Well I have just had a take away for one which somehow seems a very sad and lonely thing to do remembering us all as a family sat around together and my two eldest daughters devouring absolutely everything that was put in front of them. Leftovers always became my middle daughters breakfast the following day.
Sitting here on my own I got to thinking about how I will celebrate Christmas this year, I guess the children will be with me on one of the days but how forlorn it would be to have Christmas Dinner alone. Perhaps even that would be better than being part of someone elses celebrations however hard they tried to include you.

Well I got a takeaway to celebrate having done rather well in my first game of rugby for ages. I turned out for the local club's third team playing Inside Centre and bagged two tries and only just missing a third. I don't have the fitness that I once did, and have lost a little pace but actually played with my head up and with a good deal of confidence, not bad for a 44 year old playing against people less than half his age and I can still accelerate through the gap and skip, dance and even power my way through defences.

Mind you my knee is crocked!

the lonely but defiant tim xx