Fat and Bald

Missed me by minutes

2011-01-01T04:21:00.002Z

I had to get some milk today so visited Farmfoods. Place was packed as people were panic buying. They'd ran out of milk. I heard one woman on the phone saying saying she'd need to get to Morrisons or they'd be emptied out of milk next. I ventured back up to my flat.

The block next to mine I saw there was a window wide open on the first floor with a cat looking as though it was about to jump down on my face. Bear in mind it is freezing cold just now.

I dropped off the two or three things I bought at Farmfoods and went back out to go to Morrisons. I happened to look back and the spot on the pavement where I stopped to look up at the cat now had a cd player and a couple of speakers. The daft buggers have only gone and thrown it out the window. It was only when I was some distance away it dawned on me it had only missed me by a few minutes.

£12 worth of clothes in a year

2010-12-25T02:50:00.002Z

Just been reviewing my spending for 2010 and realised I spent the grand total of £12 on clothes (which includes shoes I never bought). That £12 was spent back on the 31st January 2010. I bought two packs of socks for £3 each and "Mens Swea" for £6 - I have no idea what that is. I tgought it might be a sweatshirt but I don't remember buying that. And let's face it, if it's the only item of clothes I've bought in a year I should remember. I do remember buying a pack of two tee shirts but not sure when. It must have been that.

I've spent more on apps for my iphone in the last three months than I have on clothes in an entire year.

The MOT's on my car

2010-12-20T13:02:00.002Z

Below are the dates of the MOT's on my car with the miles driven in brackets)

06 Sep 2007 24571 miles (bought car 2nd hand)

01 Sep 2008 28711 miles (4140 miles driven)

01 Sep 2009 31190 miles (2479 miles driven)

30 Aug 2010 32524 miles (1334 miles driven)

Today 32784 miles (260 miles since last MOT)

So in the three and a bit years I've had the car I've managed to drive 8213 miles.

And I still haven't reversed parked in a car park or reversed parked in between two cars.

My spending in 2010 so far

2010-12-05T21:16:00.002Z

Well, the year is near the end so I'll see how much I've spent.

Food

£996.16 (of which I have spent £138.18 buying 357.632 litres of milk)

Clothes

£12.00 Yes, I have gone a whole year and only spent £12.00 on clothes). Which was likely socks and maybe a tee shirt or two from Asda.

Car expenses

£1386.19

I spent £195.11 putting 166.52 litres of petrol in my car.

£454.42 was spent on the annual service and MOT

£64.63 on an electrical fault

£58.75 replacing the tyre I destroyed by driving 3 miles using a totally flat tyre. I was convinced the erratic nature of my driving was due to the snow. Lesson learned.

£215.00 was spent on road tax.

£398.28 was spent on car insurance. There is one more payment to make in December of £44.24

Council Tax

772.78

Electricity

£763.00

Gifts

£204.99

Insurance

£318.96

Credit card interest

£396.28 - I fear this will be more next year

Internet

£274.75

Magazines

£30.24 I stopped buying the magazine I bought each fortnight when the shop changed into a mobile phone repair shop.

Miscellaneous

£203.12 Mostly on stuff bought and then put away in a drawer never to be used again

Newspapers

£118.25 I stopped buying two weekly newspapers (see magazines above)

Telephone

£755.59 Contract with Orange upped to £45 a month

TV Licence

£183.34

Software

£363.07 VT Transaction Plus and Payroll Manager 100

Bookkeeping course

£1042.00

The long pause

2010-10-18T20:59:00.001+01:00

I'm getting irritated by the extra long pauses in reality tv shows. All of them have it. It's boring. Think up something new.

A bit more tidy

2010-10-18T20:57:00.002+01:00

Over six years

2010-10-18T01:39:00.003+01:00

I can't believe I've had this blog for over six years now. First started writing in May 2004. I'm still writing the same drivel nearly six and a half years later. Except this time I'm posting photographic drivel as well.

Living room of my flat

2010-10-17T19:03:00.002+01:00

Been tidying up. First I need to get papers organised. The bad thing is instead of filing things away I get distracted and start reading the papers and acting on them. I find things I thought I'd lost.

I wonder if this photo will be on its side?

2010-10-17T01:40:00.001+01:00

Crocodile rock

2010-10-16T20:25:00.002+01:00

Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald

2010-10-16T02:57:00.002+01:00

Might as well do the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald as well.

The Wee Paper

2010-10-16T02:51:00.002+01:00

The front page of this week's "Wee Paper"

Farmfoods receipt

2010-10-16T02:34:00.001+01:00

Imagine wakening up and finding this outside your window

2010-10-16T02:32:00.002+01:00

Electricity each week

2010-10-16T02:21:00.001+01:00

This image ended up a lot bigger than I expected.

Account dates

2010-10-16T02:14:00.002+01:00

I'm constantly counting down to various account dates.

The 8th of the month is when I get my MBNA credit card statement. So I'm usually checking online to see if it has changed to a new month. I get to see how much interest I am charged for the month.

Last month I was charged £6.65. Most of my bill was a balance transfer so I'm interest free on that portion until March 2011.

The 15th is when my Orange mobile bill changes to a new month. I just found out I am being charged £3.50 a month extra because I don't pay by direct debit.

Phone calls : 1 min 50 secs

Photo texts : 5

Texts : 196

Data : 935.483MB

The 20th is my Mastercard credit card statement. £20.72 interest last month on that one so I can expect about £25 this time.

2010-10-01T02:19:00.001+01:00

First mobile phone

2010-10-01T01:58:00.002+01:00

This was a picture I took on my first mobile phone. Computer later gave up after lightning knocked out the power. Monitor just gave up. And the printer - well, there have been a few since that one.

This was from March 2005 when I got the Motorola V500.

Martina Hingis

2010-10-01T01:49:00.004+01:00

Now why is this picture of Martina Hingis here?

Well I have this on a small sticker in my kitchen and couldn't for the life of me remember her name. Well, now I can after reading through my blog from years ago. That is some expression on her face.

New Iphone

2010-10-01T01:29:00.002+01:00

I have a new Iphone. I may go and look back through this blog coz I'm sure when I started this blog I never even owned a mobile phone.

What I don't like about the Iphone is I can't just bluetooth any pictures and files onto my computer I have to connect it up via the USB cable. Which then fires up Itunes which then drains all the power from my computer.

And another thing - the picture quality is TOO good. I took some pictures at work today and even just using the screen on the iphone I was able to read the postit notes stuck on the wall quite some distance away. That'll be a first, complaining abuout the quality being too good.

Electricity
04/11/09 ??
11/09/09 34669
18/09/09 34763 (94 units in week) cost £ 4.86
25/09/09 34857 (94 units in week) cost £11.97
02/10/09 34943 (86 units in week) cost £11.03
09/10/09 35026 (83 units in week) cost £10.67
Total cost since last electricity bill £38.53
Payments made by direct debit since last bill - nil
I'm making a real effort in the last couple of weeks to cut down on electricity.

Cost per unit : £0.11293
Standing charge per day : £0.11270

The funny thing a year on from writing that is I've cut down on my electricity even more. Probably helped by my refusal to get the satellite fixed for weeks now so I'm not using three tv's at once all showing the same thing. I think I may be in for a record breaking week. Last week's 59 units of electricity was the lowest amount "since records began" - but this week I have used 1 unit less. I have used the exact same units each day as the previous week apart from the Wednesday when I used 1 less unit. 8-8-10-8-9-7 (total so far 50 units).

The cost per unit and standing charge is the same as it was a year ago.

Largs completely cut off

2010-10-01T00:12:00.002+01:00

I just realised that last week's flooding cut Largs off from the rest of the travelling world fo some time last week. The road to Kilbirnie was cut off at the Haylie Brae. The road going towards Fairlie was cut off at the Pier Garage with the flooding there. The road to Skelmorlie was cut off.

The rail line was shut down after a wall collapsed on top of it. Just sheer luck I decided not to go to Fairlie last Wednesday as I normally do - though I'd have buggered off pretty sharply as soon as the thunder and lightning started so I probably would have got out before everything was cut off.

Seems there may be damage to the "bridge" between Largs and Fairlie as traffic lights are in use so only one line of traffic can go by at a time.

And to think I just thought it was a little bit of rain.

Wow - a year since I last posted

2010-09-30T23:53:00.002+01:00

Is it really a year since I last posted on here.

I think I may return and post more drivel.

Spending for the week

2009-10-10T09:12:00.002+01:00

Here's what I've spent this week (week ending Friday 9th October 2009)

CASH
04/10/09 Asda (Miscellaneous) £10.25
04/10/09 Asda (Food) £33.07

06/10/09 Morrisons (Food) £6.75

07/10/09 Morrisons (Newspapers) £1.15
07/10/09 Morrisons (A4 paper) £3.49 *

09/10/09 Paper Shop (Newspapers) £1.60

Total cash expenses for week £56.31

* I bought the wrong type of paper - there is cheaper stuff at £1.94 I meant to buy.

CREDIT CARD
05/10/09 Equifax (Credit Report) £2.00

Total credit card expenses for week £2.00

BANK
05/10/09 Orange (Telephone) £34.33
09/10/09 HM Revenue & Customs (Class 2 NI) £12.00

Total bank expenses for week £12.00

My weekly readings for gas, elctricity and car miles

2009-10-10T09:02:00.002+01:00

My weekly readings

Car
04/09/09 31209
11/09/09 31234 (25 miles in week)
18/09/09 31286 (52 miles in week)
25/09/09 31313 (27 miles in week)
02/10/09 31341 (28 miles in week)
09/10/09 31386 (45 miles in week)

I bought the car on the 12th September 2007.
2007 1691 miles 110 days
2008 3580 miles 365 days
2009 1544 miles 282 days

I've drove 6770 miles in the 757 days I've had the car.

Learning to drive (including all the manuals, lessons and tests) cost me £2048.98 .

My driving expenses each year amount to :
2007 £3114.57 (including the £2048.98 above)
2008 £1384.06
2009 £ 842.34

Click on above to see full details.

6815 miles from 905.32 litres = 7.53 miles per litre
(or 34.22 miles per gallon)
(or 13.7p per mile).
This isn't 100% accurate as there is still some petrol in the car - but nobody is reading this apart from me anyway. I could write what I want. Cheese. There - I just did. Also this is based for the 2+ years. This year I only achieved 31.13 miles per gallon.

Electricity
04/11/09 ??
11/09/09 34669
18/09/09 34763 (94 units in week) cost £ 4.86
25/09/09 34857 (94 units in week) cost £11.97
02/10/09 34943 (86 units in week) cost £11.03
09/10/09 35026 (83 units in week) cost 10.67
Total cost since last electricity bill £38.53
Payments made by direct debit since last bill - nil
I'm making a real effort in the last couple of weeks to cut down on electricity.

Cost per unit : £0.11293
Standing charge per day : £0.11270

Gas
04/11/09 2571
11/09/09 2571 (0 units in week)
18/09/09 2571 (0 units in week)
25/09/09 2571 (0 units in week)
02/10/09 2571 (0 units in week)
09/10/09 2571 (0 units in week)

My gas bill in available online just now. I'm £166.14 in credit. They estimated I used 5 units since the last reading. I didn't. I told them. In fact, maybe I should tell them my gas fire is broken and I want the £166.14 back as I won't be using it up this winter.

This annoys me......

2009-06-28T19:39:00.001+01:00

The plastic milk bottles with tops like this :

The little bit of paper that helps you to tear the seal off the bottle 9 times out of ten rips off an gets stuck to the lid.

Dumb Ebayers

2009-06-27T15:17:00.002+01:00

I just bought a couple of hinges on Ebay. 55p plus 20p postage.
They arrived this morning and I looked at the postage label - 76p to post them. The person has actually lost money selling them on Ebay. How dumb can they be. The minimum postage charge for 2nd class mail is 30p (?)

Father's Day

2009-06-21T22:52:00.002+01:00

I didn't forget Father's Day this year - I just left it a bit late. I drove down to Asda (the person behind me the whole way must have thought I was drunk with my erratic driving). Driving back I saw the clock on my car said 9:10pm. I thought, I've forgotten to change the time on my clock. When I got to my parent's house their clocks were also not changed. Even the tv programmes were an hour out. Weird.

My computers

2009-06-21T16:06:00.005+01:00

Copy of a post from a few years ago then updated :

Monday, June 07, 2004

I was recently thinking about the length of time I have a computer for and when I need to buy a new one. Right now - but I cannae afford one.

My first "computer like" thing was an Amstrad PCW10 which I bought in August 1993.

This fucked up and I ended up buying an actual computer in March 1995 - a Compaq Presario with a hard disk of 200MB - of which only half has been used to date.

EDIT : I found the leaflet that came with my first computer.
Compaq Presario 433
Intel 486sx/33 Processor
4MB RAM
200MB Hard Disk Drive
Integrated SVGA 14" colour monitor
Software installed MS-Dos 6 Microsoft Windows 3.1 (at least it never crashed on me once unlike "Fucking Windows 98" which crashes at least once a day) Still got that computer. I think it cost £1100. The black and white printer I bought cost £320. Nowadays you can buy a scanner/photocopier/fax machine/colour printer for under £50.

Update I don't have the computer anymore and I only use Windows 98 on my ancient laptop.

In September 1997 I then bought a Packard Bell Pulsar 23 with a hard disk of 4.3GB. At the time I thought it was impossible to fill this space up. How wrong I was. With all the crap I bought along with this one, monitors, scanner, printer I paid about £2800.

In June 2000 I bought a Tiny PC. I have no idea of its full name. It was advertised as having a 30GB hard disk but I found out this was actually only 28.6GB (which is now reduced to 885MB).
Can't remember how much I paid for this one - I'll need to look it up and edit post - probably around £1500.

Methinks it's time for a new one.

EDIT :
I bought another new one in August 2005 :
This one packed in about 15 months ago. I bought another one off Ebay but never got it to work. Actually I've bought quite a few off of Ebay but these were to be used as my main computer.
Again - I'll need to look up and see how much I paid for this one.

So the latest one I received on 19th July 2009. I paid £129.95 plus £14.90 postage.
I'll need to do some checking on this - I'm sure the Buy it now price was £109.00 .
Advertised as having a 500GB hard drive - but in reality only 465GB. Changed days fron the 200MB computer which I only ever used 100MB of.

I wonder if I'll ever but a brand spanking new one again.

Another Ebay computer

2009-06-17T22:26:00.000+01:00

Well, I've bought another computer off of Ebay. I bought one on June 2nd last year. I wasn't aware the person had modified it otherwise I'd never have bought it. I've never been able to connect it to the internet. Can't even get sound on it. I was given a disc from the seller to do with the card she installed but when I chose Windows XP as the operating system as I was told it wasn't even installed. It was outside the 90 days so couldn't leave a negative. This computer I'm using just now is so slow that some pages just give up on me. I have to click the middle mouse button and wait then click it again. A strange technique. Some pages can take 5-10 minutes to finally arrive. Now, count to 15 seconds. See how long that is to wait. Then multiply that by 40. The amount of time I waste waiting for pages in a day. My neighbours upstairs have finally had enough of me and my high pitched screaming at the computer. The other week they were stamping on the floor in the early hours to get me to shut up. Embarrassing - up till then I wasn't sure if they could hear me.It is exasperating at times. I'll be typing away in this form (or this type of form - I'll then look up at the page and there is noting there and I'll have to wait a couple of minutes for anything to appear). I can't get Youtube videos. If I go to a page that had Youtube videos on it on this site (sometimes folk can put them in normal posts as well as the ones specifically for Youtbue videos) then my computer will just give up. I either wait half an hour (literally) or I'll have to reboot (another half hour wait anyway).I can't get Iplayer as I need to have Service Pack 2 (which needs a propoerly licenced version of Windows).So hopefully I'll be able to get back to some kind of normal internet use with this new (2nd hand) computer. Last years one I might just take to my football club and put it to use down there.Unfortunately I'm not in a position to be able to afford a new computer. Although with the amount of money I've spent on the two computers and postage I probably could have got a decent enough one.It will mean I am able to post photos again. Something I haven't been able to do for a long time. One photo can take me over half an hour to post and then that much power is used up a re-boot is necesary.

Credit Card charges

2009-06-16T13:32:00.003+01:00

Just been toting up what extra I have paid to my credit card company because I have no money.
I took out a second credit card and transferred all the money - I don't pay interest on this for x amount of months - but I still have to pay to transfer the money. I then transferred the money back to the original account with another fee to pay. But another period without interest. More fees forgetting to pay. It all adds up.

Balance transfer fees £78.17
Credit Card Cheque Fees £20.71
Interest £173.59
Late payment Fees (3) £36.00

The interest was as follows :
Oct 08 4.61
Nov 08 6.55
Dec 08 7.97
Jan 09 50.53
Feb 09 46.42
Mar 09 37.97
Apr 09 18.34
May 09 1.20

I dread to think what the costs aree on my main card. But I suppose I'll have to add them up at some point.

Hiding from the Roofing Contractor

2009-06-16T13:25:00.002+01:00

The Roofing Contractor has finally re-appeared after a couple of months. He put up the scaffold then buggered off. He was knocking at my door earlier - I didn't answer. I like in a block of 6 flats so we all have to share the costs of roof repairs. The minimum share is going to be £250 and I reckon the knock at the door was to tell me of increased costs. He already told me "it won't cost that much - it will be cheaper because we have our own scaffold". When he told me the costs was going to be £250 he then comes up with "most of the cost is in the scaffold". Rip-off merchant. If I ignore him he can't go ahead with anything too expensive - or he'll have to put in writing his intentions and post it through my door. That way I'll have a record of it.

Tax Return

2009-01-27T02:34:00.002Z

Why do I leave filling in my Tax Return to the last minute?
It has to be done by 31st January - I have nothing prepared. And I certainly don't have the money to pay the tax. Credit Card cheques are the answer to all my problems - at least until my debts catch up with me.

My bets

2009-01-27T02:28:00.002Z

Just a quick note to remind me of the bets I'm placing (31/01/2009)

Klb (8/11) v Gir
Klw (13/8) v Cly
Ren v Lar (4/6)

Stake £10 Return £75.57

If I don't get to place the bet this will just be a reminder of how much I could have won.

What has happened since I last wrote?

2009-01-27T02:24:00.002Z

Quite a lot obviously - but reading through my previous posts....
The Portacabin - bugger all has been done to it. We are getting another one to join on to it.

The computer I bought off of Ebay - I haven't got it to work yet. Too busy doing other stuff. The other computer doesn't even switch on now. Too busy to see what's wrong with it.

Too busy - don't talk crap. You spend countless hours just reading the same bloody internet forums.

Programme editor

2008-07-06T23:11:00.002+01:00

Seems as though I now find myself with the dubious honour of being my football clubs programme editor next season. In my role as Treasurer (I was appointed this last year around this time) I pointed out we couldn't continue making a loss on each sale of the programme. The income is mostly made in the advertising but we should also make some money on each sale. I suggested buying a photocopier and printing the programme ourselves. I wasn't expecting to be lumbered with the task of programme editor. Unfortunately we can't buy a photocopier until we get some money in. Sponsorship won't be available until 14th July. Advertising - invoices have been sent out to those that have agreed to renew but they seem reluctant to pay.

We are getting a new portacabin. The current one is too small. We use it as a committee room and small hospitality bar. So we are picking up another one on Thursday. It needs a fair bit of work done on it. Lucky we have a couple of Joiners that play for the team. I wonder if they know they will be drafted in to work on it.

Seems strange that I managed to avoid being on the committee for so long. I was first asked in 1991. And now I find myself with two jobs.

Must remember

2008-06-07T12:53:00.002+01:00

I must remember that I have removed the back from my computer chair. I don't want to be leaning back in it while wearing my bathrobe and falling over and looking a right twat for anyone looking in my bedroom window.

Wireless connection

2008-06-04T01:58:00.003+01:00

I'm really baffled now.

Before my wireless adapter thing was hanging over a door on a special extending USB cable - not an ordinary USB cable. I was getting a signal strength of Low Speed 24.0Mbps.

I then moved it - to a position where there was a direct line of sight between it and the wireless access point. Now I'm getting a signal strength of Very Low and a speed of 1.0Mbps.

I just don't know what to make of it.

Peacock dreams.

Edit : It's now at 12.0Mbps although it did go to 54.0Mbps. What the hell can be affectinh it when there is a direct line of sight.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | The strange decline of the paperboy

2008-06-03T11:21:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS Magazine The strange decline of the paperboy

I have great memories of being a paperboy. I did it every weekday morning and then every second weekend. One run meant I had to cross a railway line. Actually - it didn't I was meant to go the long way round, but what would you do - walk 50 yards and across a railway line or walk half a mile to where the road goes over the railway line.

One other experience was delivering early in the morning - a dark, cold winter's morning. I was wearing a "Mod" parka with the hood up. Delivering to a tenement building I was just about to open up the letter box when the door opened. The young woman that came out just saw this dark shadowy type figure standing at her door and ran back inside screaming. She was phoning the police. I was shouting back at her through the letterbox "It's only the paper boy". She later gave me a C120 cassettee as a present for scaring ME. This was a big deal for me in those days as I had only ever used C60 and C90 cassettes. I've still got the cassette to this day.

I've just realised something - I have an old record player/cassette player/cd player. I was about to throw it out. But I'm not sure if I'd have anything left to play all my cassettes on (shows the last time actually played them).

There were two rival newspaper shops in the village I grew up in. Whener the other lot got a pay rise our shop would up theirs to just a little bit more. He'd take all the paperboys (can't remember any paper girls in my time) to the cinema once a year for a treat. Nowadays he might be seen as a pedo for doing that.

At Christmas time any tips we were given went into a box on the shop counter. All the tips would be added up, the shop owner would add the same amount again and then the total shared amongst all the paperboys.

4 years of crap

2008-06-03T01:11:00.001+01:00

Just noticed I've been writing drivel on this blog for four years now.

Bought another computer

2008-06-03T00:49:00.002+01:00

I decided to buy another computer tonight. Well I decided the night before but someone beat me in that auction. My main computer keeps switching itself off. Normally I change computers every four years. I will spend a lot of dosh getting the most up to date one I can afford. The last one had tv and remote control - unfortunately I never got to use it. Every time I but a computer there is aways something I buy thinking I'll use it in the future but never actually get to use it for one reason or another.

So this new one (second hand actually on Ebay) will just be for surfing the net and emails. watching BBC programs on their iplayer thing which my other computer just switches itself off whenever I suggest it.

I have this computer (the one I am sat at now) for doing my work (spreadsheets etc). Another one for a website I haven't updated in over 2 years. A laptop for taking to the football committee meetings to explain the finances better. There is another computer I have kept - I know not why. I must have upgraded for a reason so why keep the old one.

I've also 6 CRT monitors that haven't been used in two years. Another flat screen one that hjasn't been used. This CRT one I am at just now and the flat screen one in my living room. I should ban myself from Ebay.

My healthy meal

2008-06-03T00:43:00.002+01:00

I'm just about to tuck into the following meal.

Start off with some pasta shells and dump them in a big pot after they've been boiled and all that. Add some salad cream and stir it about. Add a large tin of tuna chunks. Add some more salad cream and stir again. Add some sweetcorn. Add two tins of pork luncheon meat cut up into tiny cubes. Add some more salad cream and stir about. Finally chop up some celery and add that. Oh, and you might as well add some more salad cream and stir the whole lot about.

Measure into two large bowls and have one of them at 1am which you know you will never finish. Have the remains for breakfast - which will be about 11am as your bed is just too warm to leave in the morning. Then have the second bowl tomorrow evening.

Can you tell I live alone?

No TV

2008-05-31T18:07:00.002+01:00

I've had no satelite tv since a storm on January 9th or 10th knocked my satelite dish off a little. Now the aerial (sp?) has gone the same way. No TV at all now. Can't afford to get the satelite dish fixed. No way of getting up to it and doing it myself. So I'm fucked. Still - at least it means I'll miss Big Brother so that's one consolation.

Wireless internet connection

2008-05-31T01:19:00.002+01:00

Wirelessly connect your computers together. Well my bedroom computer is connected wirelessly - unfortunately the dongle thingy is attached to a special USB cable that is a few metres long and trails across my table across my bed and hangs over the bedroom so so I can't shut it properly.

Mileage since I bought my car

2008-05-31T00:48:00.002+01:00

I bought my car on 12th September 2007 so in all of 2007 I drove a massive total of 1691 miles (110 days).

Up to 30th May 2008 I have driven 1845 miles (150 days).

So my car has shifted 3536 miles in the 260 days I have had it.

I know what you're thinking - get a life you sad bastard

And in 2008 the petrol cost.....

2008-05-30T02:14:00.001+01:00

23 Jan 2008 14.59 102.9 15.01
13 Feb 2008 19.44 102.9 20.00
29 Feb 2008 14.44 103.9 15.00
18 Mar 2008 14.17 105.9 15.01
30 Mar 2008 14.20 105.9 15.04
11 Apr 2008 28.38 105.9 30.05
24 Apr 2008 30.23 107.9 32.62
30 Apr 2008 39.10 115.9 45.32
23 May 2008 35.12 113.9 40.00
27 May 2008 25.02 119.9 30.00

Petrol prices

2008-05-30T02:02:00.003+01:00

When I bought my car in September 2007 the petrol was 91.9p per litre.

02 Sep 2007 16.33 91.9 15.01
29 Sep 2007 32.64 91.9 30.00
25 Oct 2007 19.45 102.9 20.01
31 Oct 2007 15.03 99.9 15.01
08 Nov 2007 30.05 99.9 30.02
22 Nov 2007 35.70 100.9 36.02
01 Dec 2007 32.72 103.9 34.00
19 Dec 2007 14.73 101.9 15.01
24 Dec 2007 34.27 101.9 34.92
26 Dec 2007 34.03 106.9 36.38

In the above it is
Date
Litres
pence per litre
Amount paid

Band meeting

2008-05-29T22:55:00.002+01:00

I think I'm going doolally.

All day and now most of the night I have been randomly shouting out "Band Meeting". I heard Zane Lowe saying it once on Radio One and Edith Bowman keeps on playing the clip. It's driving me nuts. It's out my mouth before I can stop it.

It's almost tourettes syndrome like.

Wireless thingummyjig

2008-05-29T22:24:00.003+01:00

This is bloody weird.
I keep getting told that my wireless connection might not work because of the number of walls between computers. Yet, the computer in my bedroom will only connect to the internet via the router when the door to my bedroom is shut and the door to my living room is also shut.

Ok - I lied about the miles

2008-05-29T15:00:00.002+01:00

Having looked at the miles it appears I do travel more than 20 or 30 miles per week.
This week will be another whopper as I travelled down to England again to meet someone. She reads this blog so I better not say anything about it.

Here's what I wrote elsewhere about it.
I drove back from meeting xxxxxxxxxxxxxx today. After dropping her off at her work I drove a short distance on the motorway and had a major panic attack. I thought I was having a stroke. Most of the left side of my body went numb. I could hardly breathe. I was shaking and both my hands were left tingling. I was stopping at Lancaster after half an hour driving anyway but it took a while to get over it.

I don't particularly like other people being in the car when I don't know where I am going. I've not been driving long and the only time I go on the motorway is the few occasions I visit xxxxxxxxxxxxxx . On the way down it's ok as I drive for over half an hour on normal roads before joining the motorway but on the way back up I'm straight onto the motorway and then changing directions quite a lot for the first few miles.

My driving isn't helped by ignorant lorry drivers. A lot of the time they will drive in the middle lane - not overtaking other lorries just driving alongside them for miles. Today I was in the middle lane and cars were zooming by me on the outside lane. All of a sudden a lorry from the inside lane indicates he's pulling ino my lane and I've nowhere to go.

Also why do some cars overtake me on the outside lane, pull into the middle lane where I am overtaking lorries on the inside lane and then the car will slow down causing me to brake. There should be no need to be using brakes on a motorway. Go in the lane appropriate to your speed.

What has happened since I was last here?

2008-05-29T14:35:00.003+01:00

Well, going by the last video I think the most important thing to have happened is I've passed my driving test. At the second attempt.

I rarely go more than 20 or 30 miles a week apart from a couple of times I travel down to England.

01 Jan 2008 26262 04 Jan 2008 26276 3 14
04 Jan 2008 26276 11 Jan 2008 26302 7 26
11 Jan 2008 26302 18 Jan 2008 26355 7 53
18 Jan 2008 26355 25 Jan 2008 26379 7 24
25 Jan 2008 26379 01 Feb 2008 26404 7 25
01 Feb 2008 26404 08 Feb 2008 26428 7 24
08 Feb 2008 26428 15 Feb 2008 26461 7 33
15 Feb 2008 26461 22 Feb 2008 26517 7 56
22 Feb 2008 26517 29 Feb 2008 26569 7 52
29 Feb 2008 26569 07 Mar 2008 26602 7 33
07 Mar 2008 26602 14 Mar 2008 26651 7 49
14 Mar 2008 26651 21 Mar 2008 26711 7 60
21 Mar 2008 26711 28 Mar 2008 26737 7 26
28 Mar 2008 26737 04 Apr 2008 26813 7 76
04 Apr 2008 26813 11 Apr 2008 26844 7 31
11 Apr 2008 26844 18 Apr 2008 26871 7 27
18 Apr 2008 26871 25 Apr 2008 26953 7 82
25 Apr 2008 26953 02 May 2008 27513 7 560
02 May 2008 27513 09 May 2008 27539 7 26
09 May 2008 27539 16 May 2008 27570 7 31
16 May 2008 27570 23 May 2008 27619 7 49

I've just spent all this time formatting this and Blogger goes and ignores all the formatting. Thanks for nothing.

For anyone interested :
Column 1 Date at start of week
Column 2 Miles at start of week
Column 3 Date at end of week
Column 4 Miles at end of week
Column 5 Days in week (*)
Column 6 Miles driven in week

(*) obviously most weeks this is going to be 7 days but the first week and last week will be different.

Not been here for a while

2008-05-29T14:29:00.002+01:00

It's been quite a while since I was last here - so first off I'll need to remind mtself of something

YOU NEED TO SIGN IN USING YOUR GMAIL ADDRESS AS YOUR USER NAME IN FUTURE.

SO SIGN IN AS ABCDEFG1234@GMAIL.COM
Obviously this isn't the address and I hope this isn't someone's email address

My cycle journey home

2006-08-07T22:04:00.000+01:00

Here's a video of part of my cycle home from work. It is set to the music of Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead singing "Knocking on Heavens's Door"

Simple rules - SAUK Discussion Board

2006-07-23T16:19:00.000+01:00

Simple rules - SAUK Discussion Board

This is kind of like my blog. I just keep adding posts to it. It has pictures and even a video looking out my window.

My Space

2006-06-17T20:14:00.000+01:00

www.myspace.com/peasie1965

Here's my My Space page

Me - aged 8

2006-06-15T00:54:00.000+01:00

T'is me at the grand old age of 8 in a school fotie.
I may have posted this before - I can't remember.

Sellotape dispenser

2006-04-10T23:08:00.000+01:00

I bought a sellotape dispenser from Viking Direct. The sellotape I am putting in it isn't actually sellotape. Sellotape being the trade name (that Blue Peter was never allowed to say). It is cheap stuff. I think I bought ten rolls of it for £1.00 . So why on earth did I then pay £10 for the dispenser.

Hoover - that's another one where the trade name is universally used.
Tannoy - that's another.

Men and women

2006-04-03T16:44:00.000+01:00

I was just thinking to myself there
If a man turns up at a function and saw another wearing identical clothes he'd probably say "Good choice in clothes, mate". If a woman turned up and saw another women wearing the same clothes she'd probably jump out the first available window to escape and avoid embarrassment.

They are a funny bunch - wimmin'

Rigatoni Carbonara

2006-04-03T14:54:00.000+01:00

This time with all the fat fighting information.
What does it all mean?

Mushroom soup

2006-04-03T14:14:00.000+01:00

I think it will be a lot easier if I just scan the labels of everything I eat from now on. Just now I'm about to have some "Cream of Mushroom Soup". It won't look quite like this. It never does. Besides, I will be having mine straight out of a Vitalite tub because that's what I am heating it up in the microwave in.

All that's passed my lips today....

2006-04-02T22:06:00.000+01:00

10:00pm
You'll have to read the previous comments to understand the title. So all that's passed my lips today has been that tin of Rigatoni Carbonara, one cup of coffee and a couple glasses of coke. Pah! But no oranges yet.

What I have been eating

2006-04-02T19:19:00.000+01:00

I think I'll take a note of what I am eating each day to see just how much my diet doesn't vary.

Thursday 30th March 2006
Cornflakes
Betabuy Instant Noodles (curry)
Cup-a-soup (chicken)
Six sandwiches (**)
Plumrose Chicken Korma & rice

(**) Each day that I cycle to XYZ to work (usually Wed, Thu and Friday) I have six sandwiches. 2 in jam, 2 with a cheese slice and 2 with chicken sandwich filler. I also have one slice of bread with my cup-s-soup. How interesting.

Friday 31st March 2006
Cornflakes
Rigatoni Carbonara (pasta tubes)
Betabuy Instant Noodles (curry)
Cup-a-soup (chicken)
Six sandwiches (**)
Vegetable soup
Kraft Cheesy Pasta (macaroni and cheese)

Saturday 1st April 2006
Rigatoni Carbonara (pasta tubes)
Pea and ham soup
Beef Madras & rice
I was suffering froma cold this day and couldn't be arsed moving to cook anything. Too much energy.

Sunday 2nd April 2006
Rigatoni Carbonara (pasta tubes)

And this brings me to the present moment in time (having just finished the above mentioned Rigatoni Carbonara)

Like a prune

2006-04-01T20:20:00.000+01:00

I just went for a shower. I'm suffering the worst cold known to man. Not really - I had one some time ago that was torture as I couldn't breathe. I'm struggling to breathe now - but nowehere near as bad as then.
Back to my shower. Because it was so nice and warm under the shower I spen't a little too long in there. I have come out resembling a prune.

What does this mean?

2006-03-27T02:08:00.000+01:00

This is a text I sent at 1:56am. As the clocks went forward this would actually have been at 2:56am because my phone still hasn't changed the time yet.

So that the hell does it mean? And I thought I wasn't drunk. I have no recollection of sending this.

Sportsmans Dinner

2006-03-27T00:57:00.000+01:00

One of the speakers at the Sportsmans Dinner was the guy that reads the football results out on the radio. It will be funny listening to the results after his performance on Saturday. I think I had 9 or 10 pints all night. How sad is that? I even went to a disco afterwards. Christ - what was I thinking. I wasn't the oldest there - but there was probably on one or two people older. I was asked to turn off my mobile phone before going in. What the hell was that all about. As I don't wear a watch my only way of knowing the time was with my mobile. So on it went again. At that point all the lights exploded. So I left.

For a while I was the only person that wasn't wearing a suit. I felt right out of place. I had a shirt and tie on. I'm trying to remain anonymous and then stick out like a sore thumb. Later a couple of others arrived without suits. Then the team players arrived and some of them were wearing jeans.

They played some stupid games. The compere for the evening would toss a coin. Everyone in the room had to stand up. You then had to place your hand on your head if you thought it wasn't going to be heads or on your bum if you thought it wasn't going to be tails. If you were wrong you had to sit down. I sat down even though I was right as I didn't want to be the last person standing. Same with the Irish bingo. I paid £5 for the card then hoped I wouldn't win the prize.

Answer the phone

2006-03-27T00:16:00.000+01:00

This is what I got for not answering the phone. I was at a Sportsmans' Dinner for my local football club. During the first speaker my phone goes off. I manage to get it out and cut the caller off. Then it goes off again. So I cut it off again. I turn the volume right down and put the phone in my pocket. And then it starts vibrating. So I let it vibrate for a couple of minutes and turn it off. I then text the caller to say it was a bad time to call and then this is what I get. I ask you - what has happened to the standard of english teaching in our school tuday. Of all the times for it to start ringing. I try and be anonumous most of the time because I suffer from Social Anxiety and then this happens.

why does my eye always close

2006-03-25T15:32:00.000Z

I was talking to my Dad on Thursday and noticed one of his eyes was more shut than the other. I've notied the same thing with me. One eye always seems more shut than the other.

The wrong person

2006-03-25T00:48:00.000Z

Why is it when I'm depressed I always think back to my youth and then feel even more depressed. I can honestly say that the last time I was really happy was the summer of 1982. I can't say I remember anything of that summer. I just left school and was drunk most of the summer. By November things had started to go sour. I've a permanent reminder of the 5th November of that year. I became the ultimate wrong person that night. I don't what's worse....being a wrong person? Or now that I'm old - a non-person? I think my batch of home brewed lager had ripened (I don't know the right word) around that time. I was drunk every night in October. I say "home brewed lager" - it had the same colour as lager but that's where the similarities ended. I remember drinking it with someone one night and we went through packet upon packet of chewing gum in an attempt to deaden the taste. I was crazy stuff. It didn't do anything to your legs. But it made your lips go numb. And talking was impossible. So you'd walk up to someone and they wouldn't notice anything out the ordinary. You'd open your mouth and it was like Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men.

My cheap bouncy shoes

2006-03-24T23:35:00.000Z

These cost £10 - and you can see why. The bit at the front isn't stitched - it is glued. 3 months maximum I'll give them and that's if I just wear them once a week for half an hour.

Is it bad luck to put new shoes on a table? Well I've worn them once so they're no longer new. Besides I've broke six mirrors already to justify my life of bad luck.

Must be the angle I took the picture at and the way the shoes are placed but they look really small. They are actually size 13. And you know what the say about blokes with big feet.........they have a fucking nightmare of a time finding shoes to fit them.

Missed work today

2006-03-24T20:35:00.000Z

I missed work today. I just dithered about too long this morning on the computer and by the time I'd finished it had started to rain a little. So I thought, I'll give it 15 minutes for the rain to go off. But it didn't. It got harder. My brother's van passed by my bedroom window so I picked up the phone to see if he could give me a lift to work if he was heading back that way. But I wasn't fully dressed. With hindsight, I should just have gone ahead and phoned him as it would only have taken me 5 or 10 minutes to get ready. By this time the rain was belting down and there was a vicious wind. If t had just been windy - I'd have cycled. If it had been raining on its own - I'd have put on waterproof trousers and cycled. But wet and windy - is just too misearble to cycle in. I wish I'd just gone when I had first thought of switching off the computer....around 10:30 am.

Bouncy shoes

2006-03-24T20:21:00.000Z

Just went out in my cheapo trainers to Morrisons. Christ - they are bouncy. I almost felt like running in them......then remembered my right foot is mostly numb and I'd end up falling over. They even look cheap. Still - I'm an old fart now. I buy things based on cost not on looks. Wait a minute - I've always done this. I must have been born an old fart.

Songs reminded me of places

2006-03-24T17:37:00.000Z

Do you ever get this where a song can remind you of a particular place or whatever you were doing. Just after posting these pictures of the space where a hotel once stood it brought it back to me that every time I hear "Road to nowhere" by the Talking Heads reminds me of sitting at the bar of that hotel on a Sunday eating a pie. It probably means nothing to the one person reading this blog....or maybe a second person that clicked on to it by mistake etc. The Sunday part is very particular. It had an earlier licence than most on a Sunday. Mid-day, instead of 12:30pm that all the others opened at. An extra half hour meant everything on a Sunday if you had a hangover and wanted a curer. Certain songs by Simple Minds also remind me of this hotel/pub. Another reason this has just occurred to me is I'm listening to Virgin radio Classic Rock (0184) on satelite tv and "Brothers in arms" by Dire Straits. This also reminds me of eating a pie - but in no particular place. Must be getting nostalgic in my old age. Or maybe just wanting my youth to return.

Brothes in Arms

Transparent adverts

2006-03-24T11:41:00.000Z

I'm pretty sure I clicked on a transparaent advert on the Channel Four news forum. One of these things that didn't get blocked by my pop-up killer. But when I went to click a link I was taken to the full advert website rather than another page on the C4 news forum. They're sneaky buggers right enough.

2006-03-24T10:10:00.000Z

Now we've got to wonder what they are building behind this board. Maybe they're putting in an underground bunker and then building on top of it. Nobody wants hotels in this area. They just knock them down and build flats.

Better still - they knocked down a house that was only built under 10 years ago in order to make way for six flats.

More hotel pics

2006-03-24T10:08:00.000Z

Finally boarded up....apart from the bit round the metal boat. Which hopefully I will have in another picture - if www.blogger.arse allows me.

Getting really old

2006-03-24T09:56:00.000Z

I already got one shopping trolley free - now I'm considering getting another one free. I got another two pairs of slippers. But last night on Ebay I bought a shoe horn. Surely only old people have these. I did get a free one when I bought some shoes before but I've lost it. I'll bet it turns up the day after the Ebay one does.

Why can't I choose where I want the image to go. I wanted it to go below this bumph. These are the slippers - but not this colour.

Shoes and slippers

2006-03-23T21:43:00.000Z

Because I take a size 13 in shoes it is quite difficult for me to get shoes. I order mine online from Clifford Jones. I ordered them on the 19th and that's them arrived today. So what I hear you say as some stores you can order at 7pm at night and they will deliver the next day. Well the last time I ordered over the internet from C J the order didn't even arrive. When I did order it the old fashioned way it took weeks to arrive. I've now got another two pairs of slippers. And two pairs of trainers. I expect the trainers to last 3 months at most. I got two pairs for £20. You get what you pay for. I am still awaiting another pair of shoes - but these won't be here until the end of April. I got a free key holder. Man, that was a struggle to get my keys into that thing.

Superstition

2006-03-23T21:08:00.000Z

I mentioned to someone today about a stupid superstition I have when I am shaving.
I rarely have any hot water in my flat. In fact, any time I need hot water - be it for washing the plastic dishes that can't go in the dishwasher (once a year) or water for shaving I will just fill up the bathroom sink etc with the shower hose. It can stretch over because my bathroom is so small. The water for the dishes I put into a plastic tub. Back to my superstition.....

After I have shaved and removed the plug and let the water go from the sink I MUST spray the basin with the shower hose while the water is draining away. I can't let all the water drain away and then spray the basin (to fill it back up again to splash my face with water). Nor can I bring the shower hose over before I remove the plug.

Burnt my fingers.
In the tiny kitchen (just a sink really) of the office/workshop where I work a couple of days a week the light switch doesn't work. It's a pull switch thingy on a cord. So I have to get out a set of steps each time and put the lightbulb in and then remove it at the end of the day. Fortunately the light switch is stuck in the "on" position. Tonight I did my usual, remove the bulb with a towel in my hand to prevent me from getting burnt....but then I went to put it into a plastic container and stupidly I transfered the bulb from the hand with the towel to my thumb and forefinger of the other hand - and it was being held by the metal bit of the bulb. It;s still sore on those fingers now several hours later.

Hotel pic 2

2006-03-23T08:58:00.000Z

Blooger.com getting on my tits

2006-03-22T23:46:00.000Z

This blogger.com is getting right on my tits now. I'm trying to upload two more pics of the hotel but it isn't letting me. Fine - but can you at least tell me why not. Are the pictures too large (larger ones have made it through). Have I used up too much space with all my photos - if so, for fucks sake tell me.

Hotel pic 1

2006-03-22T23:24:00.000Z

First pic.

I'm sure I published some photos before from when the hotel that used to stand on this spot was knocked down. It is across the road from the office/workshop where I work a couple of days a week. Well, I think they must be getting round to re-building on the spot as it has been surrounded by boards. Not completely, as can be seen by the final picture. All of these pictures can be enlarged hopefully by clicking on them.There is a large metal boat that hasn't moved for months on end and it is preventing them from completely boarding the area up. Wonder how they'll resolve that. Who knows? Who cares? This village where I once lived once boasted three pubs/hotels - now there's only one. The town where I now live is about to lose yet another hotel and flats will be built on this spot. This is another LARGE hotel. Five or six really large hotels in that same area of town have gone the same way over the last decade or so.

Kettle AGAIN!!

2006-03-21T20:00:00.000Z

In the words of Victor Meldrew "I don't belieeeeeeeeeeeve it".

I've only gone and done it again. This time my washing machine was rumbling away in the kitchen at the same time as I put the kettle on. As I sat on my settee the noise started to annoy me so I closed the sliding door to the kitchen. After the washing machine had finished I went back into the kitchen and thought "a bit warm in here". Also the funny smell was back. Does my memory only last 30 seconds now.

Well I've no excuse for not getting to work for 9am tomorrow. I've made my sandwiches and they're in the fridge. My clothes are all ready just to put on. I've got most of what i need to do in the flat done just now so I can go to my bed at midnight or earlier.

Near porridge disaster

2006-03-21T11:37:00.000Z

I'm rapidly running out of cornflakes and as I can't be arsed going to the supermarket to get "just" cornflakes I thought I'd give myself a few extra days by having porridge instead. I knew the bowl I intended eating the porridge out of - a glass bowl. But my brain kind of shut off this morning. I placed the porridge and milk in this bowl instead of a pot for heating up on the cooker. I couldn't figure out why the porridge was taking so long to come to the boil. Then it dawned on me. The glass bowl tapers down to a small base unlike a pot which has a larger surface area to get the heat from the cooker. But that aside - luckily I realised in time otherwise who knows what would have happened. I know it's safe to use the glass bowl in a microwave - just not so sure about on top of a cooker.

What a way to go.....my body punctured by shards of glass and smothered in porridge.

Back to my porridge - the instructions say "add salt to taste" - aye, that'll be shining bright (to use some Scottish rhyming slang). I think I'll just add sugar. I come from a family that even adds sugar to Kelloggs Frosties.

I'll need to get a new kettle

2006-03-19T19:50:00.000Z

I've just managed to completely boil away 3 pints of water because the switch doesn't work on my kettle. I put the kettle on then went into my bedroom. Some time later I came into the living room of my (tiny) flat. I thought - this seems warmer than normal. There was a funny smell. That's odd - I didn't think the pie smelled like that. (The pie I covered the computer monitor in - see below). Then I got to the kitchen and it was completely streamed out. Kettle still works - it's re-boiling just now....this time I'm going to wait here till it boils.

That's the monitor decorated then.

2006-03-19T19:10:00.000Z

I just had a mouthful of pie (no - get yer mind out the gutter) mixed in with salad cream and it was a bit too hot. So I coughed it back up. Now my computer has been completely sprayed with the contents of my mouth.

Finally washed the plastic stuff

2006-03-17T20:52:00.000Z

You're not meant to put plastic stuff in a dishwasher. So, all my plastic containers have been piling up on my kitchen sink. They all fit inside each other. You kow, ice cream containers, Vitalite tubs etc. They have been building up for months waiting to be washed. I mean literally months. It wouldn't surprise me if they've been there for a year. This time I'm going to take a note that I've washed them today.....just to see how long I do let them pile up for. Although it is now my intention to wash them more often before they get the chance to accumulate. This is all in my grand plan to have a more organised life. I am getting partly there. My book-keeping for the restaurant I work for is done mostly on the Monday now - with maybe it spiliing over for an hour on the Tuesday. Before it was half hours here, there and everywhere.

9pm
It's now 9pm and I have a pile of washing in a basket on the living room floor. I hang them up to dry in my hallway. If I hung them up outside in the garden I'd forget all about them. The only problem is I've run out of of clothes hangers to hang them up top dry on.

What the hell is this gaelic mince I'm listening to on the tv. It's like the old Billy Connolly joke.

"That's them at the shaggin' next door"
"How the hell do you know they're shagging?"
"Because I can hear a gaelic program on their tv"
"So?"
"Naebody listens to gaelic on the tv"

Is it worth it?

2006-03-17T18:37:00.000Z

Makes me wonder if it's worth my while placing an advert in the local newspaper if this is all I'm greeted with each day. Pah!!

My Council Tax bill

2006-03-17T11:35:00.000Z

Just thought I'd scan and post this. As usual - click on the pic to see it in larger size.

Coo Dunnit

2006-03-17T00:56:00.000Z

2006-03-16T00:18:00.000Z

I don't remember getting sent this picture but I found it in amongst some e-mailed pictures.

The cyclist

2006-03-16T00:13:00.000Z

This is what the fat bald git looks like as he sets off on his long cycle home. It has been pointed out that my cycle helmet is too small for my head. This is wrong. The helmet is the correct size - just my head is too big. I'm getting bored. I think I'll search my computer and just post random stupid pictures.

Cycle clip

2006-03-15T22:07:00.000Z

10:00pm - that's when I realised I still had a cycle clip on my trousers.

Found someone I may know's blog

2006-03-13T23:42:00.000Z

I searched for the football team I support on the blogs and found a blog from someone I may know in real life. Well, when I say know - I mean I've seen this person at the football a few times. This person made his blog (or Live Journal) private for his friends only - because he was worried he was giving out too much personal information and he may be stalked by some weirdo. He's only 16 - although at that age he could get married if he wanted to. His name is on his blog so the next time I'm at the football I'm going to ask someone his name just to see if I have the right person. AND NO - i am not the weirdo stalker. It's just to satisfy my curiosity. That's why I don't like to put my name or town on this blog.....although I have posted my own picture a few times. If I was a bastard (I am, I am) I could say to him I was reading his blog. Then he'd really shit himself as he goes to the football with his father every week. He looks quite a nerdy type at the football - but he tries to act the hard man on his blog. Twat. having said all that - I'm dreading someone coming up to me and saying they've read my blog.

Profound text

2006-03-13T21:51:00.000Z

Quite a text. I like the last line. That's why I kept the text and photographed it.

Funny texts

2006-03-13T21:47:00.000Z

Sometimes the text messages I get can be quite funny.

Fucking passwords

2006-03-13T14:05:00.000Z

I was flicking through all the blogs - by clicking the link in the top right of my own blog and came across this blog that required a password to enter it. I pressed cancel as I wanted to move on to the next blog. Dialogue box pops back up again. I enter a random password. Nothing. Password box pops back up again. I can't go to any other tab in Firefox. In fact, all I can do is Ctrl-Alt-Del and shut Firefox down that way. What a fucking annoying blog. What is the point of it. Why put it into a public place if you don't want outsiders to visit it. Prat. 2pm and done bugger all today. That's it. I'm going to post this and re-boot this computer. It's been on for about 4 days now. I can understand leaving the one in my bedroom for 4 days or more. Even about 30 days. But this one usually gets re-started every day.

Not allowed to play in the snow

2006-03-13T11:05:00.000Z

I remember in my youth at school that when it snowed we were allowed out into the playing fields to throw snowballs at each other. Rather than the school playground. The Deputy Headmaster (Slinky, as we knew him) would stand in the middle to make sure it didn't get too violent. He was just a target then. Whenever he faced one way, those behind him would bombard him with snowballs. When he turned round in the hope of catching someone then the other lot would bombard him. Now, I don't think they are even allowed out into the playground. I can slightly accept this today as it is mostly slushy there now - but they playing fields aren't. Health and Safety gone mad. Or is it Political Correctness? The same stupid rules that prevent people from playing conkers. I'd hate to be a child growing up today. Apart from the fact they remove your brain at 12 years old - judging from some of the neanderthals that wander the streets. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd - they don't even get the same amount of snow. When we were young it would be up to your knees. It would snow for weeks on end. The snow would constantly be replenished. Instead, it snows for a day. Then thaws out the next day. What use is that?

Photo Blog

2006-03-13T00:37:00.000Z

Photo Blog
You'll have to right click on this and open it in a new browser window or a new tab otherwise you'll be taken away from my blog. I was clicking on the "Next Blog" at the top right of my blog and found this blog. It cames as a bit of a shock the find Tiffany and Debbie Gibson had done some nude photo shoots. They were 80's versions of Britney Spears. Except they were whiter than white.

2006-03-13T00:07:00.000Z

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This is the ground where I spend most of my Saturdays. I suppose I've spent a fair portion of my life at the same spot (standing at the back of the stand on a bench). I first went there in 1977. 28 years later. Maybe 20 games a season at home. 1½ hours each week. Call it two hours as I'm there before the game and 15 minutes at half time.
The reason I took the picture today was to wind up the team we played yesterday. We did the double over them for the first time since 1979-80 season. That is, we won both the home league game and the away league game. They totally outplayed us yesterday. But we still won 2-0. Daylight robbery. Such fun. Anyways - I thought I'd post this picture on their forum and ask them if they would have been happy to see this sight yesterday knowing they got beat.

2006-03-12T23:56:00.000Z

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The view out my living room window this morning. When the snow on the telephone wires thawed out it fell to the ground below and left lines in the snow. To start with I couldn't figure out why the lines were there. Not a very exciting picture I know but better than what it's like without the snow.

Snow's thawing

2006-03-12T23:40:00.000Z

I went for a walk around my town today. I've lived here since the end of June 1989 but in all that time I've never actually gone for a walk without going somewhere. What I mean is, maybe I've walked about a mile in the town but I was always heading somewhere. Like the supermarket. Or the football. Because of the snow today I thought I'd go out and take a picture of the football ground covered in snow. Then I took a walk down to the prom and along the prom - but not on the pavement. I walked along the grass (covered in snow) next to the prom. It was great leaving a set of footprints in the snow where previously it was just a large white blanket.
It was weird at times. Because I was walking different from normal. I was lifting my legs higher than normal. My legs felt numb by the time I got home. Really strange. At least my tv is back on.
I'm in two minds about what I want to happen with the snow. Do I want it to completely disappear for tomorrow as I have to go to the restaurant for my book-keeping. Or do I want it to remain for a few more days.....but clearing up in time for the football next week. I met my cousin and he's clear about he wants. He's a greenkeeper at a golf club. He wants it to snow for the next week so he doesn't have to go to work.
Ach well, that's enough for my blog for now.