Fancied a little flutter on the football today Football Premier League Southampton v Manchester Utd 1st Half Under/Over 1.5 Goals 20/09/2015 16:00 Over 1.5 Goals ( Win ) @ 9/4 Football Premier League Southampton v Manchester Utd Under/Over 4.5 Goals 20/09/2015 16:00 Over 4.5 Goals ( Win ) @ 7/1 Football Premier League Southampton v Manchester Utd Both Teams To Score In Both Halves 20/09/2015 16:00 Yes ( Win ) @ 20/1 I'm not really back but also not really gone ~ I'll update soon Posted by mrsduck
Laptop seems to have given up the ghost which means I can't work (my 2nd job as an online examiner) which means I can update and have a lazy weekend!
Summer has been really good. Decided this year to take a holiday before the summer rush (of students). It's never easy to take a holiday in summer at my job since me and MrDuck both work at the same school and we make up half the full time teaching staff so we normally wait until after summer but by then we're both exhausted. Anyway decided to take a week off pre summer early June and a week off post rush in September which has really been so much nicer then trying to plough through from Jan straight to Sep. Anyway we had such a nice week camping and hiking in Pembrokeshire in June and Sep we spent in Devon, three nights camping and the rest at MrDucks parents house (which was empty of parents)
The school is going really well, we seem to be one of the only schools in the area right now that's not having a bit of a student number crisis, we really are the best when I'm not teaching I'm trying to mark as much as possible to earn extra money (which is why I've been off poker for a while) I'm trying to do 2 or more hours a day roughly so that I get about 60 minimum hours a month. It's not very hard to do 2 hours marking but the brain power used hits me after a few days so I'm taking lots of naps. I'm trying to earn extra money because 1 ~ we bought a car! Our first car 2 ~ we want to buy a house, so I'm trying to reduce my debts. I actually don't have much debt (I've been lucky enough to pay off my student loan) but I still have an overdraft and credit card hanging over me and 3 ~ we've finally booked a wedding date! After nearly 12 years together MrDuck has pinned me down to next Sept, so just under a year to go!
All of this means considerably less (and sometimes none) poker for the foreseeable future (let's say till Christmas) but very happy life things. I'm still checking the forum most days but I'll be playing just sporadically. Anyway there's more to update but I'll save that till next time
And lol Pat, was thinking exactly the same, 10 years and counting here.
When I get in from work she is often watching a programme called 'dont tell the bride', from time to time there is a 'thats lovely' or a 'oh wow look at that'.
I'm sure she thinks she is being very clever, she probably is.
According to an article I 'noticed' she was reading recently, men are very easy to train.
In Response to Re: Duck the Bounty Hunter : You really need to speed up with this Pat. As we've told you before, you're batting way above your average Posted by Jac35
Congratulations MrsD, he really will be MrD now. And lol Pat, was thinking exactly the same, 10 years and counting here. When I get in from work she is often watching a programme called 'dont tell the bride', from time to time there is a 'thats lovely' or a 'oh wow look at that'. I'm sure she thinks she is being very clever, she probably is. According to an article I 'noticed' she was reading recently, men are very easy to train. Sigh, fold. Posted by LmfaoAllin
All of this means considerably less (and sometimes none) poker for the foreseeable future (let's say till Christmas) but very happy life things. Posted by mrsduck
The sun's rays are long, drawn across the cool sky; sometimes white and often grey, moody, crisp and twinkling at night with stars or shimmering and shivering with sheets of rain. The nights are slowly getting shorter but the river is rising and the temperature's dropping both in and out. The river is flooding and freezing and flooding. My heart pounds some days and my feet fall in front one by one by one, no looking back. Other days are like today; my toes are numb and fingers ache, my heart lies low and soft within my chest.
There's a rock on my finger and glistening in the corners of my eyes.
I'm extremely happy, I'm desperately sad.
Two months of winter, two months of emotion
I love walking, and hiking, I love the mountains, the escape from the city.
I had a friend called Pete at secondary school, a really dear friend. We were very similar and completely opposite. We both loved writing and poetry and sad music. He loved all sports, especially running and he was the kindest young man. When I travelled in South America he was the only one who wrote to me religiously, he was so jealous of my adventurous life back then. A few years later he'd become part of team GB travelling the world, interviewing and liaising and organising and inspiring and becoming great friends with the athletes. He started living a life in Canada. One day he went walking in the mountains with a couple of his friends, they got into trouble and Pete quite simply fell off the mountain. Seven years ago in December Pete died and I think about him fondly, frequently. I started running in November and every time I run I think of him.
On the day that he had died last December Mrduck and I were visiting his Grandmaduck. She's become very frail the past 2 or so years. I was full of thoughts of death, thinking about Pete, looking into the eyes of old Grandmaduck. It was her birthday and the phone kept ringing with well wishers. Mrduck and Fatherduck had gone to the supermarket when the phone rang again. (TBC - writing on iPad)
Without me and Motherduck seeing, Grandmaduck made a bolt for the phone and then all we hear is a cry and a bang in the lounge. Grandmaduck is on the floor and I find myself holding her head and her hair and there's blood all over my hand and she's shouting at herself at what a stupid old lady she is and I'm there trying not to cry us into a living room of tears.
Pete is dead and its Grandmaducks birthday and there's a hole in her head and she's bleeding on me and I love everyone so much and all I can think of is death. I have to drive Grandmaduck to hospital, she's alright but someone needs to stitch up this hole in her head and she lives in London and I've never driven in London and now I'm responsible for keeping all the ducks alive in the car whilst we drive to the hospital and all I can think about is death and not crying.
The same day later on, I'm sat on the sofa holding Grandmaducks hand and rubbing it gently whilst everyone else fusses around us. She asks me about engagement and wedding rings. I didn't have an engagement ring then and I told her I'd like just a plain, simple gold wedding band. She instructs me to go and fetch something from her bedroom cupboard. Its her wedding ring, a plain, simple gold band which she no longer wears. She instructs me to put it on and it just fits and it's so lovely and she insists that I have it, if I want it. I do.
I love everyone so much and my heart hurts from all the love and the death and the driving and the keeping everyone alive and I'm exhausted.
I can't imagine what you are going through at present, the kind ones in life hurt far more it seems. My good lady as you know from my little blog has a beautiful soul and would probably advise me to look after myself because if I don't I cannot look after anyone else. My thoughts are with you dear, and I wish grandma a speedy recovery.xx
The Christmas period was wonderful. I started quietly filtering Christmas into our tiny flat at Mrducks bemusement. Nearly everyday I would add something festive in the living room. We bought and decorated our first tree and listened to carols and drank whiskey and played games and roasted chestnuts and got cosy every single night, cherishing the warmth of each other. One of my brothers had a big bash for a milestone birthday and his wife announced she was pregnant. Grandmaduck gets back to her old stubborn, witty self, sending me emails with lines such as "I'm not going to their house for Christmas, I don't want to end up on the kitchen floor with my brains pouring out of the back of my head!" and "I'm so happy you like and want to keep my wedding ring, I can't bear the thought of me dropping dead and it being left in a cupboard for all of eternity." I drink, I sleep, I walk, I run, I read, I see old friends, new babies, I laugh and I stop thinking about death.
On Boxing Day Mrduck, his Motherduck and I visit a jewellers with Grandmaducks wedding ring and me and Mrduck fall in love with a little old antique engagement ring which sits perfectly with grandmaduck's ring on my finger. It's a little small so we leave it behind to be resized and sent to us in early January. Love and life is everywhere and fills my heart.
Two days ago the engagement ring arrives just before lunch, it's perfect for us, simple, classic, delicate and bright. There's champagne ready in the fridge to celebrate. Two days ago just before dinner an old friend of mine, not seen for a few years, a big, gentle, wonderful musician, who's love filled up the world of all he met, a young man with a girlfriend and tiny baby, threw himself from the world and was lost to us forever.
Please ~ Hold your loved ones tonight, and every night. See beauty in life, the sky, the earth, the faces of those you meet.
"I burgled beauty in the night, I stole a white coin from the sky, and hid it in my plund'rous eye - the moon, incredible and bright. I have it still, that rifled thing, through body, heart, and brain it shines, yet, richer than a million mines, I cannot buy me anything" - Mervyn Peake
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Scrap that, v nice bets, wp ; )
And lol Pat, was thinking exactly the same, 10 years and counting here.
When I get in from work she is often watching a programme called 'dont tell the bride', from time to time there is a 'thats lovely' or a 'oh wow look at that'.
I'm sure she thinks she is being very clever, she probably is.
According to an article I 'noticed' she was reading recently, men are very easy to train.
Sigh, fold.