End of Year review type posting thing

This time I thought I'd be clever. Since I've recently been reminded of New Years Eve 2007, suffering with lurgy in a local seafront bar, and saying something along the lines of "if I can't pull something better than THIS out of the hat next year, for god's sake shoot me", I'm quite pleased that I thought to head over to the bright city lights of Merseyside this year. I mean, that's GOT to be better than North East England, right? A full on city? Yeah, must be. All those people. I consulted the local knowledge, and scuttled away from a very fine pub in time to make it up to midnight in the area of Lime Street Station where allegedly it gets "rammed" to use the local colloquialism (or "really really busy", if you speak English).

Sod it. Next year I'm going to London. It was as dead as a doornail. There was just one other group, three or so adults and about four kids who'll be bitching about being kept up that late for nothing until next Christmas. Now it might be that things had moved on, and there was a fine party going on in another part of town. But to me the place seemed lacking in the buzz that you'd expect from a major city; a few bars we passed looked decidedly empty and unloved. And the Dizzy seemed to be lacking in sensible hours extensions, turning your scribe away at around midnight twenty, which can have very serious consequences for your balance sheet, if you're a pub that's clearly selling Cains Raisen Beer. Hey ho. Decamped to The Swan instead for a couple of cheeky ones, including somebodies attempt at a winter warmer ("Scrooge", or something, I'll stand to be corrected on this one) that was around seven percent. Anyway, back to the Hobbit's burrow for sandwiches and that's about that for 2008.

2008?

Well, it's been a rough one. It's been very forward, bouncy and up; and utterly shite in measures that I'm not altogether sure are equal but certainly were powerful. Some things rocked my world; others things blew goats and on occasion, the things were the same. Go figure. Personally, I've been drinking a lot more extreme cider this year; not sure that's such a good thing. Also I went under the knife bigtime; didn't much enjoy that. Probably more than some folks in Gaza are enjoying their end of year party with the Paveway series of ordanance though, and certainly I had a better time being chopped up by the medico's than the chaps in Woolworths, MFI and Max Spielmans are currently enjoying. Who'd have ever thought we'd have been talking about those firms going down in once sentance. I shall come back and reread this in a year to compare what else has gone tits up. I suggested today a walk through the shopping centre with a digital camera, and to compare the view in a year. I think there may be drama. Back in my world, I'd not say 2008 ended well, and it looks like 2009 is shaping up into a bag of shite already. There, that's a nice big bag of negativity flying through the air already.

Looking forward to coming back and seeing just how wrong I've been.