World Of Winfield

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(It Was) Happy Birthday To Me

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So I turned 34.  No car, no mortgage, no wife, no children, no caravan but enjoying my life.  Up yours societal expectations! Having a birthday in January, a week before payday is arguably the worst time of the year to have one.  But I am slowly growing to appreciate it in my wanting to be different kind of way. I did want a few days off work but alas, circumstances didn’t turn out to allow it but I would only have been stuck at home by myself, and I work with nice people (I am not saying that just because … Continued

2014 Goals

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So these are my goals for 2014. 1. A normal one to start – continue to do well at work.  I am hoping that there may be further opportunities seeing as we have just taken over a company 2-3 times our size.  I am happy in my job and would only move for a significant pay rise. 2. Studying.  I have much more to learn about Photoshop though at £27 a month I won’t be using it often!  I need to decide what else to learn in terms of web development later in the year – Javascript or PHP seem … Continued

Counting Calories

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A while back I was taking the piss out of my housemate for scanning every single thing he ate to count calories.  Though I probably had a point as Kate Moss needs to lose more weight than he does. However I have finally succumbed to yet another layer of life administration after hearing further commendations to said calorie counting app – as beautiful as I may be, arguably I could do to lose a fair few kilograms (or lots of 2.2046226218 pounds for those of you still spending shillings). 2014 is the year that I will lose weight.  I have … Continued

Skint. Again!

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So I am skint again.  I have enough for rent, bills, food and the train to work but my fun budget for the rest of the month is just £14.00. I knew it was coming.  I spent wildly during the last 6 weeks of 2013, with 3 trips to London and 1 to Manchester, plus Christmas presents and some treats for myself.  I had a lot of fun though. There is something perversely enjoyable about being skint, it’s a bit like getting sunburnt. I enjoy the challenge of making what little money I do have last.  There is much more … Continued

Review of 2013 Goals

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It only took me until August to write down my goals for 2013.  I’ve been busy this year, and seemingly more productive. I find setting goals for my life at the beginning of the year helpful – writing them down reminds me during the year of what I am trying to achieve. In grey are my original goals – in black is the reality. 1. Continue to do well at work and beat targets.  At some point though I do need to increase how much I earn. I pretty much kicked the arse out of my targets at work.  Refreshing … Continued

Welcome To All Romanians & Bulgarians

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I appreciate that I am a few days late but I would like to formally welcome citizens of Romania and Bulgaria to the free movement of labour within the European Union that I am proud to be a part of. Some will of course fear you taking their jobs, stealing their benefits but I am not so negative and I embrace immigration. The previous wave of Eastern European Union immigration brought a whole wave of exceptionally attractive young ladies to the UK.  I am of the belief that there are rather attractive young ladies in Bulgaria and Romania too and … Continued

New Year’s Eve at The Egg

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There are 3 occasions of the year I despise.  More than any other is Valentine’s Day.  Next up is Halloween.  Then comes New Year’s Eve.  Overpriced and packed with nobheads.  I was reluctant to go out, I really could not afford to do so but eventually I cracked and was persuaded otherwise.  Maybe this would be the night that finally made me appreciate New Year’s Eve. It was the first time that I had been into London for New Year.  We seemed to choose the most convoluted way to get there upon arriving into London Paddington with 2 tubes, 1 … Continued

Say No To Hull Tigers – Hallmark Hotel

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Just in case you have been visiting Mars recently, the owner of my football club, Hull City AFC, has applied to change the name to Hull Tigers. I am James Winfield.  You fuck with the name of my football team.  You fuck with the history and tradition of the football club I support.  You fuck with me. I was made aware this morning that Hallmark Hotels were using the name ‘Hull Tigers’ in their internal information leaflets. I made a call. I followed up with an e-mail. I received the below response within 30 minutes: *** Hello James Thank you … Continued

Resident Advisor Top 100 DJs 2013

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So the top 100 DJs have been announced with a pleasantly surprising number 1. There is an alternative top 100 DJs poll by DJ Mag but quite frankly if you like the DJs on that poll then you have a shit taste of music.  Sorry, I mean a different taste in music. Resident Advisor only give 3 days to registered members to vote, and you can only choose DJs from events you have clicked attending to during the year. Beautifully, there isn’t an EDM DJ in sight.  After all, this is the site where Adam Port has more fans than … Continued

Jog On…

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I received a surprising message from one of my most trusted advisors this afternoon. “Do you fancy going for a jog this evening?”. I replied, “Sorry I think you have messaged the wrong person”. Apparently not.  The idea of monotonous exercise goes against all of my beliefs but then I have had the spirit of trying new things this year, like mushrooms (not the hallucinogenic kind I should add) and am increasingly doing so, and I thought about the Wright Brothers – if they hadn’t had that spirit of adventure and got on that plane back in 1612 or whenever … Continued