What IS he up to now?

Not too bad to wake up to...

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Three year anniversary!

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More presents!

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As I wasn't able to see my friend Phil Hall on my birthday so he gave me my prezzie a couple of days ago. It's truly amazing. A 3ch remote controlled gyro-copter! Cheers mate!

Birthday drinks

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at the counting house, and Dad tends to the fire

Winter Wonderland birthday day out

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In London

Skating!

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I am still rubbish but had lots of fun!

Winter wonderland!

2011-12-17T12:58:00.001Z

In Hyde park

Birthday adventure

2011-12-17T11:37:00.000Z

Verity is taking me on an adventure and it starts here, Seaford train station

Sam playing with his birthday wrapping paper!

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Happy Birthday to me!

2011-12-15T12:43:00.000Z

Waking up to a small mountain of cards and my first present! Thank you mum for my amazing (and very nice!) cordless drill. You know me too well.
I'm currently off to Eastbourne to see my Dad and later we'll get all the Christmas decorations out and see to the tree!

First fire of the year

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: )

Back in Sussex

2011-12-03T11:47:00.000Z

A little earlier that usual this year. So much for a Christmas break, within 20minutes of getting to London on the train West End Studios call me and I spend my first day back in Sussex working. I guess it's nice to be wanted!
Pub last night with Seaford people and my first Harveys, mmmm

It's been nice Mo'ing you

2011-11-30T21:11:00.000Z

The end on movember so it comes off tomorrow.

'50s Diner

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Milkshakes, coke floats and burgers. Although I can't help but thinking I'm in the opening scene of Pulp fiction

Sunday Roast

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Day 20

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Of my ginger flavour saver

Final score

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We lost by 2 points but still a cracking match. If only we had a point for each streaker we sent out we would have won

Half time

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Northumbria 7
Newcastle 3
Get in!

Game on

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Double pint anyone?

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Battle of the Titans

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Newcastle Uni verses Northumbria Uni rugby club

Job done,

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Rack of lamb with mash and roasted veggies. Lovely.

Prepping Sunday lunch

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With the F1 on. Mmmm rack of lamb

I dusted off my camera...

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... and took it to the fireworks in Hexton.

Click for short album

12,000 people standing in a field

2011-11-05T21:30:00.000Z

It's that time of year again

2011-11-05T13:43:00.001Z

Movemer, Day 5

Mexican night

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James and Peter had lady friends up this weekend so what dinner is more social than fajitas, chilli and nachos?

My old friend

2011-11-05T13:17:00.001Z

The laser cutter. Believe it or not this is actually Uni work.

Halloween!

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My poorly car :(

2011-10-21T12:56:00.001+01:00

Best lecture ever

2011-10-11T11:47:00.000+01:00

O2, you are awesome

2011-10-06T20:02:00.000+01:00

We have just received our 'England Rugby quarter final breakfast'. 2 pies and two beers. Epic.

That's not actually that long... Eek!

2011-10-06T17:06:00.001+01:00

Standard Monday night in

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Brownies, beer, films and gas mask training.

Boys and brownies

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Thirsty work

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It makes so much difference when you live with clean people. Cheers James!

Awesome marketing

2011-10-01T09:45:00.001+01:00

Beer by the river

2011-09-30T15:44:00.000+01:00

What a beautiful day.

RIP James's PS3

2011-09-30T11:11:00.000+01:00

As a last ditch attempt to save James' PS3 I though I would take it completely apart and see if the heat sync was making good contact with the CPU and GPU. I replaced the paste and reassembled it but the motherboard looked a little toasted in places and when tested my repair hadn't made any noticeable difference. So he's ordered a new one.

Internets!!

2011-09-30T11:05:00.001+01:00

We have Internet at the flat!! Although our router/modem hasn't arrived so I spent yesterday afternoon bodging up a network from all the bits I brought up with me along with the ADSL switch thing that wires ethernet to our rooms. Proper job.

A rare bit of sun in the north east

2011-09-30T11:00:00.000+01:00

27*C today! Nuts

Cow wine stopper!

2011-09-28T18:44:00.000+01:00

A present from my Godfather that he brought back from Venice.

PS3 A&E

2011-09-24T19:21:00.001+01:00

All settled in now. Lectures start Monday. This week has mostly consisted of male bonding and heading out to make sure all out favourite watering holes are still as good as we remembered. That is until the PS3 started over heating!! I knew there was a reason I felt compelled to bring my set of security driver bits.

Getting ready to Jim Jam walk along Eastbourne seafront.

2011-09-24T17:53:00.000+01:00

First night with everyone moved in

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Introducing Martin, Pete & James.

I have arrived at my new diggs

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I haven't had a lot of time to move in and unpack but I am in and bed time I think.

Packing for Newcastle

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I had tried to hide her in here

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but V's new car is just that bit too long to get them both in.

And 20minutes later it chucked it down

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Money well spent

Winter coat go!

2011-09-10T14:16:00.001+01:00

Sam is busy getting Charlie ready for the winter. New winter coat soon to go on...

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Mammoth update!!

2011-09-06T16:14:00.001+01:00

Right, sorry about the lack of blogging lately. I kind of got out of the habit of it and then got rather busy and never caught up.

Rapid fire blog posting go!

The best way to see Madeira

And we found a water fall

I get my hair cut in the hotel in Funchal

We spend an evening in a restaurant in Madeira that might put a smile on a few faces

Monkey nuts!

Every seen a ship conduct a 3 point turn? No me neither

Verity is in this picture, honest

Infinity pools are cool

A model of the airport in the departure lounge. It must have been even more scary before the extension!

Puffed up crisps!

Activities for V's Birthday

Including pin the tail on the cow!

Always a winner. If in doubt, buy her a cow.

Working hard

Evil FaceTime Gnomes

Finished

Dad borrows some foamex from my work

Verity bought some boxing gloves

I felt the need to defend myself

We lost our ball over the wall

I made some mirrors for a friends boyfriend

Very smart if I do say so myself

Poundland source a new breed of Gnome!

Verity and I move into No.10 for the summer and put up a blind

I design and make the worlds most odd jigsaw

And cover it in old bed sheets

And get some help plastering it

And then start another one

Ohhhh... They're eyes!!

Oh that makes more sence..

I get more help with plastering (I have discovered plastering isn't easy)

An aluminium fram is required as my eyes are now immensely heavy

Find some interesting things when clearing out the containers at work

Show my eyes to Rodger Daltry. He likes them, sort of.

Go to London for Lynne's Birthday. Where we see Wicked

Eyes without projection

More interesting things from the containers at work

CHEESE!! For pudding at Rules in London, yum.

View from the hotel room.

The clippers come out at a BBQ one Sunday

So I have a go

I don't think my head has ever felt the sun before

Dad takes the piss of my 'fro-hawk'

Some of the guys at work take on the mammoth task of block paving the yard

Verity has a lie down on some grass

Mum and I were in a crash, ouch.

Verity and I have a go on the most awesome bike thing ever at Airbourne.

I found a Google car

Airbourne fireworks

Beach BBQ with Mum

Mmmm...

V and Em try out the beach tent

I climb a cliff face at cow-gap (more of a steep hill really)

I dress up as my dad

Emily poses on a rock with two pairs of sunglasses

Verity sits on rock with only one pair of sun glasses.

Emily on the same rock but from another angle

Verity and I go to Western-super-mare for a birthday and I find the most amazing F1 simulator at the end of the pier

We spend ages trying to win various toy with 'The Claw!!'

I get ready for Verity's Rally driving day!

I get very excited when we get there

and then get even more excited when I see what she gets to have a go in.

This was V's favourite at the end of the day

She did every so well!

Oh yeah, and then I proposed to Verity. And she said yes. Woopee!! Party!

Wicked at the Apollo Victoria!

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Get off my car!

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Beautiful birthday flowers from family & friends!

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Must have been a good holiday

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I didn't find that much wifi whilst I was out there so expect a big catch up post soon.

Madeira on holiday

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Not a lot of wifi on the island but some beautiful sights.
We have been on a 'jeep safari' in a defender 110 tackling some of the most mental roads you have seen to see the sights.
Relaxing by the pool and enjoying drinks.
Have had some wonderful meals out in the old time.
And I even managed to catch the Monaco GP in the hotel.
Lots planned for the rest of the week and I'll try and hunt down more wi-fi spots to keep you posted.

On the plane...

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... At last!!

Cheerio

Let the holiday begin!!

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With a five hour delay...

The best way to catch up with a good friend

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Haha!

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Ha!

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Good result from a 10 mins Genius session

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Sent from my new iPhone

Lesley's hen do part one, jewellery making and Cava!

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Poor Ashtray

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It still beats the bus though

Gnome Mercy

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Oh the possibilities...

Happy birthday uncle Gary!

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No caption needed...

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Boating at Barcombe Mills

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Sorry about the lack of traffic lately. Work has been flat out for the
last 3 weeks or so. On my last day off however Verity and I managed to
get away from it all for the day and spent the afternoon boating.
Happy Easter everybody.

Look who's home

2011-04-19T23:17:00.000+01:00

2 years ago I lent 'Jessie' to a friend of mine who lent it to another
friend of mine and tonight she comes home in the bus with me =D

Traffic

2011-04-19T09:07:00.000+01:00

Stuck in traffic this morning as there has been an accident on the
A259. Lovely day though. Also I didn't know busses could coast steer
and break without the engine on. Crazy

Fuckers...

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When I got home last night after a night out on the town I was just walking up to the house when my phone rings. I thought it was my mate Craig but it was someone calling to say they had found his phone and was calling the last numbers in the call history.
I turned round and ran all the way back into town to meet the girl who had found it. This morning when getting my bits together I realised I didn't have my wallet. Bugger. It must have fallen out of my pocket when running into town. Verity and I then set about retracing my steps and it wasn't long before verity found something, my singed debit card in a bush. A couple of steps further bits of bus tickets, a payslip and then very small ash fragments of what used to be my wallet. Fuckers... I wonder if they were thick enough to burn the cash?

Hello Vincent!

2011-04-14T19:24:00.000+01:00

Bigger, bluer, faster!

Goodbye Heathcliff...

2011-04-14T19:23:00.000+01:00

Not the primary use of a camping stove

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No matter how many times I smelt lead in a sauce pan I always feel as
if I am doing something illegal.

Scary movie

2011-04-12T22:12:00.004+01:00

I enjoy a good horror movie as much as the next chap but I will be the first to admit that the enjoyment is somewhat tainted by the fact that they really put the willies up me. Whilst watching (to be fair a rather tame) one the other day V pauses it, turns to me, and says she needs a wee. The house is dark and empty and she asks me to accompany her. Not wanting to show any weakness I turn my cowardice into I big joke mocking hers.
As I lead the way I flick every light switch in the house and sweep each room mockingly. It was working nicely until we were deep into the heart of the house when 'POP'...
The last light switch on the journey to the bathroom turns on the large light that spans the landing and the hall. It had tripped the fuse box and instantly the house was again plunged into darkness. So much for being matcho now. Having only two minutes before seen someone hacked to death by a nutter whist he changed a fuse in a basement, to say I had a few reservations would be an understatement.
I did finally grow some balls and flick the breaker but I thought it was just too good a story to not share.

Fat Sam's Grand Slam

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Emily text me last night to say she had found my doppleganger, shortly
followed by these snaps. Apparently he's a fashion model. Lucky him.

Poorly wiring loom

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Looks like putting the headlights back in won't be a ten minute job.

EMILY!!

2011-04-09T14:12:00.000+01:00

Emily is down this week and it's the first time I have seen her since
her 21st. After she picked us up we went to a boot sale and had an ice
cream at the beach before going to the bookies to put a flutter on the
grand national.

My Useless Machine

2011-04-08T16:57:00.002+01:00

You made have seen similar useless machines on the net. I did and just had to make one.

Mini day...

2011-04-04T20:59:00.000+01:00

This morning I took on the rather ambitious challenge of refitting the
front and rear wind screens. It took 7 hours, half a bottle of washing
up liquid and windowlean, lots of sweat, a little blood and almost
some tears. But all done.

Stag doo

2011-04-04T20:11:00.000+01:00

Sorry about the radio silence lately but I have been on a friend of
mine's stag doo. Starting on Wednesday in Seaford we had an evening in
the pub. Next morning we all met up in the cafe for a hearty breakfast
before hitting the road for a long weekend in Newquay.
Needless to say it was a right hoot with many embarrassments lined up
for the future groom

One in a million...

2011-03-28T22:04:00.004+01:00

My good friend Pete is a terrific chap and many of you will know him well. Some of you from college, some from town and many as the wonderful host of the fantastic Riverside Party of '05, '06,'07, '08 and '09.

This year however he has spent much of 2011 in Brighton Royal Hospital after being diagnosed with Good Pasture's Syndrome (the doctor told him there are only 50 or 60 cases a year, thus the one in a million). It's a nasty little bugger that has attacked his lungs and kidneys.

Being such a good natured and chirpy fellow he's found the whole experience fascinating and has been compelled to write a blog about it.

If your interested in finding out how he is coming along take a look and leave him a comment. You can find him at http://goodpastures1.blogspot.com

Get well soon mate.

My first bit of after work MINI mending

2011-03-28T20:11:00.000+01:00

Taking advantage of the lack of glass I finally get around to setting
my speakers into the parcel shelf. Something I've been meaning to do
since Mel got me my car stereo for my 18th! Thank you Mel, I think you
will agree they look much nicer now.

On my way home...

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...and it's actually still daytime!! I may even get half an hour to
work on the car!

GIANT STRAWBERRY!!

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More prezzies waiting for me when I got home today

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CNCing at work

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Making trophies for a prize giving.

Mini busy

2011-03-20T12:45:00.000Z

Another morning with the Mini. Primed the wheel arches and boot hinges
and fitted the over riders to the new rear bumper.
Packed up now, to be continued after pub lunch!

I've been expecting you... sort of...

2011-03-20T10:46:00.001Z

How many balls?

2011-03-14T22:29:00.001Z

If you had two tubes of different diameters, one inside another, and
you wanted to fill the void with BB pellets, how many do you need to
buy?
Just another question that needs answering during a day West End Studios

Charlie got caught in the rain...

2011-03-12T20:38:00.000Z

... Although I was franticly packing away tools I did have time to
stop and take a picture of how nicely the water beads up on the new
paint.
(The random apple logo is the reflection of the light opposite in the
shiny apple logo on the back on my phone, just so you know.)

Electrical gremlins...

2011-03-12T17:23:00.000Z

With the fuel tank back in I thought I would try my luck and see if
she would start... No.
No spark. Lots of fiddling about but got bored and went back to
bolting on shiny bits.

Oops...

2011-03-12T17:19:00.000Z

As I was filling her back up I spilled a bit of fuel on my tail lights
and they burst into lots of little pieces... I think I'll send them
back.

Fuel tank back in...

2011-03-12T17:17:00.000Z

... it had about 3 gallons still in it. Seeing as I will have paid
about a pound per litre for it I'm thinking of giving it to a local
museum.

New bumpers...

2011-03-12T17:14:00.000Z

You take the blue pill and the story ends...

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... take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Another productive day...

2011-03-06T15:39:00.000Z

Door mirrors, black roof trim, front indicators, grille, surround,
bonnet back on, rally lamps and brackets and bonnet straps!! Good day

Good days work

2011-03-05T19:04:00.000Z

New arial, headlining and tail lights, although the brake and reverse
lights don't seem to be working... Something for tomorrow I think