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For the 2nd time in as many weeks DDWT Junior had to miss his appointment for his MMR jabs due to having a throat and ear infection. It also meant he wasn’t in school – along with a lot of other children from what we understand, who are all suffering from one ailment or another (predominately colds). Hopefully the antibiotics that have been prescribed will do the trick and he can get around to having the jabs sometime soon.
Hot of the heels of yesterday’s Santa jog, I took to the road on my mountain bike today and headed off down to Bracelet Bay and Swansea Marina for a 13.08 mile spin. The ride lasted 52 minutes 9 seconds at an average of 15 mph and a top speed of 22mph. The conditions were ok on the whole apart from the patchy drizzly rain – although the biggest difficulty (obstacle?) I encountered was that of pedestrains. Why do they always seem to veer towards the direction and line you are taking – even when walking towards you in some cases! It’s been a while since the last ‘issue’ with people walking, but today could have seen at least 2 nasty collisions due to people being unaware of what is going around them.
With Christmas shopping in full flow for most people it seems, I was rather bemused to see a large billboard poster on one of the side streets off Pentrechwyth Road in St. Thomas (Swansea) featuring a huge advert for the St. Davids shopping centre….. in Cardiff! I understand why it’s there – an attempt to draw shoppers away from Swansea no doubt – but I’m surprised that the various retail business groups in Swansea aren’t up in arms about it. Maybe they haven’t seen it yet? Perhaps I’ll tip the South Wales Evening Post off about it 
Today saw the inaugural British Heart Foundation Swansea Santa Jog and I was there (despite forgetting to give in my registration card before the start!).
It was great being involved, not only because it was for a good cause, but because it was great fun as well. Over 500 Santa’s took part from all age groups – there were even pushchairs and some dogs (complete with tinsel trimmings!) taking part.
DDWT Junior certainly enjoyed himself as did most of the other children present no doubt. Although I did have to explain that the “real” Santa wasn’t there and that we were only helping him by raising money for charity. Having said that, after weighing myself this morning – 17 st 1lb shock horror – I felt more like the real Santa to be honest!
Anyway, the following video will give you an idea of the fun that was had and the sight of 500 Santa’s going for a run, jog or walk!
The Evening Post photographers were out in force, so I’m sure there’ll be loads of pictures on their site in a couple of days.
As for the run itself, I opted to do just that (rather than walk) and the 2K course around Swansea Marina took me 9 minutes 38 seconds – not quick I know, but being kitted out as a Santa certainly made me sweat!
After the morning’s excitement, we headed off over to Debenhams for lunch. Nice though the food was, I thought £16.95 was pricey for two adults and a children’s meal – still we needed some tucker so we weren’t that bothered.
However, on trying to depart the store – we got stuck in the lift (just the 3 of us) for over 10 minutes. Thankfully the store staff were quick to respond and despite being stuck between 2 floors, they dealt with the situation very well and had medics on hand should the need arise. We managed to keep DDWT Junior distracted long enough for him to think nothing was wrong, but the whole incident made us wary of using any other lifts. After this little incident, we decided to head off home and call it a day in Swansea.
With it being a typical winter’s day outside, the house of DDWT decided it was going to be a PJ day (which means lounging around all day in pyjamas and doing nowt!). Not very energetic or interesting I know, but relaxing nevertheless.
So apart from Mrs DDWT venturing out to Pizza Hut to get some 2 stuffed crust pizza’s we’ve basically spent the day mucking around on the laptop and PS2, building lego animals, setting up DDWT Junior’s Thomas the Tank engine track (again) and watching Wales v South Africa (but wish we hadn’t).
Talking of the laptop, if you’re looking for some free online games to play with your kids (ranging from platform games to colouring games) then take a look at the Kaboose site which I found today – which featured loads of games, including dinosaur ones (DDWT Junior’s favourite!).
After this we’ll probably sit down and watch some more TV in the form of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and other nonsense no doubt. It’s the ideal preparation I reckon for the Swansea Santa job tomorrow – especially as I still have a dodgy knee 
Anyone looking to buy a PC or laptop this Christmas won’t go far wrong by checking out what Dell has to offer – especially as they have a 10% discount code on offer.
This Dell discount code entitles the customer to a 10% Discount off any notebook or desktop worth over £599.
The code is 7LZTMMW5L0M$WT and is valid on the Dell site from 22.11.07 to the 04.12.07.
So go grab yourself a bargain