For those not lucky enough to work with me or have met me last night for a drink. If only I didn’t have quite the large belly I would be Reading’s ultimate sex god now.
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I met my storm-chasing buddy on the Friday night to discuss our plans. It was to be my first ever storm chase. We concluded to head towards Birmingham. However when we met up in the morning, the high resolution model was suggesting the south-east and there were already some cracking little storms developing over northern France and heading towards the Worthing area, so we changed our minds and headed there. Below is the current lightning strikes when we set off, high resolution rainfall prediction for 3pm, CAPE prediction for 3pm (huge!) and rainfall radar when we set off. It was … Continued
Can you believe that it is not far off a month since I have written to my main blog? That is how busy and tired I have been recently. I just need to relax and become myself once more. So I have taken a week off work. Mainly to chill out and recover – I haven’t had a week off since October. I have lots of plans: 1. Chill the fuck out.2. Sunbathing3. Storm chasing4. See the Queen5. Get a hair cut. Will the mullet stay or go?6. Study. Lots of JavaScript.7. Start a new blog or two, hopefully getting … Continued
Don’t panic. You’ve not woken up in some kind of socialist hell, with Ed Miliband in charge of the country and all rational intelligent types such as myself fleeing to Zimbabwe. It’s just a post about football. I shall get stuck in like some Uruguayan teeth (that was bitingly obvious wasn’t it?). 1 GK Joe Hart – The best we have but he isn’t Peter Shilton.13 GK Ben Foster – Not much to do against Costa Rica but did it well. Maybe worth a start in the next friendly?22 GK Fraser Forster – Who?2 DF Glen Johnson – Not an … Continued
My Dad once told me during my early teenage years that the two most fascinating things in the world were politics and cricket. I didn’t believe it at the time. How could anyone enjoy a game that went on for 5 days? But during my early 20’s I used to have a lot of time to kill – these were the days before broadband, when I only had 4 television channels (albeit 4 more than I have now) and I had monstrous hangovers every weekend from drinking large bottles of vodka. Laying in my rickety single bed, nursing pounding hangovers, … Continued
I didn’t expect much this World Cup. OK that’s a slight bending of the truth as I expected us to beat Italy and Uruguay – and lose to Costa Rica. 100% wrong so far. And then lose in the 2nd round. I don’t want to spend long criticising England, because I stink and really need a shower, I thought Rooney was very good and deserved his place, Baines was good, Henderson good and I could compliment various others. And I am satisfied with Hodgson. What I cannot defend is the…defence. And the central defence in particular. Perhaps we were just … Continued
Don’t you love it when a load of bills come in at once? First a 6 month water bill, then gas and electricity and now Bastard Atlantis are charging us a hefty sum disguised as a Deed Of Assignment – I really hate estate agencies. Especially Bastard Atlantis. I’m not totally sure how I am going to be able to afford it – the following options are available to me: 1. Cash Converters.2. Start shopping at Aldi.3. Move out and then realise that my costs for moving in somewhere else are about £300 anyway.4. Move to Hull.5. Prostitution.6. Win money from gambling.7. Borrow from the bank, … Continued
I don’t go clubbing as often as I used to. My priorities have changed. I don’t earn as much as I used to and my costs have risen. Labour’s cost of living crisis is significantly biting into my clubbing potential. I also don’t have the time – I am spending much more of my free time studying – a night out can and generally does wipe out the motivation to wake up at 530am to study for a whole week. Not to mention the various trips to watch Hull City this year. Most of my clubbing friends also don’t go anywhere … Continued
So do I have anything more exciting than this planned for the weekend? I will let you be the judge. The main focus of my weekend is going to be studying lots, mostly JavaScript and catching up with stuff like washing, ironing, etc, but you don’t really want to know that. I was kind of hoping this book that I purshased would arrive in time to be able to get stuck into it, but I just noticed that the delivery estimate is 7th June, despite being from the UK. 507 pages should teach me JavaScript. I am slowly learning it … Continued
I wasn’t going to do a blog post but I became so inspired when walking to the polling station this morning at 7am that I just had to. By the way, why do they always situate polling stations in the roughest areas of town? Do I sense a conspiracy theory?! It is unlikely that you will need me to tell you whom I have voted for. Neither am I going to make a strong recommendation of who I believe you should vote for, as I shall elaborate on later. However I ask kindly if you would mind not voting for … Continued