Its a varied old life.....

So its been a while since I've posted to my humble blog. Its not surprising really because its summer. I guess you may wonder why that causes a lack of blog
posting?!? The only real reason is cause work gets so busy.

Its been interesting an interesting couple of month though ranging from such experiences as lightning strikes, rain, stuck trucks, more thunder and lightning, computer geeks with umberella's, bean bags, truck loading, truck unloading, sound engineering, truck driving and lots of prep'ing of equipment.

So has it been fun? Yup. Have I got much more to say? Nope.

Gnite.

Thick On A Stick!!

Today I had a day off... On account of it being my wedding Anniversary.

We decided to take Poppy to East Park to see the animals at the fake farm. As we were leaving we overheard a couple of women discussing what I can only asume was one of creatures in the farm.

"Its not a ferrit and I know it wasn't a gerbil"

Now we thought a bit about this and the only animal that could fit the above discussion is a guinea pig. How thick can you get? I mean especially when they're labelled!

So.... Welcome to Hull and Stupidity.

It was at this point I glanced down to see my daughter looking up her trouser leg trying to find (and I can only guess here) her leg. Oh dear....

You take it in, give it a home and this is how it repays you.....

Well there it is...... looks quite harmless doesn't it?

You'd think that after you give a nice new shiny desk a home, care for it, look after it, the least it could do is be nice to you?

But no.

Tonight we did a show with the all new shiny M7CL and a mighty fine gig it was too. A intimate little jazz gig with some excellent musicians giving all round phenomenal performances.

So on to the usual. Show ends... Get out.

Last thing in the van, the M7CL. Just about to put the nosecone on the flight case and what happens.... a significant amount of pain and a bit of squealing on my behalf.

What happened I hear you ask. The ruddy case bit me didn't.

I have to say I'm quite proud of this bad boy and it was decided that it was possibly the largest blood blister seen in a long while.

I don't suppose there's much more to say about it really. Suffice to say I'm going to pop it, or at least puncture it. So that's what I'm going to do.

Enjoy your week and don't eat too much cheese. Especially if its mouldy.

e.

The Humble Rubber Duck

On this Thursday February 1st 2007, I have a question....

Why can't anyone manufacture a rubber duck that will float upright?

Just this very evening I have seen no fewer than 4 varieties of rubber duck floating in different orientations. Not one of which involved the poor ducky sitting upright.

What does this teach our children I ask you? The least someone could do is invent a rubber duck which floats correctly.

Adios!

Today I tried something new....

Today we ran out of milk at home for our cups of tea. An unforseen problem to which the only solution was to leave home and go and purchase some from the local dairy (or Sainsbury's).

This however seemed all a bit too much like hard work and without moving from the spot which I discovered the lack of milk from, I devised two cunning alternatives:

3 teaspoons of baby milk
3 teaspoons of milk powder

Now, after some thought I decided that I'd plump for the milk powder option. Although I appreciate that I reguarly give our daughter bottles made from said baby milk there were just too many thoughts of breast milk. Not something I wish to try in my cup of tea (thought Im certain there will be people who have).

So I went for the milk powder option. I only have one thing to say really about my choice.

CRAP

It wasnt a pleasant cup of tea. Actually it was rather bizarre. It appeared to be denser than the tea and sank to the bottom only to be found when I got to the bottom of my cup of swilling around like a nasty sludge.

Oh well. Back to the drawing board.

Oh darn it... just realised we still havent been to the shops for the milk.

Guess its baby milk for cereal in the morning...... joy.

Just when you think you've got it all sussed....

So there I am today just minding my own business, cooking some breakfast when the totally unexpected happens.....

...before I go any further I'll just explain that due to a slight purchasing oversight we didnt have any bread available to eat this morning for breakfast. So I selected the nearest available bread product from the freezer, hacked it in two and placed under my pre-heated grill.

Now there's not really much to tell from this point onwards as it all happened rather fast. I turned away for approximately two seconds and my breadbun was on fire under the grill. Being male, I stood and watched it for a while partially hoping it would slightly reduce my heating costs for the day but largely just enjoying the fire.

So, I blew out my breadbun and examined the other bread products under the grill. All of which were nicely toasted without a smidgen of burnt-ness on them.

What can we conlude from this exercise.... I've no idea. I've no idea why it happened or if it ever will again.

I think I'll have crumpets for breakfast tomorrow. Maybe breadbuns werent designed to be toasted. There's probably a label on them somewhere that says.... DO NOT TOAST. 

All weather protection.... for crazee's

When you think about it. The instant rain coat seems like such a great idea. The bit they dont tell you about is that when wearing said rain coat (plastic sheet) you look like a complete wazak. Now that may or may not be a problem for you. Me, I'd prefer to look a little ahem... less insane.

Just one question.... has anyone EVER seen anyone walking around in the street with one of these bad boys on?

I THINK NOT!!!!!!!

One idea though.... anyone ever come across heatshrink tubing? If you could get hold of a hugh piece of clear heatshrink you could jump inside. Apply hot air (thats the bit that might not work... the only flaw in my plan), put plastic bag over top and voila. Instant rain coat.

Oh the money I could make from that.......