just a quick message to let you know glad you got to Oz safe, thinking of you as I was wending my merry way to Kendal at 8am this morning, the frost had covered the trees, the grass was white and the river was frozen. I thought I would be saying to you two philistines in the car "isn't it beautiful, look at the view!" and you would be saying "yes whatever" and I would reply "you've got no soul!"

anyway your blog had better not be your final xmas message to mummy and daddy, we've tried to give you a little pile to Oz, Nic and will make sure you have a big pile when you get home (coded message only Nic and Stru can understand!)

anyway got to go am busy making sure I have got a big enough bath for the turkey. and am trying not to get stresssed as I am renowned for being a calm person.

Dad is going out on Friday on his annual xmas work bash then Saturday for his annual Dev bash, Stu he got £140 in the whackout (wow) so the arrangements for Sat are as Neil and Gemm are out :- me Autumn, neil and gemm at my house, dad at Neil's house, good idea eh? take care love youxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Guys, hope all is well. I'm on my final dinner hour before commencing my very merry christmas. When you gonna phone Nic? You are in Australia now and I know they have phones there, I saw it on telly, so no excuse! Everyone is fine here. Autumn is getting funnier and slightly crazier by the day. She is honestly a bit nuts but you'll have to wait till you get back to see what I mean. She's doing really well though. Anyway give me a ring when you get chance matey, speak soon,

Love Neil, Gemma and Autumn x x

Hope you both have a brilliant Christmas and New Year in Oz - i'm so jealous. xx

And by the way Nige , call yourself a City fan - Its Kelvin Etuhu not Kevin !!! He learned his trade at Rochdale on loan last season

Hay you Guys !!!!!

Great tales, and loving the pictures - Myself and Debs were in Hoxton this weekend gone by thinking of yourselves. We walked past your old gaff, many a fond memory of Winny launching himself into that outdoor swimming pool at your 30th Otto. + the infamous racing incident on hoxton square involving myself and Ashton.

We were at Fiona's house or 'old gold' as one of the lads would say for a birthday gathering. 'No names mentioned'.

Was a great party , not so great was the fact that I need my bed at 2am nowadays and a random couple had stolen our bed for other purposes.

Ollie's doing well but teething at the moment , I don't want to hear any more tales about shocking journeys with no sleep , try looking after a 8 month old with no teeth, beats this world travelling malarkey anyday.

Spending NYE in Ulverston which is gonna be great, looking forward to chilling out with the boy and family. Speak soon and have a great Xmas/NYE

Strand/Debs and Ollie

Ott, Belle - Are we out of interweb contact? Been a few days since the mighty blog was updated. Its reassuring to know that Nigel's command of the English language is on par with his Maths. Not a great advert for our education system.

Its true I haven't yet registered for the Marathon - but worry not, I'll hop round faster than him.

Had a good laugh the other weekend, as already covered by Nige. What he failed to mention was the fact he nearly killed me with a "drug" overdose. Tried to stay up watching the Hatton fight, was really struggling. Next thing, SBF produces some "Infernos" from his car. I'm lead to believe these are like pro-plus which he takes before running, and Andrea even takes when she has an early start for work. Anyway, it appeared to have no immediate effect, as I slept straight through till 9 the next morning. At which point I was awoken by the sound of my hearty jumping out of my chest - two days it lasted for.

The blues are soaring up the table - 12 undefeated. The s***e are still s***e. Will be pulling out the "Rafa Beneath Us" song next weekend.

Poor show from the rest of the lads. Ashton should know better. Tit.

Don't believe the hype.

win

HI YOU TWO SOZ NOT BIN IN TOUCH FOR A WHILE BUT WE'VE JUST GONE INTO THE 21ST CENTUARY AND GONE BROADBAND.... THANX FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY WISHES IT WAS BRILL. GOT LOADS OF PREZZIES AND DOSH + BOUGHT A LOAD OF CRAP FROM PRIMARK IN GLASGOW BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. SEE YOU VERY SOON LOTS OF LOVE AND HUGS AND KISSES TERESA XXX PS IT IS BLOODY FREEZING IN BARROW, LOTS OF CAR WINDSCREEN SCRAPING ECT. I BET YOU MISS THAT.(NOT)

Loving the use of grammar from Nooney, superb. Stu, go and buy some beads, go on do it. Great revelations about Ashy and the cleaner. Tier oners have cleaners, FACT. Think its about time Nic took control of the TOUR, sounds like there's been too much fact finding for future editorials in the National Geographic magazine.

If I wanted education on how many antilopes were in the Jungle of Laos I would have subscribed to the aforementioned mag. Just kidding... Loving the blags.

Come on the bucks

Something which may make you smile is that we are now suffering below freezing conditions, de-icing cars in the morning, hugging the fire (well not literally) in the evenings and long dark days!!! Stay safe, stay warm!

Alright Stu, Nic, Suzie and the rest of the avid msg board readers. Before I start I got a text of Stu saying he was setting on the beach drinking cocktails what next a shark tooth necklace?

Firstly I will start with the highlight of the weekend the 4-2 hammering of Bolton Wanders, Sven's boys in blue went into the break 1-2 down after taking an early lead through the rejuvinated italian hitman Rolando Biannci. Sven turned it round during the interval and we romped it with the final goal coming from yet another academy product Kevin Etuhu. Nic liverpool where hammered 1 nil by the munich's at home to lie 5th on the 19 week ladder.

The second highlight was Big Win admitting defeat in the marathon before it started, he will give the 'work excuse' as the reason for not having the 4 minutes to enter, but as we know to well he's not got it in him, just me Andi and the Prince.

Thirdly Ashton aka the skull has employed a cleaner for his one bed apartment in mossside she is called Messi and acording to Chris did not see the irony in her name. He said she had a quality technique on all fours on the kitchen floor which might explain the fact he works from home on her cleaning day.

Stu we are going to Liverpool for boxo this year it will be class.

Hi Nic and Stuart,You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout .I'm telling you why.It irritates the crap out of Santa Claus and you won't get any presents, thats why. LOve you Nana Nett and Grandad xxx

Hello you two

Ihope this is finding you in a nicer place.Your exploits with the local yokels sound horrendous but the D M X sounds reeely interesting.Are you dragging poor Nic round these places without her having a say in the matter Stuart??? I must say your epistles are very entertaining.I didn't know you were so talented.You'll have to write a book when you get back and keep your mother in luxury.No great news from this end except that we were back in Palma last weekend with the gang and they all send their love.Dinah says she has lots of good ??? brummie jokes to tell you when you get back.

Look after yourselves and Nicola if Stu comes up with any more ideas about visiting dodgy places that you don't fancy DIG YOUR HEELS IN

With all our love,XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX