Lay off my blue suede shoes..

My astroturf trainers have been noticeably degrading for the last few weeks, they’re still mostly ’structurally’ sound, but they’ve become far from nasally sound after getting a good drenching the other week. I was gutted, because I’ve really really rated them compared to previous trainers I’ve used. They were Adidas Absolado (or something [...]

We could be Heroes..

 
I just finished watching the first season of Heroes today, I won’t post any spoilers as it’s yet to finish on our TV, but whilst thoroughly enjoying the build up I was quite disappointed by the ending.  It was a bit predictable, compared to some of the twists throughout the story.
It’s inevitable I suppose that [...]

Are there really three wise monkeys?

Anyone who knows me reasonably well will know I’m fairly obsessed with monkey-related things. So perhaps it’s not that surprising that one of my favourite maxims is the idea of the ‘three wise monkeys’ that represent the proverb: ’see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.’ I was thinking about this the [...]

It’s just all about football these days!

Thursday’s a football days for me, playing that is – I had the morning off work (fortunately!) as I knew we’d be back late from heading to Wembley, and hadn’t realised quite how late, so the lie in was particularly welcome!  The afternoon was spent sorting out a presentation for the following day, where Neil [...]

The joys of Skeg…

Our familial holidays were often on the East Coast of England in Lincolnshire, although I think we tended for Ingoldmells or Mablethorpe (aka Mabbo or Sunny Mabbo) for our excursions, but the article Al Needham dredged up on his Left Lion blog site made me almost literally piss myself remembering! I’m sure he won’t [...]

Wem-ber-leee! Wem-ber-leee! And we’re all pissed up but we’re gonna win the cup!

I went on a road trip with Rich and Uncle Ken to Wembley to watch the ultimately disappointing display by England against Germany in a friendly match.  I won’t go into a detailed match analysis – but we looked good for the first 20 mins, and why McClaren – in his infinite wisdom – moved [...]

Wanters not needers, hypocrites and cheaters, this is the news of the world…

Apparently this little gem featured on the front page of the Nottingham Evening Post today, not just made it into print, it made it on to the FRONT PAGE!! (according to an email from my esteemed sibling Rich, you see, I don’t waste my time by reading the generally rather rubbish local rag!):
ROOTING OUT WHO [...]

Headlights, white lines, black tar rivers..

I’ve had a drive-tastic week or so really.  Last week of course Cat and I headed up to sometimes-sunny Yorkshire for our falconry experience, as well as a bit of touring featuring a gorge, a falconry centre (as if we’d not seen enough!) and a big long cave, and of course driving home again.
Upon arrival [...]

Hawking around..

Falconry is ace.  After being rained off in June, Cat and I successfully had our falconry experience on the Coniston Hotel estate in Yorkshire, and it was worth waiting for!  I’m seriously tempted to get qualified – although no such qualification exists just yet, but it will do soon, as Defra are quite keen to [...]

Rant of the day… baby product adverts..

Not being a parent, I can’t be sure – but having witnessed numerous people enter the scary world of parenthood recently, I’m reasonably confident that bringing a new life in the world does not turn people into some kind of gibbering idiot.
Certainly baby talk and more ‘goo goo gah gah’ing probably enters their vocabulary, but [...]