Sunday, December 13, 2009

MORE Trophies!

We won! Pictured is li'l ol' me trying to hide behind two trophies collected on darts presentation night... one for being a member of the winning team and the smaller one for Best Average Score and most number of wins.

Anyway, enough of my bragging! November saw me with a new Visa card and cutting back on my spending (including food!) in an effort to save some money for buying Christmas presents. The blowdarts demonstration went well and I took part in the groups one-day tournament losing in the end to the captain of the Colac team. The main objective was achieved, however, by showing how I compete by using my special blowdarts equipment.

A BBQ for my support workers was not the greatest of successes with only three of my team in attendance, but it was still a social success and I'll have another early in 2010. A pre-Christmas dinner with friends and family went very well... 26 of us enjoyed a meal and each others company on Dec. 6 at the Bendigo Club.

Over 30 years ago, when I first lived in Bendigo, I was a member of the local Chess Club. My greatest achievement was winning the B-Grade Trophy one year. A good friend by name of Alan Williams, who played in A-Grade at the time, still lives here and during a recent visit he asked if I would "still like a game". Being one who never knocks back a challenge, I took him up on his offer and we now meet on a regular basis on Wednesday mornings... and he still thrashes me. Given time, however, I reckon I'll beat him!!

Almost Christmas and my usual last minute rush to print out my Annual Christmas Newsletters (also known as 'cards'), gift wrapping, etc. One of my support team, Roberta, has invited me to spend Christmas Eve at her home, so I can wake up Christmas morning and see her three young children open their gifts from Santa. I will leave there at Noon and go to my daughter Leanne's for Christmas lunch with her husband and my three grandsons, twins Jack & Ryan and young Harry.

May God be kind to us all for another twelve months and enrich our lives with good health, lots of love and peace in abundance.