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Sean WingroveTO INFINITY AND BEYOND July 22 a requestI'd just like to take this opportunity to ask certain people to please leave us alone. I have a life that i want to get on with and as far as i'm concerned i have everyone in it that i need or want. what other people do is nothing to do with me or my parents so please leave us alone now!
If Donna wants to get in touch with anyone she will and i have no influence on what she does. I can garuantee that i will not attempt to influence her feelings. i accepted what she wanted to do and i really think you all should too!
just to add that i honestly have no ill will towards ANYONE! i just want to be left alone to get on with my life without threats on my life! i don't think that is too much to ask June 16 finally..well not finally but finally, if you know what i mean!Well here is my first blog since arriving in Cyprus, even though i have been here over 3 months now.
didn't realise it was going to take as long as it has to get settled here, but we finally have and starting to get on with enjoying the next 3 years that we have out here.
first of all i can't speak highly enough of the island of cyprus and the people that live here. It is a truly beautiful island and the people are the friendliest that you will find anywhere in the world. the fact that the vast majority of the island speaks english as well as greek is an added bonus too.
work out here is pretty boring for me, i am used to having something to do all of the time so sitting on my arse for most of the day is coming as a bit of a culture shock, don't get me wrong i am not moaning about having nothing to do, it's just...different
Donna and the kids are loving it out here too, Donna has made loads of new friends and the kids are both in school and having the time of their lives.
I think i am just about over, or nearly over what happened last year. i can't believe it has taken this long but as anyone that really knows me will tell you it hit me pretty hard. Anyway it's over now so that's enough about that
so as you can probably tell things are really starting to look up for me and my family after quite a long period of unrest and heartache. i hope i am not tempting fate by saying that!!!
much love to everyone that knows me, fuck it even to those that don't as i'm in a pretty good mood at the moment
take care everyone out there and i wil post again soon when i have thought of something a bit more substantial to say!
later
March 05 final countdownWell it's finally down to less than one week until we are off to Cyprus for 3 years!!!!
been so busy trying to sort things out at work and at home it's been unbelievable. think I'm pretty much sorted now. the nerves and excitement are starting to kick in.
The removal men are coming on thurdsay, then its gonna be a rush job to get the house clean before the march out on friday afternoon. After which i have to go to work to complete some last minute admin/clearing then off to my parents house for the weekend.. give my brother the car, get my dad to drop us off at the airport on tuesday morning
5 1/2 hour flight to akrotiri
should be a car waiting for us there...20 minute drive to episkopi wher someone has already taken over the keys to our new house for us...
cant' wait!!!
can u tell??? January 31 kidnap attempt foiledOnce again i find myself appalled at the current state of affairs, although hardly surprised. It appears from what i can see here that police have foiled an attempt by islamic extremists to kidnap and behead a member of the uk armed forces on uk soil. To top it all the target was also a muslim having served in afghanistan... was this the reason that he was targeted??
i am absolutely staggered by the way this country is heading...take a look back through some of my posts if you think i am joking things that really grip my sh**well i haven't added anything on here for a hell of a long time, but that is not to say that i haven't been busy or that i have nothing to say...just haven't had time to get on here! first of all, you might like to know that i am posted to Cyprus in march so i don't know what is going to happen to this blog thingy then... can't see it will be that much of a problem to get internet access. It's not as though i am moving to the moon or anything. well as you probably gathered by the title of this blog post. this is gonna be all about the things that i personally consider to be of interest to the average british person. the things that are going wrong with this country... i'd like to begin with an admission of guilt if i may. I voted for the labour party in this country at the last local and general elections. in my own defence however i don't really believe that there is any viable opposition to the labour party which is why i believe that they will also win at the next general election....i digress the reason for this admission is that the things that 'grip my shit' the most in this once great country are all the doing of the labour party and its apparenty inablity to carry through with a single one of its promises to the nation. i think that any reasonable person that is reading this... if anyone does in fact read what i write... will agree with me that this country is fast approaching breaking piont. let me begin with the National Health Service
New Labour rose to power in this country on the back of many promises, amongst these was the promise to re-vamp the ailing NHS and to provide the British taxpayer with a world class health service. Ten years on and to put it quite bluntly they have failed. the NHS is in as bad a state as it was in 1997 (if not worse) individual health care trusts now find themselves millions of pounds in the red with the only way to claw back this money being cutting back on staff or services. We have seen to tangible reduction in waiting list times and MRSA and other 'super-bugs' are actually KILLING PEOPLE. Please don't get me wrong i am not in the slightest trying to belittle the work that NHS workers in all hospitals thoughout the country are doing, it is just they they do not have the money, resources or personnel to do the job. This leads me nicely to my next gripe, an absolute travesty of government policy that i myself have had first hand experiece of and demostrate the true cynicism of the Labour machine.
On 11th September 2001, the world received a huge wake up call to the threat of terrorism in the modern world. we have had violent reminders ever since. most notably in this country on 7th July 2005 with the London bombings. Now it is not my place or my wish to debate the morality/ legality of coalition invasions of either Afghanistan or Iraq. suffice to say that is a FACT that British forces were sent to these 2 hostile environments by the democratically elected government of the day. that is enough for most serving personnel... it is our job after all. now what really does enrage me about the state of affairs that we now find our selves in is that despite Tony Blairs hollow words our armed forces are severly underfunded, undermanned and poorly equipped. Despite the fact that our excellent forces are fighting a war on two fronts... that would be the war on terror, for to call it anything but a war is an insult to those that have lost their lives fighting for freedom! This war that has seen and continues to see some of the most ferocious fighting for generations. What do our troops get in return for doing their jobs so well? massive cut backs in manpwer, RAF station closures, ancient army regiments being combined to reduce costs and manpower, naval warships being scrapped, the threat of closure of one of only 3 remaining naval bases, lack of body armour for front line troops etc. etc. why? how? well to start with the professionalism of our armed forces in a way makes this all possible. Our troops get the job done... no matter what. the MOD knows this well and therefore turn a blind eye to the massive cuts safe in the knowledge that the average soldier, sailor, airman will continue to carry out their missions despite not because of the MOD's support. Secondly what could be possibly do anyway? we aren't allowed a union, we aren't allowed to strike, go to the papers and intimidating words like TREASON are banded about all over the place! or the old favourite the officail secrets act is brought out! we have no united voice that together with the fact that the armed forces are the most under represnted voting group... there is your answer the government is saving money because they know that they can get away with it. travel to any army camp, naval base or air force station and talk to the people there and every single one of them if being honest will tell you that things are worse than they have ever been and that our armed forces are at breaking point RIGHT NOW. Mr Blair/ Brown...you have been warned.
As anyone that reads this will already know, the state of law and order in this country is another thing to 'grip my shit' a certain politician once promised us he would be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" hearing those LIES (for there simply is no other words for it) is almost laughable now, well it would be if it wasn't so terrifying. pick up any newspaper, watch any news channel, takl talk to anyone on the street about crime in this country and you will see just how tough we are on crime! just one example...last week a convicted peadophile was released because the home secretary had issue a directive not to put anyone in prison if at all possible! unbelievable. prisons are at maximum capacity as are the holding cells in police stations the length and breadth of the country... what is the government doing about it? NOTHING oooh very tough, i bet the criminal fraternity is quacking in their boots. look out for another installment of 'what grips my shit' soon, when i have calmed down! to include...immigration, education and tv licensing October 12 has it really been that longseems like yesterday that i last updated this thing! not a lot really been going on in my life... seems to be spending everyday...well spending actually. been shopping in harrow, watford, pinner and uxbridge yesterday. got to stop now or i'll be skint before long!
i have got a new fone now its a nokia n73 and its fucking great. 3.2 megapixel camera too.
seen the kids everyday this week, that might explain why i am in such a good mood at the moment...well that and the fact that i am actually getting regular sex again!!!! anyway i can't say anything more about that...can i?
going to portsmouth on sunday for two weeks, some course i have to do for work...not really looking forward to it as i don't know anyone down there and noone else i know is going.
had an idea the other day to put Charlie and Catherine's christmas wish list on here with pics so i'll try to do that today if i get enough time! watch this space...literally
September 28 getting angry now
who are the people that sit on the panel of this programme (question time) and what planet do they live on?
i can't believe that people like piers morgan is allowed to sit on tv and pamper to the politically correct mob and the anti american extremists that sit in the audience.
I'm sure it is about time that the NORMAL people in this country stood up to be counted. the people that don't give a damn about the constant arguement that the war in iraq was illegal, that intelligence was sexed up for public consumption! what we really care about is the welfare of our troops NOW THAT THEY ARE THERE! when they are going to come home! things that really make a difference to us and our loved ones like schools and hospitals and crime and terrorist killing innocent people in this country
why is it that the only people that ever get heard in this country are the PC mob, anti americans, muslims and other ethnic minoritites. now don't for a minute think that i'm a racist or religionist (if that is the right word) i'm not. i'm just trying to give a voice to the millions of people in this country that never get heard...the quite MAJORITY!!! patriotic, hard working people that don't have the time to go to rallies because they have to work to put food on the table for their families, can't appear in the audience of question time because they have to work a second job or can't get a babysitter, don't get their letters printed in newspapers because what they say doesn't sit well with the SUPER POLITICALLY CORRECT editors.
think about it for a minute. these people are the people that elected the labour government because they knew that they would get investmetn in public services and tax credits and better social services. people like you and me that care about this country!!!
thursday...boring...pay day tomorrow
well i have had another boring day stuck in this room for the most part. did get out a couple of times, went to the doctors with donna and the kids as catherine had her mmr jab today. poor little thing screamed the place down for about 10 seconds then was laughing and running around again. i have loved seeing my children so much lately... probably more than i have seen them in a long time, if not ever! taking them shopping with me in watford tomorrow and then down to my parents house in kent tomorrow evening to stay until monday night. should be great, we are going to visit my grandad in hospital on saturday. for those of you that don't know, my grandad is in hospital after having both of his legs amputated. he's been in there for a long time now but is making remarkable progress and at the age of 79 has learned to walk again on two false legs...now that is a brave man right there!!!
A really crap night on the football front as west ham got stuffed in the EUFA cup by Palermo 3-0 after already loosing the first leg at home so after such a long absence from european football, we have fallen at the first hurdle conceding 4 goals and scoring none. seems like things aint going too well down at upton park just lately. I can't help but to associate this with the arrival of the argentinian boys and the talk of a takeover, results hadn't been to bad before all this started and since then we have lost every single game...go figure. the thing that really annoys me about west ham and always has done i suppose is that we have a pretty good squad now and shouldn't be loosing the way we are all the time. i should be used to it by now as i have been a fan all my life but it really bugs me sometimes...take the year we got relegated, we go down with the highest points total for a relegated team in premiership history and with a squad consisting of most of the present england squad and the great paolo dicanio...again go figure!
watching question time while writing this, well listening to it more than watching it. could someone out there please explain to me what is the point of piers morgan???
one of my main problems with this programme is the blair bashing. you'd think that no one in the country voted labour at the last election...people seem to forget that he is prime minister for a reason...we the people voted for him and the labour party...please no comments on how we vote for our local mp's and not the leader of the party. we all know that when we vote labour we are also voting in a quasi presidential election!
the next is...where on earth do they find the audience for this show? what a bunch of freaks. seriously if you watch this show you will know what i mean, members of the audience with an agenda to get across their distorted views and rant at the panel who sit there like they are at a circus side show, it's embarassing to watch sometimes!
so to politics, i only start on this subject because some random woman has just said that if gordon brown becomes the next labour leader then that will ensure that labour loose the next general election! on what is she basing that? her personal dislike for him obviously but lets think about this for a minute... a lot of people disliked tony blair at the time of the last general election but labour still won... the point is...what is the alternative? is anyone going to vote conservative next time? answer this question then... what does the conservative party manefesto consist of? other than a load of eco-friendly, green nothingness...might as well vote for the liberal democrats, or even better the BNP...now there's a thought!!!
September 27 a man's job on a boy's wagei know this is a couple of days old now but i still think it is worth a read
Now i don't particularly agree with the way that the author has made this into some sort of foreign policy related issue, it shouldn't be! it does however highlight a few issues that the great british public is often blind to, or not reminded of enough.
firstly, regardless of your opinion on the war in iraq or the NATO forces in afghanistan or the role of the british serviceman/woman serving anywhere in the world; the fact is they are sent there by THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT. we are in these places and that's it we should be more concerned with the pittance that our services are being paid, the poor equipment they are forced to use, the almost complete lack of welfare facilities. rather than the poor people of afghanistan/iraq that continue to blow british servicemen to pieces as often as possible.
secondly, perhaps it is because i am serving in the armed forces myself but i really think that this should be headline news EVERY DAY! not for any other reason than to let the thousands of young men and women fighting on our nations behalf all across the world that we support them and care about what they are doing for their/our country. I can honestly say from experience that these places are lonely and it would be nice to have some staunch support from back home rather than people bleeting on about how we shouldn't be there, all the while our friends and comrades are dying!
what do you think?
here is the newspretty mixed bag toda i think most people would agree.
i'm sure the labour party will be glad that something else has grabbed the headlines to replace the major cock ups or recent days. but surely the main headline shouldn't be a cleaner trying to blackmail someone. there are some serious news stories happening in the uk and aroun the world and i'm sorry but i just don't really care if a cleaner nicked some dodgy videos.
apparently surgeons have conducted the worlds first operation in zero gravity, now i think this is a very impressive achievement but what is the point? how many of us are going into space in the near future or are going to need a zero gravity operation? my guess is approximately none!
i would also like to take the opportunity to express my sincerest condolences to the family of little Cadey-Lee Deacon who was killed earlier this week by a couple or rottweilers. I am a father of two young children and i cannot begin to imagine the grief that the parents are going through. they have asked to be left alone to mourn and i hope that is the case. I should also add that the family had a double tradegy when the grandfather was stabbed and his partner killed ON THE SAME DAY by some scum bag. i sincerly hope that the complete waste of space that did this is made an example of, although we all know that's not going to happen.
this country will never be free from the fear of people that kill and injure indiscriminately until the judicial system wake up and smell the coffee. the citizens of this country no matter, what social or ethnic background they are from deserve to be kept safe. THE ONLY WAY TO DO THIS IS TO LOCK UP CRIMINALS FOR A VERY LONG TIME. If there isn't enough room in the prisons that we have...simple answer to me is that we build more. Also while i am on the subject i think we should have a high security prison soley for terrorists. anyone have any views on that idea???
one last thing...Britiain's have the highest level of personal debt in europe. Does this really surprise anyone at all?
i could go into the reasons for this but i think we all know them so i'm not even going to bore you! September 26 no friendsi'm beginning to think that nobody read the shit that i write on here so i don't know whether i should just give up
i never get any comments or feedback from anyone not even my supposed friends
if there is anyone reading this and you actually give a fuck about what is happening in my little world
then here goes...
Donna and i have sorted things out! its all good now
there are obviously issues that each of us need to sort out individually but there are no outside influences
having any effect on what goes on between us now, which is kinda refreshing
charlie and catherine are doing really well, they just got back from a weekend at mum and dad's (nan and grandad's)
they had a great time and charlie got his birthday present from my parents... his first proper bike
i've got 3 weeks off work now and i intend to try to get some of the furniture and stuff moved out of the house at uxbridge
the sooner i get rid of that place the better if u ask me
hoping to get a new place as soon as i have got rid of that one so it has to be a priority for me now! i have charlie
with me in my room tonight but it is far from ideal so i need a house or something that i can take them too until
i have really sorted my life out...and donna has sorted hers out too!
anyone in the raf that reads the shit i write...take a look at www.e-goat.co.uk
September 23 the sound of thunderIt is time to stop living in the past and having regrets
time to stop wondering...what if
it is time to live my life right now
to do what i really want to do and to be happy
i have a wonderful family and two beautiful children
it is time to realize what i DO have and stop fretting about what i don't have
I cannot change what has happened i can only learn from the past and try to ensure that bad things
don't happen again
but at the end of the day...BAD THINGS HAPPEN
thats a fact
i have to accept
September 19 time to catch upwell here we go again
i have finally got the internet up and running in my room at northwood...got a new bt home hub and its pretty good i have to say, despite the fact that i am currently using a fucking shitty old pc as my laptop got totally fucked up when i dropped it!
claiming on insurance for a new laptop though so hopefully, fingers crossed it wont take too long
on the personal front things are really looking up
donna and i are really getting on again and i have seen the kids loads which has made me really really happy and them too i think!
for anyone that has my mobile number and thinks that i am ignoring them...i aint but my phone has been cut off because it was in donna's name so i can only recieve texts and calls and not make any at the moment...until i get a new contract fone...which again i hope to do very soon
August 31 guess whatGreat news, having charlie and catherine for the weekend at my parents house
can't wait it's gonna be absolutely great!!! i have bought charlie's birthday presents today...he's gonna love em
gonna have a great weekend! catherine is walking now and i can't wait to see that
i have missed them so much...feels like longer than 3 weeks since i have seen them
it's all about the children now
gonna make them the happiest two children in the whole world, its the least they deserve
August 28 well here goeswell people like i said, here goes...
things have been so fucked up for a while now...but basically Donna left me for someone else. i tried everything to make her stay, told her how much she meant to me and how much i wanted me, her and the kids to be together as a family forever...no use
she proper fucked me about and basically it all ended with her making an accusation about me to the police...what can i say about that! how would u feel if your wife said something like that??? i was devastated that she could say something like that...absolutely gutted. haven't seen my kids for over two weeks now and i miss them like crazy
thing is now i don't miss Donna. i am hurt and angry by what has happened but the night in the cell at the police station made me realise that she really doesn't care for me, in fact i think she hates me. i know that this is probably sounding very one sided but i also know that our marriage wasn't perfect...i didn't deserve what has happened to me though. i know that now
anyway things are starting to get better now and i have met someone else too. a wonderful girl who really cares for me...gonna take things slow though because...well that's how we both want it! i'm getting happier and happier all the time but it will take a long time for me to get over what has happened over the past 3 or 4 months...if i ever get over it
just as an aside to all this i have found out some really disturbing things about Donna since we split up...wish i had known them when we were together...might now have blamed myself as much as i did for things not being the best
anyway i obviously can't say too much on here but if u know me and u want to talk or u just fancy a chat on msn
seansmiler@hotmail.com is where u can find me most of the time
take care out there
August 26 been a long time and so much has happenedwell it really has been a long time since i put anything on here...
but there is a good reason for that, so much has happened in my life that i don't really know where to start
Donna left me, moved another guy into the house i'm paying for, got hit by him, called me, i tried to comfort her, next thing i know i'm being arrested...go figure! well all of that happened over a period of about 3 months...and a lot more besides.
where i stand now is that i haven't seen my children for 2 weeks and i recieved a formal police caution on friday for common assualt
now here is the thing...i didn't fucking do anything!
as you can imagine things have been totally fucked up for a while now. been told by the doctor that i am depressed and put on anti depressants and sleeping tablets
getting better now though after my breakdown
so that is where i stand. i will be adding some more details over the next few days/ weeks because i imagine that this sounds totally random. think i need to adda a bit of background
lol
be updating more now i hope
take care everyone
May 06 boring boring boringBeen a totally weird day today... it's gone well quickly and i aint done hardly anything wanted to do some more in the garden but it has been raining for most of the day for anyone that doesn't know there is a programme on BBC2 tonight about the late great BOBBY MOORE...WATCH IT!!!! the greatest England football captain ever, the greatest defender in the world!!
nothing else to report today really...how boring eh?
boring boring boringBeen a totally weird day today... it's gone well quickly and i aint done hardly anything wanted to do some more in the garden but it has been raining for most of the day for anyone that doesn't know there is a programme on BBC2 tonight about the late great BOBBY MOORE...WATCH IT!!!! the greatest England football captain ever, the greatest defender in the world!!
nothing else to report today really...how boring eh?
May 05 I just can't believe itFirst time in ages that i have even been on here and i realised that it is fucking ages since i made an entry
and even longer since i got any bloody comments
so much has happened
West Ham have qualified for the EUFA cup next season and are in the FA Cup Final in a weeks time
Went to my good mate Ben and Anna's wedding. had a great time got wrecked and went to bed at 5 in the morning
i'm on my first 21 days off from work...it's going too quickly
the Labour party is losing it
BNP are gaining support
we had temperatures over 27 degrees 2 days running
still no rain.
hosepipe ban
March 23 the master of late entriesyeah i know, i'm sorry, another late entry.
West Ham won again on monday night, we beat man city 2-1 at the city of manchester stadium
Watty text me during the game, he was gutted!
so West Ham can now look forward to a semi final against either Liverpool, Chelsea or middlesbrough/Charlton (when i'm writing this they aint played there quarter final yet)
what is going on this season? can we really win the cup? should we be concentrating on the league?
answers to the usual address
BUCKINGHAM PALACE...CAN U BELIEVE THAT???got a phone call the other day to confirm that me and Donna have been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. yeah the same Buckingham palace where the queen lives numb nuts...going in july, i think i will have to wear my uniform but Donna is already worrying about what she is going to wear! women! anyway not got much else to say about that at the moment...just wanted to tell everyone!
question and answers on a postcard
March 17 done 3 nights...3 days to go!i've just finished my 3 night shifts, only got 3 day shifts to go now and then i get 6 days off...can't wait because the night shifts seem to have taken a hell of a lot out of me! they seem to go on forever.
work is getting better now and i kinda regret slagging it off without giving it a chance when i first got here.
not a lot more going on at the moment really... been invited out a couple of times but i just aint got the money at the moment. Donna is going out on saturday night though!!!!!! so she obviously has the money!
gonna try to get some new stuff onto this space over the next few days so that i can attract some people to actually look at it...if that don't work i will consider not bothering anymore.
i did actually find something that is worth a look
click on this link and you'll see how much virtual shares are worth in this blog
thats all for now
back soon
March 16 COME ON YOU IRONSwhat a night for football eh? west ham r through to the quarter finals of the fa cup after beating bolton last night
not the most attractive football or the best performance of the season, but we got the result and at this stage that is the most important thing
bring on man city on monday
disappointingi have had a pretty disappointing response to my request for pic and text messages to put on here...well actually i have not recieved a single one!!!
i don't know if this is because no one has read my space or seen the message i have on msn, or just that i have no friends
gonna give it a couple more days then i'm gonna give up...i'm not holding out much hope though so i will have a think about another gimmick for getting people and interesting content for this space
if any one out there has any ideas....let me know
March 12 Jesus it's been a long timeI hadn't realised that it had been so long since i added anything to my space...about time i got around to doing something aint it!
i have had a bit of a brain wave...i'm going to add one of my mobile numbers to my msn name and ask anyone that comes across it to send a picture or text message, just to see what sort of randomness i get sent. i will then post anything at all that i receive on here. should be a laugh don't you think? well maybe not...
anyway what have i been up to since my last post? not a great deal really. still struggling to get by in life but nothing unusual there. Donna and the kids are all great although both kids were really ill with the flu not so long ago.
work is still pretty boring! although i am now getting used to it and finding ways to pass the time. mostly reading books but i am getting involved with some charity work for my section and i have taken on a secondary duty working at the local youth club on camp.
have just finished reading blue horizon by wilbur smith which is another great book by a massively underrated author. i have just started the triumph of the sun by the same author and it looks like its gonna be another great read.
as for the youth club, its really pretty easy work i just turn up on a tuesday night and make sure the kids there don't kill themselves or each other. obviously i don't get paid for it but i don't mind as it is only for two hours and it is good to be doing something that might get a bit of recognition in my yearly assesments. all they do is play on the game cube, do a bit or art and generally play like kids do. it is only for kids from 6 - 11 years old, i couldn't handle kids any older than that anyway as they start to become little shits after that don't they?!
anyway that aint bad for a first entry in ages so i''m gonna go now and tidy up as charlie has just trashed the place...he's going to bed soon anyway
back real soon
January 04 First day of worktoday was my first day in my new job. I was so nervous this morning, don't know why really but having just been promoted and having to go to a new job where i don't know anyone was kinda scary. so i left home early this morning to make sure that i wasn't late...i got there an hour early!
now i don't know what to make of the job really, doesn't seem like there is anything to do really! suppose i had better get used to it. at least i'm gonna get plenty of time off.
the main thing for me is that i am now somewhere a little more laid back and somewhere i can concentrate on my family and getting on with my career. I want to leave this place as a Sergeant!!! anyway hopefully tomorrow will be a bit more constuctive. i really want to learn about this job and show people that just what i can do and the reason that i got promoted in the first place. will let you know how 2moro goes.
obviously i can't say what my job is... that's need to know stuff but i will certainly be blogging on how things are going and what the people are like so if you are at all interested... keep checking back January 02 HAPPY NEW YEAR.Well I am finally getting around to letting you all know what i got up to for new year. as someone of you will already know and others of you certainly won't know, Donna and I went to London for new years eve! tube from hillingdon to finchley road, another tube from there to westminster and Bob's ya uncle! we left the house at just gone 8 at night and got into westminster station by about 21 15 so not too bad there! so we arrive and don't really know what to do...so we have a walk around for about an hour. go to buy some fags and do a bit of night time sightseeing. couldn't believe the amount of people there, i've never seen anything like that before.
anyway about half ten we get back to where we were going to stand to watch the display...right opposite the london eye! and there we stood for an hour and a half, watching the crowd and the light show. listening to the crap music being played on the pa system and generally waiting. then all of a sudden it is 2355, exactly 5 minutes to go until 2006 and it's starts to rain. nobody really seems to mind, or even notice, everyone is looking expectantly at the hands on the big ben as the get closer and closer to midnight... one minute to go and the music changes, gets louder, the lights on the london eye go from plain white to a rainbow of colours, the pictures being projected onto the side of a nearby building change to digits...60,59,58. there is a ripple of clapping, cheering and gasps throught the crowd of close to a million people. i grab my phone to take some pictures and try to cling on to Donna at the same time. wish i had brought my camera or video camera now, seems that everyone else in the crowd has got one! 30,29,28 i'm still feverishly taking pictures and video with my phone. it takes and age to save the video clips. 10,9,8 the last clip is still saving on my phone i'm going to miss this!lol
5,4,3 just started a new video clip, should give me about 13 seconds of video, its going to be ok! the whole crowd is tensed now. don't know what to expect. don't know what's going to happen
3,2,1, bong,bong,bong the crowd are going mad and the fireworks start. WOW!!!!!
now i have never seen a fireworks display like that in my life, and i probably never will again! it was unbelievable and it was worth going and standing in the cold for hours just for that! the fireworks lasted for over 10 minutes with no stop and no let up, amazing. i tried to get some more video clips of the fireworks but they really don't do it justice... you had to be there!
so there you have it. that's what i did for new year! started 2006 in the capital with fireworks and the woman i love...can't be bad.
oh but trying to get to a tube... that wasn't fun as a million people all pretty much had the same idea at the same time. one good thing i would like to add is that despite the huge number of people and what they have been saying on the tv. i didn't see any trouble at all! lots of police and we felt safe the whole time. it's about time that london organised something for new year. there is no doubt that it would be better than edinburgh, new york or sydney! why don't they do it????
December 30 what the hell do i do now?dropped the kids off at my mums today for the weekend. it's nice to have a bit of time for just me and donna but the problem now is... what the hell do we do? so used to having the kids here all the time that we are at a bit of a loss about what to do when they aint here!
i've just spent the last hour trying to configure this new bluetooth thing so that i can browse the internet upstairs using the internet connection downstairs and i can't fucking do it! some computer geek eh?
we are going to the cinema tomorrow for the first time in ages. gonna watch narnia so i'll let you know how it was when i get home. we might even go and watch harry potter straight after. see that's what happens when you have a bit of time on your hands!
December 29 Genealogy for beginnersThis is a request for help from anyone that might be reading this space... i wonder sometimes if anyone actually does read this stuff!
As i have said in a previous blog. I am about to embark on a voyage of discovery. I am about to begin an investigation into my family history and the history of the Wingrove name. The problem being... I don't really have any idea where to begin. I have plenty of ideas and plenty of things that i would like to find out and quite a bit of stuff that i already know but i would really appreciate any practical advice on what should be the things that i do first.
My immediate family are all born and bred in Chatham, Kent, England. but i have information that my great grandfather emigrated to New York around the turn of the century, don't have any specifics as yet. apparently he was an electrician which was obviously a bit of a rarity at that time so that should make things a bit easier for me... i hope.
anyway i intend to devote a lot of my time and effort into this subject in the new year and i plan on doing things right so that i have something clear and concise to show the rest of my family and leave to my children eventually. like i said please leave me some comments if you have any ideas, tips or advice of any kind
many thanks
Sean Wingrove
24/6/1978
and a happy new yearstill got no idea what i'm going to do for new year. hopefully not gonna stay at home anyway as the kids are going to stay with my parents for a couple of days! thanks mum and dad. bless them, they are having the kids over their anniversary!
thought about going to the old bill pub in uxbridge but i don't know yet. was gonna go to royales nightclub but have heard a lot of bad thing about the place so i think i'm gonna give that a miss.
not doing much today. been doing a bit of window shopping on the internet as i get paid tomorrow and gonna get charlie a star wars lightsabre... yeah i know he got a lot for christmas but he keeps trying to make a lightsabre out of building blocks and they keep falling apart so i'm gonna get him a proper one!
barrie and lynzy aint coming for new year anymore as they have a party to go to the following day, so it's just donna and me.
anyone that lives near me and knows what is going on can they leave me a message please of if you are doing something exciting for new year then let me know.
that's all for now folks will be posting again today so see u then!
December 28 Wingrove, Sean Wingrove, Seansmiler etc...just done a search for my name on google (admit it you've all done it) and i noticed that this space is seriously getting bumped down the old listings so to remedy this dire situation i have decided to add a couple of entries about myself and my family that will probably help me climb back up the ladder
right as you all are probably aware by now, my name is Sean Wingrove. from the Wingrove family of Chatham, Kent, England. I am 27 years old , married to Donna with 2 children...Charlie and Catherine. u can see pics of my family on this space, if you are interested.
I am a corporal in the Royal Air Force. have been for the past 8 years. we are living in married quarters at RAF Uxbridge in middlesex at the moment, we have only been here for a few weeks after moving from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire but we really love it here and hope that we get to stay here for a few years.
most of my family still live in Chatham, Kent. My dad owns his own construction company (Wingrove Construction ltd) and has been married to my mum for 28 years on 31st december. my sister is training to be a chartered accountant while working for a bank in the city of london. my brother is living in Portsmouth at the moment but will probably be moving back to chatham in the near future.
right that is enough for one entry but i will be adding more very soon to tell you more than you ever wanted to know.
also i am intending to begin some genealogy investigation in the new year so any comments from any other wingroves will be much appreciated. thanks
December 23 xmas makeover and my plans for xmas dayi've decided that this space needs a bit of a makeover so if any of you have any ideas on what i could do to it then please leave comments. and no i aint gonna just delete it sam!
can't wait for xmas now. we are opening our presents at home and having some breakfast then off to my parents house in kent to open even more presents and have xmas dinner. staying there the night and then we are all coming back to uxbridge on boxing day! it's gonna be mint!!!
got some new pics of the kids and new house and stuff! so here u go
christmas eve...evechristmas is almost here and i've been pretty busy today with the kids and getting the house ship shape for the visitors over the christmas period. still got some cleaning to do tomorrow but nothing major.
Donna has been upset today because fucking family hampers haven't delivered charlies main present! after all the time they have had to deliver it... for those of you that don't know what has gone on i'll try to explain.
we have been paying family hampers all year for this christmas. we have recieved all the frozen and fresh food that we ordered but were waiting for the big present for charlie, a battery powered spiderman car! donna spoke to them about 3 weeks ago and they assured us that there were no problems and that it would be with us some time this week. well this week came and donna tried to call them...there were big queues on the phone, this we thought was normal as it was so close to xmas. so donna waited in the queue for an hour and a half only to be cut off at the end. this happened 5 times. she also sent 8 emails which all went unanswered! anyway to cut to the chase today was the last day that they deliver and nothing. we tried phoning all day but sat in a queue on the phone for 3 HOURS!!! when we tried again this afternoon a message informed us that the offices were closed for the xmas period...wankers!!!
we managed to track down the company that does their deliveries to be informed that they had received no such order and that there was nothing they could do! so there you have it. no spiderman car for charlie. a very very upset donna, and 150 quid seemingly wasted! how the fcuk do these companies get away with this sort of shit. what if we didn't have anything else for the little man? i am so angry and i am gonna go mental when i eventually get to talk to someone from this shitty company! so there you have it if anyone out there is thinking of using this company...think again... try another but unless u want to risk not getting what u have paid and waited for then don't use FAMILY HAMPERS...
wankers! lol December 14 thanks for commentsi'd like to thanks the people that took the time to comment on my space recently after i commented on having no comments...thanks for the comments!
i hate wednesday almost as much as i hate mondays, they r stuck right in the middle of the week (on purpose i am sure) still ages until the weekend and nothing more to look forward to this week. going back to carterton tommorrow to finally finish my clearing. After that i shouldn't have to go back there again!!! be good to see some of my mates though and get to say goodbye properly.
had a walk into town this morning...can't believe how busy it is now even during the week, anyone would think that christmas was right around the corner. speaking of christmas what is everyone getting? or what do you want? don't think i am getting much this year as the kids take priority these days... still i'm pretty much garuanteed to get some socks and deodorant.
going to do a bit more christmas shopping on friday, even though we have had all our presents bought for about a month. just came into a bit of money so i would rather spend it on other peoples christmas presents than spend it on myself or pay bills with it. probably gonna go to watford, but donna wants to go to harrow again. i didn't like harrow all that much and the fact that i will be driving means that we will almost certainly be going to watford, unless that is we can think of anywhere else to go.
that's enough for now as i have some jobs to do around the house...will be back soon
December 12 why no commentshi all...i'd like to know why no one ever leaves a comment on this space??? i know that you are visiting so why not make yourselves known?
there u go...said my piece
see u soon
December 11 vodka is the root of all evilgot pissed on vodka on friday night and last night and have been feeling pretty shitty all day today. mum and sister came to visit today as none of my family had seen the new house yet. donna cooked a lovely roast dinner. mum and pebs were really glad to see the kids...just wish i had been a little more with it as i didn't really say much! mum understands though. December 10 another joke for ya...with a xmas feel to it!A few days after Christmas, A mother was working in the kitchen listening to her son playing with his new electric train set in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son yell "All you sons of bitches who want to get off, get the hell off now, because this is the last stop! All of you sons of bitches that are getting on, get your asses in the train cause were leaving". The mother went in and told her son, "we don't use that kind of language in this house." Now I want you to go into your room for two hours. When you come out, you can play with your train, but I don't want to hear any bad language. December 09 online personality disorder testI have just taken this online personality test thing and it doesn't sound all that good for me does it?
i didn't make up any of the answers and tried to answer as truthfully as possible...scary eh???
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: Moderate Schizotypal: Very High Antisocial: High Borderline: Very High Histrionic: High Narcissistic: Very High Avoidant: Very High Dependent: Very High Obsessive-Compulsive: High URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/disorder/index.html friday at last...here we are on the eve on the weekend again... and about time too! seems like this week has gone on forever.
been a pretty shitty week all around really, bad news and hard work is not my idea of fun!
getting a bit drunk tonight (got a bottle of vodka) should be fun...donna's mate lyndsey is visiting us too... so no doubt donna and her will be pissed up! i'll probably be on the internet all night just drinking myself into oblivion!!!
other than that folks...not done f*** all today!
sorry will try to make my life a bit more interesting for all of you out there
December 08 another day another dollarhad some bad news this morning... not gonna go into it on here but there was a bereavement in the family. always a sad thing, especially this close to christmas. seems like this sort of thing always happens in my family at this time of the year.
not done an awful lot today... bit of shopping and been on the net for a while now, just doing random shit!
created this bad boy
so now none of you have any excuse for not emailing me or adding me on msn!
Charlie has been watching star wars again all day (episode 3) he now knows all of the characters names and goes mad when it comes on... and was only 2 in september...funny as f***. he also says 'may the force be with you' whenever he talks to anyone on the phone.
Catherine has a new trick...rolling around all over the floor. she finds it highly amusing! she has also decided that her big brother is absolutely the funniest thing that she has ever seen...she cracks up whenever she sees him.
i do have another thing to say, something that i have been thinking about for the last couple of days as i have been working with my dad.
i am 27 as you will probably know and my dad is 45. now working with him for the last couple of days i realised again just how hard he actually works! i have a new found respect for him and what he does. he works seven days a week in all weather doing work that i struggled to do for 2 days...he doesn't do it because he enjoys it or even because he has to...he does it purely to give his family a better life. he has brought up 3 children (with a little help from my mum) and done a good job of it. we have never gone without anything and always had a loving, caring home environment to come home to. we have always been allowed to make our own mistakes and he has never tried to control our lives (although i wish he had sometimes) basically what i am trying to say...not very well is that my dad is my hero and i could not have wished for a better role model. problem is that i know that i will never live up to him... he is very special...one in a million...
i can say this because i know that dad will never read this... i don't really speak with him as much as i would like to but the good thing is i know i can, whenever i need to...thanks dad!
December 07 the penguin joke
communications information systems information managerapparently this is what i am now... so if you have a computer related problem and want some advice...ask someone else! December 06 xmas decorationswe have put the christmas decoration up today... i know it is early but charlie is really excited this year so we thought, were is the harm.
christmas tree looks lovely this year and we seem to have gained more sets of lights since last year so the whole place is light up...well like a christmas tree!
not having any presents under the tree this year, purely because i'm pretty sure that charlie would open them as soon as my back is turned. so all is happy in the wingrove household. all looking forward to christmas now and i have to admit that despite being an old bastard...i'm pretty excited myself!
on another happy note...West Ham won last night. not a great game but we managed to come back from 0-1 down to win 1-2 away at birmingham city. a really good result for the hammers in a game that last season we would have probably lost after going 1-0 down. what a goal from bobby zamora too! hope that gives him the confidence that he so badly needs. we really do need another goalscorer though as i think that teddy sheringham hasn't many whole games left in him.
that's it for now... i'll be back on again 2moro to let you know what an exciting day i have had...again.
peace out! December 05 day of the march outat long last we have got rid of the old house in oxfordshire. the only thing that they picked up was the carpet in the living room, which i have to admit was pretty bad despite the carpet cleaners coming in last week.
well the woman from dhe said that she was gonna get them cleaned again and then see if she has to charge us for them...if she does it willl probably cost us about 300/400 pounds! so lets hope that the carpet cleaners do a good job.
the thing that we were really worried about was the cooker but she said that we had done a really good job and that it was ok! was well surprised!
so there you go we are officially finished with RAF Brize Norton... well almost i have to go back next wednesday to finish off my clearing as NMC were a bunch of wankers and wouldn't let me clear while i have a usb stick signed out in my name, even though my another cpl is gonna take it back for me. even though i am about 8 signatures away from getting the hell out of dodge. then i can start sorting out my stuff for my new job at northwood. all my joining and getting my kit sorted for JMLC and sorting out my xmas leave...in fact i should probably do that 2moro!
back again...againwell just when i thought i was gonna be able to update this thing more often i have had to leave it for a few days while i went back to my old house in oxfordshire to clean the damn place prior to marching out. what a nightmare that was...
anyway that is pretty boring so i won't go into it.
so now i am back...again. hopefully something will happen so i have something to write about next time!
just a quick question for anyone that is still that bored that they are reading this...what u all want for xmas???
November 28 At long last...i'm back!Well hello again to everyone that has been eagerly awaiting my return from Cosford so that i can update this thing.
it's been a long and hard 11 weeks but i am back now refreshed and ready for a new start.
although a lot has happened in the last 11 weeks and an awful lot has happened, here is a quick run down on some of the occurances...
* moved house, i'm now living in uxbridge, middlesex and yeah it's great to be away from brize norton at long last
* posted away from TCW :-( but got my first choice in Northwood
* the RAF has finally seen the error of it's ways and seen fit to promote me to the rank of Cpl
* now i've finished my course i am now officially a CIS IM...whatever that means
* got loads of new pics to put on here when i get around to it so keep checking
right gonna finish this off now as mrs is getting the hump that i've been on the net for so long
will be updating again soon so stay tuned
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September 07 OH MY GOD!!Ignore everything i just said... England suck!!! sack Sven NOW!!!
N.Ireland just scored!! 7th in the world my arrse
ARRSEI have recently discovered a very good website for those in the military. I know a lot of people that read this crap are in the services... although they never comment or make themselves known so i'm including this link for them... and anyone else that is bored and wants some insight into life in the UK armed forces.
sorry ladies... this one's about footballI purposely resisted the temptation to comment on the football after the recent match between England and Wales (probably for the best) but here we are halfway through a game against a Northern Ireland team currently ranked 116th in the latest FIFA rankings (if you don't believe me click here!) September 05 Life, the Universe and Everything!!!!!!!!!As you can probably guess from the title of this blog, today i watched the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on dvd.
It is one of those films that i had wanted to see when it was on at the cinema but i never got round to it... when do i ever??
Now i must confess that i am no great fan of the tv series and i have never read the book but i was quite looking forward to this one as i thought it was the type of film that would appeal to my sense of humour. the first thing that struck me about this film was the strong British contigent within the cast. the second was that it obviously wasn't done on the cheap as the special effects were really quite good!
I did however get begin to get bored about half way through, when the story seemed to hit a lull. gonna watch it again tonight and see if it has the same affect. All in all a very entertaining film one that i would recommend to anyone and one that i intend to buy on dvd... i can't really think of a higher rating for a film than spending money adding it to my collection.
September 02 ladies and gentlemen. I give you... your PRESIDENT!!If you have been watching any news at all tonight then you will have seen George Bush being flown and shown around the southern states of the USA that were affected by hurricane Katrina. Now I usually try to stick up for him a bit, I mean he has one of the hardest jobs in the world and he gets more than his fair share of abuse. I couldn't help thinking though that he looked like he had better things to be doing, while listening to the details of the 000's of his fellow countrymen that have been left dead, homeless and in need after the disaster. I'm not kidding you... the guy looked BORED! I thought he might fall asleep at any minute. I mentioned this to my wife who agreed (there's a surprise in itself!!!)
I would also like to go on the record as saying that my thoughts are with all those affected by the hurricane. I am truly disgusted that the aid agencies of the world are apparently happy to let America's own humanitarian agencies deal with this one, and after the USA was so generous after the szunami! I think it's disgusting. Don't get me wrong i am not saying that we should all have our hands in our pockets again for the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. An offer of help would be nice though, especially from this country which is supposed to be your friend and ally!
Before any americans out there start emailing me telling me... we don't need any help...I appreciate that, but i'm talking about an OFFER of help a friendly gesture to let you know that you are not alone. ( some of the others states should be thinking the same i feel!)
YOU ARE NOT ALONE! i for one would like to do something to help... thought that might be where i was going today when my pager went off!!! no such luck though. well for now my thoughts and prayers will have to do.
ARE WE GOING TO WAR?? no it's just a test!1100hrs pager goes off! phone the number and told to get into work asap. go to collect kit from secure communications building. turn up at ops building to be briefed. this is it i'm expecting to be going to war of something... no it's just a test. we have to set up our communications suite and test it within the alloted 3 hours from call out... it has already taken us nearly an hour to get this far!!!
turns out that our deployable sat dish is shagged... yeah that's the technical term for it... so i perform what is known as a running repair (i bodge it). to cut a long story short we got comms in well within the alloted time frame so everyone was happy with what we did and i can rest assured that i would have been able to do my duty should it have been a real call out...
which leaves me thinking, what if it had been! i got about 30 secs to tell Donna what was happening and even then i didn't know where i was going or when or if i was coming back! let's hope that we only have to go through practice call outs for now, the alternative ain't very nice... believe me i have done that too! August 29 kings of chaosIf anyone out there would like to help the human race to kill as many orcs and goblins and shit as possible
click on my link to join my army!!
August 28 places to see/ things to do b4 i diegot to thinking, whilst looking for pictures of places i want to visit. thinking about all the places i want to see and things i want to do before i die. now don't get me wrong i hopefully have few years left before i have to start worrying about that but it made me think.
Anyway I was wondering, if there is anyone who actually reads this collection of ramblings where are the places that they want to visit, what thing do they want to do?
i'm not talking about things like a bungee jump i'm talking about things like... swimming in the dead sea!
So if there is anyone reading this please leave me a message with the places to go/ things to do and if i get enough i will post a top ten.
thanks for your time and i hope that you will give this a minute or two of thought!!!
if you are interested some of my places are...
machu picchu
statue of liberty
empire state building
ayers rock
sydney opera house
great wall of china
petra
the white house
taj mahal
obviously thats just a few, need to start soon!!! films I've watched recentlyhave been watching loads of new films recently... on dvd not at the cinema.
here's what i thought of them
the last horror movie - really good, scary, thought provoking definately watch this!
Alexander - rubbish- too long, crap acting just plain bad
Coach Carter - shit - overy sentimental, poor characters. sam jackson's worst film!
Sahara - watchable...just, read the book!
Constantine - Brilliant- now this is a movie worth the £4 at blockbuster!!! if you haven't seen it, get up now and get down the video shop... right now!!!
tonights offering is XXX 2, it's got ice cube and sam jackson... can't be that bad... can it??
let u know 2moro!
the proof of the pudding is in the eatingAfter recently discovering that someone is trying to undermine my marriage through the wonders of the internet. i was thinking, how many people will believe anything that they read on the internet and take it as fact. also wondering as to the legal ramifications of making potentially libellous comments about another person on msn spaces. it would seem that just like any other written work the law remains the same and the advice given is as follows...
In order to prove defamation, you have to be able to prove that what was said or written about you was false. If the information is true, or if you consented to publication of the material, you will not have a case. However, you may bring an defamatory action if the comments are so reprehensible and false that they effect your reputation in the community or cast aspersions on you.bring an defamatory action if the comments are so reprehensible and false that they effect your reputation in the community or cast aspersions on you.
hopefully anyone reading this will think twice before writing anything that may be deemed defamatory or will quickly remove any such comments from their space. further information on libel can be found here weekend with no kidsseems like i have not added anything for such a long time again. surely something interesting has happened in that time????
not really...
work have decided in their wisdom to kit me out with a pager so that i can be reached should they not be able to contact me on my home phone or my mobile phone. obviously if world war 3 was to start today then the U.K would be under serious threat if i was unreachable. i am to be no more that 12 hours from home and have 2 weeks kit packed ready to go. I am to remain at this high state of alert until next wednesday when i move up to the highest alert state, then i get another pager and i have to be ready to go at any time and can be no more than an hour from home... oh and no alcahol... can't wait!!
out in witney last night... woke up with a monster hangover. can't remember anything that happened after about 9pm. Donna and Bens birthday celebrations! i was quite obviously MINCED as Donna keeps telling me about things that i did and said last night... things that i have absolutely no recollection of! i hate that! well at least i didn't have an arguement or start a fight, which is what i usually do. still some of the things that i did cannot be recounted here as my family and some minors are liable to read this... just use your imaginations!!!
August 19 a week of missing blogslots has happened and i have been really busy since i last had the chance to update this bad boy
last sunday my mum, dad and sister came up for the day and we went to swindon. we picked up my new tropical fish tank in dads big arse motor and then went to frankie and bennies for a really nice meal. all in all a really good day!
monday and back to work, been working all week on a trial of the communications links required by a new aircraft that is due to come into service in the very near future. I know that is sounds boring but it was actually pretty interesting, and made me realise just how important these communicatios links are becoming for passing data between aircraft and hqs
thursday the new tv and dvd recorder arrived... it's well mint. we now have a big f*** off tv in the front room and in the bedroom and charlie at nearly 2 years of age has a tv and dvd player in his bedroom... we haven't seen him since it was installed!!!!
today i went to work in the morning but when i found out there was nothing to do, i put a days leave in and went shopping in witney with donna and the kids... we bought some new fish for the new tank a dvd for charlie and i bought donna's birthday present, which was easier than i thought it would be because she chose it herself!
all in all a pretty good and busy week... can't complain at all!!!
 August 13 What the F*^% is a ghetto name???you could always have a look at this website... apparently this is my ghetto name...pmsl!!!
My goddamn rock solid ghetto shiznit name is Sexxmaster Ice. August 12 That friday feelingwell i made it to the end of the week, there was a couple of times this week when i didn't think friday would ever come. I even managed to go the whole week at work and not use a days leave or a stand down... that's pretty good for me, can't remember the last time i did a whole week at work!
well for those of you that read this blog on a regular basis you will know that i made a sort of promise to myself to help out Donna more with baby Catherine. i have been keeping my promise you will all be pleased to learn... getting up at stupid o clock in the morning and feeding Catherine with my eyes closed and getting up an hour earlier for work so i can feed her first to mention just a couple of my recent good dead... i really should be sainted don't you think???
not got a great deal planned for this weekend. Big Ben Key and his bride to be Anna should be coming round tomorrow if they get the chance and mum, dad and sister are coming up from Kent to visit on sunday. I can however never promise that everything won't go completely tits up and something exciting will happen.
oh i almost forgot we are also looking after the next door neighbours 9 week old King Charles spaniel puppy for a week while they are on holiday. for the record (if such a thing really exists) i would like to make it clear in advance that i in no way have ok'd this and any accidents/situations/nightmares resulting from said puppy sitting are f*** all to do with me!
right i will be blogging/ typing shit again later, gotta go watch the final of big brother now... hope that makosi wins as she has been by far the most entertaining person on the show... i would just like to say that no one deserves to win £50,000 or £100,000 for mincing about for 12 weeks! August 10 Back to blogging basicsI was just thinking that it is probably about time that i went back to actual blogging instead of this crap about movies and google software... don't really know where that came from anyway!
Work has been pretty dead again this week, that's ok though because it has meant that i have been able to do sport or go to the gym every day. Now you can't argue with a job that lets you do that now can you?
On the home front, Donna is very tired, she is still doing all the feeds during the night. It's not that i don't want to help, after all i did do a lot with Charlie. It's just that as soon as my head hits the pillow i am gone... and that's all i know about til morning. I haven't promised Donna because i don't want to let her down but i am going to start doing one night about, so that every other night she gets a decent sleep.
I really have got a superwoman here!!!! she is still managing to do all the night feeding of Catherine, well pretty much all the feeding of Catherine actually, manage the household finances, do the shopping, keep the house clean and still cook! what do i do? i hear you ask??? not an f ing lot. I go to work and i come home, ok sometimes my job can be quite demanding, but most of the time i am sat on my butt doing nothing!!!!!
I am gonna make a concious effort to do more!!!! i will even try cooking, i think the main thing that Donna would appreciate help with though is feeding Catherine so that is where i intend to start...Tonight! after all i am going to Cosford for 10 weeks in september so its only fair.
will let you know how i get on, hopefully i won't let my family down by being a lazy bastard... any longer.... August 08 GOOGLE EARTHFor those not familiar with this new software from Google then i suggest that you download it right NOW!
this is an excellent tool for children and adults, which is both educational and entertaining. right thats enough of that bollocks
i have spent most of my weekend with Google earth and it really is excellent i think i am becoming addicted. Every time i walk past the pc i'm like ' i'll just have a quick blast on Google earth' i find myself looking for more and more obscure places and getting really excited when i find a place... had to call donna out to the pc yesterday because i found upton park (that's west ham united's ground if any of you didn't know).
yesterday i found myself purchasing the pro version which i am going to install this morning and have a play with today. i will let you know how good it is. for anyone that hasn't seen what all the fuss is about i urge you to download Google earth immediately!! you can find it at
August 06 SUMMER BBQWell as i predicted the summer bbq was once again an excuse for everyone to get too pissed and try to beat each other up. I am getting pretty sick and tired of the way that these little idiots give it the big one, safe in the knowledge that nothing is going to happen to them. if you ask me they should get a damn good kicking!
I don't know who planned the BBQ this year but it seemed to me that the first thought was of beer, then someone thought there should be some food and the entertainment was just an afterthought. don't get me wrong the food was pretty good this year (although not worth £5) but one little bouncy castle for the kids isn't really good enough for a unit the size of TCW (700 people plus families and children) I also thought that there should have been some more stuff for the adults to do... i know there was a inflatable football and bungee run but they were only open for a couple of hours at most and hardly anyone got the chance to use them.
all in all it was an ok day. could and should have been a lot better and as for the night i would rather forget that! i seemed to get caught up in every little bit of drama going!
for anyone that was there on thursday hope you all had a good time and i hope that i will not still be here for the next SUMMER BBQ! really i do!!!! NEW MOVIES!!!!Watched a couple of new movies yesterday, the first was FANTASTIC FOUR. this is a great film easily my favourite of the movies of comic book characters, better even than spiderman. Effects are amazing and Jessica Alba just finishes it off nicely. this is certainly one I would pay money to watch at the cinema.
the second film i watched yesterday was WAR OF THE WORLDS. this unfortunately was the biggest let down EVER! just plain rubbish. if you have ever read the HG WELLS book then definately don't watch this film. it is spoilt by the amazing special effects and despite having Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning this fim left me cold. i won't go into great detail about what is wrong with the film just in case any of you want to watch it and decide for yourselves, if you do watch it please let me know what you think!
so there you have it... if you haven't seen fantastic four yet, then go to the cinema this weekend. If you are a big special effects fan then War of the worlds might be worth seeing but if you are a fan of the book then avoid this film like the plague.
don't hesitate to comment if you have seen either of these films as i would be glad to link to your review of share comments
July 31 LOOK NEW PICTURES ADDEDFor anyone that didn't notice
I have managed to scan some photos today and have added them to this space
hope you enjoy and don't forget to leave a comment
will scan some more as soon as i get the chance
 the most exciting weekend ever!!No it certainly wasn't but i did manage to get time to do some tweaking of the old msn space, so that was a bonus... don't expect to be getting any time to myself anymore now that there are two little ones in the house.
speaking of the little ones. Catherine continues to amaze me with her attempt to break the world sleeping record at the tender age of 6 weeks. In all honesty though i really can't believe how much the little darling sleeps, i'm not complaining or anything, just can't believe how lucky we are.
Charlie has been in the wars today... he fell over the arm of the sofa. he wasn't hurt but he did shock himself and he was pretty lucky to not get any injuries, like i say though, at that age they are made of rubber!!
thinking back it was pretty funny as donna called him to say 'be careful' he looked at her and lost his footing and tumbled head first over the side... bless his little heart he cried real tears for all of a minute until i gave him an ice pole...
Donna is surviving at the moment on about 2 hours sleep a night and infuriatingly still looks like she has just stepped out of a salon. i really don't know how she does it. She is doing all of the feeds in the night and looking after 2 young children all day while i am at work, yet still has time to do get washed and dressed, do her make up, do housework, walk into carterton with the kids once a day, prepare lunch, prepare dinner! and i get home after doing less than nothing at work all day.
speaking of work... back there 2moro, almost getting to the point where i don't enjoy going in anymore. that's when i will know that things are really bad. At the moment it has it's ups and downs, last week was crap because i was on keys but this week will hopefully be better. should at the very least get my electronics assignments finished and sent off. also this week is the TCW BBQ look out for a blog on that one after thursday. Donna and i are both going out and getting drunk as we have a babysitter for the kids, gonna be the first time we have been out drinking together for about 3 years! should be interesting!!!
anyway gotta get on with polishing my boots as monday mornings = parade
will be back with more blogging, some new site reviews and a couple of new lists as well as some new music if i get round to it
catch ya later
smiler great sites you should check outI recently got rid of a couple of old lists containing some very entertaining and informative websites
hopefully you will find these just as entertaining
July 29 sibling rivalry?I feel i have to make it clear to those of you that have noticed with alarm, the recent increased animosity between myself and my youngest sibling. that i harbour no ill feeling towards my brother and any comments that appear to show otherwise are purely intentional.
now please don't get me wrong. i abhore the lack of gainful employment by a member of my own family, i am disgusted at the lack of moral fibre that would allow a young, semi literate, boy to cruise through life without feeling it necessary to pay something back through taxation.
however no matter what his short comings he is still my brother and therefore any disparaging remarks should be considered to be exactly what they are... a joke
July 27 tax dodging little *^%$"£!"%£well here we are again, another day another update... will wonders never cease? just wanted to make a few comments directed at my little brother you naturally i love very much.
however his comment that i would read a book to appear more intelligent than i actually am, quite frankly shocked the shit out of me! surely he doesn't actually mean that! clearly the drink is going to his head perhaps he should take a look at himself before slagging of others!!!!!!!!!
i do not however wish to get into a public slanging match with my little brother i will then forgive his unkind and ill thought out comment and continue to wish him all the luck in the world in finding a job and eventually paying some tax
July 26 work, life, religion, terrorism and misc.just a quick update as nothing really to report. have been put on keys at work this week... jolly nice of them don't you think, which means i have to open up the building at 7 in the morning and have not got away until 6pm so far this week. i know it aint gonna kill me but i just aint used to it... other than the unsociable hours though, the rest of the time i don't have much to do but get milk from the shop for the tea bar and collect the post from the mail room twice a day...
i have started 2 new books this week, the first is called Infidel by Andrew Wheatcroft and is a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. the second is the holy Qur'an translated by abdullah yusuf ali, it is the wordsworth classics of world literature edition which i'm told is pretty much the best english language version available. now you might be asking yourself why i am reading these books. the simple answer is that i want to make informed judgements and not rash statements that could come back to haunt me.
you will probably be able to tell from the last couple of posts that i have made, that the terrorist situation in this country is on my mind quite a lot of the time at the moment. i just don't want anyone to be able to call me a biggot or a racist because i am not!
i would however consider myself nationalistic... without being a facist... yes this is possible and without being militantly right wing.
although i don't consider myself to be either Christian or muslim or any other mainstream religion for that matter, i do believe in god... so what does that make me???
i am pretty sure that i am not unique in the fact that i do not hate any group of people just because of their race, origin or religion... i do however despise the cowardly people who murder indiscriminately and then hide behind their religion because they know that people in this country will stop short of attacking an ethnic group for the actions of a few.
many other people that i have spoken to on this matter agree with me that i would be considerably more angry right now with these terrorist scum, if i WERE a MUSLIM. these terrorist are murdering in the name of your faith now decent muslims should and are saying... this is not in my name...
also is there anyone that seriously thinks this is Tony Blairs thought. i have been very impressed with Tony's sincerity and determination through all of this. i read some really stupid remarks on the sky news text service over the weekend and it beggars belief that people were saying that "Tony Blair has the blood of 'our' dead on his hands"... WTF and whats the 'our' all about???
some comments would be greatly appreciated...
July 21 BLOG FRUSTRATIONWhy is it that i always come on here, absolutely bursting with things to say, usually angry and as soon as i get this blank blog entry page in front of me... my mind just sorta goes... blank
earlier i was seething after seeing more bombings in london but after 2 marathon blog entries i didn't really get my point across...perhaps i should right my thoughts down then type them onto here later... gonna try that from now on... let me know if my blog entries make more sense from 2moro THE FRONTLINE IN THE WAR AGAINST TERROR!well folks, here we are. We find ourselves at the beginning of the 21st century once again at war. once again it is the ordinary British citizen that is apparently a legitimate target. this is not a war like any we have fought before, we are not fighting the nazis, nor the french (shame). we are fighting against terror.
how on earth can you fight terror? well you can't fight terror in itself but we can and will fight anyone and everyone that believes that terrorising innocent people is a legitimate way of reaching their goals.
an even scarier thing about these fanatical muslim terrorist is that they don't really have any serious goals to reach... they want us to pull out of Iraq... who honestly thinks that is a good idea, the way things are at the moment? and they want Israel outlawed... oh not much then. maybe we can do a deal.
maybe we could let them... oh let's say... kill 6 million jews, would that make them ease off on the old suicide bombings for a couple of years?
i'm sure that's been tried before though... we'll leave you alone if you let us kill some jews! thing is though it aint really funny. some, no most muslims live with the total belief that Israel has no right to exist. where is the middle ground here? where is the room for negotiation... oh that's right there isn't any. and they know it.
that's why appeasement can never work in this war on terror. the only way that our way of live can come out of this is victorious... the other alternative is the end of days... another day another muslim fanatic trying to blow up innocent people in London...Anyone just visiting this site that doesn't know me. may be thinking right now that i am some sort of racist. i would like to state once and for all that this isn't the case. Why is it racist to say that Muslims are trying to blow up innocent people on the streets of London? it is after all a FACT. so they are extremist in their views that doesn't really change much does it. also i get the feeling that these people are probably well known in their own communities... why are these people being hidden from the authorities, why don't the muslim communities that these extremists live in do something about these people. if i was getting tarred with the same brush as some extremists in my community well i'm pretty sure that i wouldn't like it and i would want to do something about it... hey that's just me... i'm a bit weird like that.
July 20 A WEEK IN MATHEMATICAL HELLWell here i am again. apologies to anyone that gives a shit that i have not posted for a while. i have been busy beavering away like a little beaver... doing maths of all things, yeah you heard me right MATHS! everything from basic numeracy to A level indeces and algebra. it hasn't been the most exciting of weeks as you can well imagine. i have however managed to complete all four of my distance learning maths assignments that are required for TRADE GROUP 4 ASSIMILATION! no the earth is no under threat from the borg... well not that i am aware and not at this particular moment in time... but i digress. trade group 4 assimilation is the 10 week course that i have to go to RAF Cosford to complete in order to change from being a run of the mill telecommunications operator into an all singing all dancing communications informations systems operator/ maintainer (although we don't actually have to sing or dance).
not really interesting at all but it could become important once promotions start to come into the equation as it will mean more money for cpls and above!!!! that can only be a good thing... just have to get promoted now... but let's not open that can of worms right now eh?
anyway suffice to say that i have suprised myself with how well i have done with the maths, especially considering i am the oldest on the course... yeah laugh it up Sam ya punk... and therefore left school longest ago.
now i have to send the assignents off to Cosford to be marked so i will let you know when they come back and i got everything wrong!
that's it for now... more regular posting is promised!!! July 11 one week left then back to workWell i gotta tell ya, it was quite an eventful weekend! have had parents here this weekend and my sister which was cool as we don't get to see them as often as we would like. didn't stay here though... we don't have the room now that Catherine is home with us.
Saturday saw the arrival of my mum, dad and sister with loads more presents for Catherine from family and friends down in kent... if any of you are reading this then i can't thank you enough for everything that we have received. i get the feeling that Catherine is going to be just as spoilt as Charlie.
BBQ and party in the afternoon and evening of saturday. Lynne and Pete were round from next door and Claire and Gary came round. loads of kids too! cooked loads and loads of meat and everyone had a great time. the only down side was that i took Charlie up to bed at around half 8 and fell asleep... didn't surface again until 10.45!!!! what a looser.
anyway great time was had by all and lots of drink was disposed of! another day to remember!Well we have just got back from picking up baby catherine from the hospital. i would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff in the special care baby unit at the john radcliffe hospital in Oxford for all they have done to look after baby Catherine over the past 4 weeks.
now that Catherine is home i'm sure i will be posting a lot more pictures of her as i will be spending a lot more than 10 mins a day with her...
Charlie is even more interested in the new addition now that she is at home. as soon as we came in from the car he sat in front of her car seat and just looked at her... bless!
right i am off now so more news on the wingroves later today or tonight maybe...
and just in case anyone out there is actually reading this, my family are coming to stay for the weekend so i don't know if i will be able to update. i will however get to rip the piss out of my sponging muggy little cunt of a brother! if he has the bottle to turn up!!!
July 07 on a day of great sadness, here are some pictures to cheer up the many people that have been pestering me recently to add some pictures of my younger brother when he was a chubby little fucker!!
there you go!
from olympic joy to terrorist hell in 24 hoursFrom the joy of winning the vote to host the 2012 olympics to mass murder on the streets of London in less than 24 hours.
we all know who is responsible... it is becoming apparent that the UK and the USA are now becoming increasingly isolated in the world and more likely targets for international terrorism. NOBODY LIKES US!!! no one in europe likes us, muslims hate us and want to destroy our way of life for ever. It is us and them. we have to fight NOW before it is too late. we are a people that enjoy freedom and democracy and the right to choose, we should choose to fight now for our way of life.
to all the people that are against the war on terror, well i'm sorry but we have no choice. we are fighting for our very existence. to stop people coming to cities like London and New York and killing whomever, whenever and wherever they like!!!!
it may mean a struggle at home, it may mean fighting overseas. but we will fight and we will win... TERRORISTS HIT LONDONTHE WAR ON TERROR!
are we winning this war or are we even fighting it?
Great Britain has most of it's armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, while fucking islamic extremists can murder innocent men, women and children on the streets of London.
It's not like this is a new thing, we have put up with IRA bombs going off on the mainland before. but as much as i hate to say it, they were never just to kill, warnings were always given! the IRA had a political motive and clear goals. this is something new to the UK. It is nothing but COLD BLOODED MASS MURDER!!!! these people don't really care about anything other than killing. we should respond with something that these bastards will understand...
TERRORIST HIT LONDONLike most of you i have today spent most of my day in front of the t.v watching sky news.
i would like to take this opportunity to first of all say how we all feel great sorrow for those that have lost friends and family in these attrocities and also to express my sympathy for those injured.
now i would like to express my total outrage and anger at what has happened. now before anyone calls me a racist or says that i don't know what i am talking about, let me remind you that i have worked in war zones around the world i have actually witnessed terrorist acts and i have visited many muslim countries and had working and social relationships with all races and religions.
now once again i will say that there should be anger!!! i have heard people asking for calm... this is before we even know for certain who committed these crimes. no way i am angry as hell... why is the muslim council of great britain asking people to remain calm, do they know something we don't????
i hope that when we find out which group has done this, there will be some sort of revenge... yes i said it, i know that it is a nasty word in this country and in this day and age but i for one want some sort of revenge. this is worth going to war for! damn right it is...
for all those reading this and thinking to themselves no it isn't worth going to war for... what is then?
anything??
i would just like to ask everyone that reads this to send me there thoughts is anyone else out there angry?
does anyone else think that we deserve some revenge? June 29 links to email adresscan anyone out there help me? i am trying to add a mailto link into a blog entry... is this even possible? i tried doing it earlier today but it seems that it didn't work so i deleted the whole entry in frustration!
somebody please help me!!!!
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peas out how much bad luck can i haveHow much bad luck is it possible for me to fucking have? to top off an extra shitty month, a wank birthday, catherine coming so early and donna going into hospital again. myself, donna and charlie left the house this morning to visit catherine at the hospital and the fucking car won't start... now i know less than fuck all about cars but surely this is bollocks, it is less than 3 years old and i only had it serviced 3 months ago!!! to top all of this off it is the day before pay day so i can't afford to get anyone to look at the fucking shitting thing until tommorrow! i suppose it is my fault for not being with the AA or anything like that, but it has been fine! all of a sudden it just won't start!!! it is turning over fine but not starting... and before you ask... yeah there is definately petrol in the son of a bitch!
well i will let you know if i get it sorted or i torch the fucker!!!!!
Got my new upgraded mobile phone today! it's proper mint. Motorola V3 limited edition black. still getting to know how everything works, but i can tell from the very start that i am gonna like it. the only thing that lets it down is the lack of a video camera... never thought i would hear myself say that the lack of video camera lets down a phone...but other than that it's mint June 27 should i add some tits and arseIt seems that all the hard work i have been putting in on this space is going to waste. no one is visiting my space. Does anyone have any ideas for getting people to visit... and please no smart answers like making my content interesting or removing the pictures of my ugly mug! i have heard that these spaces are included in search engines so if i add loads of titles like the one above, i will probably get loads and loads of hits. anyway i don't know why but the number of visitors has increased a llittle bit over the last couple of days so hopefully that will continue. one thing that i am going to do is add loads of entries about my work and my travel around the world because there just may be someone out there that gives a shit!!! anyway i'm off to change nappies... can't wait! June 25 if you get boredcheck out the dantes inferno test to see if you are going to hell http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
this is the mood i am in today apparently see what mood you are in... June 24 well 27 years old today eh, amazing how the years keep speeding up after 21 aint it! not had too bad of a day considering i have not spoken face to face with a single adult... charlie has been my only company. Donna is still in the hospital, although she will be coming home tommorrow lunch time (good news!) Catherine has put on some more weight and is now over her birth weight for the first time... apparently all babies loose some weight to begin with? can't believe how lucky i have been really... i got 90 quid and a tenner burton voucher... not bad for a days work eh? now i'm really on the downward slope to 30 and then it's all over!!! ha ha here are some pictures of the fantastic weather that i had for my birthday... yeah as if that was ever gonna happen it's only been 30 degrees all week!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME - YEAH RIGHTwell here i am sitting catching up with my blogging after finally getting charlie to sleep and having a bit of a nap myself, when i realise that it is now my birthday... woo hoo... happy birthday to me! i am now 27 years old (scary, really scary) i have 2 children, have been married twice, spent 9 years in the royal air force, spent nearly 20 months of that 9 years in the gulf or other shitty places in the world! lost all my hair!!! never spent a birthday with my wife (still in hospital), blah blah blah... yeah i know, i really need to man up! ha ha well some birthday this is gonna be, just me and charlie! well at least the weather forecast is good so me and chaz can spend some time in the garden and i can try to get a tan. donna tells me not to visit her tommorrow. as if i don't feel bad enough that i only get to spend a fraction of the time that she does with Catherine! now she wants me to not visit her! well it's not like i have a lot else to do!!!
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