Bye Bye Nan, Hello Tyler

26 May 2007 Fly me I almost forgot. we went to see Pam Ann. During the week. Shes a piss take of 60’s style air hostess, plus a few other air hostess characters such as the B.A Bitch who slowly turns into a horse, the dumb “virgin atlantic” blonde who gets lost walking down the eisle and the trashy easyjet charver who wants a new uniform with “Easy” typed on the back of orange short skirt and crazy frog of the soles of the trainers. She works to her main 2 audiences, Air stewards/stewardesses ( about 1/3 of the audience seemed to work on planes), and the gays (lots of jokes about dark rooms and a menu item of fisted chicken). I’d recomend her for anyone who isn’t easilly shocked. 1:52 – 0 Comments – 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

I don’t feel like dancin’ Last Saturday we went to the radio one free festival at Preston. There was an entire day of live acts culminating with the scissor sisters and groove armada. We left early. The venue and acoustics weren’t great, there were long gaps with us just wandering around waiting and the sun got to me. We both got bored and decided to leave.   We then caught up with the end of blackpool pride and partied well into the night…..and morning. This partying involved visiting blackpools new “Trades” bar. I won’t go into details about the place but I was shocked……..and I’ve been to Berlin.   Since starting blogging I have made an effort not to discuss work, but there has been some big news recently. The manager is leaving and we are moving to Lancaster Uni. Big changes, it’ll be interesting to see how the dust settles. 1:43 – 0 Comments – 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

Thank you Charlie

Today saw the start of a new power sharing government in Northern Ireland. To mark this historic event UK Gold showed the first episode of “Charlies Angels” which featured a young woman called “Jerry Adams”

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life in the fast lane

I am meant to be on the way to a work meeting but apparently someone wants to jump off a bridge so i have been parked up on the fast lane of the m55 for the last 80 mins. It is a surprisingly social experience with most people getting out their cars and chatting with each other and enjoying the sunshine and I’ve just seen one guy walking his dog down the empty lanes going in the opposite direction.

Currently listening : 3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of– By Arrested Development Release date: 24 March, 1992

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In the ground and up the wall
Current mood: sleepy

Excuse my bad mood this morning but I couldn’t sleep last night and I had to be up at the crack of dawn to give Simon a lift into work, and give Tyler a walk. Plus my PC is playing up and this is my 2^nd attempt at starting the blog. Tyler is sat next to me after running around with her 2 current favourite toys, one is a radioactive yellow, squeaky cube and the other looks like something from the sleazy section of Clone Zone.

 

So this week We had my grandmothers funeral. For me this involved seeing lots of cousins, uncles and aunts who I haven’t seen in the best part of a decade. There were lots of tears and alcohol and comments like “It’s such a shock” (she was 91, how much of a shock can it be), “She was firm but fair” (she was stubborn and nasty), “We really must keep in touch” (No chance). If the amount of booze my dad was knocking back and his permanently ‘rosy’ cheeks, is anything to go by, he’ll be next.

 

The best thing about going back was seeing my old schoolmate Teresa. I called her on the drive down and she said “that’s great, you can go climbing with me.” So after bringing the body into the church, I met up with Teresa in what looked like a disused warehouse. Inside it was full of skateboarding ramps and climbing walls of various hights and angles. After seeing Teresa speed up to the top of one of these walls, panic started setting in and I considered just watching her. But I had got this far so I decided to get harnessed up and have a go myself. My 1^st attempt was fairly pitiful getting about 8 foot up. But I persevered and found an easier wall and managed to get to the top. As I climbed I was petrified but determined. At several points I was ready to call to Teresa to let her know I was coming down, but I somehow drew on my own stubbornness to make it to the top. We then went around to different walls where we could both have a go. The hardest part was trying to concentrate on the climbing while all around me were fantastically good looking young men, showing off their perfectly toned tattooed bodies, speeding around impossibly difficult slopes, bends and curves.

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‘Bonnie’ Tyler

I am tired and full after a big fish supper so this will be a quick blog. The reason we needed a fish supper is because me, simon and Tyler spent an hour or so playing on the beach.
summer has come early so Tylers 1st week with us has been full of fun long play sessions on the beach. she loves running around and digging holes, she is getting quite good at sitting and staying on command, but needs work on coming when called and not pulling on the lead.

Other things from this week went to a wedding on Saturday, one of simons work mates. The great weather helped make it a great day although we peaked too early and couldnt cope long in the evening. And the other news is my Nan died on Friday. No offence but i’m not upset, she waqs in her 90’s and I hadn’t seen her in years. I doubt i’ll be in the will.

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Children and Animals
Current mood: excited

It’s been busy week so I’ll try to be as brief as possible.

 

We finally lost a pub quiz this week, to a visiting team, at least we beat all the locals. But I did win the spot prize buy knowing guessing that Sir Alec Guinness was born in 1914, which won us a few quid which went towards getting a dvd player with surround sound. Later in the week we tested this out with james bond.

 

Yesterday we went down to Simons parents and today we took his nephews down to Manchester to see a Doctor who exhibition, and yes, I wanted to go as much as the kids Before we could get in to the exhibit, there was lots of running around old trains and various engines in the science museum and a few races around the old roman fort, which mainly involved them being pushed into the trenches, and pushing me. The attention span of a kid meant that once inside the exhibit, they were only exited about seeing K9, A cyberman, a Darlek or the arachnid queen, when they spotted them from a distance. As they rushed towards any model they saw another in the corner of their eye and got excited about that one instead. They looked as though they were having a great time until it was time to take photos. For some reason when the camera came out they all looked miserable as hell. After Dr Who we took them into town for a Pizza Hut treat. Connor wasn’t happy about all this walking and repeatedly said hit feet were burning and why couldn’t any one carry him. All that was forgotten when the prospect of unlimited pizza arrived. By the end of the day everyone was over tired, especially Me and Simon, and a joke fight got out of hand and ended in tears. Our cue to leave them with their parents.

 

We had a few visitors over the weekend. Keith and Jason form Newcastle and Dawn from Manchester. A good night out was had by all, especially Dawn who received an interesting tip from Jason involving Antiseptic throat lozenges.

 

The main news of the week is Tyler. After a few trips to the RSPCA we found a beautiful Sandy coloured, 11 month old, female, Staffordshire bull terrier. She is currently called Sandy but we are planning to rename her Tyler, this shouldn’t be a problem as she doesn’t respond to Sandy anyway. We have taken her for a couple o walks where she ran around like a whirlwind and spent a bit of time with her. She is very affectionate and excitable and had a slight look of a Labrador about her. We had a house visit to make sure we would be suitable parents, which we passed. And I am going to pick her up this afternoon. Can’t wait.

Currently listening : Doctor Who – Original Television Soundtrack By Murray Gold Release date: 13 February, 2007

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Spring is springing

The combination of the start of spring and the fact that I have been feeling sorry for myself due to my weight and lack of fitness, has spurred me on to start cycling. It started last Saturday with a leisurely 10 miles down the beach and around the town. During the week Simon joined me for a 9 mile round trip to Clevelys and I started this morning off with another 11 miles. Look here’s the proof http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=819049 Unfortunately any health benefits have been counteracted by the mammoth amounts of crap I have been eating. So that’s the next thing to change. One of the horrific side effects of these long cycle journeys is that it makes my willy shrink to the size of an acorn. What’s all that about? And I know what you’re thinking, too much information.

 

The hunt for a puppy continues, we have made a few trips to various rescue centres, and seen lots of dogs, loud ones, quiet ones, confident ones and nervous ones but we still haven’t found the one for us yet.

 

For the fist time in living memory we didn’t win the pub quiz, but only because we were out on Si’s payday party at the time. Like cinder’s I headed off before the clock struck midnight while they partied into the wee small hours. Although by all accounts it was a relatively uneventful night

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