I know its a long way to go but i have been making plans for my 40th which will be the last two weeks in june 2009

I have just been ok'd for the finance and am getting plans together for my holiday of a life time - if you want to come along please let me know. You can do some of the holiday or all of it if you want but i'm getting quotes of just under £3000 for my itinerray - a hell of a lot of money but i will be flying from place to place and staying in some decent hotels.


http://www.llamatravel.com/peru-holidays.aspx

Peru :


I aim to see

the nazca line's then onto the amazon rainforest for 3 days then finish with the 4 day inca trail.

I will be booking in a month or so, so think about it .. you can just do the rainforest or inca trail , but this is my once in a life time trip so i'm doing the lot

very happy bunny :)

mood: excited

i went to see Hellboy 2 last night, excellent movie better than the the first one

The guy from Bros has really moved on - great actor, and the character who was a walking sack of gas was pretty cool aswell



and spider man 4 is coming :)

Does anyone speak spanish ?

i need to find out how to order tickets for vnv nation and i may have to give them a call

help !

Another night, another few beers ...

I met up with my mates and whent to the walkabout pub near the london eye to watch the football. After several beers we moved onto another pub just past the blackfriars bridge.

We then decided to go back to the hotel for one more. What i didnt know was that the one more turned into one more bottle of wine each. We settled into the hotel bar and bumped into an IT sales man and ended up sitting with him untill very early in the morning discussing the merits of Pink Floyds album 'The wall'. Then we all had to sing a song each and talk about its meaning. The songs varied from celtic melodies, guns and roses songs and my choice of bruderschaft 's 'forever'.

I woke up this morning feeling like i ve just done ten ronds with mike tyson.

mood: sleepy

After work... me and some friends popped out for a few beers (again) and ended up in a pub by the thames opposite St Pauls. We then found a pub closer to Blackfriars and popped in to a local curry house for a bite to eat. For some reason i ordered the hottest thing on the menu , which was very nice but i am somewhat regretting this morning. from there we got a cab to another pub which we had heard of but didnt know where exactly it was (we got in the cab and the pub turned out to be 300 feet from the curry house) and then we went on to my friends hotel for a few more beers.

last night was a late one and i am starting to feel all those extra beers and curry floating about inside me. I really must go on a diet NO excuses. (maybe next week )

We got chatting and the list of places in europe i want to go to seems to be getting bigger by the minute.

Can my bank balance take it ? not a chance in hell.

mood: drained

After a bit of a downer , i popped out for a few bers last night . We went to the queen mary pub , a boat on the thames in between the london eye, st pauls and the houses of pariliament . It was a good night and just what i needed to cheer me up.

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/17/1780/Queen_Mary/Embankment

Life just gets ..... better look whats coming back !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm

fantastic.

i hope they keep the same theme tune.

music: vnv nation left behind

I'm reallly cheesed of about the exams

so i will dissapear for a few months just working and studying like mad (booooo)

but i have jordan to look forward to in two months, then berlin for nye , maybe going to ireland next year for a drinking weekend and possibly barcelona to see a mate.

But role on my big 40 next year , i will be booking soon (if i get the loan through) for peru in june / july next year --- two weeks trekking in the rainforest to see machu pichu.

holidays - skint's you out but put's a smile on your face

the i will get a hugh pay rise and go to tibet the year after that , or be totally skint and have to get a second job to pay for it all.

who knows ? who cares. live now and pay later !

yey

mood: blah

I had an unexpected weekend in london so after looking at the money situation i decided to be sensible .. hahaha - in other words i spent a truck load of money on sod all.

Friday i went for a few beers with the guys from work, an entertaining evening ending up kipping at a mates house somehwere in woolwich by the the thames.

I woke up saturday morning feeling a tad rough and got ready for a quiete drink with a mate.The odd drink turned into an all day drink marathon at the intreped fox ( i believe i'm due for a gold medal for this one). I moved on to invocation and met up with some more friends but the music wasn't really my scene so i moved on to slimes.

Slimes started off great, the music was excellent and it was a great atmoshphere. Then around half three / four the music took a turn for the worse - it went from goood ebm to really bad dance music. when i say bad i mean so bad that the only people dancing were the ones off there head. But the dj took no notice and kept on playing shite. so i moved onto the trad floor (this was upsatirs since they are renovating the ground floor). I spotted a few faces from times gone by but soon got cheesed off and headed for home.

To be fare slime was better than i expected but still have room ( a lot of room) for improvement. The crowd were looking like the old days and there was a fare few great( as in amasing) looking girls there. so all in all a good night.

But sunday was payback time - i only got out of bed to buy a pizza and big tub of chocloate ice cream. and i must stop watching episodes of 'angel' ive seen two seasons in a row now and demons fighting the undead are becoming the norm.

i'm now waiting for the exam results - something tells me its going to be a bad day

oh bugger - i failed - here comes the re - sits,

funny thing is that i got more for the exam i thought i'd get zero for than the one i did more work on

re sits - dont you just love them.

mood: tired

anyone heard of this before ?

http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi228000025/

i'm in london this weekend whats everyone doing ?

i'm tempted to go to the new club synthasiser on friday and invocation on sat.

the coach of doom 2008

Last year I went to mera luna and it was the best holiday of my life – this year was better than last year.

Friday morning I had to go the isle of wight , pick my daughter up – drop her off to her mum and get back in time to meet the gang at the pick up point at 11 pm for a fifeteen hour coach trip. The coach was half full by the time it got to us and after a further pick up point we set off and made it to germany by around 3 pm the next day. So I was shatterd after travelling something like 20 hours in total.

There were 32 of us on the coach and we met maybe ten more people ? at the camp sight. Our camp site was huge and it wasn’t long before the beer started flowing and the party began. Fridays club night was exceptionally good and the ‘cov goths’ are still as mad as ever. I have really taken a shine to the military uniforms and have a hat which some how managed to get a foot print on the top of it – how that happened I don’t know. I was going to ask one of the uniformed girls if I could make storm troopers with her – but thankfully I didn’t .

I stayed reasonably sober on Saturday so that I could enjoy vnv nation – to be honest they were all I could focus on so that is all I remember of Saturday. They were awesome – it was very hard keeping the tears back when they played ‘illusion’ I was supposed to go clubbing again on Saturday night but a quick nap lasted 11 hours (oops)

I must be changing …. I was queing up to get into the festival on Sunday morning when a very drunk cyber comes up to me and starts chatting – his mate smiled and ran off – I said look your mates leaving and the guy who was running off shouted back ‘he’s all yours now’ - . the cyber guy then kept on saying ‘us cybers have to stick together’ .Sunday was ebm day and I saw several bands in the hanger but the highlight was combi-christ. I danced until I was absolutely shattered. We then went to see new model army, and watched my mates set up the human pryramid and met up with the cov lot when the neph’s came on. We then stayed up late singing cheesy tv themes and telling goth jokes.

Most of the good stuff that happened is gossip that will get me into trouble – but it was a very amusing weekend.

The stand out parts I can say …. were listenting to the drumming on the runway in the middle of the night. Then Monday morning the security guard with his mega – phone shouting at lumps in random tents ….. ‘gooden morgan this is your early morning call!’ – then setting off the siren. – and when we were all on the coach – the people left behind stood in a line and did a Mexican wave as a good bye – with the rest of the campers waveing at us as we left.

The coach driver (in his 50’s ?) was dressed normal and used the spare ticket we had to get into the festival – by the sunday he was all dressed in black watching the bands – he will be coming with us next year.

I didn’t get to say proper goodbye’s to people on Monday night / Tuesday morning , but it was so good to see so many friends and meet a few more new mates.

Seeing a band that were so good you are fighting back the tears, dancing until you drop, and having so much of a laugh with your mates that you think your going to burst.

Mera luna 2008 – two words – fucking amazing

Thanks ade, ian , alan + everyone else for sorting this out
Can I reserve my ticket for next year now please ?

mood: bouncy

five more days and we will be here !



cant wait :))

and no... i didnt have a go

can you spot me in the crowd ?

Ive been busy as usuall - After getting back from amphi on monday iv'e popped out for a few beers down the dev for glam night.

Aswell as that ive had to drop my little girl to the isle of wight (after work)last night and come back on the same evening to make it to work today . So i'm shattered and i have the same journey back to the isle of wight tonight.

I was supposed to go to the gym at least twice a week but made it once last week and not at all this week (not good)

in two weeks its the great british beer festival

5th to the 9th august - i would like to go on the 6th as i have the next day off

any takers ??

It will be an evening of charm and wit as we taste the fine ale's and cider on offer, and since i have the next day off i can get completely wasted !

to come along you must :

1) bring a wheel barrow so the 'responsible adult' can push me back to the station.

2) bring a silly hat

mood: bouncy

Another weekend and another fantastic festival over :((

what an amazing weekend.

I arrived on Thursday to find that my hotle room had been cancelled - not a good start but i found a hotel five minutes away so all was well. We had a few beers and then moved on to the pre show club held at an old vinega factory. Upstairs was ebm and the downstairs was more of a mix of trad and emo - very unusual, but had a look much like nicks Dead and Buried (butt with out the cool music). Needless to say i was upstairs for the night dancing my little legs off. Ive never seen so many good looking women in my life - if ever i go back to cologne i will be back at that club.
You didnt pay for your beers when you ordered them, instead you got a card stamped every timne you went to the bar and paid as you left - a tribute to the honesty and respect of the germany people - somehow i cant see it working in the uk.

Friday was the festival - The bands for me were - Nosiuf-x, Covenant and the amazing Nachtmaur. i stayed for the after show club and danced non stop for around 3 hours - truly excellent music - with a set from one of the guys from Nachmahr.

Saturday the bands for me were l'ame imoortelle, And One (and the reason for me going .. )and of course suicide comando

I was shattered after all this and called it a night early.

The place was beautiful, the people wonderfull, i met up with and made new friends.

You have to see suicide comando to get how great they were. They blew everone else of the stage

i will travel to the ends of the earth to see them again

mood: enthralled

who wants to go to berlin for new years eve ?


K17 !!

as if i need an excuse ?


we need to start booking flights and accomodation soon

fly out on the 30th and come back on the 2nd ?

come on you know you want to.

All last week my hearing started to go and by friday it sounded like i was under water.

So the weekend was a quiete one - lieterally. I was feeling very sorry for myself but seeing angel (my little princess) cheered me up. It also cheered everyone else up on the train to the isle of wight when she spent half the journey looking in my ear trying to find out why i couldnt hear. Apparenently if you look harder enough you can see daylight - i'm sure many people woould agree to that one.

I had somethng of an unplanned long weekend since i was to dizzy to take angel back on sunday and i have to go to the doctors next monday to get my ears surringed which is very scary - i have no idea what this means and have a picture in my mind of a doctor with a needle as long as his arm ramming this thing in my ear whilst three people hold me down screaming.

I only feel dizzy after long trips on boats and trians - so ive still managed to go to the gym a few times whilst in london. I havent managed to feel physically fitter , only to loose maybe half a stone in weight, which was not the plan. Lifting weights at a gym can be very upsetting as you reach 40. I used to be able to lift my own weight but now struggle with the smallest of weights. Whilst everyone else can lift weights the size of my head i can only just manage the bar on its own - thankkfully the machines hide how much you can lift which is a god send.

I have to get my act together , pay bills and sort out work stuff - which is the plan for today.

Yesterday was my little girls school play - really cool to see her and her school friends sing and do the actions to the jungle book - made me smile. I also spoke to her tracher who congtratualted me on bringing up such a well mannered and happy child - life is good.


Role on monday and the dreaded ear clearing - i want my life back.

Less than two weeks to go to amphi - so i must find out when we are all meeting and what day we leave / come back ?

i will sort out all my lose ends today - honest !

mood: blank

I got off the tube at russel square and had to walk up 175 steps last week.I got half way and felt like i was going to have a heart attack. On top of that i have an ear infection and cant here sod all out of one ear.

So i started examining my life. Over the last year ive suddently changed into john bulushi from animal house, (in a four day period having ten hours sleep and drinking enough to refloat the titanic is not good). Its not all together a bad thing as this was my nick name at uni and dont get me wrong its a hell of a lot of fun but if i carry on this way i will be lucky to make it to 45.

So ive joined a gym, and plan to go two - three times a week, this is the first time ove gone NOT to loose weight but to be able to get up the stairs without the need of a stana stair lift.

I cant stop partying but i will be doing it a lot less often and try to do other things aswell.

move over thora herd , i want to be young again.

the joy of pushing 40 :(

mood: tired