Deadly sins?

A good chum forwarded this to me - am I really that lustful?

Greed:	High
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Low
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Very High
Pride:	Medium

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

New Year - new resolutions

A new year gathering where I drank too much! Three days in Liverpool where I met many old friends and made some new ones. And now back to trying to earn money.

The centre of Liverpool amazed me by its absence of traffic. Is there less than other cities, is the public transport system better than others, or is there some hidden mystery in the way Liverpool conducts itself. And the amount of construction going on reminds me of Dresden some years ago.

Adventures

Yesterday had a real adventure. Took the bus from our village into the centre of Carlisle. Not a great feat you might think, but although I use the train and fly to France regularly, its not since university that I've been a bus user. The village has 4 buses a week, just one out and one back on 4 days in the week, so woe betide you if you miss the return trip - you might have to wait for 3 days before you can get home! The route takes in lots of the small villages between here and Carlisle, but the driver only returns via those he's picked people up from on the way out, so the journey took an hour in and only 30 minutes back! But I do wonder what happened to the other 4 people who got off the bus in Carlisle with me - none of them came on the bus back...a black hole in Cumbria?

Compliment?

"I really do admire someone who can wear such blatently unmatching clothes.".....Comment to me from another guest at a Christmas dinner.

Shopping

A morning's shopping in the big city - OK its not big by anyone else's standards, but we are in the sticks!
Very pleasantly affected by the cheerful attitude of everyone I talk to: other shoppers, shop assistants, car park attendant.
Its a family tradition now that I buy Christmas tree presents for everyone who will be in our house on Boxing day evening. This is likely to be 14 or 15, so the strategy is just to buy anything that looks interesting and sort out who to give it to on Christmas Eve. This results in one or two being shoved into the back of my wardrobe until next year. For the girls its invariably knickers. They'd be disappointed if it were any different now, despite their public displays of embarrassment. Dorothy Perkins have a much better selection of knicks this year, and its always 3 for 2 at Christmas. The manageress and I had a pleasant chat as I explained that the variety of sizes I'd bought was not just my incompetence, but because of all the different girls I was buying for. Strange how women seem extremely happy to chat to men about lingerie - or at least men of my age! She thought she'd introduce the same tradition in her house.

Spiderman?

A chum sent me the link to this quiz. But do you recognise me?

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 90% Supergirl 68% Superman 65% The Flash 65% Green Lantern 60% Iron Man 60% Hulk 45% Batman 40% Robin 40% Catwoman 35% Wonder Woman 33%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Christmas Spirit

One of the less pleasant sides of Christmas - going through my card list to send all the cards that Mrs L won't be sending. This includes a number of lady friends from present and past who won't be on the 'family' list. I feel this should be a comforting activity - keeping in touch with old friends, but I feel distressing bouts of jealousy that people I have been very close to, I no longer see, or are no longer that close. Yet there is so much to enjoy about the Christmas period and the very strong family element to mine in particular, that I feel a guilt that I can't just accept the pleasures I have, but still seek more. Is this another sign of wanting to get more and more out of life whilst I've still got the energy?

Perhaps I'm not helping by doing so much Christmas shopping online - lets see whether the day we've planned in Carlisle on Tuesday gets me more fully into a joyful Christmas spirit!