The Day The Music Died

Hello Hello

Yes i know i'm late (again) with posting a blog for you but hey life isn't as exciting as my fellow bloggers, so on with the blog...

I will start last Friday evening, Kieron had invited his mate Jim round as he hadn't seen him for ages as he's been living with his girlfriend in Cardiff, so he went to pick Jim up and the engine light came on, he wasn't happy! So when he got home he told me about the engine light!

So bright and early Saturday morning i rang Bristol Street Motors in Moseley to book us in for a diagnostic check, we were booked for Tuesday morning! Excellent

So that afternoon me and Rosey went into Town so that i could get a dress for Emily's 21st birthday and also so that Rosey could find some shoes to match her dress.

I was going to drive in but didn't want to risk it with the engine light on the car, so we decided to get the train from Widney Manor (where Dan kindly dropped us off!). We got off at Moor Street and we were feeling a bit peckish so headed over to Subway, the queue was outside the door and just at that moment it started to rain - brilliant! Luckliy the queue moved fairly quickly and it wasn't long before we got served.

Once we got our food we headed for Bullring, now Rosey has never been shopping in Bullring before (apart from once when i took her to see my friend at Starbucks but that was really just inside the door and therefore doesn't count!). It was a bit busy in Bullring but we managed to get around, we went everywhere, Oasis, Wallis, Warehouse, West One, Jones, Dune, Next, Topshop, New Look, Quiz, Logo all to no avail! Logo did have a nice dress which i liked but it had bits of blue in it!

Now piece of info for you - Emily (Birthday Girl) had her dress made and and the material was blue! Now we didn't want rain on Emily's parade and we therefore decided (and was actually also told) not to wear blue.

So i decided to leave the dress in Logo as i didn't want to upset Emily. We walked through Bullring into the pallisades to go to Select, to see if they had anything and guess what....

...they didn't!

By this time i was feeling a little deflatted, all i wanted was a simple, light summer dress so we walked out of Select and then....................

......there it was! Looking straight at me! It was a shop called Venue in Pallisades, just a little clothes shop, no big brand names or anything, i ran straight for it! It was a simple dress (just like i asked for) black with white flowers all over and tiny little sleeves! And for a bargain at £18! I was really chuffed.

So our next mission was to find Rosey some shoes, we went to Faith and Clarkes both had reasonable shoes that Rosey liked but they either had too large of a heel for her or wrong colour! It was getting late and Rosey decided to leave it as she was going shopping with Lindsey and would have another look then!

It was late afternoon when we got back to Widney Manor and Rosey dropped me back home. Jim had come round the flat (again) so i decided to chill out on my organ!

Sunday was Father's Day, me and Gaz popped round Nan and Grandad's house to give him our prezzie, we had some apple pie and wine and had a chat. We didn't stay too long as i had to get back to do the shopping.

Later that evening we went down to Nanny E's as usual for some tea!

Now if you don't mind i will move onto Tuesday as not alot happened on Monday!!! So Tuesday i got up to go to work but the car needed to go into the garage, so i drove to Bristol Street Motors in Moseley, dropped my car off and got on the 50 bus in Moseley to get to work!

I was walking down to work when my phone rang, it was the garage. They had already discovered what was wrong with it and they were fixing it straight a way! I couldn't believe it, it had only been 20 mins since i had left the car!! The car has 3 years warranty so they just carried on and fixed it and sent the invoice to the warranty people (which was for £137 - Nice!)

So the car is running absolutley fine, which was good 'cos Wednesday evening me, Rosey and Dan were going over to Emily's. I picked up Rosey just gone 7.30 we zoomed over to Dan's and then headed over to Emily's. She wanted some baby photos put up at her 21st party and she needed our help (obviously we were going to pick the most embarrasing ones!!)

She had a massive box and loads of folders with photos and we had a great night trundling through them all! A lot of them bought back classic memories from college and we had a great laugh! Although it was getting rather late so we left about 10.30pm and i got back home just turned 11 which wasn't bad!

Nothing happened Thursday! So on with Friday, work was boring so that evening me and Kieron had a night in. I decided it was about time to update some songs on my ipod and also it needed charging!

So i plugged it into Kieron's PC and it started to charge (good times!) went to open itunes and it came up with an error message saying that Quicktime hadn't installed properly (bad times!). So i thought maybe it needs an update, so i downloaded the new Quicktime and it still wouldn't load, so i downloaded the new version of itunes and it still wouldn't open, by this point i was getting really annoyed so i deleted itunes entirely and reinstalled it AND IT STILL WOULDN'T OPEN!!!!! ARGHHH!

If you are reading this and you were considering getting an ipod, here's my advice - DON'T! You may be laughing but really DON'T! Don't even bother, don't even look at them, just keeping walking past tehm until you get to the Creative Zen's or Sony's or Samsung, just something that doesn't have this logo on it!!!!!So i lost my temper and unplugged my ipod from the computer and then it wouldn't turn on!

So i decided i had had enough and was going to spend my money on something much much more worth while!

Saturday morning i got up and my and Kieron went over to PC World in Shirley, we found the MP3 section and were looking at all the different variaties (excluding the ipods!!!) as we were looking some ASBO looking freak came trundling over and asked if we needed any help, Kieron asked him about the Sony Walkman range and asked for the details etc etc to which this ASBO freak replied

ASBO" Ahhh rite if it's an MP3 you want you want one of d'ese" (pointing to the range of ipods!)

K: "No mate we've just had an ipod, it's broke and i hate them, so what about the Sony's?"

ASBO: "Which one di' you 'ave?"
K: "The nano mark 1"
ASBO: "Ahhh rite, yea they're well rubbish, you'll want the original ipod - they're well betar!"
K: "No i don't want any kind of ipod"

ASBO: "So wot isit you are looking for"
K: "A sony walkman MP3 player"
ASBO "Oh *pause* they're there (points to them on the shelf"

And then he just walked away! But eventually we walked away (obviously buying it first) with a Sony Walkman NWA805 - much much much better, simplier and less strssful to use!

We then called in to mum's to see nan & grandad for a bit before we had to go home to get ready to go to Emily's party.

We arrived at Emily's party just gone 7pm and it wasn't long before the disco was underway and everbody started to arrive. Our group sat at one (and quite small) table right next to the stage and dancefloor.

Her brother Niall and some of his friends had come wearing hula skirts(with trousers underneath) and neck things. At one point they took their trousers off, however we were much too clever and Jim quickly locked the trousers in the girls toilets! (which i had to retrieve later by sliding under the toilet door!)

During the course of the evening Emily and Jim got up to say a few thank you's to people, obviously her mum & dad, Jean who made her dress, Jim's mum & dad (i think), her sister Aimee for helping out along with her brother Niall and then Rosey & Dan for helping out aswell. Now Rosey and Dan had been at Emily's since 11am that morning helping her get everything organised and also in the weeks before Rosey had taken Emily out to get things for her party. Now because i'm at work from 9-5.30 i didn't help out ,which was totally fine, Rosey is very good at organising so i knew she would have most stuff in control and plus which i thought if istarted interferring all i was going to do was probably get in the way! So there was Emily giving Rosey and Dan they're little prezzie's and cards and then she said "Next we have Sel!"

WHAT?!?!??! ME?!??! I didn't do anything! I was really chuffed that she thought of me but i really didn't do anything! I got up and collected my card and jim handed me a bottle of wine nad i sat down, Emily then explained that i had helped out doing the photo's! Yeah but anyone can look through a pile of photo's! I was very very grateful to both of them, and i'm still a little shocked! The evening went really well and just to top off the evening Jim and Emily announced they were engaged!!!

Me and Kieron left about 11pm and i went straight to bed when i got home!

Well i think i will leave it there for now guys!

See ya next time!

"...Delta squadron, do you read me? Over..."

Hello there fellow peeps,

Well you'll be glad to know that my bruises have finally gone after going Paintballing the other weekend.

Well last week not alot happened, work was the same so i will start with Thursday (as that is where the fun started!!) Kieron managed to finish work early, he got back to the flat for 4.30pm, he checked the post to find that our Bank statement had come through so this meant one thing....

..We could get our car!!! He quickly rang me, so i quickly organised with work and Carcraft that we would go down and get it (once and for all!!!)

Kieron picked me up after work and had already got the documents with him so we sped down the M5/6 . There was a little traffic but nothing Kieron couldn't deal with and we arrived just gone 6.30pm (impressive!).

We were soon greeted by Chris, our sales rep and he took us to the car. It was lovely, sitting there all shiny. We decided to take it for a test drive, it's very nippy, and i forgot that the brakes were a hell of alot better than my old fiesta, i came up to one junction and applied that brakes, the car stopped very quick and poor Chris' head nearly went through the windscreen!!!

We got back to the depot and we decided that we would have it. We were quickly introduced to Mark one of the finance guys, he went through all the legal and money side stuff and before we knew it, i had the keys in my hand!!

I followed Kieron back down the motorway. It took us about an hour to get back home. So we have our little car which is great, but it also means we've started arguing who drives it!!!

Friday work was the same but in the evening me, Kieron and Gareth went to see Oceans 13, i won't say too much incase some of you haven't seen it, but it was a fairly good film but i thought it was dragged on a bit!!!

We dropped Gaz home, and we went back to the flat and decided to go straight to bed.

Saturday was a good day, the morning really i spent doing some tidying up in the flat, i then went to mums in the afternoon, Gaz wasn't there 'cos he'd gone to Drayton Manor for the day. Kie came with me to mum's we had a nice couple of glasses of wine, but we had to head off as we had been invited over to Steve and Natalie's for the evening. We were all in the living room having a chat and a laugh, but we were all getting hungry so me and Nat dived into the car and went and fetched a chinese. I had sweet and sour chicken (cantonese style) with egg fried rice, Kieron had Chicken curry and Steve and Natalie had a combination of things, they had rice, dry spare ribs, and this lamb thingy which looked quite horrible.

It was a good night especially as we don't get to see Steve and Nat very much. But it was getting late and we decided to call it a night!

Sunday morning i was up bright and early (again!) as me, dad and Gareth were going to Cosford Airshow. We went many years ago so i knew what to expect. I was a bit dubious as i knew it would ahve a changed a bit but i still went along, and i'm glad i did 'cos it was a really good day out!

After the traffic people sending us a mega long way round and then went on a 3 mile drive to park the car, we arrived! We had a quick sarnie and drink and made our way towards the show area. It was getting packed with people really quick but we got a decent spot. We set up camp (well deckchairs) and waited for the start of the show.

The show was packed with stunts and tricks, but by early afternoon The Red Arrows made their appearance. Each plane/group only had about 20-25mins to perform, The Red Arrows were about 10mins into theirs, when the commentator had to announce that Air Traffic Control had detected a small craft flying through the airspace without pemission, so the Arrows had to disperse and get out of the way incase there was an accident it took about 5mins for the craft to be safely out of the way. We found out that it was a hanglider!!!!! Amazing.

The Arrows were about to return when they were stopped AGAIN!! Another craft was flying through, this time it was a normal air glider. By the time that moved, time had ran out so hte Arrows came back to do one last stunt and that was it. It was a bit disappointing but there was nothing anybody could have done!

One of the last performances was a demonstration by the RAF. They demonstrated the real purposes for the planes they use. The scenario was the field we were watching was an enemy base and the RAF were going to scan it, take out any grounded planes, take out any troops, bring in reinforces if an enemy planes were coming in and eventually take over the field! The demonstration took 45mins and it was brilliant. There were explosions and choppers landing, at one point this Hercules' landed and then reversed straight back up the runway to take off again! It was really good how they did it and it was the best part of the day for me!

But soon it was time to go home, although it took us 2 hours to get off the car park!!! We went to nans for a bit of tea but i was knackered so i went home and caught up with Doctor Who!!!!

So that's it for now, see ya!!!

Ow - My Eye!!!!

Hello again

Well time for another update!!

So where shall i start, hmmm, ah yes....I went back to work on the Tuesday after the Bank Holiday, there wasn't much to do and it was pretty much like that all week.

Wednesday i called round dad's house because he had some typing he wanted me to do. I was there for about an hour before going home.

Thursday i had a phone call from Carcraft to say that the car was back on site and whenever i was ready i could come down. Well i have already decided i want the car but because i'm having it on finance i need two proof's of address, so i am waiting for my bank statement or my new water bill (which i have both requested!) to come through the post which will be hopefully end of this week/beginning of next!!!!

Friday was a good night, Gareth, Carl and John came round the flat again to play on the xbox. We watched the first half of the friendly between England and Brazil, which i thought was a very good game especially with the fianl result being 1-1. The lads started off with Guitar Hero 2 and then finished off with Halo 3 Beta! We had a couple of beers and a laugh, but it was getting on for 1am so the guys left and i went straight to bed.

Saturday was a bit of a busy day, me and Kieron spent the morning tidying up the flat before going to do the shopping, when we got back it was coming up to 1.30pm and my nan and grandad arrived to take me to mums.

Grandad decided to help mum fix her dishwasher that has been broken for the last month so whilst they were doing that, me and Gareth went to Kings Heath so i could pick up some cheap boots for our day on Sunday!!!!!

When we got back, grandad had opened our afternoon bottle of wine. Nan and Grandad left about 5pm as me and Gaz were going out. We had been invited over to Andy and Lorraines, for a bit of a get-together! We quickly popped back to my flat so i could pick some stuff up and then we set off!

We got there just before 6pm and Andy settled us in with a drink. Sophie and her boyfriend Grant was there and Lindsey had come up for the weekend. It was really nice to see her again, she's such a nutter. Shortly after Dad arrived on his Goldwing!

We decided to sit outside as it was a gorgeous, sunny afternoon. We were out tehre most of the night untill Andy wanted to show us the video from our Ski holiday. It's been 2 months since we went and already there were bits i had forgotten about. We had a great laugh watching the video as there were some classic parts! But it was getting quite late and me and Gareth had to be up early the next morning...why?......

....because we were going paintballing!!!!!

Sunday morning arrived too quickly, me and Kieron were up early so we could get a decent breakfast before we set off. We got to Gareth's about 7.40am and we quickly drove off.
Unfortunately the directions Gareth had got off the internet decided to send us the long way round but with a bit of navigation from Kieron and driving skill from Gareth me made it on time at 9am.

We went to a place called SAS Paintball which was in Wolverhampton, we had never been there before. We had been invited there by John Hands (one of the original skiing crew!) who we hadn't seen since my birhtday last year, everyone were quickly arriving. Theer was roughly about 30 of us and of them the only people i knew were John, his sister Michelle and his Dad Brian, Pete Twist and a guy called Colin (who comes to Ladies night and for some reason i think his name's Tony!).

We were quickly issued with our overalls and equipment which was followed by our brief safety instructions, we then had 5 mins to get ourselves sorted before going out to our first game.

Now unfortunatley our day was a little ruined by 2 things: 1 - the other team (Green) were obviously cheating Gareth, Kieron and even John had witnessed them wiping off the paint and carrying on and 2- the Marsahll's didn't do a thing about it!

The places we have been to before the Marshall's hate people who cheat and give a fair punishment to anybody who does but not these guys!! Also there was one match where we were indoors and i had to go one on one with the opposition, but fair enough he got me first and as i was walking away as a "dead" player, he fired straight at me which got me right on my mask. It really did stun me for a few minutes because i jsut wasn't expecting it, Kieron was very annoyed and wanted to find out who it was htat did it, but we never did!

We did have a good day though, apart from coming away with bruises galore and aching muscles!!! We left at about 3.30pm and went home (which we went a much easier and simplier route!). Gareth came round to the flat for a bit with his xbox and played a Star Trek game before going to see nan as usual!!

And that was pretty much my weekend, untill next time,

Toodily-Pip!!