I was driving back from the hospital last night and as I turned the corner into my street I was almost hit by an ice cream van hurtling round the corner in the other direction. I’d swear the thing was almost on two wheels, he was going so fast. This was no ordinary ice cream [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2006’
Still alive
I’m still alive. I survived the Sunday working/boring websurfing experience and am in a decent semblance of order on a Monday for the first time in a while. I actually feel terrible about complaining. I was in bed reading my WWI book last night and was suddenyl hit by how petty my grumblings were in [...]
The work of idle hands
I’ve been here nearly 8 bloody hours now and still no progress. It’s depressing. What’s more, with nothing to do for 8 hours you start surfing. Eventually you start to think “What can I buy?” And so it happened. I’ve been toying with the idea of buying ’10 Stories Down’ by The Pineapple Thief for [...]
Kidnapped
I feel like I’ve been kidnapped. Dragged out of bed in the dark, gagged and bundled into a van. That’s how it feels having been woken at 6.30am by my alarm. What am I doing in work? Work is bad enough on weekdays. Work is bad enough later in the day. But Sunday AND early. [...]
Going postal
Some people are just asking for trouble. I discovered the site below when searching for Marillion related blogs on Technorati. http://www.sendmeapostcard.org/ The Marillion connection is tenuous at best. Some bloke sent her a postcard of Rasputins penis in a jar and wrote a short message on the other side along the lines of ‘find a [...]
Tonight Matthew……
….. I am going to be Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam. I downloaded Pearl Jam’s latest album yesterday. I still haven’t listened to it but as a result of having Pearl Jam on my mind I can’t stop singing ‘Elderly Woman behind the counter in a small town’ which was from one of their albums [...]
We are The Mods
I’m knackered once again this morning. We stayed up waaaaay too late last night watching Quadrophenia. It’s a movie I’d only ever seen in small chunks as I’d ever had a chance to sit down and watch it from beginning to end before. It’s abso-fucking-lutely magical and is a who’s who of British Cinema. Phil [...]
You snooze, you lose.
I couldn’t get out of bed this morning. I felt like someone had crept into the room while I was sleeping and superglued me to the bed. It was that bad. As a result, I ended up arriving in work 20 minutes later than I wanted to. Not good, but never mind. So here I [...]
The weekend in review
So, back to Monday morning again. The day of doom. How many Mondays are there in the average life span. 3,744 by my reckoning although that will differ depending on gender. So what did I get up to this weekend? A mixed bag really. Saturday morning we releaxed and had a nice breakfast whilst reading [...]
Reflections
This morning I headed east instead of west, having an appointment with the dentist at 8am to repair my chipped tooth. It seemed strange to be heading against the flow of traffic though. It was also great to drive along the coast. The sun was bright orange and very low in the sky and was [...]
