Day 157 Glamming Up

So tomorrow is another wedding day, and its another Dekstar Birthday which means Mrs Lynch gets to let her hair down and join me later on in the day.

That in turn means my house stinks.......

Who knows what combination she will choose, I just quite liked the way the bottles looked all sitting on the window sill, that was before the smell!

Have a good weekend folks.

Paul

Day 156 Clubbing Away

Today was the day that I joined a golf club and started my quest to gain a golfing handicap. 

Yes I know some of my followers are fans of golf, but suck it, it's my blog and I love playing golf!

Today was another good golfing day and I have joined Longhirst Hall Golf Club, just outside Morpeth. It has 36 holes which in the summer is configured into 2 very different courses, The lakes, which I played today and The Dawson, which I am playing tomorrow. In the winter the course is shortened to 18 holes known as the Old course. This is one of the many reasons I chose longhirst, it's a great place and very friendly. The course is constantly evolving and hopefully I will be a member for a long time. 

The highlight of today for me was my 2 birdies on 2 of the par 5's. The second of which saw me hit my shot of the day, a 125 yard 9 iron to about 4 feet and then sank the putt for the birdie!

I'm off to play again tomorrow but will try to do a non golf style photo tomorrow.

Paul

Day 155 Dog Rescue

If you hadn't guessed I'm really struggling with the days when I'm at work to keep up with the project and the blog. But Thanks to the Dog I've managed to sort a picture out at the last minute again.

She really is starting to look old, and I know the feeling!

If you don't like golf I would avoid tomorrows update.

Thanks

Paul

Day 154 Heeeeeere's Johnny

So this isn't the greatest picture I will post this year but it'll still be one of my favourites by the end of the year.

The Johnny Tulip fanclub has well and truly kicked off and its on its way to becoming a global phenomenon, thanks in no small part to World Ball Hockey Championships commentator Kris Abbot (@KrisAbbot on twitter). One simple comment in GB's first game against the Cayman Islands has been enough to catapult the young starlet to fame.
Kris is doing an amazing job of commentating on the games, and I have to admit to being a little gutted that some of the mens games won't be covered by Kris.
Some of the great unintentional (or possibly intentional) one liners he has thrilled the British fans with include, 'Tulip chases his own dump', 'Fanny De Forges is big in the UK', 'Wouldn't run that fast for anything, unless it was a cheeseburger'. I think the important thing is he is enjoying his job, and is enriching the whole experience.

Anyway, enough about Kris, this is supposed to be about Johnny. This is me and the wife getting ready to watch the official opening ceremony.

You can download your own Johnny Tulip mask at www.nedekstars.co.uk/downloads/Johnny.pdf (it is quite a large file though) and wear it with pride wherever you go.

To tune it to more of the games head on over to http://live.streamit.ca/?player=106&eventid=2457
If you want to become a fan of Johnny Tulip check out @jtulipfanclub on twitter or https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyTulipFanClub

Well done to all those representing GB this week, we support you all and are very proud of everything you are achieving.

Paul

Day 153 Red Sky at Night -GB Delight

Woot Team GB picked up their first win of the tournament tonight somewhere over in the general direction of where the sun is setting in this gorgeous sky.

Team GB defeated Armenia in a physical game by a dominating score line of 6-1. 

Keep up the excellent work guys and a big thanks to the wife and Michael Dunn for keeping me up to date

Paul 

Day 152 Bedtime Stories

I'm not going to lie, I'm not a massive fan of reading Bedtime Stories, usually I end up more tired than Erin, yawning my way through a story. Thats no reflection on Erin's choice of books, which were in fact the staple of my own childhood. Roald Dahl really is timeless, and it is great to see her getting the same enjoyment out of his very rich tales as I did as a young boy.

So this evening when it was my turn, I decided to take a slightly different approach, and time only will tell if it helps her to get asleep, or if all I have done is whipped her into an imagination frenzy.

Tonight we were reading Dirty Beasts, a collection of rhymes from the great man, and I grabbed Erin's Crocodile puppet and my best gruff cockney accent set about reading a set of rhymes in the style of a grumpy crocodile, only becoming animated when reading my own tale of the Croccy Woccy Crocodile. The other tales we read tonight were The Stupid Pig, The Stupid Lion and The Stupid Scorpion (when I'm grumpy everything is Stupid!). It seemed to go down well, and I enjoyed it more, so I can only assume the grumpy crocodile may become a regular in the rotation of bedtime stories.

So its goodnight from her ....

And its goodnight from me.

Paul

Day 151 Filling up the sea.

Had a nice little walk along the beach this morning with the dog, and we happened across a pipe which I can only assume is used to top up the North Sea if its getting a little shallow.

Image was taken and edited on my iPhone

Have a fab weekend, as for me, I'd rather be playing golf!

Paul