction of the City Centre. Into Toys'R'Us and out with a Wii. For the uninformed a Wii is a games machine that you play remotely. It has the added advantage of requiring a bit of exercise when using it. Especially if you are a little on the competitive side - two fire signs apparently so Al and I do get a little carried away sometimes!

Anyway. I would recommend a Wii to all those who have the responsibility of young one's over the summer holiday period. It's also bloody good fun when Al goes home and I can get on it by myself!!

HR rang up tonight for a chat. I have added him to our "humour" e-mail distribution list and banged off a few of the 2005 e-mails for him to have a giggle at. He has sent a couple of comments so I will hand over to him. I was going to allocate the colour brown to him as he used to dress that way in his previous occupation. Well, brown with a bit of green chucked in for good measure. And a touch of black here and there. Anyway, when I told him his colour allocation he pleaded on bended knee, and I am sure I heard a little simper and possibly a sob there as well, to have the red allocation. He has this thing about the Red Army. Sort of latter day Sealed Knot Society from what I can gather. So being the kind hearted guy you all know I allocated him brown. Here is his bit. "Hi all, my first attempt at a reply (there is no going back!). Paul I am really chuffed you sought me out again and I promise I will come to Plymouth bearing biscuits to replace the ones I ate in Germany ! " Yeah, I know. I'll put it down to colour blindness. And he followed up with "Hi, just scrolled down,only to stumble over my bald patch! I hope these comments get through.I will put something constructive in when I get the knack ! " If you see a large lorry headed down in the direction of Plymouth with a whole load of biscuits on board that could very well be HR heading for a "repay the biscuits consumed" visit!

On the subject of biscuits. The S.B. Investment Club is no more. We had our final meeting on Friday and doled out the cash (how did you think I paid for the Wii???). Ten years we were at it and we outperformed some of the professionals. We had some good and some not so good, looks as though we choose the right time as well! Still, the market should be higher come the end of the year. At least I don't have to find tea and biscuits every month or so for my fellow members anymore. Enjoyable but it ran it course!