Archive | July 2009
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Barcelona
Totally random – Barcelona I spent an evening in Barcelona once, just one evening, just the once. There were four of us, four lads, we’d flown into Barcalona on a Jet2 cheap flight, £60 return including taxes, not as cheap as we got it the following year, £19.95 return that was and £19.90 of that [...]
Grumpy Old Man – Telephone Canvassing
You know the routine. You’re just sitting down to your evening meal when the phone rings. Its in another room so you put your plate down, try and halt the slavering so that you don’t sound like Hannibal Lecter on the phone, and dash to grab the handset before its cuts to the answer machine. [...]
Grumpy Old Man – Call Centres
I have recently had cause to shop around for a car loan, not for much, just £3000, I wish I hadn’t bothered. The last time I checked my credit rating at Experian I was rated at 960 out of 1000, by anyones measure that is pretty good, in fact in the blurb that Experian attached [...]
The Teacher Who Didn’t Teach a Thing
I suppose that everyone has a memory of an inspirational teacher from their childhood days, a teacher who grabbed their attention with their passion for a subject and eloquently transferred that passion into their young minds, its a great skill is teaching with a passion for a subject, a great skill and very infectious. Pussy [...]
Hadrian’s Wall – Lets Go Fishing
So lets go fishing today. Fishing for interest in a little project that might just turn into a huge project and a whole lot of fun along the way. You are of course all aware of this – www.hadrianswalk.org Dans (from Allthatcomeswithit ) little walking project for next year ? No ? What blogs do [...]
Evocation, repeatation…
One from the Jerrychicken.blogspot archives… . I love how some songs are soooooo evocative that as soon as the first bars play on the radio you are instantly transported back to another place and time, complete with images and smells, rather like watching a movie of your own life story. I picked up an iPod [...]
C2C – A Final Review
So its over, three months of planning and its over in three days. Was it hard work ? Not as bad as I thought it would be, back in the days when I used to do some of this stuff more frequently it was climbing the hills that really did me in, this time, eleven [...]
C2C – A Review – The Final Day
Ready to Enter Northumberland and still only halfway “The worst is over” I assured the boys over one of mad Hellens breakfasts the next morning, “there’s one more hill then its all downhill today lads” I assured them. How wrong I was, how the guide book lied to me. Turning left out of mad Hellens [...]
C2C – A Review – The Second Day
9am in the hotel car park, Blencathra beckons Day Two – Hellday, the day when a 2000 foot climb was waiting and everyone was desperately trying to get a peek at the route map to pick their ideal spot to pick up a minor injury, thus causing their withdrawal at the foot of Hartside, someone [...]
