Yearly Archives: 2005

I see dead people II

Wednesday November 2nd 2005

Andy and Rachel came down to join us and friend Colin for a trip to the Hallow’een night at the Krazy House at the weekend. It had all the usual Krazy House ingredients; weirdo’s a–plenty and a mix of music to wake the dead.

Although the night was quite a compact one, due to Andy having to be up early to get back to work in the morning, it was good fun just observing all the nutters who’d gone to far greater effort in their costumes than we had. I’d been wanting to dress up as dead Goose for ages, too, so it was great to finally break out the Top Gun patches and do the whole undead co-pilot bit.

Sick?

Not me – I slept right through my hang over, too! ;o)

Fliss has a collection of pictures from our Hallow’een night out on her gallery page if you want to see the gory details.

It’s a mugs game

Saturday October 29th 2005

Fliss found Gromit mugs in the city centre Tesco on Thursday afternoon and bought up three of them for me. Actually, one was for my friend Colin, but he later said that he didn’t really care about Wallace or Gromit, he’d just got caught up in my excitement when Fliss phoned me to say she’d found them and said he wanted one. So he gets none and I get three.

Apparently, when Fliss was buying our score of tea and mugs, an “old granny” was buying them too and said she’d come from Chester to see if she could find any of them, so that had me thinking that they must be as rare as I suspected. (Not grannies, Gromit mugs.)

However, on Friday both Lisa and Emily sent me messages telling me that the mugs had been available when they’d gone into their respective Tesco‘s – Lisa had seen them in the Liverpool city centre one, so they must have plentiful stock. Perhaps I just timed my efforts poorly and should have gotten up early to do it instead of going in the evenings; a leason learned for the next time there’s some kind of bonus item that I cant do without attached to a product I can.

Anyhoo – all’s well that ends well – I now have more Gromit mugs and tea bags than I know what to do with.

Shopkeepers Face Washout

Wednesday October 26th 2005

Local shopkeepers are feeling the bite of a wet October, as sales of traditional Bonfire Night fireworks are noticeably down on previous years. Bhim Paramjeet, owner of a corner shop on the outskirts of Liverpool, feared that this autumn could mark one of the worst in terms of sales.

“Sure, I have sold many boxes of fireworks to the youths that come and go. But where is the fun in standing in the pouring rain, waiting to blow the face off of an innocent passer by when you are so wet the colour in your shell suit is running?” Paramjeet explained, adding “I start selling the boxes in oh, say, late September, and expect the teenagers to be back in droves right up until mid November at least. This year, due to the torrential rain they have not come back to re-stock as frequently, so my takings are down.”

We asked Paramjeet whether he knew that the local casualty department had been pleased with the downturn of firework related injuries this year, but that did not seem to offer him any comfort.

“That’s all very well for them, but me? I’ll have to put the christmas decorations up on the sixth of November and hope I can sell some of these bloody fireworks to the idiots that like to mark the coming of the new year with them.”

A Met Office spokesman told us that the wet weather looks set to continue for the coming weeks, so if you’ve ever wanted to venture outside at this time of year, perhaps now is the time to do it.