Sinner On a Bus!

I have already explained some months ago that I have a tendency to eavesdrop.

Sometimes it is easier than you would expect.

Sometimes the conversations are shouted across crowded rooms or busy streets.

On this occasion it was shouted across the aisle of the bus.

It went ...

"H'lo Dai! How're you? Haven't seen you for ages."

" 'm'all right Will! Doing well ... doing well! As well as can be expected anyway".

"What's happened then Dai? You're missus caught you womanising again?"

"No, no!" answered Dai. "The wife, see. Taken ill, she was. Rushed into hospital on Christmas Eve ... died Boxing day".

"Oh No!" said Will. "That's awful! I'm so sorry!"

"Oh she went peaceful ... in her sleep ... so she didn't suffer".

"Must have been hard for you" said Will.

"It was, it was. But I believe, you see, like, so I managed to cope because God was with me".

"God got me through something similar" said Will.

"Oh I'm sorry!" said Dai. "Did you lose someone close?"

"No!" came back Will. "I lost my lottery ticket! I had a £150 winnings on it and I lost it, but God got me through it!"

A stunned Dai answered "But that's nothing like the same, like, is it?"

"Near enough" answered Will. "Near enough!"

"Yer a sinner, Will Williams! Yer a sinner!" snapped Dai as he made to get off the bus.

BLUCK!

Well hello there!

Welcome to the New Year!

Pull up a weekend and make yourself comfortable.

Take the weight off and let's gnaw over the bones of the year that was.

Was it all that you expected?  Nah, mine neither. I seem to recall rather too many things going wrong, costing money or just generally pissing me off  as opposed to anything happening that could, even in a half-hearted way, be described as being good.

No, no ... that's not strictly true, if I think on it. Some really good things did happen but, hey, this isn't an X-rated blog, so I can't tell you!

But on the whole ... it wasn't a good year.

My car ... the one that was always just a tyre tread away from disaster ... died! I was forced to run around like a headless chicken trying to find an affordable replacement within a week, or face losing a lot of money.

No car, no work!

January 12 started off with my garden fence panels (6' X 6') being blown to smithereens by gale force winds. £400-£500 repair costs.

March saw my soon to be deceased vehicle's suspension popping it's mount (£300, but could have been worse).

April ...

Oh God this is so depressing!

Gnaw over you own year. Mine is making me feel ill!

Oh, and this year hasn't started too well either.

I forgot to put my numbers on for the midweek lotto yesterday!

Guess who would have had 4 correct numbers and BOTH bonus numbers?

OK, so it wasn't the jackpot but would have been a nice little sum.

Lady Luck really hates me.

But never mind, eh!

I still have my blog-frie...

Hey?

Where'd everybody go?

(BLUCK = Bad Luck)