Day

Christmas Day
Rolled out of bed at 9, looking like shit, and told we where leaving for the grandparents at half 9, this wasnt the best start ha, but ran around and got ready and threw my stocking in the car so id have something to do on the 2 and a half hour journey. our radio is broken as well, so we had a big bright pink cd player all the way, good times

Laughed on the way up tho, at christmas its pretty normal to have an array of chairs, that are from the spare room, attic or the basement etc when all the family get together, but one family has gone one step further. there kids where pressed against the front seats of the car as in the back they had 5 chairs and a dining table. epic

got up there ... there being market drayton, north shropshire which is kind of near stoke on trent, i only mention it as it is beautiful countryside, kind of like where i used to live and the satnav decided to take us down the back roads, which where covered in ice and snow. zafira delt with it but it was fun

Got there to a MENTAL patch, he still remembers all of us and he went loopy for about half an hour, we didnt have the camera or video camera which was a shame but it was such a welcome, got the kettle on and sat down and went for the presents :D grandparents bought me an official army fitness guide and £10, such a good present, then had a catch up and headed for the train room. my grandad has an enourmous collection of model trains and a huge layout, hes riping it up this year to sell it as his pension doesnt kick in for another 3 years, hes got tons of collectors items worth thousands in there, as he used to own a model shop, so me and james made the most of it before lunch. if you've never seen/heard anything like it this is around the uberness of what we where playing with here, one of the first videos i found on youtube.

Then came FOOD :D, love christmas dinner more than anything else,everyone together round the table with the whole get up of wine, crackers, candles etc, so good, little to say i had two rounds of this, with christmas pudding on top as me and grandad halfed it as no one else likes it. we then got talking about the army stuff, and he asked if id ever read anything by chris ryan or andy mcnab, to which he brought out the 4 books he had, hes let me borrow them at the moment and there brilliant, im half way through chris ryan's "land of fire" at the moment, its not the first in the series but i dont get payed till new years so you know.

but after lunch we got out the RC helicopter, thats jame's present to see if it all worked, its actually an amazing little thing, but maybe wasnt the best idea to use it in the garden, as all the houses are raised away from a field out the back, at the end of there garden they have a brick wall and 7- 8ft drop down to the field, so what does he go and do? helicopter comes down out the sky clips the wall and disapears. we tryed flying it back up, but this is when we realised you can go up and down, but after that its anyones guess, so being us it flew farther and farther into the field instead of towards us, then the cherry on the cake, it went past an electric fence. grandad headed towards the house to walk all the way round to get it but walked right into the bird feeder hanging down HA, instead i just bailed down the wall, and then came to the electric fence which was a flimbsy one but just at crotch height. fml ha, but managed to get it and we tryed again, it went higher and higher, then cut out and came crashing back to earth and broke so took it back inside to which he Again walked into the bird feeder ha,

then curled up with the army stuff and wine with the dog throwing toys at me every 5 seconds to play whilst i was waiting for doctor who, Which was awesome as usual, i was lay on the floor for it as there was no more sofa space so the dog decided to sit on my legs and make himself comfy, although im waiting to see how david tennant gets killed off now for new years, but after this it was goodbyes and home.

journey back was just road rage all the way, but the best one was a guy sped past us at nearly 135, as there was nothing on the roads, got to the next service station and there he was surrounded by flashing blue lights, UNLUCKY ha

got back unpacked etc must of been about 10pm and rest of the night was spent relaxing with more southern comfort and:

The catherine tate show, Nans christmas carol, possibley the best character ever created is the Nan ... Chrismas ... WHAT A LOAD OF OLD SHIT! ha
Nevermind the buzzcocks, like the best of
and Russell howards good news, the christmas special

Oh yes, tv doesnt come better than that, and neither does christmas day :D