Andrew's Blog

1. Where was your last holiday?

Abroard: Sidari Corfu with GF
Actual last holiday a long weekend in lake district in December with GF

2: Where will your next holiday be?

Maybe a caravan in UK? maybe some sun, dunno yet (with GF)

3. What was your best break and why?

Probably going to the States by Concord and the time I spent in Chicago.

4. And the worst and why?

Not sure, probably a family holiday in Suffolk, the accomodation was a diaster, we called it tumbledown cottage. All the furniture was ancient from several house clearances by the look of it. If you sat on one of the dodgy sofas too quickly dust would rise.

A total mess, never cleaned in years apart from bathroom and kitchen surfaces. Sombody should have told them Mr. Hoover had invented the vacume!

Place was subsiding fast, all floors uneven and door not fitting the frames.

The telly broke and we were told we would have to pay for a new one. The thing was ancient It had valves and took a week to warm up and the picture disappeared into a white dot when switched off. Dad took care of that with a suitable strong word to the owner.

Apparently they did not want kids staying there either but we were the only takers (we did not choose it either it was all that was available).

Stuck in a village 10 miles from the coast.

But the holiday was good.

Typical family holiday.
5. If money were no object, where would you go?

Have to be about 6 weeks road trip in OZ with GF, whole camper van / motor home thing with weekends spent in hotels for a bit of luxary and a change.

Flying first class of course.

And I'd have mobile internet in the motorhome to buy bargins on ebay while I am away,

Phone call from docs, test clear for blood clotting so nothing serious.

Still swolen and sore, more painful today but no big worries.

Hi all,

Sorry my serial is on hold at the mo, not sure if I want to carry on with it and have not had the time anyway.

So put that to one side today i am blogging about my health.

Yesterday morning I woke up and my right calf was twice the size of the left and aching.

A little while after getting up the swelling went down a lot and the pain subsided but did not go away.

Same again this morning.

I went to the Doc's and they have run an urgent blood test.

I am worried about a thrombosis (spelling???) a blood clot in my leg.

Particularly worried as my father died from such a thrombosis which traveled from his leg to his heart killing him pretty much instantly.

He had just had a heart bypass a few weeks earlier and was a heavy smoker neither of which apply to me and I'm 16 years younger than he was but...

So I guess I will get a phone call tomorrow from the docs letting me know one way or the other.

Just worrying thinking you may have a bit of a time bomb ticking in your body and you don't know and therfore cannot treat it.

Oh well.

Best wishes to blog friends everywhere.

Just when you think life is ok, you are carrying on thinking things are going quite well.

Alot of shit is happening but you are coping, you get upset you get problems but you deal with them and life goes on.

Then all of a sudden bang, you are not appreciated nobody cares, what you have been putting all your efforts into are of no value, you've got it all wrong and basically have wasted your life.

Maybe it getting time to call it quits and move on in another direction, abandon the last 5 years of your life and go back to where you were 10 years ago.

As if I did not have enough crap in my life rigth now.

Straw and camels back springs to mind.

just a short post to let you know about my weekend.

Sorry I've not been hear much, I will blog a few highlights of my recent past over the Christmas Break,

Anyway this is what I have planned for the weekend.

Off to work soon, few important tasks to do then finish early at 4.30 (early for me I won't get in until 10.30).

Off to the GF's for a quick change and a shower then we get picked up by the mini bus and head off to her works Christmas meal.

I'm never good with new people (not a good mixer) and works do's are always a pain (well the few I've been on can be awkward).

At some point in the early hours we get dropped back to hers and try to get some sleep.

Then Saturday AM we head off up the M6 from Birmingham to the lake district.

We have a couple of nights booked in a hotel in a village on the coast where I used to have several family holidays.

Not sure what we will do, weather is going to be awful but I am looking forward to the break.

Then we drive back on Monday.

And I have Tuesday off work to clean the house and mend my car!

Sorry for not being around guys.

I know I am neglecting my friends, but something has to give.

Life totally manic at the mo.

Working 7 days a week and doing stupid hours, was at work for 18 hours on an all nighter.

Hope all are doing well.

It's six months today since me and the GF first contacted eachter on the dating site.

soon be our official 6 month aniversary from when we met!

(yes a six month aniversary is an oxymoron).

Firstly a hi to my new friend, thanks for the kind invite.

No been here much lately, sorry.

So what am I rambling about now?

Well I am confused by my cats.

I have 4 now, sadly down from the high number of 6 having had to re-home one last year and one being killed on the road earlier this year.

They are all so different. My biggest has had 4 weeks away did not know what had happened and was very worried then he came home. That was a few weeks ago.

Now he won't use the cat flap, I have to let him in and out.

My oldest cat won't use the cat flap either. She was quite old when I installed it so she is not going to learn now.

But big Monty, I'm lost, was it because I cleaned the cat flap 2 weeks ago?

The other 2 use it.

Anyway, I tell my girlfriend and she asks my "Why won't he use it?"

What, how the fuck should I know, oh yes he did sit down and tell me that he wanted his own key and more responsibility and that to use a cat flap was beneath him!

DOH!

My little friendly lad has a nasty cut on his head, a tear from a claw I think. I have found blood on a paper in the lounge so has he been fighting with the other cats? I don't know I think he may need to go to the vets, but he gets on with the others appart from Poppy (the older lady) and she won't use the cat flap so was not it to have a fight.

I have a few things to blog about that are a little more interesting but that's it for now as I am nodding off.

Night all.

I have been trying to get them to deliver a couple of recorded items to me for 2 weeks now and no luck, they keep turning up when I am not at home, the last attempt I was in, I had arranged for them to deliver on a day when I am at home.

Posties normally comes between 8.15 and 8.30 so I wait until 8.45 before getting in the shower, a qucik 5 min shower, and look postie has been and left another card.

I can only phone the office between 0800 and 1200 and 1400 and 1500, not easy as I am busy at work and why the fuck do they have 2 fucking hours for lunch, this is the 21st centuary.

I am busy on the phone all day at work so finding 10 minutes to hang on the phone seeing if they will answer during the few hours they are open is not easy.

So I phone customer services where I am repeatedly told to sod off and use their website, doh if I fucking well wnated to use your bloody website would I have picked up the fuckign phone???

Repeatedly I'm told they are busy and phone back tomorrow, when I finally get through after only a breif wait some dimwit tells me the stuff has been returned to the sender, I ask who that was and I'm told they dont know.

Turns out to be a load of bollocks and the stuff is still at the local office.

Total bollocks, of and thanks for wasting 2 minutes of my life telling me about a strike every time I phone up,

Fuck off on strike then for fucking good you bastards.

Hi all, I'm still alive, just not been blogging for a while, life too busy.

Still with GF and all is going well.

Other areas in my life not going so well, got arrested last week, my fault but treat shittily by Police. Changed my opinion of them a lot. Don't trust them at all now.

May blog about it if I get chance.

Bye