Your Trugmakers Mid Jan 2010 News

Well well, time to relax - NOT! I still needed to make the remaining trugs to compliment the promissory cards I had sent in place of trugs ordered, to rebuild my trug stock, to resume normality and resume my boast of 'next-day' deliveries.
Then the snow just continued and continuuuuuuuued. Cycling to work took me back to my youth as a speedway rider, broadsiding around every bend (and on the straight as it happens). Fingers resembling those chipolatas we forgot about in the freezer since 1978. I discovered an attachable hood for my super winter coat purchased for a Christmas trip to Salzburg two years ago, just the job I thought to avoid frostbitten ears. Hurtling across the common and fast approaching a main road to cross, of course I looked both ways to check that all was clear - problem was, the hood didn't rotate with my head! Velcro'd to my shoulders. Found myself staring at fleecy hood lining left and right, nice quality I thought, but not relevant to the fact my brakes were totally ineffective due to the build-up of snow on the wheels and brakes. I hurtled across the road bouncing over the hardened snow and tyre channels into my cul-de-sac short cut. Eventually sliding to a halt, I turned to investigate the screech of brakes and ensuing shower of snow like a supertankers bow wave. I wondered if they were making another TV advert, because a gorrilla was in the driving seat of an articulated Tesco lorry, face against the windscreen, and obviously missing the funny side of it. Wouldn't even smile
                                                  while I took a picture on my mobile!
                                                  Anyway, the nice man obviously missed me, else I wouldn't be writing this.
                                                  Fantastic things these ABS braking systems, wish I had them on my bike.
                                                  I now know why 'hoodies' wear hoodies! If the Tesco lorry driver who probably
                                                  eats rottweiler burgers recognises me, he would knock me out, lay me down and
                                                  back his lorry over me, and understandably, after having to decompress his 
                                                  entire load which had certainly concertina'd big time after stamping his size 12's
                                                  on his super ABS braking system. It was his fault anyway for driving too fast
                                                  (learnt that from the wife).

Every cloud etc. etc. - In Tesco's that very evening the wife and I half filled a trolley of massively discounted goods due to damaged packaging!
 
As I oft repeat, we as a family, celebrate everything. Ya can't have snow without a snowman!
This is my daughter Lori posing while I search for a carrot nose from the freezer. Building a snowman at night, minus 5, in her P J's! Before sympathising with me for having a child with a mental acumen seriously below par, Lori is at Brighton University, two years into her BA Hons. degree to be a teacher (take my advice, start saving for home tutoring)!