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Snigger

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Irrational hatred

All this week I keep being confronted with things that I absolutely despise.  Unfortunately I've also been in a reflective mood and I've come to realise that my hatred of these things is entirely irrational and counter productive to my living a mellow and happy life.  Here are a few:

1. People ending emails with the non-existent work "Thankyou".  For some reason this makes me shake my fist in rage.  Some words can naturally be contracted and some just shouldn't be.
2. Fans.  Fans move hot air around and blow paperwork all over the place.  I hate them even though I want one desperately to cool me down knowing full well that it won't.
3. People asking me pointless questions that they know the answer to already.  They're just wasting my time.
4. Shop assistants who keep talking to each other when they are moving my shopping items over the bar code reader.  Hello, customer!
5. Drivers helpfully slowing their cars in the road to "allow" me to cross the road.  I hate this more when I am with the kids but I am perfectly capable of crossing the road on my own and am willing to wait until traffic is clear.  More than that: I have spent years teaching the kids not to cross the road if there are cars coming.  A slow moving car is still moving and is therefore not safe.  Even worse is that I am expected to wave my thanks to the driver for breaking the Highway Code and if I don't or I wave them through then they get all huffy.  Arrg! I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

Obviously there are many more but I would like to know what your irrational hatreds are.

Current mood: Angry


First single

We've been discussing our first singles at work.  You know, the first single you ever bought.  Mine was the excellent Stool Pigeon by Kid Creole and the Coconuts but I spent many years telling people it was the Jam's Town Called Malice but when I hit thirty I decided that truth was better than embarrassment.

What was your first single?

Currently playing: Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon
Current mood: Big-Smiley

Nellie the Elephant

To Bombay
A traveling circus came
They brought an intelligent elephant
And Nellie was her name
One dark night
She slipped her iron chain
And off she ran to Hindustan
And was never seen again

Ooooooooooooo...

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

Night by night
She danced to the circus band
When Nellie was leading the big parade
She looked so proud and grand
No more tricks
For Nellie to perform
They taught her how to take a bow
And she took the crowd by storm

The head of the herd was calling
Far, far away
They met one night in the silver light
On the road to Mandalay
So Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

Ooooooooooooo...

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

Just added for extra effect.

Currently playing: Nellie the Elephant
Current mood: Big-Smiley


Patterns

As someone who is occassionally interested in human beings I've been watching with interest how some humans have begun to decorate their bodies.  It seems that a new fashion has spontaneously arrisen for sunburn in amusing patterns.  Not just the traditional half body sunburn caused by standing half under shade in a bar and drinking all day or even the sunbathe behind a fence type sunburn.  No.  Wild zebra like patterns are being practiced by these new sunburn artists.

Just now I have seen a gentleman of large stature who has managed to perfect his sunburn art.  His otherwise white skin, I mean alabaster white and not just pale, was decorated with bright red patterns across his shoulders, at the tops of his pendulus manboobs and across the top of his ample belly.  This left large white stripes under his manboobs, in the folds of his belly and under his arms.  You'll have to imagine it because I didn't take a picture.

It must have taken him hours of patient sitting to achieve.  I expect it'll look even better when he starts to peel.

A quick look around the internet for similar tales led me to this:

Which has to be the coolest sunburn pattern ever.

Current mood: Big-Smiley

Tomato double dared

I dare ya to cut and paste the list and amend to show your answers on your blog, in fact I doubledare ya!  Tomato double dared me so I'm passing it on.

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink - but we were the only ones in the pub
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain - Mount Boniface is a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you" and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten my own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's nappy
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse - only losing horses
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favourite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden on a roller coaster
42. Hit a six
43. Fit three weeks work miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking - Only when completely legless
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors - Um, Wisbech hardly counts though
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states - a bit American I've never been there.
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign - Every student must do this.
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach - frequently
62. Sky diving - Not yet
63. Visited Ireland - Um, I was born there so technically this is a yes.
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman - with real swords.
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy - and been kissed like this too.
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Rode a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a cheque
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour 
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written to your government representative
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge - driven over it a few times
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
138. Had plastic surgery - on my eyes
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived 
140. Wrote articles for a large publication - not actually published though
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari 
152. Ridden on a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 130 mph
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery - invilving a general anasthetic?
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon - I want to though
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about - I wish
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name 
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad - Its on my list though
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read - What the hell is an important author?
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because you needed them
183. ...and gotten 86′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language - it seems that I do this all the time
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196. Dyed your hair
197. Been a DJ 
198. Found out someone was going to dump you via Blogger
199. Written your own role playing game
200. Been arrested

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Dragons are real

Oh ye of little faith who have told me year on year that dragons are fantasy creatures that do not really exist read this.  Of yes, see.  A dragon has been seen.  Watch out for the Ninki Nanka and the sofa sized pig.

I must say that my daughter Cake Worm is chuffed to bits at this bit of news as her love of dragons is as great as my own.

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Tired...still

I took Friday off work to take the kids out for the day.  School had closed on Thursday where we live but was still open in many other parts of the country.  We decided to laze around all morning (OK, I decided that bit) and traipse down to Portsmouth's Pyramids Centre for a swim.  Curiously there is a club called the Frog on the Front that uses part of the Pyramids but we didn't go there.

Feeling a bit lazy still we got the train to Portsmouth Harbour and then a taxi to the Pyramids.  I had a long chat with the taxi driver about free events in Portsmouth over the summer.  These cabbies know a thing or two you know.  They are well worth having a chat to.  Also because The Hildy works in Pompey supporting families she has amassed a vast array of information about freebies in the area so we were happily swapping information for the entire journey.  Some taxi drivers can be miserable gits but this bloke earned every penny of his £5 fare.

We arrived at 12:30, joined as members to benefit from the half price tickets, got changed and in the water in time for the wave machine to start.  Wave machines are always good fun.  The place was practically empty when we arrived but after a couple of hours a coachload of Italian schoolkids arrived.  They were really funny.  English people enjoy themselves quietly and with a certain degree of reservation.  A wave picks us up, flips us over and makes us laugh and we respond with "Well that was fun".  The Italians were chanting and singing and leaping about like they'd never seen water before.  Really funny and quite refreshing.

We stopped for lunch in the pool side cafe before the tadpoles dragged me off to the water slide.  It looked a bit like this except it was red and better.

I was forced to slide down the water slide dozens of times, swim-surf the waves another dozen times, demonstrate how to swim underwater a thousand times and give the tadpoles rides on the dad-shark about a million times.  We finally decided that we would drown if we didn't leave at about 6:30 and were walking back along the Southsea sea front at 7.

The Hildy was waxing on about how peaceful Southsea was compared to our home town on a Friday night.  There were no drunks,  no violence, no broken bottles.  It was very peaceful.  We enjoyed a slow stroll, stopped for slush puppies and slightly stronger drinks for the drown ups, and watched the sun start to go down. 

Saturday was spent lounging around doing nothing but catch up on reading and sorting the kids summer homework schedule out.  They have exercise books and homework diaries now.  I don't think we had the energy to do anything else.

Now that it's Sunday I'm starting to wonder why some of my muscles still ache.  I really must put some effort into getting properly fit this summer.

How did you start your summer holiday?

Currently playing: Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
Current mood: Big-Smiley


Word a day

I get a daily word of the day email from wordsmith.org.

This mornings Word of the day made me think of Mr. Nags.

schlub (shlub) noun, also spelled as zhlub or zhlob

A clumsy oaf.

[From Yiddish, from Polish zhlob (blockhead, trough, manger).]

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

"This is ... the comedy of the schlub on the barstool who wonders when it all went wrong."
Allan Brown; The Joke's Wearing a Bit Thin; The Sunday Times (London, UK);

Jun 18, 2006.

It reminded me of his oafish people sleep talking.  I think if was on Diva's blog back in the heady days when 20six was a bit more like Platform 27.

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Help me! I'm melting!

I thought I'd add to the general theme of statements of the bleeding obvious.

It's hot.  I'm melting.

You can all shout "I KNOW" at me now.

Current mood: HOT!


Fun Run - Fun! In this heat!

We had our company charity fun run yesterday,

I don't understand why people participate in a Fun Run by walking?  Surely it is better to sprint round like a loony and then spend the next four hours gasping for breath and sweating like a sweaty pig on a hot day who is waiting to be turned into sausages.  Surely?

Still I did better than some despite my advancing years.  Two of the runners (actually slow walkers) have phoned in sick today and yesterday one of the slowest walkers even had the cheek to faint in the office.  It was all very dramatic if a little contrived.

I managed a respectable fifth place behind several sprightly young-uns like Nikki.

She can actually fly.

What madness are you up to in this heat?

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Just call me spider man

This morning I have already found three spiders crawling on my body.

One fell out of my hair onto my arm when I was sitting on the train.

One climbed out of my shirt pocket when I was buying a newspaper.

One just crawled over my glasses when I was reading Oinks blog about breakfast and...well it's too disgusting to mention.  I was wearing them too.  The glasses, not Oink's breakfast.

Someone told me it was good luck but I'm not sure that there is any sort of correlation between fortune and spiders.

Current mood: Big-Smiley


I'm sorry, were you mistaking me for someone who gives a shit?

Except that I'm not on Prosac.

Maybe tomorrow I'll care.

Current mood: Meanie


Humming

I've just been humming a tune.  Tricky, our finance guru, has now started whistling it.

The trouble is that I don't know what the song is.

Not very interesting I know but I've been in and out of meetings all day and my brain is shutting down.

Current mood: Big-Smiley

Ask Dan

Do you remember the flash game called something like 'Ask Dan' that asks lots of IT based questions?

What's it called?

Where can i get it from?

Current mood: Sceptical

Diary of BT complaint

Following on from Mr FlipFlop's recent BT related bother....

This is how BT treat people.

Early 2005: I cancelled a stand alone telephone line as it is no longer in use.
01/11/2005: Upgrade alarm system.  It requires a telephone line. 
02/11/2005: Ring BT to get a phone line installed.  Agree to use the existing port to save the engineer installing another line.
02/12/2005: Ring BT.  No record exists of the earlier order.  Place order again.
23/12/2005: Ring BT.  No record of the order exists.  Order placed again.
04/01/2006: Ring BT.  No record of the order exists.  Order placed again with someone who seems to know what they are doing.  Order completed within 10 minutes.
09/01/2006: Confirmation received of new line and alarm system connected.
03/02/2006: First bill arrives and is paid.  Seems OK.
03/05/2006: Second bill arrives.  An extra £1000 has been added for BT Business Plan.
17/05/2006: Call BT to query the bill.  No explanation available.  Someone will call me back.
22/05/2006: Red bill arrives.
24/05/2006: Call BT to query the amount.  An Indian gentleman takes half an hour to get my account number, look up the account and put me through to his supervisor.  Supervisor informs me that the bill is correct and we'll have to pay it despite me repeatedly informing him that we should not be on the business plan for this number.  Agree to escalate the issue to another team.
01/06/2006: Call BT to chase response. 
08/06/2006: Call BT to chase response.  Transfer all numbers to another service provider.  One who is significantly cheaper and provides better customer service.
15/06/2006: Call BT to chase response. 
22/06/2006: Call BT to chase response. 
29/06/2006: Call BT to chase response. 
03/07/2006: Amended bill arrives refunding £14 in service charges.  Call BT to chase response and get an explanation.
13/07/2006: Call BT to chase response.  I learn that there is an eight month backlog on complaints and billing queries.

Eight months!  Flipperty jibbets!

So, if you don't want to pay your business bill with BT just query the amount.  Your account will be suspended for eight months while they investigate it.

I'll be called back at Christmas.  By then I'll be able to deny ever having a phone line with BT because I'll have forgotten all about this.

What sort of way is that to run a company?  Unbelievable.

Current mood: Sceptical


Unhelpful

The award for unhelpful company of the week goes to Blue Solutions. 

I phoned them yesterday about renewing my Anti-Virus software and was curtly told to e-mail the details in. 

Resisting the urge to say "Fuck you, I'll go somewhere else" I did as I was bid and then went looking for an alternative quote.  I got one from Aindale who replied with a quote within 10 minutes.  Bless them. 

I've still not received anything from Blue Solutions.

Rather than let the rude cow get away with fobbing me off I thought I'd ring back today and enquire about the status of my quote.

*bring bring, dring dring, ring ring*
Blue Cow: Hello, Blue Solutions
Honest Mr hoverFrog: Hello, I rang for a quote yesterday but..well...I haven't got it yet.
BC: Oh yeah, well did you email licences@bluesolutions.co.uk?
HMhF: Yes!
BC: Hang on
*phone goes dead*
HMhF: Hello, hello, listen you stupid co...
Other Voice: Hello
HMhF: ...w.  Hello, who's this I thought I'd been cut off.
OV: Yeah, you were looking for a quote.
HMhF: Yes, that righ...
OV: My colleague is just finishing it off.  Symantec haven't provided the right information yet.
HMhF: Oh..
OV: OK, bye

*phone goes dead*

Obviously I'm not going to be buying anything from them but I want to string them along for ages and get them to quote for loads of stuff and then not buy it.  Other than publicly denouncing them (perhaps on my blog) what else can I do to exact some small amount of revenge for the shoddy treatment I've experienced at their hands.

Current mood: Angry

Broken

It is the school year 6 play this evening.  I'm looking forward to it.  All those 10 and 11 year olds singing, dancing and acting their little socks off.  Bless.  Snarly Beth is in the choir.  She's a bit shy even though I think she's a fine actress.  She was great in Oliver Twist at Christmas anyway.  She makes a brilliant waif.

There will be one noticeable absence from the play this evening.  Beth's friend Zak fell out of a tree and broke his back last week.  He'll be spending the summer in a hospital bed.  Apparently he will make a full recovery but it must be a terrible shock for him and his family. 

She says she misses him because he sits opposite her in class and is quite funny.  Obviously I'll have to keep an eye on him when he's better.

--

In other news I've got so much work to do I think it's actually leaking out of my ears.  My desk has ten different piles of work, three PCs, two phones and something I don't even want to think about what is hiding my in-trays.  I suppose I should get on with it rather than blog.  My excuse is that I haven't had a lunch break yet and I'm resting my eyes.

I'm also going hold off on my big blog for a little while.  I'm not sure that I'm ready for it yet.

Current mood: Big-Smiley


To blog or not to blog...

...that is the question.

I've been wrestling with a personal dilemma recently and I've been debating with my many faceted personality about whether or not to blog about it. 

It is something that is intensely personal to me that will probably seem like something trivial to many people and I wouldn't want my thoughts to be ridiculed.  Worse, I'm not sure if I want people agreeing with me or disagreeing with me.

It isn't like me to put things on my blog that actually have any personal meaning to me.  It's usually me showing off pictures of my lovely family or cracking some stupid joke.  Occasionally I come up with some serious discussion but not often.  Most often I'm whinging about something.

So, do I risk ridicule or should I go back and hide under my rock?

Current mood: Curiouser and curiouser


I've got wonderful kids

Friday was the day when Snarly brought home her Year 6 Stats results and they all brought home their end of year reports.

I know my kids are wonderful but even I was surprised at how super clever and hard working they are.  Snarly got steady 4s and 5s in her Stats which is above the national average.  Woo.  The reports were all excellent as well.

Cake Worm is the best reader is Year 4.

Tiny Tasha is described as helpful and diplomatic.  Ha.  (It's funnier if you actually know her)

Little Al didn't do as well academically (he's dyslexic) but has made massive improvements in the last year and always works hard in his lessons.

Smashing.

So we rewarded them with a cinema trip to see Pirates of the Caribbean II.  Which was very funny but not as good as the first film.  It was a good sequel though.  Arrr!

Current mood: Big-Smiley


Dumbledore

I'd like to express my dismay at the poor level of service provided by insurance companies.

General Dismay

My faithful tumble dryer (Creda condenser dryer) has broken down.  In this great heat (23.9 degrees at the moment) it isn't much of a problem but with six of us in the house who wear clothes it is still in regular use.  Anyway at only two and a half years old it is a little annoying to have it break down for the third time.

So, like a sensible consumer of white goods I took the precaution of taking out an extended manufacturers guarantee.  I'm covered for seven years no matter how often I get a sock wedged in the filter or the thermostat melts into an interesting and slightly rude shape.  Laughing at my own excellent forethought I took the insurance guarantee documents to work to make an appointment for an engineer to come out and fix the damaged machine.  With great happiness I managed to get through to the right person and make an appointment for this very afternoon.  Filled with joy I rang The Hildy to make sure she would be back home in time.  After all the appointment is in a tight time frame and I wouldn't want her to miss it.  Sometime between 12 and 6.

"Fine" says she "where did you leave the insurance documents?"

"I have them here" says I.

"Well I need them, the engineer needs details from the form."

Oh dear.  My perfect plan has started to fall apart.  Never one to be discouraged *ahem* I ring them back and am promptly informed that the call centre does no deal with Creda tumble dryers or hardware over a year old.  Despite my protestations to the contrary I took the number they provided and rang to find out what I should do.  Helpfully I was provided with an alternative number to contact.

10 times.

I'd like to apologise to any call centre staff that I may have inadvertently snapped at in my frustration but I do feel that I was perhaps not being helped sufficiently with my simple query.

It turns out that I could get The Hildy to quote a job reference number but that required five calls to retrieve.  I've wasted nearly an hour and vast sums of my employer's money ringing 0870 numbers and apparently when I say "tumble dryer" it sounds just like "Dumbledore".

Why can't there be one number and a helpful person to put me through to the right department who deals with repairs?  Why?

Current mood: Angry

Funny joke

It's a cracker.

Current mood: Big-Smiley


National Kissing Day

Apparently today is National Kissing Day.

That accounts for this:

but not why nobody saw fit to tell me until everyone was leaving.  Does my breath smell or something?

I know.  I'll make up for it when I get home.

Current mood: Worried

Missed me?

It seems that there is at least one person who missed me while I was away in London.

I got a smiley face. Woo.

In other image related nonsense I managed to get one very poor quality picture at blinks of Tuesday as the majority of them left.

These are the lightweights.  The proper drinkers remained which is why I still don't feel completely sober.  Maybe I should learn from the sensible people and stop drinking when I've had enough?

....

Nah!

In even more image related nonsense isn't my youngest daughter the funniest little girl in the whole world.

Current mood: Big-Smiley

More lazy blogging

I'm sorry about the lazy blogging but this is hilarious.  You do need sound though.

Currently playing: Silly stuff
Current mood: Big-Smiley


Withdrawal Symptoms

I miss blogging all day long.  I've been so busy up in London town with my training course though.  There has barely been time to read my own comments.  I'll make up for it on Thursday and Friday when I'm back to work.  Probably.  Maybe I'll even do a serious blog.  Maybe about that thing I read in the Guardian today about women posted pictures of gropers and flashers on t'Internet.  Maybe not because everyone would agree that the wankers deserve it.

Anyhoo, my weekend was spiffing.  If more hot that was right and proper.  Saturday we finally decided to visit the Spinnaker Tower in Pompey.  Apparently there was some game going on that meant that the streets were deserted and queuing times were zero rather than 45 to 60 minutes.  Woo.

Anyway we went up in a big lift that went up like a rocket.  Our ears popped we were that high.  We all took lots of piccies so I'm going to show them and let them do the talking because I sense that I may be waffling slightly.

We went for a walk on the glass floor

Finally a film

 

And on Sunday, we went swimming to cool down.

Hopefully I'll see some of you at the blinks tomorrow.

Current mood: Big-Smiley