Friday, October 31, 2003

Looks like he Tories are going for one of their dark lords. Why didn't they just throw the towel in and admit that Tone is probably going to be the most succesful Tory leader in history.

Off on a flexi and have done bugger all. Just the way I planned it.
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Thursday, October 30, 2003

I really cannot get excited about the Tories' gorefest, although it is fun to watch. How could anyone trust these people when its so blatantly obvious they all have their own individual self interest at heart?

As I get more and more sucked into the world of blogging, I keep adding to my list of blogs along the side bar. Today's addition is Ale Fan. Have a look.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003

timesnewroman is not applying for lottery funding

Seems like forever ago that the Community Fund distributing National Lottery funds was being attacked by chip wrapper editors and the home secretary combined for giving money to the National Coalition of Anti Deportation Committees. Currently being investigated by the Commons' public accounts comittee, the Fund should be congratulated for standing by the original decision to make the award, although its officers will now check through funding applicant's websites in case they make defamatory statements about that fascist ratbag Blunkett.

BBC Radio Scotland, bless them are going to be make a "Blog Day" programme on 5th November. At the risk of sounding pompous and pretentious I have been approached, presumably along with everyone else in the Scottish Blog Ring. with a view to contributing. Watch this space.
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Blogger down at 6:30am. So I�m using word to paste into it later and I don�t lose me post. Why didn�t I think of this before?

K (Not their real name) got exceptional leave to remain. We are much joyed by this, JEM, PH and Jimty especially, but all of us are.

"Your country is in chaos. Death squads and gangs rule the streets. Your nearest relatives have been killed, and you fear you will be next. Selling your last possessions in exchange for passage on an unseaworthy vessel, you risk your life travelling across the world in search of a new beginning. But when you arrive, you are locked away in blatant defiance of UN laws. Those who have locked you away are acting illegally, but it is you who are treated as a criminal..." Yeah it could be Dungavel or Yarlswood. This is actually Woomera, in Oz as I believe the antipodeans call it. Fabby new computer game being developed. Forget Wolfentstein, Quake, Doom et al. This is really reality bytes. Escape from Woomera.

thewife was out thespianising last night. She's a dame, I know this, in a Panto that her community drama company, Stagefright is producing. Anyway she comes in when I'm in bed sleeping and tells me that they have limited the numbers at the theatre to 50 and I'm not really thinking, but thinking nevertheless that getting 50 in will be a problem, not a 50 people limit. Of course she's not referring to the Panto. Its a 'Big Licks' gig on Friday at the Harbour Arts Centre. If you like 70s excess rock then its a definite. However that means being there for 2 hours before the band are on, drinking bad beer and worrying about whether you have the right t-shirt on.

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Monday, October 27, 2003

Weekend gone already and seemed to do very little at all. Not that I particularly wanted to do anything. The previous weekends have been busy and all of last week was like a months work packed into 4 days. Vegging out watching a whole weekend of House Doctor gave us the impetus to clear out the back bedroom and that's about the sum total of activity.

Needless to say Killie got beat yet again on Saturday and with the next two home games in a row versus both sides of the old firm things are not looking too good. Jeffries must go!

What has the butler character got on the royals, normally wouldn't give a monkeys, but here's hoping its something to bring the whole lot of the banjo plucking inbreeds down.
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Saturday, October 25, 2003

thewife and I had a quiet night in, and for the first Friday night in a very long time not a drop of wine passed my lips. Nope, none. thewife and I have discovered Badger Golden Glory. It's fabulous, probably the best beer I have ever tasted. Now in the more mature phase of my life I have the ability to choose to drink for taste rather than effect. I choose Golden Glory because it tastes like and looks like what it says on the bottle.
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Thursday, October 23, 2003

Numbers.. So Gorgeous George has been kicked out of New Labour for whatever reason, you can point fingers at treason, at socialism, at the sharp suit, or simply cos Tone dislikes dissent. Have you ever in your life seen the epitome of pig ignorant labourism rear its ugly, and I mean incredibly ugly, head in the form of Ian McCartney. What is it about the Labour Party in Scotland that it can vomit up the likes of him and George Robertson in the space of two decades? Jesus what happened to Trade Unionism that we end up with that calibre of arsehole as a representative?

Anyway back to numbers. I have laughed befor at the haemorrhaging of members over the years since the arrival of Tone the merciless, myself included. The number 360 is not only the number of degrees in a circle, but rather the total membership, apparently of the Glasgow Kelvin Constituency Labour Party - as advised by the "Chairman" of said Constituency, a supporter of George, like many of his co-members. What has the Labour Party become? I remember the days, pre Tone when my Constituency Party had a membership of 1,500, that's Cunninghame South a relatively rural sector in comparison with Glasgow Kelvin, itself a merged Constituency with a significiant student and academic left tendency. How bizarre. It kind of highlights just how out of step or just how far removed from British Politics that Scotland is. How we can vote albeit P.R. for a credible left alternative and how Tone and his MI6 planted cohorts ought to realise that we wont buy his pish and we wont stand for his acolytes being thrust upon us. To hell with New Labour, McCartney, Joyce and the other sycophants.
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There's some changes going on around here. Having spent a good whack of the past few days peering at a work related web site (that I have to get some of the content up on) which is going to be 8 pt Verdana and I'm thinking what about the visually impaired who even with their browsers set at big font sizes are gonna struggle. I am striking out here for the BIG. Lets hear it for readability.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

I hate when you blog something and then it just disappears into the ether somewhere and you didn't cut and paste so whatever pearls of wisdom you may have had have gone.

Its finished, the bedroom, apart from the fripperies and those are the department of thewife. Its actually looking a lot better than I thought it was going to after the first few strips of wallpaper, but then, maybe practice makes it not so awful.

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Monday, October 20, 2003

In at work today only to discover boss is off sick as is another colleague and we are busy like blaming the apprentice because in some ludicrous attempt at trying to wrestle the employee of the month award from me he spent most of last week coughing, sniffing and spluttering all over the place. Boss is not chuffed. I must admit I had a tingle of a sore throat Sunday and this morning although thewife puts it down to my snoring, as if.

Later discover that on top of people charging parking fees for a previously free car park, the on ramp to the M8 homewards has now been closed and traffic forced to detour because of the construction work outside the workplace. Total chaos. Bollocks, serious consideration will have to be givent to public transport, which although I agree with the notion in principle is more costly and more inconvenient.




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Sunday, October 19, 2003

Wallpapering, I thought after the bathroom, that I had cracked it, easy peasy, piece of piss, as hard as a rufus crossword, but no. Spent much of Saturday and Sunday making an absolute arse of a job in the bedroom. The very first strip I attempted to hang on the wall got all fankled and ripped and the air was blue and well I just sort of bundled it into a ball and flung it in the bath in a rage. Having calmed down somewhat I had another go, this time gently, patiently, and it went on fine, but with a couple of bubbles in it. thewife was out shopping with mumsy and I am sure she is not going to be pleasantly surprised on her return. I have come to the conclusion that its down to the cheap vinyl paper we got, unlike the bathroom stuff which was expensive and quite heavy.

thewife reckons the colour is great and she sort of realises that I am not a decorator and that we can live with it, if we cover up the really bad bits with furniture and pictures and I'm saying that next time, we are getting somebody in who can do this properly.
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Omne. Useless bunch of gits. Broadband has been down from 8.00pm Friday until almost 2.00pm Sunday and they expect to get paid for this, well I don't think so.

New Labour look set to oust George Galloway from the Party. Surprised that they can afford it given hw few memebrs they have nowadays.

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Friday, October 17, 2003

I chanced upon this article in the Guardian. Sound advice too, I wish I had been given this advice some time ago. Come to think of it, if as Matt Barrett says, that credit cards are an expensive way to accumulate debt, is there the distinct possiblity that this could easily be linked to health and mental health issues and in which case do I, and many others no doubt, have some grounds for suing the banks that issued them in a similar vein to the large tobacco company suits?

Interestingly, if you click on the link above, have a look at the advertisements along the right hand side. Ethical old Guardian.
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Thursday, October 16, 2003

Okay so here's a hoot. I was still fizzing at the home secretary and decided he was in need of an email of my opinions. I found his site, it's here
Right, now before you just dive in there follow these navigation instructions
1. Click the link above
2. Hit the WWW links button at the top
3. Look down the list of links til you get to the people who designed his site
WAC Perfomring Arts & Media College www.wac.co.uk
4. Click the link! ...........Wait! If there are children present, or if you are at work and would get sacked for viewing porn, or you really don't want to see porn you can take my word for it......Home Secretary links to Porn Site Shock.

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David Blunket is a Bastard. B-A-S-T-A-R-D. Got that! The man is evil. Watching the news again, I know, I should learn, but ...anyway thewife was getting as heated as me.

First time prisoner, young offender, 19 year old Asian lad gets sentenced to 3 months for theft. I'm not into a debate about the merits of custodial sentences here. I'm just a tad concerned that the lad described above can be allocated a shared cell with a racist, persistent offender, with extremely violent tendencies, whom the authorities themselves had concerns about, who had R.I.P. and a cross tattooed on his thuggish, idiot, "I'm a psychopath" face, who had a penchant for burning cross wall decoration and a white hood. Did I forgot to mention the string of previous offences, escape attempts, hostage taking and threats of violence to prison staff and other inmates. Well this deformity of a human managed to get a blunt instrument to beat the young asian lad to death with.

For christs sake, what kind of raving lunatic would in the first instance allow this to happen and secondly what kind of shit for brains home secretary would rule out a public enquiry to investigate how it happened? First postcard with David "Bastard " Blunkett as the answer wins a 3 month holiday in Feltham, charming residential accommodation in a resort geared towards the youngsters.

read more here

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thewife and I watched Micahel Portillo become a lone mum with tree kids and two jobs and a low income. Twas odd, seemed like a human being with an interest in what he was doing. Bit mad though and extremely malleable in the hands of an 11 year old. Troule id when you see people in situations like that its difficult to hate them any longer. Of course we will always hate Thatcher.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2003

I really must stop watching the news when I get in from work. thewife trys to start a normal civilised type of conversation and out of the corner of my eye I catch a distraught Palestinian introduce the world to the rubble that was once his home. You could actually make out what was probably once a fridge under it all. I'm slowly becoming a Nazi I think, as I hurl the odd obscenity at the state of Israel. Or is it the Star of David that is becoming the new swastika? Their newly acquired nuclear submarines capable of hitting Iran, the recent invasion of Syria and continuing determination to stamp out the Palestinians in the occupied territories. There is also the notion that there are these tunnels from Egypt that are used to bring weapons and explosives in.

It looks suspiciously to me like the U.S. and Israel are intent on completeley anhilating any supposed threat to Israel, starting with Eyeraq, to be followed by Syria, Iran and where next Egypt? Jordan?
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Monday, October 13, 2003

You'd think from the previous post that I have had a lazy weekend whereas the opposite is in fact the case. I was working Saturday at a Family Learning Day at the YIK. unfortunately only 2 families seeemed to want to learn anything.....publicity perhaps? Followed by Scotlands thrilling victory over the Brazil of the Baltic, Lithuania. How we contrived to make it so very difficult but hey, enough of the national psyche bashing and bring on the Dutch. A spirited victory in Amsterdam methinks, only to ......

Sunday was kind of lazy except the wife really wanted me to paint the bedroom ceiling, despite the fact that she knows I hate painting ceilings. That and a brief daliance with that mince, beloved of thewife, happening down under, where farmers run around a field holding a ball and pretend to be tough. I'm getting all sorts of looks on account of I'm gutting myself at the hapless prats struggling to overcome Japan, who I understand only learned the game yesterday. thewife is not impressed.
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Sunday, October 12, 2003

And so it began
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Saturday, October 11, 2003

Pass the sick bag.

all together now
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Friday, October 10, 2003

There's me looking around to see what sort of traffic I've been getting and I discover a blog that links to mine and I read it and I'm thinking that we have a lot in common. A lot, politics music football blogging ...scary world, interesting planet.
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Bush, Bliar, The Pope, Bono!!! Thank christ for the Nobel Prize Committee now that the Peace Prize has been awarded to someone worthy of. Lets hear it for Shirin Ebadi.
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thewife and I went to see Wishbone Ash play at the Renfrew Ferry last night. Wallowing in nostalgia or trying to reclaim lost youth. I'm not sure which. When I was a kid I loved Wishbone Ash - they were introduced to me by this blog's commentator, Father Bell. Argus was one of my favourite albums ever and I had gone to see them a coule of times in the seventies. I thought they had gone off the rails a bit around the fifth album and didn't really hear anything of them afterwards. I preferred I think to hang on to the recollection of them ending a set with Phoenix at the Reading Festival in the rain in the mid seventies. It was in torrential rain again last night that we headed off to the ferry.

I have had this aversion over the years of my favourite bands of my youth, Pink Floyd for example, I cannot stand big style. Bunch of pretentious middle class prats who don't need no education cos they got it bought for them at public school. However I digress, I have often re-listened to and even bought stuff I used to think was magical only to be very sorely disappointed. Was this going to be the case with Wishbone Ash? Well No, not at all.

If I had been asked what I wanted to hear in advance and in what order I would have pretty much opted for the set list. To be fair they have to play a couple of songs off the new album, but everything else was perfect, I can almost list it still in my head, The King will come, Warrior, Throw down the sword, new one, Time Was, etc right up to a finish with Phoenix, and an encore of Jailbait and Blowin' Free. Close you eyes and you are 16 again.

Of course when you open them you realise that rock n' roll is the domain of balding, middle aged men with substantial beer guts sueezed into blue jeans, leather jackets and the right band tee-shirt. A very enjoyable night was had by all. I suspect Manuel should have been there as well and in spirit I think Father Bell was too.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Spent some time at work today trying to figure out some sort of Scottish or British equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming governor of California, just how stupid are these people? How we laughed, how we struggled. Personally I went for Cameron from Big Brother becoming Scots First Minister any contributions??
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003

New WMD Find! Apparently a test tube of Botulism was discovered in an Iraqi scientist's fridge, where it had been languishing for 10 years! Hmm! Try leaving a container of soup in your fridge for a couple of weeks and see what happens!
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Monday, October 06, 2003

Another weekend gone and getting ready to go back to work. Article in the Guardian on Michael Moore and the launch of his new book. Interestingly agrees with Manuel's conviction that Bliar could have stopped Bush invading Eyerack.

There will be no talk of football here, other than Jefferies must go and take his hopeless ex-Jambos with him.

After an extensive gubbing, thewife and I like to cook, so we did this really tasty Onion and potato tart with olive pesto, simply yummy.

Got a cat flap for Charlie and fitted it. Looked a bit weird, reread the box and discovered we got one for the wrong kind of door. Duh!!!
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Friday, October 03, 2003

Its Friday and I'm on flexi, oh joy. Actually last month I kindly donated an extra days work, free to my employer and I was almost going to give them 2 days this month so I thought what the hell, lets take it off. So instead of doing whatever is waiting for me on my desk I'm stripping wallpaper off the walls of the bedroom and suddenly I feel I should have a bit more commitment to my day job.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Great Joy may be coming soon to a place near me. Read between the lines. We will be having a party thewife and I, and anyone wishing to share in the "Rejoice"ing is most welcome. Bring your own (Red) wine.
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