Rocking out Aussie style

so many high points to this performance by Aussie John.... The temporary sheepishness following his stumble to check if anyone noticed and to regain composure - quickly replaced by the inate rock god within, the head banging that's so fast the camera can barely keep up, and the finishing touches of discreet rock horns and polite applause for the band... All the time ably assisted by wingman Paul, as an entire row of semi-comatose pensioners wonder what the hell's going on in the background.

John, I salute you. You are the master, and I a mere pupil.

Helen and Lee's wedding

So, back in London town after a lovely week back at home... On Saturday we attended the wedding of what I can now refer to as "The Goudies"... It's only the second wedding of a friend I've been to, thanks in part to our refusal to grow up and assume adult responsibilities, and it was a fantastic day. They got the mix just right, in that the wedding service lasted all of 20 minutes and the ...

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I'm daydreaming about travelling

by moseying about on Google Earth... I keep reading things about the far north of Norway and really want to travel by boat up to see the Northern Lights. But then when I get to Kirkenes I'd have to go across to Russia to check that out too.... In fact, I'd love to travel round the entire coast of Russia. Ever since I read one of those adventure books (you know the type - if you want to make 'x' ...

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Irn Bru Snowman

I only saw this for the first time today on quality time-wasting channel "Dave". There just aren't enough Scottish adverts on English telly (sod Carling - I want Tennents!)

Somehow this puts me in the Christmas mood more than most things, whilst simultaneously making me want to buy tooth-rottingly sweet garish soft drinks

Now that's what I call.....

.....Christmas!!!

Currently downloading a raft of tunes to provide suitable ambiance for our Christmas dinner tomorrow. It's become a bit of a tradition for my group of mates to meet up near Christmas and celebrate the festive season/get hideously drunk in a safe and comfortable environment.

As my starting point, I have downloaded just about every song from the original "Now that's what I call ...

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Mistletoe and Wine

ah, Christmas.... a mere fortnight away no less. Wasn't it only last Thursday we were having our annual moan about how the shops are starting to sell Christmas cheer earlier every year?

Christmas this year in the Chomper household is going to be a quiet affair, and all the better for it - we've limited ourselves to one present each and are instead going to focus on chilling out and getting ...

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I'm having a beer

Normally on a Sunday I would be stressing at this moment, as it would no doubt have been my 6th of the day and 20-somethingth of the weekend. But thanks to a lack of funds and a new found sense of boringness that has manifested itself since October, it is my 3rd. Something much nicer about relaxing on my bed, beer in hand and watching the football, than forcing pint after pint of water down my neck in a desperate attempt to avoid waking in the middle of the night with sweats, dehydration and heart palpatations... Being old and boring rocks.

Wouldn't it be funny if Poland and Northern ireland were drawn in the same World Cup Group....

.....I said to my girlfriend on Saturday evening....

World Cup Draw - Sunday afternoon:

FIFA World Cup European Qualifying : Group Three Table

25 November 2007 16:35

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Northern Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	San Marino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bloody typical! Now it's gonna be a ...

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Congratulations to DH

Yes, another victory over a traditional European powerhouse team, and another goal for St David of Kilkeel. That's his 13th of the qualifying campaign, ensuring he is now the record scorer in Euro Championship qualifying history - taking the record from no less a luminary than Davor Suker of Croatia. If only we hadn't developed a tendency for scoring own goals in September, I'd be joining the scramble for flights to Austria next summer. As it is, the spineless Swedes did us no favours by folding against Spain last night, and the longest of shots will see me glued to the telly on Wednesday hoping Latvia pull off a shock and we somehow rediscover the spirit of '82. Hmmmm.

I'm off to see Arcade Fire this evening

Have to confess I don't know a huge number of their songs but I'm reliably informed by just about anyone with their finger on the musical pulse that it'll be a fantastic gig. And it's up the Ally Pally, which I've never been to, so I'm really looking forward to it. Of course, being 30 now, I'll probably end up stood at the back grumbling about not being able to have a nice seat for three hours.

T to the Chizzle steps out

yes, due to my being tied to the most rubbish and expensive tariff vodafone have to offer, coupled with a girlfriend in another city and no landline and resulting in a phone bill this month of a mere £160, I have taken my first step towards becoming a hustla.

I'll now have one phone for my everyday use, and one for my bitches (i.e. my girlfriend and my mum). J's on O2 meaning I can get a pay as you go sim card and 500 mins free to O2 and landlines for a mere tenner a month. Pity I didn't think of it, oh, about 30 days ago?

Welcome to the Slaughterhouse....

On return from my birthday tour of the northern United kingdom (of which more to follow), we were thrust straight back into London life with an invite to Helen's house's halloween party. We were both tired and fragile after two weeks on the go, so imagine our consternation as we wandered into deepest Nunhead to be confronted by a sign saying "welcome to the Slaughterhouse". Inside was like some kind of mass murder had taken place, except from what I could gather it seemed to be humans vs beasts. Good old London town, where pigs feet are available from all good corner shops...




The full pics are available here

If you're bored tomorrow evening

And are not irritated in the extreme by Graham Norton, why not watch "Who do you think you are" at 9pm on BBC1? He ends up in my mum's home village and visits the church where I was baptised and our local pub (in fact there's now a picture of him hanging on the wall in the pub, right next to one of Prince Charles pulling a pint).

How to be a writer

I was reading an interview with Douglas Copeland yesterday, and he was explaining how he got into writing... He'd been out in Japan being an illustrator for a magazine but got ill and had to return home to his bedsit in Vancouver. Whilst he was in Tokyo, he'd written his mate a postcard which she'd then stuck on her fridge - this happened to be read by a "magazine editor friend" of hers who ...

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Click on this

You could win the contents of a page of Woolworths' new Big Red Book, simply by firing a real live catapult at a target. Kind of like Ant & Dec's Saturday night Takeaway, but better....

Anyway, what you do is register for the launch (geddit) of the catalogue, then if you're lucky enough you get to fire a real catapult, somewhere in a field in Rutland or somewhere, whereby you choose your ...

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Happy anniversary

As I sit here polishing off my second can of lager and stubbing out my 6th fag, it's hard to believe that this time last year I was the healthiest I've been since being a stalwart (i.e. occasional substitute) of the most mediocre rugby team my school had seen for years.

Yes, last Sunday marked the first anniversary of "the 10K". The reason for the blog, the proof that even a couch potato can drag himself round Hyde Park if the notion takes him. It all seems very long ago - the hot summer and routine of jogging.... I kind of miss it as I sit here shivering, wheezing and still drying out from being caught in the pissing rain this afternoon....

Just noticed I only posted 5 times in September

Rubbish.

To be fair I was moving house, but this time last year I don't think that got in the way. So to my army of two readers, I apologise. It won't happen again.

So, err, here's another post. Just to get the numbers up.

Poland

So, Poland....






Unfortunately my camera is currently knackered, so the only photos I managed to take myself whilst behind the iron curtain were these two - summing up how grim the place really is. I truly felt like a spy as I sat on the terrace, eating fish and chips and looking out at ships sailing past on the Baltic.... I'm starting to think that during the Cold War, all the leaders of the ...

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Greetings to my friends in Libya

And in Romania

Yes, bizarrely, I have had hits on my blog from such far-flung exotic locations as Tripoli, Bucharest and, erm, Brentford.

Speaking of football....

Had the pleasure of visiting the Emirates stadium last Tuesday for the Carling cup game between Arsenal and Newcastle. The Arsenal juniors destroyed the opposition without ever actually scoring a goal, at least until the final 10 minutes when they stuck two in right in front of us. The stadium is easily the best I've ever been in - it looks like a squat UFO as you approach it, and inside it's so compact it's hard to believe that you're sharing it with over 60,000 people. 60,003 on that particular evening, in fact.

Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy

Yes, for once I'm not embarrassed to admit I'm a Rangers fan.... A quite stunning 3-0 demolition of French champions Lyon this evening in the Champions League...

As the Norn Irish purple patch comes to a sudden end, is it time for the other pish team i support to give me more nights of European glory?!

Pulling an all nighter

So, the countdown is on to another trip to Poland.... Now that I live in the sticks I have decided to splash out on a minicab to whisk me into Victoria, to pick up the coach to the airport at a very reasonable 2.40am. My flights at 6.10. Lovely.

Off to a wedding outside Gdansk which I'm nervous about to say the least. Not only do I have to meet the parents again, having reneged on my promise of ...

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I've made a bed

I make that +10 Man points for me......?

Of course, the fact I have 9 screws left over, one of which isn't even in the inventory, only adds to the masculinity of the whole thing.

Can't wait to get into bed only to find it collapse around me like one of those clown cars from black and white movies.....

Hallo! Wie Gehts?

Bizarrely, since moving to my new house and hijacking Craig's internet connection, my blogger is now coming up in German. Which makes me think of lots more potentially common key words.

and we wondered why we always had allergies....

After four and a half years living in "edgy", "vibrant" and "alternative" Brixton, I have relocated to the suburbs, for a life more befitting a man who now has more grey hairs on his head than he can count.

Whilst cleaning my old bedroom, it became apparent there was a bit of dust about the place. In this case, a "bit" equating to "a lot".

It's honestly the dustiest flat I've ever lived in - ...

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Moving time again

Not actually "moving time", you understand, in a weird Denzel Washington movie kind of way. Although that would be cool.

No, the time has come again for me to pack my knapsack with all my worldly possessions and mosey off into the sunset. Another year's lease expired, another change of postcode. I make it that this will be my 15th different address since leaving home at the age of 18 - any ...

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Next stop Christmas

Yes, the final bank holiday is past for another year. How was yours?

I took advantage of a summer spent stuck in work to take a few extra days off this year. Managed to fit in Get Loaded in the Park and a visit to Portsmouth, so also didn't feel like I'd wasted the time off.

Get Loaded was as good as always - yet again after a shit summer the weather was on its best behavious and we sweltered ...

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Ah, summer eh?

Summer is drawing to a close, which can only mean the weather is going to improve... It seems to have vanished in the blink of an eye, porbably whilst I was holed up in a pub at the weekend sheltering from the rain. I honestly don't know what's happened to 2007 - I was so certain that this was going to be an amazing year, and yet here we are with only 4 months left to go and it seems to be the ...

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There's so much wrong with this picture I don't even know where to start......

God bless the internet

I checked my Google Analytics this evening, just to see what's been going on. Bizarrely, someone had found their way to my blog by typing "Noel Mellor" into the search engine. And spent almost 10 minutes on it.

"Who's he?, I hear you cry...." Well, it would appear he is a former Ticketmaster employee now working for Bruntwood Estates in Manchester (and abusing his internet access), who decided ...

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This google analytics thing is awfully clever

and more than a bit 'big brother'. Andy was talking about it and saying some of the slightly dodgy internet searches that have led people to his site, given that he normally has random movie quotes in there.

My first discovery is that I've had 11 unique visitors in the last 24 hours, one of whom found me by typing "john smeaton.com" into Google. I googled the same phrase, and there I am - number 5 on the list of results! Who says you have to spend money to get a favourable listing?

I can also tell that at least two of the visits have been by me, as the name of my company is shown in the networks listing. Hope they're not checking out similar things at their end.....

I've addedd Google Analytics to the blog

so I can see who has been visiting it. Thereby confirming once and for all that apart from me and my mum, the thing only has about two readers. Still, until it gets to just me reading it (or even beyond that), I shall continue waffling crap and clogging up the information superhighway....

wasted Sunday

or should that be wasted on Saturday night, leading to a wasted Sunday? Yet again I have managed to not leave the flat for the entire day and my weekend has disappeared in the blink of an eye. Thank goodness for J working the late shift, as going to collect her will force me to get some fresh air before the weekend is over completely.

Welcome to the world Leon Philipp Bickelman

Yes, another of my friends has gone and had a baby. So congrats to Stella and Pino on their new arrival. I'm off to the pub, and looking forward to having a teenie hired assassin available in years to come to settle any scores necessary.

The two videos I posted on You Tube have been viewed a combined total of 150 times

Do people have nothing better to do?

2

I thought that my posts this evening might look a bit like popular drama series "24", only with days of the week. Then I realised nothing of note really happened on Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Wednesday, so it became similar to an annoying box set after you've had a party and someone's nicked half the dvds.

Anyway, it's been an eventful week.

Tuesday

4pm, Tuesday afternoon. Sitting at my desk feeling reasonably productive. The phone rings. Jane answers. "Tony, it's for you - it's Group Security and Fraud". Panicked thoughts streak across my mind - finally my idle internet surfing has caught up with me - I've accidentally clicked on an Ebay link once too often, they've done an audit of my internet and emails and I'm buggered....

I pick up the ...

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Friday

Last Friday I had the dubious pleasure of being scanned with a metal detector on the way into the pub. Such are the wondrous times we live in these days. I felt a little bit like I was in Total Recall for a moment, as the bouncer pointed at the square, wallet-shaped thing in my pocket and asked what it was. However, the novelty had worn off by the time I got inside as I wondered exactly why they ...

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A bit of German pop for you....

This is Wir Sind Helden, who I saw at the ICA last night. Am guessing you won't really get a feel for it via the 2 megapixel brilliance of my camera phone (or my position right at the back of the crowd) but seeing as they're my first ever uploads to You Tube, I thought I'd share them.

Hello again

It's been a while again, hasn't it? I entirely blame Facebook for my lack of action - I don't actually do anything on it, but just spend hours seemingly refreshing the browser to see if anyone else has done something. I'm sure it's not the most productive way of spending my fast-disappearing youth.

Recently I've also been up to a fair bit - went to see my favourite German pop band last night at ...

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Intelligent humour

I'm trying to clean a variety of stains from our sofa at the moment in preparation for the landlord finally bringing round a sofa cover, and noticed that this has appeared due to the way I've tried to get the (rather nasty) fag burn cleaned up a bit. Not quite the same as seeing Jesus' likeness in a Kumquat, but a phenomenon nonetheless. Or at least a mildly amusing accident.

Kenyaaa.....Ohhh Kenyaaaa.....

.....where the giraffes are..... and the zebraaaaaa!

Yes, as I write, Mother tattie (on the left in the photo) has been in Kenya for 5 days and her trek is, amazingly, almost over. In the past few days, she has seen giraffes, buffalo and gazelles, abseiled down a 25 metre cliff and climbed 550m up the side of a volcano... and these are just the things she has told me about.

She'll never realise ...

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Glasgow's a tough city...

Just look at this piece of evidence. Unfortunately You Tube have disabled the embed function but if you clik on the link you should be transported back to another era, when men were men and wore moustaches with pride....

Glasgow Diamonds Football Team

"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language ending with "-mt"

Amazing what you can learn from the back of a Penguin wrapper

I take it all back

Thanks to Helen for making me feel a whole hell of a lot better about missing Roskilde this year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6283822.stm

This brightened up my Monday morning

A public service announcement

Courtesy of Mr Murray Gordon.

Psycho cabbie

The latest satirical news website on the internet

At least, I hope to God it is. I mean, they can't actually be serious with headline likes this can they?

Headline 1

Headline 2

The John McClane of Glasgow

Those north of the border will no doubt already be familiar with Mr John Smeaton, or "the Smeatonator" as he's now known. This is the guy who - irritated at having his fag break interrupted - single-handedly took on the terrorists at Glasgow Airport last Saturday. As the wonderful article today in local rag "The Daily Record" quoted him as saying:

"This man went straight for the policeman and ...

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I love summer

This evening it felt like the apocalypse was nigh....

Freaky Storminess

Pics of said freaky storminess

very odd. I would have my own photo but had to put my camera out the window to take it and it got soaked and blurry.

Bloody summer.

Lorna Hunter

The day many never thought would happen is finally here - my thank you post to Lorna.

The official reason (not excuse) for not writing one sooner is that I didn't have a photo of her to accompany the glorious tribute, but some handiwork with my scanner a few minutes ago means I now have one at my disposal. Erm, this one. I did have another one but I gave it to Andy about 2 years ago to scan for ...

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Cigars. Rubbish.

Adieu

Ban? What ban?

The end of an era is upon us

A sad day

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stm

Will probably mean less to you if you didn't go to Glasgow Uni (or similar)

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An interview with the wee man himself

who says there's no news in Scotland?

I know everyone's already seen it

but this had disappeared of You Tube for a while and now it's back! Bolt, ya nugget.

God it's been ages

so it's been a while since I've posted anything. Rubbish. Let's just get it clear at this point that I am aware there are a few hardy souls who do actually look at this thing once in a while and for them I can only apologise for the lack of witty banter that has been forthcoming in recent weeks. I'm also more than aware that I owe Lorna and Im a write up for their generous sponsorship of my mum ...

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sorry for the lack of blogging recently

bear with me - normal service will be resumed soon

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This time last year I was getting ready for Roskilde

This year I'm sat watching Glastonbury getting verrrry jealous.... I never really cared before, but now all the memories are coming flooding back.

Next year Rodney. Next year.

I added the "cities I've visited" application to Facebook this evening

37 cities in 10 countries, eh? Sounds almost impressive. Except that 75% of them are places like "Birmingham", "Glasgow", "Belfast" and "Brighton", whilst the rest are pretty much a detailed map of mid-80s middle class holiday destinations.

Still, in the past year I've been to Berlin, Gdansk, Malmo and Copenhagen, so maybe it's not too late.

New kid on the blog

I am thinking of retiring from blogging, as I will otherwise just get depressed at the gulf in quality between this tattie (like what I did there?) rag and the newest addition to my "links" - Withafacelikethat.

This is the forst foray into the internet revolution by my good friend, Mr Gavin Wilson. Unfortunately, he is a professional journalist, and you can therefore guarantee that the content ...

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Musicovery

I stumbled Upon this the other day - it's quite cool

Musicovery

I'm a bit pished

oops

I have Roskilde-envy

The paper had a feature on European festivals today. Made the mistake of looking at the line up for Roskilde. CSS, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire...

200 Euro for a week of camping out in a dusty field whilst an 18 year old scandinavian kid pisses against your tent before setting fire to it - come on! Who's with me?!?!

I've made my can of beer last 2 hours

rock and roll

Egads, what to talk about

Always the way, isn't it? You finally get an opportunity to sit down and chew the fat/entertain the masses with some blog-situated frivolity and then you come over all shy. Probably just as well though - am supposed to be job hunting.

All I ask for is £25K, no uniform and Fridays off to go down the pub. Can't be that feckin hard, can it?

The adoring look of the father to be

Worshipping Stella's belly. Either that or Pino had just overdone it last weekend and couldn't stand up in the park. Still love the photo though.

Slowly returning to normality

I had a very civilised weekend this weekend - skintness helped force my hand and resulted in me having a few beers on Friday, a nice afternoon in the park and then a very civilised Saturday evening getting all cultured on the South Bank at the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall, and the best, most sober Saturday night's sleep I've had since I was about 14 years old. I slept like a log and woke ...

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Getting cultured for free

At the reopening of the Festival Hall

25% of Londoners think I'm boring

Wouldn't-know-a-frothy-get-you-home-in-the-evening-anecdote-if-it-hit-them-in-the-face-and-
then-pooed-on-their-heads philistine twats.

Quality control goes out the window again

Quite how thelondonpaper manages to fill it's column inches on a daily basis is beyond me, as I am convinced there is a complete lack of submissions for their "columnist" feature. The latest proof is that they have printed my drunken mush, penned when in a state of some fuzziness on Thursday evening.

Whilst I was proud the first time I got a column printed, it's more a case of "quantity over ...

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Summer's here...

Pushing the boundaries of journalistic endeavour

after months and months of writer's block (caused in no small part by people telling me they actually liked my previous column), I finally found inspiration this evening in the form of a plucky fly. Kind of like Robert the Bruce. Thanks to Gav for pointing out the obvious, i.e. that it was a spider in the story. So much for poetic license.

Anyway, it's not pulitzer prize winning and probably ...

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Not trying to be annoying...

Thanks so much to everyone who's sponsored my mum for her trek so far - Imogen, Gav, Louise, Julie-anne, Jennie and Colin.

I know a few others mentioned they might chuck a few bob her way and I've realised I didn't really say when she's going etc... She's off on July the 7th, just over 5 weeks away, so I think she needs to know how much she's raised before then. She's training hard at the mo, ...

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Over-emotional pretentious text message of the weekend

the award goes to me, I believe, for this nugget of drunken articulation....

"I'm enveloped in a sea of belfast accents... Used to hate it, now it feels like a comfy pair of ear muffs. Maybe it's a reaction to London".

Apologies, Jennie, for cluttering up your inbox with such drivel.

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What will we call our company?

Imagine being "Mr Porn". Quality.

For anyone who's interested....

I thought I'd put my photos of my trip home with J online... I say my photos, what I mean is "the photos deemed acceptable by J", which seems to include any of me looking like a twat and exclude any of her unless you can't actually make her out from the one pixel high spot in the middle of the picture.

Anyway, they do a reasonable amount of justice to my wee neck of the woods, and somewhat scarily by the time I'd got to viewing the album after uploading, someone had already viewed the one of me making a gimp face at the camera.... the world is full of freaks, people...

Northern Ireland photos

I feel properly pished off the back of 3 pints

I think I must be getting old. Back in the day (as I remember it) I could have 6 pints of Stella and still be up fresh as a daisy the next morning to right the world's wrongs...

It could be the fact I know I have to get up at 4.45 in the morning to get my flight back to the motherland, and am already panicking because everything has to work perfectly to make my flight. If I get the half 5 tube I should be at Stansted for around 6.40, giving me a whole 15 minutes leeway before my flight closes. Bah. Life shouldn't be this stressful.

Welcome to Trafalgar Park

Wales photos are Flickred up

Unfortunately I forgot to give them a set name and I can't work out to add them to the group, so this link will have to do....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44222788@N00/

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I'm pure knack'd

It's been fair hectic this month and no mistake. Back in the NI for my friend Peter's wedding on the 5th, then J arrived on the 6th, mum's birthday on the 7th, the Glens and the Giants Causeway on the 8th, back to London on the 9th, off to Wales for Jennie's birthday on the 11th, back on the 14th, then the Heineken Cup final at Twickenham last Sunday. Me head's pure spinning.

It's been a very ...

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Liverpool lost. Oh well

The more important thing is I lost £170. I say lost, what i mean is "didn't win", which is almost the same, as I had a fiver on Milan to win 3-0 at 33-1. Seemed like good odds up until the 85th minute.

Feck me it's hot

not "warm" or "pleasant", but Hot.

I'm all for global warming, but can they not at least get a bit of consistency?

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Crowd a stonners....

Oh where to start with this beautiful memory of Messrs Zimmer, Davidson and Browning from way back in 1998.... The World Cup in France was a mere two days old and we were looking forward to the excitement of "honours" classes next year. At least, those of us who had managed to complete our first two years at university were.... Apparently Andy Cole was still quite good and playing for Man Utd a...

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Old pic of the day....

Ahh.... Hogmanay 2000... a distinct chill in the air as we walked to the Old Fruitmarket (aka knee deep slush). Saw in the new year standing bollock freezing in the queue for the club. Lovely. You would not know from this photo that merely 2 days later I was phoning NHS direct and persuading Gav to take me to Casualty (leaving as soon as we realised it was a minimum 5 hour wait for a doctor) as I lost feeling in my legs and couldn't stand up without falling over again. Of course, I completely blame the cold weather and not the debauchery of the evening in question.

Have been getting all retro

They don't make theme tunes like this anymore

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I think that two cats are shagging outside my bedroom window

Either that or there's a banshee on the loose.

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I've wasted another evening

messing about on Facebook. Before anyone gets all high and mighty, I know it's for people 10 years younger than me ("lol") but it's all Helen's fault for inviting me to sign up. Now I spend lonely hours, trawling for names of half-remembered aquaintances... Obviously either I have a bad memory or everyone else has far better things to do with their time. Bizarrely my work has its own group. I think that I might avoid contact, rather than rocking up and going "hey kids! I'm that grumpy old bloke that never talks to you! Wanna be my virtual friend?". Would probably get me arrested or something.

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My bank's taken £1300 of my money

in charges over the last 4 years. Bloody daylight robbery I tells ya. Fair enough, around £700 of that is in interest on my overdraft, but the rest is for bounced direct debits and the like. The cheek! If I can get my arse in gear am going to try and claim it back - only problem is if they give me back the charges they might then expect me to pay back the money I owe them.

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I'm getting too old for this....

After a fantastic holiday, firstly in Northern Ireland and then in Wales, I managed to take it too far on Sunday and obviously broke myself slightly. The result, encouraged by a bumpy trip out of Canaervon in the back of Murray's (mum's) Mini, was possibly the most scenic chunder ever seen, down the side of a valley in the middle of Snowdonia.

The resultant shakes, sleeplessness, feelings of ...

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