My Old School

You may think my claim to fame is that I went to the same school as Craig David.
However, not any longer. I went to the school with a willy etched in the grass!
Behold

Horny Guy

Famous Last Words

So, you know I said I’d not be diving near London, well I did, but only because the trains were rubbish yesterday. You see we did our research on tinternet and found that we could catch a train to London from a local station - Hedge End. The journey time was the same as from Southampton Central, and Hedge End has a free car park! Much better than getting the bus to town. All this careful forethought went out the window when Mother Nature chose to flood the station further down the track (Botley) and stopped all the trains. The options given to us by the man at the station were
a) Wait for the replacement bus to take us to Eastleigh and then get the train from there, but he had no idea when the next one was
b) Drive to Eastleigh and get the train from there where parking is not easy

So north bound on the M3 heading for Richmond where I knew of a car park near the tube station. As luck would have it we found it with not much bother.

Here are the highlights of the day… Oxford Street - busy. Harrods - did you know they sold cats and dogs and rabbits and goldfish and watches costing £50,000? Covent Garden, then Trafalgar Square and theatre land to Piccadilly Circus (nice lights) to Regent Street (nicer lights) and back to Oxford Street – now 6pm and much more busy. Then back to the car and home. Fhew!

Summing up…
£15 petrol
£11 Tube Tickets
£11 Car park
£37 Total - £18.50 each

And I’ll defiantly be taking the car again.

Moderatly Sunny Oxford

Cooked breakfast and holidays go hand in hand for me. Sausage, beans, fried egg and toast - mmmm. No bacon as it was pinched. No matter as there is some left for tomorrow.

Today was spent in Oxford. Fairly pleasant if moderately busy. The park and ride was good: 60p to park all day, and £1 each for the bus ride into town. I guess this could work out expensive for a family, but for the two of us it was worth it. Saved getting lost too.

So much for the cross country route home... Came off the motorway early and got stuck behind a moped. Just after overtaking that got stuck behind a slow car. And then the final stretch of the road we were on was closed and the diversion took us back onto the motorway. DOH.

Off to London tomorrow. No way I’m taking the car there!

Holidays

Hello. Sorry for not updating sooner. You know how it is.

Today is day one of my two week holiday. Should be day two, but as an interesting course turned up at work yesterday I went in and took part while Jane went to Poole with her parents and spent lots of money, oh joy.

We managed to thoroughly clean the house today – rock and roll! It needed it. Then on to Christmas present wrapping. Jane has been ultra organised yet again which means the rest of our holiday can be spent relaxing and not worrying about shopping.

Plans over the next two weeks are sketchy. Hopefully the weather will have mercy especially as we may cross over to France. Don’t fancy doing that in a force 8.

Hopefully we’ll pop up to London to wonder round our favourite place - Camden market. Maybe Covent Garden too as we’ve never been there before and it comes highly recommended.

Also on the cards is a mini road trip.

Updates will follow.

Pointless

I refer you to my blog entry of Thursday February 9th 2006.

I have failed the first, third, and fifth. Done quite well on the second. Less said about the forth the better.

This must be the most pointless blog ever.

For Sale

Sorry for lack of updates. It’s mainly due to my not feeling too good. I’m currently fighting off the remains of my man cold. It’s been a bad one.

Over the weekend we put the house on the market. The usual measuring took place and scribbling of notes. Then came the shock – the commission figure. What exactly do they do for the money! I am defiantly in the wrong job.

I don’t know why, but for some reason the for sale boards around here suffer from punch holes. I’ve seen the local scum come round and punch them! I told the estate agent not to fit one, but he was determined, so I let him. This morning a van appeared just as we left for work with a man to fit our lovely board. When we arrived home from work it was still resplendent, announcing to all the passers by that we want to move out. And at some point this evening it received its fatal blow. So I sent him an email saying “told you so, don’t put another one up” in a not so direct fashion. I have removed it so as not to attract any more undesired attention to our property. What a wonderful world.

Bear