Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Adventure 23: 31st May 2005
"Phew, those loppers are good..." Hi all, well it's been forever since my last entry... where to begin...let's start as we mean to go on, with another day off (well 2 in fact)...
Monday 23rd May 2005:
Well it's monday and normally it'd be really really bad, but not today because I have A DAY OFF !!!! It's Mandy's birthday tomorrow and I'm laying in bed looking all smug because for once I have every thing sorted for the big day.
It's a funny day today because neither of us have really that much to do, so the suggestion of a trip to homebase, a garden centre and a wood yard, is curiously starting to be a little appealing...
Mandy is on the hunt for a wooden arch to replace the wooden arch that she's selling to her sister Jumblewoman (I'll fill you in on the adventures of Jumblewoman when I get a minute). Ok ok I know it wasn't an arch it was an arbour (save the boat and sea references for someone who's not already done them !!), well an arbour without a seat is in fact just a wooden arch and if you'd seen the arbour's seat then you'd know why I called it a wooden arch.... any how we make it to Herratic's Wood Yard, filled with arches, timber posts, trellice (and all sorts of other things I can't spell). There are about 3 wooden arches for sale. Now bear in mind that a wooden arch consists of four posts, a top bit and some trellice between them, soooo £180 would seem a reasonable price to pay n'est pas ?, I DON'T FINK SO.
Apparently we don't want any old wooden arch (what is this "we" business pale face ?), oh no, we're after a chunky one with rounded posts, sounds like a damn fine idea to me....
I did point out to mandy that a wooden arch doesn't have any where to sit and it's generally used as an entrace to somewhere...therefore putting it at the end of the garden, right next to the back fence might not be such a great idea...but how wrong could I be...apparently there's a stone bench (oh christ!!!) that can be put there...thoughts of musical stone benches spring into my mind and that bugger is heavy !
We leave said wood yard, summarily unimpressed, and head towards cashbase to see if they do any...apparently not, still we "needed" some bits from there so £15 later (a bloody good trip if you ask me), and head home archless....
Tuesday 24th May 2005:
08:00: Shhhhheeeeeeeeeettttttt!!!! The alarm is going bonkers and rightly so, it's bloody 8am and Ryan is still playing his playstation, is undressed, had no breakfast and has to be at school in 20 minutes !!! aaagggghhhh... Oh yeah and for good measure, it's also Mandy's birthday....I can't write in here the expletives I wanted to, "Cre8 oversleeps on Mandy's special day shocker - again !!!", any how I rush Ryan along, getting him dressed and he tears himself away long enough to eat his breakfast, Jack ha ! Jack is still in bed, still unconcious...
08:05: I bring a cup of tea to the birthday girl and explain to her the situation, apologising profusely, I give her, her cards from the boys and she very nicely says that it doesn't matter and she'll open her presents from the boys when they get back after school...I'm still annoyed..
08:10: Leave to take Ryan to school, I'll be back to take Jack in a bit...Drop Ryan off at the ASDABMoreExpensive lights and race back home, in time to find Jack as slow as you like eating his breakfast....
08:30: I'm in a blind panic, POD is putting his shoes on as slow as he likes, and has completely forgotten that it's Mum's birthday, Ryan at least gave the cursory "Happy Birthday", still when you're 9 there are other things on your mind I guess....
08:35: I manage to drop Jack just in time and then back home for a collapse and heart attack.
10:00: As promised Mandy and I are off in to town to go shopping with her birthday money, there is CCTV of me being dragged kicking and screaming in to the centre, (that was deliberate), I'm hoping to get on Crimewatchanddonothing this month....
14:00: We stop for lunch, knowing that we have to pick Jack up at 3:20pm sooo an hour and 20 minutes to get served, in PizzaShed ? Ha ? Fat chance... Luckily Mandy manages to phone Lynne (her friend) to ask if she could pick up Jack.
15:00: We're on the way out of town, even Mandy has had enough !!! (hold the back page)
15:30: Parked up outside Lynne's house, waiting for her to get back from school.
16:00: Back home with Jack and Ryan saunters in....present time!!!
16:30: Ryan's present a very nice bangle that Mandy had chosen goes down a storm, Jack has chosen a new notebook and some fancy pens, and they've both given her a Vase and Candle holder again which she chose, my present was spent during the day (well some of it was), and as a token gift, I've given her her very own toolbox, complete with Hammer (oh god) and screwdriver sets. I'm a little worried about the spirit level since I know this will mean my shelves etc will now really have to be level !!!
17:30: Over to Dave, Spitfire, and Ollie, feedingofthefivethousand's for dinner, the night before they move !!!! Quite why or how I can't answer, but somehow amongst the chaos of boxes and tape etc, there's a functioning cooker and the evidence would seem to be that it's functioning very well....
Wednesday 25th May 2005:
A day to go down in history....Work was nothing to write home about, Corvette, InvisDave, Quiet Rob, Brentboy, all there all present, but my mind is somewhere else....yup Champions League Final, my team Liverpool are the most unlikely finalists, but hey they're there and I don't care....
19:00:
So it begins, well the hour long mindless drivel pushed out by the so called pundits, who if they say anything, is lost amongst the hours of prose they choose to put in front of their points...
20:00: Kick off ! - Ryan and I are on the edge of our prospective seats....
20:01: Bugger 1 nil to AC Milan, couldn't have started worse if they'd tried....
20:34: Penalty !!! no not given, bloody ref....
20:34-30seconds: Bugger Bugger, 2 nil to AC Milan, this could be a bad night...Ryan has started crying....
20:44: Oh for christ sake this is taking the P!$$ 3 nil to AC Milan - Ryan is crying, screaming and banging his head against the wall...Me I've seen my fair share of complete surrenders in my time and I'm therefore not that surprised, still it's only 3 - 0 so it could be worse (gulp)...
21:00: Second half starts, Didi Hamman is on and the team is playing much better (I think the management slipped them a micky finn at half time and the don't realise they're 3 - 0 down...
21:10: Goal !!! Stevie Gerrard !!!! 3-1 to AC now, still gotta get 2 goals..to force extra time...
21:15: Goal !!! Vladimir Smicer with an absolute thunder bolt from 35 yards, now I'm beginning to beleive, but that last goal could be tricky to come by...
21:25: Penalty !!!! Gerrard hauled down, Ryan is over the moon, I did point out that we have to score the penalty first !!
21:30: Penalty is saved by the AC Milan goalkeeper, but then GOAL !!! Smashed home by Xavi Alonso 3 - 3, I don't think my heart can take much more....
21:45: Extra time !!! ( I really can't take it), they're all over us like a rash, we've got no legs left....I can see a goal coming any time now...
22:14: Header by chevchenko, saved by dudek, rebounds to him 3 yards out, Dudek saves again from point blank range...I tell you, our name is on the cup this year....
22:15: Penalties....gulp, I'm really not looking forward to it....
22:20: AC have missed their first two pen's and we've scored ours...they score their 3rd, John Arne Rise has his saved....2-1 to us on pen's .... 3-2 to us on pens...chevchenko next for AC...he has to score or we win....SAVED !!!! by dudek - 4 -2 to us on pens
22:30: Ryan and me are dancing around the front room, in full view of everyone, I don't care, I really don't care...then my parent instinct comes back..."time to go up now then mate" (like he's gonna sleep !!!)
22:45: We watch the cup presentation and he then goes up gets himself ready and in to bed....
Thursday 27th May 2005:
Morning after the night before, work is a buzz about yesterdays match....Quiet Rob, is telling everyone a hundred reasons why Liverpool shouldn't have been champions, bloody Arsenal fans, should just be pleased, maybe one day they'll win some thing important you never know !!! ;-))
The rest of the day is all a bit pointless, and consists of me surfing, doing some more surfing and then surfing some more....
Friday 28th May 2005:
Last day before a bank holiday weekend hurrrah!!!... The grand wizard comes over, "got a problem, we need to put together something quick for resilient systems", "triffic"...I'm actually looking forward to doing something, ok I've arranged our monthly weekly meeting but that doesn't exactly involve a lot of thinking...
That takes me all day pretty much, so at least I'm occupied....
Monday 23rd May 2005:
Well it's monday and normally it'd be really really bad, but not today because I have A DAY OFF !!!! It's Mandy's birthday tomorrow and I'm laying in bed looking all smug because for once I have every thing sorted for the big day.
It's a funny day today because neither of us have really that much to do, so the suggestion of a trip to homebase, a garden centre and a wood yard, is curiously starting to be a little appealing...
Mandy is on the hunt for a wooden arch to replace the wooden arch that she's selling to her sister Jumblewoman (I'll fill you in on the adventures of Jumblewoman when I get a minute). Ok ok I know it wasn't an arch it was an arbour (save the boat and sea references for someone who's not already done them !!), well an arbour without a seat is in fact just a wooden arch and if you'd seen the arbour's seat then you'd know why I called it a wooden arch.... any how we make it to Herratic's Wood Yard, filled with arches, timber posts, trellice (and all sorts of other things I can't spell). There are about 3 wooden arches for sale. Now bear in mind that a wooden arch consists of four posts, a top bit and some trellice between them, soooo £180 would seem a reasonable price to pay n'est pas ?, I DON'T FINK SO.
Apparently we don't want any old wooden arch (what is this "we" business pale face ?), oh no, we're after a chunky one with rounded posts, sounds like a damn fine idea to me....
I did point out to mandy that a wooden arch doesn't have any where to sit and it's generally used as an entrace to somewhere...therefore putting it at the end of the garden, right next to the back fence might not be such a great idea...but how wrong could I be...apparently there's a stone bench (oh christ!!!) that can be put there...thoughts of musical stone benches spring into my mind and that bugger is heavy !
We leave said wood yard, summarily unimpressed, and head towards cashbase to see if they do any...apparently not, still we "needed" some bits from there so £15 later (a bloody good trip if you ask me), and head home archless....
Tuesday 24th May 2005:
08:00: Shhhhheeeeeeeeeettttttt!!!! The alarm is going bonkers and rightly so, it's bloody 8am and Ryan is still playing his playstation, is undressed, had no breakfast and has to be at school in 20 minutes !!! aaagggghhhh... Oh yeah and for good measure, it's also Mandy's birthday....I can't write in here the expletives I wanted to, "Cre8 oversleeps on Mandy's special day shocker - again !!!", any how I rush Ryan along, getting him dressed and he tears himself away long enough to eat his breakfast, Jack ha ! Jack is still in bed, still unconcious...
08:05: I bring a cup of tea to the birthday girl and explain to her the situation, apologising profusely, I give her, her cards from the boys and she very nicely says that it doesn't matter and she'll open her presents from the boys when they get back after school...I'm still annoyed..
08:10: Leave to take Ryan to school, I'll be back to take Jack in a bit...Drop Ryan off at the ASDABMoreExpensive lights and race back home, in time to find Jack as slow as you like eating his breakfast....
08:30: I'm in a blind panic, POD is putting his shoes on as slow as he likes, and has completely forgotten that it's Mum's birthday, Ryan at least gave the cursory "Happy Birthday", still when you're 9 there are other things on your mind I guess....
08:35: I manage to drop Jack just in time and then back home for a collapse and heart attack.
10:00: As promised Mandy and I are off in to town to go shopping with her birthday money, there is CCTV of me being dragged kicking and screaming in to the centre, (that was deliberate), I'm hoping to get on Crimewatchanddonothing this month....
14:00: We stop for lunch, knowing that we have to pick Jack up at 3:20pm sooo an hour and 20 minutes to get served, in PizzaShed ? Ha ? Fat chance... Luckily Mandy manages to phone Lynne (her friend) to ask if she could pick up Jack.
15:00: We're on the way out of town, even Mandy has had enough !!! (hold the back page)
15:30: Parked up outside Lynne's house, waiting for her to get back from school.
16:00: Back home with Jack and Ryan saunters in....present time!!!
16:30: Ryan's present a very nice bangle that Mandy had chosen goes down a storm, Jack has chosen a new notebook and some fancy pens, and they've both given her a Vase and Candle holder again which she chose, my present was spent during the day (well some of it was), and as a token gift, I've given her her very own toolbox, complete with Hammer (oh god) and screwdriver sets. I'm a little worried about the spirit level since I know this will mean my shelves etc will now really have to be level !!!
17:30: Over to Dave, Spitfire, and Ollie, feedingofthefivethousand's for dinner, the night before they move !!!! Quite why or how I can't answer, but somehow amongst the chaos of boxes and tape etc, there's a functioning cooker and the evidence would seem to be that it's functioning very well....
Wednesday 25th May 2005:
A day to go down in history....Work was nothing to write home about, Corvette, InvisDave, Quiet Rob, Brentboy, all there all present, but my mind is somewhere else....yup Champions League Final, my team Liverpool are the most unlikely finalists, but hey they're there and I don't care....
19:00:
So it begins, well the hour long mindless drivel pushed out by the so called pundits, who if they say anything, is lost amongst the hours of prose they choose to put in front of their points...
20:00: Kick off ! - Ryan and I are on the edge of our prospective seats....
20:01: Bugger 1 nil to AC Milan, couldn't have started worse if they'd tried....
20:34: Penalty !!! no not given, bloody ref....
20:34-30seconds: Bugger Bugger, 2 nil to AC Milan, this could be a bad night...Ryan has started crying....
20:44: Oh for christ sake this is taking the P!$$ 3 nil to AC Milan - Ryan is crying, screaming and banging his head against the wall...Me I've seen my fair share of complete surrenders in my time and I'm therefore not that surprised, still it's only 3 - 0 so it could be worse (gulp)...
21:00: Second half starts, Didi Hamman is on and the team is playing much better (I think the management slipped them a micky finn at half time and the don't realise they're 3 - 0 down...
21:10: Goal !!! Stevie Gerrard !!!! 3-1 to AC now, still gotta get 2 goals..to force extra time...
21:15: Goal !!! Vladimir Smicer with an absolute thunder bolt from 35 yards, now I'm beginning to beleive, but that last goal could be tricky to come by...
21:25: Penalty !!!! Gerrard hauled down, Ryan is over the moon, I did point out that we have to score the penalty first !!
21:30: Penalty is saved by the AC Milan goalkeeper, but then GOAL !!! Smashed home by Xavi Alonso 3 - 3, I don't think my heart can take much more....
21:45: Extra time !!! ( I really can't take it), they're all over us like a rash, we've got no legs left....I can see a goal coming any time now...
22:14: Header by chevchenko, saved by dudek, rebounds to him 3 yards out, Dudek saves again from point blank range...I tell you, our name is on the cup this year....
22:15: Penalties....gulp, I'm really not looking forward to it....
22:20: AC have missed their first two pen's and we've scored ours...they score their 3rd, John Arne Rise has his saved....2-1 to us on pen's .... 3-2 to us on pens...chevchenko next for AC...he has to score or we win....SAVED !!!! by dudek - 4 -2 to us on pens
22:30: Ryan and me are dancing around the front room, in full view of everyone, I don't care, I really don't care...then my parent instinct comes back..."time to go up now then mate" (like he's gonna sleep !!!)
22:45: We watch the cup presentation and he then goes up gets himself ready and in to bed....
Thursday 27th May 2005:
Morning after the night before, work is a buzz about yesterdays match....Quiet Rob, is telling everyone a hundred reasons why Liverpool shouldn't have been champions, bloody Arsenal fans, should just be pleased, maybe one day they'll win some thing important you never know !!! ;-))
The rest of the day is all a bit pointless, and consists of me surfing, doing some more surfing and then surfing some more....
Friday 28th May 2005:
Last day before a bank holiday weekend hurrrah!!!... The grand wizard comes over, "got a problem, we need to put together something quick for resilient systems", "triffic"...I'm actually looking forward to doing something, ok I've arranged our monthly weekly meeting but that doesn't exactly involve a lot of thinking...
That takes me all day pretty much, so at least I'm occupied....
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