Jubilee Bank Holiday

 Hello!!

So it’s the 9^th June, and I’m typing this a week or two late as usual! Guess I’m making a habit out of this!

1.     The other day I saw a picture of the little kitty that we gave away, and its still tiny and cute! Definitely made me think we should have kept the kitty! If I ever receive that picture of the kitty I’ll post it up here in the future.

2.     On Friday night after work I caught the express train up to London (only had 2 other stops! Amazing!) This was for the start of the jubilee weekend / extended weekend. I got to say that London did look festive and stuff with flags out and everything! One little pickle that I have with this is that I feel these should stay out more often! Makes London look a bit more awesome for tourists etc. upon arriving at London, I took a stupidly long stroll from waterloo bridge, down to tower bridge! It wouldn’t have been so bad if it didn’t start raining half way along! 

On the Saturday I did have a wonder around all the main tourist areas and also stumbled into the practice of trooping the colour! That’s the army people wearing big fluffy hats, and people on horses with shiny armor on, for you that don’t know what it is! 

 
Now on the Sunday, this was the day of the pageant, but left before the actual river pageant, and celebrations. What I did see though was lots and lots of people along embankment and Trafalgar Square, and the waterloo bridge trying to get the best spot to watch/view/see the boats! Whilst me and my friend was battling through the crowd trying to get to an underground station, so she could get to work, and I, to Southampton.

Besides from all that main rubbish there was quite a few street acts around too, 1, a person squeezing himself through a tennis racket, and causing nuisance to people on the phone near him. And 2, a person riding a stupidly tall unicycle while juggling some machetes, while wearing a cape, and some nipple tassels! (I have pictures)

3.     Upon returning from London, (got invited to a BBQ) I made my way to my other friends house where I was going for a “Jubilee” BBQ, more of a friends gathering and chatting. Whilst chatting away here we couldn’t decide who was actually meant to be doing the BBQ itself! And somehow from a very quick conversation, which I had no part in. It was decided. I was to cook /man the BBQ.

So, on goes everything!  

Every now and then, excessive smoke. Fire. Smoke! But overall I managed to cook a mean BBQ with nothing stupidly burnt!  (and I got a compliment for my cooking! :) )

4.     Now on the way back home, that thing I was learning (mentioned every now and then a few posts back), I fell off! I got to say, adrenaline makes everything feel awesome! But then the next few days I did notice that my right shoulder stupidly hurts!

5.     On the Monday I took a little trundle down to Bournemouth. Spent some time down at the beach and watched MIB3 with some friends in the evening.

6.     Well, That’s all folks!

I really should try to make things sound more awesome that what it is…. Guess I’m a boring person!

                                             

Ciao, M x

p.s. all photos are my own...

Just a little catch up

Hello!!

Its been a couple of weeks since my last post, and I know I said that I would make a post at least once a week, but I just got lazy as usual.

Well guess I shall post a little ramble about the last couple of weeks then.

1.     I have sort of missed the little kitty that we saved. Mainly because it was like a little ball of fluff! But I have had an update, and she is doing well at her new home.

2.     I’ve had a week off work (my scheduled holiday), which was awesome, except for the weather. During my week off the weather was a bit boring, wind, rain, clouds, cold! But once I get back to work the sun comes out! How I feel I’ve been short changed! Darn you weather! Why couldn’t you have been sunny during my week off?

3.     Work is going ok, almost been there for a year now! Still undecided on what I would like to do for my career. Should I make a career through the company? I’m not sure!

The other day my manager did ask if I would like to join a different team, as this would provide a slightly different experience, and provide further opportunities to what I’m currently doing.

I have been thinking about this and I have no idea what to choose! Stay, or go to the other team?

Now that was pretty much what happened since my previous post! 

There is one thing for me too look forward to, and that is a trip round Europe in September! I have agreed to go on this trip! And I have done a similar trip couple of years ago! It was good fun so I am sort of looking forward to it this year!

Well enough of this rambling, I’m going to get back to watching the Monaco F1!

Ciao!

Bye Bye Kitty!

Hello!!

So it’s been a few days since my last post, but since that post I do have some news!

The kitten has gone! 

She’s gone to a new home! 

It was sort of sad because if we was allowed to keep her, we might have! 

It made me feel sort of guilty on the day because the housemate that was looking after her was really upset when she got taken away.

Well that’s all I really wanted to say, not much else has happened!

One little tiny thing that I want to do is to see if I can shuffle some holiday around!  It would be good if I could!

M x

BBQ in the rain with a touch of Kitten!

Hello from the land of wind and rain!

Well its been almost raining non-stop since the announcement of the hosepipe ban here! This always seems to happen each time! Its like the weather knows what we are doing!

Anyway, our house had a BBQ last Sunday! The day started off all sunny, but then by the time the BBQ was lit. It started raining! But its not a proper BBQ without rain right? Well we carried on cooking, burning, and dropping bits of food everywhere, while constantly introducing alcohol into the mix! All in all, fun.

In other news on this day we found a abandoned kitten in the corner of the neighbors garden. Now don’t say it’s theirs because that corner, backs onto two other gardens, and is hidden by a massive tree! And my housemates apparently heard the kitten meowing for the previous two days!

Well we took the kitten in, and all I got to say is that it’s a little ball of fluff!! Now I sort of want to give the kitten a name, but then don’t because we can’t really keep the kitten! So we’re sort of giving him/her (still not found out yet) up for adoption. If no one adopts, then guess we’re stuck with looking after it for a while!

From what I can understand the housemates are trying to toilet train the kitten (and failing) does anyone have any hints and tips on what we can do?

Anyway there’s a couple of pics of the kitten on my FB so if your curious maybe you’ll see!

One final piece of news, I’m looking forward to my week off from work! It’s in the middle of may! Woop!

 

M x

P.S. Here is a cat in a box

Not much to add...

Hello my readers!
I don't have much to talk about as I don't ever seem to do anything!  So. I'm sat here at work eating my lunch while listening to Mister Sandman, by The Courdettes (however you spell it) .
Well I guess I'll give you a little update on what has happened lately, well. Not much. To be honest.
The weather has been rubbish where it literally can't decide on what it wants to do!
Rain.
Sun.
Wind.
Rain.
Hale.

It's not normal! Well maybe it is in the UK!

Well I'll try to type more interesting things

M. X

P.s. Happy St George's Day!

Sunday Club

There's a Sunday club.

I've seemed to have joined it, in a way.

Hope you had a good Sunday!

M x

Happy Easter

I completely forgot to write a blog this week!

So,

Happy Easter!

Hope you all had lots and lots of chocolate eggs!!

M x

A Few Rambles...

Hello bloggers!!

Well I’m back in Starbucks typing out this as I thought it would be nice to at least get out of the house!

Well last night I had a topic in mind about what to type about, and well now, it’s completely gone!! So….

How are we all?

There’s one thing that I would like to mention, and it is the weather!

HOW AMAZING IS THE WEATHER AT THE MOMENT?!!

I mean for the past week, just pure sunshine!! No clouds, the ice cream vans are driving round, and the sunglasses are on!

However I have been thinking, as its sunny now does that mean the summer is going to be all rain? Guess we will see what’s going to happen in a couple of months!!

Now today I made a small list of things that I need to do, and so far it has gone to plan! That is a good thing! There is a few more little things that I would like to get completed but somehow I’m not entirely sure I might get those completed!

Over these last few weeks to a month I have been thinking about what I would like to do for my career, and so far some of them are practically impossible, some are too expensive, and others, well I don’t think I would be “smart” enough to be successful! I have mentioned a few of these to my mum and she has sounded supportive over my options and was willing to help fund some if I am successful in the applications!! But who knows!

Well I shall ponder these ideas a little while more, and MAYBE fill in a couple of applications!

One final thought is that I need to do more exercise!

M x

Ummmm....

I've had a lack of thoughts this week.

There were a few times this week when I sat myself down and said, yeah that seemed quite interesting, lets write it in a blog! And immediately after that thought, I thought it was rubbish! So I didn’t bother!

So just a little update on the week,

1. Work is just work.

2. I climbed up a wall, and fell off

3. And I haven’t got a third.

That is all folks!

While I'm Here!

So I’m typing this straight after I’ve uploaded the blog from Monday night!

Yes, at the moment I am still without Internet! So I am sitting at the oh so overpriced coffee shop with a coffee in one hand, and my laptop in the other hand!

Before I came down here I did pop into work quickly to find out what hours I’m working tomorrow (Friday). Only because I’ve been swapping some work hours around and this left me slightly confused! During this time we also had a quick chat about random things, plans etc., as you do. I mentioned to my colleges that I didn’t have any internet at home so I was going to go down town to use the free Wi-Fi at the coffee place! This resulted with plenty of advice of what items of food to get with my coffee!! This ranged from items that were available at this wonderous establishment to items that were not!! Very helpful and humorous I got to say! Definitely worth a chuckle!

Well, here’s a couple of little bits of information, my mobile (cell) contract is due for renewal! And I’m trying to decide should I get a new phone or to continue with my existing phone, which is 3 years old!

I can say that there are lots of phones out there in the world, long ones, fat ones, ones with no buttons, ones with slidey keypads, ones with both buttons and no buttons, and ones that go FLIP! So I guess that I’m spoilt for choice if I choose a new phone! It does, I feel, depends upon what I wish to use the phone for! We shall see if I stick or twist!

I have to go talk to the council to discuss about a parking permit to see if it costs any extra pennies for one! (hope not).

The council decided to return our bin that they took away last week! So we are back with two bins like normal! (go figure why they took one in the first place)

Last bit of information, I’m waiting for payday! :)

Love and things

M x

P.S. I’ve just heard an announcement saying that “you are all being watched by CCTV!”

Lack of Internet!

Hello!!

Well I’m writing this on a lovely Monday night as I don’t really have many distractions! The main distraction being the Internet!

Now I’m writing this tonight because the Internet connection has been cut due to the fact that the lazy housemate (never pays bills or does anything else, he’s being kicked out) has not paid the bills for 2 months! So yeah…. I’ll upload this at Starbucks when I have time!

Well the plan now for this is for us to get a new Internet provider which should be a WHOLE lot cheaper, and we control a bit more!

And finally in other home news, we’re getting two new housemates… Thought this was going to be one housemate, but it ended up being a couple. GREAT… wonder how this is going to work out. I just hope that they’re nice people and not annoying!

Well I don’t really have much to add except for the fact that I keep getting bruised on my left shin. Blooming hurts! But it’ll get better eventually!

Well toodles for now! And I’ll get a coffee and upload this when I have time! Probs with some other posts aswell!

Mic x

Sunny days and boats!

Hello bloggers!

I writing this on a boat while returning back to the island. Currently sitting near me a a oldish woman who is snoozing away while snoring and having her mouth wide open!

Well it is a stupidly nice day for once where the sun is shining and the birds are singing! It's sort of a shame that I have to go back to work on Monday!

I guess that there's not much that I can mention about this week as I haven't exactly done much at all! Except for spending a stupidly large amount of money!

All I can say from that is it gets me from a - b a lot quicker!

Ciao for now

M x

A week off!

Hello!!

I'm writing this entry on a bus! again! I mean I could have written it on a boat, but thats too hard!

So I'm on the bus sitting on the top deck all on my own listening to some music! I missed the earlier bus again, by 30 seconds... yet again! I swear this bus service should go and get its connection times sorted out! Waiting 30 minutes for the next bus is annoying!

Anyway enough of that, I guess I don't have too much to add since my last post but I have done a bit of wall climbing since, and also part two of four of something that I'm doing!

Now the wall climbing was done down calshot activities centre! I find that place pretty cool! There's a ski slope, a velodrome and also the climbing walls and various other wind based activities! I recommend a visit!

Back to the wall climbing! I got to say that I'm not an expert in it in any way! And the video thats on YouTube shows me falling! Well it was practically my first time! Hopefully I will go there more often and monkey up those walls!

Now part 2 of 4, I did that today! All I can say was that it was good! A bit windy, and some extra practice is needed, and then I'll be awesome at it!

Anyway enough of that today and enjoy your week!

M x

Leap Day with a bit of Chilli and Cinnamon

Happy leap year!

Well I thought that I would write a post today as this day only comes once every 4 years!

Well so far this week a few things have happened, I passed one thing, and I’ve still got 3 more tests to go before I complete one of the things that I want! ( Ihave till the end of the year!) The next item on the list is on Monday lets hope I get through that one!

Today was quite interesting, well in a way.
It all started off yesterday at work with a lovely challenge.

A Chilli Challenge.

The outcome from that was today! …. We lost!

So my manager went to Tesco on his lunch to specifically purchase two chilli peppers, one green, one red! The red one was slightly larger than the green one. And well, during the team meeting, I ate the red pepper! All I can say is that it was HOT, and sorta burned! I swear that it made me feel light headed and also that it gave me a headache after! However this was quite entertaining for the team and was a good laugh overall! (even with me suffering!)

Later on during the day after The Chilli Challenge, we ended up trying to think of a new challenge to do, and the challenge was born!

The Cinnamon Challenge.

Surprisingly everyone on the team knew what it was and thought that it was a excellent idea! However our manager never heard of it, so we told him to YT it when he had time!

As it is my day off tomorrow, I’ve been wondering if this will be carried on to Friday, who knows!

Anyway, hope that you’ve all had an interesting leap day! And something entertaining happened, whether it be good or bad!

Love and stuff

M x

Struggling!

Well it’s the end of another week and while some people manage to blog daily, I struggle to even to put something down within a week! So here’s to me sitting down and typing something out that I can post!

Well this week I’ve been working a lovely 6 days with a couple of hours of “testing” 9pm – 11pm. All I can say from this is that work could be more interesting however boring it does get! And that “testing,” easiest thing ever! Sat down for 1 hour, and got 4 hours pay!

Through out this week I was thinking about starting a new blog, one from which I would just use on my mobile, typing out what ever randoms I was thinking at the time. But with me, as usual, I never got that far! (loaded up a new blog page and closed it) maybe another time eh!

And finally in other news, I’m trying to start something! I’ve booked one of the parts that I have to do on Monday! And maybe I’ll keep this blog up to date with whatever happens! Well let’s just hope that I pass this thing on Monday so I can move onto the next step!

Ciao for now!

M x

Blogging On A Train

Hello!

So I thought I'd write a little note while I'm bored on a train with about a bazillion stops to go! (Wish I had a direct train.) Well the reason why I'm writing this is because I'm on the return journey from Brighton!

Yup I went from s'ton to Brighton and so did my friend who left from London with her Swiss bf (who does not own a gun like other Swiss people, his dad does!)

Well the random day trip was alright, walked, talked, ate, talked, walked and with some photos taken aswell! One thing that I would like to add is that having a Polaroid camera is fun, even if it looks like a toy camera! (Took a random photo of a family and gave that to the relevant family) they were surprised and laughed when I handed that to them! Well I hope that it was a good photo, I never got to see the end result of that one!

I laughed at the award winning "beach"! Would you call that a beach? I usually thought beaches consisted of sand! But this was all pebbles! Maybe it is.

Anyhoo, so my thoughts on Brighton. Well I gotta say it is quite nice! Well the areas that I saw! But also slightly random. I know that everyone is unique and everything, but there were people who was setting a whole new trend in fashion! Completely different from most! (More than normal) One more thing to add, some of the buildings look spectacular, from the Victorian through to the art deco look!

Anyway I'm still nowhere near my stop and I shall post this now!

M x

P.s. I might post some of the photos onto my flickr account! And I doubt my FB account! Ask or find my link! If you want to see some rubbish photos! :)

just some thoughts over the last week

Ok, so my last post was quite boring! Written on a Saturday night, (just like this one) and does not really have a topic to talk about!

I would like some topics to talk about but as I don’t have any, I’ll just ramble on with the random thoughts that go through my brain.

1. UK snow. This is now becoming a regular fixture in the calendar! Around February it will snow! Mainly in the north of the UK and rarely where I am! All over the Internet you see people commenting on the snow, some love it, some hate it! Me, I’m not too bothered. I do like snow, but then life goes on right? Anyway in the UK when it snows, even if its about 1cm the country grinds to a halt! Nothing can happen and everyone blames everyone!

2. Valentines day. Its this time of the year again! Everyone loves/hate everyone etc, whether it’s a pet, person, car or yourself, you cant win! On the day I bet that you will see people who will go “I love (x) person so much” and others “ughh its this sh*t day hurry up and end!” and on twitter, “#foreveralone” Geezzz people get over it! It’s only another day! Surely if you love someone you love them exactly the same on any other day! And for single people, just carry on!

3. Work, is well, work. You go, you work, go home, and you get paid. End of!

4. Super Bowl. I got to say there was a couple of great drives from the patriots, but well done giants for winning! (Thought they were going to win) and then there was the half time show. The HALF time show! I bet you that Madonna was not actually singing in that! If she was there was SO much auto tune! It sounded horrible! And also the random appearance by Cee Lo Green?! That was so random! But I guess the show was all right, definitely could have been better!

5. Photos. I’ve decided to try to start taking more photos yet again! I’ve even bought an instant camera! (so fun) but its expensive. I think it works at to about 60-70p a shot! But hey, its instant!

M.

Saturday night

Well its another Saturday, and I'm inside watching tv!
I gotta say this month is following on the path of the last few years, snow in the month of February!
Well I guess I don't have much to mention this week but I do think that today I missed a phone call from the glasses people!
Glasses might have arrived!
However one thing that I did notice is peoples inability to describe items! It said package, but it looked like a parcel! But I picked it up from the postie so all is good!
Well I'm going to keep watching tv in my freezer, and ciao for now!
M  

Island life!!

Ok, so I'm typing this while I'm travelling on a bus on my way home! I missed the earlier bus by about 10 seconds, and I couldn't be bothered to run across the park to the next stop!
So I've seen a few things that to me, is standard on this island.
1. Most here are chavs, this = assholes with nothing to do!
2. Everyone likes arguing with the bus drivers!
3. Some people shouldn't own dogs!
4. Wear sensible clothes dear, its your own fault your shivering!
5. You don't look 18, so smoking, suits you then!
There are probably a few more things that I would like to moan about but guess I'll leave that to another day!
Well when I get home I've got a big pile of laundry to do, so that aught to be fun! ttfn!
M x

Chinese New Year!

Well, Happy Chinese New Year! It was on Monday 23^rd January this year! And now we are in the year of the DRAGON! I’m a dragon so it should be an all right year hopefully!

An update of the week so far, well last Friday I was meant to have my 1 – 2 – 1 meeting with my manager however it was cancelled at the last minute! I don’t have a clue why, but oh well I guess there’s just not enough time for them to tell me how rubbish I am!

My eye test was quite interesting! I found out that I’m slightly worse that I was 6 years ago! I got advised that I should have glasses for computers, but not for computers! That’s what I was advised! So who knows! Oh and if I was driving I should wear them! Oh and my left eye is still worse than my right! Nothing has changed there then!

Well I don’t think I’m going to be driving anytime soon as 1, I don’t have a car (a previous post) and 2, I don’t have access to any cars!

In other random news;

Two of my friends just got engaged! Blooming big shock if you ask me! So out of the blue! But its good and happy days!

Me and a couple of friends have decided randomly that we might go to Brighton for a day out, don’t know why. Random? Yes! But it’s a day out, and its to somewhere none of us have been to!

Well other than that not much has happened this week! I’m still going to try and survive on student living, but its not going too well at the moment!

So I shall post again shortly, however it might just be another boring post like this!

Love and stuff M x

More ramblings...

Well today, (Monday) I did try to book my eye test! I mean I printed of the piece of paper that had the number to call, and also asked my manager for the centers cost number! (The money dept.).

However when I tried to call the “eye care“ dept., just after 4pm they were closed. CLOSED! Guess that I will have to try again tomorrow during lunch when hopefully they will be open! Otherwise I’ve got a bit more waiting to do!

I’ve also started watching The Big Bang Theory after numerous people have mentioned that its funny! So far I think it’s alright! Maybe sometimes a bit too nerdy but I guess that’s the point of the show!

Well I have since managed to get hold of the eye care dept., and they are now sending me out a form that I have to fill in etc. and then, hopefully an eye test to say that I’m not blind!

This week has been good so far, because I had a couple of days off of during this week, and on one of those days I went to the building society to have a review of my accounts. I ended up with a new account, and a credit card. On the credit card they offered me a stupid limit! (Massive for me!) And I asked them to reduce it. Upon confirming the limit I wanted, she asked me was I sure, with a confused look on her face! Guess she was a bit unhappy that I reduced the limit! But I’m happy with what I was offered.

Well it’s back to work for the rest of the week, and I’ve also got my 1-2-1 meeting with my manager tomorrow! Yikes! Lets hope its all happy and good news!

Ciao M.

I'm Helpful and Friendly!

Ok,

So it’s been a whole week since my last post! YES a whole week! I’ve now decided to try and blog at least once week on here! So let the challenge commence! (Want to make a bet?)

Well during this week not much has happened, but however I did receive one/two piece(s) of interesting news. I found out that I’m going to be offered a permanent contract where I work! (Subject to T&C and performance). And also on some survey that the company did, apparently I scored 10/10 for helpfulness and friendliness. Guess I’m helpful and friendly, who would have guessed eh!

Since about the 3^rd I’ve practically had no money to spend. My money was on the fridge! Yes on the fridge. In note form. Waiting to be returned. To me! But the good thing that this has caused was that I ate pretty much all the food that was in my freezer, and fridge, and most of the cupboard!

Hopefully this next week will be good, it is payday on Wednesday so it should be good! Means I will have funds to spend again! One of the first things that I’m going to need to do is re-stock the fridge and freezer!

Oh I’ve decided that I must try to eat more healthily! (Fruit and veg and stuff!) I don’t know why, but it’s probably because I’m not doing as much sport as I used to be! One more little thing I’ve got to try to sort out is arranging an appointment for an eye test!

Well much love and let’s see if I post next week!

M x

Lack there of!

Well I guess that I will start with “geezzzz!!! Its been a while since I last wrote anything in this blog!”

Ok now that is sorted let’s get down to what has happened since I last wrote in my blog! So I’m going to need to sit down and scratch my head for a bit as it does seem like a very long time ago!

Well I got myself a nice new shiny camera and it takes excellent photos! Too bad there’s an idiot operating the thing! I’ve taken a few photos with it! But still need to use it more to actually make the camera super-duper awesome! (Photos)

During September I turned ancient! And didn’t really do anything on my b’day, and I guess I didn’t buy myself anything as I was skint from buying the camera!

However a couple of weeks later I did go and visit my friends in London, which was nice and took lots of photos, and also deleted lots of photos!!

And some time in this month I got told to try too book some time off at the end of November to the start of December as “we” were to go to HK. Too bad for me I had to work!

Thus brings the month of November! Truth be told, nothing interesting happened in this month! Mostly I “placed” my order for my laptop when my mum and bro were going to be in HK. And thus I drove them to and from the airport!

I got to say that during this period, this was one of the most expensive 3 weeks because of the FERRY!! And buses!! Just because of some stupid fish! (Got told off for not cleaning the tank while mum and bro were away)

And in December I received my new laptop, which was my Christmas present!! (I was going to give the money for my mum to get it for me but as I wasn’t going she thought she’d get that for me) and with that I finished my duties as a taxi driver!

At one stage I did think I got a speeding ticket from one of those mobile speed cameras in a van, however its been quite a while and nothing has turned up in the post! So fingers crossed, all is good!

And now the festive period, wow! How un-wintery it felt! The weather went mild and everything! Compared to a couple weeks before when it was freezing! And I do know about that because I had to go and purchase a lovely new duvet because my old one made me freeze during the night!

There are things about this time of year, lots of random novelty items are on sale, same old songs return to the radio and prices are “slashed” so everything seems “cheap”

And the things I hate, wrapping, mess, too much family time (same things get mentioned year in year out!) and it gets boring!

So as usual it’s a win-lose situation!

Well to finish, another Christmas and Year has passed! Lets hope as usual that the following year will be better!! So…..

Few things to do:

Look for a better job! Find an actual career direction! Get a car or a bike!!

Or….

Go back to the simple life and be boring!!!

And…

Maybe I should stop blogging, not much ever happens on here!

Toodles!!

M x