Having played golf, tennis and a football match yesterday, as well as attending Adem’s housewarming party last night, then playing another football match this morning, I feel a little tired.

I had a good day yesterday.  It’s not often Chris is up for playing golf, or Ben is available to come out to play so I took advantage of both.  We played Stonelees executive course in the morning, (where I did mostly badly) and then headed off to the tennis courts right next to Ben’s house in Westgate (technically Margate, but Ben likes to thinks he doesn’t live in Margate).

A couple of hours tennis later I was off to my football match where although I didn’t start I played most of the game because of an injury to another player, and did pretty well thank you very much.

Adem’s party was quite a late one last night, so after not a huge amount of sleep, being a little hungover, we had another match this morning for Preston, who I’ve re-signed for after around a 6 year absence.  And we won and everything.

All that good fun appears to take its toll though.  My legs are now all stiff and achy, and I find myself contemplating an ice bath, as per this lady’s recommendations.  Harking back to a previous post, perhaps I am just a little too old for all this youthful larking about!

Soon to be valentine’s day again, hip hip hooray.  I like the sentiment, I think that lavishing your loved ones with attention is a great idea.  It’s just sad that we need a special day of the year to encourage people to do it.

I was listening to a podcast this morning (You look nice today) where the guys on it were talking about their Christmas present buying methods.  Now this is a comedy podcast, so this may not necessarily be true….  However, one of the guys put forward that he and his wife buy each other nothing and Christmas, birthdays, Valentines etc.  Instead, at random times for no reason at all they would buy each other gifts.  This is a brilliant idea!  Everyone loves a surprise, and nice as it is to get gifts on dedicated days it’s all rather predictable, but you can’t fail to be touched when someone buys you something or does something for you out of the blue.

Mrs Tom and I haven’t ever dined out together for valentine’s.  Thankfully she appreciates that restaurants will server poor quality food (because they ram in as many people as they can and can’t possibly provide good service to them all, sadly even the nicer ones), and charge far more than they usually do.  I’m not going to harp on about this point, because most people know this and it’s been written about thousands of times.  However, there do seem to be a lot of people who don’t seem to understand this, and they are the people filling the restaurants.  Let’s call them….. “idiots.”

Mrs Tom and I are heading out tonight for dinner (if Mrs Tom remembered to book it – romantic aren’t I).  It is a special valentine’s menu, but it’s at one of our favourite restaurants – The Indian Princess in Margate.  Let’s not say too much about Margate.  Yes, that’s about enough.  The Indian Princess however is exquisite.  It is a gourmet Indian restaurant of a quality rarely found outside of London.  It is very well reviewed and I’ve enjoyed the food thoroughly every time I’ve been.  Even Adam Curry and John Dvorak would enjoy it, and that is saying something.  Perhaps they’d like to drop by one time and take me there and I’ll show them.  Just a thought.

I wish people would treat each other the way they do on valentine’s day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays and all those other special days every day of the year.  Then maybe we wouldn’t have to listen to Wizzard every Christmas singing about it being Christmas every day (although I do actually quite like the song).