The Time Bubble

Just a quick catch up on events over the past few days. We will start with the turning on of the Christmas Lights in Bicester. As usual, the town's traders threw themselves into the event with enthusiasm, stalls and rides for the kids, plenty of eats with a BBQ outside the White Hart and a hog roast at the Butchers. Snow machines added a bit of fantasy for the kids. So all well and good. Sadly the same cannot be said of Bicester Town Council who it seems put less and less effort into the event every year. The usual reasons are given - town centre development means buses can't get into Market Square if its closed off etc etc. Quite how this explains a sound system that sounds like an Argos starter kit for bedroom DJ's I am at a loss to explain. The Christmas tree is as usual nowhere near the other lights but hidden behind the kebab van in Market Square. I would have put some pictures up but it seems no-one has bothered to put any on the internet (unsurprisingly) so I...

...is a cigar called? Well I wouldn't know, though the last time I had one, after the birth of my second child (forced on me by the lads in the pub) I did enjoy it. I'm not a smoker as you know, one of the few sins (as well as drugs) that just aren't me. As for all the other things, well, you have to enjoy life, don't you. And enjoy it, I certainly do. I have a pretty enjoyable lifestyle I have to admit, I earn enough money, in one way or another (don't ask) on top of Claire's earnings for us to have a pretty comfortable life. Quite honestly, I think people should turn their talents to whatever suits them and if you can find a way to live, without having to work yourself into an early grave then do it. I say this, because if it hadn't been for that health scare eight years ago I doubt whether I'd be here now. At 33, I may have owned a house, had a good job and all the rest of it but I wasn't happy. Two nights in hospital with blood pressure of 20...