Is there a name for a site which is the only result for a search on google?
If so, can I claim it for compaks dvd 800 please.
Go on, what is YOUR site the only result for?
Month: September 2004
bookmark_borderRetail History
So, what do you do if you’ve had a crap weekend? You go out at lunchtime and buy a ticket for the Kings of Leon gig in December. A few of the guys from work are going as well. Monday before Christmas, could be the perfect way to forget all about the presents I have yet to get around to buy.
Ohhh and I bumped into an ex-colleague whilst browsing the sandwich selection in Somerfield (which is woeful). Craig.. er.. dammit, can’t remember, great with faces, awful with names (that’s why I’m so good at spotting celebs in the street, even if I don’t know what they are called). He was the IT guy at Crossaig, had a wee red MG, kept RAM and hard disks in the boot, prompting strange looks when you asked for some hardware. Memories.
Note to self: You lazy bastard, you STILL haven’t completed your tax return, nor have you sent that cheque to Pete. AND you have still to watch Angels in America. You’ve had it for months now. Mind you, you could wait until it appears on Channel Four on the 7th and 8th of October. Now, what are you going to do tonight? Tax Return?? What! Watch Man. Utd vs Liverpool! Or those bloody Star Wars DVDs?! I give up…
bookmark_borderMice and men
“Weekend plans” meet “long stay headache”.
“Long stay headache” meet “weekend plans”.
Managed to do some shopping on Saturday. That was about it as the rest of the time consisted of channel surfing, painkillers, doze on couch, painkillers, lunch, painkillers, dinner, ryder cup, Dr.Doolittle 2 (see, see how bad it was!), and bed at 10.30pm.
Feeling better now, still a bit groggy though although the sight of horizontal rain, first thing in the morning, isn’t a great lift to the spirits.
In other news, blogrolling still refuses to show updated blogs – messages HAVE been left.
And, on the plus side, a certain DVD box set should land on my desk today, and my returned mobile phone should be waiting when I get home.
And I do believe it has just stopped raining and the sun has come out, I can even see a bit of blue sky!
bookmark_borderTidbits
Bassett’s Fruit Allsorts are top. Want one?.. ohh sorry, I appear to have eaten them all.
My Gran (85?) uses phone banking.
Ryder Cup heading destined for Europe?
bookmark_borderThe High Road
R.E.M. are to follow Runrig and Oasis and play at Balloch.
Ahhh memories. Runrig, at the time, were huge. Their version of “Loch Lomond”, recorded at the event, charted in the top 10 (I think). The gig itself was more like a mini-festival, with several bands on stage before the headliners – Wolfstone, Hothouse Flowers, The Big Dish, Capercaillie and The Fat Lady Sings. I can still remember sitting on the hill overlooking the stage, a beer in hand, the sun shining, and the sound of an amplified didgeridoo reverberating around the hills (from the opening to a Hothouse Flowers track I can’t remember) – there was a stunned semi-silence as you couldn’t see anyone on stage, only hear that eerie, goosebump inducing, sound.
The gig was on the same day as Louise’s birthday, and I remember standing next to Lorraine Kelly (aff the telly) during Runrig’s set. Other random memories include drinking straight vodka smuggled in a juice cartoon (looked like Ribena, sure as hell wasn’t), the ‘tango’ man who had painted himself bright orange, gotten very drunk and ended up crashing down the hill leaving orange paint marks on everyone he stumbled past.
That was *gulp* thirteen years ago.
Fast forward five years and Oasis roll into Balloch for a two night stay. Remember that this was off the back off What’s the Story… and they were HUGE (they went on to do two nights at Knebworth). Not that I was there, tickets sold out in minutes so we took to the water in a friend’s boat. Again it was a day of many bands, and we had some fun as most of them were staying across the Loch at Cameron House, passing us on their way to perform.
So, roll on R.E.M.! My mate Ian’s house is a two minute walk from the park so I’m guessing we’ll start there. I’m excited already!!
bookmark_borderThank… goodness..
It’s Friday. Bit of an odd week.
All that commotion in the Commons managing to deflect from Tony’s playground answering tactics – where you respond to the current question with the answer from the previous question.
The annoying ‘campaign’ by BBC Breakfast: “How British are you?”. English? British? All the same surely?
Then Batman, dissertations, broken mobile phones and rainbows.
And that’s only in my limited view of my world.
The weekend edges closer.