New Year

Well, there was no problem sleeping after all. Went next door to wish Les and his family a happy new year, armed with my guitar of course! Had one beer (honestly!!) and spent 2 hours merrily playing along to a number of songs. Managed to get them to do "Smoke on the Water" with me on the Fender Strat, absolutely blasted it out, Woka on the bass and Les doing the vocals, sounded ok to us, don't know about anybody else :)

Headed back in to the house at 1o to watch the tv, that fat old queen Elton John was on, not bad, but there was nothing else on so that was the best of a bad bunch. Chatted to my lil' bro on MSN and Jaine phoned us just after midnight to wish us all the best. I headed in to bed about 1230 coz I was knackered, no noise, even from the Dingles over the road. They just sitting round the bonfire, having a few beers with the horses running round the field, silhouetted in the light, looked really good. Had a look at the stunning stars before I headed in to my bed.

Morning dawned with me actually sleeping in till 10!! Got up and it was hot already. It touched 32 on new years eve, today wasn't so hot, only 30! But ended up going to Lake Karapiro with the neighbours, took the kayaks and had a swim and paddle to cool off. Listened to BBC radio Merseyside on the deck in the morning to hear them see the new year in. They were complaining about the cold and the Siberian weather that has been forecast in the coming weeks, and here's me sitting on the deck, boiling hot, literally running with sweat, quite surreal actually.
It got so hot that I couldn't even stand on the pavement, I was burning my feet, and I did feel for my folks back in the cold.