2009 what a year good its out the way

hope everyone has had a good crimbo and new year and i hope you drink and be very drunk this evening, iam kinda not sure what ill be doing this evening yet but i know one thing ill be happy to see this year over and done with,

its been a long hard year lots of things have happened the year started off okay but rubbish but its ended on a good note iam out of debt got a nice girlfriend and even tho i maybe a little poor after my big expense with my car the other week i cant complain will be even better if i can spend the last eveing of the year with my ladyfriend butif not ill be okay i will most probly spend it with friends at the local pub,

hope you all have a good evening this evening doing what ever your doing

another crimbo out the way

hope everyone had a good crimbo eat plently and drank loads, my crimbo has kinda been a sober one this year just not felt like getting drunk dont know why but just havnt, but its been the best crimbo for years tho

even tho my car repair before crimbo has made me a bit skint i have had a realy good few days, spent a bit of time with the family a lot of time with the new girlfriend and some time with friends, and on my own as i have kinda my own place, ive had no nagging or anything what so ever, just pleased meself this year and ive not become flued up either so i even enjoyed my crimbo dinner,

crimbo day for the 1st time ever i went for a pint at the local which i quite enjoyed and a couple of pints got me a hunger going then i was round me parents for some dinner then the afternoon me new girlfriend came round which was nice has a very relaxed evening, boxing day i did sod all, watched a bit of telly the ladyfriend came round and watched a bitmore telly

the sunday took one of me currys round to the local pub as me mates have been asking me for ages to do them one so i did and i made a big pot and it all went was quite chuffed they all liked it i knew they would as it was the same as the last one i did for me mates birthday bbq and that all went as well,

for the rest of the week iam going to be either on the computer or xbox iam currently playing call of duty 4 modern warfair i must say what a great game can spend hours on it, this evening i have had 3 - 4 hours on it getting through it bit by bit, ive had a bit of a go on the online bit of the game and that will keep you going for a bit i dont know how long the game is but i think iam half way through by the looks of it i dont know how many storys they are but ive probly had 10 hours play now just see how it goes

thurs is new years eve going round the 2 local pubs this year with the ladyfriend quite looking forward to it as well as might be ready for a beer by then hope you all have a safe new years eve what ever your doing have a good one

inpressed and uninpressed

over the last 2 days ive been very inpressed and very uninpressed 1st with the inpressed, while i had no car monday i had to use the bus this normaly wouldnt be a problem but i had to work till half 11 in the evening, this meaning my bus from work didnt get here till 23:48 and got to town 23:58 then my bus from town to home left 0:05 dont leave me much time to play with my bus only needed to me a minuet or 2 late at work then my bus from town to be a early by a couple of mins but all went nicely

i got into town at 23:59 and my bus came dead on 0:05 and i was in bed all tucked up by half 12 so all good, one thing i wasnt inpressed with was the royal mail my presents have got to everyone the next day i posted them but from them to me took a week so wasnt very inpressed with royal mail, i was going to leave it untill today to make a complaint but luckly i didnt need to so come on royal mail get your arses into gear hey

all sorted

well think iam all ready for crimbo presents all brought and wrapped even my girlfriends presents are all sorted i know super organized ill not have to wizz around like a idiot with the rest of them on crimbo eve like i normaly do, ive just got to get some food shopping in and jobs done iam goign to be at asda for just after 6am when the nutters are still wrapped up in bed,

by 11am ill want to be at a stage where all me shopping is done and put away and beer cooling in the fridge house work all done and me just had a fry up breakfast, by 1pm ill be sat in my watering hole the old dog and partridge having a pint and watching the world go round, and the nutters in the pub getting pissed as this pub you seem to get some right old caraters come in from alcholics to the norm person coming in its just my kinda a pub and i think one of the cheapest in town,

least ill get a couple of hours entertainment while iam in there its a hard pub to explane you'll just have to go in it to see what i mean

i have just 2 days of graft left weds eve ill finish at 6pm not 10pm like i normaly do come 6:15 ill be in the pub with me work mate having a couple of pints before we go home chilling after a long busy term at the university and boy its been a tough one but all worth it come weds eve 6pm

time for me to bugger off now see if i can kick our friendly indians out of one of the buildings and me get the chance to go home hope all your crimbo preperations have gone to plan like mine have and i havnt even had the flu this crimbo yet touch wood as this time last year i was shivering and shaking like a leave but fingers crossed ill sail through without and hiches what so ever

sorry people

after reading dinners post about his friendly but slightly troubled friend who he gave a hug to i found my self in a simlar situation a while back, i had a evening out in town with a bunch of mates and while waiting for the last bus home i was happily tucking into my supper of fish and chips,

i'd just finished my supper and this sorry looking girl sat next to me and started talking to me, she was rambling about how a lot of people look unhappy and how a rubbish place the world is sometimes, i didnt know this girl from adam but me being me chatted to her just to be polite, all of a sudden she burst into tears and she did cry the poor thing next minuet i found she has snuggled upto me my arm round her and was like that for half anhour while waiting for the bus

we had a good chat about everything, she had stopped crying but i could still tell she still wasnt right so i asked her if she was waiting for the bus and she was she offered if i wanted to come back for a drink, i saidi would be happy if she came round my place as i knew it was safe and she only lived round the corner of what she said so bus came and we got to mine,

after a very long chat and many cups of tea i found out her boyfriend had cheated on her, she found out in the most crap way as well she had go into town to meet him for a drink but she had got to the pub a bit early but he was already there with another girl, she watched them from a distance for nearly a hour and it wasnt just a friend she saw them doing things friends shouldnt do if you know what i mean

by this time it was daylight 7am i wakled her round the corner to her house and i got back to my place and bed it was, it turned out to be rather a long night but good, even tho i could of got my leg over i didnt it didnt feel the right time or place, i did see her from time to time afterwards but i have moved house since and not seen or heard from her since this all happened when i lived in chelmsford but me being me i always seem to get the werid ones broken hearted or just idiots when iam waiting for the bus so i just dont do them much these days

have a goodun all and stay safe

snow how it causes problems

why when we have a bit of snow the counrty falls to bits, yeah i know a lot of people arnt used to snow but bluddy hell the madness it causes we only have a couple of inches and never gets below -5 hardly how do you think places like canada copes and they go below -10 and more just makes my laugh realy

but on a serious note was reading me mates facebook status he had a bit of a prang while driving last nite he was okay but his car was a little worse for wear as he had problems with the snow and ice, ill no doubt get a full story when he blogs about it in due time, ive had a couple of near misses with snow and ice while driving, quite scary realy but iam alive to tell the story

one time i was driving in ice and snow the snow just suddenly came down no warning and gave all the roads quite a covering, couldnt see the pavement or road wher it started or ended and deffo couldnt see any road markings, as ther was so much snow fall, but if you took your time you things were okay unlike so many drivers of today who want to get to places at 100 mph, but anyway that will be another post back to my near miss

i was driving down a big hill rad was very snowy andi was crawling at 5 mph andeven at that speed when i tapped my breaks it made my car skid once i started to skid that was it, i went all the way down the hill even tho i couldnt stop the cari was under controll i couldnt pull it into the side of the road as they was all parked cars in the way and would of caused to much damage so i just continued skidding down the hill

i got to the bottom of the hill still unable to stop the car i saw the traffic lights were on red but i know there was traffic coming from the main road i got worried now as i knew i was goign to go through the red lights i did and 2 cars narrowly missed me by inches i was sweating by now luckly after a few more mins i did come to a stop after the traffic lights i knew there was a car park so i decied to pull into that and in the end i mangaed to pull to a stop by gently pulling upto a brick wall

luckly theer was no damage to me or my car or any of the other drivers silly enoguh the main road was okay as it had been salted but the side roads were like ice rinks, i thanked my luck stars and got home and had a whisky or 2 to settle my nervous, driving these days isnt much fun like it was when i started you need eyes and ears eveywhere as you never know whats goign to happen to yourself out on the roads

shitter shitter shitter quite fucked off

iam not a happy chappy, good job theres a gym at work as ive just had half anhour kicking shit out the boxing bag, you ask why well heres why, yesterday while driving to work my car came to a sudden stop i knew right away what it was but i didnt want to believe it but yup was the cambelt tensioner,

what dose that mean you ask well for me 668 quid as i need a new cambelt kit fitting and new piston vavles fitting, basicly a engin rebuild and iam no way attemting to do it on this car as the engin is so much bigger than my old astra, and lots more sensors and gubbings to very easily bugger my car up even more if i done put the bits back in the right place so the garage it is,

its quite a pisser as a lot of my crimbo plans are going to be shelved maybe most my crimbo plans will be buggered, but least ive not got the flu like i did last year and the year before, the year before that crimbo was rubbish and the one before that yup my cambelt went on my astra a week in the garage stripping and rebuilding me engin so iam thinking crimbo isnt a good time for me as something always seem to happen, but least iam not ill or anything thats a plus and ive got a lovely new ladyfriend to cuddle upto

ill get me car back in a few days time and ill be minus 668 quid happy crimbo you lot and have a goodun

car

was reading a post on a friends blog about his car and thoght ill make a post about my car and driving, my dad said when i was aproaching 17 that i should do my driving test even tho i might not have a car right away it will come in usefull plus the driving test will become much harder,


so i went in for driving lessons and passed my test on my 3rd try, i didnt have a car right away i didnt have a car till i was 24, but i had the use of my dads car in the evenings and weekend and my job was within cycle distance so i didnt need all the expense of having one at the time,



my 1st car was a astra mk2 h reg 1992 was a great car had electric windows central locking and electric wing mirrors and a sunrove and even a electric areal that lasted me 4 years drove it round the uk very often did many happy a mile in the old battle wagon it started to cost me a lot of money towards the end of its life and the last year of me owning it the cambelt went and it involved me and me dad doing a rebuild of the engin and lasted another 6 months before i got my next car



well i got myself a p reg top of the range mondeo great car was my pride and joy i did all the little jobs on it fixed the electric window restored the paint work sorted the rear arches which the last owner made a good and proper bodge job off the car looked showroom condition the chap who i brought it from asked to buy it back cos i made such a good job of it, i had a nice loud sound system in the car and that lasted a year



the car was a badun from the start, 4 weeks from owning it i was waiting to pull off from a island and a lady driver smashed into me from behind, 8 months later i i was driving down to cornwall for a camping trip with a mate and had a bit of a prang, the car was a write off think me dad was more gutted than me about that car as he drove my car in the evenings that was the end of that









so after i had my prang in my modeo which i loved i didnt have a car for a little while as i had to save up for a car about 7 months later i got this little gem as from my pic you can see its a x reg laguna 2 liter a nice beast i had one or 2 teething problems but luckly it was under 3 months warranty so it cost nothing good thing realy as my clutch went and the water punp and fan belt went





but the guy at the garage was good enough to fix the car no quesitons and its run like a dream i gsave it a major service back in may i changed the breaks, the front right break pipe and a break vavle which was leaking cost me all in all 60 quid including the breaks vavle and spark plugs and what ever for the service bit, and the car runs great i can when iam brave enogh travel at 120mph with no problems i dont do that very often once and a while even at 120mph its still got a bit of go in it, once got it to 135mph before i ran out of room on the road and even then the beast still had go in it i would love to get the car on a race track one day and see how much i can get out of the beast,



but there is nothing wrong with the car what so ever the car dont look as gleaming like that on the pic at the moment it needs a good wash and polish and will look good as ever and yeah i have got a good sound system in the car as i do like me music,





as iam into my cars as a project i would love one of these great beasts a ford granada 2.8 ghia x to restore what a beast all the gagits in it for the age of the car its better than mine i have now one day when i have room for a 2nd car ill own one iam sure i will,

crimbo

well iam almost ready for crimbo done all my present shopping done most of it online but i had to buy some of it in shops so i went into town before work today and it was mental people just wondering aimlessly around in there own little world, but i got what i wanted and came out happy, iam so happy i dont have to work in a shop espicily over the crimbo period as it would drive me bonkers

tomorrow is the last day of term for our students as they go off for ther crimbo break, and about another week and a bit it will be the staff who will finish i break up onthe 23rd of december and come back on the 4th of jan, will be quite a nice break and iam ready for it as its been quite busy since september ive not realy had a break since beginning of august so iam ready for a rest ive had the odd long weekend off and ive found myself quite busy then so it will be nice not have to do anything as such, i have a few things to do over the 12 days ive got off but its not work related or doing anything round the house

was reading a mates blog he hates the crimbo period iam not a bit fan of crimbo but this year iam quite looking forward to it for many reasons which will be a post later on but this pic he put up was quite good sorry alex i had to pinch this pic for people who hate crimbo thought this was qute fitting

makes me mad

was reading dinners post about when he went to the dole office to see if he could sign on, and had no luck as he didnt meet the right criteria what a load of bollox makes me so mad i tryed to sign on once, i was 20 years old at the time and was layed off from work just before crimbo,

i didnt realy want to sign on as i didnt want to be sitting with all those depressed people or the ones who had no intention to work, but me dad said you might as well you worked and payed into the system go and see what you can get, so i did i filled out the forms and they dont half want to know a lot dont they

with my forms all filled in i was told i would hear someting very soon and my money would be back dated so ill not have lost anything after 2 weeks i got a phone call form the dole office asking if someone could come round and check me out and see if i am who i say iam i said okay a coulpe of days later this big black woman came knocking on the door,

she says that she was from the dole office and she came in asked me a couple of questions while she was doing this her attitude changed she was sniffing her nose as in she was looking down at me, she asked me if my parents couldnt give me money to keep me going while i looked for work,

my reaction was disbelive i had to ask her again to repeat what she just asked and when i heard for the 2nd time i went so mad i said no they couldnt as they were only just coping themselfs at the time in my disbelive i froged marched her out of the house got my forms and ripped them up and chucked them at her, i told her to get stuffed and what ever she was babbling on about if i didnt get any money i needed to continue to sign on cos of my national insurance i said get fucked and i didnt hear from them again,

i did take a loan from me dad over crimbo and was lucky to of got a job quite quickly after crimbo, but when you work and payed into the sysem dosent matter of your standard of living you should be intilted to some help just make me so mad that if your honest and hard working you get sod all when you need help and all these tossers who have no intention of work get everyhting,

and if i did know anyone who was claming and working on the side i would grass on them no second thoughts at all as there are also to many people who do that as well, hope you pass your driving instructors course dinners and the rest of you stay safe as theres still madduns around

formula 1

what a season this years formula 1 was, bit of scandal the boss of the renualt team got banned for race fixing toyota and bmw teams pulling out of the race and even renualt team are not sure if they are going to be in f1 for next season, but we have another british champion in jenson button, iam pleased he has finaly won a champion ship some people say he should of won 2 by now but he may do well in Mclaren next year

but iam not to sure him teaming up with lewis hamilton is such a good idea as he could get sidelined as lewis number 2, but i think it will be intresting to watch tho as there seems like theres going to be a few drivers moving around and the return of the great michael schumacher to some reports and he could be racing with the new mercedes team previouly brawn, plus with lotus making a return and also 1 other new team due for a stat should be intresting,

but one thing which has made me kinda pissed is the press for a while when michael schumacher was dominating f1 the press were making reports saying they was getting bored with just 2 teams being so far ahead, but this year has seen for the 1st time in a while f1 very competive and the campionship taken almost to the last race and at least 3 or 4 drivers with a chance of winning the f1 drivers crown thoguht most of the season it was only the 2nd to last race when it was all over and done with

i think it should be like this keep poeple on there toes and make it intresting rather than the drivers campionship already won halfway throgh the season like it had been for a while iam looking forward to next season, with the introduction of a couple of new teams

stupid students i wonder sometimes

i realy do wonder if any of our students here at the university where i work have any comment sence at all, i was locking up one of the buildings earlyer this evening i said to these 2 lads i was going to lock up this room now, to the normal person this would of of mean pack up your stuff and leave the room wouldnt it to me it would but the convo which followed got be a little baffled and bemused

after i said i would like to lock the room up lad 1 said to me so we cant use the computer equipment i said no as i would like to lock the room up he gave me a blank look and started to pack his stuff up, chap 2 went to me and said so your locking the room up and we cant use the computer equipment, i said no as ive already said i want to lock the room up, then all of a sudden chap 2 burst out and said bluddy hell give me a minuet then,

i just looked in amusement and didnt say anything just tryed and give a blank look to them both i did have this situation early in the year with 2 indian lads i might write about this in another post but this lasted a whole week and a half tho

some people hey these people here at the university are suppose to be inteligent but i dont think so if they cant understand that when i ask them i want to lock this room up they should leave how on earth can they study for a degree

time where is it going

my long weekend flew by but i got all what i wanted to do so thats a plus now its only 6weeks till i break up from work for nearly 2 weeks, i just cant believe how quick time is going this week is flying by again and crimbo is going to be all over and done with before you know it and we'll be in 2010

ive not watched xfactor this time infact ive not watched it for a couple of years to be honest as it seems all the wrong people seem to get through and all the good telent dont seem to get through just like these twins who are in this years show, my god ive seen all the expsoure in the press how they are hated and i listen to chris moyles radio show and he slates them beyond belive,

he put the song they did on his show and they did the ghostbusters song and it sounded like it was rushed or something as it sounded terrible, i realy hope they dont win this years show as they will only be one hit wonders iam sure about that just look at last years or was it the year before leon jackson won what has he done since and shane ward he had one or 2 hits but he has seemed to of dissapeared into dust,

the only one who seems to be doing owt is that rik walker i think his name is he didnt win the show but he is on the line crusers sinning and making a living good on him as the others have not done owt like that irish chap who was mentored by sharon osbourne he was good and thoght he would of got snapped up by someone but not heard a thing

enough of me going on about xfactor its nice to see a bit of sunshine in robin hood county today as the last few days have been rarther rubbish but i have still cycled to work tho not drove me car since friday i think, tomorrow i best drive it round the block just to make sure nothing sezzes up on it, but iam sure ill drive me car over the weekend if its nice like this iam sure ill go somewhere for the day

anyway i best go and get dressed as iam sat here in just my boxershorts, have a goodun and stay safe

all is well

my days off have been okay done a lot of what i needed to do, tiyed the garden up a bit done a couple of jobs on the computer and even made a start on making a couple of play lists up on winamp media player, enjoyed a few hours out yesterday to elverson castle and watched a bit of telly which was one of the jobs i wanted to pay a bit of attention to,

had a beer or 2 last night which i enjoyed this eve iam just going to plop myself infront of the box i think as got a mate coming round 2mora eve for a game of golf on the xbox, that golf game is quite good think ill have a hour or 2 this afternoon before my special new ladyfriend comes round,

other than that not much happening and ill have a listen to dinners radio show this eve should be a goodun of what ive heard from his past radio shows

long weekend off yeah

well iam sat here at half 9 in the evening listening to chris moyles show yup it is the evening and his show is in the morning but i like to listen to it in the evening sometimes, anyway iam just waiting to lock one more building up then i can go home for a nice long weekend yup ive got thursday and friday off from work,

ive not had anytime off as such since begining of august so iam ready for a mini break, and it all depends on the weather of what iam going to do with my time off, this week weather wise has been a bit rubbish raining most the time, if it rains ill be a little bit of a hermit ive got plently of things to watch on the old box iam also going to make a bit pot of stew and dumplings enought for 3 days so i dont realy have to cook untill monday even friday iam being cooked for so if its goign to rain i can be a hermit and be very lazy,

if its nice ill venture out and probly go to the dales and have a walk round and visit a country pub, not done that for a while to be honest as this year has been a bit of a quick madun i can tell you, plus weather has been a pain so had to cancel a lot of my days out ,

my poor mate at work has got himself a busy couple of days to end the week off so ill be getting on his nervous keep txting him saying if he is busy while iam on the sofa yeah iam a evil sod like that and he is going to be busy by the looks of things

also iam going to go to a fireworks display this year as ive not done anything like that for a couple of years well ive got someone to take this year so will be worth the effort even have a pub meal before the fireworks as well cant be bad hey

anyroad iam going to see if the archbishop of york has vacated our lecture theater then i can go home and start my long weekend

laters all and staf safe

out of love

what a thing of beauty the doner kebab, it has been a part of my life for the last 10 years most the time there is nothing better than scoffing on a doner after a beer or 2,

but lately i have been falling out of love with one of my fav foods and not going to have any more for a while, i dont know why but the last 3 months or so i have not been to inpressed with them i even left mine sunday night after a couple of mouthfulls wasnt nothing dodgey with the kebab as i watched the chap from my local takeaway lovingly make the kebab, it must be me and my taste buds

i sure hope its just a tempory fault with my taste buds and i return to liking the kebab very soon as the kebab and i have had many enjoyable menorys together over the years its kept me company through many hard times through the years but for now ill have to get along without the endless taste sensations ive had, one of my own crations of the kebab i like when iam super hungry is doner meat 2 burgers cut up chicken tikka with loads of cheese and salad with what ever sauce iamin the mood for at the time but for now bye bye old friend and i hope to munch on you once again in the future

tescos being wankers

i was listening to radio nottingham our local radio station earlyer today and the presenter was having a disscusion about this chap who owned a pub and lived in this village for the last 15 years he also was a member of the pub watch scheme he went to tescos with his 17 year old daughter to do a bit of a food shop and buy some wine,

upon paying for the things he brough from tescos the checkout person said they couldnt sell the wine to him cos he might of gave it to his daughter, i know tesco and some ofther supermakets now have if you dont look 25 you'll need to show your id, but this is taking things a bit to far i think, so now what do you have to do keep the kids at home when you do your food shopping or get someone to look after your kids if you have no one else when you go to the supermarket to buy beer or wine

i know we need to check for peoples id if the person selling beer or wine to someone they dont think looks old enough but it is taking the piss when the checkout person wouldnt serve you the drink cos you may give it to someone who you with is underage

even ive been asked for id lately when iwent to tescos i went to do a monthly shop and i stocked up ona bit of booze the woman before i started to pack my bags asked me for id i looked at her a little shocked as ive not been asked for id for a long time i had non with me and i was unshaven and iam 33 i asked her if she was being serious and she said she wanted id

as i had non she wouldnt serve me the 2 people behinde me looked a bit bemused i was a bit pissed off as i spent 30 minuets walking round tescos loaded up 100 quids worth of food and beer it was all most all layed out on the till after a bit of talking to her i said well you can keep all this as iam not coming back to pick me beer up at a later stage she said i could take me food i said in a not so nice way thanks but no thanks you can keep the lot, i did get a clap from the 2 people behind me the check out girl looked a bit pissed off but i didnt give a damm

and to this day ive never steped in to a tesco i went to asda the next day to do my montly food shop i did take id and the woman on the check out did ask for my id i gave it to her and she was supprised i was 33 she said i didnt look bad for a 33 year old, the woman was much plesnter and she did say they were doing this new rule that if you dont look 25 you will be asked for id and i had no problem with that at all i think i was more pissed the previous day cos the womans attitude at tescos think thats what wound me up more

yes i do understand we have to check for people who are underage but i think its going a bit nutts when you go to do your food shooping and buy a bottle of wine or beer only to be told we cant serve you it cos you may give it to your child come on tesco wankers use some common sence for once

weight

hello blogland hope everyone is okay and had a good weekend mine was okay i had a lazyish one caught up on a bit of telly iam realy getting in to my stargate now iam upto season 7 iam also recording that new stargate universe iam goign to watch all ive recorded on sunday i think, and have a bit of a pig out on junk food as ive been so good of late, iam going to follow on from my last post about the fat man which has been in the press of last week

ive struggled with my weight always been on the big side i noticed it 2 years ago when i moved back to nottingham i didnt think i was that over weight but after working with my dad one day and i couldnt lift myself in the loft i decied to do something about it, i was 4 stone over weight at just over 16 stone i knew i had to do something about it but i kept kidding myself i was okay and it would sort it self out,

the last 6 years untill 2 years ago i was living in excess eating way to much without burning anything off i could easyily have breakfaast which was 4 times out of 7 something fryed take a packed lunch to work have a cooked evening meal then 3 - 4 times a week have a takeaway which normaly was enough for 2 people to share quite easyily plus my drinking was well out of controll,

over the last 2 years i have lost 2 strone i could of done 3 stone but i have been lazy in a way as its kinda been 2 steps forward and 5 back it has been hard to get in to some kinda routine but i think i have found one at last and iam now doing okay i have dropped my drinking right down ill just go out on a friday evening have a few beers and a vodka and coke or 2 i dont seem to go out during the week as i used to and if i do its only one night during the week on the way home from work and its probly 2 pints and thats it

with the weight loss ive had to chuck some of my old clothes out gave 2 big bags to a charity shop last month iam not going mad in buy loads of new clothes just yet as i want to lose another stone and a half and see how i look and go for a shopping spree for some new clothes then i supopse,

iam giving meself 5 months to lose a stone and ahalf it should be a good enough time scale todo it if iam doing enough exercise i would like to get back into jogging as i used to enjoy that i got myself upto 5 miles around march but since march ive hardly done nothing exercise wise apart from working and cycling ive been luck not to put any weight back on since march but a little pissed off that i was lazy as hell not to have done more to have lost more but now ive got my motivation back iam determined to go for it

speaking of exercice ive got a couple of rooms to change round laters all and stay safe

fat man

during the week i have been following this story of the worlds fattest man who lives in england he is a wopping 70 stone, he needs a 20 thousand pound op to save his life, yeah i felt sorry for the chap but when more storys of him started to pop up i had another opinion of him

he wanted be like that the anount of food he scoffed through was amazing in one sitting he could munch away on 5 potions of fish and chips and thats just one sitting and the rest of the day was amazing of what he went thogugh, he needed a 3ft wide wheelchair cos he was so huge

the paper who was reporting the story says he needed a helicopter to move him into an renforced amblence as he was such a huge weight and we are paying for all this i do thing people who are like that should pay for themselfs to be honest as he got himself in to that situation

i have struggled with my weight for a long time its up and down all the time but over the last 2 years ive been working hard to sort my weight problem out and quite happy with what ive done with myself yes it is hard to keep to a diet when you been eating what you like as i did but i think once you have dropped the weight you can eat what you want within reason

you can go to the chippy for a fish supper once a week rather than every day like i was doing i was even having my evening meal with my parents then go out for a few beers and go to the chippy or takeaway at least 3 or 4 times a week if not more maybe but thats all been cut down,

but my lifestyle has changed quite a lot this last 2 years i do every now and again go off the rails but i know if i have a lazy day at home and have a bit of a pig out i know to be good the rest of the week and it seems to work itself out,

just hope this fat man who has been in the papers this week sorts himself out and get some grip or like the papers say he will be dead very soon, ill post about my weight loss in a thurther post

brewing

when i was in my late teens arund 18 i started to get into making my own beer and wine some of it was very good then some ofit was just chucked down the sink as it didnt turn out very well, one of my 2 regular brews were a white wine from a kit and a larger which was also from a kit

they made a very nice easy drink not to strong but good enugh to get drunk on, after getting used to making these 2 brews i made the larger a bit stronger, the larger was 4% proff but i wanted a beer around 8% well 1st attempt was chucked down the drain as it didnt work reason why was cos i added more sugar and yeast but i didnt leave it long enugh to fermet,

so 2nd attempt to make 8% proff larger i left it to fermet longer and it turned out great looked like a pint of carling a nice crisp head even tho it was a 8% larger it tasted a 4% larger and was a big hit with me mates as ive tryed other larger at 8% and its tasted horrid but this was very nice
so i made this on a regular basis i made around 40pints at a go so had plently in stock

other things i made was wine that was a bit hit and miss at first but i got there in the end i regulary made apricot wine and plum wine as well i had a go at making red but never got me head round it, my dads garden shed was a right proper brew house regulary me mates came round for a beer as i had electric i fitted the shed with a telly and radio had a parifin heater and had many hours with me mates in the shed getting drunk and it cost me hardly sod all in the end,

i did get in to making vodka and brandy one of my fav sprits i made was cheery vodka i remember taking some home made cheery vodka with me on a holiday with some chatroom mates and lets say it finished the night off very nicely as we had around a 12 hour bender and got back to the cottage and 3 of us who hadnt passed out starte on my cheery vodka

regarding bbc's comments about making your own brew think its best just go forit start with the kit form then read a couple of books about it and you can't far go wrong the main thing is the fermentation period is to matain a regular tempture

this time of year

well winter is fast aproaching us and the first few weeks of the new term has started at the university where i work one thing i have noticed is the last week is the amount of people who are coughing and sneezing, iam sitting in the office at work and all i can hear from the classrooms around me and peiple walking past my office is sneezing and coughing



ive this year have had my flu jab i have not the last 2 years and ive had every cold and bug thing under the sun but this year iam hoping i dont get much apart from a little bit of a cold i can put up with that, iam also taking some vitimins as well this year to keep meself going just hope i dont end up like i did last year



i went all okay from september to december with out much problems even me mate at work said ive done well to get to december without much of a problem then as soon as he said that the last week of term before we break up for crimbo i fell ill, i was that bad i was ill all over crimbo and didnt even have my crimbo dinner which i was realy looking forward, i was looking forward to last crimbo as at the university we have around 10 to 12 days off when i was with the angency i had to use my holiday leave to cover it,



yes it was a pain but i was still looking forward to having 12 days off and i had a few things planned for it but with me falling ill crimbo was cancled but this year now iam perm at the university i get payed for the 10 - 12 days off so iam looking forward to this crimbo on the plus side the days off at crimbo dont come out of my annual leave days either,



this crimbo iam going to go away for a holiday somewhere not sure where yet but iam goign to take a few extra days off and have a good break as at the moment ive not had a day off since august apart from my weekends, i was going to be goign away these next 2 weekends but looks like its gone pairshaped but hey oh ill probly book a long weekend off in november

boyzone

theres been a bit of death lately in the celeberity world, the latest one being steven gately from boyzone, and again with the media frenezy theres has been a bit of rubbish reported about how he died all jumping the gun to the cause,

makes me laugh in a way as i never realy pay attention to the news papers thesedays i dont realy listen to the 24 hour news channles no more as they seem to get on my nervous as well, shame the gately chap died he never seemed to get bad press apart from once around the time he came out as being gay and what ever but he seemed happy enough i suppose

if i remember rightly he beat the press to pronoucing he was gay as i think the press was going to blast it all over the news as at the time the group he was in were quite big and if the press beat him to it think the coverage could of been much worse, i quite admired him to be honest how he went about coming out to the world he was gay as it must of been a big thing to 1 keep quiet then 2 have to tell the world your gay as he was a celeberity

think the last time i brought a newspaper was about a year ago i do sometimes read the sun online i would never buy the paper and the paper i do like to read is the sunday post its a scottish paper it covers some of the national news but dose a lot of news which might not be normaly wrote if you know what i mean, also i like to read the metro we have someone at work who brings that in most morning and again that covers a lot of things around the contry and world and isnt obsessed with the celeberity world

anyway enough of me going on have a goodun and stay safe

what a twit

last wednesday i went to work on the bus as i wanted to get some new books and sometime from wednesday evening thursday morning i found i lost my cashpoint card my university swipe card and my driving licence,

1st thing i did was phone the bus company up to see if anyone had handed my cards in but nothing had been found or handed in so next thing was i went to cancel my cash point card so if it was found it couldnt be used, then i realised my uni card was going to cost me 5 quid to replace and later found my driving licence was going to cost me 25 quid, i wasnt to inpressed to say the least but i thought ill wait a couple of days before replacing my other 2 cards

friday morning came and i rang the bus company up again to ask if my cards were handed in but nothing had so over the weekend i was goign to go through of getting my driving licence and uni card sorted, just as i was goign to do so i was putting some washing on and doing my coat and was emptying my pockets which i did check and i found something in the lining of my coat and guess what

i found my cards i was a bit dumbfound but pleased i found them, what happend was my lining in my coat pocket was ripped so i must of put my cards when i used my uni card in the ripped part of my coat lining they worked themselfs round to the other side of my coat iam now happy chappy again but feel a bit of a twit

hope you all had a good weekend and stayed safe

yesterdays cycle

as you can see from these pics from yesterdays cycle autum has begun its one of my fav times of year as it can be nice and sunny but not to hot tempture wise i was cycling towards gunthorpe i cycled through the countryside and took some nice pics some of the colours the woodland produces this time of year is amazing just wish it was like this most the year to be honest but kept light longer i had a good 10 mile cycle yesterday and felt quite good

weekend

what a lovely day it is and ive got the whole weekend off as well i was going to be a hermit this weekend and not go anywhere but ive decied to go out on me bike a bit later as its such a nice day, and take a few pics as its autum in england now and the trees and what ever are starting to change colour, so should be a few nice pics to be taken while iam out and about

been a busy week the students still amaze me in how thick they can be when it comes to using a bit of common sence, and how rude some of them can be, the other day i had a student come to me asking me where one of the buildings were i was willing to tell him but he wouldnt listen as he was panicy cos he was very late for a lesson i tryed to tell him but in the end i gave up and took him to the other end of the university and taught him a lesson of listening to other people trying to help you

and some of the students still make me laugh with the auto doors even tho we have now put signs up saying use the other door they still want to try and use the locked door also we have had to put signs up on the auto doors now saying caution these doors open slow at times as in the summer a member of staff wasnt watching what he was doing and walked smack bang in the door

he tryed to blame the door but of what i could see it was his own fault he wasnt paying attention and expected the door to be open just like that, sometimes they do open quickly but when people cant wait for the door to open and try and force them open the doors play up and open up slow for a while till the door resets itself, oh well it gives me a bit of entertainment in the week if we are quiet iam going to glue a pound coin on the floor and see how many people try and pick it up

anyway iam off for me cycle wonder where ill end up

hello

hi everyone its been a while yet again where have i been you ask well for those of you that want to know ive not been bothered to be honest the last 3 months have been a bit of a waste to be honest, my motivation has been down and all its seemed like is work and bed and oh pub


the last few months my sleep pattern has been totaly bolloxed and ive seemed to havehad little time to myself, its like when its come to bed time ive suddenly become wide awake and not been able to sleep till 3 or 4 in the morning then when ive wanted to wake up at a normalish time at 8am ive just gone back to sleep till 11am then iam at work for 2pm so by time ive woken up proberly and had a bit of something to eat its time for work, and its been like this for the last 3 months or so,


but i think at long last ive kinda sorted my body clock out its just a case of catching up on some sleep and getting meself on some kind of routine, one thing ive been happy with is ive not realy put any weight back on even tho ive not been to the gym or antything for the same amount of time the only thing exercise wise ive done is cycling and thats what has kept me in some kind of shape,

oh and for 2 months i was in a relationship with a girl i met online but i broke it up pretty quickly when i realy got to know what she was like, so all in all the last few months have been quite eventfull in one way or other and i willl be back to visiting all my readers blogs in due time and regulary writing on my blog also iam going to be changing my blog a bit in how it looks with a help of a friend still keep the same blog address but it will just look a bit different

Recipes

for dinner

rubbish week

what a rubbish week its been weather wise ive needed to do stuff outside but every time ive gone and try to do a job its suddenly chucked it down, just hope the weekend is better might go for a day out somewhere it will either be dovedale or the coast as iam ready for a day away from nottingham,

think also what has made this week worse is its been so rubbish at work nothing what so ever to do its so quiet and with the atruim closing for 3 weeks it will be even worse as we have no conferences booked or anything , so think a pack of cards and a couple of good books will be needed for the next month

but last night i enjoyed a pint or 2 at me local and a kebab on the way home not been tothe pub for ages and the kebab was nice as well i chucked loads of cheese on it and chilli sauce a nice end to the evening i say

iam getting back into playing me x box a bit lately now ive completed gta 4 and now playing halo 3 and getting quite into it but think i need a rethink on this level iam stuck on but i suppose ill crack it also i treated myself to call of duty 4 modern warfare ive heard loads of good things about it so the next couple of weeks ill be blasting through that and be intresting to see the online gaming options are like, as iam hooked on playing online tiger woods golf online at the moment, iam not great but not totaly crap either think if it dose chuck it down ill be trying to get a bit better on golf

righty i best get me arse into gear as i need to pop into town before work and pick a couple of things up so stay safe as there are still loads of nutters about

bird life

its a bad day for nottingham people for years we have enjoyed feednig the ducks and other bird life but now we cant and if we do and get caught we could face a fine of 75 quid, what a load of bollox your going to get a pretent copper fining a young kid feeding a duck????

the main reason for this is as the city has had a high increse in canadian geese even at the university where i work we had 40 of the buggers round yesterday and the geese have become so lazy they arnt feeding them selfs just waiting for some sucker to give them food yes they are nice to look at but they are bad birds when they get fisious so thats why we are being told we can not feed any bird life my thoughts why not just cull the geese and we can get on with feeding the duck which we always have done

come on council use a bit of common sence hey

hello iam back

hi yes its been a while but iam back blogging, the last couple of months have been here there and everywhere ive had the flu or a cold twice and time has just gone to so quick, my head has been all over the place and just not seem to have anytime to do anything or the energy to be honest



but i seem back to my old self again which is good i also have a new ladyfriend it will be a month we have properly been seeing each other on friday so all is good there been kinda strange having someone back in my life again after being single for so long but its nice ive kinda got a life again and we can do stuff which you may not do if you were single as the last few months its just been work pub and bed and think i was just in a rut and not in a good place but the last month its thing have been quite good



the garden is all sorted patio is layed wall built almost all the rubbish is gone just a couple more trips to the tip and job is done, the veg is growing well and eat some of it already the runner beans are so nice and took no effort to grow at all, got some beetroot as well had some of that on me ham cobs yesterday so nice and fresh, so iam going to get into it even more next year and see what else i can grow,



work is going okay been permament at the university for 4 months now and just got 2 months of my 6 months probahtion left then the job will be totaly safe, still get moments when i think some of the people who work here are out of this world with there simpleness but cant have everything easy or how we want all the time can we

moving over

well you can now see my new blog and future posts at my new wordpress blog, after a bit of though ive switched as wordpress seems quite good and gives me a couple more options of doing stuff so ill see you all over at my new blog farmerdaves.wordpress.com

have a goodun and stay safe

just for manic

snow

in england it always make me laugh when we have a bit of snow it brings the country to a standstill but why, places like canada they have more snow than we could ever think about and they seem to plod along quite happy they go to work drive about even travel by train,

so why cant we do that, well cos our goverment is crap the high ways agencey has had loads of warnings about this so call snow and we have had plently of chance to perpair for this moent but like normal sod all has happened even the capitol of england has come to a stand still never seen that happen, i know on the way home this eve i couldnt drive over 10 mph as the roads were so bad and when i turned a corner i was fighting to keep controll of my car

and how its snowing now i think in the morning it will be very bad ah well i might get a day of work if iam luck here are a couple of pics ive taken today



This one is taken at the uinversiy where i work



Again another pic from the grounds at work



My car this morning at 9am



and another car pic ive not seen snow this thick for quite a few years

making the most of things

well ive been making the most out of my day outs so far this year went to the hills last weekend and sunday i went to the coast went to skeggy had fish and chips as well, it was a bit windy infact it was a gale force but we enjoyed it they will not be any days out for a while as i know ive got a lot on the next few weekends so not get chance to do much at all will be all work and no play for a while now

john ross has only been back in the hot seat for ony l one week and he has made the news some one aint happy cos he made a joke about someones gran or something, my god i wish people would stop being so bluddy touchy in a bit no one is going to be able to say owt about anything or one wish people would chill out a bit and have a laugh might be a bit of a happyer world

cos at the moment its a bit bleak to say the least with the annoucement of another 5000 jobs goign down the pan, banks keep fucking up all the time and people stabbbing each other and even killing each other what a world hey, read that a bloke got killed just for a bottle of wine which only cost 4 quid what a waste of a life hey

then you got the silly sods of the football land offering silly money to a football player who on earth is worth 100 million quid, if i was offered 1000 quid a week to play footy i would be happy only need to play for 4 years and would be minted for life

thats enough of me rambling on have a good rest of the week and stay safe

mr doner is a goner

yes the creator of the kebab sadly passed away at the weekend, and he was a turkish man mahmut ayglin, who lived in germany, he had a idea in march of 1971 when he used to work at a snack bar he served customers a dish that constisted of a mix or roasted lamb and spices traditionally eaten with rice and could be served differnetly ,

he thought how easier it would be if the customers could take there meal away with them so on 2nd march 1972 in his snack bar he became the 1st person to serve the meat in a pitta bread, and from there the name doner kebab it what it is today, he was such a culinary genius he even was credited with inviting the yoghurt sauce witch became the doners hallmark,

in the world there are many variations of the doner kebab some i like and some i dont like my lest favioute is when they give you a doner in a pitta bread i much more like my doner in a form of a nan bread, with doner meat lecuice cucumber with chilli sauce a few chips and plently of cheese all wraped up, not a better tasting sensation in the world i think

not a baddun

it seemed a long weekend this weekend, got loads done gave my bike a service as iam going to start to cycle to work again washed and polished my car and checked all the oil and break levels and all is in working order caught up on loads of telly and up to date with most the stuff i watch ive not been like this for ages, and went to a friends sat eve which consisted of a cheese and wine eve in front of the telly and watched those transporter films which were not bad

me and my friend both woke up sunday morning and went for a walk did around 10 miles went to baslow near chesterfield and couldnt of picked a nicer day i will put some pics up a bit later, couldnt believe how many other people were out and about the start of the walk was quite a bit of a hike up hill think it was about a mile up a quite a sharpe hill i was getting tired out halfway up and i thoght i was getting fitter then these moutain bikers wizzed passed us and me and my friend just looked at each other and laughed but we did the walk half way stoped for lunch which was a packup of roast beef and mustrard sandwiches and a hot flask of soup which was well needed by the time we was half way round the walk,

finsihed the walk and i ended up cooking her a nice sunday roast with home made yorkshire pudds and a home made apple and pear crumble with proper thick creamy custard, quite a nice end to a very good weekend,

hope you had a good weekend like i did

my head sometimes

ive been up and about this morning quite early for me 7am already been to the gym and had a swim and feel quite good, went out for a pint with my dad last night which i quite enjoyed but what makes me mad sometimes is that you get a group of people sitting at a table chatting away and they are sitting with there empty glasses not for just 10 mins but for a hour,

yes the pub was busy and hardly any where to sit and these 4 women were sitting at a table with no intention of buying no more beer so why not sod off home or something and let other people use the table and seats i dont know some people hey do make you think

ive been thinking its been thursday all week now it is thursday iam now thinking its wednesday whats all that about,

and iam realy looking forward to the weekend and a whole weekend off no work or anything

have a goodun and stay safe

ah more news i forgot to tell

today while driving to work i noticed that a co fecking op shop is to close, iam well pleased about that, co op's are a waste of time staff are useless food is quite expesnive and only one person on the till when its busy as hell and lots of people on the tills when there are no one in,

i have heard there is goign to be a big asda being build in its place as there is a lot of land next to the co op and the co op is goign to to knocked down so alls good, now we need the rest of the co feckign op shops to close

have a goodun and stay safe as its just not england who have nuttters

bits and bobs

well half way through the thrid week of the new year and how is everyone going and are we keeping to our resloutions we made at the start of the year, mine is going okay ive already lost the weight i put on over crimbo and settling into my newish diet and seems to be working okay its been a little hard at times i had a craving last ngiht for a kebab but after half anhour of my belly rumbling like mad i wasnt hungry or even wanted a kebab,

iam working hard at the gym getting back to my cardio fittness times on the tread mill the cross trainer and other machines to which they were in november so iam quite happy, ive not had a beer since sunday nite but goign to have a pint either this evening or tomorrow evening nothing mad as i dont realy want another hangover like i did monday,

i have also been given a calorie counting book it tells you quite a bit about how much junk is in some foods, i was suprised to see that a pint of beer is better than a mars bar and also a pint of beer is better thana bag of crisps, a even bigger shocker was how fatty a maccy d's meals are a quarter pounder with cheese medium fries and a medium milkshake is 1500 calories i dont realy go to maccy d's so iam not to bortherd but still a shocker to see how much junk some foods are,

other news the 1st day out of the new year is planned for this weekend most likely iam off to dovedale for a walk on the hills there will be plently of pics taken as well not been to dovedale for a while i used to go quite often one thing i do like going to dovedale is stepping over the stepping stones to cross the stream climb the hill and watch people cross the stepping stones and nearly falling in to the stream, either cos they cant walk across the stones properly or that they have a dog on a lead and the dog goes nuts try's to run off and drags the owner in the the stream, but hardly no one falls in tho times ive sat on top of the hill and watched hoped some silly sod would fall into the stream and no one has maybe this year i may get my wish

my head

ive cut the amount of beer i drink over the last few weeks, i now enjoy to go out twice a week just for a couple of pints which mainly consists of 3 no more than 4 and iam quite happy and when i am not out at the pub i enjoy a vodka and tonic only the 1 and thats my drinking these days,

last night i went out for a couple of pints to my local i was ready for a pint as i had a busy weekend working with my dad, so i had 3 pints of mixed which i enjoyed very much then i went over to the lathian club they do a nice polish beer quite strong but it dont taste stron if you know what i mean i think i had 3 or those and 3 or maybe 4 double whiskeys, i was not out my head drunk but i felt i had a drink or 2, i got a kebab and thoguht that would do the trick with making me feel okay this morning,

woke up this morning and i felt rough as hell its now 3:40pm monday afternoon and i am just feeling back to normal, and probly be more like 6pm before iam fully back to my oldself i dont know if its old age or what but these days if i have a good drink the eve before iam wiped out the rest of the next day i enjoy getting drunk every so often but think iam just going to stick to my new drinking routine as i am so much happyer with that the daft thing was i was not that drunk as to make a total arse of my self i had a normal convo with various people which i still remember what we talked about even in the kebab shop i rememberd what i said to the chaps there, even had my kebab without getting it everywhere else apart from my mouth

i dont think ill ever totaly stop drinking as my drinking level is within the goverments recomended levels and they would call me a responible drinker lol, and i enjoy goign to the pub for a pint not only for a beer but to see my friends, like ive mentioned i think ill just stick to my new drinking routine and see what happens

stay safe and sober as there are still some madduns out there

music

ever since i was young ive liked music i like a lot of music but my favourite music is blues and rock, only realy got into rock and blues when i was about 15 and i think thats when i started to build a bit of a collection, i used to buy records and tapes even had evenings when me and a couple of mates used to copy each others tapes and records onto tape i used to like listening to records and tapes so much it took me ages to get onto cd's

in time i did as my old hi - fi chewed 1 to many of my tapes up and thgouht sod it iam going onto cd, i also brought a brand new hi fi back when i did i payed 600 quid for it top of the range thing it was ive still got it and still plays okay but i hardly use it, it is in fact boxed up in the loft at home

i did get into cd's in a big way i used to copy friends cd's and they used to copy mine and built up a bit of a collection, the time i spent copying friends cd's making the covers for the cd's and so on but that was part of the job, again as time went on i started to use my comptuter for my music collection, at 1st i downloaded music then burned it onto cd got a collection of around 600 cd's built up,

i started to run out of room for my cd collection as technoglogy got better and cheaper i started to think what i could do to inprove or change how i listen to my music,

i brought myself a external hard drive i copyed all my cd's onto the hard drive, then i brought a ipod a great thing to have, so with me having all my music collection at a touch of a button and in one location it was easy to just put songs on my ipod and use that, i even got a ipod docking station so i could plug it into the station and listen to music on the ipod in the house

now i finding i can still buy or download music as and wheni want to and not worry about running out of room, with itunes and media player it give you so much more options you can make play lists so you can have what ever songs you want and all sorts the best thing a hi fi could give you was a 3 or 6 draw cd changer which it a bit wanky by todays standards

ive even gone to the extent to having a ipod radio car player put in my car, i still can play a cd but with how i listen to music now i dont think ill use a cd much at all

i wonder what the next 10 years will bring with technology wise be intresting to see

weight

most of december i hardly went to the gym i was ill for 2 weeks then crimbo came and went so i didnt have much time or the motivation to go, and during december i was doing quite well with not putting any weight on, but new year week i did let myself go a little bit, i weighed myself monday at the gym and found i put on 3lbs,

not a great deal of weight but still more than i wanted its only thursday of week one of my training and ive lost 1.5lbs already, so iam quite happy with that and by sunday if iam lucky should of lost the last bit of weight so i should be back to where i started, but one thing ive noticed is how quickly you lose your fitness if you dont keep your training up, i did struggle to run 10 mins on monday daft how it sounds its goign to take a couple of weeks to get back my fitness to wherei was in november,

i have changed my diet again as i was eating better but not how i should, it is hard work being on this new diet but should work better in losing the weight quicker, if i had a job which i was more or less active all the time i would be quite happy on my last eating pattern but it was kind of working but not as in one good way i wasnt putting any weight on but at the same time i wasnt losing any as my job which ive got iam only realy active for 3 hours a day then the rest of the day its desk basied doing paper work,

last eve i could of realy liked a keabab my brain was crying out for one but 30 mins of fighting the craving it went away and i wasnt hungry or anything strange how the body and brain craves things you dont realy need to eat hey,

talking of which iam off to the gym before work for a swim and a workout stay safe

doctor who and sci - fi

with the news of the new doctor who being a unknown chap called mat smith ive never heard of him there are so many other good english actors who could of taken the role on and played it very well, i would of like to have seen peter davidson come back or another past doctor

it will be intresting to see how the new chap plays the doctor who role it took some getting used to chris eccleson but i did get to like him in the end but when david tennant took the role i took a liking to him right away ill not be one of the people to rubbish the new actor mat smith stright away like some will ill watch the 1st couple of episdoes of him as the new doctor and make my mind up then just hope he pulls the role off well as he as a big role to make good,

i have been a sci - fi fan for a long time ever since watching star trek the next generation when i was a kid or even a bit before then battlestar galatica iam a big fan of the 60's sci fi shows like planet of the giants or even the invaders,

i did enjoy the star wars films but think stat trek is even better in a lot of ways, i would love to travel to other worlds and meet strange people from other worlds but i very much doubt it will happen in my life time,

thats why i like the xfiles as it tells of story of aliens and so on and the goverments best efforts to hide the tryth ive restarted watching the series i used to watch the xfiles with a mate of mine every thursday on bbc2 and it was great i managed to watch it to series 3 then when series 4 came out the bbc kept switching it to differnet nights i missed a couple of episodes and i lost the story

i tryed to get back into the show but it was quite an involved story by series 3 and 4 you had to watch every single episode but with modern technology and dvd boxsets being much cheaper now iam buying the series and watching it once again and iam quite enjoying it but i forgot how old the series is, watching it now as a 32 yearold chap the 1st couple of series are quite dated in a way but the storylines ar still shit hot and scully is sexy as hell and iam going to enjoy revisiting the xfiles to say i was about 15 16 when i 1st started to get into the xfiles it is a long time,

one show iam also getting into big time is the new series of battlestat gallactica how cleaver that story line is iam not saying much asi dont want to ruin it for anyone who has not seen it but its good its kept me hooked its good how they have kind of tied the story line from the original battlestar to this new series then totaly change the story you will have to watch the series to know what i mean what they have done is mixed technologys so you have advanced machinery then when it comes to the guns they still like our guns using bullets rarther than lazers even on the ships they use the use rockets and bullets rather then lazers and it dose work very well

enough of me babbling about sci fi i best get something done, and stay safe as they are still a lot of madduns out there

1st day back at work

my 1st day at work has been okay a bit boring to be honest, well with me working at a university we are not properly open yet the students dont come back till next week so come half 5 the campus is like a ghost town most the buildings are mainly empty and hardly no one about

i dont mind the odd quiet day but its been quiet for about a month now and iam getting a bit bored, i have had the odd busy day when its been so busy ive not had time for a number 2 but for the most its been very quiet, but iam pleased the crimbo decorations are all down and everything and no more crimbo lights to turn off in the eve or anything so all goods there happy for a bit of norm to be honest

new year big changes

well its 5 days into 2009 already and my 1st day back to work today in a way iam looking forward to going back been a long break watched a lot of telly over crimbo and caught up with programs ive recorded but not had time to watch but all caught up now well almost

its been a a good weekend of sport nottingham forest beat man city in the 3rd round of the fa cup on saturday forest needed that win as they are struggling in the bottom of table in the championship league, maybe with a new manager forest might finish somewhere okay in the table i think this season they could finish probly 14th or 13th as they have a heck of a lot of work to do but i doubt they will end back up in league 1 just have to see

ive started back at the gym after a desater month in december i was ill for 2 weeks then the busyness of crimbo ive not hardly managed to get in but ive been good with my eating and not gone over the top i have put a little bit of weight on but not to much to make me cry, iam trying not to have a takeaway for a whole month this month ive done it before and can do it again its like skytower giving up the beer in a way

i was a bit suprised when i found out who the new doctor was in doctor who he is someone called mat smith never seen him in anything before so i can not say what his acting is like but saying that i hadnt heard of david tennant but i liked him striaght away, the new doctor might be okay and might take on the role very well just have to watch the 1st couple of episodes and make my mind up, iam pleased a woman has not taken the role as somehow it wouldnt be quite right doctor who will always be played by a man and to say i heard whispers about catherine zeta jones might have got the role just made me feel sick i wouldnt of watched doctor who again is she ever got the role

iam already planning my 1st weekend away camping think it will be down the south of the contry somewhere as ive been upto the north quite a lot would like to see more of devon and sumerset this year iam going to have my 1st day out next weekend up in the derby dales just hope the weather is okay for days out this year end of march beginning of april sounds a good time as we did have a warmish march and april last year so role on bring on the holidays and days out

weight training and stuff

was reading over at d4d and alex was going on about weight and that got me thinking about my success in 2008 with my fitness and training its kind of gone okay but to be honest i could of done much more

i did lose nearly a stone and a half gotten my cycle fitness much better i can cycle to work much quicker than drive to work but to be honest ive been lazy, my problem has been continueation?? at times i was going to the gym regular as clock work 4 times a week then all of a sudden i did sod all not even any cycling i could of done it but just couldnt be bothered it wasnt the a week i didnt do any exercise it was a whole month and while i wasnt doing any exercise i was losing all the hard work i had put i the previous month and a half and was in a way going back to square 1

i did have a half marathon planned for september but with my not putting enough effort into my training i didnt do the marathon i felt a bit rubbish as i let a friend down as i was goign to run with her but i know this year i want to run at least 1 half marathon and get down to my ideal weight which is about 13 to 13 and a half stones iam 14 and three quarters at the moment, but iam happyish with what ive done in 2008 with my fitness

as i had quite a few health problems to deal with in 2008 which ive sorted out now i was eating rubbish and eating far to much, i was having breakfast witch could of been anything from a fry up to beans of toast or cornflakes, then dinner was a packed lunch which i had 2 or 3 cobs bag of crisps and cake then had a proper dinner at teatime and i always had supper and if i went out for a pint i could 9 times out of 10 came home with a takeaway, and i wasnt ina million years doing much to burn all that food off

but come last april i got my eating under control and for the last 4 months ive not put any weight on but to be honest ive not realy lost any either as like i say ive been a bit lazy with my training but this year ill see another big difference in my weight, iam kind of happy with what ive already lost and ive droped a trouser size my old shirts which i was going to give away now fit me again so ive gave my bigger shirts away and my bigger trousers

also this year iam thinking of doing a couple of cycling holidays and iam going to make more of a effort to use my bike as i know i can do it but its the keeping it up thats the thing

righty its nearly half 2 and iam off to bed have a goodun

over and done with

well thank fuck crimbo and 2008 is over and done with, what a very dullish year its had its up's but many downs and towards the end of 2008 it was just silly but iam looking forward to 2009

yes i went on holiday brought a new car lost a stone and a half in weight brought a new bike and been away a couple of times but sod all happend realy for 2008, social life was dire as hell hardly had any of my planned weekends away that was due to the fact i was either working 60-80 hours a week or when i wasnt the weather was bluddy crap

crimbo wasnt as good as i'd thought it would be hardly went out at all i stoped in crimbo eve 1st time in ages ive done that, well i wasnt going into town to packed pubs and waiting ages to get a pint also i was'nt goign to get ripped off by taxis either as they would of charged the earth for crimbo eve, also the local pubs its a ticket job so in a way your limited to one pub all eve which would get a bit boring, but new years eve i went to my local which i enjoyed but would of quite happy to have stopped in you may say you boring sod but it was just like another night realy with a couple of more people in the pub

next crimbo iam deffo going away for 2 weeks for crimbo and new year sod it all iam not botherd about all the fuss about crimbo dinner i would be quite happy for next crimbo day to be sitting on the beach in me shorts and a beer in one hand and a good book in the other hand looking at the sea and the girls

my thoughts and whatever for 2009??? well iam not sure yet iam taking week by week and see what happens i know one thing for sure crimbo day 2009 ill be on the beach somewhere nice and hot for sure

have a goodun and stay safe as there still seems to be a lot of madduns about