Erm.

Its now Sunday. Got home around 12 noon on Friday to my phone running out while I was talking a guy to my house, while I was still on the phone. He was coming to take the white volvo away. Needless to say, he didnt and will be coming round this week instead.

Picked the kids up on Friday afternoon and dropped them back today. Had a great weekend apart from having to take Rhiannon to hospital, as she managed to stab herself in the back of the throat with a stick... but hey! Thats 4 year olds for you :)

Also got all the wheels sorted out. The 5 spoke alloys from the white Volvo are now on the golf one. The alloys from the gold one are now on Marcus' and the steel ones from his car are now on the white one. Phew!

I also unsubscribed from my favourite mailing list as I got royally pissed off. Re-subscribed today as I was missing it too much. Damn them :)

Anyway - Thursday night and the Lloyds TSB Pub Crawl 2003. It was excellent. We started from the Head Office in Canons Marsh at 6.15pm and made our way to the first pub which was somewhere or other. We did 6 or 8 pubs I think, plus we were drinking SideKicks as we were walking around. We ended up at Evolution night club at the harbour front around 10.30pm.

At 11pm, Doreen Doreen took to the stage, and it was going quite well until they tried to cover Bohemian Rhapsody. Frankly, a stupid idea.

After that, I left that dance area and found the hardcore floor - where I burned about a zillion calories by dancing continuously for about 1.5hrs. Then back to the other dancefloor for some smoozing. Which sort of did and didnt happen. Ho-hum! The plan was - get upto anything as we werent going to be seeing any of them until next year anyway :)

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Well - doesnt look like Chandler has chicken pox after all. Bimbo took him to the doctor and he reckons it isnt - so god knows what he ate/drank/touched that has caused it.

It the Lloyds TSB 2003 Pub Crawl tomorrow. I am in a team going as a film crew - will probably get some digital pictures of the night as I go around as well as some video footage. I'll update on Friday with news of how ill I am :)

[link]   Posted @ 17:32

On the last day of my course today.

Met up with Kev and Eddie last night (others cried off or just didnt turn up). We had several beers, then a fantastic Chinese (that Kev expensed) with lots of Tiger Beer and then more drinks at Waxy O'Connors. Excellent evening and thx to Eddie and Kev for looking after me for the evening.

I also paid for my FrightFest 2003 ticket and will be in London again at the end of August for that. Plus, I have a weekend at the end of July where I havent got Rhiannon and Chandler - looks like I might come back up to spend the weekend watching films and drinking :)

Gonna call Bimbo later (when the course finishes) to find out how Chandler is today and whether his spots have done anything.

[link]   Posted @ 11:35

Had a great weekend with the kids. We visited my sister around lunchtime and then spent the rest of the day and early evening at mt friend Paul's parents house having a barbeque. Kids loved it. Happy Birthday Paul.

Chandler woke up Sunday morning with spots. Looks like chicken pox! Better he has it now than later.

Currently I am in London on a training course. Travelled up by train last night after dropping Rhiannon and Chandler home. Tonight, I am hitting the town (well Leicester Square) with some friends. Should be a blast.

[link]   Posted @ 13:27

Found a site to make your own signs. I'll post the link when I find it - but in the meantime, here are some signs:





:)

[link]   Posted @ 19:12

Bimbo called on Sunday afternoon and I picked the kids up at 14:30. They were full of being on holiday and really enjoyed themselves. When I dropped them back, Bimbo and I worked out the days I would have them up until the end of the year, so thats pretty cool. Bimbo is having them 1 weekend in 3, but that means I get them on a Friday night out of every 3, so it works out quite well.

Sunday night we had a BBQ to celebrate Pete moving in. He has moved out of his flat and is now in the master bedroom on the first floor. Tim has moved down to the bedroom on the ground floor (and his rent has lowered). All pretty cool.

The new hard disk for the estate agents turned up yesterday and that all seems OK. I was hoping to go and fit it this evening, but one of the ATM switches has thrown a wobbler here at work, so it needs resetting. Plus I need to go and see Andy about collecting my car. Then tomorrow, I can tax it!

[link]   Posted @ 15:46

Friday night was excellent. We ended the night in "Walkabout" - a great club/pub thing in Corn St. Bristol. Some cheese, some rock and some dance. Excellent night.

Got home around 13:00. Too late to go to the Bank and too late to collect a parcel. I did go and see the landlady and Pete is moving in this weekend!

Bimbo called and asked if I minded that the kids stayed away. Rhiannon apparently wanted to stay at the beach as she was having so much fun :) I agreed, so hopefully should see them this evening. The trade is - I get to see them during this week plus I get the from Friday to stay over...

So, we went out last night to celebrate Kim and Katies 18th. Gemma got Katie hideously drunk by buying her cocktails and shooters. We left The Cabot and went to Hobbits where Gemma left us. Katie spent the rest of the night throwing up on herself and eventually we had to drag/walk her home.

For some reason, I have learnt to dance. Everyone noticed it last night. I apologised :)

[link]   Posted @ 11:26

Yesterday evening, I went round to the estate agents that I do some work for.

First thing was installing a new PC for them. I had built it at home, soak tested it, got the network card working properly and installed Win98. I then just needed to change the IP settings, add some .ini files and some icons to the desktop. Hey presto! 10 minutes later - all sorted out.

We then had to take the machine it was replacing and remove everything off of it and this was to be used elsewhere in the company.

Then - the main mans hard disk died. I opened up the case and guess what? A dead Fujitsu hard disk. Thats 2 in this company I have to replace since August last year. Not good. I will be back there next week to put a new hard disk in that machine.

Then the following week - I will hopefully be installing their server, which might take some time and some tweaking to get it working.

Tonight is Martins birthday bash. Pub, then Quasar, then back to Bristol for pubbing/clubbing it til the early hours. When I got in this morning, I realised that I hadnt sorted out getting home/somewhere to stay. Fortunately, Paul and Wendy have come to my rescue and I am staying there. Tomorrow, I just need to catch a train from Keynsham to home and I am sorted.

The kids have gone away for a couple of days with Bimbo and Luke, and they dont get back until late Saturday or Sunday, so I will have to wait to see them.

[link]   Posted @ 15:53

Nothing of interest going on.

Andy has finished my car and I will hopefully be picking it up next week. Going out on Friday night to celebrate Martin's birthday. Quasar in Bath, then out in Bristol until Saturday morning. Picking the kids up at 14:30 on Saturday and taking them to Anthonys birthday party at 15:00.

Getting excited about going on holiday in August too. Even though it is way too early.

Expect to see my 2 new sites soon - bizarrehorse.com and buggerthat.com...

[link]   Posted @ 10:17

And just what the hell is Bill doing to Hillary in this photo?

[link]   Posted @ 14:32