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Hellsbells is away for the weekend at The Grand Master and Queen Bee's place. So what are my plans I hear you (not) ask? Well, for any bloke who lives in a house full of women weekends like this are like little mini-breaks.

Bloke-time mini-breaks. Hmm......the seeds of a business idea for the Plan?

To be fair to Hellsbells, she rarely goes away and leaves lengthy lists of stuff to be done by the time she gets home. In true female logic style she saves those lists for the days when I elect to work from home.

These little breaks are just perfect for us Dad's to have some 'bloke time' and do all the stuff we used to do as singles and discover it isn't as good as you remembered, because just as the house seems too quiet they arrive home and normal service is resumed.

Of course, 10 minutes after that arrival and with incessant 'Then we did this, then we did that...isn't such and such a cute kid, look what I bought...' chatter one starts to miss the little break very quickly. In fact like all holidays, you seem to think you've had a decent break, but then within 5 minutes of stepping through the door of work that holiday then seems a very dim and distant memory.

There is a small difference this time as well. Kid isn't going. At nearly 17 and seemingly attached to her boyfriend, Marine Boy, she has decided that trips to 'Grandma' are no longer her thing. So, the mini-break now has a possible interloper skulking around the house. Plus as Hellsbells will be away it means some mug has to drag his sorry arse out of bed Saturday morning after a night at the local hostelry to take her to work. And it won't be Marine Boy.

But hey, that's just a minor infringement on the mini-break.

And so, with this in mind, here's the schedule. Starting Friday after work.

Kebab
Pre-pub DVD on Home Cinema system (Zeppelin or Floyd)
Pub
Sleep
Taxi service for Kid
Pre-golf sleep
Golf
Post golf beer
Kebab
Mindless TV and newspaper catch up
Match of the Day (only if Chelsea win or earn honourable draw)
Sleep
Bacon or sausage sandwich
Sunday papers (pt1)
Golf
Post golf beer
Welcome them home
Football (TV)
Sunday papers (pt2)
Sleep.

Not paradise, but not far off.

Later , GJ