Snow- you can't eat it, and you can't drink it.

Last Week, some good and some bad.
The good- Sunday, Somerset 9 aside darts, held in Bath. Struggled to get to event, deciding not to take one train, and then missing the next- and this is before a drink. Mrs Gecko came to rescue providing wheels. I arrived in time to be greeted by large queue at bar, one barman, no scrumpy.
The queue did provide time to decide on liquid for the day.
It was 11.30am, with the lack of real ale, that must be Guinness time. I bought two.
The 9 aside consists of all the superleague teams in Somerset, playing a straight knock out, over nine boards, so everyone in your team will play at the same time.
I found my captain, who for a change wasn't disappointed to see me- turns out we are a player short, would have been two. We are allowed to borrow a spare player from another team.
Sadly I don't get to finish my game. I'm at 2-2 in legs, but 5 of my team mates have lost, so the match is stopped. Later there is a triples and singles competition. My triples got through first round, but failed at the next. Finally got to play my singles some time after 7-00pm, and lost.
I now have no idea how many pints of Guinness have been drunk, but its clearly time for home.
Manage to buy a ticket for train and get on the right one, however a change at Bristol Temple Meads will be required. The change should have been simple, had it not been for the chocolate vending machine.
I normally don't pay much attention to vending machines, but the mutual attraction between this chocolate machine and myself was clear. I needed sustenance, and this machine needed to provide.... chocolate!
I started with a twin Mars bar, handy because you can eat one, and keep the other bar for later.
They were both gone in seconds, so I went for the healthy option- a bounty, it has coconut so must be good for you. I still had change left but the train announcement took away any further options. Now it really was time for home, and hopefully I'd be able to keep the contents of my stomach.
The Bad- Thursday night darts league game cancelled due to Snow.