Well just spent a wet and windy weekend in Blackpool at the lovely Doric Hotel, all part of Mel’s work’s Christmas Party, not a bad place to stay either apart from the wild wind that was blowing along the front while we were there, kept both of us awake most of the weekend.

Anyway Friday night was spent re-acquainting myself with Mel’s fellow workers and consuming large amounts of Bulmers cider, both of which were enjoyable then it was off to bed as I didn’t arrive there till well past 9pm and tbh needed a good nights sleep.
Saturday we woke early and drove to Fleetwood to investigate the tat being sold at Fleetwood’s Indoor Marke, managed to spend well in excess of £60 quid on varied tat while there, this being a dog bed for Blue, a very natty fleece covered in doggy pictures for Ash and a rather expensive representation of the helmet worn by Russell Crowe in Gladiator, these have now been dished out to the one’s they were intended for.

After relaxing in the bar for a couple of hours we headed up to our room to make ourselves pretty for the evening party, where we again consumed large quantities of cider and plates of Christmas fare, had a bit of a boogie, attempted to smoke cigarettes outside the Doric in gale force winds and eventually retired to bed.

Sunday was just a case of getting up packing our bags and me heading home to ensure that John the dog/house sitter hadn’t been savaged by Blue and I’m thankful to say he hadn’t been, though how Blue will recover from spending a weekend in the company of John only time will tell (cheers for looking after her John).

I’ll no doubt be posting some piccies or a link to the Flickr account once I’ve posted up the pictures of the weekend, but for now I’ll just say good night and bid a fond farewell to Blackpool till the next time