After The Fire

Another weekend passes and it's back to the reality of work.

The bowling was OK bit of a shock when the strobe lights and music came on but it didn't seem to affect my game, I was still crap.

Saturday was quite a non event as far as anything social goes. In fact I am struggling to remember exactly what we did do. Still it also means that I feel quite rested. Sunday, for some unknown reason I was overcome with an urge to refit the toilet!! It had started to wobble slightly and I was worried it might start to leak which would then have meant having to redecorate the hall as it would have leaked through the ceiling. So I made my way to B&Q and to my surprise they actually sold the fitting I was after.. Spent a while looking at all the lovely tools and explaining to my better hafl exactly why I needed another cordless drill. (So when the other one runs out silly).

Back in the bog hole everything went to plan for once, removed the toilet, redrilled the securing holes, fitted the new pushfit steel hose with built in shutoff valve and refixed the toilet.

My son has just started to become familiar with my Playstation which in turn has reawakened my passion for Fifa 2000, (I know that there is a later version but I liked it when Chris Sutton played for Chelsea). I manged to beat Man U yesterday and England thrashed Brazil.

I don't know why I have titled this after the fire but I can't think of anything else so it stays


Oh well work to do now.

Can't Let It Go (PPT)

Still seething about the extra cost of holidays just because the schools are closed. How does this justify these increases surely it should be the reverse that most parents would want to wait until the schools are shut so as not to impact on their childs education. Instead they are encouraged to practice Parent Permissable Truancy which cannot be right.

Apparently you can be find by the school for this but the fine is much less than the additional costs !! So we have had to complete a consent form allowing US to take OUR child out of school.

Somehow I have still managed to abstain from the evil weed despite all this excitement, 88 days now.

Going bowling tomorrow night at the Rotunda in Kingston, it's always good for a laugh especially after a few beers, it's usually me that ends up sliding down the alley and the ball ends up in someones lap.

Must get back to work now.

After A Break (And Excess Payments)

Well

I have been away for a while, I'll be honest I tried another Blog site but I am unable to use it at work for some reason. I can view it but it won't let me edit or create so it's pretty pointless. Something to do with the version of Explorer we use.

Still not smoking, lost count of the number of days but it's been since 31st October 2004. Strangely I have been struggling recently and I have had to really grin and bear it and drink loads more.

Just booking this years holiday, we thought we would split it this year and have a week abroad and a week in the Isle of Wight. Well as the little one is now in school this is going to cost us about 33% more as we are going to have to go during half term and the summer holidays, what a con.

I was thinking of writing to all the schools and getting them to move all their holidays by a week but they are probably in collaboration with the travel firms. I'll have to wait until I become Primeminister then I'll pass a law banning such nasty practices.

Oh well back to work

I Keep Trying

I am still new to this game and I am still struggling on how to set up my blog so that it can be found via a search engine. If anyone has any tips I would be grateful.

Still not smoking, struggling a bit this week though. Don't though why it's been 72 days now !

Pretty quiet weekend nothing exciting to report.

You know I cannot think of anything else to say today I am feeling pretty boring.

See ya soon

Another New Year (M25)

Well, here we go again.

Christmas was good, ate loads drunk even more and generally celebrated as much as possible.

Back in work mode now, joining that never ending crawl on the M25. I think I know how to speed it up, get more police on there so that they can catch the dodgy drivers poodling along at 35mph in the fast lane. Seriously, in the intervening week between Christmas and New Year there were people who just seemed to be totally unaware of any other road user. This must apply all year around it' s just that they were more visible then. On one occassion I was enjoying the free flow of the fast lane cruising at a respectable rate when all of a sudden BRAKE !!!. Has someone crashed, had someone/something run into the road, had there been some sort of extraterrestial event. NO! just someone thought they might like to brake, maybe they suddenly realised that they were doing 37mph and had better slow down.

Went for a bike ride on Monday, first for about 25 years. It was quite nerve racking, all that confidence you have as a child has gone and you feel like you are going to fall off at any minute, which I did once. Still I did enjoy it. It is all part of my "Give Up Smoking" campaign. I have now been free of the weed for 67 days and feel quite proud. I thought New Years eve would be a struggle being in a bar fall of smokers and smoke but it was OK and you could definately tell the difference the next morning. You do notice that your clothes smell and it is probably the smell that I dislike the most.

However I have put on a couple of pouns, (28 pounds to be exact) which means that I will have to buy some more clothes, but will save on lilo's when we go to the beach.

Well thats me for today catch you all later.