Friday 18 Jan
Snow
Park and Ride
Town
Deb Friend
Me walk
Apple store
iPhone 5
Blizzard
Witherspoon’s
Wireless connection
Micro Brewery beer
Catch bus no stay pub
Arse over Tit car park
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
My Mum's Birthday Thursday Jan 17 2012
My Mother was born 91 yrs ago today and my Godmother 92yrs ago today. Both are now long dead and for two people who played such a huge role in my early life I rarely if ever think of them. Strangely enough I was far more effected by my Father’s death 12 years ago than I was of my mothers 17yrs ago. This would seem so odd to me because I was extremely close to my Mum when I was a child but never realyy felt as if I bonded with my Dad. I was a fat short sighted geeky kid with bad eyesight (unknown until age 11) who was utterly useless at any sports. Given that my Dad’s life revolved around sport, if you told him there was international competitive watching paint dry on one TV channel and the live Moon landing on the other he’d watch the paint drying because it was advertised as a sport. So you see nothing in common; add to this that my Dad was a typical 1950/60’s father, he went to work and the pub, and a man with such a short fuse that he could have an argument with a mirror* you can see that the odds weren’t exactly stacked in favour of us finding that we had a lot in common. I was a veracious reader and he didn’t read his novel, so far as I’m aware, for the first time until I’d left for University (strangely he got hooked on reading for a few months but then dropped it and, so far as I know, never again read a book). So why was I effected more by his death than theirs and why did I brood on his so much afterward?
I think the answer comes down to missed opportunities; as I said I was very close to my Mother when I was small, we had an extremely close and loving bond plus I spent the entire summer holidays for age 5 staying in Porthcawl with my Godmother (Aunty Tess) and establish a similar bond with her. The only close male relationship I had was with my Uncle Herb (the Richard’s family’s intellectual) and its perhaps for this reason that I’ve always been comfortable in the company of females (despite looking like the back end of a bus and being fat and sexually unsuccessful in my teens … perhaps I was their non gay gay friend) and really only comfortable in male company when I’ve been playing the super clown role. Who knows those are issues for another day. So back to the original question; how come I accepted the death of my Mother quite calmly but was knocked for six by the death of my Dad.
Part of the reason must hinge around expectation, my Mother was ill for a number of years before her heart attack and so he eventual passing, whilst a shock, had been expected. As for my Aunty Tess, for various reasons, I’d not seen since the mid 1980’s so when my Dad told me she had died, a few months after it happened, I suppose time and distance also softened the shock although I was racked with guilt that I’d not seen her for so long and never got to see her before she died. She went a bit bonkers in later years (there was a strong streak of madness in her family apparently) and she had made me promise, when I was a child, that if that happened to her I wouldn’t go visit but rather would remember her the way she was. Perhaps, subconsciously, I was honouring that promise but really I don’t know.
I never managed to father a child whilst my Mother and Aunt lived; despite increasingly desperate efforts Deb did not fall pregnant until we had been married for over 16 years. My mother passed away in 1995 and her first grandchild finally appeared in Oct 1997. Tess had also gone by this time and so really my only surviving close relative was my dad and he was smitten with his grandson. For the first time in our lives he and I connected via Nat and this was fantastic. Hadn’t realised how much I wanted this. Then we had another pregnancy that ended in tragedy (Katie was still born dying only 10 days before her expected delivery date) and then there was a third that resulted in Hannah. She was born in December 2000 and in January 2001 my father suffered a massive stroke and a week later died. His Mum had lived until she was 96 and only passed then due to a bad fall and he at 79 was as fit as a fiddle and looked hardly any older than he had when I was a kid. I think I’d expected him to be there while both the kids grew up, to share in their achievements and to tell me that I’d turned out to be a bloody good Dad and finally give me some of the praise I been denied as a child but; the s*d spoiled it all by being awkward enough to die unexpectedly. This was why I brooded I was angry that after all this time after finally establishing a non-confrontational relationship the old blighter went and died on me!
Oddly Nat kind of remembers Granddad Bill even though the last time he saw him, before we visited him in hospital, was in October of 2000 when we were returning from a brief holiday in Pembroke. Nat had his third birthday that October so he’s got a heck of a memory in so far as he remembers the earlier visits. Hannah of course being only 10 weeks old when he died has no memories to remember.
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
File Transfers: Sorting Out The Hard Drives
Little that I recollect; I don’t think today was the day I transferred lots of stuff between the PC hard drive and the external hard drive although I did do that at some point in the last week. Finally began to try and organise all the book files by transferring them all over to the existing book file on the external hard drive. When I’ve sorted them out and tried to remove as many duplicates as I can I plan to put them on the other hard drive and use the large hard drive for mainly video and audio media. This is not going to be a quick job as I’ve over 200 gigabytes of booked and as a 1,000 page book only requires 1 megabyte of space that equates to something like 400,000 500 page books. I don’t believe that’s correct so the first thing to do is find out what other files have been inadvertently stored in this file and remove them. I’m hoping these include a whole load of movies in order to bring down the file size by a significant amount.
Friday, 18 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
My Mum's Birthday Revised
Thursday 17 Jan
My Mother was born 91 yrs ago today and my Godmother 92yrs ago today. Both are now long dead and for two people who played such a huge role in my early life I rarely if ever think of them. Strangely enough I was far more effected by my Father’s death 12 years ago than I was of my mothers 17yrs ago. This would seem so odd to me because I was extremely close to my Mum when I was a child but never realyy felt as if I bonded with my Dad. I was a fat short sighted geeky kid with bad eyesight (unknown until age 11) who was utterly useless at any sports. Given that my Dad’s life revolved around sport, if you told him there was international competitive watching paint dry on one TV channel and the live Moon landing on the other he’d watch the paint drying because it was advertised as a sport. So you see nothing in common; add to this that my Dad was a typical 1950/60’s father, he went to work and the pub, and a man with such a short fuse that he could have an argument with a mirror* you can see that the odds weren’t exactly stacked in favour of us finding that we had a lot in common. I was a veracious reader and he didn’t read his novel, so far as I’m aware, for the first time until I’d left for University (strangely he got hooked on reading for a few months but then dropped it and, so far as I know, never again read a book). So why was I effected more by his death than theirs and why did I brood on his so much afterward?
I think the answer comes down to missed opportunities; as I said I was very close to my Mother when I was small, we had an extremely close and loving bond plus I spent the entire summer holidays for age 5 staying in Porthcawl with my Godmother (Aunty Tess) and establish a similar bond with her. The only close male relationship I had was with my Uncle Herb (the Richard’s family’s intellectual) and its perhaps for this reason that I’ve always been comfortable in the company of females (despite looking like the back end of a bus and being fat and sexually unsuccessful in my teens … perhaps I was their non gay gay friend) and really only comfortable in male company when I’ve been playing the super clown role. Who knows those are issues for another day. So back to the original question; how come I accepted the death of my Mother quite calmly but was knocked for six by the death of my Dad.
Part of the reason must hinge around expectation, my Mother was ill for a number of years before her heart attack and so he eventual passing, whilst a shock, had been expected. As for my Aunty Tess, for various reasons, I’d not seen since the mid 1980’s so when my Dad told me she had died, a few months after it happened, I suppose time and distance also softened the shock although I was racked with guilt that I’d not seen her for so long and never got to see her before she died. She went a bit bonkers in later years (there was a strong streak of madness in her family apparently) and she had made me promise, when I was a child, that if that happened to her I wouldn’t go visit but rather would remember her the way she was. Perhaps, subconsciously, I was honouring that promise but really I don’t know.
I never managed to father a child whilst my Mother and Aunt lived; despite increasingly desperate efforts Deb did not fall pregnant until we had been married for over 16 years. My mother passed away in 1995 and her first grandchild finally appeared in Oct 1997. Tess had also gone by this time and so really my only surviving close relative was my dad and he was smitten with his grandson. For the first time in our lives he and I connected via Nat and this was fantastic. Hadn’t realised how much I wanted this. Then we had another pregnancy that ended in tragedy (Katie was still born dying only 10 days before her expected delivery date) and then there was a third that resulted in Hannah. She was born in December 2000 and in January 2001 my father suffered a massive stroke and a week later died. His Mum had lived until she was 96 and only passed then due to a bad fall and he at 79 was as fit as a fiddle and looked hardly any older than he had when I was a kid. I think I’d expected him to be there while both the kids grew up, to share in their achievements and to tell me that I’d turned out to be a bloody good Dad and finally give me some of the praise I been denied as a child but; the s*d spoiled it all by being awkward enough to die unexpectedly. This was why I brooded I was angry that after all this time after finally establishing a non-confrontational relationship the old blighter went and died on me!
Oddly Nat kind of remembers Granddad Bill even though the last time he saw him, before we visited him in hospital, was in October of 2000 when we were returning from a brief holiday in Pembroke. Nat had his third birthday that October so he’s got a heck of a memory in so far as he remembers the earlier visits. Hannah of course being only 10 weeks old when he died has no memories to remember.
*Incidentally my Mother too could have an argument with a mirror so my memories of childhood are filled with endless arguments with me usually at the centre of them (this is why I get angry when the kids start bitching with each other because it triggers, what Deborah used to refers to, as my Wales mode where I get into my teenage mind set and just let rip too
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
blog
And another one bites the dust … Today Blockbuster video went into administration so that’s Jessop’s HMV and Blockbuster within a week so who’s next
Helicopter crash USA
Nat forgot rugby training
Longer walk Monty
Bed by 11 but still shattered when woke
When did my stomach get so big.
Blog 15/1
Walking Monty twice as far today.
Bye Bye HMV after 90 yrs HMV finally falls foul of the digital revolution in music delivery. Pretty Darwinian I’m afraid it’s adapted or die and they didn’t adapt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21028024
Phone battery flat gotta to back to phone shop
Need to contact T-Mobile about end of phone contract
Went to bed 11am slept all day still woke exhausted
Kids written thank you notes for Di so now must address envelope and send music pen drives
Hannah cooked fagots and mash this evening but couldn’t eat it all too tired to feel hungry … lucky Monty
Came across controversy about poem V by Tony Harrison to be broadcast on radio 4 after causing controversy on channel 4 in 1980’s
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5618/
Given it was objected to by a Tory grandee who hadn’t bothered to even read it I feel it’s my duty to both read it and to listen to the broadcast of it being read if possible
Payments by text message service to launch in
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013
FW: Presents from America
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The Xmas package from D in
When delivered it weighed a ton and that was because it contained two cans of beer kits and a bottle of beer plus a hydrometer and a box of forking band-aids.
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Monday, 14 January 2013
Tee Shirts ... Need to find correct word for rehearsal
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Thursday, 10 January 2013
brockington fire bug
A very naughty your 7 boy today try to burn down the school. The police put him on the naughty step before they smashed his head in with a brick.
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
nexus 7 and mifi links
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Monday, 7 January 2013
draft blog week Sun 16 - sat 22 Dec
Sunday
Rugby Burton on
Nat thought he’d broken his nose.
Set up Nooks for Hannah and Deb few days ago
Put 30 plus Jacqueline Wilson books on Han’s Nook
Monday
Hannah still unwell and off school for the day
Spent day fetching and carrying for her and cold flannel
Put all Harry Potter Novels and Beadle the bard, Fantastic creatures and quidditch books on too
Took Nat to see Doctor Gordon who said have to wait 2 weeks before can check nose
Tuesday
Wednesday
Phone to Car phone warehouse for repair
Discussing phones for daughters with other parents there BBM
Looked at MiFi’s
Booked flights for holiday
Leaving 16/7/13 returning 16/8/13
Flying United Airlines … Cheap seats innit
Lost iPod
Thursday
Di Tweet on CNN
Got Nexus cover
Wiped nexus!!!
Wtf Nexus
Found lost iPod
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Long chat with Julie tonight about whether she should get divorced 9 after 13yr separation from cheating husband and / or make a will and whether she should send her ex their son’s details so he can transfer some property he owns into his son’s name apparently to avoid it being taken by French state if he dies. Checked French intestacy law and this is total bull.
Sandi in with us tonight, think next week will be last time before she trf to bali’s team full time
Solved her ps3 logic puzzle for her
Chatted to di about comedy festival,
Watched another photography course video and tried to watch episode of 24 9series 40 but gave up after Julie kept asking more questions
Instead finished bad science by Ben goldacre
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Sunday, 6 January 2013
Brewing Links
http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/index.htm
Leicester Beer Festival
http://www.leicestercamra.org.uk/Festivals/2013festival.shtml
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Friday, 4 January 2013
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