Steve from England

Before heading off on holiday! Tomorrow we head south to Ashford and thence, onwards to France on Sunday and Disneyland! Our plans have changed, this is not entirely the holiday we planned. It’ll be good anyway. It is nice to have someone at home looking after the place for us. Am going to miss, Anne, Matt and Immy but, it’s only a week so back soon enough. This week has been eventful and, then again, not so. Promises were made, as yet, no sign anything is changing. That’s annoying because, as with Martin Luther … ‘I have a dream’. Sadly, as with his dream, it may take decades to come true, if it ever does! My general rule is, our kids come first unless we can sneak some time for ourselves in their somewhere. If we see our friends more often than we see our kids, we have it, totally, 100% wrong buster! I was once offered a millionaire lifestyle. All I had to do was move away from my kids and just see them now and then. He was a lovely guy too, something could have worked but,...

Before heading off on holiday! Tomorrow we head south to Ashford and thence, onwards to France on Sunday and Disneyland! Our plans have changed, this is not entirely the holiday we planned. It’ll be good anyway. It is nice to have someone at home looking after the place for us. Am going to miss, Anne, Matt and Immy but, it’s only a week so back soon enough. This week has been eventful and, then again, not so. Promises were made, as yet, no sign anything is changing. That’s annoying because, as with Martin Luther … ‘I have a dream’. Sadly, as with his dream, it may take decades to come true, if it ever does! My general rule is, our kids come first unless we can sneak some time for ourselves in their somewhere. If we see our friends more often than we see our kids, we have it, totally, 100% wrong buster! I was once offered a millionaire lifestyle. All I had to do was move away from my kids and just see them now and then. He was a lovely guy too, something could have worked but,...

Nice to have the family over this weekend. I am still feeling rather stressed, I need a holiday .. oh wait! Looking forward to having some Immy time on Wednesday even though I do still have to work part of the day and, some Jermaine time here on Friday afternoon. They couldn’t come earlier so it seems pointless going into town. Met with Javis earlier, went well I think. He has a lot of serious thinking to do. I guess Facebook will give us most of the answers on what he’s decided but, I won’t be posting more on it here. A nice cup of coffee from my wonderful man, that deserves a hug me thinks

Nice to have the family over this weekend. I am still feeling rather stressed, I need a holiday .. oh wait! Looking forward to having some Immy time on Wednesday even though I do still have to work part of the day and, some Jermaine time here on Friday afternoon. They couldn’t come earlier so it seems pointless going into town. Met with Javis earlier, went well I think. He has a lot of serious thinking to do. I guess Facebook will give us most of the answers on what he’s decided but, I won’t be posting more on it here. A nice cup of coffee from my wonderful man, that deserves a hug me thinks

  Annoyingly, it didn’t sell My first attempt at selling something other than a car was a fail. Am relisting and trying a different marketing ploy but, what the hell do I know?! The bottom line is, this is a phone which, with a little shopping around, someone could get for about £70-80. We started it at £90 with a ‘Buy it now’ of £120. Well, that figure can stay, I don’t think it makes much difference. But, what I have done is lowered the start price to £65. With that, someone is getting it market value even including the P&P so, if they’ve done the homework, they’ll know it’s an OK deal. Sean thinks he can sell it locally for around £50-60 so, anything more than that is a bonus. In short, I now believe it is priced realistically and, on a good day with a following wind, it could still make that £120 figure simply because we have seen the same phone go for more. Listing is finished Saturday eve, we’ll see what happens. BTW, should anyone be tempted to look, please don’...

  Annoyingly, it didn’t sell My first attempt at selling something other than a car was a fail. Am relisting and trying a different marketing ploy but, what the hell do I know?! The bottom line is, this is a phone which, with a little shopping around, someone could get for about £70-80. We started it at £90 with a ‘Buy it now’ of £120. Well, that figure can stay, I don’t think it makes much difference. But, what I have done is lowered the start price to £65. With that, someone is getting it market value even including the P&P so, if they’ve done the homework, they’ll know it’s an OK deal. Sean thinks he can sell it locally for around £50-60 so, anything more than that is a bonus. In short, I now believe it is priced realistically and, on a good day with a following wind, it could still make that £120 figure simply because we have seen the same phone go for more. Listing is finished Saturday eve, we’ll see what happens. BTW, should anyone be tempted to look, please don’...

Yes, today is the day when Sean’s phone either sells or doesn’t. Last night there were 6 people watching it, this morning down to 5. I never really expected anyone to place a bid until at the earliest, an hour before the end time, around 9pm. Even so, all this waiting is … grrr! All I have sold previously is a car, true, a big thing to start with but, I am not an ebay regular so I don’t really understand the rules. Selling this phone would be amazing not because of the money but that I actually managed to sell something! Immy & Josh both fed and watered, shopping done, dishwasher emptied and put away, made breakfast for me n Deej and only just gone 10am! Best get back to it, Deej has been with both of them for 5 minutes now!

Yes, today is the day when Sean’s phone either sells or doesn’t. Last night there were 6 people watching it, this morning down to 5. I never really expected anyone to place a bid until at the earliest, an hour before the end time, around 9pm. Even so, all this waiting is … grrr! All I have sold previously is a car, true, a big thing to start with but, I am not an ebay regular so I don’t really understand the rules. Selling this phone would be amazing not because of the money but that I actually managed to sell something! Immy & Josh both fed and watered, shopping done, dishwasher emptied and put away, made breakfast for me n Deej and only just gone 10am! Best get back to it, Deej has been with both of them for 5 minutes now!

Just had some spilling mistooks pointed out to me from my last pist … am leafing them there as it’s just finnier thot wey!

Just had some spilling mistooks pointed out to me from my last pist … am leafing them there as it’s just finnier thot wey!

It is 2010 and I was on Facebook chatting to a female fried who seemed a little down and, guess what, a bloke joined in the tread and told me to fuck off! He then sent me a private message telling me to ‘fuck off faggot’! Needless to say he was blocked and reported but, apparently, he thought that this friend of mine was chatting me up so decided to start one. She told him he was so barking up the wrong tree and that’s when he started with the homophobia! Meanwhile … Bless him, dead tired and still laughing

It is 2010 and I was on Facebook chatting to a female fried who seemed a little down and, guess what, a bloke joined in the tread and told me to fuck off! He then sent me a private message telling me to ‘fuck off faggot’! Needless to say he was blocked and reported but, apparently, he thought that this friend of mine was chatting me up so decided to start one. She told him he was so barking up the wrong tree and that’s when he started with the homophobia! Meanwhile … Bless him, dead tired and still laughing

First, I so have to get more pics of Immy especially of her walking!  

First, I so have to get more pics of Immy especially of her walking!  

I should have explained that more … why? I hear you ask! OK, back on one of the very many occasions us and James were part of one happy family we did a trip to Disneyland. On the way back we’d booked to travel first class on the ferry. Desperate as he was James insisted on waiting so he could have a ‘first class poo’ … I guess you had to be there but, it was funny and, is one of those moments which make me sad for the way he subsequently treated us

I should have explained that more … why? I hear you ask! OK, back on one of the very many occasions us and James were part of one happy family we did a trip to Disneyland. On the way back we’d booked to travel first class on the ferry. Desperate as he was James insisted on waiting so he could have a ‘first class poo’ … I guess you had to be there but, it was funny and, is one of those moments which make me sad for the way he subsequently treated us

Yes, 2 weeks from today we are not going to be in Northampton but … in Kent overnight, watching Harry Potter, having a meal and then heading off to France for the week … yay! All animals looked after, house looked after, all good! Sean’s first trip out the country, Josh’s first trip out the country, Disneyland … first class poo, hotels, fun, relaxation … oh boy, I think I may be getting excited now.

Yes, 2 weeks from today we are not going to be in Northampton but … in Kent overnight, watching Harry Potter, having a meal and then heading off to France for the week … yay! All animals looked after, house looked after, all good! Sean’s first trip out the country, Josh’s first trip out the country, Disneyland … first class poo, hotels, fun, relaxation … oh boy, I think I may be getting excited now.

It is lovely to wake up to blue skies in the morning, it’s one of those ‘anything is possible’ sort of days but, I may choose to do nothing. Once again I have woken up with a headache. I don’t know why it is happening every morning and it is starting to get annoying … thankfully I have something to take, thank you Robin. Speaking of Robin … I’d like to thank him for being an amazing friend. Annoyingly he is undervalued, used and abused by too many. It would appear to that, at least my grandchildren type babies love him and he’d never have thought it possible to have any mutual feeling of happiness between him and a child I suspect! Kids make very quick judgements between good people and bad people. I was watching some video yesterday of the Boggy Creek airboat trip me and Deej will be doing next year. Hmm, I got the feeling it has the potential to disappoint! I was hoping it would be teaming with alligators, huge ones and yet, all the clips I saw seemed to just have baby alligato...

It is lovely to wake up to blue skies in the morning, it’s one of those ‘anything is possible’ sort of days but, I may choose to do nothing. Once again I have woken up with a headache. I don’t know why it is happening every morning and it is starting to get annoying … thankfully I have something to take, thank you Robin. Speaking of Robin … I’d like to thank him for being an amazing friend. Annoyingly he is undervalued, used and abused by too many. It would appear to that, at least my grandchildren type babies love him and he’d never have thought it possible to have any mutual feeling of happiness between him and a child I suspect! Kids make very quick judgements between good people and bad people. I was watching some video yesterday of the Boggy Creek airboat trip me and Deej will be doing next year. Hmm, I got the feeling it has the potential to disappoint! I was hoping it would be teaming with alligators, huge ones and yet, all the clips I saw seemed to just have baby alligato...

  I have to admit that I failed, yes eager reader, I failed to get a single picture which met my exacting requirements and so, I confess, the family pictures are edited! At this point we should have some sort of sinister music or something but, I am not entirely sure how, in a blog, to get the timing of that just right so, please feel free to insert some of your own. Below are the before’s and afters of the two pictures I took, the second does include me, thanks for noticing I wasn’t in the one I already posted! Each of the edited pictures is an amalgamation of several other pictures, one core picture with several elements overwritten. So, now you know, it’s all sort of fake but, any good? I’ll let you be the judge!

  I have to admit that I failed, yes eager reader, I failed to get a single picture which met my exacting requirements and so, I confess, the family pictures are edited! At this point we should have some sort of sinister music or something but, I am not entirely sure how, in a blog, to get the timing of that just right so, please feel free to insert some of your own. Below are the before’s and afters of the two pictures I took, the second does include me, thanks for noticing I wasn’t in the one I already posted! Each of the edited pictures is an amalgamation of several other pictures, one core picture with several elements overwritten. So, now you know, it’s all sort of fake but, any good? I’ll let you be the judge!

It took a lot of arranging to get everyone in the same place and time but, we managed it today and, I think the results look good!

It took a lot of arranging to get everyone in the same place and time but, we managed it today and, I think the results look good!

About my PC being fully functional again … I had not realised that one of the programs which seemed to be working fine had actually not installed properly and it meant my PC would not sync with my phone … when it tried, it deleted all my contacts and diary entries! All, thankfully, sorted now! Tomorrow I actually don’t have that much to do … oh dear, that statement again 

About my PC being fully functional again … I had not realised that one of the programs which seemed to be working fine had actually not installed properly and it meant my PC would not sync with my phone … when it tried, it deleted all my contacts and diary entries! All, thankfully, sorted now! Tomorrow I actually don’t have that much to do … oh dear, that statement again 

I was pointed toward a study piece today, it’s rather long and boring but, made a valid point all the same .. the link is here if you are interested As none of us really like long winded scientific stuff, here is the thrust of it … It is now widely accepted that some people are so stupid, they are too stupid to know they are stupid! Put another way, someone can make stupid decisions but, because they, as a person, are stupid, they have no idea their decisions are stupid so believe them to make perfect sense. If someone argued with them their decision was stupid they’d still not get it because they are stupid. So, for some people, until they ‘get’ that realisation that they may be stupid, they’ll simply have no concept that they are, in fact, stupid. Seems obvious but …. not if your stupid! How about this, it makes little sense on first reading and then, perfect sense afterwards … unless you are stupid of course: There are things we know we know about. There are things we...

I was pointed toward a study piece today, it’s rather long and boring but, made a valid point all the same .. the link is here if you are interested As none of us really like long winded scientific stuff, here is the thrust of it … It is now widely accepted that some people are so stupid, they are too stupid to know they are stupid! Put another way, someone can make stupid decisions but, because they, as a person, are stupid, they have no idea their decisions are stupid so believe them to make perfect sense. If someone argued with them their decision was stupid they’d still not get it because they are stupid. So, for some people, until they ‘get’ that realisation that they may be stupid, they’ll simply have no concept that they are, in fact, stupid. Seems obvious but …. not if your stupid! How about this, it makes little sense on first reading and then, perfect sense afterwards … unless you are stupid of course: There are things we know we know about. There are things we...

We are heading away from the dizzy heatwave of summer (I made that bit up) and heading for the long British winter. It does seem hard to believe with temperatures still around 17°C in places but it is November and, very soon, we shall be doing Christmas! We have a week in Disneyland Paris to look forward to very soon and, subject to the top box fitting the car (Sean), everything is looking good for that. Josh was in the Disney store earlier on today and was dancing away to one of the parade tunes from the large, in store screen, he does seem to enjoy his Disney. I am not quite so certain to how he will react to a 7’ Sully from Monsters Inc but who knows, he may be OK! Going into Christmas and it is quite clear who the important players are around that time. Not a lot has changed since Josh’s first Christmas last year but then it was uncertain where we were heading. I think events (or lack of them) from the past few months have demonstrated clearly that his family in Kent and Birmin...

We are heading away from the dizzy heatwave of summer (I made that bit up) and heading for the long British winter. It does seem hard to believe with temperatures still around 17°C in places but it is November and, very soon, we shall be doing Christmas! We have a week in Disneyland Paris to look forward to very soon and, subject to the top box fitting the car (Sean), everything is looking good for that. Josh was in the Disney store earlier on today and was dancing away to one of the parade tunes from the large, in store screen, he does seem to enjoy his Disney. I am not quite so certain to how he will react to a 7’ Sully from Monsters Inc but who knows, he may be OK! Going into Christmas and it is quite clear who the important players are around that time. Not a lot has changed since Josh’s first Christmas last year but then it was uncertain where we were heading. I think events (or lack of them) from the past few months have demonstrated clearly that his family in Kent and Birmin...

I am pleased to announce that, in near record time, I have gone from a poorly PC to a totally rebuilt (yes Sean, it is ‘rebuilt’) PC! It had far too much on it, too many little additions since I got the PC, too many new programs, upgrades and patches. Worse still, it would not synch with the Xbox downstairs! I made some changes to the distribution list, let me know if you want to still get this blog (or not). Got my Deej back today, I am a happy bunny

I am pleased to announce that, in near record time, I have gone from a poorly PC to a totally rebuilt (yes Sean, it is ‘rebuilt’) PC! It had far too much on it, too many little additions since I got the PC, too many new programs, upgrades and patches. Worse still, it would not synch with the Xbox downstairs! I made some changes to the distribution list, let me know if you want to still get this blog (or not). Got my Deej back today, I am a happy bunny