You know you’re a Geek When…

by | Jun 26, 2007 | Weather, LiveJournal, Geek

You are sat in the middle of a powercut in a dark candle lit room, watching dvd’s on a laptop, just because you can!

Well it may be nice weather for ducks. but not for humans…

After struggling home through rivers that used to be roads, passed cars abandoned at the side of the road, fallen trees, closed roads, I arrived home to find No electric, and since it had died at about 3pm, all the battery backup lights had run out, so I had an evening of no heat, light, anything.

And this morning I woke up to more the same. Its bad when you turn up to work several hours early to get heat & coffee (mainly coffee)

Demos & Dogs

by | Jun 25, 2007 | Martial Arts, Friends, LiveJournal

Well Saturday went differently from planned.

I was supposed to be taking part of a Martial Arts demo at a school fete on Saturday afternoon, but alas it was called off at short notice, so I found myself at a loose end…

But luckily as phoned to let me know the good/bad news he mentioned that he was off with to take Jeff for a walk over the hills, and invited me along..

So a good afternoon was had, Its been years since i went for a walk through the countryside, I’d forgotten how much I used to enjoy it, ok, my legs moaned at me the following day for using them more than I normally do, but it was worth it. Nice walk, nice countryside, nice weather, Nice pint or two later.. And most importantly Jeff…

The Animals Have Gone Mad

by | Jun 21, 2007 | Work, Weird, LiveJournal

A strange thing happened to me on the way into the office this morning….

Almost sounds like the start of a cheesy joke.

But. Seriously. Driving into work this morning I got into a game of chicken with a Magpie, and almost lost. (It ended in a draw)

Driving along the welsh countryside, slowly making my way to the office, and I came across some birds in the middle of the road. Now the site of a car zooming along towards them, did what it always does and the birds scattered. Apart from  ONE! this one just turned to face the car, and stared at me…

So as the distance got shorter and shorter I kept expecting the bird to flee. but it just stood staring at me. Then Woosh, The car went over the bird, And I looked in the rear view mirror to see if it escaped, and there it was, standing in the same place, it shook the exhaust fumes off its body as it turned to keep staring at me.

Was very strange.

Welsh Weather

by | Jun 11, 2007 | LiveJournal, Weather, Wales, Martial Arts

Got to love the welsh weather.

Just finished training in chester where its hot and dry, jump into the car to drive home, and as soon as i got to the “welcome to wales” sign.. Torrential Rain!!

Only in wales :0)