What A weekend

The weekend is now over and the Great British weather suprises us yet again. Managed on Friday to do the BBQ for all the office staff, though we only sat outside until 8pm before the cold got to us.

The BBQ went well though and after an afternoon preparing for it, the event was well recieved. Had fun putting up a gazebo ( those things are sent to try us and however proud you are its not a one mans job).

Saturday was a total suprise the sun came out!!!!! We were so suprised we changed our plans and just sat out to enjoy it. More suprises in the mail, I told you how I had ordered an upgrade to my BT broadband, well the nice UK based lady actually had the equipment delivered toot suit and it arrived on Saturday. No more ramblings about how good BT is though until I have had chance to install it. (I expect that will be another post in its self).

I was not impressed with the football this weekend any chance I had of being a pundit with Match of the Day went out of the window. I use an application called Premier League picks on my facebook account and after 3 weekends I have predicted 7 correct scores.... this weekend out of 9 games I got 1 right....(thank you Middlesbro). I suppose if Man Utd had played it would have been 2 right. I cant believe other people are getting all 9 correct as there was some starnge results.

Sunday was back to the cold of the new season that is called Autunm, I am so looking forward to a little sunshine break at the end of Sept in Sunny spain, you watch, the rain clouds will follow us down there. The flights and hotel are all booked and with extra leg room too (thankfully! I will probably come onto extra leg room later).

Another wet summer day in Devon.

Well they keep telling us we are going to get some sun to finish the summer off, but where the hell is it? Look at that packed summer beach and doesn't the cloud look good so low. At that time of night it should have been a stunning sunset.We are planning a BBQ tomorrow looks like I will be getting wet cooking it....

Been a bit of a tourist tonight and wasted £2 in 2 pence peices on the slots. They are rigged with extra metal those things, how can you get such a long line of 2p's tempting you hanging over the edge of the slot and none ever falling down?

Anyway it was good fun trying for an hour or so, I havent been down there for a while and the machines have changed so much. I was quite impressed with this Bingo machine where the balls come down ala lottery style, you either accept or reject depending on the numbers on your card. there is a prize then for lines or full house. If you can be pretty quick then the odds are in your favour to at least get your pound back for a line, so it was more enjoyable playing and not losing any money.

Another good thing of joining the tourists was a trip to get a couple of doughnuts for a quid they are delicious, though we have Hockings Ice cream here too and the van was temptingly close but there is no point in doing this training and stuffing my face, I justified the doughnut since I had 45 mins on the bike in the gym.

Had a shock today, phoned BT to upgrade my broadband and get one of the new home hubs as featured in the mini advertising saga with Kris Marshall. Anyway the shock was she was very helpful, was very proficient and she was based in this country! Good on BT I'm glad you have got my money for another 18 months. Lets hope I dont have any problems with it as I dont think I will be so lucky on the phone next time.

More useless items in the mail.

Getting addictive this blogging, I have had no replies but its strangely addictive as to sit down again this evening and post some more.
Today I finally got of my backside and went to the gym. Well I am paying them £35 a month (and havent been for three weeks). Its not a bad gym and its close to my house, but after a day at work there is always something better to be doing, last couple of weeks was the olympics but I have now ran out of excuses (Ann Robinson doesnt have the same draw as Sue Barker), and anyway the gym has tv's on the machines.
I recieved a what I thought was going to be a useful tool in the post today a sports armband for the Ipod / iPhone, so I was looking forward to strapping my iphone to the arm and listening to my own tunes rather than the gym's over bassed techno music.
There was a little bit of artistic licence on the packaging of the strap, my Ipod fitted lovely but the iPhone no way!
Once I had managed to get it squeezed into the pouch, the hole for the headphones was on the wrong side. Send it back I hear you say, well good idea but on the packet you have to tell them within 48 hours of reciept in writing and there is no return address, (it was bought through Play.com but dont think they provided it).
Story of my life useless items dropping through my letterbox, will have to get eBay going again.
Anyway a little jog to the gym and a small workout worked wonders and now as I write this I dont feel so bad sitting on the sofa watching the Football.
Great bit of football last night in the Coventry / Newcastle game after the referee decided 2 minutes of added time, then played nearly 4 allowing Coventry to take a really long throw in and score. I always like to see Kevin Keegan getting annoyed, pity they won after all anyway.

Now I set up my blog thought I would see how well I can post from my iPhone. Told you I liked gadgets, I have this great app called lifecast which allows you to post straight to Blogger.
Love this phone, a bit annoyed with the arrival of 3G as I hadn't had my phone long, after spending 300 quid on the 16GB.
Good on O2 though allowing free upgrades not sure if any of the other companies would have been so generous.
Anyway eBay will soon be getting a 2G iPhone and hopefully can get some money back. Loads of people moan about O2 but as far as data useage goes I think they are great. I have a Blackberry on Vodafone and am forever paying over the odds for data, at least on O2 unlimited data is unlimited and I for one will not be jailbreaking my phone to use on any other network.

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Introduction

Well I am a newcomer to this blogging and I dont suppose anyone will read my ramblings, but maybe it will help me if I put some stuff down?

To introduce myself I am divorced (10 years ago now), have since got engaged now (8 years), have my own house on the edge of the river at Bideford in sunny North Devon (well thats another moan) (the sun that is, not North Devon no moans about the area if youv'e not been you should !)

I bought the house a year ago and wondered why the previous owners would ever want to sell a place like this. A year later and I now know why.....F....ing neighbours! The picture has a view from my window over the river.

I work in the local area mainly in a place called Westward Ho! as featured on the 'One Show' BBC at 7 pm with the love birds Adrian and Christine, (naughty boy that he is, must be the Match of the Day curse since his co presenter on the main Sat night programme also has the wandering eye) . Sorry rambling on, Westward Ho! was featured on the 'One Show' as it was one of their unusual places as its the only place in Britain that has an exclamation mark after its name. it was also mentioned somewhere that it was one of the worse places in the country to holiday.

Now I know it is not the hottest of spots but it isnt that bad, we have a fair share of tourists, plenty of campsites a few good local pubs and the road network to visit lots of other places in North Devon. Just look at that sunset.

I have varied interests all of which give me plenty of things to ramble on about, I am a massive football fan, I used to referee to a reasonable standard and was an instructor etc so have many opinions on this.

I also love gadgets and have bought some good ones and have bought some rubbish, thank god for Ebay! though I must admit I need a clearout as still have some junk lying about. More about Gadgets later. I have to say though my worst buy has got to be my WiFi detecting watch. to coin a phrase from my old favourite Gran on the Catherine Tate show "What a load of f...ing crap" This watch doesnt even pick my wifi up in my house when its right next to the home hub radiating like a good one.

Walking is another hobby we have loads of good walks here in Devon and Cornwall further down the road, my real favourite though is the Lakes. What a beautiful place, and what a pity its so far from here and you have to negotiate the M5/M6 junction which at the best of times can take an hour to get through.