Not many people know that ‘Christmas is a time for giving’ is the shortened version of ‘Christmas is a time for giving, stuffing (your face with food), drinking (excessive amounts of alcohol), watching (‘The Goonies’ on video), and (under no circumstances whatsoever) exercising.’ Thankfully I am wise to this. I was also thankful to get an invite to spend Christmas with Nicola’s family, I didn’t fancy pulling crackers by myself. A few days before Christmas, Nic and I trained up to Barrow. On the day we arrived back we both met up with friends at the Strawberry pub, it turned out to be quite eventful as a lad who used to play in our cricket team accused my friend Weege of money laundering from the club, told us to stop bullying one of our team-mates called
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