Clear the roads!!!

It's been a busy Tinsley week, no time to think but lots of crossed fingers.

Sunday was rugby, not training or a friendly match but a fully fledged competitive rugby match versus Wootton Bassett. A humdinger. (Just as an aside and after writing Wootton Bassett, I have spent part of the week looking for words where you can replace one double letter with another. It started off with the words heed and hood, after that both me and Tracey came up with a succession of ee and oo to replace, food - feed, blood - bleed, but I wanted more and managed to get a double consonant replacement off - odd. Tracey then trumped me with abbot and allot. My best so far is rabble - rattle - razzle, a threesome. Who says I don't have a life?) Anyway it was a hell of a match, very tough, very hard fought. More importantly Tracey and Granny managed to make it in the the blazing sunshine. A dazzling twosome shouting for Corsham, a fish wife chorus. Final score 34 - 17 to Corsham. Bring on the next round. Vaughan isn't in this picture but I managed to get the whole thing perfect which is really difficult with the delay on the digital camera/phone.

The next most exciting thing was Adam's GCSE drama. It was time for a performance and he gave one. His drama event was a succession of monologues. All of them were in the same room with some of them done together. The theme was school and Adam played the Truant, there were many other school characters including the headmaster, the receptionist, girl in love etc. etc. It was a noisy room and they were all good performances, some quieter than others. I think we both enjoyed it. Adam's performance was perfect and he had to repeat it 5 times during the evening.

Please be patient with the video, it was taken on my phone and Adams voice is way down in the mix but it does give you some idea of how it all sounded.

And then there was Livi. Driving test time. Live in fear on the roads. Thursday was her big day, we have been sworn to silence for weeks about this. I gave her her final dad/daughter lessons on Monday and Tuesday and then 10:44 Thursday morning she was off and she passed, first time. I am very proud off and pleased for my daughter. She took the car for the rest of the day and came home in the evening saying that there was a knocking noise, which there was. I took it in to the garage the next day and the links on the rollbars had sheared, nearly £100 later it was all fixed and I have hardly seen my car since. Blame for the damage has been clearly placed on my shoulders and the speed bumps on the road to Lackham college. At least I didn't have to get up at 6:30 this morning to take her to work.

So that's my home life this week, Tracey can tell you all the gory details of things that have happened to her.

At work we moved this week, from County Hall to Bradley road out on the Trowbridge trading estates (just about) next to Halfords and B&Q. I now have a long walk to town but a better view from the window. We are just about moved in the new office and it isn't bad. One issue, Mr C was looking out the window on Wednesday afternoon and a young lady sat in the gateway to a garden opposite and shot up (heroin?) then had a fag and staggered in to the house. I'm not shocked but a little surprised. What next, a drive by shooting?

Anyway we are right next to the canteen and the tea is only 40p a cup, so we have drunk loads. I could get used to being here, shame it's being closed. We shall hear about redundancies soon, I probably won't be in the first lot, after that who knows? God damn you Liberal Democrats, may you burn Tories. We still manage to find some fun at work most of which cannot be published here but the wait for change is awful. Why can't we riot like the French?

So that is a quick update.

Cheers Chris x