Do you ever wake up in the morning and think, “Why did I buy that?”. This time, I don’t even have the excuse of inebriation, given the parlous state of my finances. No, but I can blame Sven. I found this video of Cocoon (Frankfurt) from New Year 2010/11, and it is typical Sven Vath at his typical suspense building, thunderous techno best. The track is by Vapourspace, whom I have never heard of. Probably for a good reason, seeing as their album came out in 1993. After being inspired by track names such as “Gravitational Arch Of 10” and … Continued
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I don’t have a huge amount to say yet today. Went to Hull for the weekend for my father’s 60th birthday meal, he seemed very happy to see me – my family duty is done for a while now! I do intend on trying to get to Hull a couple more times this year. I enjoy my trips to see my family though 2 days is enough and I am craving to get back to my life in Reading. And my life in Reading is now more complete thanks to my lovely mother ensuring that I have enough gravy – … Continued
One of my favourite things to do when I feel like a few minutes procrastination, is to wind-up the Nick Clegg haters that spend all day on his Facebook page. Simple short paragraphs like “Thanks for continuing to repair our fragile society and destroyed economy. Please do all you can to ensure that the disgraceful, selfish, lying, cheating scum of the Labour Party never ever get back into power in this country. Never again should the likes of Blair, Brown, Mandelson or Prescott be allowed anywhere near power. You might not be perfect but in comparison you are amazing.” seem to cause … Continued
I have 7 alarms set now to wake me up in the morning, albeit all on my telephone which is perhaps where my problem arises – not one of them went off the other morning – very strange. Thankfully I did manage to wake up in time – somehow. Quite scary though that I could easily have slept through. The other day I came across a leaving speech for when I worked at Natwest, circa 2000-2003 (I keep all sorts of sentimental/amusing crap) – in it was quoted my lateness record for the first 4 months probationary period which was 6 occasions – not the … Continued
What goes up, must come down – this time last week I was full of joy, but today I am destinctly not. The chaos that a blocked kitchen sink brings to life is not helpful, nor am I particularly appreciative of being back at work, or the fact that it is Monday. But what lurks at the back of my mind is that society is reminding me of my failure to find love. I have always despised Valentine’s Day. I would probably despise it more if I were in a relationship though, with the expectations of gifts, treats, surprises, etc. Though … Continued
According to scientists, women can be anaethetised from painful symptoms by looking at a photo of their loved one. So, seeing as women seem to cause all the painful moments in my life, and for some bizarre illogical way that makes no sense to me I still love women (I admit to all my female readers you are a source of delight too), I thought I should do something positive, given the above scientific advice, to try to ensure that I receive more delight than pain in the future. So, here goes: I trust that this will be enough, though the article … Continued
I have to say humans are really irritating me a bit this week. Yesterday saw the highest number of people criss-cross my walking direction at unusual angles forcing me to slow my pace or avoid walking into them – in the space of about 10 metres at Morrison’s last night, 4 staff members cut in front of me without looking where they were going. I know I tend to walk at a faster pace than most people, especially the dithering snails in shopping centres/supermarkets, but this is no reason to walk with eyes closed. My bus driver curse struck again this … Continued
It was a year ago today that I decided that I required a blog. I cannot remember who suggested it, but I do owe them a debt of gratitude. The reason was because I was generally quite bored. I am less bored now! The highlight was my review of Cocoon In The Park being mentioned on a Facebook post by Sven! I did quite enjoy my political postings too – and a lot of people visited my blog on the day of the election, 48 in total, which beat my previous record of 17 by some way! 58 came from Cocoon … Continued
This my friends, is the daddy of gravy. I never used to be able to buy it in Reading, my mam used to send it down to me sometimes but she cannot do it often enough to satisfy my gravy demands. A while ago though, Sainsbury’s in Broad Street in Reading started to stock it and I was very excited, but now they no longer do so. I wrote a letter of complaint – here is the response ************************** Dear James I’m sorry you’ve been unable to buy Goldenfry gravy in our Broad Street store. I can understand your disappointment … Continued
I think many of you may have already seen my New Year’s Eve artistic creation – with real paints, but for the purposes of history, I am putting it on my blog. I received a friend request from ‘fabric on’ the other day on Facebook – and I have a policy of only befriending humans that I have met (although I am sure that a couple of slipped through the net) so I wanted to know what they thought of my artwork first… ****************************** Dear fabric On I fear that I may have to decline your friend request because I … Continued