Taxi!!!!!!!!!

I started my new taxi driving job on Monday morning. There's a lot to remember whith learning all the roads and stuff, but I'm enjoying so far. It's been quiet this week as the kids are on holiday, but I've not done bad for my first week, next week I can really hit it.

What is happening with this odd weather?. It's been really cold all week, and so far I've seen  rain, hail, sleet and snow. Last night we had sleet snow and a thunderstorm, and it was bitterly cold. Even now at 4.30pm it looks like the end of the world has just begun. I hate the winter.

I suppose tonight I've got to put up with the bastard trick or treaters knocking the door. I never normally answer, but the constant knocking does annoy me. ( Does that make me sound like a grump?

At least tommorow is the big bonfire amd fireworks up at Gillingham park. Thats normally a laugh, and at least it's free!!

Right I'm off for a nap.

Morning Loves

Welcome to my new blog. Thank's to Gaz for putting onto this site.

Well anyway, news part 1 is I've got a job at last!! Not the most glamorous of jobs but I'm going to be a taxi driver. It's been really tough to get anything at all really, even the agencies are quiet. I start on Monday for 6 weeks of training and in which time I've got to have a medical and pass the knowledge test. I'm pleased, thats a real relief to have got something at last.

Queen and Paul Rodgers at the O2 was incredible!! I managed to get the front of the catwalk so I had a really good view when they came down it. I couldn't believe it when Roger Taylor was doing a drum solo 10 feet in front of me. The set was good, the staging was stunning and I wish I could have got to see more of the gig's round the country. I might try and get tickets for the O2 November show, but The Who are doing 2 intimate shows for fanclub members only, so I don't know if I should get tickets for that ( they go on sale Friday )..I might need to borrow some money.

Anyway's, have fun all and get all your blogs sorted!!

When Does This Shit finish?

Right girls and boys strap yourself's in..this has been my mad last 6 weeks.

Firstly, Natalie at work got really funny with me after I came back from holiday and pretty much told me that I couldn't do what I had been doing for the last 2 years, which was communicating with the other members of staff about what was going to be delivered that week and what wasn't. She also brought up the fact that I was supposed to be starting at 7.30 and not 8 in the morning. I said that was a load of old bollocks and why has it taken 2 years for it to become an issue, this strangly she couldn't answer. The long and the short of it is I handed my notice in, I thought that the 4 weeks notice would give me time to find something else.

Secondly, I was promised a job so I didn't really look that hard over the next few weeks as I thought it was all cool, but, while I was training my replacement I got told by the comapny that they had over prescribed the job and that they didn't have a place from me anymore! FUCK!!!!!!!!. So now I'm unemployed and right royaly fucked! I've signed up to a load of agencies trying to set some money in, but with the current climate it's slow. I've been for an interview today which will come to something I hope.

Thirdly, In between all this, my 16 year old neice had a baby boy. He's a loverly little thing that she's called Joshua John. He's nearly a mont old now. We're not thrilled that she had a baby so young, but what can you do.

Fourthly ( and this is the good one! ) One of my nephews ran away from home. He's 18 so that means that he technicaly can go with no issues, but , the poor sod got really badly bullied at school and it's affected him really badly. In short he flipped out, and we were concerned that he was going to do himself in. It got worse after we found written all over his bedroom walls things like, "Kill he will, they've got it coming" and " This war has only just started". As you can imagine we freaked out somewhat as he has a fasination with guns and war and we couldn't take the chance of him going on a killing spree...sounds far fetched but trust me it isn't. Anyway, he turned up near his granparents house up in Norfolk and he's is staying there for the time being so he can get the help he needs.

So that's my life..fun eh?..lol Anyway, when is this AOL journal going?. I'll stay in contact with you all and i'll set up a new journal somewhere else.

Hope everyone is well

Oh and it's Queen + Paul Rodgers at the O2 arena this Monday!! Hoorah..something good.

I'm Home

We'll I'm home from holiday, and I can honestly say that I'm absolutly gutted to be home. Infact if it wasn't for the dogs, we wouldn't have come home. Property in Malta is really cheap and we could easily afford to live there.We both got offered jobs which sadly we couldn't except.We may go back out at christmas and see if we can rent a place out there so that we can go for long weekend and bank holidays. It's only 2 and half hours away and you can get cheap flights out there.

Anyway, work is bad. Nick has gone, I want to go, Julia wants to go and Tony is going.I've pretty much shut off from it now and just do whatever I can, if it don't all get done anymore I don't care..whatever! On top of that, our wages haven't gone in the bank, so I've spent this bank holiday weekend indoors with 60p in the bank..great!!

Anyway, here's some holiday snaps!.

This was the first day there

The view from our room at sunset

The view from our room looking over the Med.

Two cocks on a rock!!..( I love this photo! )

The blue lagoon

Lee..erm, tired and emotional shall we say

Me in the same state

2500 feet above sea level in Taomino in Sicily

Lee with Mount Etna ( letting off steam! ) in the background ( cool photo )

This photo really doesn't do this view justice, but this was a Roman Amphitheatre with Etna in the background.

If you look closely, you can see the houses that are built on the edge of that cliff..crazy Italian bastards!

Halfway up Mount Etna with the dried up lava flow from the 1991 eruption.Some crazy Italian was trying to flog me a rock of lava for 2 Euros. I pointed out that there was plenty that was free.

3 quarters of the way up Etna, just at the bottom of the ski slopes.

I made Lee climb up this old crator, again this doesn't really convey the true size of the thing.

Lee just before moaning about the volcanic rock in his trainers.

Looking down over the coast of Sicily with more old crators going off into the distance.

A house that didn't quite make it. There are loads buried underneath the rock.

John Entwistle from The Who shoes that were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Malta

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Rock and Roll

Hey all. I'm wrighting this when I'm supposed to be pavking for my holiday. We're off to Malta in the morning finally. This weekend has been nothing but grief though. Firstly we had to take Gussy to the vets on Friday, as he was in obvious pain and was struggling to get about. It turns out he's got arthritus in his back legs. We got him sorted with some medicine but we came out £46 ( $92 ) poorer. I got home with him to find that me satalite box had packed up, so no T.V apart from 3 channels ( I cant get channel 4 ), then yesterday I was topping up the oil and water in the car and found that an air return pipe had split, so I had to get that replaced today.

 

Anyway. A couple of Fridays ago we went to see Status Quo at Rochester castle which is only a 10 minute walk from here.

As you can see I was on the beer but it was a really good night and they played well. I didn't want to go at first because I've seen them to many times and I got kind of bored with it, but the 7 pints I had sorted that out!

Right I really should go and pack. It's 9.23pm and I've not any of it yet.

 

I'll catch you all in a couple of weeks...take care all!!

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Again..I am Still alive

Well I'm still about. I kind of lost a bit of interest in doing this, as most of the time I was just bitching about work and stuff, and I really wasn't in a good head place. I'm a lot happier now ( I'm sure it's the weather ).

Anyway, times are sure tough aren't they? Petrol's through the roof ( $2.36 ish a Litre!! ) foods gone up, gas and electric up 40%, it's unreal. I've even had to change the food the dogs we're eating because it was costing me £11 a week. Who know's what can be done about it.

Thats a photo of my head after I fell over at 2 in the morning one night and split my head open and knocked myself out on a guitar. It smarted I can tell you. It's healed up now, but I've got a loverly Harry Potter type scar on my head now.

Lee and me are off to Malta again in 3 weeks time. I can't wait. It'll be nice to get away together and spend some quality time. He's done a couple of shows, I learnt one on the morning of the show on the drums and plyed for him, the other one was The Full Monty, and much to his credit he did get his knob out on stage. I would'nt have done it.

I've found a way that I can get into the U.S.A. So next year we are going to go to New York for a week. We've had it priced up and we can afford to go to the 5 star ( count em! ) Waldorf Astoria in Manhatten. I sooooo want to go, and if my little plan works, then we'll look at visiting other parts. It should work.

Right I'm off for my dinner.

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New Update

Sorry people I'm still alive. I've not posted as I've not really wanted to. I've been in a very very dark place the last 6 weeks or so. I'm out of it now I think. Well whats happened.

Last Friday I had the day off work to help Lee out with a musical the he was playing for. He teaches these kids on a Sunday for a dance school that his friend runs, and this was there end of term show. So anyway, I learnt the entire musical Grease on the drums on Friday morning. I've never really heard the musical version before, so I didn't know half the songs. We got through it though, and I did enjoy it, the big bonus was we didn't row once..i just did as I was told!

This week he's in doing the Full Monty show at our local big theatre. He's got to get his cock out and everything...lol. I'm going with my nephew and my Mum ( how embarising ) on Friday night. I wont laugh ( I promise!! ) He's working so hard at the moment. He's doing ( done ) 3 shows, working a job, teaching on a Sunday and going to college all at the same time. I'm so proud of him, he knows what he wants to do, and it's a sacrifice at the moment as I only get to be woth him once or twice a week ( although we do speak every day ) but I know it's for the good in the long run. I do love him.

Work sucks donkey bollocks!! It's awfull. Somehow it's become obvious the people they got rid of we're the people that kept the atmosphere alive in there. It's fucking dead, and at times you get bollocked for being to loud, then you get told to be quiet, so you do, then you get bollocked for being moody. You cant fucking win!!! I've told Natalie that I'm activly looking for a job elsewere. There may be a job in the office coming up in October, but I've got a feeling I'm going to get fucked over for it.

Anyway, I hope your all well, and even though I've been hiding, I've been thinking about you all!!

The Culling Of The Herd

Well the cull has happened. We lost.

1 - Flagpole Knickers. No great suprise as her mouth did more work than her hands did, and at least we wont have to listen to her fucking boring life anymore.

2 - Moaner Linda. As the name goes..loverly woman but by fuck did she moan.

3 - Gill. I liked Gill, daft as a sack of spanners but she was ok.

4 - Lucy. Grassing cunt.

5 - Carolynn. Another on as daft as fuck, but she was ok really.

6 -Pauline. No loss, she was a shit cleaner. In more ways than one.



The suprise's of the day ( more like dissapointments! ) was that Major Fuck up and Thrush stayed. How the major managed to keep her job is anyones guess. I f it was anyone else they would have been out ages ago.
Its been odd this week with them gone. Everybody is down by the seems of it. I was today. I have a feeling I'm getting stitched up a bit, but who knows.

We'll have to see how things go.

He's just a boy who has lost his way
He's a rebel and he's all run down.

Renegade - Thin Lizzy

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More Good News

Well boys and girls, this week has been interesting ( and it's only Monday ). We recieved letters this morning saying that we have lost a £500,000 contract ( nearly $1,000 000 ish ) and they are going to have to make people redundant. Reading between the lines of the letter it looks like they are getting rid of the dead wood, which is a good thing. So Thrush, Ting Tong and General Fuck Up might be going ( Here's hoping!! ) Aunty couldn't care but Flagpole Knickers  was quiet and bricking it. She's recently just got a house with her latest fuck buddy, so she was all me me me again today for a change. I'm not fussed really to be honest, you can always get another job.

The weather has been funny again. On Friday I had my air conditioning on in the car on the way home, and on Sunday I woke up to 3 inch's....................of snow of snow on the ground...fucked up that was. Global warming ay?

I dived in from work on Wednesday and ordered my Queen tickets for the 02 arena in October. I cant wait. I went to see them in 1986 at Wembley stadium and Knebworth park, and I got to the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. There's something about seeing them live that is nothing like seeing any other band, and I have a feeling that this maybe one of the last time's they go out. I hope not.

P.S. Gaz..I not that fucking fat. I'm 14.5 but I would like to be 11.5 to 12 stone. Cheeky bastard...lol x

Tommy Tits

I've not been a well bunny over this weekend, I've had a nasty case of the tom tits. I think there is a bug going round because Nick has had it aswell. It's a good way to lose some weight though.

I've got 2 years to lose 3 stone at least, I dont want to be to heavy for my wedding photo's. Lee's gone into overkill with it though. Last night he had me looking at wedding cakes online ( Pleeeeaaase! ) asking what one I liked. I though a tray of fairy cakes would be funny but apparantly not, neither is getting married in a brewery so I'm told. I think it's a great idea.

Work is getting back to normal at last. It's not been so manic the last week, and I've not really got the ump with anyone. Miss Non Conformance queen ( Major Fuckup ) has been out doing herself though, Julia has been wrighting them out like doctor wrights notes out for cream at the clap clinic. It'll keep Natalie and James busy when the reviews come round. Speaking off which, I filled my assesment for out with all the bile and hate I could summon..it'll make for an interesting assesment meeting.

Quick Little Notice

Just thought I'd let you know that after a little talk that happened this evening, Lee and Myself shall be getting married in 2010!

Some Cunt Stole My Sack Barrow!!!

Bare with me, this is going to be piss and moan central!

On Wednesday of last week, so little fucking scroat bag stole my sack barrow from just outside my van. I was in the van moving a few boxes around and left the barrow outside. This was at a fucking school aswell. Fucking kids!!

I was in a perfectly good mood today until I got back to the office this afternoon, then the dark clouds came down very quickly. Thrush and Ting Tong are still just being annoying and thick cunts, Flagpole Knickers ( who's usually ok ) is being a thick cunt aswell.....Example

FP: Shall I put these books on Mondays shelf?

Me : What day are they going out?

F.P: Wednesday

Me : Is the any room on Wednesday's shelf?

FP: Ermm yeah

Me: Well put it on fucking Wednesday shelf then!!!

Fuck me it's not rocket science!!! I got a bit shirty after this and everything seemed to get to me. What really pisses me off is when I get shouted at for stuff that hasn't been packed and sent out.

A: It's not my job, it's Nick's

B: I really couldn't give a flying fuck to be honest...I really couldn't.

Nick has to pack the books that I'm taking, pack the stuff that's going by the courier, pack the stuff thats going by post, and occasionaly send out some clear stickers in boxes, which all have to be made up. The courier and post stuff takes a while, as you have to work out the postage and fill out paperwork for them, so it takes much longer than normal. The label machine is often in use by other people,  so that takes longer to get to. I asked Chav Bird to do some but was answered with " I dont get time to do them "...yeah LIKE I'VE GOT ALL THE FUCKING TIME IN THE WORLD TO DO IT!!!!. This with her also sending stuff over that hasn't even been put in the system, and with no address on the docket so you cant even put them on the computer yourself. So tonight I just dumped the box and the docket on her desk and fucked off home. She had already given my the shits, by watching and laughing next to me while a load of books fell down and hit me in the face. I nearlly re-enacted the box throwing incident by throwing the books all over the place.

Major Chaos I've now renamed Major Fuckup after the amount of howlers she's been making. How she's kept her job I dont know, if it had been anyone else they would have got the bullet ages ago. The Spitmeister has kept his nose out at least.

It's a good job, it's just a shame that 80% of the people that work there are useless talentless shit stiring back stabbing cunts!!!

On a better note, I've just got myself a new mobile phone. The old one was great, but I've gone back onto contract and got myself a Samsung F700. I wanted an IPhone, but after reading the reviews on it, they seem shit, plus this and the fact the thieving fucks want £280 on top of the contract for it, they can go swing.

I booked my Mum some tickets to see Status Quo up at Rochester Castle in July. I'm trying to get out of it id I'm honest. I've seen them 22 or 23 times already,and I know the set list as well as they do.

I've got a very large bottle of Lowenbrau on the go, which will be followed by a large bottle of Budvar. I need to drown my sorrows.

 

Horrible Eye Thing

The eye test thing yesterday was horrid. I think I failed the eye test miserably, I couldn't read the bottom three lines of the chart. After that they put some horrid stuff in my eyes to make my pupils go big ( excellent use of grammer! ). I tell ya, I couldn't see a fucking thing, my vision was blurry and it gave me a bastard headache, and three fucking hours it took to sort itself out.

Anyway, it has kicked of major style at work. Major Chaos ( tohelenback...in joke ) has been fucking up beyond belief and as she has a nasty habit of trying to blame every other cunt but herself, she is starting to make many people shit itch! The spitmeister has been sticking his nose into where it's not desired or required, pushing work through that could have waited, and wanting it delivered infront of everything else. Also he was going over Natalie's head,and as she's head of opperations and its her job to organise that stuff, it caused her to have a quite major stress out. As for Mrs Thrush and Ting Tong...don't get me fucking started on them...they both need to fuck off...and preferably as far away from me as possible! If Natalie walks ( which she nearly did this morning ) I would walk aswell, and I don't think I could handle the place if Major Chaos was in full charge again.
SHE FUCKING USELESS!!!!

Its a still going mad

It's still all going mad at work. I've finally had a full weekend off after 3 weeks, but this was enforced really as I done my back in on Thursday up in the East End of London. I twisted akwardly and felt it go. The pain was immence. Thankfully I got back to my van and got back to the office. I couldn't stand up straight so I came home and rang the doctors. He reacons I've trapped a nerve in my back and gave me some streatching exercises to do. It's not to bad today, but it still hurts to walk around.

It's not just me though, we are all at full stretch at work and nerves are getting just a little frayed, as the inevitable mistakes are being made, and Mrs Thrush ( thats what I call Liz because she's an irritating cunt! ) seems to be making my turd hurt more than usual. I cant wait for March to be over and all this madness to stop, I'm really tired and hurting but Im trying my best.

I've got the hospital again on Thursday. This time they are taking photo's of both my eyes to see if there is any damage to them. Apparantly its one of the first places that HIV can affect. They are going to spray some shit in my eyes to make them dilate so they can get a better look inside. My sister is coming with me to drive me home as apparantly my vision will be blurred afterwards. Thats nothing new really, I know my left eye is dodgy anyway, but Lee is convinced that they are going to tell me I cant drive until I get glasses. That would be my fucking luck that.

Malta seems so far away!!

P.S. Thank you Larry for all the postcards from around the world..I really do enjoy reading them.

Tired

Lee and Me went to the hospital today for our routine 3 month checks. We're both ok ( CD4 300 , Viral Load <40 counts ) which is good enough for me. I've managed to lose a whole pound in weight in 3 months, Lee has managed to lose 10 pounds ( cunt! ) so now we both weight the same ( 14st 8  fat bastards!! ). There was the usual shit and pond life up there again this morning, but there seemed to be more clapped up slappers there than normal....it must be the weather. After having what felt like 2 pints of blood taken out of my arm, we went for an over priced and over shit breakfast in the hospital restaurant. It really was fucking awfull. I've not eaten a shit breakfast like that since I worked at Safeways.

In August we are going to Malta again on holiday. This time we are going for 2 weeks, and we're staying a bit further into town than we were last year. I dont mind as long as I get a balcony and there aren't to many noisy pissed up cunts staying at our hotel. There might be some time for a new pastime called " Seagulling " I'm not going to explain because it really is digusting...but if you want to know..... Its fucking expensive this year though as we're going in ther first 2 weeks in August. Its going to cripple me though. I've worked out I've got £50 ( $100 ) a week until the end of May, so no going out or fuck all for me. Oh well...it'll be worth it. Which leads me onto....

Fucking work!!!

We are unsually fucking busy as we managed to drop a bastard great £54,000 ( $108,000 ) contract that we have to complete within 3 months. Some of us ( well about 5 of us ) are doing all the overtime god sent,  I even worked 7 days this week. Some of the other lazy moaning cuntbags have done precisely fuck all to help, but continue to moan...wankers.I just hope that when the personal bonus comes up next month that it is weighed towards those people who have put themselves out for the place. On top of this, everyone else is busily spending they're budgets up so we are trying to keep up with that aswell. I think in April when it all dies down we will be off sick with exhaustion. Hey..I ned the overtime, so I'm just going to get on with it....oh the joy!

Hangover

 

I've got the hangover from hell today. It was my nephews 18h birthday party last night, and I was giving the lager a severe beating along with Lee and my sisters. I was a really good night, made even funnier by ther fact that Lee and me we're having a photo taken together, and the chair collapsed out from underneath him...hahaha. I laughed so much, which I think fucked him off a bit. Oh well...he would have laughed if I had done it.

 

I've been using a program on my laptop called Gotomypc. I lets you get into your desktop computer from your laptop anywhere in the world as long as your desktop is on and connected to the internet. I've got it on demo for 30 days, and I think it's brilliant. All your files and programs work as they would normally. It'll be great when we go on holiday this year.

We're thinking of going back to Malta again in August. The paper work I'd have to do to get into America is fucking amazingly complex for me, so we're not bothering for the time being. We're trying to get into a posh hotel in Buggiba which overlooks the bay and out into the Mediterainian sea. It looks loverly, and as now Lee has a part time job in a travel agaents, we will be able to get 10% off the price, so it should only cost just about £380 each...billy bonus!!!

Anyway, I'm off to bed to try and get rid of thisfucking hangover before work tomorrow...I cant be doing with being tired on a Monday.

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Charity Concerts

On Saturday night, I went with my friends Phil, Nick and Mark to see Lee in a variety show he was doing in aid of cancer research. His best freinds Mum had suddenly dies from it last June, and his friend had decided she wanted to do a concert in her memeory and raise money. It was sort of cobbled together, and as usual some people said they would do it then pulled out at the last second ( cunts ). There was a lot of opera in it, which I hate,  but it was good, and they managed to raise over £700 in total, which was a good effort.

Not done much else really. If I remember anything i'll post during the week. Hope your all well. x

Blue Plaques

On Monday I didn't have that much to do, so I had a bit of a site seeing drive through central London on the way between drops. If you ever go to London, especially the centre, keep a look out for blue plaques up on some of the buildings. They are basically just marking where famous people used to live. The odd one that I found the other day was between Claridges ( hotel and home to Gordon Ramsey's restaurant )and Bond Street. One  building had a plaque on it  saying that  Handel had lived and died there in 1758, and directly next door, there was a plaque saying Jimi Hendrix live there from 1968 - 1969.

It thought it was quite funny, 2 different musicians from 2 different eras and genres living next door to one another. As I say, if you go up to London,look up and check the bulidings, you never know what you might find out.

Keeping on

 

I found some of these on Moonpig.com. Very good site for cards.

Anyway. Work has been ok, nothing really much to stress me out. Nick is still there and looking better as the days go by. We are catching up after the christmas holidays, which is just aswell as it's going to go fucking potty soon.

Lee has finally managed to get a part time job in a travel agents. He was getting very depressed having no  money, but it seems to be very hard to get part time work that can fit in with his college studies. It takes a bit of pressure off of me aswell as I've been supporting him with money.

Saturday night we went down to Julia's house so that her and Lee could finally meet. They've e-mailed each other loads of times but never actually met. Her boyfriend was there, as were her daughter and son in law. I was designated driver unfortunatly, so I had to sit there while everyone got pissed up. It was a good evening though. I think we are going to do it again soon.

Hope everyones well.

 

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Belated Happy New Year

Happy new year everybody!! I hope it all went well for you. We stayed in as Lee had the flu really badly, so for once no hangover..lol. Christmas was loverly with the family, I got a really nice Fender 12 string acoustic guitar from my Mum. I've not stopped playing it since.

I was on holiday between christmas and new year, which I spent relaxing and chilling out a bit. I went back to work Wednesday just gone, and to my delight we've got a 22 year old fit lad started and I had to train him...gutted!!!..lol. He's a loverly lad and he's a nice piece of eye candy for me! He's doing the packing job, which for the last couple of months has been giving me loads of grief, as a lot of it was left to me to sort out aswell as doing my own job. I think that's why I was so pissed of with the place before christmas. We'll see how Nick goes on, but from how he's been this week, I think he's going to be ok. Natalie has given me another job to do on the computer. She's trying gradually to get me into the office. Hopefully I may be in there by April, but I'm not holding my breath.

Anyway..hope your all fit and well.