Its funny looking back on a blog and realising that you have over stated your situation and not realised it - until afterwards that is. Since I last wrote in here I have been dumped, found out my flat mate is moving out and decided that its time for a bit of a life style change. That represents real change - and like the vast majority of the populus at large - I ain't one for change!

So - breaking it down - Hannah and I finished about two weeks ago where I found out that she has reaqquainted herself with an old friend from Uni, who started working with her, and then asked her out. It seems that I had let her down in her eyes and she admitted that this guy meant more to her than I did. So now I have been through the whole gamit of emotions, ranging from crying to laughing, moping to hating, the whole lot. I would still take her back tomorrow - but its not going to happen - I am realistic enough to understand that - and so I m going to try to be friends with her. She's been the closest person in my life for the last 5 or so months, and its been brilliant fun. I hope we can be just as close one day - it would really be important to me. Given her approach to life - I am not sure that I will be too high on the priority list. Sad but true....

Charles is moving out - he leaves in two weeks and we are getting a new house mate - quite possibly a young college student. I haven't met him yet and I want to before I give the green light for him to move in. The bloody housing agents have started becoming a right pain in the arse but its likely that they will just slink off into a corner like they normally do when I throw the list of inneptitude at them..... A bit of an end of an era - but at the same time we are now going to be able to get rid of a lot of crap that has been littering the flat for three years that belongs to former occupants.....well glad about that.

So what of these lifestyle changes? Well basically I have decided that its time to start trying to achieve something with my life. To achieve something you need a plan. I have had a Surfless plan for about two years and those close to me will know it is going well. However I need a plan for me too. I am 25 and I am now needing to sort my life out. Hence, I am going to be sitting down with a mortgage consultant next week with a view to getting a buy to let mortgage, with maybe an excess of 10% to give me some capital to invest in the place. I think I will look at either a two bedroom flat or a 3 bedroom terrace somewhere in Portsmouth. Looking around there are a number of places that are going that meet my price expectations, hence I think this is a viable option. Once I am on the property ladder I can start looking at ways to do the same thing again - ie get a second place and then a third and so on. This I think will enable me to get a more comfortable footing in life, and also give me the platform to start doing a few more things like travelling and also my longterm objective of setting up my own studio.

So there you have it!!! All very serious sounding aren't I? Actually I am in a very lighthearted mood - work is fun at the moment, Reading festival was brilliant and I have a suntan for the first time in ages! Metallica are now very high on my list of top bands, having blown me away on Sunday - and to cap it all out of 200,000 people there who did I bump into but my sister's boyfriend.

Pete and I are back writing again - should be able to bring a couple of new ideas to the table at our next practice when we get to have one.....talking of which I need to call them and cancel sunday.....so I'm off!!!

Monday, August 11, 2003

Ok so its not all change - in actual fact its not really that big a change - but the office has moved around and I am now sat in a different place - which holds novelty value if nothing much else. Its so hot that I cannot bring myself to think about anything that involves activity - so thats work, band, or anything else. Tonight I am going to go and dwell on the beach for an hour or so straight after work - cos I can't really imagine that I am going to do anything more constructive with my time should I stay in any way. I really should try to establish a wireless network at home - cos I reckon it would reach the beach (30 yards away) and then I could get a laptop, work from home and never leave the beach.....(pipe dream) .......

So whats exciting thats coming up? Well the footy season is going to be underway on Saturday - right at the top anyway - the lower leagues started over the weekend just gone and there were a couple of surprises - but for the most part all eyes were on the charity shield and the clash of the so called titans - Man Utd and Arsenal. Neither side has measured up to their billing really in close season - the limelight for Utd's usual big spending antics obliterated by the frankly destructive spending of Chelsea and new owner Roman Abrahamovic, while Arsenal have actually spent less and performed worse in close season that my beloved Tottingham. Indeed, along with the usual wave of optimism that accompanies the start of a new campaign in the uppermost escelon of the league, I have a quiet sense of "they could bloody do well this year" starting to stir....

Right - thats its - I have now to embark on a wax of the lyrical sort about Tottenham - and all that surrounds N17. So whos in and whos out....?

In - Postiga, Zamora, Kanoute, Mabizela, and likely Convey (terms agreed).
Out - Sheringham, Thatcher, Thelwell, Ferdinand, Iversen, Freund (for a total of £300k - having cost in excess of £12m - thanks Gerry and George......)

While there are familiar names in that list - everyone has been on about Zamora, while Kanoute has been one of the worst kept secrets this close season. Postiga, Mabizela and Convey are not household names. With this come two things - one the level of expectation on the players shoulders is not so high - if you don't know what a player is capable of then why hype him up?) and secondly the fact that Hoddle needs these players to work or he's going to be on the managerial scrap heap. There are signs that the deadwood that for so long has blighted the Spurs cause is now finally dwindling - gone are the mediocre international nobodies (Thatcher, Freund, Sherwood, Iversen, and so on)...

For Spurs I hope - a season to remember!!!!

Friday, August 01, 2003

so its August - my favourite month of the year - and with it comes excitement of a kind I have never experienced before. Why? Cos this month I am 25 - and despite this I am as optimistic about life as I have felt in years.

To summarise -

Hannah is ace - and despite being a bit narked with me for not having spent much time with her this week, she's fab.

Surfless - the band is going SOooooooooo well - better than I ever dreamed and hoped it couldBR>
Work is dead cool - I have been getting contacts to buy things loads recently....which is my job!

So what else is new? I have a couple of new friends called Tom and Jessie - both really cool - Jessie if from the US (Chicago I think) and is a droll dry yank who understands sarcasm and irony - and has destroyed around 10 stereotypes I previously nurtured about our cousins.....there will be more to come I am sure.

I really don't have a great deal more that i can talk about at the moment and since I am at work and have meetings galore I'd best go - but I am still alive!!!

Thursday, July 17, 2003

I have been singing its praises for years - and now apparently - its a cancer preventer!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm


Can't follow that can I !!!!

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Oops - just realised its approaching a month since I last updated this - so - whats been going down???


Work is hot and frantic at the moment and I am also mulling a change - although what that will be or involve I don't know. I think its something about almost being 25 - I feel like I should be achieving more - and possibly positioning myself in a higher pay bracket....

Still - I love working here and if it weren't so damned hot in the office I would like it even more.....

Nicki sold her soul for £8.25 in the end - amazingly enough, and as she knows where the guy lives I guess she will be able to go and collect should he not pay out for it....I think she's planning to sell her free will and spirit next - although I did suggest she sell her undying love to someone too.....

I have been watching the media circus going crazy in the last few days again - basically if its not sensation about David Beckham. its sleaze with Jordan. She's apparently had a roll in the hay with young Gareth Gates, poor boy must have not known what hit him - do I have that to come if Surfless became the next big thing tomorrow? Who's at the door - oooh its Katie Price with a selection of body chocolates and sex toys.... hmmm - its got its appeal.....:)

In all seriousness she's a tramp in the limelight - and Beckham is just a very well managed puppet - and to be honest I don't believe its entirely Posh doing it - she's just not clever enough. She has however "George W Bush-styley" surrounded herself with very sharp media people - and exploited her and his status to the nth degree.

I just had a major attack of sleepiness - and thus I am going to go and do some work - will blog some more later!!!!

Friday, June 27, 2003

Thats right - my mate Nicki is so skint that she has decided to sell her soul to the highest bidder....


Details of this can be found here:

The offer includes service for eternity and a nice certificate which Nicki will lovingly make for you. She's accrued three bidders so far - none of which have used the obvious D.Evil or S.Atan as their names - so she's safe so far.

To pray for my friend's safety - as well as a return of her clearly abscent sanity - simply address an email to god@heaven.gov - he doesn't get it direct but one of the disciples (presumably Andrew - the gobby one) will deal with your request.....

The lengths some people will go to huh!?

Thursday, June 26, 2003

ok - so last night I was seriously deprived of sleep: so much so that I have walked around practically surgically attached to both coffee cup and red bull can today. But it was one of those nights......

First there was the nookie - now I have been devoid of sex for so long that this can't - frankly - go on long enough. However, at the point at which carnal desire is sated generally the whole system turns around and says SLEEP. We tried - but thats where it all went wrong.

First it was my clock. Its loud. Very Loud. So loud in fact that if you are daft enough to focus your mind on it for a second or two - thats all it takes - then all of a sudden thats all you can hear. So the battery came out of the clock.

Next my flat mate (off to Glastonbury during the night) decided to cook, wash up, wash some clothes, and wear hobnail boots while doing it all. Not forgetting the effing Megaphone. So at 04:15 I am lying in bed having sourced some ear plugs for both of us - well - three anyway - so I only have one in - and then the cats start. Two cats clearly with an eye on Eurovision 2004 were doing what can only be called a very accurate impersonation of the sound of someone having their toe nails ripped off with a pair of pliers. They were too far away for a well placed shoe in the gob - so I had to wait til some other sex crazed insomniac dealt with them by launching something appropriately weighty into their midst.....

So, in my mental dartboard at the moment there's a picture of garfield - a picture of emma and a washing machine.....

AND I HAVE SOME FUCKING BIG DARTS.....