Lifes a puddle !!!

Arrrrgh today someone filled in " the puddle " in our farm yard in the name of " improvement " .  I have known that puddle for 40 years !  I have washed my wellingtons in in for nearly as long . Sounds silly but i have a lot of fond memories of it .
  In winter i used it to see how hard it was freezing by prodding the surfice  . Went i was little it was exciting when it froze solid and we used it as a slide . Sometimes when it rained a layer of ice was under the water which gave you a nasty shock when you walked through it !!! We rode our bikes through it too spraying water about .  It was always there . In hot summers it dried up and it was akward not having it to wash our wellies off ( we now have a tap ) but it aint the same LOL If i know anything a bout water ( and i do ) i expect it will reform washing out the gravel and re-appearing . Water is bad to control and does as it will .
  Mmmm this has me thinking about Dent green rounabout that was there for all my life till the council scrapped it for a new style play ground . Fucking sacrilage . That roundabout was the green . It was Dent . It had history . Tossers.....

Holidays

Soooooo  how was my all male holiday  ? F******    fantastic is how it was ! How did we all get away with it ? Looking back it amazes me we all got away from other halves and kids ....  i guess we all needed the holiday after the catastrophic disaster of the previous years holiday ( i use the term holiday loosely ) Anyway all bad memories were erased and replaced with new better ones !!!
  The fishing was very good . I caught two huge pollock and quite a few nice sized mackeral . I spent a particularly good evening fishing a wild mountain stream with a friend catching wild trout , small but truly wild and beautiful to look at even more so than  Cumbrian trout .
     The weather was dramatic with stormy nights shacking the caravan and a maelstorm blowing outside . In fact my bedroom wall was flexing the wind was so strong and rain lashed on my window all night just like  the special effects in a horror film which amused me some what . Some nights were still and moon light and the sea shone silver and a high tide only added to the beauty . Truly special and not a sight ive seen up there before despite 20 years of yearly visits !

  I ate a lot of chocalate rolls , muffins ect apparently .  Returning home was hard as a culture shock awaited and worse shocks awaited others !  Too be expected after a wild time away as a price must be seen to be paid ....and some will take great pleasure in collecting !!!!