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Do you have my routine?
Posted Sep 13, 2007
I appear to have lost my routine.
It just very suddenly went - just up and left me here all alone.
I'd like it back.
Last seen around the 28th August, very dependable and answers to the name Comfort Zone.
If you find it please return it since this *existence* means nothing without it.
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London - Who hit who??
Posted Aug 15, 2007
Well I hit London at the weekend ..... or maybe it hit me .... I'm not sure, but I think I came off worse.
That place just sucks the life clean out of you ..... I don't know where to begin.
We arrived on Friday and we took the kids to the park where we hired cart/bike thingies - *phew* the weather was lovely and the afternoon just flew by. Went back to my neices flat where we had a barbeque on the balcony and a few beers ... mmmmm ... and took in the view of London City .... St Paul's, the Eye, the Gherkin.
On Saturday we were up early and off to pound the streets ..... Waterloo Bridge, the West End and of course Lord of the Rings at the beautiful Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. This is a show that has had mixed reviews, but it got the thumbs up from us. The special effects were really special, the revolving - all singing all dancing - stage was awesome and the intermittent music was refreshing and haunting in equal parts. It was a spectacular show which actually took our breath away in places. The acting was overshadowed in places by the costumes/stiltwalkers/performing stage, but we left the show certain that we'd got what we paid for.
I must find out what Lord of the Rings is about some day.
After that epic show we were starving, so trotted off to the Rainforest Cafe where we all enjoyed a very satisfying meal.
Several purchases from the shop later and we were off to Hamley's ...... where it was impossible not to spend more money.
Absolutely exhausted we made for the next 
home to East Dulwich and our rather curious sleeping arrangements .... which were subject to change through the night due to various snorers.
Sunday morning was another early start - with 4 of us needing the shower every morning it was impossible to go out anywhere *that* early, but we headed off to the local Harvester for an early Sunday lunch ..... which was delicious and very reasonable.
Then off we went again on the .... to the Tower of London .... where we had a really, really good guide. Oh how the kids loved the gruesome tales of days gone by - and I do believe they actually learned some stuff. At kicking out time there we strolled down to The Monument ..... then made our only trip to McD's, more to kill time than anything else - and it was the only place opened, while we were waiting for the Haunted London tour to to begin.
Around the financial district - where we stumbled upon the filming of some scenes of National Treasure 2. 
Our guide was again brilliant and made everthing come to life much to the delight of the kids.
We made our weary way home exhausted but happy.
On Monday we again did our best to be out the door quite early to *do* Oxford Street ...... OMG that place has to be hell on earth.
But first we stopped off at the Breakfast Club to see if we could catch any famous folk in for a coffee (my neice used to work there on her days off).... but no-one we recognised turned up - however, we did get a scrumptious breakfast and a great welcome.
By 4.30 we were ready for an ambulance out of Oxford Street - stopped at TGI Friday's for our dinner first. Suitably refreshed we headed off to the Apollo Theatre to see Wicked.
Well, while LotR was a story with some music - Wicked was a musical show and it was just full to the brim of 
. The cast were tremendous, the music was enough to give us goosebumps and the show was uplifting, beautiful, and really what the musical theatre is all about, and what a clever story.
We were all gobsmacked 
and my neice was seeing it for the third time. Lickily, the credit card 
was with us and everyone managed to get all the memorabilia we could carry - hoodies, tshirts, books, badges, cds. We're still singing those songs.
Then it was off home for a few beers and bed.
Tuesday it was packing, lunch at the Harvester and to the airport. Plane was delayed for about 20mins, but otherwise the journey home was uneventful.
The weather was lovely (except Tuesday), the hospitality was great, the shows were awesome and overall I'd just like to thank everyone involved.
My feet may never be the same though ....
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Latest reply: Aug 15, 2007
Money-making Scheme??
Posted Jul 22, 2007
Well, not quite the normal Sunday. I had to take a trip to the airport to collect my brother and his wife who were coming home from their holidays.
Everything was normal on the way - about 2 million orange cones along the road - closing lanes and creating a contra-flow - and no-one at all working on the road.
Still, we got to the airport just when they had arrived at the front door - but we couldn't get near them. We were in a looooooooong queue of traffic, we could see them alright but the traffic was barely moving.
Eventually we spoke with a gentleman in a yellow vest who informed us ..... 'Security - no pick-ups at the door, drop-offs only'. 
'That's daft' says I 'Where do we go then'?
'To the pick-up car park' says he.
'What's the point'? says I, 'We can see them ... look, they're standing there waiting for us'.
'Sorry' says he 'We are on high alert expecting a terrorist attack - after Glasgow'.
'Look' says I 'we've had 30 years of terrorism and I've never seen anything like this 
'
'Different sort of terrorism' says he 'suicide bombers, you know'.
Meanwhile, the kid had phoned our passengers and they walked the 50ft to our car - where they loaded their lugguage and we were able to extricate ourselves from the queue and drive past where they had just been standing - and make for home.
I'd like to suggest that any terrorist picking an airport to display in would be wiser to pick one OTHER THAN Belfast airport - if the said terrorist were to manage to perform the 12 point turn required to find themselves facing the door of the terminal and drive through the metal barrier in through the doors - they would be confronted by a vast empty hallway ...... not really the smartest way to waste a life.
Meanwhile the airport authority are coining it in - forcing people to pay £1 for car-parking while picking-up friends and family - call me an old cynic, but it all smacks of somebody making a mint out of someone else's misfortune.
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Latest reply: Jul 22, 2007
15/16 Good Effort
Posted Jun 4, 2007
It's only me crowing again.
To-day my 16th solo effort has hit the Front Page. Ok it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it got a response from one reader which is always nice.
This set me thinking.
I've looked through all 16 of my entries and they have all (bar one) had comments ..... and better still most of the comments have been good.
It's really nice when people take the trouble to comment, so in future I'm not just going to read the entries - I'm going to make an effort to say something (something nice) about them.
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Latest reply: Jun 4, 2007
Happy Non-Birthday
Posted May 23, 2007
Today was the best non-birthday I've had for quite a while, and it started off so badly.
We slept in, which meant running around like a lunatic and trying to beat the traffic to get to work just 15 mins late.
Then I get an email from a friend who tells me they loved Size Zero, but really loved Ed Gein - who hasn't even hit the front page yet.
Shortly after that one of my colleagues brought me a beautiful bunch of flowers in a lovely little glass vase ...... just for being nice.
Then about an hour later another colleague brought me a lovely box of chocolate buns from Asda ...... just because?
I don't know what's going on here, but I like it, and it completely turned around what could have been just another day.
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Latest reply: May 23, 2007
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