.....1,2,3,4! Big fish!..........

O.k. it's not the biggest in the world but it's a sign that Spring is coming. Today was warmish and sunny, so I sneaked off for a couple of hours after the medical debacle.

I went for a blood test at 9.00, and I had an appointment for a blood pressure check at 4.00. Could the nurse do both and save me a journey? Yes, she could. Would she do both? No, she wouldn't!

And to cap that she then informed me that I didn't need to fast last night for this blood test.

So I managed to sneak in a few hours fishing and caught this. This is a silver bream, commonly known as a Skimmer. "Why are they known as skimmers?" I hear you ask.

Oh, you didn't.....well I'm going to tell you anyway. Bream are oval shaped but not very wide across the back, so when you get them to the surface they flop onto one side and skim across the water as you reel them in.

Went to the quiz tonight and my mate hebs came along. We struggled with the picture round, had a minor disaster on the Top Five round (well do you know the top five entertainers in this years Forbes rich list....and is Simon bloody Cowell an entertainer anyway?) and messed up the Connections.............but we got all 10 in the Wipe out round and earned 5 bonus points. One of my Monday team mates was there with wife and friends and they scored 41....we sneaked in with 43. that put us into a tie break. I got sent up....the question was "In which year did McDonalds introduce the McChicken sandwich?" A bit of a Mexican stand off ensued with me and the other guy eyeing each other and neither wanting to go first and give the other a chance to say a date just one year different. I narrowed my eyes, turned away slightly as if not interested then quickly whipped back and said "1973", the other guy blinked, flapped and blurted out "1965".

The answer was 1980.....so another £20 voucher to spend next week. Now I owe hebs a fiver for her share of the winnings! Still it really was good to see her and just as we were thinking of leaving Vicki turned up and demanded a large red wine...so we had to stay for another drink....well it would have been rude not to.

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