Good weekend

Saturday, met up with with some mates for a pub lunch. Met up with guys and gals, some of which I've met in real life before and others have only been on line. After the meal went off with one of the guys and did a geocache. Something I haven't done for ages.

Today, Sunday, been up to Popham airfield and had my stall there. Took a bit of money but not as much as usual. However seeing the lack of people up there today, I'm surprised we made anything at all.

Weekend

Well another weekend come and gone. Where did it go?

Friday night I spent a couple of hours typing out an on-line job application form. Only to discover after submitting the form that it hadn’t saved most of my information. Now some of you might think that as I do the website for the council and it was on that same website that I was doing the applying on then it would be up to me to get the programme right. Well no, the recruit system was bought by HR and is nothing to do with us web guys. Anyway I was really tired and so I sent a e-mail to HR saying that the system has not saved my info and I would e-mail it to them over the weekend. I hope this is going to be OK.

Saturday was going off to football. Walked through the Lakeside Country Park on the way to Southampton Airport Station. I wanted to pick up a geocoin in the All Steamed Up cache and to see if I could spot any interesting birds to add to my Hampshire List. Got coin OK but no new birds, Though I did see that the Great Crested Grebes that are normally on one of the Lakes did have about 4-5 young with them. Ahhh nice…

Got to the station and I noticed that the train were only going as far as Southampton. Engineering work was forcing them to have a rail replacement bus service between Brockenhurst and Bournemouth. Thinking about it. It would take me a while to get to football in that case and more importantly longer to get home. Sue was desperate to ensure we got to the party we were going to that night at the moment it started. So I decided not to go to football and went home instead. Spent the rest of the afternoon sorting out my train photos on fotopic.net. I’m planning to blog more about that another day.

Noticed that a friend of my had removed the link to my blog from his. Well two can play at that game and I removed his from mine. I know that was very childish and even though I really like this guy I hate being felt like I’m being taken for a ride. I’m the most loyal of friends but I also expect some loyalty in return. Is that too much to ask.

Went to the aforementioned party in the evening. It was Sue’s friends daughters 18th birthday party. So I was expecting lots of records from people with such stupid names as ‘snoop snoopy versus snooty shirty’ or the like. But no this group of teenagers would rather listen to hits from the 70 and 80. The DJ was miffed he hadn’t bought many of those records. Not only did these kids know the songs existed but knew all the words and all the dance moves as well. Now to me that speaks volumes about the current music industry if their main target group i.e. teenagers would rather listen to stuff produced before they were born that to anything that the industry is producing today.

Sunday

Spent most of today sorting out the pictures I took at the party last night. The kids didn’t seem to mind about this strange middle-ages man taking pictures all the time. Took nearly all day to load them up and that was via a 56k modem. Heavens known what it would have been like if I used my normal PC with its 33k modem. Watched train videos whilst wanting for it to upload. Then spend another evening re-doing that job application. It’s for a Business Development Officer at the Library in case you were interested.

And now it’s Monday morning and I’m on the train hading for another boring week of work.

Catch up

Another while since I blogged, again many apologies to you all.

Tuesday was a sad day, off to the funeral of Sue’s Uncle. Even though I only met him a couple of times it was still an emotional day. I guess seeing the people I’ve met from Sue’s family being upset, will affect me.

Wednesday. Band practice with my new drum sticks bought off eBay. They are OK. We didn’t play too well tonight. Our timing was all over the place, of course being a drummer that’s down to me!

Thursday – Been thinking about our geocaching of late. Sue and I haven’t done much of it recently. We currently on 441. I suggested that we try and hit 500 by the end of the year. And to my surprise she agreed. Still it sonly about 6 a month, surely we can do that.

Friday, After speaking to Charlie yesterday about the bands timing, he suggested I buy an electronic metronome. It arrived today. Hopefully once I’ve worked out the number of beats/min of all the songs we do, Timing shouldn’t be a problem anymore.

Saturday. Sue’s off to her parents to deliver Mothers Day gifts. I went to football. Normally I catch the 11.07 train from Eastleigh and change 2 or three times on the way to Pokesdown, but today was different. We are playing Millwall, who’s fans have a bit of a reputation. So I walked to Southampton Airport Station via Lakeside Country Park. Picking up some more birds for my Hampshire list on route. E.g. Greylag Goose, Great Crested Grebe and Coot. My Hants list is now on 24. Anyway back to the football. Decided that trains from London were a no no. I know that I’m perhaps over cautious, OK there is no perhaps about it. But I just want a quiet life. So Down to Brockenhurst by a Virgin Voyager, and a new one for me. Then onto the stopper to Pokesdown. Glad to say that we won 1-0 but I’ve never been so nervious at a football match for ages. I don’t know why. Just really wanting the team to win. Train home was full off Millwall supporters but luckily no trouble.

Great Day

Went out this morning to the Swanwick Nature Reserve and we did the Flight Reservations geocache. Good cache, very easy find. Dropped off a number of travel bugs, one of which we’ve had since October. Shame on us. It was really good to get a cache under our belt again. It’s been ages since Sue and I have done a cache together.

Nice nature reserve. Must go back there when its less muddy.

Off to the gardens centre. Sue and I both said that we were going to have a tea/coffee there and MAYBE a healthy snack. We both arrived at the café in the gardens centre and just knew that we were going to have lunch there. It’s great when your relationship gets to a level where you know what the other is thinking and wanting.

The real reason to visit the garden centre was to buy seed potatoes, broad beans seeds and I thought that I might buy some onion sets. I’ve got seed but thought it might be easier and quicker to grow them from sets. Anyway a bag of them was only £1.49. In my great garden plan for 2007 I had planned to buy some first early potatoes as they take the shortest time to grow and thus when they are harvested I might get a chance to grow something else in that plot before the summer is out. However, we mostly eat potatoes in their baked variety and that means having main crop ones. So my great garden plan 2007 has already been altered, just one week after devising it. I will have to publish the plan on this blog soon, so you can all see what a great plan it is.

Back home. There is a website called www.openatc.com which displays aircraft flights in almost real time. I’ve enjoyed looking at it before but tonight was the first time that I have sat in the garden and tried to tie up the aircraft on the computer screen to those flying overhead. OK the computer was some 6 mins behind but once I got the hang of it, I was amazed on how good it was. Saw lots of nice aircraft which I will be putting on my aircraft spotting blog. I hope to spend more time on that programme tomorrow.

Was getting a bit cold outside, so I packed up and realized that I had just enough time to do tea and sit down to watch Harry Hill’s TV burb, one of my favourite programmes on TV at the moment. Then I nice evening watching the comedy film Over the Hedge, which I thoroughly recommend.

My friend Stu up in Loughborough has just had his, erm, manhood pierced and a ring put in it. On his blog he’d put on a picture of it but you had to click on a link to see it. I haven’t wanted to see it and so I have never clicked on the link. Why would I want to see another mans bits?? Sue got curious tonight and clicked on the link to see the picture. I was outraged. So used my work laptop to do it!! Lets hope they never so a search of PC’s at work an find that one. It would take a lot of explaining.

Good things today
1) caching with Sue again
2) Nice Nature Park
3) www.openatc.com

Bad things
1) Sue using my work laptop to look at porn.