A few more

Here's a few more from when I was older...
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Old Photos

I started looking at old photos tonight, brought back lots of good memories. Set myself another task to scan all the old photos into the computer.

Here's a few baby photos of me, they are poor quality though.

Music

Its strange how music can influence how you feel and think. One of the most moving songs I've heard over the last few months was by Jeff Buckley:


Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah

Its not exactly the sort of music most people would think of me listening to, another that I used to totally hate but is now ingrained in my brain is:

Gary Jules – Mad World

U Couldn't Make This Shit Up

Fashionable

Even Beckham is wearing Iron Maiden T-Shirts these days. I was just reading that Maiden are doing a world tour next year, will keep an eye on it, gotta see them again. They will be playing all the 80's classics and will be travelling in their own plane painted with Eddie on the tail and Iron Maiden on the side. The pilot is Bruce Dickinson.

My New Car

This is my new car, just bought it from Holiways in Newton Aycliffe. It's a Ford F0cus 1.6 LX, I looked at a Zetec model but couldn't justify the extra money for front fog lights, alloys and heated wind screen. Cost me a bob or two, but its about time I had a decent car and as someone said to me the other week. I get paid money towards my car £65 for running costs and if I ever remember to put mileage claims in. it will help to cover the cost.

I pick it up on Thursday, it was registered in February so its only 7 months old.

Jay singing

Jay singing "Queen - I Want To Break Free", you can hear Kev "Bring the Guitar in.."

Getting Better

Its Getting Better All The Time, I hope it is anyway. I keep waiting for something to go wrong which is exactly how a friends sees her whole life. I don't want to be like that, she told me a few weeks ago that there was no point being positive because things always went wrong. If you think like that its inevitable that they will.

I'm sat with a bud at the computer, having just carried a free Dishwasher in to the kitchen. Iw as given it by the school where my mam works. They are getting a new kitchen, so I got the old dishwasher. It's not fitted in yet but can't complain for free :-)

I had thought about going to Stanhope show tomorrow with a mate but haven't got his new number, told me to get it off Jay but he's not replying to texts. If I was that bothered I could just walk around and see if he was still going tomorrow (obviously I'm not).

My dad has just asked me if I fancy going for a walk with them tomorrow, near hadrians wall. I might as well, otherwise I would probably sit on my arse most of the day until the England match. I need to get out and look for a new car ASAP.

Not sure what I'm doing Sunday yet, but I've taken Monday off so going for a walk :-)

My last post was about things being good and stuff generally is at the moment. This blog was about me writing things down that I found hard to say to people or was worried or upset about. I'm not sure how much I need it anymore. In recent weeks I've been using it less and less. Only a few walks have been recorded on it and they odd thought. Some personal things need to be kept to myself, those are being wrote in a personal blog/diary that isn't online. A lot of my life is recorded online anway by the following sites:

Last.FM - Just about any song I listen to is tracked here.
Facebook - Keep in touch with some friends here, when I can be bothered.
MotionBased - My runs and some walks are recorded here.

I will be creating a new walking site which will have my walks and possibly my dads on, that's when I get chance to sit down and concentrate on it.

So I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna do about this blog, I will continue for now but maybe not as much as I used to. I will most likely change my mind tomorrow and do about 10 posts, lol.

sweet

life in general is fairly sweet at the moment. It's about time things
started going my way. I just hope things keep going. Work is still
annoying the hell out of me, interesting things are always so close
yet just out of reach. If they finally happen, then life really would
be good :-)

North Yorkshire 3 Peaks Completed

Distance: 25.1 miles (GPS), 27 miles (Computer)

I walked the North Yorkshire 3 Peaks yesterday, I'm keeping this short because I'm off to watch TV in a minute. We completed the challenge in 11 hours (target is under 12). It's another thing to tick off my list :-)

You can see why I normally avoid my picture being taken below:

Me at the top of Inglebrough

Me at the top of Whernside