I didn't do too bad this year. Mainly because they were present's bought by my and squirrelled away weeks a go.
Got a pair of White's Classic work boots, that are currently sat absorbing a coat of mink oil I've just applied. A few watch straps from my favourite makers, including a strap for a watch that isn't even in my possession yet. But will be come September. And finally a Buzz Rickson B-15 that I scored off Ebay in LNIB condition.



Merry Christmas everyone!

Are you quite hard then or a bit of a puff like all them football players with their arms blathered in tatts?

did get two xmas cards tho' with one of them from my mentally handicapped neice (she's now 42) which was very touching and worth more than 100 presents anyday !

DVD box sets and golfing gear

Game of Thrones, The Borgias, The pacific and Boardwalk empire season 1 and 2.

Best present of all was this this T shirt,



The reason for the T Shirt is so that i and five other ex-Matelot's can have a bit of uniformity when we have 4 days in Malta whacking the ale down our necks like the good old days.

It depends what the graffitied wall design is of, if its one of them IRA murals with an image of a bloke in a balaclava with a machine gun then he's probably a hard fecker, if its got stuff like "Shazza N Dazza 4Eva '06" then probably not

I got the book 'The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited' by Stephen Armstrong for Christmas and it's certainly getting me all radicalized to keep fighting the good fight in 2013.

Other stuff I got: socks, jeans, shoes among other things.

Yep, if it's a mural of [ithe ballot box or the armalite,[/i
Scooter will be forgiven.
If it's one of them tribal cr@ppy things that every tit and his tit has got,

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Excellent reading by the way Damo.

Tickets to the RLWC opener, semis and final, along with the usual haul of clothes, smellies, socks and Xbox games.

I've already got my political leanings tattooed on my upper arm - anarchy symbol, Antifa flags, yin/yan and peace symbols - and wanted something to bring them together, so a graffittied wall idea was thrashed out with my tattooist. They're currently in flat black (apart from the red in the flag) so there may be some more vivid colour added to lift them from the background.

Hull Fc hoody...Hull Fc zip up top...voucher for waterstones which i put together with money for b/day (xmas eve) and got Lee crooks autobigraphy along with David Millars and Paul Lakes and a book about team sky cycling and its inception and aim of tour de france.

Did you get free crayons with the Crooks biography

I was going to get Millwards but had just bought some bog roll.

Some pieces of steampunk jewellery, a couple of cookery books, a piece of glassware and two small pieces of art (although some of this was also birthday stuff).

Father christmas brought misery, he brought flu and my partner walked out on me christmas day

That's cr ap.

There is one positive to come out of it. As I have stopped eating I never gained weight , I have lost it. Anyway 2012 can bugger off, at least 2013 can't be any worse, onwards and upwards

And there was me going to book into the St Helens Radisson on February 15th.

blimey WZ, thought you were a bit borassic ?

It's not that expensive for one night mate.


Just booked into a Harrogate hotel 2nd/3rd January.
Off to see how the other half live.
Do you think I should get the tweed out?

go the Full Monty mate - kilt etc, don't forget the 'see you jimmy' hat with the ginger hair !

aren't they a bit posh in 'Arrogate ?

(never been)

Never heard of it. My nasty ex also said he hated my ten yr old daughter, what kind of man does that.

It's the Park Inn.
He sounds a t!t, but you knew that anyway, didn't you?

I'll be dressing very conservative.
One has to fit in with one's surroundings......what, what.

looks a right poofda in that gear !