2009 what a year good its out the way

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

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

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

another crimbo out the way

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

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

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

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

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

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

inpressed and uninpressed

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

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

all sorted

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

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

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

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

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

sorry people

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

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

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

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

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

have a goodun all and stay safe

snow how it causes problems

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

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

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

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

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

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

shitter shitter shitter quite fucked off

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

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

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

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

car

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


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



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



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



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









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





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



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





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

crimbo

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

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

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

makes me mad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

formula 1

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

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

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

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

stupid students i wonder sometimes

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

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

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

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

time where is it going

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

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

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

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

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

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

all is well

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

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

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

long weekend off yeah

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

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

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

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

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

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

laters all and staf safe

out of love

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

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

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

tescos being wankers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

weight

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fat man

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

brewing

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

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

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

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

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

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