Back on the Blog again

So I'm back on the blog again after a sort break in sunny Scotland, not taking the piss! it was lovely and sunny; terrible cold wind but OK in shelter. Met up with some old friends and all their family, a special sort of re-union cos he's not well. I think he saw this as a last get together and wanted to pay for everything, this is not the townies way even old farts insist on paying their way!

So I dreamt up this jolly wheeze and said "Look, on the 18th (April) I will have been retired exactly 18 years and 18 days and would like to buy the dinner that night" So thinking this an amazing co-incidence they all agreed; not a one realised that on the 19th next year it will, of course, be 19 yrs and 19 days !!!

We did a bit of walking, but one day it was a bit too steep for me so I said "I'll meet you back in that Belhaven pub we passed, I want to renew my aquaintance with Belhaven Bill" (this a ref. to the only other time I'd been to Scotland and had collected beer mats in the shape of a sailor i.e Belhaven Bill-I think they are still in a box over in the little house!).

I walked into the pub and up to the only real ale pump on the bar to see that it was labled " London Pride, brewed by Fullers in Chiswick" I was born in Shepherds Bush, which is next door to Chiswick !!!!