Von Bondies and London

Hallo all in blogger land, I hope you are all well and enjoying whatever you happen to be doing.

Right I'm now this very minuet sat on a train going to London and the reason I have my laptop is to keep from going insane for the 3 hours I have to sit here. Now I'm off to the big city just for a meeting about audits or something of that nature (thinking I could have done with a little more research on this meeting). It’s nothing to big and I'm glad to get out of work for the day even if it is going to turn in to a long day. So you would think as I needed to get up at 6am this morning I would have been tucked up in bed at 10pm the previous night, well Ha you would be wrong. The von bondies were playing at the Night and Day and I had managed to get on the guest list even though the night had sold out and I'm glad I did as not seeing them live before I was very happy with the night, they are a great band and if they come around again and you spot they are playing it would be well worth £10 or so. So instead of being in bed nice and early I was in bed at a stupid hour and drunk but I still managed to get up on time and get to the train station with time to spare and then off we went. I'm going down with Echo11 and it is only for a few hours.

Back soon ......

Ok back o the train to Manchester and got another 3 hours to burn, got to the meeting just in time and it was ok, it is looking at a self audit for the department I work in but not just for us but for everyone throughout the country so you have to look at it from a company perspective and not just from the view of where you work. I had no problem with this but there were some who could not seem to see past this so we spent most of the day just trying to convince the small group in the meeting of this. So however much I think we had some sort of impact in this new aspect of the company it was a bit of a waste of time when we could have got so much more done in the time we had.

For some reason it has taken me 2 days to get this blog finished, I have just got up from a night of drinking playing board games, I was happy with my drinking ability after a long day but I did well and lost the game with style. Any way got to go to work, something about hours and projectors I think.

Buda – birthday - pest

So it has been a busy week and I week with lots happening, to start I think I will take you a week back and that would be last Saturday. I it was my birthday coming up along with my good friend brain splat we decided to go out as it was going to be a few weeks before we were both in the same country so we grabbed a few friends and out we went. We had a good few drinks down in the ouster bar and then went on to the northern quarter for a few more, I would like to point out the difference in price for a drink – Ouster bar £1.47 and Centreno - £3.20, that is a big difference!

So night came to an end and a few of us made our way back to our flat for a few more drinks and just like lads do we went in to piggy back mode and I have to say I was good at giving piggy backs, this cannot be said for Mr Moodie as half way through his legs just stopped and he hit the road with me on his back with a hell of a force, enough force to crack open his head, I came of better with just a good part of the skin missing from my knee and a few bumps. So after cleaning up his head we finished off a few drinks and called it a night. Getting up in the morning the realisation of the pain not just from the beer kicked in, ouch! But we didn't have time to cry about it as we had to pack as I was not going to turn 28 in the UK!

Budapest

Day 1

Monday to Thursday to Budapest, so off we went Monday and none of this early morning flights a nice midday flight, didn't even got off the ground before we had a problem, got asked to come to the frount of the plane before they closed the doors to find out case had opened, so after a bit of kicking and a strap the case was closed and in the plane, we got there for just after 6, we booked some where to stay with a back packers web site as it was cheaper, we did book something with a room to ours selves as we had enough to do so, so getting there we walked past the place a few time as it looked burned out! But a lot of the buildings did, so we get there and the blokes says ok you are not in this building, ok, so off we went to the nicest part of Budapest and we had an apartment, so we didn't even unpack and just went out, got some food and loads to drink and that was our first day.

Day 2

We decided to hit the first full day we had with a bit of force and get some of the sights done, so we walked over to Buda and headed up this huge hill to see the base where the Germans camped during WWII but now there is a peace monument, it looked like it was not far away and it was not in a horizontal sense it was just miles away in a vertical sense, but after stopping a few time and taking in some of the views we made it, then we headed down the other side and on to Margrot island which sits in the River Danube between Buda and Pest. This was a beautiful place and it was odd how quite it was, so after pottering round a little we made it in to Pest and got something to eat. So after I tried to pay about 17000 florint instead of 7000 (the 1000 and 10000 look the same) we had to get a few bits and then we made our way back down Pest to out apartment so we could get changed and then out for some nice food and today was my Birthday! Yes it had to come at some point and this time round I hit the Big 28, ok 28 is not a big one but hey, so we went out to a place called ... nope cant remember... and it was a fantastic meal (and cheap) and then we went on for a few more drinks. What a day, I was completely knackered but we got so much done and it was just a wonderful day and one I will remember.

Day 3

As we had got a lot of things done yesterday it was nice to take it easy and my legs were very grateful, we went to the statue park on the out skirts of Buda. This park as a lot of statues from the communist era of Hungary's past, they got all these statues in one place as there was a fear of them being destroyed as did the statue of Starlin and all that remains is his boots. This was the first day we had a go at the public transport system and you know it was good, you buy a ticket (well we got 10) and each tickets is valid for one trip, no matter where you are going or how far it is just one ticket! So it was a bit of a trip but well worth it, its not a massive park but its interesting to see all these statues. We headed back to Pest as we wanted to go to one of the thermal baths, these baths are heated from thermal vents and the baths are outside, so once you have got changed you get you towel and flip-flops and you head out side, it was about 3°C outside which is not very warm but that was fine as it was about 28-30°C in the baths, there we 2 so after some time we thought we would try the other one which was about 25 meters away, so we got out and buy the time I got to the other pool my shorts had started to freeze it was that cold outside. It was wonderful, being outside in the cold in really hot outside pool with the steam and mist just sitting above the water, that has to be a must for anyone going to Budapest. For the evening we went out to a restraint in Buda just next to chain bridge as recommended but Mr Moodie, after that we had a few drinks in a bar just round the corner but decided to head to a bar near our apartment. So we walked back and went to this wonderful bar, it had big bowls of monkey nuts everywhere and hey on the floor and a really good live band, they also had things stuck on the walls and posts and ceiling, when i say things I mean anything you can think of, train tickets from around the world, receipts, bus passes, cig packets, anything you can imagine. So I had to leave something so my City of Manchester card and my friends FatFreeMedia card now sits on the wall. It was a really nice place and was very happy we found it.

Day 4

And the day we fly out we wanted to get the last few things done we had up to now not had time to get done, so first was the Zoo and what a Zoo, it was like they had everything and more, it was a little scary as you would be walking thought and would walk was one of them display cases you would see at H Samuels and it would have some killer snake in, the elephant house at the Zoo looked like it was something from the 19^th century, it was beautiful. After the Zoo we walked down to the Terror Museum, this was interesting, this is when the German police had their base during the War and then where the Russian secrete police had their base. To give you an idea what this building was used for the walls are about 6 feet think so as people were walking by outside you could not hear the screams of people inside, it was a dark time after the war, if you were to have thought to have any contact with the German occupation during the war you would have been killed, if they thought you know something you were not saying all your family would be torched or killed until you confessed. There were cells where you could not stand up and one where there was just enough room to stand up and that's it. It was a eye opening place to visit and how ever disturbing the place is you should not miss it out.

All day I had not been feeling too well and at first I thought it was down to the beer from the night before but after sometime it would seem not, yes I had somehow come down with the flu!

Now to break up this 'Day 4' we need to talk about Converse. My first ever pair I got from my lovely girl friend last year, she got me some wonderful green boot converse and they lasted a full year but knowing I was going on holiday I needed some more, can you buy green converse now? NOPE, you can get them anywhere, it like they thought green was no longer for them. So I got some blue ones and they are really nice but as we are walking though the main part of Budapest what do I see!!!!!!! Yes !!!!! GREEN CONVERCSE !!!!!! so my wonderful girl friend got then for me, she is so nice.

Back to the day, we had a evening flight out and I thought it would be just as easy as the flight it but I started to feel very very ill and it turned the flight in to a long time and with the bad winds in the UK it was a very scary landing but karma smiled on me as our bags were the first off the plane and we were on our way back and I have been in bed since. Starting to feel a little better now and got a good night sleep last night.

Please have a look at my photos from my Budapest trip,

me!

I have started to work on plans for Christmas presents and without going in to too much detail I ended up scanning some old photos of me, well I got someone to do it and it is not cheap if you want them doing to a good quality. But seeing as I have them I thought I would put a few up. Enjoy.

London!

Weekend just gone had a trip down to London for a friend’s wedding but seeing as it’s a long way to go just for a wedding we decided to venture down there a day early and do the sights, so drove down Friday morning to come back Sunday. You I have to say that it’s a big drive so stopping at some point was always on the agenda but we stopped at what has to be the nicest services I have ever been to, it was a tranquil Mecca of happy people. I just this is what you get when you have to pay on the M6 Toll road. Anyway the drive was ok but a little busy once in to London and for some reason my GPS decided to take us past every sight London had to offer but driving through London is not the time to have a good look around as there are cars, bikes, people all coming at you from different angles all looking to get hit by a car. So once parked up at the hotel (glad I paid the congestion charge from the 5 feet of road I had to use just to get to the car park) off we went to get some sights is, 4 mins down the road and we were at tower bridge, then on to the tower of London, short trip on the tube to Trafalgar square, down past Downing street and on to parliament and Big Ben and Westminster abbey. Then we went off to Leicester square to meet up with some friends to have some food in China town. After that and a few drinks we went off to Camden Town to meet up with some more friends and have what would turn out to be too many drinks, it was nice at the time sitting in the street drinking wine but the morning after was not so good.

So the day of the wedding, it kind of went to plan, getting there nearly 2 hours early and then for the bride to turn up late meant I had about 3 hours in the church and I think that may be a new personal record or something, the groom looked a little nervous as the time started to tick by. That is where the normality of this wedding ended as my friends and his wife are both royalty to a cretin degree. He is a tribal prince and she is a princess from Nigeria (I think) and with that come the rituals of such a wedding and they were wonderful, apart from the kolanut which was not so good. This was the day after the night before where I vowed never to drink wine again but after a few beers wine sounded like a really good idea red/white what every was going. One of the nice things of the right was when you had to dance up to the bride and groom and put dollar bills on their heads and let them fall off, I know it may sound simple but when you have known this bloke for quite a few years it was a strange moment in our friendship.

So back to Manchester on Sunday with a little stop in Derby for my girlfriends nephews 2^nd birthday, that kid loves tractors, I wanted to live my youth through him and get him some Spiderman PJ’s but it was not to be, well I was not allowed! I decided when booking the time off for the wedding to get in a few extra days in as we come close to the end of the year so I got another 2 days off, good job seeing as the laptop I wanted came out and even after the trip to London I could just by the skin of my teeth afford it. I have never just bought a laptop out right and at these prices its no surprise but the last one I got lasted me for about 4 years so I think is a worth wile investment. And I would like to say that this keyboard is lovely to type on, it may even improve my spelling! One can wish.

Superbad Premiere

We had the premiere of the new film from Seth Rogen called Superbad, I got chance to watch it last week and I have to say I did enjoy it. We last saw him in Knocked up which was a good film but I think Superbad was better. Anyway we got to do the premier with a Q&A after the film with the 3 main actors from the film (Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and the night went well apart from some stupid question and a bit of a broken Mic.

Well after we did a good job we got some tickets for the after show party and after a long day it was a welcome idea to go get a drink so off we went. Once there we got 3 free drinks which was nice and what was even nicer was another 3 free drinks half way through the night, after 2 hours and 6 pints I was done especially as I had to be back to work in 8 hours and god did I feel rough the following day, rough but well worth it.

I think Cinemec had a good night with the Zoo Girls!

camping!

Ok back to blogging after I may have forgotten about if for a small amount of time. Sorry!

Got to go try out my new tent in a pre festival camping trip up to the lakes last week, and what a nice trip. Jump in the car with all the things I thought I would need, spend 1 ½ hours on the motorway and then another 50mins in some of the smallest, winding but beautiful roads I have been on. I tell you any one could go without a GPS unit on the motorway but I thanked god for having it when I had got up there. There are so many small winding roads with no signs for miles and miles. Anyway once up there tried to camp next to Windermere (which we had just crossed on this cool little car ferry) but as you may expect in school holidays it was full so we heeded off another 8 miles to little Langdale (I think) which is sat in this beautiful valley. Having been in the city for some time now I was more than happy for people to look and point at the ‘City folk’ (hay I didn’t need a water proof coat just a brolly) and after putting the tent up in good time might I add we set off for the one thing I knew would be round the corner. The pub! After that things become hazier the more I think of them.

So after not the most comfy night sleep (dam the air bed) we set off to spend the day doing some sightseeing stuff, so back in the car, GPS on and away we go, headed up to Ambleside for some breakfast and then on to Grasmere for some traditional short bread and then on down to Windermere for a coffee or two. It was fantastic and a beautiful day to walk, talk and drive.

So had my review last week! How did it go? It went good, I think I did a good job and didn’t fall short in any areas. For every question they had I came back with all the info they needed, one of the bad point about doing well is they give you more to do and now do i. some things are easy and others are going to take a little more work. So after the last statement you could possible understand why things are not to good as after a good review, working hard for the last year I'm (at the moment) getting paid less that 80% of the team I manage, yep that would be right I have heard nothing about my job, a lot of chatter but no contract and no pay. For the last 8months I have made less money that the last bloke in this job and it look like I'm going to stay here, forever. It’s like the people who make these decision don’t mind its taking so long or that I'm now a little pissed off and earning less that the team I'm supposed to manage. I also have a feeling that the money they are going to offer is not worth it for the job, I know there will be some room for negation but I don’t know, I have a full feeling that it won’t be much more or less that if I was getting paid per hour. I don’t know, only time will tell.

So my week so far consists of doing loads of hours so I can have some time off to go to lowlands over in Amsterdam and I go Thursday and come back Monday and I'm soooooo looking forward to it.

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Get your hands off my beer!

Great bird life in NQ

Its a house, no bridge, hummmm bridge house

i like driving in my car............

Knowsley Featival

So this weekend I managed to get hold of a few tickets for the Knowsley festival through work for free, I got to pick Sat or Sun but seeing as The Who were head lining on the Sat night there was no other day I could have wanted to go to. So the plan was to get the train to Liverpool and then the buss to the festival have a few drinks, enjoy the music, get the buss back to Liverpool and then back on the train (sound so simple in my head)

Myself, my girl friend and my roommate and his girl friend all set off and getting there was fine and was a nice trip over, thinking the event had only been on that day we hoped the fields would resemble as such with grass and everything and for the most part it was, we found a nice spot just down from the main stage and set up camp. Now trying to get a drink was just impossible, the web site said ‘ample bars’ but this was just not the case, people were waiting for a beer for what must have been 40mins so I opted for the next best thing Coffee! The weather was on and off, there was a good 10mins where I managed to get full use of my sun glasses but I hate to say I'm not one of these people who would keep them on once the sun has gone in.

We got there as The Thrills were playing and it sounded good, I’ll be honest I'm not up to date with their song but there were a few I sang along to, then we had The View and after that The Coral who were both fantastic. At this point it was starting to get cold so we had a walk and got ready for the final act. And at about 8:30 The Who came on and what a show, it was fantastic even though at this point the havens opened and our hops of a mud free exit disappeared (at this point I realized a piggy back was going to be in order and my girl friend was wearing jellies) but even with the rain it was awesome. Getting back to the bus stops was interesting as it must have been 6 inch deep mud and that’s where the piggy back came in as jellies don’t keep the mud out, so girl friend on my back, she had the brolly to keep us dry as I wade through the mud to the exit!

So the trip back we had 3 option.

Option 1 was to go back to Liverpool and get back the way we had come, but there was a replacement bus service which would have taken us 1:45 back from Liverpool.

Option 2 pay and get the buss back to Manchester but there were only 3 and we may not have got on seeing as we didn’t have tickets for that trip.

Option 3 get the bus to Warrington and get the train back to Manchester.

We left at 10:30 ish and got in line for Warrington just to stand there for ages as there was only a small road for all the busses to come down and most of the Warrington busses were at the back, while waiting one of the busses managed to get stuck on the side of the road in the mud which kept us entertained as it tried to get out which made it lean more and more to one side. At one point the easiest option to get it out of the way would have been to push it over in to the field. So finally our bus get to us and on we get after a speech from the driver on how its his bus and he want it clean just for him to try and get round the stuck bus, take the corner to wide and get stuck on the opposite side of the road next to the stuck buss. So now you have 2 busses both stuck next to each other blocking the only road for all the busses to get out. Now we have to get off and wait for someone to get both busses out of the mud. After 30 mins and most people thinking they could push a bus out of the mud a tractor came to our rescue and after 20 mins we were on our way with no chance of getting the last train. Bus stops, hand in air ‘TAXI!’, £40, back home! What a great time! Really! Fantastic day and would do it again

Two days off

Had a day off yesterday and at the last minute we decided instead of sitting in a dark screen for 3 hours watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 we would go for a drive, where did we end up? Well in a place called Mostyn in Wales, to be honest it wasn’t a well thought out plan it was a just find the sea plan and we did, had a walk along the beach, had a brew, it was a very nice day and well worth the drive. Not quite sure why we just got in the car and went, maybe it down to my flat mate trying to get a car, seeing as I have one it would be a shame not to use it every now and then

On Thursday I went over to see my little sister who had just turned 16 that day! Wow 16! I know she is the one who is getting older that day but it sure does make me feel older. She had some of her school friends up who were a nice crowd but I did find myself trying not to embarrass her as I don’t think she would have lived it down. Due to her birthday most of my family came together, my sister came over from Spain, my brother from Manchester (Yes we do live next door to each other but you would be surprised to how little we do see of each other) and my gran. My sisters friends are all music loving and playing group, from rock to blues and they are very in to it much to my grans amusement, she could not stop laughing which made me very happy, seeing as she is 85 and there was a room of teenagers she did just potter in, sit down and start firing questions at them left right and center, normally you would expect the Old lady to feel intimidated but not this time! Go Gran! But I was the designated driver that night so drinking was off the books from me, now I didn’t mind until all the nice rum came out and everyone was having a merry time at which point I wish I had got the train, I would have helped if the weather coming over snake pass was better as well but it was not to be so a more than interesting drive home. But saying that it was still a very good night.

London Olympic logo

This come's a little late after the event but i would like to bring your attention to the new London Olympics logo.

This cost £400,000. That is not a type O, i find it a little hard to believe that £400,000 gets you something that does not look very good, check out the alternate logos here (I like #6)

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I like this one, it’s the bottom section which tickles me, don’t let your kids play here! Do parents really have their kids play in a construction site?

I want to eat here, just look at it, you know the breakfast will be hart stopping.

Manchester on fire

So this morning as I get a little lie in the police in Manchester decided that this would not be the case and had there helicopter hovering over my flat form a early hour this morning, so on my way to work while I was thinking what would I do if I had a surface to air missile I noticed there were a few cops out, and they had shut a road off, and hang on that building is on fire. Yes today London was not burning but Manchester and what a fire, you can check out the BBC News web site and see some photos and videos Here

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abut time

After living outside of Manchester for many years I was one of the people sat in their cars in the longest traffic jam you have ever see most mornings and even with the extra time I could have had in bed I do like driving, living closer to Manchester, well in Manchester, I don’t drive as much but my lovely corsa had a list of problems and with 129,000 miles on the clock it had had its day, it didn’t look the nicest but after nearly 6 years it had been a good car for me and I was never late due to it not starting or breaking down on the way to work and with a car that looked like it did people didn’t really want to break in to it. But with all the problems and the amount of money I would have to spend on it to get it back on the road with the MOT getting closer and closer I decided to get an upgrade. Now having a look at what cars are out there and what I wanted it for and that I would want something nicer that what I already had I started looking at golf’s and the SE in particular and after a few weeks of looking I found one and it nice! I could have gone for a GTI or a GTTDI but with insurance groups around 14/15 it would have cost me a lot to insure but with the 1.6SE its group 6! I’ll be honest it doesn’t stand out and looks like any other car on the road but don’t forget im the one sat in the thing not watching it drive by so I don’t mind, it has all these little things that make driving easier which most car now have as standard but not in the 97 corsa days, all I have to do is get my mp3 player hooked up and im done!

Now this was one of the many many things I wanted to get sorted out after finding a flat so it so nice to get it sorted out and get rid of the car which had cause me a few problems if you have followed my posts and now its done! So on you wonders through Manchester if you spot a silver Golf driving down the street have a look to see who is driving, does it look like a animal? May be a monkey? Well hey that’s me!

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Keeping on the topic of cars and the many times I had been sat under my car trying to fix something or even sat on the side of the road its good to see that its just the lower class cars that have such problems as you will see in my photo,

Now if you are sat there thinking there is nothing strange about this photo let me take a min to point out the bloke pushing his Aston Martin DB9 back in to his parking spot

Now I have make a great step in my wonderful relationship with my beautiful girl friend, it was something I thought I would never do and never even thought about doing but can without question recommend it to everyone out there, what could this magical thing be? Well for a friends art exhibition she need an imprint of how couples sleep so I got to paint a very very sexy girl friend with paint (naked!) so she could lie on the bed sheet and she got to paint me so I could do the same. Now I thought it would have been fun and it was but god dam not that much fun

enjoying the week

Walking through the northern quarter and noticed this bus stop poster!

Yes people Heros has finally made it to the shores of the UK, now I have been keeping up with the show from the US of A and don’t have that many to go before it end for this season but I think you are in for a treat as it’s a fantastic show and well worth a watch.

I pottered down to the Academy last week to watch a girl called Regina Spektor who I have been listening to over the summer months, now she has an amazing voice but this was from only hearing the cd so I had a little bit of doubt to whether she could put it off live but I’m glad to say she did, not just her singing but her personality on stage was good and made for a wonderful night. I think she is back in Manchester in the next month or two so check out her myspace and get a ticket.

So now im all moved in, got all my stuff sat in a room and im slow making my way through it trying to make some sense of the madness. 1^st thing 1^st computer is set up and now with a 22” Ausu widescreen TFT and a now big fast cpu on its way, got media canter installed with a tv tuner in there so its all go on the computer front, on thing im missing at the moment would be a internet connection, you may have noticed this as I have many blogs all in one go due to the fact when im sat here typing I have no internet!

It’s a little strange being somewhere different and at the moment my girl friends feels more like home that my home but im sure this will change the more I get used to living there. The car park is cool, is under the flat building and to get in you wave this fob around and the door opens, is ace and I could and have spent all day driving in and out with a big smile on my face.

Over xmas I did a load of videos for a work party and I got a good response from people who had seen them, the other day I got call of one of the guys from the office saying they had got an email about it, now this is where I thought shit, if you have seen them there are a lot….hang on ….. Loads of film clips in there and I thought I was I deep shit but one of our cinemas in Liverpool really liked them and would like a copy for their own party! How cool! Well for me anyway. You never know the dvd may even get finished this year (cough cough Cinemc).

Anyone spotted there digging up the triangle again? What’s that all about, no sooner have they make it nice and put a big wheel there they take it down and dig the place up again, I know Manchester is well developed but can we enjoy the developed bits before they change it all around again? Or though I would like to thank Manche

ster city council for putting up the barriers that come out of the ground, I think there ace. All the law abiding drivers in Manchester don’t go down the bus lanes so don’t have anything to worry about but the stupid plonkers who don’t think the rules apply to them do and there the people who keep driving in to the things, one minute they not there and the next crunch………car stops…….head his window………car stops……..expensive short cut. Now I know you should pity the fool (hay Mr T) but there are Signs that say ‘DANGER BARRIERS’. Im sure you can get footage of the people driving in to the things but hay I have no internet connection so I can’t try and find the link for you all.

I need to pay off a small loan I have with NatWest and I have been trying to pay the thing off now for the last 4 weeks, every time I get on the phone they tell me how sorry they are and how everything will be sorted in a few days and not to worry, in the past 4 weeks I have spoke to the load department 22 time or so and not a 5 mins conversation a good 40 mins each time as I explain to them what is going on, now I come to check my balance again today and guess what, yes I have to much money in their which can mean only one thing NatWest have not removed th

eir heads from the asses and still can’t sort out the simplest task of taking money out of my account, I really really can’t believe how incompetent they can be and no matter how hard I try I can’t get them to take the money so tomorrow I take this up to a new level all together and I won’t speak to anyone apart from the highest person there and I will rain down a fiery hell like no loan manager has ever seen before and scream in to the debt free world of freedom with the roar of his soul, ok a little of base there and now back to the bed room and laptop staring back at me. But by no means to I think NatWest are bad and if you would like to open an account please email fuckmeover@natwest.com and im sure they will make you happy.

Right the girl friend is nearly finished her UNI work, that would be Sian to me and you, so I have to go. I hope to get this blog posted and have some tales to tell about the NatWest saga.

Have a good night campers.

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Ps got the armrug EP from Fopp the other day and its well worth a listen, only £2 so worth it, go on next time your in town just go and get it, you could tell your friends you got this cd you heard about from a blog, hahahahaha that would be cool, also check out thier myspace

Today Hot Fuzz hits Manchester with the regional premier of the new film Hot Fuzz, if you follow my films you would know I had chance to see this film a few weeks ago and what a film. Now with the prem aspect to this it has started to turn this day in to a hard one, not only do they take away tha last reel of the film and bring it back the following day but you have so many checks to do on the projector and cleaning to make sure everything is working as it should, then we have the conference aspect to set up with all the wired and wireless mics to set up and lights with digitl projectors makes the day in to a busy one all while running 6 projectors and dealing with the day to day aspect.

So the big night starts with me out side having a cig just the see Simon Peg and Nick Frost walk by on their way to the event I was running, what would I do at this point? Finish my cig that’s what, after everyone had been seated (including my girl friend sneaking in at the back) they did a short intro then in to the film. Everyone seemed to really lik it and it got many many laughs. After the show there was about 50mins of Q&A and can I say how good it is to see people like Simon and Nick staying on for things like that, most of the time they are there for a short time and then off again but not thease two. I did feel sorry for them with the odd person who was a little two odd and the questions always started with ‘I make films and I wondered’ or ‘I do acting and wondered’ and even the people who would act out spaced scenes.

Did get to meet (properly) the Technical manager of Universal, you know the people who distribute the films and a man from Dolby who didn’t like our sony sound processor one little bit but he was a sound bloke. I should have been out for drinks tonight round at Odd bar in the northern quarter but im just shattered and don’t think I could have handled anything to drink and I have to get up early ish to get the keys form my flat and get stuff moved.

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So I hope you all had a good weekend as did I, ok had to work sat but did get to have a relaxed day sun. Booked some tickets to watch Regina spector at the Academy on Thursday 15^th, she had sold out but they moved it to Academy 1 to get more people in, if your unsure of her work have a look at the video below.

Put the deposit and 1^st months rent on my new flat today, not cheap but glad I got it done so should have the keys in the next few days. Will be so nice only living 3 mins walk from Piccadilly gardens or should I say 8 mins staggering distance back to my flat just in time for me to be sick on my door step. Speaking of being sick yep I was, only ment to be a sneaky pint but one was two, tow was three and so on.

And I forgot to tell you I had a fantastic birthday meal at ‘Room’ in Manchester, very very good.

I spent all day sat in the pub drinking coffee just so I could use the internet, its is free!!!!!!!!! (got to download the latest Heroes)

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This will be m first blog entry now in the year of 27 in age, yes I had my birthday yesterday and 27 is now that age that I am, ok now 27 doesn’t appear to be one of those ages where loads happens or you would expect anything exciting to happen but to all you young people out there where 27 it just a distant figure in the distance its not a dull as you would expect. I spent the first part of the day flat hunting and boy o boy did I find some nice flats, in all had a look around about 13 and I have 2 more today, its strange how there will only be a small thing that I didn’t like and that flat would be out the running but with one in mind and 2 more which may be better the flat hunting sage is slowly coming to a close and very very soon I will be in this Manchester flat with my feet up enjoying city living.

I have been enjoying a week off from work and during this time I did expect to be moving in to my new flat but as I have gathered nothing goes to plan when its moving home so instead I have been keeping busy, got my self a mp3 player last week and something I can keep everything on and not just the music im listening to at the time so 30gb should keep me happy from some time. Apart from that I haven’t really spent anything . Got to watch some films and when I get chance I will update my film viewing section as some were really good and well worth a watch.

And as for my birthday I did get some presents that did stand out, not only did I get the best birthday card I have ever got from anyone but a gift to boot, I got to micro lighting, that would be where you get in a shoe box with a wing attached to the thing and a motor on the back! Ok death may be a aspect of this present that I will ignore but I really really really can’t wait to get up there.

Also got to watch some band last week and Armrug (check out there myspace) were really good, had a good night and managed to keep it together on the bus even though I started to feel a little rough, Dam Bus’s!

I also started to the rent sorted on my new flat! And its nice, got a car park with a automatic door which is so cool and got some good sized room 4 mins from the center of town, cant wait to get moved, although its nice staying with the girl friend and I hope the amount of time we spent together wont change just the surroundings.