I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to New Years Eve. It's a good excuse to go out, but to be honest I don't really need an excuse to go out, if its a day ending in Y that's motivation enough. I just find NYE a massive anticlimax. A ten second countdown and if you're lucky a kiss from your beloved gf/bf, or in my case a firm handshake from the nearest acne-ridden unfortunate. It just seems to me that after midnight it's a bit like that countdown wasn't for anything, nothing actually happens does it?! What you are essentially commemorating is time continuing to pass. If this was an actual cause for celebration life would be a constant party. With this in mind plus the fact that it was colder than a penguin's bollocks, you can imagine that I didn't really fancy having a massive night out this year. Instead L, A, J and I decided to have a chilled one in J's hot tub. Not quite as glamorous as it sounds. 5 minutes in, all our eyes were streaming make-up down our faces due to epic amounts of chlorine so we called it a day and watched a film through a flood of chemical tears.
The next exciting chapter in my vivacious existance was a visit to the nurse. Nothing drastic I just need a jab before I go travelling. If what the nurse was saying is true, I will be lucky to leave Thailand alive because according to her it's a disease ridden crap hole inhabited by savage natives who will will give me aids as soon as look at me. I'm sure she's wrong. All I needed was a Typhoid booster. I was ok before I got there but when she whipped out the needle I turned into a little girl. It was about 3 foot long and an inch in diameter and I think she had a little run up to get it in my arm. It was fine, I took it like a bitch.
On a more alarming yet hilarious note, last time I was down in Canterbury R rocked up to D's where I was staying and said she had some post for us (we lived in her house last year). D had a wedge of bank statements etc, I had a single letter which turned out to be a note from the NHS detailing a home chlamydia test for under 25's. I merely pointed out that they should know my home address, R piped up with "maybe it's urgent". Cheers. Oh how we laughed... (if this post was an episode of family guy, that bit would totally have been a flashback!)
So my dead arm the next day forced A and I into thinking about booking some stuff for Thailand. We thought we would just book a few days here and there but in our excitement ended up booking pretty much the whole trip. Our plan is to stay in Bangkok the first night then make our way down to the islands for the full moon party! We are going to stay on all 3 islands then head back to Bangkok for a few days before flying to Oz. We realise that having booked pretty much everything for Thailand will result in diminished spontaneity but we have allowed for some planned spontaneous activities in Oz to make up for it. A and I also went on a shopping trip to buy essentials like an array of drugs for any situation, flip flops, sun tan lotion etc then headed to the gym to work on our beach bods. We ended up spending about an hour and a half in the jacuzzi. Much less effort than running. Then we had to walk home in the snow, rubbish.
I thought I'd talk a bit about all the snow, it seems to be a hot (cold) topic right now. Why must everything come to a halt when we get 3cm of snow? I have discovered it's not because its actually that much harder to do anything, it's because its so easy to use snow as an excuse not to do anything! I can't possibly go to work, it's snowing, I might get cold! So what do you do with your day off.... clearly you drive to the nearest hill with a couple of sledges and throw yourself down it. Blinding! This is exactly what AH and I decided to do on Sunday. Jack Wills* gilets, hats and hoodys made for a stylish/sporty look fit for winter sports. Greenwich park was absolutely mobbed by an impressive amount of people considering the arctic temperatures. What was more impressive was the creativity of some - I have never seen such a diverse collection of sledging equipment! There were lunch trays, bin bags, for sale signs and handmade snowboards knocking about. We saw a dwarf (PC?) hurtling down the hill on a 'to let' sign which sparked a debate about how he would have got it down! AH and I were absolute pros and we didn't delay in schooling the young kids in the art of sledging. It was all fun and games til a little boy steered straight into a tree and broke his leg. There's always one who has to ruin it for everyone else!
AH preparing to dominate the slopes
The "Greenwich black run" for pros only.
Twat in a hat.
We continued the day in style by winning our local pub quiz! Team "Snow Chance" (see what we did there?), consisting of me, A, AH, L and S powered our way (with minimal cheating) to quiz victory and won a bottle of champagne. Hurrah!
Coming up this week: Thursday afternoon A and I are venturing to STA travel* Covent Garden to book our Greyhound bus ticket for Australia! We will probably be so excited we will come out having booked loads more too! This time in 2 weeks we will be in Thailand!
Hilarious sign off,
Luce x
* Ideally, this name dropping will cause some sort of freebie to land in my lap........no?
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