As I mentioned before, I bought flights to Palermo for J and me in July. What I didn't manage to do was organise accommodation or internal travel whilst there at the height of the summer season. It's all starting to look a bit pricey. I've registered with Trip Advisor but am a lazy bastard at heart and it's all a bit of effort to find what I'm looking for. So, anyone who's been - ...
Read More »Thursday, January 29, 2009
Warm n fuzzy
I helped my first little old lady last night. Our lift is out of action at the moment, and on the way back from playing football (2nd week running - get me!) one of my neighbours from the floor below was on the landing. She asked if she could ask me a "mad question", and handed me her shopping list and purse, almost in tears as she explained she had run out of provisions and couldn't get up and ...
Read More »Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ever wondered what would happen to your Christmas tree if you kept it?
Allow me to demonstrate....
Given that we bought quite an expensive live tree just before Christmas and were away for most of the holidays, we took the high ground this year and are keeping our little shrub for as long as we can instead of adding to the pathetic pile of withering cast offs outside our building. He (or she?) is named Chris - a devastatingly original moniker courtesy of my ever ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Ow
I hurt.
Feel good for having made the effort to go and play though. Even though I lasted 10 mins before being unable to run anymore, which didn't endear me to too many team mates. I realised they were on to me when they tried to trade me for the opposition's best player to "even things up". Prior to that I was swearing loudly each time each time I got skinned or let in a goal, just to let ...
Read More »Feel good for having made the effort to go and play though. Even though I lasted 10 mins before being unable to run anymore, which didn't endear me to too many team mates. I realised they were on to me when they tried to trade me for the opposition's best player to "even things up". Prior to that I was swearing loudly each time each time I got skinned or let in a goal, just to let ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
My sister had that dog!!!
Not the Andrex puppy, the wooden toy with the boingy tail at the very start of the clip....
And they say watching endless hours of tv isn't good for you. I got almost as excited as the first time I saw my company's corporate video and realised I have the same alarm clock as featured at the beginning of it. What next? My childhood pal "little Ted" starring in an salmon commercial? B&Q using my collection of hammer-modified cars to advertise their range of Bosch man-appliances? Ah, the memories......
Maybe it won't be a bad thing to get out of the house for a few hours tomorrow.
And they say watching endless hours of tv isn't good for you. I got almost as excited as the first time I saw my company's corporate video and realised I have the same alarm clock as featured at the beginning of it. What next? My childhood pal "little Ted" starring in an salmon commercial? B&Q using my collection of hammer-modified cars to advertise their range of Bosch man-appliances? Ah, the memories......
Maybe it won't be a bad thing to get out of the house for a few hours tomorrow.
Don't Mess with The ..Playing football tomorrow....
Figure if I don't start playing it at some point soon I'll not be able to anymore.
I've slowly begun to accept that my chances of playing rugby for Ireland are probably gone, given that I took a break from it 10 years ago and forgot to start again.
Witnessing Ryan Giggs puff and pant his way around the pitch in recent weeks, it's dawned on me that I have maybe 6 years left to play in the Premiership, so step one is tomorrow. Pretty confident it's only a fitness / lack of tactical awareness thing that's holding me back.
Am prepared for pain. And men shouting at me. Potentially even an injured netball player, if my one previous outing last summer is anything to go by.
I've slowly begun to accept that my chances of playing rugby for Ireland are probably gone, given that I took a break from it 10 years ago and forgot to start again.
Witnessing Ryan Giggs puff and pant his way around the pitch in recent weeks, it's dawned on me that I have maybe 6 years left to play in the Premiership, so step one is tomorrow. Pretty confident it's only a fitness / lack of tactical awareness thing that's holding me back.
Am prepared for pain. And men shouting at me. Potentially even an injured netball player, if my one previous outing last summer is anything to go by.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Thanks to SC Johnson
A family company.
Who have cheered me up just a little bit with the most ridiculous advert I have seen in a very long time.
I imagine it to be titled "poo at Paul's", or something similar. I can't believe that some advertising exec has managed to get it on the telly - it must be some kind of terrible industry in-joke that the rest of us don't know about, where there's a prize for the most ...
Read More »Who have cheered me up just a little bit with the most ridiculous advert I have seen in a very long time.
I imagine it to be titled "poo at Paul's", or something similar. I can't believe that some advertising exec has managed to get it on the telly - it must be some kind of terrible industry in-joke that the rest of us don't know about, where there's a prize for the most ...
Blue Monday
God, I knew that this is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, but I wasn't quite prepared for it to be quite so shitty.
I started my new job today - I had prepared myself to be underwhelmed, as always happens when you go from comfy, know-everyone, know-what-to-do job of two years to being the new kid at school. But it was utterly depressing. I still don't know what I'm doing, ...
Read More »I started my new job today - I had prepared myself to be underwhelmed, as always happens when you go from comfy, know-everyone, know-what-to-do job of two years to being the new kid at school. But it was utterly depressing. I still don't know what I'm doing, ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Thinking about it....
......"Glasgow Underground" is yet another CD of mine that has gone missing over the past 3 years. Along with "Subculture". And Optimo 2001. And 2 Many Djs. And Mylo.
It's understandable, but why did some individual / collection of rapscallions have to nick all my best, most credible House CDs? In the future, my kids will look at my remaining detritus ("Jesus Jones", anyone?) and question why ...
Read More »It's understandable, but why did some individual / collection of rapscallions have to nick all my best, most credible House CDs? In the future, my kids will look at my remaining detritus ("Jesus Jones", anyone?) and question why ...
Right on
I've been playing about with widgets again - filthy habit, I really should stop before I go blind....
On the left hand side you may notice that there is now an iLike playlist, which seemed like the coolest thing in the world, except for the fact it only plays a few seconds of each song. Quite what the point is I'm not sure.
I stopped having any semblance of "cool" sometime around 2002, and as ...
Read More »On the left hand side you may notice that there is now an iLike playlist, which seemed like the coolest thing in the world, except for the fact it only plays a few seconds of each song. Quite what the point is I'm not sure.
I stopped having any semblance of "cool" sometime around 2002, and as ...
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Super-Tattie
Yes, I am a superhero. I always suspected as much, but until this afternoon had not had the chance to prove it.
We were just getting ready to go shopping when an alarm went off somewhere in the building. We weren't sure what is what, so obviously ignored it. A few minutes later, we heard very loud banging coming from next to the flat and realised someone was stuck in the lift.
The guy could ...
Read More »We were just getting ready to go shopping when an alarm went off somewhere in the building. We weren't sure what is what, so obviously ignored it. A few minutes later, we heard very loud banging coming from next to the flat and realised someone was stuck in the lift.
The guy could ...
Traditional fare now available on "the mainland"
Not sure whether to be happy or not, but at the checkout in Iceland (vive le crunch du credit!) this afternoon I spotted a couple of new products on offer from Kingsmill - potato bread, and pancakes. As in the thick small bread-y pancakes, not the sort you make on Shrove Tuesday. These are my two favourite Irish bread products (besides Veda) and it has been a source of some consternation that ...
Read More »Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Entry to NYC 09 doesn't open until mid-February
and it looks like my hopes of getting free flights to the Big Apple courtesy of some enthusiastic fund-raising are a bit optimistic. On top of that, the BUPA London 10K I said I'd do with my mate Helen is on Monday 25th May - the bank holiday. I really don't fancy giving up the best long weekend of the year for my "sport".
Perhaps my commitment is somewhat lacking when it comes to this jogging malarkey.
Perhaps my commitment is somewhat lacking when it comes to this jogging malarkey.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Like watching a car crash
Thanks to Mr Lee Goudie, for the most back handed compliment of the blog I've heard in some years. Apparently "you want to stop reading, but you can't help going back for another look".
I just hope that Mr Goudie is not the Belfast equivalent of James Spader in David Cronenberg's controversial movie. Whilst I am here to entertain and even, in an entirely innocent way, excite, the thought of him leering at these words with his tongue hanging out is not one I want in my head. Too late. Ick.
I just hope that Mr Goudie is not the Belfast equivalent of James Spader in David Cronenberg's controversial movie. Whilst I am here to entertain and even, in an entirely innocent way, excite, the thought of him leering at these words with his tongue hanging out is not one I want in my head. Too late. Ick.
How many Creative Writing courses does it take to fill a travel supplement?
Thirteen, if the Observer 'Escape' review of 2008 is anything to go by.
"Boss, can I have Christmas off?"
"Well, who will write the end of year review piece?"
"Simple! Our fist-gnawingly-pretentious readership of course!"
The result? Let's just say I never thought someone's account of a trip to Parliament Hill lido would not only make me want to out scratch my eyes, but also ram a pencil up my ...
Read More »"Boss, can I have Christmas off?"
"Well, who will write the end of year review piece?"
"Simple! Our fist-gnawingly-pretentious readership of course!"
The result? Let's just say I never thought someone's account of a trip to Parliament Hill lido would not only make me want to out scratch my eyes, but also ram a pencil up my ...
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