New things I should list are as follows:
1) I played poker. I’ve never played poker before. I turns out the best idea is to fold a lot and then think you have a pair but then turn out to have some hand you don’t even understand so you win - Yay me! I came joint third - not too shabby!
2) I went camping with some friends in Sibertoft, just outside Market Harborough. it was beautiful. Lovely people, lovely setting, lovely weather and lovely port.
3) I was taken for a lovely meal at Masalaz in Nunners by MAC. I had a very delicious egg and spinach bhuna.
4) I went to leamington and bought a bottle of Brewdogs “Tokyo” beer. At 185 it is ridiculously strong and the bloody thing cost me £11. it’d better be good is all I’m saying… now just to find the right occasion to drink it!
5) A visit to see the bluebells out at Hartshill Hayes. Lots of strolling around the woods trying to figure out whether what we could hear rustling were interesting woodland creatures like shrews or sucky blackbirds. We also led a family on a wild goosechase up a hill… that’ll teach them to encourage kids to follow me! HAAAA.
6) I went to my very first auction and boguht myself a nice little retro picnic set. Perhaps I’ll clean that this evening.
So that’s the majority of my new things for this fortnight… my final thought thought is why do people insist on lying even when everyone else knows the truth (I should add here that I’m not talking about MAC)? Are they lying to themselves aswell? Do they genuinely believe the bollocks they’re spouting? Or is it just an act to try and placate those around them into thinking they’re less of a tosser cos frankly mate I don’t. I probably think you’re more of one for bullshitting constantly for the last 6 months if not longer. I’m not a dickhead and neither is anyone else you’ve been lying to either and if you pull that pity card on me one more time you’re potentially going to get it with both barrells. The sad thing is you probably won’t read this as you’re too caught up in your little web of pity you’re spinning…
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Just a quick herculean post 140411
New things in a quick list
1) I went to see today is the day - an American that last toured quite some time ago. they were loud and noisy and very good, but there was way too much vagina on show in the background video. I’m not sure that masturbation is groundbreaking anymore. it seemed like trying to be shocking for being shockings sake and failing dismally. a fairly sad end to a really good show.
2) I had another driving lesson and did the sentre of town and some traffic lights. It would appear the drving gods were smiling at me and none turned red as I tried to get through them.
3) I’ve died my hair red. I want it to be redder though, but it turns out that compared to when I was a teenager the choices for semi-permanent red hair-dye are now significantly reduced. Rubbish.
4) I went to my MAC’s nieces birthday party and watched the grand National with someone else’s family (as mine were all there and I’m not yet over my fear of horses enough to actually want to spend significant amounts of time watching them run round all day). I didn’t win anything though.
5) Me and MAC also went to Thai Tham in Nuneaton for a friends birthday. the starter was great, the mains nice enough, but never have i eaten something that tastes so much like a bodily fluid for dessert… YUK with knobs on.
6) I also went for a meal for my bosses retirement do last night at The Hercules in Sutton Cheney. The confit duck leg was incredible. It just melted straight off the bone and the spring greens it came with were just the right side of buttery. the main however was a bit disappointing. Described as saffron gnocchi, it was not saffrony in the least and frankly some of the dumplings just tasted like smash. Whilst the vegetables and slab of goats cheese just about managed to make up for the dreadfulness of the gnocchi I’m not sure Id rush back.
Sorry I’ve droned on for too long again… oh and Mac told me he’d finally read the blog last night! Yay!
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Its been a while........
It's been a while since i posted last but I don't think it's been a while since i did new things... the most recent things I've been doing are:
1) A night out in stoke - to three new pubs (for me) - Harrys Bar, the glebe and the stage door. I had new beers at all of these. However I appear to have had one too many as I now can;t remember any of them. I also got the chance to speak to the lead singer of my friends Al's band called Lewis, which as I recall was lovely, but I may have turned into Trisha at some point counselling him (drunkenly and loudly) on his love life... Opinions and beer are not good combinations for me...
2) I went to Sallys house and picked up a load of new books, including a confederacy of dunces and swallows and amazons. I was then very excited to see an Arthur Ransom letter on the antiques roadshow the following night. I also touched a Kindle for the very first time. I'm not sure they're for me. as someone who hasn't got used to the idea of downloading music instead of buying it from a shop on cd/vinyl I think the digital revolution in terms of books is a long long way off for me.
3) I was bought my very first car - a matchbox 1998 Toyota prius. I think this is to remind me to stop getting ran over by the one that keeps pulling out of the garage near me that i never here because of its stupid silent engine. Its worked so far!
4) I went to see true grit. Which was excellent. Or at least I thought so as did my Dad who is a big big fan of the original. However i;'m NOW getting most excited about Submarine directed by Richard Ayoade (?) - Moss from the IT crowd anyway... I shall give it a little review once we've been to see it!
I'm also thinking of doing some book reviews. Now I seem to have such a collection of "Not-Reads" i figure its a good way to keep me motivated to read. sadly i appear to have done this at the worst possible point as I'm currently reading Gok Wans autobiography (borrowed from my mum) and I rarely if ever read them... but rest assured the other books should be slightly more umm actually just slightly less Christmas market based...
1) A night out in stoke - to three new pubs (for me) - Harrys Bar, the glebe and the stage door. I had new beers at all of these. However I appear to have had one too many as I now can;t remember any of them. I also got the chance to speak to the lead singer of my friends Al's band called Lewis, which as I recall was lovely, but I may have turned into Trisha at some point counselling him (drunkenly and loudly) on his love life... Opinions and beer are not good combinations for me...
2) I went to Sallys house and picked up a load of new books, including a confederacy of dunces and swallows and amazons. I was then very excited to see an Arthur Ransom letter on the antiques roadshow the following night. I also touched a Kindle for the very first time. I'm not sure they're for me. as someone who hasn't got used to the idea of downloading music instead of buying it from a shop on cd/vinyl I think the digital revolution in terms of books is a long long way off for me.
3) I was bought my very first car - a matchbox 1998 Toyota prius. I think this is to remind me to stop getting ran over by the one that keeps pulling out of the garage near me that i never here because of its stupid silent engine. Its worked so far!
4) I went to see true grit. Which was excellent. Or at least I thought so as did my Dad who is a big big fan of the original. However i;'m NOW getting most excited about Submarine directed by Richard Ayoade (?) - Moss from the IT crowd anyway... I shall give it a little review once we've been to see it!
I'm also thinking of doing some book reviews. Now I seem to have such a collection of "Not-Reads" i figure its a good way to keep me motivated to read. sadly i appear to have done this at the worst possible point as I'm currently reading Gok Wans autobiography (borrowed from my mum) and I rarely if ever read them... but rest assured the other books should be slightly more umm actually just slightly less Christmas market based...
Friday, 25 February 2011
My trip to the Isle of Skye...
Look at it it's beautiful, there's a million and one new things I did but this sums it up perfectly.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Accidental valentines...
This post is about an accidental Valentines weekend as we were invited to a 90's indie club night that just happened to fall on the same weekend. We were also invited out to a friends birthday ,who after some very last minute cancellations also last minute decided to cancel herself, but by this point we'd bought our tickets, we having a chip and cheese batch at the pub waiting for our train so there was no cancelling for us...
I went away for the weekend with MAC to a hotel. A "something new" for him, he's always shared a travelodge or been in B&B's with most of his money usually being spent on Music or old stereo equipment...
However my new things for this weekend were:
1. Watching the superbowl from start to finish...yes that's right I was nearly a week late but I can;t stay up til 4 in the morning any more but I did mange all four hours.. helped along by veggie hotdogs, donuts, buttery popcorn and Miller draft...
2. Toffee and fudge Mini muffins for breakfast... i don't like cake and I;'m not very keen on toffee but I realised I'd ran out of milk and didn't want to got to the shop and the muffins were all I had left in so that's what we had.
3. I read a book sent to me by Wendy who writes another blog around here called http://radiatorreader.blogspot.com/. She's not reviewed it though, but sent it with the lovely suggestion that the first few pages made her feel a bit ill so she thought she'd send it to me... i demolished it on the train to Coventry and it reads much more like a short story. It's called snakes and earrings and is written by a very young and cute Japanese author called Hitomi Kanehara. I would only recommend it if you have at least a vague understanding of Japanese sub-cultures and a strong stomach. Luckily i have both so I thought it was great. Here's the amazon page http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snakes-Earrings-Hitomi-Kanehara/dp/009948367X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297672298&sr=8-1 . It seems to have mixed reviews but frankly I couldn't put it down.
4. I had Kerala fish curry. simply the yummiest curry I think i've had in a long time. Not very hot but anyone who thinks that curry has to be hot to be tasty is frankly an idiot.
5. I had 2 new beers - Anchor Liberty and anchor steam. I twittered one of my very dearest friends (also a beer lover and an American lover) to explain my excitement at finally finding some half decent American beers in the midlands that were neither Sierra Nevada or Blue Star. It was like a tasty beery miracle. thanks to the bar man at Inspire who recommended them.
6. I went to Anne Summers and made a purchase whilst feeling like i should be in there. Usually i feel a bit odd being in there. Despite its attempts at being a nice mainstream shop, I've always had a sense that I'm not really old enough to be in there, like all of a sudden I'm going to be asked for id to prove that yes indeed I am old enough to look at penis shaped pasta. Instead I walked in made my purchase and left again with no feeling of naughtiness. that perhaps has made it less fun.
7. I also read my very first Katsuo Ishigaro novel. I read a lot but haven't yet got round to reading any of them. after all the hype of this new Keira Nightley/carey Mulligan film (that I know I won't watch because the former grates on me)...Instead of finding that I found The Remains of the Day http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remains-Day-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/0571225381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297673009&sr=1-1 . This is a seriously moving book. Nothing much happens, its just one mans journey to see an old colleague who he clearly has some romantic connection to but also a journey to the realisation that he may just have missed out on his entire life due to being in service in a big house thanks to that notion of "dignity" and duty. Of all the books I've read most recently this one was yelling at me. How much of my life have I wasted thinking I always do the irght thing by other people. By making the decisions I make when do I do the right thing by me. Is it selfish or undiginified to make decisions that don't conform to what other people expect or is that sometimes the only way you can fill your true potential? I don't by any means mean that we should only make selfish choices but at the same time only making choice that serve others can be equally as damaging.
Happy Valentines Day!xx
I went away for the weekend with MAC to a hotel. A "something new" for him, he's always shared a travelodge or been in B&B's with most of his money usually being spent on Music or old stereo equipment...
However my new things for this weekend were:
1. Watching the superbowl from start to finish...yes that's right I was nearly a week late but I can;t stay up til 4 in the morning any more but I did mange all four hours.. helped along by veggie hotdogs, donuts, buttery popcorn and Miller draft...
2. Toffee and fudge Mini muffins for breakfast... i don't like cake and I;'m not very keen on toffee but I realised I'd ran out of milk and didn't want to got to the shop and the muffins were all I had left in so that's what we had.
3. I read a book sent to me by Wendy who writes another blog around here called http://radiatorreader.blogspot.com/. She's not reviewed it though, but sent it with the lovely suggestion that the first few pages made her feel a bit ill so she thought she'd send it to me... i demolished it on the train to Coventry and it reads much more like a short story. It's called snakes and earrings and is written by a very young and cute Japanese author called Hitomi Kanehara. I would only recommend it if you have at least a vague understanding of Japanese sub-cultures and a strong stomach. Luckily i have both so I thought it was great. Here's the amazon page http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snakes-Earrings-Hitomi-Kanehara/dp/009948367X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297672298&sr=8-1 . It seems to have mixed reviews but frankly I couldn't put it down.
4. I had Kerala fish curry. simply the yummiest curry I think i've had in a long time. Not very hot but anyone who thinks that curry has to be hot to be tasty is frankly an idiot.
5. I had 2 new beers - Anchor Liberty and anchor steam. I twittered one of my very dearest friends (also a beer lover and an American lover) to explain my excitement at finally finding some half decent American beers in the midlands that were neither Sierra Nevada or Blue Star. It was like a tasty beery miracle. thanks to the bar man at Inspire who recommended them.
6. I went to Anne Summers and made a purchase whilst feeling like i should be in there. Usually i feel a bit odd being in there. Despite its attempts at being a nice mainstream shop, I've always had a sense that I'm not really old enough to be in there, like all of a sudden I'm going to be asked for id to prove that yes indeed I am old enough to look at penis shaped pasta. Instead I walked in made my purchase and left again with no feeling of naughtiness. that perhaps has made it less fun.
7. I also read my very first Katsuo Ishigaro novel. I read a lot but haven't yet got round to reading any of them. after all the hype of this new Keira Nightley/carey Mulligan film (that I know I won't watch because the former grates on me)...Instead of finding that I found The Remains of the Day http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remains-Day-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/0571225381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297673009&sr=1-1 . This is a seriously moving book. Nothing much happens, its just one mans journey to see an old colleague who he clearly has some romantic connection to but also a journey to the realisation that he may just have missed out on his entire life due to being in service in a big house thanks to that notion of "dignity" and duty. Of all the books I've read most recently this one was yelling at me. How much of my life have I wasted thinking I always do the irght thing by other people. By making the decisions I make when do I do the right thing by me. Is it selfish or undiginified to make decisions that don't conform to what other people expect or is that sometimes the only way you can fill your true potential? I don't by any means mean that we should only make selfish choices but at the same time only making choice that serve others can be equally as damaging.
Happy Valentines Day!xx
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