Bugger – I failed! I was trying to see how long I could keep u blogging every day, and was about a week a way from having posted a blog entry every day for two months, but didn’t get round to making an entry yesterday. It’s a shame, but at least I ca still say that I’ve posted one entry at least every two days for over two years. Yesterday was a busy day: the right front wheel of my main wheelchair is broken, and I was trying to get it fixed. So off I went to ask chopper if he knew someone with a van who could drive us and the chair to the mobility shop inn welling.

I found my friend in the front garden of one of his neighbors, digging out an old post. It as not easy, and he was clearly putting a lot of effort into it. I decided to keep him company, hoping that when he finished we could go get my chair fixed. Time, however, drew on, and I suddenly realized I had been sitting there for two hours. When the job was done, of course, it was clear that my friend’s mind was on things other than my chair: the time had come for the imbibing of alcohol!

It had been a few weeks since I went to the pub with Chopper, so I didn’t see any harm in having a pint or two. We went to my bank first, as I needed cash, and then to a nice quiet place in eltom. As happens all too often, one or two pints turned into four or five, and then what I had intended to be a little trip round the corner became a fully-blown night out. For some reason, when chopper starts talking about having a good drink, I take it as my duty as a northerner to show this townie what drinking really is. To cut a long story short, when I got home I just had my dinner and headed straight for bed, ruing the fact I hadn’t just stayed home, read a bit, and blogged. And on top of that, my chair still isn’t fixed!