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This new year....or not.

Well it seems that Sarah has said she would like to spend New Year with me at Rancho Collapso.

And Ships and Queene Mab have said we may have to dress up again and revisit our pirate personas...

Or dress up as Romans.

Hmmm. I have nothing remotley roman to put on.

Anyway, that means that I could be drunk in charge of eyeliner again this new year......

oh dear.

I hate it.

Honest.....

It’s funny the things that come into your head when you are out in the cold with your brain in neutral having a cigarette. I was looking at the music shop window over the road and remembered something I said to a girlfriend once years ago, and thought I would pass on this little tip.

Never ever put your current relationship into a time frame in conversation, no matter how jokey you are being.

Example?

Many moons ago I was sat in a rock club with the then love of my life, chatting about the band I had just joined and spouting nonsense. I then made the huge tactical error of saying “And just think, when I am famous you will be able to tell all your friends you used to go out with me”

What a twat! The look I got. It took a serious amount of backpedalling and crawling to get out of that one I can tell you.

But it can work both ways. For example (and I have not done this one) if you say something like “When we are both sat on the seafront near our retirement cottage with little blankets wrapped round our legs we will look back on this and laugh”
Because she will be thinking “Hang on! This relationship is just a bit of fun, and I was just going to see where it went and enjoy it. But now he is planning our future!”

And Whoosh! That spot on the horizon will be the rapidly diminishing form of your latest love interest breaking all known land speed records in an attempt to get as far away from you as possible.

You can’t actually win, so never ever mention that sort of thing ever.

This post was brought to you by me procrastinating over writing my secret Santa post.

I have known ships for about....erm......ah....20 years ish?

I dunno.

Anyway, he is a very nice bloke, a wunnerful cook and very tolerant of friends in need.....ahem.

And I am sorry that you are spending the day at Weird inc, but trust me - it is dead quiet up here so you should be able to get buy not doing much.