The week is ending on a (relative) high. My son is arriving home on the Mega Bus (he has texted me to say it's like travelling on buses in Africa - he should know he spent a month in Tanzania. My wife's job interview went well and she is through to the final round in a couple of weeks.I have been pretty active today and sorted out a lot of long standing stuff on my desk.
Tomorrow its down to Teeside for Posh v Smoggies with my son.I've not been to The Riverside before so I am looking forward to the trip. We will probably lose but what the hell I didn't expect us to stay up this season so it's not so bad. League 1 is probably where we belong for a season or two. I just hope we don't lose our stars (Boyd,Mackail Smith and Lewis).It probably means the ground move is off but at least we have had a season in the sun and it's still possible for us to get back up in few years and even make Darragh's 7 year plan for Premiership football.... Maybe not and anyway I am not that bothered about top flight football for Posh.This is proper football, proper English football with high balls up front and everyone chasing after the big kick up the pitch from the keeper, the crowd standing in crap terracing and buying ket from even worse catering facilities and don't mention the toilets- stuff I remember from when I was young not the poncey Premiership stuff. A new ground would be nice though.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Wednesday Week
It's a week since my last post. What has happened since then? Not much really. My wife is still unemployed(but has an interview this Friday). I still have a cold. It is still freezing cold. It snowed again yesterday.
Work wise , there has been a bit of a surprise as a member of my staff has decided to take early retirement. This came out of the blue and I wasn't expecting it. She is new to my office (but not to the organisation) and has a reputation of being difficult. She has been OK for me but I can't say I am too disappointed she has decided to go as her previous managers have all had run ins with her about something and I could do without that.
I have come across a website devoted to my most loved band ever The Distractions
Here is the link. Its worth checking out especially for the songs from 1995. I have written about this band before here but it is hard to convey in words how good I think this band were. Their music is unavailable , long deleted apart from Time Goes By So Slow on the Factory Box Set. Here is a song from their exquisite LP Nobody's Perfect which I hope will convince you to investigate them further.
Stuck In A Fantasy- The Distractions
Work wise , there has been a bit of a surprise as a member of my staff has decided to take early retirement. This came out of the blue and I wasn't expecting it. She is new to my office (but not to the organisation) and has a reputation of being difficult. She has been OK for me but I can't say I am too disappointed she has decided to go as her previous managers have all had run ins with her about something and I could do without that.
I have come across a website devoted to my most loved band ever The Distractions
Here is the link. Its worth checking out especially for the songs from 1995. I have written about this band before here but it is hard to convey in words how good I think this band were. Their music is unavailable , long deleted apart from Time Goes By So Slow on the Factory Box Set. Here is a song from their exquisite LP Nobody's Perfect which I hope will convince you to investigate them further.
Stuck In A Fantasy- The Distractions
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Compilation
I was sorting through my hard drive over the weekend and I came across this CD I put together last year for The Wedding Present Forum Speed Date Round 10.I thought it was quite good reflection of my musical tastes. See what you think. It's a Zip file.
Compilation
Compilation
Friday, 29 January 2010
Happy Birthday
Today is Kids, Wife, Music and Me's birthday!. This Blog is one year old. That is worrying. Another year has gone by and I am still sat at the same desk in the same organisation- albeit the desk is now in a much nicer part of the office. I decided to write a Blog influenced by some of the links on your left of this post. It has been banal at times but this is real life and real life is quite often banal.
It has been a big year for me. My son is now at Uni in London and loving every minute. I met up with him in Peterborough on Tuesday night as we both watched another sorry performance from our doomed team.
My wife was made redundant from a job she had held for over 10 years in December and is still looking for work. She has her good days and her bad days I am trying to be cheerful all the time, which dear reader is not me! These are two massive life changing experiences. To have them both happen in one year is stressful to say the least.
My daughter is growing up and spreading her wings. She has been out a couple of times clubbing. Luckily she is not that bothered yet about it. That will come I'm sure. The dog is another year older and a bit calmer but still mad like all terriers are
Music wise it has been a quiet year.Only Hope & Social have really grabbed my attention.
So Happy Birthday to me!!! I think I'll keep going.
Here is a cover by my favourite band The Wedding Present of Altered Images' Happy Birthday Not one of their best but it's appropriate on this my Blog's special day
Happy Birthday- The Wedding Present
It has been a big year for me. My son is now at Uni in London and loving every minute. I met up with him in Peterborough on Tuesday night as we both watched another sorry performance from our doomed team.
My wife was made redundant from a job she had held for over 10 years in December and is still looking for work. She has her good days and her bad days I am trying to be cheerful all the time, which dear reader is not me! These are two massive life changing experiences. To have them both happen in one year is stressful to say the least.
My daughter is growing up and spreading her wings. She has been out a couple of times clubbing. Luckily she is not that bothered yet about it. That will come I'm sure. The dog is another year older and a bit calmer but still mad like all terriers are
Music wise it has been a quiet year.Only Hope & Social have really grabbed my attention.
So Happy Birthday to me!!! I think I'll keep going.
Here is a cover by my favourite band The Wedding Present of Altered Images' Happy Birthday Not one of their best but it's appropriate on this my Blog's special day
Happy Birthday- The Wedding Present
Friday, 22 January 2010
Friday's Post
A strange quiet week at work. Very little to do. No complaints, no issues on the estates, not many neighbour disputes, no snow or slippy pavements, no big rush of terminations of tenancies caused by the deaths of OAPS due to the freezing conditions. Just routine, and sometimes routine does bite hard.
Found this on my hard drive the other day whilst I was tidying up my music files. Its the theme song from an old TV programme from 1970 called UFO. This was a Gerry Anderson programme that I loved. It only ran for 1 series but it has stayed with me since. It was a sort of bridge between Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlett 60's Anderson productions and the more sophisticated Space 1999 series. Here is a link to a website about the programme. Below is the theme song.
UFO
It's a bit Austin Powers but it's a good tune. I thought it was only me who remembered this series until The Wedding Present did a cover on a b-side of one of their 7" single a month back in '92. I don't have that on my pc but I will upload that version at a later date.
Found this on my hard drive the other day whilst I was tidying up my music files. Its the theme song from an old TV programme from 1970 called UFO. This was a Gerry Anderson programme that I loved. It only ran for 1 series but it has stayed with me since. It was a sort of bridge between Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlett 60's Anderson productions and the more sophisticated Space 1999 series. Here is a link to a website about the programme. Below is the theme song.
UFO
It's a bit Austin Powers but it's a good tune. I thought it was only me who remembered this series until The Wedding Present did a cover on a b-side of one of their 7" single a month back in '92. I don't have that on my pc but I will upload that version at a later date.
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