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Another Milestone

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Well it’s finally here, I’ve reached 30!!  I wasn’t exactly looking forward to this particular birthday because I guess I’m not as young as I used to be.  To be honest it’s just another number and I don’t feel like a thirty year old, I don’t act like one and I certainly don’t look like one :-)

I had a good time, Amy was excellent, she brought me breakfast in bed, forced me to wear a dressing gown and slippers she bought to make me feel old (didn’t get me a pipe just yet though) and even cooked me dinner.

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All Geared up for Christmas!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

It’s the last day of work, there’s snow on the ground and I’m actually looking forward to tomorrow!  It’s going to to be the first time I’ve spent a Christmas with Amy and we’re cooking our own Christmas dinner (which should be interesting).

I’ve finally got all the presents sorted out and I just need to wrap them.  Amy has wrapped everything because for some reason she seems to enjoy it.  She wasn’t interested in my idea of getting her to wrap her own presents I bought her, so I guess I’ll have to do that tonight :-)

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Enjoying the Bank Holiday

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

It’s been a pretty miserable weekend with the weather, but I was keeping an eye on it and it looked like Bank Holiday Monday was going to turn out alright.  So today Amy and I decided rather than laying around the house doing nothing at all, we’d go out and enjoy a nice sunny day out and about. (more…)

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Been out with Amy for a year now!!

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Amy and I have been going out for a year now!!  It doesn’t seem that long (well that’s what I tell her anyway lol).

It’s been great so far and I have faith it’ll get even better!

xxx

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I’ve Moved

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

In May I moved into a two bedroom apartment in Caldecotte which is a five minute walk from where I work which is great!!  It’s a really nice fully furnished apartment with pretty much everything included in the price, but the price is quite expensive (£995 p/m) so I’m sharing the place with a mate from work.

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The Prodigy

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I went to The Prodigy Concert at Birmingham NIA on the 09/04/2009. What a night!!! Got a coach down there with some mates from work and hit the bars before the concert started.

We only decided to go to the concert a couple of weeks before the concert, so we could only get seats right at the back of the arena, but apart from only seeing tiny little dots on the stage, over-priced beers and having to walk up hundreds of steps with those beers (trying not spill them like all the people had done before me), the music was awesome!

It was great to hear the new tracks off the Invaders Must Die album, but it brought back some great memories when they played the old classics, and the concert ended with Outer Space – that’s one hell of a way to end a concert!

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“The Scientist”

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I found the patents for two of my Grandad’s (Frank Fox) inventions.  The first one is for a device similar to the Rubik’s cube, but my Grandad filed for the patent in 1970, quite a few years before Rubik.

This patent can be found here:  GB1344259A – Spherical 2×2x2

The second was for “The Box”, which was effectively a very powerful graphic equaliser, which measured the volume and depth of sound.  I can’t really do it justice from my poor explanation of it.  Granada Studios purchased a few to help them get the sound levels correct when recording Coronation Street.

Here’s his patent:  GB2134687A – The Box

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Poor Percy

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Great, so my girlfriend’s car (which she named Percy the Peugeot) window gets smashed by some kids playing with stones around the car park outside my house and happened to be a casualty.  The rear passenger window gets smashed to pieces and it turns out to be my next door neighbours son.

I suppose in some way it was good that it’s my next door neighbour as they have agreed to pay for the replacement which saves on an insurance claim, but I’m pretty sure Amy isn’t going to want to bring her car over again any time soon..

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Trip to Scotland

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Amy and I took a little break away to Scotland.  Amy’s not been there before and we thought it would be a nice break – and it definitely was (except for all the driving I had to do)!

We left quite late on the Wednesday afternoon and got stuck in a lot of traffic at Birmingham, so we only got as far as Abingdon that first day, but it was far enough to leave early the next morning and get to Edinburgh.  We went to the castle, had a look around and watched the One o’ Clock Gun being fired.  We had a look around all the parts of the castle and had a good time there. (more…)

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It’s been a while…

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

… so I thought I’d write a little post

I haven’t posted anything for such a long time and well I’m a little bored so what the hell..

I got a new job at the beginning of July, working at a company called Infonic. I used to know one of the director’s from my first job at Beiersdorf (at that point Infonic was called Tokairo). I always wanted to work for Tokairo and so I feel it’s kind of fate, especially as I met my gorgeous girlfriend Amy just a few weeks after joining too :-) Quite a scary story really, as I didn’t know she was the daughter of another director here at the company when I started flirting with her! Thankfully after a little hiccup, I think the big boss man is OK with it all – well I haven’t received my P45 yet anyway.. :-P

I’ve been playing on my PS3 a lot (no change there), and am currently enjoying a bit of LittleBigPlanet and a lot of Resistance 2 online :-)

Christmas is nearly upon us and I’ve been thinking what to get people as usual, although this year I’ve actually bought quite a few presents already instead of my normal rush out on Christmas eve and buy it all then.

Got a new phone (I needed a contract phone as my phone bill to Amy alone was costing about £70 a month lol). It’s a very nice Samsung i8510 (Innov8). It’s got a great 8 megapixel camera and there’s not much it can’t do to be honest (even makes phone calls too!).

Apart from that, there’s not much else to say, I’m enjoying life a lot right now, part mainly to Amy and also my job. I’m looking forward to what 2009 brings!

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