And Here Comes Another Holiday For Me
Ξ February 22nd, 2010 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The World Of Tom |
I’ve got another holiday coming up again this weekend. I’ve had some good holidays lately and here’s another one.
I get to go with a friend because my family all have some concert to go to and they can’t come so I get to go with a friend. It’s nice to take your family but sometimes you need to take a friend instead.
We are going to take a tent and camp, as I would normally do with my family. It’s a really good canvas tent, about 12 foot square and canvas and really good quality so worth taking. Its heavy but I have a lighter tent that’s smaller but it’s forecast to rain and I want a good tent that will keep the rain out which is important.
I don’t like getting up early, I resist it when I can, but we have to go at 5 am Friday. It’s a 4 hour trip to where we are meeting up with some others, and we meet at 9.
But it’s not that much of a drama getting up early if you’ve got a holiday to get up for. And I’m looking forward to it so it’s not that much of a problem, so I’ll be up when I need to.
Unfortunately my car is really old and I’ve got all my fingers and toes crossed hoping it makes it up there. It’s done 450,000 miles so it’ done a lot of work, but it goes fine.
Saturday will be a day of doing nothing which is how I like it. It’s planned that way so that’s how it is. I want to go fishing because I really like fishing. So I’m intending to take the fishing gear along, though it is forecast to rain. In fact I bought a new fishing rod today, because I broke my old one a while ago.
I made a new fishing rod many years ago. I bought a fibreglass blank and all the other gear and made it totally myself and I was pretty pleased with that. That was the rod I broke the other day and I was really disappointed.
I have no idea how it broke but it did. I was just walking through a patch of trees and then I looked at it and the tip was broken off. What happened? Who knows. But it was a pretty sad day as I had used that rod so much and it had caught some good fish.
I found out today that it wasn’t worth a lot of money either. That’s because I went to a fishing shop and bought a new one and it wasn’t expensive. But it still had sentimental value to me, after all I made that rod myself.
And I couldn’t believe. 35 bucks for a new fishing rod. They certainly aren’t expensive now to buy. But the new one isn’t the one I made. I’d rather my old one than a new one.
So there’s the news about my weekend to come. It won’t rain will it and I will catch a fish won’t I?
Here’s hoping.