Monday 26 August 2013

Not for the innocent

The week was so bad Friday couldn't get here quick enough, a short revision course and an exam that had been postponed from May, I knew it wasn't going to take long but yet another annoyance in the working week, thankfully as soon as it was done the day was mine what could go wrong? I set off with the youngest (as  she was going to work) and enjoyed the bright start to the day and the conversation, I got to the venue did the course revision and did exam in just over an hour and then the day just slid.......lets not get into it here! lets just take it for granted that there was much gnashing of teeth, lots of shouting and me myself I being really unhappy (nothing new there then).

Saturday didn't start any better, the wife being slightly off colour and me going on a quest to buy a simple newspaper, quest complete and dragons vanquished I soon realised that I was still neck deep in the (emotional ) mire and went to bed with an anchor around my neck not wanting to mix with the world, although I was missing my friends and was generally just unhappy (again no surprise there then) I didn't have a clue on how to get the hell out of misery city, this wasn't boding well for the Sunday which I had been looking forward to for weeks.

I was as always up with the larks, the old man of the house hadn't barked, but I was up and trudging around the house, breakfast made, kitchen cleaned, cooker cleaned, bath, shaved.....you get the picture and then I assisted my good lady wife out of bed, made her breakfast, but I was just trying to kick start happiness and was failing miserably, the wife kept me a little bit more busy even me generating a prefabricated argument about making food for her and the youngest didn't get me off the hook, I was still going to have to interact with the world at large,  I was soon sat in the car dreading the day as  I didn't want to spoil anybody else's day! I would have gladly climbed into the wardrobe and sat in the dark!

The journey continued with the wife and youngest in good spirits and me sitting behind a façade of happiness, we arrived at the Hotel Jagermiester, and the wife decides to put our little car in the smallest spot in the street, most of the street is empty but no she wants to put it there! cue much swearing and then later she realises that G is watching from the corner of the window, then the fun really began not only under pressure because of the small space, G starts a strip tease on the door step (the rest of the description has been censored in case any children or young animals get to read this ) and not once did E try to stop him, today was going to be a good day my spirits lifted I was left in the care of these two people (who had bravely volunteered to babysit me)  who do try ever so much to cheer me up (woo hoo) we watched copious amounts of cars of varying classes racing and it was all good, G nearly blinked for long periods of time (mind you so did I, hells bells how comfy is that new couch) racing completed we headed out into the big blue yonder.

We headed first to  get food (which was ......ok) and some people who I thought might have been there weren't and some who I didn't expect were and throw in some new people and a thunderbird, well lets just say my spirits were indeed lifted out of the doldrums and up the hill to a spot where there was lots and lots of sunshine. Was I a good boy? I hope so, I hope I wasn't too miserable because I did try very hard, and good times were restored in my heart (you know the one I rarely use) E really should stop worrying, I'm not going to post anything that she doesn't want posted, because I'm not really that type of person!  lots of inkyhol was imbibed some cunning plans were as always hatched, I realised I really do miss being with this mad bunch of pirates and wish I could spend time with them on a more regular basis (more permanent planning required) as they really are a tonic for the troops.

The wife well her and the youngest had shuffled off to see McFly at a local park and had a great time although I knew that the wife would indeed suffer, standing for long periods of time, and was right when we couldn't get her out of the car to come and say hello to everybody and to say thank you for looking after me, we headed back to Gimpsville not before stopping off at the American embassy for sustenance! we arrived home just before midnight (we had to pick up the old man of the house from the Kraken's) and sunk into our pits and for once I went to bed happy! so thank you to The Tee Hee Club they never leave a soul behind and for that I am eternally grateful!

Now the big news at some point I spilt the beans to E what my current plan for world domination is, yes I have a new book in the works and at the moment it has a working title "Incomplete (you me and the truth)" and it's going to be a diary of my thoughts as (I sit waiting) I get help from the NHS for my mental instability, hopefully it will be witty and not too depressing although I'm sure there will be moments of deep darkness  this will be my most personal book to date, thankfully though not one I have to rush, I have no (self imposed) deadline, I have no other projects spinning to take my mind elsewhere, I shall concentrate on this little nugget and will polish accordingly, I have no ego on this one (although some might not believe me ) I know I have suffered (and my family with me sometimes) and would like to get my point of view out there, so watch this space for updates as I have about six chapters already and intend to start a new chapter called "windswept thumb" it will be a book of many hills to climb both uphill and downhill but hopefully it will help make me a better person, we can but hope!

The rest of the week is to be given over to many small tasks and at least one day given over to doing some work as I have brought several weeks worth of admin home to do, as I just seem to get badgered at work, I would ideally like to be stood in a tent in Shields getting drunk with friends and dancing to the Buckets but that's not to be (this time) so that's the blog I hope it was worth the wait and just be grateful I didn't do it yesterday as it would have been sponsored by Gillette, thank you to everybody and I do mean everybody who put up with this lonesome wallflower yesterday, and now onwards upwards life is not a rehearsal, watch the skies until then Toodles!  

Sunday 18 August 2013

Bag of Bones

This week has dragged as though..... I have ran through treacle wearing led lined boots while carrying the entire contents of the universe.....slow is indeed the word. However the finish line is in sight and although I can see one or two booby (tee hee I typed booby) traps ahead hopefully I can be prepared and hopefully avoid them or run over them at full speed ahead!

Today I did a little gardening (WTF) yes I know me with my reputation and it has crippled me, the wife being poorly meant that I was left unattended for long periods of time so I attacked the hedge at the front of the house including the neighbours (at the wife's insistence) but I took my time and bagged all the rubbish for disposal, but at the end of it I was without a doubt an old man using muscles that haven't been used since G took that bit of shrapnel for me back in the day!, the damage I must have  inflicted on my body with all the running and crap, well lets just say I'm sore stiff and in pain and not in a good way! dear me if I was a horse you would have took me behind the shed and sold me to McDonalds. we then had to go to the Krakens to do a smidge more gardening for her and because the wife is bad (you can see where this is going can't you) she was worse (if you have been to Tenerife she has been to elevenarife you get the picture) but we held our composure and sailed back to calmer waters as quickly as possible, and that would come back to bite us in the arse later on!

Not much activity on the Tee Hee club front (although I always miss them) with the exception of G who must be on a hit list with Interpol for crimes against Paul Mitchell or he has joined an ELO tribute band and he is playing the Jeff Lynne part, if you had seen the picture he posted earlier in the week, dear me oh how we laughed, and then I cried as I remember a time when I had a full head of hair not quite a mane like his but oh dear what happened, mind you I did need a hair cut this morning as I was starting to look like an electrified cotton bud! I'm doing all of my exercises for next week, when I am let loose by the wife as she and the youngest go off on a jaunt by themselves, I notice I'm not being allowed to roam free or stay in the house (trust me I wont lie naked on the couch....its mine anyway and I'm paying for it) but I know that there will be shenanigans of Olympic standards so I need to get my game in place and not be as crippled as I am now.

Then its a holiday, nope not going anywhere as nobody bought my heart or slightly used arsehole so it will be books and quiet games, I will just be happy to be away from the madhouse that is work, I'm sure the wife will have a list of jobs for me to do and I don't mind that however top of the list will be assisting her find one for her, one that pays money and not kindness because although I'm bailing out the boat as fast as I can we are decidedly leaky at the moment, but that's for another blog and yes I am keeping these short and sweet because........ah well that would be telling! and they only appear about every seven days....so next weeks will either be a boring oh whoa is me or I can leave it until the Monday and write epic tales of debauchery as G stomps through the town like Godzilla and E is Mothra trying to gain some control, so until whenever I decide Toodles!

 

Sunday 11 August 2013

Lazing on a sunday afternoon

Saturday rolled into town like a long lost brother, he didn't bring any gifts, but he was here and we were grateful. A lot of cunning plans had been a long time in the planning, well ok since Monday and the wife had forbidden me to reply because she already had, so I sulked just a bit but was happy inside, The Tee Hee club was going to ride again, this was indeed going to get messy!

We wasted the day if truth be known as only we can)we are still getting used to the house being ours again, so we watched some TV did some reading, basically we did not a lot, which isn't a good thing as I have tons of stuff to do for work, but my motivation is .....lets not go there I'm saving that for something special, we finally pulled ourselves together and we  only had one minor spat, which threatened to blow up into world war four and thankfully disappeared as quickly as it arrived, and I then had to discover some clothes that fitted me (ooops I have put all the weight back on that I had lost before my knee operations and I'm just a tad down about it) job done I looked like a fat charva but hey ho needs must it could have been so much worse.

We set out to our destination with the intention of returning home (ooops that was going to come back to bite us) and actually arrived bang on time (we have started using the time machine to our benefit for a change) and it had been a pleasant journey to the Hotel Jagermiester with no music just casual chit chat no howling at passing cars (that could wait until the journey home) we picked up our passengers and set off with even more adult chit chat, OK so G was being told off from the get go, but that's a given, it was only going to get worse as he was told he had to carry his own glasses which he point blank refused as he only had his "cock pockets" his words not ours thankfully we arrived and parked just as the master of the hounds turned up in his lovely new "beast" and welcomed us in to his humble abode we said hiccy burpday to the lady of the house and squeezed in so the horde of hounds couldn't escape.

The pooches had a great time as it was a cornucopia of new and strange smells, (ok I was trying to be on my best behaviour for breaking wind ) we were greeted by four of the most friendly best behaved dogs you could ever wish to meet and Loki the puppy was just great although he did take to sniffing quite a few of the male genitals or was that G I'm not sure now? we were introduced to everybody who we didn't know and then the mayhem commenced. Now at this point I have to point out a member of our party then kept looking at me in a paranoid way as if I intended to blog about every fact, I wasn't but that didn't stop me having fun, especially whenever she did something funny she would stop dead in her tracks and look at me and say "that's not going in the blog is it?" well it wasn't so you don't have to worry about it, I wont say anything about you trying to screw a top onto an opening where a cork had been (ahem) I won't mention anything ab................the rest  of  this portion of the blog has been censored in the interests of my safety.

The wife was drinking soft drinks as we were going to be travelling home, but everybody badgered her to have a drink and I wasn't intending to spoil the fun for her or anybody else for that matter so we made a quick plan change and it appears we are staying ....oh dear! the wife had one or two drinks she doesn't need much and she was able to enjoy the party the same as everybody else, the food was ready and soon had us all in the kitchen chatting eating and drinking like the responsible adults that we have all become (cough splutter) and I was glad of the diversion as my little black cloud was hanging around by the front door wondering why the hell he hadn't been invited. food consumed and then more drink a great time was had by us all.......I think! Karaoke was the order of the day and a good time was had by all mind you I think I upset someone when I said I wouldn't sing (I can't I sound like a wart hog been shot = Painful) I have no objection to others having fun but I wanted the party to continue not come to a dead stop. and secondly I hate the song Paranoid  and huffed the female Paul Rutherford who wanted to dance (but not sing) to it!

We partied hard and drifted between rooms and companies of strangers and not so strangers and people started to drift, the birthday girl disappeared off to bed only to reappear ten minutes later refreshed and only falling on her butt twice thankfully I was there for one of them the floor caught her the second time! Some of our precious company headed for the hills, but it was great to see Thunderbird one and the Lady Penelope for some crack and a great time was made by making the lady worry about her eldest boy on his holiday with a friend, we should apologise but I have a feeling we won't (tee hee).

By now we were down to the hard core dawn patrol and the birthday girl finally succumbed to bed even the dogs had had enough and looked at us through tired eyes that were saying "sod off" by this time E was giving G some serious stick for no other reason than (she can, he has an I phone, he's the brother from another mother etc etc)that's her god given right so G helped and gave her something for her to riled, I took my only picture of the night and I was asked not to post it on the interweb thingymajig, I have no intention of doing such a thing! but I might have a use for it maybe in another "ahem" project hahahahaha, Vegas rose form its watery grave with more plans for peeps to go and we would love to go but unfortunately we simply cannot afford to go, you never know fingers crossed etc etc good luck to all who go on the jaunt, but we will have to sit that one out.

Our taxi arrived and G did the usual because he could (been busy tonight) which set E off in a particular rage which was so funny to watch as every time he got beat over the head with the stick, he poked back just a little, a written description doesn't do it justice, those of you that have seen it ....lets just say it was classic! we arrived at our destination to be challenged by a rock hard Seagull that simply would not move, we fell through the front door to be met by Cookie who although is used to it's guardians antics, was pretty much disgusted when she saw us following (WTF) we were soon in the land of nod (well at least I was) only to be awoken with the rays of the sun and a glorious new day!

A quick jaunt to get our car and we had to say our goodbyes not without making some plans (of the cunning variety) for a fortnights time, which I do believe could be just a tad interesting, we set off again without any music as my blood pressure was through the roof ( I should always make sure I  carry some of my medication and no it wasn't drink related as I didn't drink enough ....WTF!) so we stopped off at nightmare pool for some food like substance from Burger King, but the place was full of tools heading to the cricket at Chester Le Street. So we got our order and ate it swiftly in the car, before heading home and the wife cursing a driver in a big car who wasn't particularly paying attention so the wife zoomed past and berated him, to which he took up the challenge to chase us and then get in front of us only for the wife to dummy him hahaha good times (allegedly) upon arriving home I took said blood pressure medication and then lay on the settee trying to regain some motivation, the wife went to get the youngest and the old man of the house, and soon we were all complete again and thankfully the black cloud stayed away I had enough trying to do the blog hahahah hopefully it hasn't been to bad only the incidents have been made up to protect the (not so ) innocent!

This blog has had a number of changes ranging from the dawn patrol to Seagull, to the rhyme of the ancient mariner etc etc but I decided on this after something E said this morning while awaited the return of our spouses from their driving duties, hopefully this will return the blog up the charts as the last one didn't do great numbers (if it was a Queen album it would have been Hot Space) mind you like the aforementioned blog I don't think it was that good hopefully this will do slightly better, the name game as always is in place and we seem to have a pool of  about eight of you who try and succeed on a regular basis, maybe I should do a competition (but I'm too tight to give a prize) and that's me done as I have to crack on and do tons of work (only 9 more working days until I'm on a weeks holiday), so play nice live for the moment as we can all sleep when we are dead (and not Sheffield Wednesday Youth Development) a long story don't ask, so watch the skies for incoming and until then Toodles!

Sunday 4 August 2013

Hell and Consequences

The week from hell, I was definitely punished this week, but not in the way that would you would expect! and I have no intention of going into great detail as there is enough unhappiness in the world, family life has been crap and yet again I had to sell my soul to get us out of the hole, the devil is going to be mightily pissed off when he realises that he holds more than one marker for this worthless soul!

Short and sweet again is yet again the order of the day, as I am keeping my powder dry for the time being, still lots of writing going on some good some merely .......pfft, music as always has been the saving grace all week, plenty of stuff just being played on repeat, keeping my head down and hopefully out of harms way, lets see how long it lasts until I draw sustained fire!

The eldest finally moved out again (boo hoo) without so much as a thank you a goodbye or a kiss my arse now what was really funny as always there was something she couldn't sort out, so who did she come running to hahahahaha  ah bless cut the cord my dear cut the fucking cord, the Kraken rose from the ashes and I buried my head into other issues rather than being sent to prison, I worry for the wife but she is a big girl allegedly so we soldier on.

The finish line is in sight as I have a holiday planned for the end of the month and a cunning plan to have one or two drinks with friends in sunny shields with the wife's permission (there's a first) as long as the blood service will take the seven pints I'm trying to sell them hahahahaha, we will see, plenty of time to duck and dive, mind you I haven't checked my lottery tickets yet (sob) so you never know (yeah we do) I just have to keep the traction going and hope I don't come to a dead stop! because if I stop I ain't going to get this going again.

Woo hoo and with that, that's your wack I'm not even going to complain that some bugger was on holiday and went everywhere except ......where I live! not even close  pfft and there was me (cough splutter) going to spring for a tap water or two! ah well I know when I'm not (sob) loved hahahahaha I hope you had a great time Mr R there's always next time or you never know I could always invade the fatherland at some point, oooooh new Fish Dates, I wonder.... (coming dear) to be continued at cunning plans and claptrap.com, short and sweet as I said but here's hoping that we are going in the right direction (not one direction) and again thanks for all the comments and queries and I still can not believe that anyone has guessed what the cunning plan is, ah well it just proves I'm not the media whore I thought I was so watch the skies I'm sure the next one will be a tad more interesting ....well maybe, maybe not you never know do you, so until the next time Toodles!