[Gaz]

Today is the 5th anniversary of myself and Janey's first date. Turned out ok!

[Joinee Hollis]

Having my text read out on Kerrang radio

The way my mummy and step-dad are looking after me since I am bed bound for a few weeks

[Mr Phil]

Polish man on the bus who got as far as the X Factor boot camp. Having someone fun and interesting to talk to makes 13 hours go a hell of a lot quicker.

[PJ Wopunga (GA)]

As of 3.09 this morning, I am an aunty!

[Gaz]

Mr Phil, on 30 August 2010 - 09:07 PM, said:

Polish man on the bus who got as far as the X Factor boot camp. Having someone fun and interesting to talk to makes 13 hours go a hell of a lot quicker.

I'd agree with the second sentence entirely, but ironically my idea of hell would be 13 hours on a bus with someone who'd been on the X factor and wanted to talk about it.

[Mr Phil]

We didn't talk much about the X Factor and he's not your stereotype fame seeker.

Also, I'm about to watch Scott Pilgrim. The adverts just started...

This post has been edited by Mr Phil: 31 August 2010 - 11:34 AM

[GJ Dandy David]

I loved Scott Pilgrim. The silliness of it was just brilliant.

[Gold Bismuth Shortt]

After being here not even 2 months and thanks (again) to the wonderful kaz I've got a new position in the company with loads more responsibility and two floors up.

From being completely confused as what to do about uni and being completely broke I seem to have landed quite nicely on my feet.

Plus Belgium was bloody awesome, brilliant week in all.

This post has been edited by Gold Bismuth Shortt: 31 August 2010 - 12:31 PM

[PJ Wopunga (GA)]

Mine and the boy's offer on a house we want to rent got accepted! A niece and a house in one day

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Gold Bismuth Shortt, on 31 August 2010 - 12:30 PM, said:

After being here not even 2 months and thanks (again) to the wonderful kaz I've got a new position in the company with loads more responsibility and two floors up.

From being completely confused as what to do about uni and being completely broke I seem to have landed quite nicely on my feet.

Plus Belgium was bloody awesome, brilliant week in all.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY Anna!

And yep, Belgium was BRILLANT.

[Mr Phil]

Poohbah (Gsq), on 31 August 2010 - 04:11 PM, said:

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY Anna!

I just skim-read that as something completely different.

[joinee danni]

David Hockney and The Brothers Grimm....blooming brilliant exhibition and nicely made me forget my day in work! (not that it was particularly bad but still!)

also about to eat a cooked breakfast for my tea, nyom! (a healthy version!!)

[Grandaddy Steve]

Seeing that 'Mum' got back safe and sound from India. Welcome back Jane.

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

A new toy.
Portable DAB/FM radio with an alarm, battery and mains power (adaptor included). It's about as big as a packet of Rich Tea.
How much? £15!
http://direct.asda.c...default,pd.html

[SJ Aynsley]

Walking home through the park as the sun was starting to set. Everything was green and gold

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Callum Keith Rennie's new TV show is going to be on real life UK TV, possibly as soon as next month. Hallmark Channel (soon to be the Universal Channel), I love you more than you could ever know

[joinee danni]

Lou being happy has made me smile!

As has the effectiveness of inhalors - thank you person who invented them and helps me to breath!

[Chez]

Refund on my car tax! Yay!!

[GJ Drought]

Roast dinner tonight.
lots of motorsport this weekend.

[G J Katie]

Dad made my stress worse but he spoke wonderful sense and knowing how wonderful, wise, funny, loving and generally fantastic he is means the world to his soppy daughter. My Dad is brlliant.

[Joinee Mum White]

I have just been to the travel agents to pick up all the rest of the tickets and stuff for Sarah's surprise 21st birthday present.

We are taking her and her boyfriend to New York for 3 days, staying in a hotel in Times Square and going to The Hard Rock Cafe, and to see West Side Story on Broadway
Haven't booked anything else, so she can choose what to do, I'm guessing it's going to involve a fair bit of shopping - I've organised the boys to give her dollars for her birthday, so she'll have some money to spend

I am soooooo excited - I can't wait to see her face when she opens the box with all the tickets in it! Mum White xx

[joinee danni]

Joinee Mum White, on 04 September 2010 - 04:48 PM, said:

I have just been to the travel agents to pick up all the rest of the tickets and stuff for Sarah's surprise 21st birthday present.

We are taking her and her boyfriend to New York for 3 days, staying in a hotel in Times Square and going to The Hard Rock Cafe, and to see West Side Story on Broadway
Haven't booked anything else, so she can choose what to do, I'm guessing it's going to involve a fair bit of shopping - I've organised the boys to give her dollars for her birthday, so she'll have some money to spend

I am soooooo excited - I can't wait to see her face when she opens the box with all the tickets in it! Mum White xx

Mum White I have just been singing your praises to my mam tonight!

Hannah and Siobhan have made me smile today, the tiniest gesture makes such a difference to me on a day like this and means so much. Thank you girls xx

[Mr Phil]

Joinee Mum White, on 04 September 2010 - 04:48 PM, said:

I have just been to the travel agents to pick up all the rest of the tickets and stuff for Sarah's surprise 21st birthday present.

We are taking her and her boyfriend to New York for 3 days, staying in a hotel in Times Square and going to The Hard Rock Cafe, and to see West Side Story on Broadway
Haven't booked anything else, so she can choose what to do, I'm guessing it's going to involve a fair bit of shopping - I've organised the boys to give her dollars for her birthday, so she'll have some money to spend

I am soooooo excited - I can't wait to see her face when she opens the box with all the tickets in it! Mum White xx

Are they going to give her the dollars before you give her the tickets?

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

When driving home from work, I pass one of those electronic speed check signs, that flash up how fast you're going.
The one I went past said I was travelling at 'c'

[GJ Drought]

Del aka TrainMan, on 05 September 2010 - 10:23 AM, said:

When driving home from work, I pass one of those electronic speed check signs, that flash up how fast you're going.
The one I went past said I was travelling at 'c'

( from my physics days...)

"C" is usually refered to as the speed of light!


ease up Del, you're likly to get 3 points and a small fine for that!

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

SJ Buzz Drought, on 05 September 2010 - 02:12 PM, said:

( from my physics days...)

"C" is usually refered to as the speed of light!


ease up Del, you're likly to get 3 points and a small fine for that!

Exactly!

[GJ Dandy David]

My store transfer has been approved and it was very painless and easy. No probation period, no interview - just aceness! Plus, my new store manager in Southampton sounds absolutely lovely.

[Gaz]

Del aka TrainMan, on 05 September 2010 - 10:23 AM, said:

When driving home from work, I pass one of those electronic speed check signs, that flash up how fast you're going.
The one I went past said I was travelling at 'c'

I ran past one the other day and it said "Slow Down: 40". I'm reasonably quick, but I didn't know I was *that* quick*!

*I'm sure the fact I saw a couple of blokes fixing it the next day was just a coincidence.

[Joinee Mum White]

mt faniky I do loce mtfamiltym Mum white xx

[spannz15]

I had a friend come visit me which was just awesome really. She told me a tip for drinking and stopping the pain in my ears which turned out to be frickin marvellous. I can now take my medicine without it hurting as much (still a good bit though) and after i was able to drink a glass of water and a glass of milk pain free cheered me up no end. I feel the end is in sight. Now lets hope I can sleep for more then 45mins tonight.

YAY for knowledgable friends.

[joinee danni]

Bright and breezy today hurrah! (possibly gone the other way and a little high but taking action tonight to rememdy this!) I LOVE when the darkness passes!

My mam made me smile because she is just the most gorgeous person and I love talking to her so much.

Plus I made delicious tea of honey glazed pork with homemade coleslaw and oragano potato wedges, I now have a small food baby in my belly!

It is raining and dark outside and I am all tucked up under my duvet with a cuppa about to watch Act 2 of Rigoletto, bliss!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Glad you've had a better day today Danni! xx

[Joinee Hollis]

a really lovely text conversation with a chap from work Nice to know people care.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

I've had the most fun day I met The Doctor, I got to drive on an off-road track, I got to drive MINIs and BMWs on a normal track (with added hot, friendly, funny boy as my instructor. BRILLIANT! I say instructor, I mean, we drove around chatting about life, the universe and old American cars. More of that, please.), ooo and I got to try out the utter WITCHCRAFT of the fancy BMW cruise control, that actually BRAKES for you too. It weirded me all out. Had a random punter in the car with me sat in the back, and he was going "Is that you braking, Lou?? Is that you???" and I was like "Noooo!! The car's doing it all on it's own!!!!" and the instructor (not the hot boy this time) was just giggling at us. I was there by myself but chatted with quite a few folks and mingled, so it was good. I do enjoy being thrown into situations on my own, actually.

Also, being on my own meant that sometimes I had more goes at stuff than the people who were in pairs and had to swap around. (eg: I got two goes on the off-road course. Yay! I was tonnes better at it the second time. It was mega fun.)

And then as I drove home, I got to a big roundabout just as an ambulance came up one of the roads with its siren and lights going, so I was half concentrating on keeping out of its way, and half thinking about the pretty instructor boy, and I took an exit off the roundabout that was roughly in the right kind of direction and then I got a little way along the road and realised, I have no idea if that was the right exit or not. (I've never driven this journey before, and had no satnav). Then I went a bit further and THE MOST AMAZING mast you've ever seen loomed up in front of me, and I was like well I DEFINITELY didn't get here this way, because there's NO WAY I would have missed that mast!! And so I deemed that I was going the wrong way for sure.

But I didn't really care, I had half a tank of petrol and the whole evening ahead of me, I knew I'd get home eventually. So I just kept going (helpfully all the signs pointed to places I'd never heard of before, and none of them pointed to the M40, which was where I was headed). And I went through a couple of beautiful villages, and drove along some lovely roads, and then BOOM! (like a chicken - a little in-joke for Del there) I popped out on the A40. And, magically, on the A40 - heading TOWARDS the M40! Brilliant. See, daydreaming about lovely boys always works out for the best in the end.

I'll stop rambling now.

[Joinee Hathorn]

Via DaveGormans twitter http://vimeo.com/14592941

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Poohbah (Gsq), on 07 September 2010 - 08:49 PM, said:

...and then BOOM! (like a chicken - a little in-joke for Del there)...

Yeah! 'BOOM!' like a chicken!

[SJ Aynsley]

A new small person in the world

[Joinee Hollis]

A lovely visit from my good friend, she even brought me flowers for my foot! <3 xx

[GJ Drought]

randomly met an irishman in a lift, who hailed form Cork, after i mentioned my uncle was the dean of cashel (close by) he said yes ive heard of him

made me happy as i'd always wanted to get to know my uncle as a child i thought he was amazing, sadly he passed away before i had the chance to get to know im properly! nice to know his name lives on in the minds of others

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Aww Buzz that's lovely that he'd heard of him!

I had a nice day at work in an Excel training session, there was only 5 of us and 2 of the girls have only been here for about a week and they're on a different team so I've not had a chance to speak to them. But they were great, and one of them seems like JUST my sort of person and we made the same kind of jokes a lot of the time, and now I don't know how to adopt her as my friend without appearing like a loon. But we'll see.

And also, there's this guy I don't see very often at all, he's pretty and friendly, which isn't bad in any way, but is a bit unexciting. But today there was a general discussion about the Italian weather at the moment, and I (probably unhelpfully) piped up that it's been raining hard in Monza this week, but is due to be dry at the weekend. To which his response was "ooo! The Grand Prix is there this weekend!" Yes, pretty boy, yes it is. And now you're pretty and friendly AND a Formula 1 fan.....

Oh yeah AND I realised that I *NEED* to take a week's holiday sometime in the next two months. Awesome. If you insist. I think I can handle going home and playing with Maisie the dog for a week And then I'd still have over a week to take off around Christmastime. Whee!

[Mr Phil]

http://www.youtube.c...player_embedded

[spannz15]

SJ Buzz Drought, on 09 September 2010 - 02:48 PM, said:

randomly met an irishman in a lift, who hailed form Cork, after i mentioned my uncle was the dean of cashel (close by) he said yes ive heard of him

I know of the dean of cashel too. Probs not your uncle but my grandad might of known him

[GJ Drought]

spannz15, on 09 September 2010 - 07:23 PM, said:

I know of the dean of cashel too. Probs not your uncle but my grandad might of known him

wow thats pretty awsome! was the 90's when he passed away. i spent many summers visiting tht deanery! lovey place , wish i could visit it again!
how do you know of it and who was you're grandad? w

[spannz15]

SJ Buzz Drought, on 09 September 2010 - 10:04 PM, said:

wow thats pretty awsome! was the 90's when he passed away. i spent many summers visiting tht deanery! lovey place , wish i could visit it again!
how do you know of it and who was you're grandad? w

My grandad was born in cork but lived between Limerick and Tipperary growing up. His name is Michael O'Leary. There's a lot of them about though in those parts. Nowadays my family have settled in Killmallock/Charleville but when i visit Ireland we get around cork/limerick/tipp quite a lot.
I visited the rock it was beautiful and went to mass at the church once when I was younger. Hopefully going back to Ireland next summer

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Intelligent stamps! *And* they have trains on them!
http://railwayeye.bl...ow-off-new.html

[Gaz]

A small, 12-week-old person (or -6 months, depending on how you look at it)

[Joinee Hathorn]

Gaz, on 10 September 2010 - 12:36 PM, said:

A small, 12-week-old person (or -6 months, depending on how you look at it)

Ah, I see you speak in code, congratulations!

[Joinee Meek]

Squeeeeeeeee!

Congratulations Gaz and Janey!

[Gold Bismuth Shortt]

Wahhhhhh that's amazing!

Congratulations Gazzers and Jane Face

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Eeeee ANOTHER one!!! It's becoming an epidemic. Congrats you guys!