Archives for May 2005
28th May, 2005
Go Be Nice
I've seen the Internet grow since the early 1990s, but I've only come to the fold of blogging this month: May 2005. I've seen message boards and forums and chat rise like mushrooms, and take on the very qualities of mushroooms - i.e. leave 'em alone unless you know what you're doing!
27th May, 2005
Here Comes Baby E.!
What a day. I mean, for the love of all that shakes and twirls, there's only so much a fellah can take.
Basically I've had Evelyn on my own all day. All day long. I was up at huh? o'clock, took Callum to school, went shopping with Evelyn, had lunch, ran Sarah to work, took Evelyn to the park, had dinner, picked up Cherie, came home, cleared up, then picked up Sarah from work... and now I feel a little tiny bit pooped (if I were to dance around the certainly more brutal but essentially far more accurate phrase which is, quintessentially, fucking knackered!).
Either Prepare With Optimism Or Don't Prepare At All
Halifax, West Yorkshire, is a "historic market town." It's typical of the Yorkshire Pennine's small towns in many ways, having risen from the hills in the Industrial Revolution to puke black poison into the air in the pursuit of... wool cloth.
Now that the wool industry has gone, along with just about every other industry, it is left with curious, eccentric, but entirely wonderful Victorian hewn stone buildings, and curious, eccentric, entirely wonderful but very often poor people.
Oh, and some completely loopy headbanging nutters.
22nd May, 2005
Circuit of the Sun
Kids are something else. We've all been one, yet don't understand them. They make us so happy, but then they can reduce us to tears. Basically, we utterly and completely love them.
Yeah, those of an easily nauseated disposition should perhaps skip this... :-)
21st May, 2005
Blade Trinity is Fines
You know when you forget to take a film back to the video shop? Well, we ended up keeping it two extra days. This wasn't because we loved it sooo much that we just couldn't face taking it back. No. It was just impossible to get time to watch it. So, with the fines, it's cost us £8 altogether to watch this movie, and for another 99p we could have bought it. That's... really quite annoying!
19th May, 2005
Hayfever
Just been to the docs for my annual stock-up on asthma and hayfever medications.
My Wife's Ravening Hordes
Alright, this isn't Sarah as such, but it's pretty close. Except Sarah isn't a redhead.
18th May, 2005
God is Doing Beautiful Things
Abigail Witchalls suffered an attack that showed the worst in human nature. Her experience was truly horrific. Her whole family must be suffering terribly with her.
17th May, 2005
My wife's (sigh) dentistry crisis
After an emergency dentist visit in agony, he gave Sarah some more drugs, and said, "Keep taking the drugs that we gave you already... and take these too." And sent her home.
16th May, 2005
Just who is General Election, and who does her hair?
There's no getting around it, today sees the majority of over 18s in the verdant United Kingdom exercising their democratic imperative and electing a government for the country.
The horror!
13th May, 2005
House of Flying White Noise
White Noise stems from a reasonable idea for a horror flick, and, I was all the more interested because of main man Keaton, who's put in a number of genuinely inspired performances in the past (gotta at least love Batman and Beetle Juice).
Jose Gonzalez
This is Jose Gonzalez, a Scandinavian who's just coming over to the UK and, I guess, the rest of the world.
31st May, 2005
Personality Quiz Fun
Is it only me that thinks online personality tests are just bull? I generally avoid them, because believe it or not I'm of the opinion that human personality is a lot more complex than can be divined by some 20 questions strung together by a half-baked twenty something psychology graduate with a website job. The best have their tongue in their cheek, and can be really funny, but man when they take themselves seriously...
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