29/03/2009 by admin.

At last, the start of a new Formula 1 season where Sandra gets to hate me from March till October and moan incessantly about how little I have done around the house. Personally I don’t think I do anymore the rest of the year but F1 gives her something to focus on and blame for my lack of interest in housework in general and DIY. It’s not that I don’t want to see the house nice and clean and tidy and the paintwork pristine and all the little doo dads in place that make a woman happy it’s just that life is really so short that I find it difficult to drum up enthusiasm for the mundane. I have convinced her now though that if necessary the vacuum cleaner doesn’t actually know the difference between 1 days dirt and 2 days dirt ( not that dirt would dare to exist here ).

 Anyway what a cracking race, a well deserved win for Jenson and the new Brawn team, if Lewis is not going to have the car to defend his crown ( I think that McLaren will sort the car out fairly quickly though ) then what better result than Jenson be crowned World Champion in 2009. Have to say hats off to the BBC, was concerned that they would bugger it up but they did really well and I did appreciate ( thanks to their investment in digital technology ) the F1 forum afterwards, this is a quantum step up from the coverage that ITV ( excellent though their coverage was ) provided and a reason for Sandra to hate me and the BBC even more this season.

 Looking forward to Malaysia next weekend already and here was Sandra thinking I would only be a good for nothing every other weekend.

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15/03/2009 by admin.

Had a few minutes on the Wii Fit this afternoon, got a Wii Fit age of 47, not bad. Got to get a bit fit for the coming week as I’m decorating the hall stairs and landing, well Sandra has been moaning about it for about 15 years now so I figured it was time to get off my fat butt and actually do something about it. Got a week off work to get it all done but made sure Sandra takes a week off as well otherwise I’ll just sit in front of the telly every day till about 3-30 in the afternoon and then rush around and do a bit and then tell her how hard it had been.

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11/03/2009 by admin.

As said previously I was dragged off kicking and a screaming on Saturday night to hear the tribute bands. Never having been a Bowie fan what surprised me most was just how many of his songs I knew and liked and pretty much the same with Blondie. Anyway, with keyboard in hand, on Sunday I accessed my Amazon one click account ( can keep you poor if you get carried away ) and purchased 2 albums,”  The Best of Bowie ” and ” Blondie, Greatest Hits “. They arrived on Tuesday and I’ve been listening to them today in the lorry and there are definitely some excellent tracks, money well spent.

Wonder who she is going to drag me off to see next ???

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10/03/2009 by admin.

Sandra took me swimming last night, it’s a Monday night ritual now we come home from work, we go swimming, we come home and eat ( very late, in fact very very late, too late really ) then we go to bed. I really don’t know why she makes me go, I have a shower every day so why do I need a bath on a Monday ?????

 Good old Mandy reckons Brits don’t want to work, we either are not available or are unwilling to fill vacancies. He also suggests that the influx of foreign workers has had no adverse effect on our jobs market. Well Mandy my old dear, what effect would it have on your job prospects if foreigners were allowed to come into the country and walk straight into politics, how would it be if some Eastern European worker was prepared to come in and do a politicians job for less than you are prepared to do it, wouldn’t be a lot of native politicians in the house of Commons or the house of Lords would there, just a load of Latvians, Estonians et al prepared to do what you get paid thousands of pounds to do for minimum wage. Probably be a good thing, it’s about time we got shot of your kind of people, the kind of people who wouldn’t have a clue how to survive on benefits or the kind of wage that the influx of foreign workers has  driven our wages down to. Pompous asses like you should remember whose money it is that pays your over generous salary. It’s about time you realised that you and all your fellow snout in the trough politicians from all sides of the establishment rule with our permission and thankfully at the next election at least you and the bunch of prats that now make up the government will be gone.

Then in another 8 or 10 years we’ll be sick of the next lot and give them their marching orders. What a pity that none of you ever asks yourselves what is really right for the country and the people. You are all too busy lining your own pockets and making sure those that fund your party ( no matter what party is in at the time ) keep putting their hand in their pocket to fund you some more.

While I’m at it why the hell do you keep giving ” think tanks ” ( I really mean your blue sky thinking, money grabbing gravy train riding mates ) loads of our money for trying to come up with good ideas ( for good ideas read more ways to screw the taxpayer and improve your own lot ), why not ask the people, I’m sure you’d get lots of ideas and it wouldn’t cost the tax payers £millions in the process.

Now if only the wife could make Mandelson go swimming on a Monday I could drown the little bugger and do us all a favour.

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09/03/2009 by admin.

So a think tank has come up with the suggestion that people caught dropping litter should be penalised heavily for their anti social behaviour, great I totally agree. The same think tank suggests that people who hand in glass bottles and tin cans should be rewarded.

So you now have to be bribed to do the right thing, well actually I don’t drop litter so reward me. I also don’t take drugs, don’t mug old ladies, don’t rob banks, don’t steal cars………………………

wow, I should be in for a whopping great reward for doing the right thing. Mr Brown please forward the cheque to my home address, I’m sure you know who I am and if you don’t you’ll know someone who does.

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07/03/2009 by admin.

Well here I am with a blog again, hope I don’t lose all the info I need to access it this time like I did the last one. Terribly embarassing when people put comments and you cannot access the blog to allow them or block them. As far as blocking is concerned I am afraid you will have to verify to post otherwise, as those of you who already have blogs know, you end up with hundreds of spam entries clogging up your blog ( nothing worse than a clogged up blog ).

Last night Sandra, my wife, dragged me off to a tribute band gig, well actually 2 tribute bands. Blondied was one ( no need to tell you who that was a tribute to ) and Alladinsane which was a David Bowie tribute band. Now I liked them both but thought it was such a shame that the only way these talented people could make a name in the entertainment business was by emulating ( almost script like ) someone else and never being themselves and no matter how good the emulation they will never be as good as the real thing because they did it unscripted. Still enjoyed the music though.

Some strange people there I would have sworn one of them had just stepped off the filmset of  ” Frankenstein ” and he wasn’t playing the good Doctor.

Thanks for dropping by.

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