The Duck Pond
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
SNOW! woop woop. It may seem a bit odd me being excited but it's been a long time since I've seen proper snow in the UK. Never ever got the stuff for more than a few seconds in aber and that was rare. It only went and happened while I was walking home from work though, didn't it? I'd just started to walk home, there was a strong wind and a little bit of drizzle but nothing too uncomfortable. Walking by the canal I noticed a flash of light, which I thought was someone's bike light or something at first because it wasn't very strong. Not too long afterwards there was another, much brighter and then *BROORAROORMMMBLERRRMMBBLL* overhead. "Oh shit" I thought, and quickened my pace, while trying not to walk near any tall conductive looking objects. Then the hail came and because of the direction I was walking it was blowing straight into my face, rather painfully. I couldn't look up and had to try to shield my face with my arm if I wanted to see where I was going (quite an asset while walking along a canal). There were a few more flashes and rumbles and I was almost pissing myself as the storm was right above and not moving quickly. The hail then softened into snow. There were blankets and blankets of the stuff and it was setting very quickly. By the time I got home there was almost 2 inches of the stuff both on me and on the ground. I'm just about thawing out as I type this. Typically almost as soon as I got into my warm flat it stopped. Bastard snow. Cue noone being in work tomorrow because their "car won't start". I'll ring in and say my feet don't work properly with frostbite.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
| eDiets UK | News. This article was in an email I received today from a mailing list I subscribed to ages ago and can't seem to get rid of. As a hippah, I object to the Atkins diet and other such diets on many levels but today I just want to highlight one thing;"the standard breakfast menu is inundated with unfavourable carbohydrates. We’re talking about foods loaded with sugar and white flour - two ingredients that are thought to be contributors to the obesity epidemic we're facing."
NO, IT'S PEOPLE STUFFING THEIR FACES AND NOT DOING ANY EXERCISE THAT IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE BLOODY OBESITY EPIDEMIC. Honestly, get a grip people.
Monday, January 26, 2004
Well it would seem that I can never be arsed blogging any more. My beloved has just started a blog which I will eventually get round to linking to on hyah but this could take years. Anyway he's all fresh and writing tons like one tends to at first and it's making me feel a bit guilty. Not that I feel I have to but the point of all this is to remember stuff when I'm an aawwld womaaaayn but if I don't write anything I don't remember.
I'm really getting to like Newbury. Making lots of friends and got a social life again. Good for the soul but not very good for the wallet or figure. Saying that, I went back to Aber this weekend and had a splendid old time. I invented a game that, while not being particularly original, was a good laugh playing. I shall never look at bananas in quite the same way again! Starting to dislike scholars though, it's been taken over and is now getting loud and crappy just like pretty much everywhere else in Aber.
Anyway I've become addicted to Civ III again, I'm off to nuke the Americans (please note, this is a game, it's NOT Terrorism, OK? I love americans guv, I just couldn't eat a whole one, etc.).
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Went to Aber which was weird as it's the first time since I moved properly. Really appreciated seeing the sea again. Time was cut horribly short thanks to trains so I'm going again next weekend as I didn't get to do half the things I wanted to do.
Being against (unneccessary) animal testing: a great and noble thing in a company as I'm sure most will agree. What I can't understand is those (such as Bodyshop) who are against animal testing but aren't vegetarian. "We never test on animals, that's despicable! We grind them up and put them in the product, yes, but no testing! That's cruel!". I also found out what lanolin is recently - eugh.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Got drenched by a sodding lorry and a big puddle this morning near the end of my 2 mile walk in the rain o_|/
Was woken the night before last to the sounds of some angry (and probably drunk) woman screeching for ages at the top of her voice to a person or persons unknown. I nearly called the police as you never know what goes on in these things but I couldn't really tell where it was coming from and if you tend to get involved in these things it all tends to come out badly for youand only you. I just hope it's not a regular occurence. Scared the shit out of me, it did.
Monday, January 05, 2004
Well it’s been a while, I’ve been enjoying the festivities, what what. I intend this to be a really uber long blog but I reserve the right to give up and go and eat pie.
It was a quiet Chrimbo in the sense that there wasn’t too much antagonising, arguing and bitchslapping but it was very busy, as I had to do a tour of both parentals and their respective extended relatives plus my friends from school and college. It was fab seeing everyone but it was a bit sad in that firstly I didn’t have nearly enough time to catch up and secondly I feel a bit out of the loop. It wasn’t like it was previously when everyone was in the same boat, just visiting from Uni. They all actually live there full time now so it’s a bit hard to try to fit in what is just normal for them. I’m not explaining it very well so I just hope I remember what I mean when I’m reading this as an old bat.
I visited dad and his wife for the first couple of days. It was really good to see them, I don’t get to see them much and I had a good time. I also got to see my brother which is even rarer as he’s always gallavanting all over the place. He was only there for one day before buggering off to Austria the jammy git. I finally got to meet one of my ‘stepbrothers’. From the way my dad had described him I had him down in my mind as an utter wesley. I was right.
Next few days then were spent with mum and her bf, which was also fun. This was also when I got to see various friends as my mum lives near to them and my dad doesn’t. Christmas eve was fab. Got to see the old gang from school. It’s weird to see how different we all are now we’ve grown up and gone into our various proffessions.
Boxing day we stopped off at a party that one of my Aunts was throwing. Her husband’s son (everyone gets married at least twice in my family it would seem) was an utter nobber. Ugly too. First he had a go at me for not kissing him on the cheek, then he said “stop talking, just shut up will you” to me, in reference to me being quiet. Anyway rather than saying “oooh funny man” as I was tempted to do, I just glared at him until he stopped and his girlfriend apologised for him. If I had been there for 2 solid hours without saying a single word to anyone I could almost have understood it but I’d only been there 5 minutes for goodness sake. Better that than spouting the continous verbal diarrhoea (yes I did look the spelling of that up) like he was.
I’ve spent far too much money.
Matt came over for new year and had to go through London so I met him there as he’d never caught the tube before and was a bit daunted about it all. I don’t really blame him, it scared the living crap out of me when I first had to get it. I was very amused to see, at Kings Cross I think, a huge bilboard ad for Fat Friends, placed cunningly above the Burger King stall. You’ve got to wonder if that was deliberate.
Getting pissed off with being shy now. I really hate not being able to speak comfortably to people I don’t know very well. People probably think I hate them, when in fact I’ve actually turned into a gibbering, tongue-tied wreck. I’ve just been stopped on my way home by a lovely, chatty bloke from Amnesty International. And we talked for a bit and he probably thought I was a moron. Wish I could be a bit more like him really (I mean being chatty, not thinking I’m a moron).
Put on too much weight, need to get back to the fatcamp stuff. I’m not actually going to go to fatcamp, I’m just going to count calories and exercise and all that.
Was going to write more, like all that looking back over the last year and looking to the new year bollocks but it can wait. Pie beckons.
