Day is done, as is a picture

Spent the day in the New Forest in the South of England an area that is ideal for both walking and cycling however I happened to to neither although I did manage to book my Scout troop a lovely campsite for our summer camp in July. Its not too far away only an hour or so by car so a couple of hours by minibus. There should also be plenty for us to do whilst we are there apart from the fore mentioned there is climbing, absailing, shooting, Frizbie Golf and beach volleyball, all at a graet price. There is even a major car museum there with cars from the past century aswell as some from films etc, looks like a great place for a day trip if needed.

Ive tried to download a picture of myself, at the time of writing it was being a bit slow, however I seem to have got it there now. Its as fresh a photo as you can get it was taken in the last 5 minutes or so (well just before I wrote this basically). Tend not to take photos of myself and try not to hand my photo to too many people. Will try and keep photos coming for you all. Im slowly trying to grow my hair so its a bit of a mess at the moment, how long I will get it Im still waiting to work out and how long it will stay long is a completely different question.

Time for an Update

Well I must admit Ive not posted anything for a week now and the reason being is that there hasn't been much to post over the past week. As for the end of LOST well there is one thing I can say is that Im still Lost for an answer. How can anyone end a series with more questions to be answered than when you went into the episode, I relise that is a way of gearing me up to watch the second series (which incidently starts in the spring so not too long to wait) but I still dont know what is in the thing in the ground, what will happen to Wark or the other three that were on the boat with him, where are the "others" from or where they got the boat let alone the fuel for it and of course wha will happen to everybody else.

Back in the real world not alot is happening I finally got the results back from my Xrays taken during the first week of December on my ankle for them to say that they couldnt see anything and therefore the results were inconclusive. Im not bothered that that was the result as it means no bones were damaged but it took them a month to send the results to my GP, good job it wasnt urgent.

Scouts started back last week (Im the Leader) with a games night quite successful I feel the boys all seemed to enjoy it and didnt want to stop many of them but time pressed and so they had to end. This week is a wide game so hopefully it should go well. Ive found another new one called Fox and Hound so with the help of some snap sticks we are going to see what happens.

Well better go right up my notes for work before this afternoons meeting and then home (and possibly the gym if this cold is better)

No Pictures

I know that I havent put many pictures up yet and I guess that I should be putting pictures up of myself but Ive still not bought myself a Digital Camera and Ive never been one for taking my own photio anyway but as I find some I will stick some up I promise

High Spped

Ok in reading what Im about to say most of you will probably laugh.

My home connection is now officially Broadband, yes at home the connection I have had till now has been 57K Modem dial up. In my defence however I tend to use the connection at work even for writing this (although this is from home) , all Ive used this for is updating the Scout website, now I can do that quicker although since the provider has changed I need to change al that too I guess as I wont be able to access my old one. If anyone knows of a cheap almost or actually free good and reliable webspace provider for websites then please let me know.

Well LOST starts soon so gotta go watch it.

TV gets top ratings

I must admit that over the past couple of years TV here in the UK has been bolstered by US imports, not since the X-files do I feel that programming getting this side of the pond been so good. Over the past few years terrestrial TV has benefited from first showings of 24, Lost and now Invasion has just started. Granted 24 has lost its standard broadcast and has been thrown onto pay TV but the seeds had been sowed early on and although I only saw the first 2 series on the TV I have all 4 on DVD, Lost ends tonight and Invasion just started here this week. Add all this to the crime dramas that are hitting our screens all seems well even if a bit bloody at times although the CSI teams rarely leave a crime unsolved. I believe that Series 5 of 24 has hit the US screens (or is about too) as has series 2 of Lost. I dont know much about invasion but if it carries on at the pace that it started at I recon that over the coming months (24 weeks I guess) without relenting the pace the story will go quite far. Now here comes a request everyone state side, without telling me what happens in any of the series' as that would just spoil things here what other programs should I be looking out for when they hit the screens here.

Whilst US TV is getting my top ratings Channel 4 in the UK is in the process of showing a new set of housemates this time of the Celebrity nature featuring Dennis Rodman and Tracy Bingham from the US along side a UK MP (George Galloway) and a mixture of singers and TV stars. Personally it’s about time that all these reality TV shows got the boot and someone thought of something new and exciting.

Back in the South

Well Im back at work after to weeks of holiday and what excitement it is to be back half the lab is off ill so the room is deserted.

My flight last night was cancelled and so I was placed on a later flight spending 4 Hrs in the airport rather than just 2. Why it was cancelled is apparently because planes of the smaller size cant land/take off in FOG, granted seeing the runway from the terminal was a problem.

Then just to top things off this morning because it hadnt been used for 2 weeks the car took ages to start, then it stalled on the way to work nd took a further 20 minutes to get restarted. Fingers crossed that it will start when I go home and then when I leave the supermarket as I havent got any food

Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Just got back from the film and thought it was pretty good, the animation was fantastic and the scenery much like the 3 LOTR films was once again up to scratch.

I must admit it has been a long while since Ive read the book and so the finer points of the film I cant comment on but in general the story was as I remembered it and I knew that things were going to happen as they did in the widest form possible.

I hope that there are more to come, Im sure there will be after all there are 7 books in the series, I recon that if they continue the series Harry Potter wil once again be beaten by another set of books that have already enchanted two to three generations.

Best wait and see what is to happen

Out with the old in with the New

Hello and a happy New Year

Well 2005 is now in a distant past and 2006 has sneaked up on us and taken hold. The weather outside is looking rather spritely with the sun splitting the skys and any snow (at least locally) a long and distant memory.

New Year was as normal brought in with my parents in one of the local pubs with about 100 people, not bad for a Saturday night out. Im I feeling the worst from it today, I must say not but Ive yet to see what effect major food groups has on it.

As for todays plans, a walk and catch up with a Uni mate and thats about it.

Speak you all soon