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

not sure

well i was going to post something earlyer but forgot what i was goign to write about, ah well now iam in the mood for writing ill just babble

crimbo what a load of old crap in a way, i was looking forward to some time off work and almost do sod all but its been a bit crap, the pubs have been totaly packed out ie crimbo eve and the inportant days over crimbo and new year so whats the piont of queing for ages for a pint in a packed pub???? being at home has been a bit of a pian me mum has been ill coughing her guts up and it getting on everyones nervous and causing arguments

telly has been crap once again its been freezing cold so next year iam thinking sod it iam saving up to go away next crimbo for 2 whole weeks going to get somewhere nice and warm all inclusive food all in drinks all in and it'll be happy days thing whats not helped this year is the cooker being fucked the oven keeps cutting out so thats caused arguments with the parents and sister if it was me on me own i probly would have spag bolw and garlic bread for crimbo dinner to be honest

and for new year iam going to be in chelmsford for about 3 days least ill have some peace and quiet from the madness might even have new years day at southend who knows but one thing i do know next crimbo will be a totaly different

have a goodun all and stay safe and warm hey

good times

hope everyone has had a good crimbo, i have for a change i can tell you lots of food and beer now iam taking it easy for a few days as ive got a busy new year planned ive had a quiet crimbo i didnt even go out crimbo eve thats the 1st time ive not done that for probly 10 years but i did enjoy my crimbo eve in i had cheese and crackers with a couple of vodkas and various mixers and had a bit of telly to watch as well so all good

i even woke up mid morning on crimbo day to enjoy my dinner this year which i didnt do last year as i was quite unwell i even managed a couple of pints crimbo day evening which ive never done before is go out on crimbo day, so all in all a good couple of days roll on new years eve

for the next few days iam just taking it easy watch a bit of telly again might give my liver a bit of a rest as ive been on the beer a bit but it is crimbo after all, iam also starting to move into my new place yup iam on the move again but only a tempory move but its goign to be all good

righty iam off to have a bit of breakfast and get me car washed as its a nice day out there have a good rest of crimbo i know iam i dont start back till the 5th of jan

sorted almost here and not well

with the crimbo season truly and totaly under way iam ready brought my last few presents today and iam all sorted, iam quite looking forward to a bit of a rest meself been a busy year think crimbo eve ill be stopping in with a takeaway of somekind and couple of bottles of mangners and a bit of telly

i cant be arsed to go out to be honest i have been asked out by a couple of friends already but all i want to do if vegout in front of the telly, looks like the box will be quite good crimbo eve for a change got the royal family which i always liked and a couple of other things so will be worth stopping in for, i think going out is a bit of a pain, as if you want to go anywhere apart from your local pub you need a tazi and they'll be chargin a arm and a leg then a most pubs will be tickets only i just cant be arsed with it this year,

i might go out new years eve tho always have gone out new years eve but not sure where ill go as of yet, iam also getting over some bug ive picked up been off work most of this week been crap as hell and ive felt like ive slept for england but iam feeling a lot better now just got a bit of a cold to deal with now and thats about it,

stange realy i was not well this time last year and i worked through my illness and i think that made me worse as i didnt even have my crimbo dinner infact i didnt see much of crimbo day at all last year and as for last new years eve i jsut saw past midnight and i went back home to bed,

so i'd thought i would take a few days off sick and get over this bug ive caught and pleased i did now asi am much better thani was and ill enjoy crimbo much more this year, and acualy have a few beers and eat some food which i didnt do last year,

this year has kind of ended on a good note ill post more about this when i know for sure and wheni can, but yeh this year aint been to bad to say the least even tho ive not had many weekends away as i'd like to but theres always next year

have a goodun and stay safe

crimbo upon us

what another cold morning but nice to see a bit of frost, my car at 10am is still all iced over but iam not worried as iam cycling to work today, how is everyones crimbo preparations going

me iam half sorted which is totaly unheard of with me, i normaly leave everything till the last minuet and rush round like a twat but this year iam on the ball as they say ive got most my cards written and even brought some presents ive not realy made any planns for while iam off the 12 days over crimbo as last year crimbo was a non event asi fell very ill

i was fighting a cold flu bug most of december one min i seemed okay then the next i felt crap but it finaly took hold the week i was to break up and i was ill, i didnt even go out crimbo eve i forced myself out new years eve but went home just after midningt, i even didnt have my crimbo dinner which i was well looking forward to,

but this year iam feeling okay i am puling all the tricks to hold the cold off quite strange realy as most people i know have had a cold or flu of some kind already and ive seemed to have kept clear from it all, don't know if its the new tablets iam taking to keep my nose clear if iam using my ashtma pumps properly but iam feeling quite fit

the only plans i have made so far is a trip down to chelmsford on the 27th 28th and the 29th december and as iam down that part of the contry i might pop and see manic street preacher, but iam keeping everything else open over crimbo as wheni do make planns they alll seem to go pairshaped

righty iam off to check me bike over and have a blast on condemned 2 and what a game very blood thursty and a good storyline i must say my xbox was a good buy as some of the gaming action ive had is great

staysafe all as they still seem to be madduns about

week off and a bit of a drama

well what a mad month november was seemed all work and no play till my holls to scarbrough last week, which i quite enjoyed, the hotel was okay food good and company maily okay, it only realy rained for half an hour tueday morning so was lucky with the weather, we did all the normal sightseeing went to york on the tuesday had a day round scarbrough wedsnesday then went to hearbeat village whitby and robin hoods bay then friday came back so all in all a good week,

i did have a bit of a drama wednesday morning i found that i lost my car key, had a bit of a panic but after going to the pubs i went to the tuesday evenig and giving my number to the staff of the pubs in the end i got a phone call wednesday afternoon from scarbrough weatherspoons pub saying they had found my key and i can come and get it anytime,

i very happy me went stright away and got it back i also payed for a couple of drinks for the 4 bar staff who was on as i did ring the aa breakdown service and the whole thing to get towed home and get new keys could of cost anything upto 200 quid, so i didnt mind paying a couple of quid for a few drinks to a very helpful staff at weatherspoons, infact the staff in the other pubs gave me a ring to ask if i found my car key which i thoguht was quite nice,

so all in all i had a very good week off and had a well needed rest has ive not had a whole week off since march which is quite a long time realy, ive had the odd long weekend here and there but thats it, i know next year will be better when it comes to time off from work,

anyway ive got 23 more days of work then 12 off and i know ill not be ill this time iam off from work over crimbo,

ready for a break

well what a busy start to the new student year, september seemd like only yesterday but its been 2months since the start of the year and wow how times wizzes past yeh, ive kept the cold bugs at bay and in two weeks time iam on me holls going to scarbrough with people i know from my local pub should be a good week as ive never been on a holiday with my local they have had a few trips but ive always timed being able to go just at the wrong time but this year ive managed to not have anyother holls planned near the pubs holls

iam on a kinda detox for 2 weeks as i know ill be putting some ale down me neck that week and eat a bit as well, as we'll be in good old yorkshire they should be some good real ale pubs aruond so yorkshire folk be ready for us lot as we'll drink yeh dry or at least have a good go at it anyway

what horrible weather we've been having again, the last 2 weekends ive not had chance to do much outdoor stuff at all and iam starting to get a bit pissed off with it all, i dont mind a bit of rain from time to time but its been constant i want to get me car ready for winter and finish a couple of little jobs on my car ive been putting off as well but all this rain you cant do sod all,

here is a pic taken last week of a great sunset when i was at work least this will make you think we have some sun, have a goodun and stay safe

formular 1

well at last we have a british sporting hero formular 1's lewis hamilton has won this years F1 crown and it was good to see the F1 champion ship so tight all year round we have had 4 title contenders this year it would of been good to either see felipe massa or robert kubica to have won

its is the 1st time in about 8 or 9 years that the champion ship has not been decied halfway through the season as for 7 years amlost michale shumacker decided the champion ship way before the end of the F1 season, next year will be even more intresting fernando alonso could be back on form as he has finished well in the second half of this yeas season and even finished 1st a couple of times

theres going to be quite a few changes to formular 1 next year the bbc is goign to be airing the show instead of itv when i found out itv had been showing formular 1 for 11 years i was quite suprised, plus there are going to be quite a few changes to the cars not got my head round yet what changes they are going to be making but next year's season is goign to be quite intresting i hope honda will be on form with jenson button they should be contending for podiums as they have now got ross braun on side i might even have a bet or 2

anyroad iam off to the horrible co-op as its the only thing near which resembles a shop

looks great dont it was me dinner earlyer today just what you need on a cold day like today, and it was lovely i had pork chop covered in onions wraped in tin foil i also had roast pots carrots and parsnips with leeks and mushrooms in a cramy onion sause just great move over jamie oliver here comes farmer dave


tomorrow i might have a veggie hotpot or a sausage hotpot depents on what i fancey

76 year old vandal

reding the metro news paper at work just now and this story made me laugh,

a vandal who keyed a classic car has been unmasked as a 76 year old man, the owner of the damaged classic car a triumph dolomite sprint said its not always the young who are the trouble makers these days,

and in other news,

kids are finding playgrounds to safe and boring these days

playgrounds are simply to safe to be intresting to kids these days a goverment advisort body warned, to many playgrounds have vast areas of safty carpeting, it said plans to spend £235 million upgraging 3,500 playgrounds over the next 3 years would be wasted if counclis relied on a uniformed approach to design, the commission for architecture and the built envoroment said, we must all stop obsessing about risk and trying to wrap our chrildren in cotton wool, and instead create spaces that allow them to use their imagination in a stimulating environment, and one group of idiots have called for more wood, stone and mud to be used to give a natural feel


well i can comment on a lot with that story

1st thing, yeh all fair enough lettnig kids of today play rough but as soon as someone hurts themselfs whats going to happen???? sue the counclis that what will happen

2nd kids cant even play conkers or tag at schools these days cos of goodie goddie nutters so what the hell is it to have wood and stones around that is a law suit waiting to happen if a stone gets lobbed at a other kid of a bit of lose wood cuts a kid,

when i was a kid i was always getting myself into trouble, always in the woods climbinbg trees making dens and all sorts and yes i did hurt myself but it was my own fault, these days you only need to trip on a lose bit of pavement and you can get a few quid of the goverment,

i dont know the whole world has gone far past potty, when its come to the stage when kids cant play with certain toys or play games cos it is giving the wrong image, i used to play with toy guns and knifes when i was a teenager i lernt how to use a real knife and had a go at letting a air gun off at scouts and ive turned out okay

i think lock all the goodie goodies and nutters up and just get on with life and do what ever we want without all these new barmy rules,

feling shit

the other day i was feeling a bit grotty i had a lemsip and other cold gubbings a hot bath and went to bed woke up wednes morning and felt fine, but during yesterday i was starting to shake and feel rough as fuck still feel rough as fuck and am going back to bed now and hope to shake this cold flu thing off before 2mora i know its only half 11 in the morning but i do feel crap

nite all and stay safe as theres still a lot of madduns about

crimbo holidays and not ill i hope

well crimbo is fastly coming upon us and already ive been asked by a couple of friends what iam doing, and to be honest iam not sure yet, the last few crimbos ive either been working or when ive not been at work ive been ill so iam not planning much till at least the last week i think but i would like a week in the sun somewhere this year

i know last crimbo i had 10 days off and thorugh out those 10 days i was sick as a dog, all the plans i'd made most i had to cancel i didnt realy want my crimbo dinner as i was so ill, but this year iam preparing myself to combat the cold flu bugs and so far ive not had anything touch wood and iam going to stay that way, but like i say iam not going to plan anything till a week just before,

and if i do go on holiday ive got a couple of ideas where to go its goign to be somewhere very warm or go somewhere where theres a lot of snow as ive not seen any proper snow for a long time as in nottingham when it dose snow we just seem to get a sprinkling and its gone as soon as it come's so might go to the scottish highlands who knows

anyway stay safe as theres still nutters out there

students

well the students have been back at the university where i work now for a few weeks and are settling into student life again some are okay but some are so twatty its unreal, the other day a student was standing infront of a automatic door and to be fair some of the automatic doors at the university are a bit wonky at the best of times and at the lake side of the university the doors are all automatic apart from the student shop, and the car park side the doors are 24 hour card access,

the other day one student was standing at one of the doors and sometimes the sensor dont catch you right away and you have to move infront of it again to make the door open, so what did this student do??? just stand in front of the door without moving again till i come along student said why isnt this door opening i said just walk to the side and it should open, student said ah ive not tryed that and when the door opened students face went quite bright red, its not happened once its happened a few times, also what they tend to do is force the doors open if they dont open quick enough,

the other day one student tryed to force a opening door open and the door swung back shut and almost knocked the silly sod out the student did look a bit dazed and the student looked at me with a puzzled face i just laughed at meself in amuzement, think we have a thick breed of student this year,

also ive found out that a lot of our students talk with a sucky fake posh accent, caught one girl out the other day, she was talking on her phone yesterday all posh and arsey then next she went back to her proper accent which was southern sommerset, then when her friends came to meet her she went back to being all arsey posh, but you could see she was finding it hard to keep the arsey posh accent on, i dont know students hey

also the 1st couple of weeks you find that everyone at the university get colds and look rough as fuck, but by the end of the the 1st month everyones better, lucky me ive not had anything like a cold yet this year but iam being good iam keeping meself wraped up warm these dark evenings and when ever its cold,

anyway stay safe as theres still nutters around

down time

what a few busy weeks its been the start of term at the university wherei work and a few weeks before start of term i was working 80ish hours a week helping out here there and everywhere,

but now iam enjoying a bit of quiet time last weekend was the 1st whole weekend i had to myself in about 2 months when i wasnt either seeing friends or working either at the university or with my dad, i can tell yeh it was nice to have notthing to go out for but i had loads to do at home which ive almost done and also watch 8 weeks worth of telly in about 4 days it took some doing but i did it now iam almost caught up my pile of video tapes by the side of the telly have gone down to 1 so am watching that tape this week and from sunday iam all caught up on me telly

one thing i have done is brought a new freeview box with a hard drive on, a nice bit of kit so no need for video tapes and trying to keep track of whats on what tape, one use full thing ive found with this new free view box is wheni want to watch something all i need to do is look for a episode of a serise in date order and simple,

ive also done lots of music film and telly series downloading so also while ive had more tme ive been copying the stuff to dvd and am over the nect few weeks will be watching some of prison break and csi new york which ive been wanting to watch for a while, but think the 1st thing ill watch is serise 3 and 4 of battlestar gallatica which season 1 and 2 have been very good

the gym is going good progress is going how i want and now ive changed my program around a bit iam starting to lose a little more weight, this week ive managed to lose 2lbs but the last 6 weeks ive not realy lost any

the reason for this ive been told is that ive gotten used to my program and find the work out quite easy so iam not working hard like i was when i 1st started the progam, i should realy change my program every 3 - 4 weeks so now iam going to keep on track on this , and also go to the gym more often asive been 1 week i was going 3 or 4 times a week then the next 2 - 3 the week after i probly not go at all, but this last month ive been regularly going 3-4 times a week again so just see what happens


anyway ive got to go and pick up the post stay safe as i still see there madduns about

makes a change

Aint it nice to see some sun for a change after all this rain just hope it lasts a bit thats all, as ive had enough of getting wet and feeling glumy

so this big bang experiment seemed to have gone okay without a glitch but it would be intresting to see when they do the full experiment and the 2 beams of light do meet up wonder if anything will happen like beginning of life of owt it would be intresting hey, and least this experiment has put all the nutters out there pain thinking the world will end hey

so with the marathon coming up at the weekend my trainer has been putting me though hell this week but he said iam not quite ready to attempt the 13 mile run this time round be he saidi should be pleased with what ive done so far i can now quite happly run 5 miles and the changes in my body have been great ive nearly lost my double chin and most of my old shirts fit me again so quite happy there

so at the moment iam just going to carry on with my traning and get down to what my body weight should be, and ill do a marathon later in the year

iam off out side for a cuppa for 10 minuets at its been a busy afternoon so far and enjoy the sun while it lasts

not good

after a rubbish week i went out for a pint last night again been out a bit lately these last 2 weeks anyway i poped into the bell in town and since its been done up iam not to keen onthe old place i like to drink in the 1st room on right when you just enter the place, yes the place did need tarting up a bit but what they have done is not good to me

they had a upstairs resturant and you could eat food in the back bar, now since they have done the place up you can eat in every room last night i went in at twenty past 9 and they were a couple of people eating in the little room and it stank then to top it off the bar maid cleared the plates off the tables and put them on the bar top right next to me

someone left a whole fish and it was stinking the palce out a couple of people left the little side room and went else where, it was an other half an hour till the bar maid decied to clear the plates of food i nto the bin, i did leave cos the smell was bad, shame realy cos that little room onthe right as you go in is not bad get now iam not so sure about it

anyway iam off and stay safe out there

bank holls

what a washout this year has been hardly any sun and when there has been some sun has been here its only lasted an instant its more like bluddy winter than summer, over the bank hols i didnt bother goign anywhere cos of the weather but monday i did go to blackpool to meet a friend,

while driving up i have my windows down and sunroof open and as soon as i near preston the sky blackend, and as soon as i found somewhere to park it totaly pissed it down so no fish and chips on the seafront but had just a good meal at this pub, talking of pubs while waiting for my friend i waited in a pub called the manchester what a dive looked like chavvy heaven all the rude boys in there caps andwhite tracky bottoms and there strappy tops showing what excuse of mussles they had and the girls were just as rough but had a good pint of carling i dont normaly drink larger but just fancyed a pint for a change and cheap at 1.70 a pint so couldnt grumble was just entertained at watchting the chavlings trying to act like hard men

friend came and had a little bit of a walk round blackpool, had something to eat at one of these pubs which do 2 for 1 meals and i must say it was very good, ive had 2 good pub meals in a row which is quite good for me as ive been let down at late with pub meals had 1 goodun when i went to chelmsford a few weeks ago, after the meal and a chat she drove me to wheer my car was and got a little lost trying to find my car but found it in the end

and iam not holding much hope for a indian summer either so not planning anydays out or weekends away ill just do it on spur of the moment, heard a couple of intresting storys in the news which ill write about later on in the week

iam off to do some work so stay safe out there as theres some madduns about

bit dead

well what a crap summer so far, most my weekend trips and days out have been put on hold as of this rubbish weather, but ive managed to get some of my computer work done which ivebeen putting off,

been busy downloading quite a few films watched that ironman film the other night and was quite inpressed, and it didnt have a stupid ending either and quite looking forward to watching the next film in the series iam going to dowload hellboy 2 soon but iam waiting a little while as when a film 1st comes to download its mainly done with a person holding a camcorder in the cinima which aint quite good, i dont mind waiting a couple of more weeks and get a better copy,

my training is going quite well been on a few long bike rides this week and i cycled 10 miles in 50 minuets and quite happy with that, iam sticking with my one takeaway a week but given more thoguht about my beer intake i have reduced how much i do drink in these last few weeks and iam drinking to the goverments safe drinking limits so iam not goign to bother packing the drinking up totaly,

i did go out the other friday night with some mates from work and i had 1 pint then went on soft drinks and had another pint at the end of the night and it was good seeing my mates getting drunk, and i didnt have beer goggles on and i must say some of the girls are beasty and getting worse, no wonder iam still single, anyway my local is having a do 2mora night so ill pop in and have a pint or 2 but not a takeaway as ive already had one this week and iam sticking to my 1 takeaway a week

iam off to do some work and stay safe out there as the nutters are still about

training

since ive been training for the robin hood challenge ive had a go at changing my diet a couple of times and now think ive got my diet kind of right, ive deffo got more energy and losing weight at the moment my daily eating pattern consists of, in the morning i either have a low fat thick milkshake or a mouse with fruit, have a proper dinner at lunchtime, then for my evening meal ill have some cerial with more fruit and if iam a little peckish at nite time i can have either more fruit or mouse

and i can still have one takeaway a week as well so all goods there, i'd thought about packing up drinking for a while and after much thought iam now going to have a couple of pints on a friday night after work i dont think that will hurt, i have noticed i can now fasten up all of the top buttons on my shirts once again and fit into some which have been thrown in a draw for ages

regarding my training i can now run 3 miles iam now also progressing with my free weights which i found much harder than machine weights, so by september i think ill be almost ready and my body a temple kind of anyway

also got some good news yesterday i have a job interview at the university where i work for a permament building attandents job, at the moment iam working at nottingham uni through an agency which is okay but i would like the job to be permament

so fingers crossed will be a good end to a rubbish start to the year if i get through the robin hood challenge and get a permament job

righty speaking of work iam at work and best get something done stay safe and dont get hurt out there

nothing much happening

the weekend seemed to go quick saturday i was working in a corner shop with me dad putting an alarm system in and all the be carefulls from me dad he his clipiing a cable over the counter where the till lotto maching and other gubbins are and he his his nail through a mains water pipe,

lucky for us the indian who owned the shop knew a plummer and he was out within 15 minuets to sort the problem out i can tell yeh it was a bit of panic for half an hour to work out where the main stop cock was but we found it and saved the day

that bit of a water leak could of cost us a small fourtune and we havnt got public lieabilty insurance but we have now, so if any more prolems arise the customer can claim from us no problem, but all the years my dad has been working he has never had any prolems and never needed insurance,

sat nite saw me go out and i got very drunk, and i was quite ill sunday morning in fact i was rough as hell all day, but ive lifed another day to tell the tale of my drunkenss, i was that bad i went to pee in the ladies loo

anyroad iam off home to sort some pics out ive been taking ill most probly post them up here on on my flickr page thingy

the local pub

have been driving round nottingham the last couple of days and suprised how many pubs are either boarded up or have to let signs on, one question ill ask now is WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR LOCAL PUBS????

well one answer is well the cost of living these days as its going up and up and our wages arnt we cant spent on luxarys like we once could, also the cost of a pint i could once go out about 10pm every night for a couple of pints iam now lucky if i can go out 3 times a week and if your a couple the cost is even more,

last monday i was waiting in town for my bus so went into the turf taven as ive not been in for ages and wondered what it's like these days its changed into a rock pub nothing fancey, i asked for a pint to tetleys smooth and what came out of the pump wasnt a smooth pint at all but a very wishy washy pint so i asked him if he could pull another pint off and he did and the same thing happened a very watery wishy washy pint

i asked if i could have a pint of cider instead he said yeh still the same price as the bitter which was 3 quid, quite expensive i'd thoguht and got my cider sat down and a bloke and his bird came in and asked for 2 pints, and that was 6 quid so 4 pints comes to 24 quid a expsenive nite out hey

think now people dont come out as much is cos of peoples drinking habbits have changed women used to drink mainly halfs or beer or something of the like, now its a pint of beer or a large glass of wine that can in some pubs be a quite expesnive round these days

so if a couple have 4 drinks at 20 quid and if that couple once went out more than once or twice a week that 20 quid can turn into 60 or 80 quid a week on justbeer and most peiople cant afford that these days on beer,

its a shame to see the local boozer goign down the pan i went out for a couple of pints the other sunday with me dad and and he was amazed that a couple of pubs he went in have been boarded up or shut early as no one came into the pub, and if there is a local its been bolloxed by being turned into a resturant

just like the bell in town thats been a bit bolloxed they have done a goodish job of doing the pub up but you can now eat in every room of the pub, as in the good old days of the bell you could go in to the side rooms have a quite pint read of the paper or a chinwag with yeh mates now you'll have people eating round you, i dont know maybe iam being old fashioned and not changing with the times of the moden age or something

the local pub will soon be a thing of the past andyes some local pubs are a bit rough but its a bit of carater ive seen 2 local pubs bolloxed by going all modern and new and the toby jug is being took over by weatherspoons and they have got the co-op next to it so that will be one big boozer may be a good thing justhave to see

not getting into trouble

think its time for some old childhood memoreys, when i was a kid i had a best mate called ben, he lived in bulwell but when he was aroond 14 he went to a normal mainstreem comp school, well when he went to a normal comp school he started to get in a little bit of trouble not bad but was enough,

at our age of a mere 14 years old we got a bit adventurous one of the things we did were go try and get into old and empty buildings we started by chucking stones at windows and the like but i knew this was wrong and didnt do this as much as my mate was, as kids you stop at each others houses and he invited me to stop at his for the purpos to come back to said building at night time and break in and just cause a bit of trouble,

with me being me i said i had other things to do and went home, i did so and the next morning i went to see if i could come round his mum said he'd been grounded cos him and another mate got caught breaking into a building last nite the both got a caution and a good telling off by his parents, and i avoded getting into trouble like this quite a bit,

quite lucky realy that i was never in trouble with the cops graduly me and my mate lost touch but i did bump into him a few years later when i was about 20, and he hadnt done much with his life he was on the drugs and ive not seen him since, i do hope he is okay as we were good mates think ill have to use facebook to track him down

weekend, dickhead 1, new bike, and dickheads and meeting up

afternoon all what a nice day its been, its took me ages today to get me arse into gear and been like this for the last week and a bit, this cant be arsed mood passes soon

had a bit of a busy weekend off even tho ive had a whole weekend off 1st time for ages, gotten me car washed and polished and looks quite nice now,

got me jobs all done which have all piled up, one of the things ive been doing is putting my new bike through its pases and iam quite inpressed can cycle up more of the hills which i couldnt do on the old bike so quite happy

caught up on a bit of telly watched 2 weeks worth of stuff ive taped on the idiot box but sat nite telly is horrible and dont think its going to get any better soon,

thursday i was in tesco and i was trying to find some packet milkshake as is a lot cheaper and tastes just as good as some of the stuff you buy for over a quid and while i was looking for the milkshake stuff some chap asked me do i work here, looked at him and i said no i dont but think that person dose over there dose, he then said to me dont need to be rude,

fuck me i was only pointing out that an acual tesco person would help him better well next time ill not bother even talking to a person who asks me something in a supermarket

also sat nite i met up with a girl ive been chattin to on facebook, and went quite well had a nice nite and she was normal and not a freak from the another planet like the last girl i met from the net

as the last time i met a girl from the net she ended up being a stalker and took a girl from the local pub to ring her and pretend to be my girlfriend and once the girl from the local let rip she soon stopped txting me, i might write a indepth post about that sometime soon, but this girl i met from facebook was very nice and we got on okay i think had a good chat and hope we can meet again,

i took the bus to work today as i couldnt be arsed to cycle and had to pop into town and do a couple of things, bus was coming upto the traffic lights the green lights came on for the traffic to carry on with there journey, but the idiot public still wanted to cross the road with a big fuck off bus driving on the same bit of road,

mr bus driver gave the idiot public an hoot of his horn most cleared the road and stoped at the side of the road but 2 silly cunts still had to give the finger and what the fuck look, just a note to the idiot general public when your red man is on fucking stop at the side of the road untill your green man comes on then there will be no need for a mad rush to the other side or the road

right iam off as ive got some work to do, and stay safe

new bike

these last couple of days ive been looking at buying a new bike as the one i got last year is not realy good enough now as iam much fitter and its not very strong enough, also it has front and back suspension and i just cant get used to the back suspension as when i go on slightly rougher ground i am bouncing all over the shop

so yesterday i went into halfords well you can forget them cos the bike i would like they start at nearly 300 quid, and walking around there bikes and they were offering insurance so if your bike breaks down they will fix it for free and even if you get a puncher they will fix that free if you take out there insurance, all well and good but if you get a puncher and your miles away from a halfords store how the crap are you going to get the bike to the shop hey?

i think sod the insurance learn to fix and mantain your own bike like i have done, on my bike i carry a spare inner tube so if i get a puncher on the road i can just quickly replace the tube then worry about patching the broken tube when i get home, i also carry a spare cable for my breaks and gears so i can fix my bike on the road, you don't need to carry many tools at all and if you break down miles away from home you can fix it there and then ans carry on with your journey

i have however found a bike for £180 and it should of cost £250 from my local bike shop, and its the bike i want as well its got 21 speed pump gears rather then your normal twist grip gears and its a all round trek bike so i am going down in a bit and pay a deposit on the bike,
and hopefully pick it up in a couple of days

women the route of all evil

what can i say about women the felmale breed, they can make you feel great the next crapo as hell as if you ever watchedthe telly show bottom woment are the route of all evil was richy and eddies fav saying and it can be true in all case's

ive been thinking of late that i wishi was a vulcan from startrek vulcans are supposed to have no feelings or emotions i whis i was one of those vulcans would make life so much esyer, i know ive had a few to many beers and vodkas and dandilion and burdocks but what he hell its saturday nite and ive worked nearly 70 hours this week i deserve a drink or many inthis case

but to fuck with the female breed all they cause is hurt and pain to the man in this world, i think ill be single now for the rest of me life fuck the female race who needs them when you have a left or right hand and a good imanganiation

fuck it all its not woth the hasssle well not at the moment anyway, nite all and stay safe

training

one of the things ive noticed about myself this week that my man boobs are almost gone, and my belly is getting quite toned up as well and my neck seems to be less flabby, so just think if i keep this up and by the time of marathon day ill look quite a bit differnet, and to prove it to myself ill put a pic of when i was quite overweight to what ill be in spetember

and ive still not worked out how to use me new watch but give me time i will, anyway ive to go get some work done as iam at work, so stay safe out there,

school crimbo show 1988 i think

well here is a pic of me and my old school mates from 1988 and one of our crimbo shows which were normaly quite good, i had a broken arm that crimbo as well iam 1st peraon top left, and if you hadnt guessed it was a robin hood play

cheeky bugger

friday driving home i heard a flapping noise in my engin and got it home but couldnt see much as it was almost dark, so sat morning me and my dad had a look and thoght it was the cam belt was about to snap as it was hanging on by a thread,

so as it was still under warranty i took it nervously back to the garage, and managed to get it there without the belt snapping as ive had a cam belt snap onme once before now, so the chap had a look at it and mentioned it was the fan belt ah i said it under the warranty isnt it and the guy said yep leave it with us and we'll sort it, and by tea time that same day i got a call saying they had fixed it

so tuesday morning i picked me car up, and just for some information i asked them when i come for my mot how much would a service cost the chap said to start with we charge 105 quid for labour for a service then it could be anything upto 250 quid, my mouth dropped open, i told him i normaly do the service meself on me other cars and said it might of been a change to let someone else do it, but at those prices ill carry on doing the work on this new car meself

i can get the parts including breaks for the service for around 70 quid and it'll takeme a morning to do the work, but what cheek hey

watches

as iam getting into my training for the robin hood marathon in september ive been wanting to buy one of those sport watches which counts the calories and distance i travel, ive looked in places like argos and the like and found the watches are quite expesive, but i had a idea to look on amazon and found the perfect watch it dose everything i want and more and at a reasonable price of 25 quid rather than the 60ish quid plus, so i ordered it and it came to my workplace today

on opening the box and looking at the watch for the 1st time i'd thought nice and for the 1st time i did have a look at the user guide which i never normaly do with things i buy, all iam going to say is its going to take some time to get me head round how the bluddy thing all works, ive only just found out how to set the time and date, and reading thurther on in the book it starts asking for my info like hight weight and so on, i'd thoght it would be a case of putting the watch on pressing a button to the callorie and distance thing and seeing how far ive done, but no not that simple

ah well its going to be a quiet afternoon at work so ill spend a bit of time getting used to me new watch and the thousands of functions it has, i wonder if it makes a cup of yorkshire tea,

have a goodun and stay safe

oh dear oh dear what have i done

someone give me a slap across the face as iam feeling a little bit sureal as ive just entered the 13.5 mile robin hood marathon in september yes this year,

ive now got a lot of training to do witch ive already kind of started doing iam doing some outdoor running ive had a go at running round colwick park and round the grounds of the university where i work, and looks like ive got a coach one of me mates wifes from the local pub as she has run quite a lot of marathons in the past so she will be good to get advise and train with her,

yes ive started outdoor running its either been at the moment very early morning or late eve when ive finished work as i dont want to show myself up with how unfit iam at the mo but i did suprise myself tho as i managed to run round half of colwick park before i wanted to passout or puke my guts up, but give it time ill be able to run round all of colwick park and even thurther, i have noticed running on the tread mill at the gym is totaly different than running on the grass or concreate path but ill get used to it and it will be a big challenge

as ive not done realy any fittness training at all realy since i was 18, but i joined a gym in november, and even from november ive noticed a bit of an inprovment in my fitness and now running 10 mins when i 1st started my gym thingy i couldnt realy do a fast 10 min walk without wanting to pass out or break out in a heavy sweat, but iam happy with my progress and with the help with my personal trainer me mates wife from the local pub ill be ready and fit in no time

have a goodun all and stay safe

old friend

these last couple of weeks ive been tracking down old school friend by using facebook and found quite a few, ive also found one of my best friends who i 1st started school with in 1985 we both started on the same day we were in the same class till we left school in 1992 we also shared the same unit and bed room as we both borded at school

ive not seen my old mate since july 1992 and yesterday i went to meet him, i was a little suprized as i rememebr him being very skiny and he was smaller than me, but when i saw him yestersay he stood taller than me at 6ft 1ins he still was paralized down his right side but that has not stopped him making something out of his life

he went to collage to learn about gardening and he worked as a gardener untill last year, he own's his own house and is very indipendent he can almost do every normal every day things apart from his ironing but if you saw him when he was 5 years old and to see him now its quite an achevement to what he has done,

anyway when i saw him yesterday and to say we havnt seen each other for 15 years it was like we were never been apart, we spoke for a few hours catching up on each others life and now ive got back in touch hopefuly we'll never lose touch again, ive been asked to stop over in lincoln one sat nite so we can go out for a few beers which will be fun

i have found some old school pics and ill post them up here at a later date laters all and stay safe

what a manic few days

what a couple of busy days, since ive last posted ive helped caught a flasher at work, the flasher was a chap in his mid 30's been flashing for a weeek and we couldnt gethim till now cos he was on a moutain bike, so we got our heads together and decied to sit around the uni and just wait for him, after a bit of time, one of our guys spotted him on cctv he radioed one of our guys to warn us he was coming,

we see's him coming along the broadwalk we wait till he's halfway along the broadwalk and all of a sudden there were 5 of us pounced on him, he looked a bit shocked with being surrounded by 5 chaps or it could of been that he was also knocked off his bike, but we got him, a well planned operation but we got our man,

after further investigations we found that the same guy was a person from last year, we got a couple of complaints from staff and students that there was a chap riding a bike along the boradwalk and aruond the university ground shouting and swearing at people but as soon as we got the complaints and started to investigate the guy sudenlyed stopped

ah well he's been caught and he'll probly get some help now, also in other news ive lost 6ibs in weight in 2 weeks now ive been going to the gym again and need to get something sorted with jjoining a running club to help me prepair with running in the robin hood marathan in september,
got a couple of busy weekends again last weekend i was working with me dad, this weekend going to southampton to see a mate then next wekend iam working with me dad again then the nextone iam helping an other mate finish lay his patio and hopefuly ill get a weend to go camping before to long,

but for today iam going to be going to the gym in a bit sort a bit of music on my ipod for the bit of driving iam going to be doing then this afternoon ill be gonig to a pub or 2 and have a well ernt beer, and watch the world go by i think

righty have a goodun what ever your doing and just hope the weather stays nice

vodka

i like a vodka every now and again normaly with coke, but ive been stopping in a bit lately and have a vodka with various mixers and one of my fav mixers with vodka is vimto i think pubs should serve more differnt mixers even if its just in the little bottles or cans,

so what mixers in vodka do you like to drink or tryed which you have either liked or not liked

taking the piss or what

i was reading the evening post before i came to work today, and was a story in it about a chap who crashed his car and ran off,

the officers were a bit concerned for the chaps wellfare and called in the sniffer dogs and the helecoper but could not find him, but 2 days later they traced him to his parents address and found him, he owned up and the coppers found he had been banned from driving for 28 months and was already 2months into his ban,

he said he crashed cos he saw a badger on the road and tryed to avoid it but he ended up smashing in to the ditch, he went to court and was fined 60 quid and banned for a longer time and had points on his licence and was told he could not go out at night time for a coulpe of months,

what a pisser if it was me i would of banged him in prison for 6 months, as he was driving with no insurance no driving licence and no mot, what if he hit someone that person wouldnt have much of a chance of claiming of him as he has no insurance, no wonder people are doing crime as the silly punishments they are given

this chap can now get into another car and drive that around till he gets caught again i dont know just another example of crazy britan

i say lock the cunts up if they do the crime again lock them up again but for longer then if they do the crim a 3rd or a 4th time chop a finger off or osmething to make them think 1st if i knew i was going to get a finger choped off i would think about doing something wrong again

strange old week

hope you all been safe and not been stabbed this week but to me this week has been a bit of a strange week, nothing much has happened made most of the weather while we've had nice weather the last couple of days been out on me bike had my dinner at wollaton park before work one day which was nice

hopefully this weekend ill pop to skeggy for the day take me chuckaway bbq walk along the beach find a quiet spot and have a bbq and a read of my book with a couple of bottles of beer, make a nice end to a dull week

watched the new series of big brother last nite seems a mixed bag of fuck twits, i think that blind scotish guy will win and that bluddy chinese drawf what planet did the big brother cheifs find her from hey,

good to see the protesters on our roads once again hope they'll stage one huge protest and close all of britan down for a week or 2 it will not bother me if i cant use my car for a while ill just use my bike, but to the point most people use there cars these days for pointless journeys like going to the shops when they could just walk or when a mother has a twat carrier with one kid in it taking the said kid to school, i dont know when will the madness end

righty iam off to start the lock up at work early as iam trying to finish early as iam off to get pissed this eve or try anyway

what a craper

hasnt it been crap weather wise these last few day, ive been wanting to come to work on me bike but as its been chucking it down not had chance hope the weather gets better soon hey,

was watching the news yesterday and what a whole load of gloom, no wonder everyone is fed up with things, all you seem to hear about it someone eithier being shot stabbed or how crap our goverment are, me ive had enough so iam not going to watch the news for a bit and iam even chaging the paper i read as iam getting fed up of reading about politics and how bad we are getting taxed these days

but on the plus side iam planning this months camping trip might go to tenby in wales or go to berwick and camp near the scottish border and also this month off to see a old friend who ive just got in touch with be good to catch up and have a few beers again

iam off so stay safe you lot and dont get stabbed for 20p