This week

Well a busy week..ish. Gill was fully back at work sadly. I had Poppy for 2 days whilst Laura had a birthday break in London with Charlotte. They had £18 cocktails at the Ritz..haha...good on them..stayed in Park Lane! Poppy was brill. Got a bit cold one night so Gill brought her to our bed so she slept across the bed after manoevuring for position. Both of us were on the edge and its a big bed! It was great to wake up with her smily face though. Soft rnt we! Picked up a partly built touring bike to take to France with the paramedics later this year. Got it on ebay near Sevenoaks so ill get Adam from the bike shop in Polegate to finish it...needs a new chain, seat and the wires connecting up...haha...thats why Im not doing it!

Also bought some nice bits at auction in Lewes at Gorringes. A superb picture and a smaller pic and an Oak 17thC wainscot chair.Something we have been looking for for a decade but the prices have never been right until now. Brown furniture ( which is what some furniture is called)I think is cheaper now than it was a decade ago. Good time to buy if you like it that is. Anyway its done. Thats what we work for....or at least Gill does. i just get paid to posture and pontificate on my big fat ar$e!! Something I do rather well!

Had a nice email from the Deputy Editor of Telegraph newspapers since I wrote following their putting a picture of Shaun on Page 2 last Sunday. It is a good action pic though and is simply classic 'Shaun' in action in Afghan 2008 with 3Para. Anyway they have tagged the photo for all now so we shouldnt get a shock again! It wasnt the fact it was printed. I am really proud of the pic but the fact we werent warned and I know there are difficult practicalities with that for national papers. But it was a good e mail from him which I acknowledged as such.

Also went to watch Lewes 2nds v Plumton rugby today where Tom was playing 2nd row with his mate Dave at scrum half. Quite a good game I thought. Should I play again I was asking myself?

Dont be bl*&dy stupid Millsy!

There is something about the pitch , the smell, the craic, the team that brought back Rugby and Football memories. Will have to keep it to the bike like old buffers do!