Well it is now officially a year until I go. I can’t wait. My work has asked me to extend my contract until end of June 2008 and then I am off. We are still in negotiations as they want me to have insurance that they can claim against in case I [...]

Today the celebrations for Canada which is on 1st July were held in Trafalgar Square so I went along after work and checked out some of the bands that were playing and went for a wonder with my mate around Covent Garden.
We also passed Haymarket Street which is just around from Trafalgar Square where the [...]

By the Sunday morning I was wondering around Glastonbury looking for some toilets that I could bare the smell of and weren’t too messy while I was getting more muddy and miserable by the minute. Sitting disconsolated on a seat in the rain I found myself near the Healing Field and decided that [...]

I was over Glastonbury before even getting there. Part of it was having just been to a festival, also a lot of the people I know who used to go weren’t going this year and I wasn’t going with a female friend to run around checking out all the bands with. I decided [...]

We played softball against another company tonight and I got a home run. Technically speaking three other people came up to bat while I was making my home run but when you consider that my first time up to bat I was so pleased I hit the ball I forgot to run and the [...]

Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king of Uruk (present day Iraq) but is also a restaurant lounge bar upstairs over the Camden market. It can hold over a thousand people and is opulently decorated in a Babylonian theme but serves Pan Asian food.
It is my mates birthday on Thursday so I took her out for [...]

Last night I had a date with a guy doing his doctorate in psychology. After an evening of probing me about my family history he analysed me as normal which was nice coming from an almost professional. A lot of times when I mention that I am on internet dating sites people say [...]

After reading this book on Saturday about a girl’s hedonistic working holiday to Australia I was left in slightly bleak mood so it was nice on Sunday morning to get up bright and early and meet Lisa to go through the business plan and costings for the male cosmetic products, come back home and talk [...]

I thought that the best way to get over that bloke was go on a few internet dates. I am not so sure now. I am beginning to believe the people who tell me that I should stop trying and it will happen when I least expect it. To which I usually [...]

Ok, I finally have admitted it to myself. I really don’t like DIY. I have had a shower rail that I have been meaning to put up since Jan. I finally got around to trying to drill into the ceiling a few weeks ago but the holes weren’t deep enough so I [...]

At Toastmasters you not only have to do speeches but also other roles within the club and at meetings. So on Monday evening after a mere three hours of sleep I had signed up to be the table topic master which involves asking people at the meeting to come up and speak for a [...]

On Sunday morning we got up and took the bike around the Island as it is only 17 miles across. I can see why people fall in love with it. We went through this old town where all the buildings had thatched roofs and then past some amazing gardens before riding out of [...]

The Red Arrows are the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) aerobatic team and they did a display on Saturday over the festival. I must admit it was incredibly impressive how fast they went, how close they flew to each other and turning upside down and spinning around.
The rest of the day was spent lying around [...]

I didn’t realise until I started looking at my ticket and directions that we would be leaving from Southhampton to get to the Isle of Wight for the festival so we ended up having to leave at eleven in the morning so I started work at seven. I was quite nervous about riding to [...]

Yesterday I picked up my f650 from Burwins. Apparently the cause of failure was old age. The spark plug caps needed replacing and water builds up in your fuel tank over the years so that needed to be drained. But it seems to run fine now.
It is really strange riding it again [...]