Yes Friends now you are all going to hate my blog as it becomes filled with pictures. First of at long last are a couple of the highlights from the cricket that England played not too long ago agnist Pakistan at Old trafford. Boy Howdy, have these been worth the wait!!
Yes I have returned from the V festival, very tired and very happy. It was a fantastic weekend, saw many acts, did some karoake too, and drank lots of beer. Though it was very expensive at the festival and therefore if you didn’t bring your own gear you would have spent a fortune.
There will be a proper update later, but for now here are a couple of taster pics, the one at the camp was the aftermath ealier this morning!!
And the other was James Morrison who made a suprise appearence, he did well with just a guitar!!
Twas the day before the V festival and i am knackered and excited all at the same time, oh i think you could bottle it and sell at Asda!! This week of course saw a few events happen on the ol social, of course Salsa went on, and I think i am getting better at some moves like the crossstep and the doobray furkin, but the galla and the humpty dumpty with the twirly bit i am crap at.
Btw I should mention this now. The names of the moves escape me, they can’t call them something simple like the walking thing or spin around, no they call them comlicated names like dialic….dliad….dilicino… well anyway that word i can’t spell. Man-ley Grrr.
The gym, and mainly going out has taken a back seat really this week in preperation for V, except for Wednesday night where I met up with the lady of the moment, Natalie once again, we watched England win very convincingly againist Greece 4-0, A big bonus, but I doubt England can continue like that. But the big difference I saw was Terry Venables there on the bench with Mclean or whatever his name is. Terry may be a good force for england as he was before.
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Hello campers, After a nice long weekend (well same two days anyway) I once again bring news from the world of me.
Friday of course the bowling went on in Telford with my comrades at work, with the wooden spoon we have for the loser to going to the new guy whose name escapes me at the moment but i am sure someone will pick up on it sooner or later. It was a rather grand affair with the regulars all going for the fun and Chris and Steve Camp going for, well each others throats…. 🙂 You see, Mr Camp does get rather competative and this is reflected in his efforts. And as a result, everyone derives great joy to see him lose. (cue deep south american voice) We don’t take kindly to Winners round here!
Well afterwards we all trundeled off to Steve’s place in shrewsbury where we had very very nice indian takeaway, of course i had to have birani, love that with a bit of naan bread for the sauce! hmm…fattening. however it must be said that i went off on one during the evening when it came to the game known as “Athens 2004” of which i aplogise to them. And no, it was in a bad way. I just got so frustrated with the game as a lot of it was fast button pressing and as some of you are aware, i am not the fastest person in the world. Don’t get me wrong I will play games, but it does get to me sometimes where i do that badly, it just frustrates me and i lose my temper.
It was of course completly stupidity on my part, but Steve did put on the one game i do seem to have a mastery at: Buzz the Music Quiz, possiblly becuase my frustration had kicked in that badly, and openly for the three others to see. I won by about 5000 points, but that did quell the ego beast. but still Steve, Matt and Mark you have my thanks gentlemen for putting up with that behavour that was uncalled for, and it will not be forgotten.
Saturday I was in Work, performing moves around the telford campus, well being honest i could use the extra money as I am constanly going overdrawn. Money’s too tight to Mention as Simply red says! It went alright except for other work not being done beforehand and it hindered our progress. can’t say much more as they say i’m not allowed to!!
In the afternoon, i did find time to upload the new logo as indicated in previous post, the few people who did see it, thought it was minted! Chris Wood, i annoyed by saying I was tired after working all day, and after the week I had was ready for sleep. Saturday night was good and quietish 🙂
Sunday nothing really happened. Went for a walk with Natalie through Oswestry talking about issues of the day. And i did my ironing!! Hooray!
Yes I have finally come up with a tasty new banner for the blog page, The title was inspired by one of my friends at work, Mr Thompson aka Maggot, who when he gets frustrated by people, he can heard saying “Ohh, Sometimes”, which is a great phrase and as such is imortalised here!
And yes i am really being brave having an actual picture of me in the title too but hey, what’s the worst that can happen (sees red dot floating around wall behind me…)
Yesturday of course we all saw the news of the plot that had been foiled of destroying aircraft in flights between the UK and the US. This of course led to way over the top security precatuions, delays, and of course panic.
This again all stems from the Arab grievences agnist the Israelies and the fact they occupy hold land etc, but seeing the size of the operation that the authorites stopped, it could not have been in response to the current fight with Hezbolah Vs Israel which of course is farsical at best. It seems that everyone wants to provoke each other and of course the other side is more than willing to fight. It is a complete waste of time, and frankly we should leave them alone to do as they wish. If they want to kill each other, let them.
Of course the subjet of interfearence stems beyond the west bank. Iraq and afganistan being the prime examples of the day, where the local population are out to kill our soliders becuase we went and removed the ruling regiemes. Of course in the case of Iraq, there can be no arguement that Saddam was a complete w*****r. he gased his own people, invaded Kuwait, and of course got a thrill out of having random people shot. He should have a Nobel Peace Prize shouldn’t he?
We all know the issue was the supply of oil to the west. Problem is that becuase we are so heavliy relaint of said fuel, we will continue interfearing in their affairs, which being honest i haven’t a clue what they are.
Becuase fossil fuels will begin dwindling or of course people getting upset and blowing things up, prices are high, which in turn has been driving other costs of living up, this trend surely cannot continue. We as devloped nations should be looking to alternative power. We already have cars running on Eletric and hydrogen for petes sakes!! Why are they not being adopted? Becuase the fuel companies surpressed the devlopement of said technology as it could affect their profits. However surely with the ever raising costs and the fact that supplies can come under attack from a number of sources, wouldn’t it be in their interests to push this through and be at the forefront so they can claim the glory and loads of money from being clean fuel? And of course no more reliance on unfriendly places: see all good 🙂
And as the Palistines and Israel: Well to me of course the vast majority does stem from World War 2, the mass displacement of the Jews by the germans was a key factor in why they settled in the west bank in my opinion. But anyway, they seem to not want to live next to each other in peace, (Holy Land issue) and i think the best way to deal with this to make everyone happy is to treat them like kids and take their toy away from them so they don’t have anything to fight over.
Evacuate the West bank, Jerealislem etc, and nuke it. Make the place toxic so no-one can live there. Either side would not win. Extreme of course, then again it seems only extreme action can stop this senceless fight.
Of course i don’t have all the facts etc, I know that some of this entry is silly, please feel free to post comments and i am more than happy to respond 🙂
Paul Hughes, Sitting at my desk!!
BA Announcement
Until further notice BA has halted all flights from the UK.
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Well Belverdere, I must say, I am currently gorged on this week filled with numerous happenings!! Well after the weekend it was nice to go back to some sort of normal….ish.
Monday I went Salsa dancing in Shrewsbury instead of Telford, at the recommendation of Steve, simply becuase according to the dancing king, I am somewhere inbetween Beginner and Intermidiate and becuase things were getting picked up on which it turns out i have been doing wrong all this time, he suggested an extra class.
And it was a lot easier than in Telford, i quite enjoyed it, but I am still lost on being the lead in the dance. It scares me half to death!!
Tuesday, saw natalie again for more humour and converstation. Took her to the Armory which is a lovely resturant in shrewsbury and we had a lot of fun!
Wednesday, I went speed dating for the first time in 4 years, at the request of Matt, who sold it as “It’s really enjoyable and the very least you get from it is a good night out and an excuse to engage with more ladies than you can shake a stick at (and they can’t run away!)” How could I say no? I didn’t have to use my tranquliser darts as usual LOL!
At first glance I thought, how old are these people?!?!?! AGH! But then again all of them were great fun to chat with, I ended up being very relaxed and coming across as taking the p**s out of the whole thing, which bizzarely seems to made me more appealing! There was two very nice ladies, Katy and Sarah, who are mature students and very nice indeed, we find out later today what our matches were for possible shennigans later!! Oh the excitement! You could bottle it right now! LOL being honest it will be like before where nothing happens! That would not a total bad thing atm!!! 🙂
Hello campers, it is I, Paul hughes Space adventurer with another blog update at long last, My appolgies for it being so long inbetween updates, however As I will expain it has been a hetic few days. What’s worse, is that the promised mini saga is now longer, and I will post about the whole tragic affair, those who know me will know some of the story already, but for others, eastenders has got nothing on me atm! LOL!
Thursday was Salsa Dancing Night at Joshua’s in Telford: Now before anyone shoots me down for being a poof, let me tell you something right now, which for some of you will be a slice of fried gold: This is an untapped resource for lovley ladies, who WANT to dance with you and of course Salsa involves close contact, which you can imagine is a boon for a pervert like me! Of course you still get the Jabba the hutts and the jolly green giants, but the chance to dance with gorgoues women can not be taken lightly!!
Saturday, I went to Alton Towers with friends from DTS (that’s Desktop Services btw) and I must say it was a fantastic day out. The last time i was there was when I was on “Time-Out” at School, glyn mate, you should remember that!! Anyhoo, we set off from telford at half 8, got to the Towers at around half 10, where i did something I have never done before: been on a rollarcoster that goes upside down! I have always had a fear at the back of my head, being silly, that I would fall out of the rollarcoster when we went upside down!!
The one that broke me in was Nemesis, and my fear turned into all out panic!! but we moved with such force that you stayed exactly where you were in your seat! It was increadible and i really enjoyed it though my stomuch didn’t agree with me! After that we all went on AIR, the Pirate Ship thing and the Haunted House, which they seem to have turned into House of the dead, where you now shoot the dead things as you go around! Quite cool though i got the lowest score 🙁 I made for that though on House of the Dead 4 arcade game, which i jumped for geeky joy at when i saw it. DOH!
But I also achieved something else I had never done before: I threw up on the water rapids!! the rides before had not agreed with my breakfast and the rocking of the water, on one of the tamest rides in Alton towers had sent me over the top. I managed to just send it overboard, yes I was still in the boat at the time with everyone else! Afterwards though I was fine, so carried on.
Rita, Queen of Speed, was fantastic, 0-60 in about 3 seconds, and we screamed with delight all the way around, though i must admit it was over too quick (cue fonzi catchphrase). Other highlights of the day include, being able to push in front of people for free thanks to Dave Lawrence (DTS guy with one arm), being annoyed about HEX, when Middleton kept on and on about I will be sick again and it goes upside down etc, whereas in fact in the end, the walls moved one way and the seats rocked back and forth. It was an optacal illision, and half way through i asked “Is that it?!?!”. We also stopped at the Hogs Head pub for a Pint and funky chips, all fooled the guessing guy (he got my weight wrong hahaha the gym paying off, along with my heavy ass jeans and pockets full of crap!)
We went home about 6 and I spent the rest of the weekend being very lazy, watching episodes of the practice, sandwiching in episodes of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, also got more earache in the Mini-Saga, and finally after 4 weeks, cut the grass in the front garden. HOORAY!!
Well here Is my first entry on a blog in quite a long time as it goes. At the great kindness of my friend, Mr Tebbutt, i now have a small place on the internet to make silly little comments about what is happening in life, and other things besides.
Well as i write this it is 12:30am on Wednesday 2nd August 2006. Coming up in the blog will be things work-related, the old Love life (of which there is a possible mini saga to be released, as soon as i know how i will end it!! LOL) and of course things i find funny.
All in all, i hope to add a fair amount soon.
Bye for now and thanks for reading!