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