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Posts archive for: August, 2007
  • The big question - but no answer

    Ahh life, what is it all about.

    Many people spend their time looking for the meaning of life.

    Many of us dyslexics spend our time searching for the meaning of lief.

    It gets us knowhere but the squirrels are always pleased to see us.

    Eh?

    Well what is it all about? I normally find its all about something you said casually in a sort of off the cuff way and is remembered four years later after too many large drinks and a quick bottle fight in the car park.

    But that's being born in Dagenham for ya!

    And so far tonight I have once again recieved a grand total of ZERO offers of phone sex, not that I want any.

    I am not putting my phone on vibrate and poking it up my rear end and spending all day waiting for it to ring.

    Again.

    The last time was bad enough.

    Blimey that was an embarrasing meeting at work I can tell you - "erm, excuse me while I take my trousers down, I just have to take a call"

    Ahem

    Anyway, what was I saying?

    Oh yeah!

    Life? Don't talk to me about life.

    :wave:

  • The countdown has started.

    Only 1hr and 15 minutes to go till the weekend starts for me!

    What has the evening in store. Oh the usual.

    Get on train and sit there like a puppet with its strings cut, lolling all over the place and dribbling. If I get a seat that is.

    Get to S&F's and probably scare Moff as I come through the door, as she will no doubt be on the computer if she is in the house.

    Avoid Cleo trying to get into the bedroom and rub herself all over the duvet (she likes the way I smell) and get some much needed sleep.

    Then probably get woken by Mr S forcing me to imbibe some form of alcomahol. Get up and get dressed. Break out the guitar. Get told to turn it down. Ignore said request and continue to make the cats bounce off the funiture with high pitched squeals from pick harmonics (they reeeely don't like those!)

    Stop playing and eat - I think the menu is lamb curry with cous cous - then drink some more.

    Maybe blog. Maybe text. Maybe get that offer of phone sex I missed out on at a time when I can enjoy it and my damn phone is on!

    Then at some time on Saturday morning go to sleep.

    Go home on Saturday and have a BBQ, featuring home made burgers and chicken kebabs. D&T are coming over and maybe Jo's sister and her boyfriend.

    Sunday. Wake up and go "uuurg" a bit. Sunday afternoon, go round and see Kizlodes new sprog.

    Which will be the first time I have seen Kiz in bloody ages, I am not the best long term friend in the world as you can tell. Funny, he moves nearer to my house and I see him less.

    Funny old game life innit.

    So that's my weekend. I am sure that somewhere in there something unexpected will happen and throw it all out the window.

    :wave:

  • Bloggers I have seen naked (list with pics)

    Well that's not a bad effort.

    See my post of earlier.

    hehehehe.

    :>

  • Dog tired.

    I hate feeling like this.

    I really just want to curl up under my desk and pass out. I was nodding off in a most un cool way on the train all the way home yesterday.

    Mind you, yesterday afternoon was a tad awful due to the hangover I had. Today is just residual tiredness from my lack of restraint.

    My head is stuffed with dirty cotton wool and thoughts are hard to follow through. If we were really busy here I would be in so much trouble.

    Apart from that, my mood is fine - appetite is good and food has been consumed.

    But my eyes feel puffy and warm, my extremities feel heavy and this is all too much trouble.

    Of course I will be getting an early night tonight so all will be well.

    Oh hang on.........

    Well what does not kill you only makes you feel like death stronger

    :wave:

  • A plan of (in)action

    I have snaffled down too rather large “Breakfast Special” sandwiches and feel like an over full tube of toothpaste. Might have to go have a squeeze soon to make some room for lunch. I am such a charmer no?

    I have a small amount of work to do that I will, if I apply myself reeeeely hard, be able to stretch out to “fill” the day with. You see (looks left and right to check the coast is clear) my manager is off today, so my “work ethic” has also failed to show up.

    I have my new shiny tiny red kidney bean shaped pod guitar modeller in my bag, ready to make big rocky noises with at S&F’s tonight. Boy will they be pleased!

    Not.

    And much later, if Mr S is not doing any paying work on the PC, I may get to check in when I am more “refreshed” and dazzle you all with my world class witticisms. OK the last bits a lie, I may be drunk in charge of a blog later and talking bollocks. Have to up my game or no nominations for me in the bloscars.

    Have a good Friday people.

    Party like it’s on sale for £19.99.

    :wave:

  • Double Penetration

    I was just wondering.

    What would be the most eye catching or splutter inducing title for a post?

    :>

  • I went to bed and missed it!

    I had some missed calls on my phone last hight, after the witching hour even.

    Now everybody knows that with healthy clean living life style I am never up past 10pm. (ahem) and so I missed them.

    "Why the phone calls last night? What have I done now?"

    I enquired by text this morning.

    "Because X is here with X and me and we were going to have phone sex with you"

    Oh bugger. Sodding typical

    See what an early night can cause you to miss.

    Just as well I had some real sex to tide me over.

    :>

  • If you could....

    Sing like anyone in the world, who would it be?

    Me?

    Ray Gillen. Fantastic range and power. Well till he died anyway.

    :roll:

  • Why

    Have I started making "old bloke" noises when I get up out of a chair?

    Oh

    Yeah right.

    Silly me.

    :|

  • A text arrives.

    "I've just taken a photograph of me playing with myself in the bath. Wanna come and play?"

    Well.................

    BOLLOCKS!

    Turns out to be a fucking spam text! £1.50 to see some bints soggy growler! are you completely George Bernard!

    And I don't even have a camera phone.

    Modern life is rubbish.

    >:-[

  • Very quiet here.

    To my left, Dangerous Dave is asleep at his desk - already well into his "lunch break". Thank god he is not snoring.

    To my right there is (and has been for nearly two weeks) a distinct lack of Glasgow Steve. So I have to take up the slack in the excessive swearing stakes.

    In front of me there is a space that would be occupied by another "work mate" but they have been gone for over a month and they are having Chemotherapy.

    Even Bev is quiet! which is odd.

    Old Irish line manager bloke is humming some classic rock tune softly to himself from somewhere behind me, and I think I'm going to go FUCKING NUTS!

    or to lunch.

    Oh well.

  • Not at all hungover.

    Nope.

    XX(

  • Fashion tips for pedal pushers.

    Out front of our dreary office, there is not much to look at but the seemingly endless stream of bicycle riders going past as they merryly ignore the red traffic lights.

    Quite a few of them are female.

    And it would seem that the fact they are going to be riding into work today catches them at a bit of wardrobe malfunction.

    Mistakes commonly seen out there include.

    Low cut tops. Girls, especially if your bike has drop handlebars you reeeeely should think that one through a bit more.

    Split skirts. Oh for gods sake ladies, OK - some of you have very nice legs but pumping pedals does show off the old celulite if you have it or it is approaching.

    Long billowy skirts. Yeah love, nice knickers. And if it gets ripped off by the back wheel, what you going to wear in that improtant meeting with the new client eh?

    And no matter how safe it makes you or how dangerous it is out on the roads - no one looks good in a cycle helmet.

    :wave:

  • Eh? what day is it again?

    The trouble with bank holidays and long weekends generally is the mess with your internal calender.

    I have to keep stopping and reminding myself that today is Wednesday (had to do it just then before typing) as for some reason I think its Thursday.

    You would think my brain would be under the impression that it is Tuesday, what with Tuesday this week being "Monday" as far as work goes and....

    Oh bollocks I'm just making it worse for myself here.

    I will just go away and do some work I think.

    Am I at work?

    Oh bugger.

    8|

  • Just like Cuprinol, I did what I said on the tin.

    I got to S&F's

    Scared the crap out of Mrs F's mother by being light on my feet and catching her unawares (I would put "ahem" but it sounds far smuttier than it is, or I would even want to imagine)

    Escorted Mrs F senior off the premises.

    Broke out my Les Paul.

    Fought my way past the lazer security systems protecting Mr S's drink cabinet.

    Sat for one minute "Luxuriating" in my tension headache.

    Took a big sip.

    And rocked out.

    And the cats did dance and run for cover.

    And the vibrations of the speaker in Moffs poor and much bestet on amplifier did cause all the worms in the lawn out side to pop out of the ground like little brown patriot missiles in one of George dubbleyuhs wet dreams.

    And.

    Afer a while.

    I was me again.

    Oh fuck.

    I was hoping to become Sean Connery!

    Oh well. (mind you, he is probably shite at playing guitar)

    Better luck next time eh.

  • I have bloody well not!

    Please don't tell me I have spent all damn morning and a bit of this afternoon doing a report for an office that I actually did and finalised last fucking week!

    BOLLOCKS!!

    What a waste of a day!

    Fuckety shit lumps.

    I feel a rather loud session of guitar playing and a wee drinky at S&Fs' coming on.

    Gonna make the cats DANCE! or run for cover.

    Not like today had much going for it anyway.

    Personally glad to see the back of it.

    :##

  • In world news.

    Actor Owen Wilson is reportedly recovering in a Hollywood Hospital after an attempted suicide bid.

    What did he do, try to watch all his own films in one sitting?

  • What's the weirdest thing you have ever found in a toilet?

    Yep, tis lunch time and I find my self at my desk.

    Well I like to worry the barstaff on occasion by not turning up.

    And now I am bored.

    So. What is the weirdest thing you have ever found in a toilet?

    Me, well...

    In the public toilets of Liverpool Street Station in London, being caught short on the journey home, I pushed open a cubicle door that was ajar and found a ginger haired twentysomething male office worker, still in his shirt and tie, sat with his trousers round his ankles merrily having a wank.

    8|

    I said something along the lines of "of for fucks sake!" and chose another cubicle, well away from his one.

    Your go.

    :>>

  • In other news-

    I am not at all "confused"

    I have got a bit of colour from various hours sat in various gardens drinking various drinks.

    I am the lord of bloat.

    And I did NOT just try to fill the kettle up from the shredder.

    No I didn't.

    Well.

    Whose bloody silly idea was it to put the shredder next to the water cooler anyway?

    Ahem.
    :roll:

  • Bloody Olympics!

    Due to said festival of us not winning much in the way of precious metal at all, due to start in some years, Stratford Station is being buggered about with/improved/de shit holeised or something.

    So they only managed to start running trains into central London at about 07.15 this morning. So they were a touch on the full side. I had a seat so I could sit and be amazed at the optimism of people trying to cram themselves onto a train that is already bursting at the seams and asking in tones ranging from angry to pleading – “Could you move down a little please?” Bugger off.

    There is however a nice coloured glass theme developing in the area of Stratford station though. The new Docklands light Railway platform has a weird wonky roof on it that reminds me of a giant bit of peel from the outside of some huge metallic fruit, and the walls are made of glass panels in various pastel shades. As you travel down the line a little, you pass new blocks of flats going up to take advantage of the property price rise that will come with the games. These very nice and probably expensive flats all have balconies with glass panel screens around them in various pastel hues. All looks very jolly and very much “not for the locals!”

    Because they may be having their borough polished and modernised to within an inch of its life, but you don’t actually want the locals to take the new pricey flats do you? Nah, they can stay in the blocks that were put up just after the Second World War which, surprisingly, seem not to be getting the big tart up at all.

    :wave:

  • The charming things I say...

    when sat at in front of this computer.

    (which I have tried not to be today as its jo's birthday, but she is chatting with a friend in the garden now so I am getting my little fix of pc based fun and aggravation)

    "Just post the cunting comment NOW you cunt fuck bastid shit head knob splitting shitbag!!!!"

    "Yes. That button. Yep that on there. Let me point it out to you again. Cliky fucking click cocksucker! FUCKING WAKE UP AND DOOOOOOO IT NOW!!!!"

    "No, what - why the fuck are you doing that now? You vindictive half wit fuck bag peice of cunting SHIT!"

    "Die. Just turn off. No! No? did I actually ask you to back up my personal storage? So why would I be bothered that you cannot in fact do that? So if you could just stop telling me that you cant do it and actually do the fucking thing I asked you to do FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES AGO AND TURN OFF AND DIE BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO GO TO BED AND TRY AND SLEEP OFF THE RAGE HEADACHE AN ENTIRE NIGHT OF TRYING TO SEND ONE MESSAGE VIA YOU GENERALLY CAUSES you git."

    And my favourite, which I have just had to do - the old sit here with a frown on my face, knocking on the monitor screen as the pc refuses to move or respond to anything

    "hello? any one in there? Helllloooooooooooooooo?"

    Modern life is rubbish.

    Or my pc is.

    Or all three.

    :wave:

  • YIP YIP YIP!!!!!!!!!!

    Here I am jumping around like a puppy with it's cock in a mousetrap and what do I find?

    Huge chunks of sleepy people and a computer that just won't play ball!

    Arse burgers!

    Would of been on here erlier but Shipscook had to do some real money making type work so we stood back and let him get on with it, and just to be normal and nice played games with our perceptions, drank stuff that should be banned and saw things that were not there.

    as ya doooooooo!

    So.

    Ahem.

    Gonna have a squint about and see what everyone else was doing while they were awake.

    Dogwatch or what?

    :)

  • What the hell........

    There is a sun up in the sky!

    Cant be ours. Must be some huge burning alien battle cruiser or something. Call Dr Who right now!

    Any way, as I am off out for lunch in a country pub and then a wander round that there fancy "the London" I predict a slighty rosey hue will be blossoming on my expanding forehead by the end of the day.

    Yes, I do take off my Marshall Baseball cap sometimes you know. Otherwise how would those enormously witty and observant complete strangers know to come up to me and say
    "Ere! did you know you look just like that bloke out of Status Quo?"

    And I do so hate to dissapoint my public.

    Ahem.

    Speak later on today after much liquid and food.

    Yep, s'gonna be a late night!

    You have been warned (landers)

    hehehehe.

    :>

  • Piratey Booze.

    On there most recent return trip from Edinburgh. S&F picked up a bottle of Dalymore single malt whiskey from the airport shop, just for little old me.

    Mrs F was drawn to this particular bottle because of the name of the whisky. It is a dark rich brown colour and its called.

    "Black Pearl"

    Arrrrrr me hearties!

    (how long is it till national talk like a pirate day again?)

    :>

  • But...but......I just can't!

    Some work has been discovered and passed to me.

    Bugger.

    And it's true its not a very big file.

    But....

    It's only 45 minutes to lunch time AND it's Friday for Gods sake!

    I am beset by the demons of MDS.

    (for those who don't know thats' Motivational Depravation Syndrome)

    All I want to do is arse around on the blog and email other people to stop them working.

    Spread the MDS! hehehehehe.

    And in other news

    Due to my not letting my umbrella dry out properly before folding it up, it now smells like a tramps gusset.

    Lovely.

    Tick tock tick tock.

    :wave:

  • Another question.

    I am not going to spend the morning pumping out rubbish posts just because I'm bored. Well not yet anyway.

    I am going to start today with another question.

    How many times have you been in love?

    And by that I don't mean "keen on" someone, happy with, going out with, but In Love.

    Me?

    5

  • A question.

    As I am obviously not going to blog anything of worth or sense today let me ask you something instead.

    What is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you?

    Could be a compliment, could be "no, you have the last chip" sort of thing.

    Wordsworth is not exactly spinning in his grave today.

    :wave:

  • I am not one to boast but..

    I could poo for England today!

    TWO I have had since arriving at work!

    Well I did want to loose some weight.

    What? Don't be like that - its good to share!

    Isn't it?

    ahem.

    :>

  • Naked chocolate women.

    I have a bag of Naked chocolate women in my rucksack.

    Not life size unfortunatley.

    I may just eat them all before I get home.

    so there.

    Don't ask.

    :>>

  • HAKE!

    Hake! Hake!
    I hit it with a rake.
    It played a tune
    and went KABOOM!
    What a mistake to make!

    :lalala:

  • arrrgle nerf hibbon.

    Stumble up the road. Train. Yes long white thing with red doors. Must get on. What! nearly missed the stop. Stumbly outwards and escalatorage. At least its not raining. My god my mouth feels like the bottom of an Elephants gusset. Shop. Ah bottle of very overpriced but very chilled water. Peel seal off and flick top back. Drink.

    Oh god.

    Sooooo lovely. Chilled to perfection. So cold it makes my sinuses hurt. swallow. Mouth instantly as dry as a camels humour again. drink more. Have a ciggie. Wise move eh?. no not really. Big ugly brick building. I think I work here. Show pass. I said pass. Get in lift. Boss not in. Gooooooooood. More water. Re fill bottle from water cooler. I love water. Water is my friend.

    Note to self.

    One large Gin and It, two large glasses of white wine, Three ish large glasses of single malt and four ish large glasses of Makers Mark do not a well hydrated boy make.

    Twat.

    :yawn:XX(

  • BLOODY WELL STOP TAUNTING ME!

    They are doing it now.

    From over there, sitting in their oh so tight and shiny clothes.

    “You want us you do!” they say in my head.

    “We are cheap and covered in chocolate”

    STOP IT!

    “You have not had us in YEARS and you want us now don’t you!”

    NO!

    I!

    DON’T!

    “Release us from this vending machine and strip us out of this tawdry packaging and we will send your tongue to heaven, we WILL!”

    Please God make them stop.

    I will NOT have the Jaffa Cakes

    I will NOT have the Jaffa Cakes

    I will NOT have the Jaffa Cakes

    I will NOT have the Jaffa Cakes

    >:(

  • Jeeez!

    In the words of the Ozzy bloke that comentates on Moto GP races (Charlie Cox?)

    "It could blow a dog off a chain out there!"

    Yep, tis a tad windy down old Old Street right now.

    And us here in the wonderous warmth of summer.

    annalladat stuff innit.

    Hope you had fun at all the bbq's and pool parties we all had this summer.

    Ahem.

    Global warming?

    Yeah right, bollocks!

    :wave:

  • Five "Fascinating" facts.

    Coz I'm bored. They are in fact rather dull facts but better than working. And none of them will be explained any further than they are here.

    1 I have only ever lived at two addresses in my life so far.

    2 I took trumpet lessons at school.

    3 I have helped milk cows in a milking parlour.

    4 I once won a trip for two in a hot air balloon. (I didn't win it IN the balloon, I won the trip to go in the balloon - oh you know what I mean!)

    5 I cant drive, but love cars.

    Bet your soooooo glad I told you all that.

    :roll:

  • Your eyes.

    I was never happy with the colour of my eyes when I was younger. This was mainly due to them not seeming to know what colour they wanted to be. I used to see people with amazing eyes and think "Why can't mine be like that!"

    So my question this morning is (sorry its a bit early to ask you to think and all that)

    What colour eyes would you like to have most in the world, and what colour are they in real life.

    And me?

    I would love emerald green eyes. But it would look a bit weird.

  • A quick question...

    as I wander past on my way to bed.

    What DID Oliver Reed do to celebrate?

    Goodnight.

    :wave:

  • Pay and display, and arseholes on the phone.

    Everywhere you find to park down on the south coast is "Pay and Display". Guess how long you are going to be there for, and stick your little sticker to the inside of your windscreen.

    So you need to have a good supply of one pound coins and silver. I spent most of the holiday last week walking round chiming like I had a pouch of dubloons about my person. And today there is roughly a half stone of shrapnel in my pocket that (at the last count) came to £13.36.

    So, in an effort to offload at least £6.40 of said weight, I paid a visit to the pub at lunchtime. And did said weight loss thing.

    Ahem.

    In other news, after working through all the voicemails from last week, I have decided that I really do hate the general public. And I am damn sure the feeling is mutual.

    :wave:

  • Huzzah!

    They have not (yet) completely changed the job I was doing.

    They have not (yet) cancelled our move back to Soho in November.

    I have not got a huge pile of letters on my desk. Just four.

    Mind you, I have not checked my voicemail so there is a potential nest of vipers waiting right there.

    But so far, so good.

    And we don't appear to have a lot of work on. And there are very few people in today, due to leave and illness.

    But within Five minutes of being hear and having a good swear at my boss, he was hear to say

    "Oh jayzus your glad to be back now are you not. Well rested and happy my arse!"

    He loves me really.

    :wave:

  • £4 an hour!

    That is what they were charging for internet access at the holiday park thing I have been at all week.

    That, coupled with the fact that the concept of internet Cafes has not made it down to the south coast yet, is the reason I did no blogs while away.

    Can I just say. I REEEEEEEEELY missed you lot.

    After a little catch up it appears that not everyone has been having a good week. To put it mildly.

    And although being here or not "as the news breaks" would make no difference to the outcome of various situations one way or another, it does make me feel like I was letting people down. Which is of course rubbish but a weird feeling neverthelessnesesish.

    Anywho, back to work tomorrow to discover that

    A- All the proceedures have been changed and the job is now totally different.

    B- a big pile of letters from irate/stupid/snotty customers on my desk

    C- a task that no one else wanted that has been passed on to me due to me not being there to say fuck off.

    D- all of the above.

    I am actually looking forward to it.

    Blimey, I must be ill.

    8|

  • Coast

    The veiw from my favourite high windy clifftop. At A place called Highcliffe - what are the chances of that happening eh? (just out of shot - me dressed as I am in the header pulling the same pose all dramatic and tragic like)

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    You can imagine this street full of drunken pirates, well almost.

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    We saw the Red Arrows doing a display above the sea front in Bournmouth. Very impressive as always.

    wetsouthcoast07 048

    Now for the arty bollocks. Oh the windswept romance of it all. Ahem.

    wetsouthcoast07 063

    wetsouthcoast07 081

    :wave:

  • Ahem.

    Missed me?

    Yeah right, Okay - sorry I asked. Hmmph.

    Any way as I am sat here like a starving man at a free buffet (Les paul on lap plugged into the marshall so I can attempt to type, play AND read the 87 emails waiting for me) Cramming myself full of all the things I missed this last week.

    What did we do?

    Basically we would get up, breakfast, go out to the car through various levels of moisture or patchy sunlight (althouhg most days did seem to have a liquid centre) and travel to some windswept cliff top, cute looking village, tourist place to get out of the rain or what ever and spend the day. Sarah amazes - the amount of entertainment she can get out of a beach full of stones is amazing, she hunts along looking for good or odd ones and shells. I come home with a hudredweight of beach in my bloody bag.

    Then home, where I would slob on the couch while Jo took Sarah for a swim in the indoor pool. Actually I would chop stuff up ready for dinner but did not want to appear to domesticated.

    When they got back I would cook us dinner, except for the night jo did, The Sarah would drag Jo out to see the kids entertainment - Overly keen twenty somethings jumping around on stage encouraging the kids to do silly dances and some bloke coming on later in a Squirrel suit (he was the holiday park mascot "Cyril the Squirrel" or "That furry Llwnt" as I called him)

    Then when they came back, Sarah off to bed, a wee drink for mummy and daddy then bed then up and do it again.

    Sarah had a great time.

    Be warned.

    Some photos of landscapes and stuff to follow.

    I will try to catch up on all events but I would like to say congrats to Kizlode for the birth of his new son, and also To Sixey and Morelearning for their new arrival.

    I also have gathered its not all good news here. So I will be catching up on that too.

    and now to try to load some pics.

    INCOMING!

    duck you suckers.
    :wave:

  • A nagging feeling at the back of my mind.

    I should be doing something, what though?

    Erm.

    Oh yeah!

    PACKING! supposed to be going in 45 minutes.

    But where are we going?

    Hang on I'll go ask the driver.

    Oh right Milford on sea.

    Does that mean it will be full of hot older women?

    Oh good!

    See you later.

    :wave:

  • Sipping on sloe gin and soda water

    and sitting here enjoying my last chance at a full delve into blog world for a while.

    But its just me here apparently.

    But I still like this place.

    Blogland I mean. I may have to go cold turkey over the next few days.

    Thanks to Mrs F and shipscook for (in chronological order)

    Breakfast and a large bloody Hell Mary in bed,

    A fantastically huge plate of fish and chips down at the Victoria with many a large Vodka and coke.

    A couple of bottles of Black Fox cider, a couple of mugs of hot black coffee, and a couple (ahem) of glasses of Makers Mark bourbon back at the old homestead.

    And the conversation, company and understanding.

    Love them to death.

    x

    :wave:

  • The night is middle aged...

    And so am I!

    But at this time of night and with this much booze on board you start feeling a bit, well like this -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlFWFHyjj0

    Yeah! fuck basically everything!

    Even though I should know better and be asleep and sober.

    Well, so far tonight (after videoing with my camera just to annoy people) I have discovered that I have a face like a puddle of nervous playdough and a nose like a sail on a nile riverboat.

    And I have decided that, just now, right this precise drunk second - I don't give a shit.

    I ROCK!

  • Is EVERYBODY drunk?

    Well every I have spoke to so far is.

    Got one drunk on the mobile while I type this and another sitting next to me, and one handing me drinks from the doorway, and a couple of fish frenzied cats stalking round my ankles.

    Well, we did eat rather a lot of fish tonight so they are stalking us and trying to work out if they can eat us when we fall asleep. Which is a good reason to stay up!

    I am amusing myself and annoying S&F and the cats by videoing them on my camera while they least expect/want it, and threatening to post the results on here.

    Trust me, they don't make for U rated viewing.

    "Warning - May contain scenes of drunkeness, language of a rude and explicit nature, and middle aged people reminding you of that line - I hope I die before I get old - that was in fact sung by a band in which only one member actually did said thing. May also contain nuts"

    Is what it would say.

    On the opening screen.

    If there was one.

    Of these vids I mean.

    Hic.

    Time I think, for a nice refreshing parambulation round the garden in the cool evening air, and a ciggie whilst doing the same.

    Best put some clothes on then.

    :wave:

  • They behaved like bloody ANIMALS!

    Well they would do really. They were in Whipsnade Zoo!

    Lovely warm sunny day spent with Sarah, Mrs F and Shipscook.

    Amongst loads of other things we saw - (Klick for bigger piccies.)

    I think this lad has more than enough "monkey nuts" dont you?
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    Cute and fuzzy.

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    Muddy and moody

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    Smelling of fish and bored.
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    The cute and furry contingent (Sarahs favourites)

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    And, despite proof that they don't always sh*t in the woods, they do know how to cool off on a hot day with style.

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  • What’s occurring?

    Not that you give a Mandrills Mango, but writing this is better than working.

    Tonight, I dunno- some cooking, some drinking, some guitar playing, some saying “Sarah, bed! Now! – no, there is no monster spider under your bed, I have put it in mummies knickers drawer” and so on. But not too late an evening.

    Because tomorrow Sarah and I have to be up and ready to go to a Zoo thing somewhere with Mrs F and Shipscook. Jo is going out for lunch with a friend so I thought taking Sarah out would be better for her (as being stuck indoors with daddy could get a bit dull) and it would give Jo some time without having to worry and look after Sarah so she can get ready to go out at her own pace.

    After a day of pooking the animals and loosing fingers, we will return home briefly to deposit tired and over excited child with Jo and scoot off back to casa S&F’s for the normal Saturday night food and drink stuff.

    Then, at some point dictated by liver damage and stuff I will return home, and start to think about possibly maybe doing some packing for our week away.

    So Next Monday to the Monday after I will be at a secret location on the south coast of England (meaning I can’t actually remember the name of the place) getting a damn good soaking from the rain, and using Sarah and Jo as a wind break.

    If I can find some magic portal I will try to contact this happy place, but who knows.

    So I will not be around much next week and please keep the cheering down to a bare minimum. I do have feelings you know. Bastards.

    :wave:

  • Snooze season.

    My ability to stay awake at work will be challenged greatly from now on.

    Why? I don't here you ask.

    Well that fucking awful game thing that has a season has started or will start soon - like I know exactly when! and already the chaps in the office are putting together their fantasy football teams and discussing the ins and outs of this alleged "Beautiful game"

    Bollocks.

    My idea is a fantasy league where you have teams of your favourite porn actresses and they have to "perform" against each other. Or with each other - first one to cum looses. Or............

    Sorry. Better stop now before my keyboard gets stuck.

    Ahem.

    :oops:

  • Bad Habit.

    Well the truth is, like all of us, I have many. But the one that I wish I didn’t have is talking to myself out loud.

    “Oh we all do that” you may say. But I do it full on, like there is someone in the room with me and I am discussing something with them. In fact if you were to read this blog out loud to yourself you would get the same effect. It’s like I’m telling someone something, trying to get my point across.

    Now it is true I only do it when I’m alone, but what I seem to think of as being alone is not quite full on enough to prevent embarrassment. I do it at home when I am in the music room or kitchen or bedroom and someone else is just in the other room. Which causes great shock to me to turn round in the middle of telling the ether why I love a certain type of guitar, or what a certain bands music means to myself, only to see Jo or Sarah standing there!

    I’m surprised I have not been locked up.

    It’s not as if I have the excuse of a pet! If you have a dog or a cat sitting in the room you can at least kid yourself and others you were talking to them. Although what a Labrador thinks about a human explaining the finer points of valve amplification or the joys of Dr Who to them is beyond me.

    And it gets worse as you get older. I find myself saying things out loud on the street – to no one in particular. Like when I see bicyclist whizzing through a red light with the normal lack of care for any other fucker, I find phrases like “He’ll be seeing the sump of a bus real soon if he keeps that up” falling from my mouth. In a couple of years I will be a full on “street nutter”

    Hmmm, maybe that’s why pensioners will talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

    Maybe I should get some practice in

    “I’m 44 ya know, yes. Busses, terrible, yes. Oooh my back, yes”

    :crazy:

  • The best laid plans to laze and then...

    Well forget all that.

    Bloody office full of managers who were not going to be here today!

    Arse!

    A whole entire day of coffee, blogging and cigarettes out of the window!

    And I had such tales to tell you.

    :yes:
    OK, no I didn't. But with a day spent doing nothing at my desk, something would have come up sooner or later. (leave it Meno!)
    :roll:
    So enjoy your day.

    I won't be enjoying this one as much as I thought but I do promise, my loyal 0.5 of a reader, to try to get back here and brighten your day with my wonderous virtual utterences.

    and rubbish spelling.

    ahem.

    :wave:

  • Thief!

    Someone has stolen my tea spoon at work!

    Evil bastards! That means I will just have to up end the coffee jar over my cup and guess at hyperactivity.

    Pah! Who cares for spoons anyway!

    They are just natures way of proving Uri Geller was not a mistake!

    :wave:

  • Inspired by lyndz describing the dawn.

    "Dawn" leapt onto the bed this morning smelling faintly off and walked around my head purring loudly. It nuzzled at the arm I had thrown up over my eyes and tickled my ear with its fur. "Dawn" was breaking very persistently around my pillow and trying to put its tail up my nose.

    "BUGGER OFF CLEO! IT'S HALF PAST FUCKING FOUR!"

    I hinted.

    :wave:

  • OK, you wanted the matchbox trick (warning - smut)

    (Disclaimer – the following true story contains references to private parts, and things done casually to them. If these are the kind of personal details you can live without, don’t read on. But it may be good for a laugh. No intention to shock or offend anyone)

    Many years ago it am, and I is lying on my back in bed, next to the current girl of my dreams after some hot and sweaty sex. In those days remember, it was relatively safe to bang away like an armed policeman on a tube train.

    We were enjoying a post coital woodbine and staring at the ceiling. Next to my side of the bed, on the floor is a packet of cigarettes and a box of matches. The box of matches is made of thin wood – matchwood in fact, not cardboard. Remember this little fact.

    Now I am daydreaming away and my right hand strays to my groin. I casually put my dick between my index and middle fingers, as you would a cigarette in fact, and I start to move my hand side to side which causes my now floppy little fella to whip about, making very satisfying “whap whap” noises as it hits my stomach and thigh. Yeah I know, it was a habit I have since grown out of. Thank god.

    “Stop it! Does that not hurt?” said the she.

    “Eh? Erm, no actually. When it’s down there’s not a great deal of sensation in it till things get interesting.” I give it a more vigorous wiggle and produce a sound like a fleshy helicopter flying around under the duvet.

    “Stop it! how would I know it doesn’t hurt – I don’t have one of those you may have noticed”

    “Well your borrowing this one quite a bit” – Slap! “Thank you dear”

    Then the idea hits me. I lean over to my side of the bed, and but my cig out. I quietly slip the tray out of the matchbox and pry the box cover open into a tube and slip it under the duvet as I lay back. I give my little fella another shake, making the same noise again.

    “Please stop, that sounds painful!”

    “no its not – you’d be surprised how little sensation there is in it, it’s just flesh after all now, no bones and most of the nerves are at the business end as it were. Look, you can squeeze it quite hard and it don’t hurt.” I lift up the duvet and show her my right hand squeezing the poor thing quite tightly.

    “Aaaaargh noooo! Yuck. Don’t do that, I quite like your privates undamaged.”

    “you have a go, go on. You’d be surprised how little it hurts. Tell you what, I’ll put my hand over it – you squeeze my hand as hard as you like and if its too much I will be able to stop you”

    Now she is intrigued, so giggling she says she will. Now as I made that suggestion, under cover of the duvet I pulled my cock through the wooden matchbox cover and had it hidden in my right hand, which is now round my “person”

    She puts her hand on mine and giggling gives it a squeeze, I squeeze harder and the box makes a very satisfying

    “KERRRRACK!”

    I double up in pain, howling and swearing, writhing in pure (rada approved) agony she is trying to hold me going “oh god oh god oh god baby I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry”

    Then she see’s that I am giggling not crying. Then I show her the matchbox round my cock. Then she attacks me slapping wildly

    “YOU BASTARD! I THOUGHT I’D DAMAGED YOU FOR LIFE!”

    All punctuated with girly slaps, which I try to dodge as I laugh more and more, and within a minute she is laughing as well, but still, trying to slap me silly.

    And she had not damaged it or me for life. As she found out about half an hour later, when we had stopped laughing.

    Je suis un evil bastid!

    Well I was but I am a reformed character now.

    Ahem.

    :>

  • What do you fancy then.

    Got loads of work to do, but I am determined to do one post today that is more than a couple of lines long at some point and actually about something.

    So what do you fancy.

    Something deep and meaningful on the nature of existence?

    Something about my coping with being shy when I was young?

    Or something smutty about a trick I played on an ex while we were in bed involving my penis, a box of matches and some acting?

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Let me guess.

  • Of all the things I have ever blogged...

    This is the most recent.

    And quite possibly the most pointless.

    But it is recent mind you!

    So it's almost topical.

    And did I say recent?

    Until the next thrilling installment.

    God I wanna go back to working in Soho!

    :roll:

    Edit:

    Of course I could do a smutty post about the dark eyed girl leaning on the desk just over there, with a fairly low cut top on, with her arms on desk and her shoulders hunched up. I'm sure she knows her arms are pushing her boobs together and making her cleavage look wonderful, but who would want to hear that sexist rubbish.

  • Andys Guitar Workshop.

    Used to be down at the other end of Denmark Street from the Charring Cross Road. It was one of those places that seemed at odds with some of the other guitar shops in the street.

    Actually, whereas all the others stores gave the impression of having a range of stock set out to tempt you to buy, Andys had the air of a place where everything had been moved and put where it was while someone was hoovering on the other floor, and it would all be put back in its right place soon. Or someone had backed a van up to the front door and dumped all the stuff in and said, “I’ll be back in a minute!”

    It was “character full” shall we say. And friendly. I got my first Gibson Les Paul there. The staff were willing to chat and not show off, or barter and deal till they got a sale. I sat playing the soon to be mine LP and studiously plucked away ignoring the sales person. I only looked up and spoke to him after he had dropped another hundred quid (making £200 in total) off the price. And then all I said was “I’ll take it. With a case included” Try that in any other shop in that area and see how many fingers they point at you.

    And the repair and maintenance section downstairs in the basement was a joy. Low roofed, dingy – made you feel at home instantly. So did the racks of odd, weird and wonderful guitars down there. It was also good to see just how careless other people could be with their beloved guitars. I mean, people really DO sit on acoustic guitars and crush them, then expect someone to repair it!

    There were old amps here and there, and some very odd/wonderful guitars covered in too much sparkly stuff and dials and knobs. Stuff the other shops would never stock. Of course there would be the out of reach expensive battered old Strat/SG/whatever. But they were only out of reach financially. You could have a go provided you took your leather jacket off.

    But now it would appear that this guitar haven has shut after almost 30 years of doing good work emptying the wallets and thinning the credit cards of musicians and amateurs alike.

    Bugger.

    I really liked that shop.

    Wonder if my nose print is still on the front window.
    :'(

  • Woke up with G.a.s.

    Yep I got it bad – G.A.S.

    It’s a condition that guitarists and other musicians suffer from on occasion and there is only one cure – total surrender.

    Gear Acquisition Syndrome comes on at the sight of a new shiny bit of kit, and is only sometimes complicated by a price tag with quite a few zeros at the end. Although this is by no means a guarantee that the item will not be acquired, it will cause more pain and anguish to the sufferer as they have to wait, or more agonisingly SAVE before they can get what they want.

    The trickiest situation is the one where the bit of kit sits in that most dangerous of areas. The “I don’t actually need it, but at that price…….why not!” area.

    This is where I am stuck. I want a new ickle portable amp modeller (the new Line 6 Pocket POD) and it is less than a hundred English pounds!

    I don’t need it, but ya know.

    It’s red!

    And shaped like a kidney bean!
    :>>

  • Conflicts.

    Busy and needing a break but without a single bloggable thought in my head ("well yeah sherlocke, we did just read that last line ya know")

    Wanting to be witty but finding myself rather dull.

    Wanting to not do this for a while but missing it even after a couple of hours of mind shaggingly dull data shuffly boring dip wickingly arse fall offage a danger stuff.

    and happy that I am out of here in just over ten minutes.

    Such a valuble contributer to this brain pool am I.

    Have a good evening all of you.

    :wave:

  • I have....

    A bruise on my right hip. Well the floor in the music room is cement not floorboards and that carpets a bugger.

    A red/just on the verge of going bronze (expansive) forehead from an hour or so playing swingball with a constantly giggling Sarah in the late afternoon sunshine.

    An ache in my lower back from said swingball muck about. Yeah, I may walk alot but I am unused to whacking a ball around in the garden and having to dive for cover when my daughter returns the shot.

    A shed load of very dull work to do.

    No idea what is going on.

    A brand new copy of Guitarist magazine.

    And no excuse for still being at lunch.

    In other news,

    Watched "From Hell" last night. Johnny Depp film (so Jo actually stayed awake) about the Ripper murders in the jolly old east end of london. Why/how the fuck did they turn it into a tragic romance? Jeeez. And someone should tell the film makers that although Mary Kelly was Irish, not all Irish women have bright red hair.

    Oh hang on - does henna count?

    heh heh.

    :wave:

  • Sodding typical.

    I, in a fit of foolhardy optimism, left the house today without my normal fleecy zip up or pop over sweatshirt type thing.

    Why? Because I was a total dickheeeed and believed what the weathermen said. And I believed what the weather said - this morning it said "look at my lovely blue sky, and the wonderous rich colours painted by the low angled rays of the morning sun! no need for a coat, ENJOY!"

    Little did I know that the weather was infact laughing behind its hand and going "Twat! got him now!"

    So after the lovely morning, it is now grey, chilly and drizzly out there.

    Bugger.

    At least it's always warm on the trains. Except in winter, which is odd.

    In other news,

    I have been informed by a trusted source that Brighton will be filled with gay people this weekend (like what else is new) having a rare old time. Pride and such, and much fun and dancing about will be had by all.

    No I'm not going, before you ask.

    :wave:

  • YOU SHIT SUCKING FATHER FUCKING CUNT!

    Well. Just to show some support to Landers.

    Lets all swear!

    Giggle.

    It's big and its clever.

    so sue me.

    I will of course take this post down after a ciggie, a coffee, and a crap in my bosses top drawer.

    Thank you for your attention.

    :>

  • Two by two.

    This just in from our "god isn't my life thrilling" desk!

    My MP3 stick thing wotsit has for some reason decided that "Shuffle" means play songs in sets of two by the same artist, and just as owner notices this, stop doing it for 10 minutes then start again. Till he gets paranoid.

    Well thanks for that.

    In other news.

    Another day without managers in the old office here today, so MDS has set in. (Motivational Depravation Sindrome.)

    Ho hum
    :wave:

  • Pub food.

    Where we live, you can drive for about 20 minutes and be out in the middle of the Essex countryside. Lots of little villages called “something atte something” and so on. Lots of pubs sitting on their own by the roadside advertising food that is served all day.

    So last night Jo, Sarah and I found ourselves sat in the garden of “The Woodsman” in Wetly on the Vein, or where-ever having some pub food. We had a very nice view of the gently rolling countryside as it slipped into dusk, The Spitfire Ale was very nice, and the steak and kidney pie was a rich tasting feast. Sarah of course had the bread crumbed childrens menu “could be fish, could be chicken wossnames” that even the best pubs think are good for children.

    In the bar I was amazed to see a real old style till sat on the bar back! One with old typewriter style keys and little flags that popped up at the top with the prices on, in a glass box running the length of the top edge. The front of this cash piano was engraved and embossed with swirly rural style patterns like those seen on the bright work of expensive shotguns, and the whole thing shone as if freshly polished.

    And the noise it made! No beep beep touch sensitive rubbish, but a good, satisfying
    “KER-CHING” as the draw popped open, and a very attractive CRASH of change moving around in the compartments as it was shut.

    As I took the drinks back to the table outside I had a rather unfortunate mental image of Arkwright from “Open all Hours” and his evil snapping turtle of a till. Nearly spilt some of my pint with the giggles.

    I said nearly.

    :wave:

  • Band Aid.

    Sitting in Mrs F and Shipscooks dining room last night, strumming away on my guitar – I happened to comment on the fact that my right hand picking technique had gone crap again. Shipscook spake “You should get in another band then”

    Which would be good for making me learn more things to a deadline and practice more as when you play just for pleasure you get lazy. But the big problem is, and always has been my inability to drive. So any band you join has to have one member that lives local enough to you to pick you up for rehearsals and gigs. Cabs are an option but the price can get a bit much. And you have to talk to the cab driver – which is actually less preferable than getting a lift from the drummer and having to talk to him about hitting things very hard for the duration of the journey.

    Cookie then went on to suggest that I form a country and western band with Mrs F singing. Fair enough, he did it with “a look” on his face and an evil grin because he knew what my reaction would be.
    :##
    He knows I am not a fan of C&W, and Mrs F and I have a running joke about her singing voice. It is very clear and rather low for a woman, not saying she’s butch, but it is not what you would call a Rock N’ Roll voice. It is actually nice, but don’t tell her I said it. It’s the sort of voice that you would imagine luring the young men of the village off into the dark forest on a summers night, never to be seen again.
    :P
    It would actually be more suited to one of those gothy metal bands where the girl does all the sweetly sung verses and the blokes go snarly apeshit in the chorus. With big de tuned guitars going chugga chugga.

    Well we could do that, but how sad would two 40 some things look doing all that stuff eh?

    So I will just have to work out a proper practice routine and start playing along to compilation CD’s again till my hands strengthen up.
    :wave:

  • Here comes the sun.

    With a rather soggy and unpleasing squelch of protest my brain greeted the morning and slid sideways into the day.

    Ahh yes – mead, ale and single malt. Good move. Nice mix. Thank god there was food, coffee and water mixed in there as well.

    Actually all things considered I feel better than I did on Monday, because I do try not to overdo things on a “school night” I am at that age where hangovers tend to hang around like relatives on Christmas day.

    So I try to treat my body like a temple – I leave the shoes on the outside.

    Now. I think a fortifying ciggie and a word with my line manager before dealing with the customer situation from yesterday is in order.

    :wave:

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