Good morning all,<br /><br />  MaryLou -      I did get out but not what you may expect of me, no ale involved. I was dragged from pillar to post by Kath getting all her xmas shopping for all her girl pals. Then it was off to pick up her diet drinks from the diet counseller. Finally had to drive around several liquor stores to find a bottle of Woodland Special Reserve bourbon for my eldest son Stuart. He backpacked around the States for several months and got a taste for it, I thankfully got the last bottle in the store. <br />    Just when I thought it was all over and the footstool was coming out I had to go up to the loft (attic) and get the decorations down. The rest of Saturday was putting them up i&#39;m afraid. Sunday was clean up the leaves from the rear patio and front drive, not one of my favourite pastimes although I like the garden to be presentable I just hate gardening.<br /><br />Surprise surprise my soccer team did it again winning for most of the game and then lost in the last quarter. Just glad I haven&#39;t had a season ticket this year. I would have slashed my wrists by now if I had paid to watch this garbage.<br /><br />We have parties to go to every weekend from the 13th so Kath will HAVE to be off her diet by then. All the parties are at the pub on our caravan site so once we have parked up we dont have to drive anywhere. Just a 50 yard walk there and a 150 yard stagger back.<br /><br />Have had a quick look over the weekend posts and I agree about teasing the kids in the supermarket. My favourites are dancing down the aisles and running with the trolley and then jumping on to it for a ride down the aisle. Kids hate it, brilliant isn&#39;t it.