Yes, Yes I know.....!

We have been bacK almost 2 weeks and I haven't written a word.......I have no excuses....well other than Derekgas beating me at Add Like Mad.......and it being the only thing I can win at, made me absolutely sure I had to get my crown back....and gave myself 'sega neck'....this is a condition that I used to suffer from regularly when we had a Sega mega-drive.......daughter could always beat me and I used to sit there trying to beat her score(unsuccessfully, I might add) until the muscles in my neck seized up.

Getting back that crown was mighty tedious I tell you....and I'm not sure I want to do it all again.

On the game front......while I was away we went on a day trip to Plymouth.......I had intended to go and get a bottle of Plymouth Gin direct from the distillery...for himself.
But the coach dropped us off quite a long way from the Barbican.....it was a hot, hot day and pushing Ma down the hill would have been a breeze, but pushing her back up...well, no I can't say I relished that so much.....so I decided himslef could whistle for his gin, and didn't go to theat part of the city....instead, I wandered into the local branch of Game......there at the back of the counter was the Wii Fit.
I said to the young man behind the counter
'Don't tell me that is an actual Wii Fit'

'it is indeed, but it is the last one'

He placed it on the counter in front of me.......I could have it...it could be mine!
I looked at it and asked just how heavy it was.
'Quite heavy' was the response....just as he said this a youngish woman came rushing into the shop, all red and flustered and said 'I'll have that last Wii Fit'......
The assistant said I was just about to buy it.
I thought that the lady was going to cry.......'Oh.....NO, I should have bought it when I was in here before' she said.

I told the assistant to let her have it as I wasn't sure how the coach driver would be with me taking something like that back with me.......I told him that we had to travel all the way back to Lancashire.

The lady was delighted that she was going to get what she wanted......and as she was paying she told me that it was to be a birthday present for her young son who had just recovered from a serious illness....and it was to help him get moving and fit again.

So I felt that I had done the right thing, but hoped that my Karma would be rewarded with being able to get one for myself when I got back home.
Since getting back I have trawled the shops, locally and in Manchester and had absolutely no joy at all.
I had resigned myself to not getting one of these Wii Fit games.......but yesterday I went into the Game in Accrington, just as they had a delivery......so I now have a Wii Fit.

I set it up yesterday and you have to put your age and your height into the memory.
I did this and then I switched on the balance board.
It is really clever and tells you when you can get on....so once I had put my details in and switched on and waited for the prompt...it told me to get on and stand with my feet an equal distance apart....being a good kid I did exactly as I was told.
As I stepped on it said 'Ouch'(it really did)......then it weighed me.......then it calculated my body mass index and told me that I am old and fat and that there isn't much going for me.
I then did some very basic exercises so that it could calculate my Wii Fit age.........this came out at 67......so I paid all this money for an inanimate object that insults me.
I could have saved the money and let hubby do that for me