charliegronau

york:promotion:

Sun, 24 May 2009 08:28:21 GMT

Bubble bubble bubble! quite excited at the moment of the coming year. have been promoted at work :-)) means more work but also an impemding move into york soon :-) suspect the next few months are going to be stress stress stress until i've sorted it all out

crooks

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:40:24 GMT

the joys of thiefdom has come to my neighbourhood today, coming back from seeing wolverine at the cinema i found a whole host of police and an abandoned car that had been stolen all sitting in my road searching for the buggers that had stolen it. oh joy

maelstrom

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:25:53 GMT

Am having considerable trouble trying to get things sorted on PD'S website as they seem to have failed to update financial positions and other things foip seem not to be being accepted by the system.
much frustration

london;vibe bar;pub crawls;brick lane;friends

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:30:13 GMT

went out for gregs birthday yesterday, met in covent garden at a pub called the maple leaf and being a donut i couldn't work out initially why these people were talking in a canadian accent!! good times were had by all and it was great to see blayn down from york and kim and trevor too. went out to brick lane the southern mecca for curry supposedly. the vibe bar there had a great atmosphere, kinda wish it was a little closer to home. the indian however was not good! for £26 a head it was probably the 2nd worst one i have had.
think i'm going to keep the akash in cleckheaton as my favourite

maelstrom

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:07:43 GMT

ho hum
it looks as though most of the people i know well at maelstrom are not going this easter, and with the group leaders having pulled out of the system as well it puts me in a quandary as to whether to go too, as four days in potentially freezing weather without the groups tent may not be fun. desicions desicions

cooking

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:51:45 GMT

well i have decided to try and cook a meal tonight, i say try because i've never been that good a cook, more the heat it up sort, but was given a jamie oliver ministry of food book for xmas so thought why not!
not sure i can muck up a stew, but soo far the only disaster was the pot cracking as i was adding the beer! oops

fingers crossed in about an hour or so it should be ready to poison me off

xmas

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:45:26 GMT

christmas is upon us soon and i have just brought down the tree for the first time in a couple of years as am feeling the festive spirt.

that is until i went into the hell that is lakeside in december!! oh thank god for the wonders of the internet.

only 17 more days til i'm off work too

long day but good day

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:06:05 GMT

spent all of yesterday pretty much driving to sheffield preston and home , which pretty much took it out of me by the time i got home, and for some perverse reason then culdn't sleep til 2 in the morning!
spent a lovely afternoon at a pub in preston which served fantastic food whilst talking about all sorts of things with alice and sara. was great to see them both, and was glad to see sara seems to be moving on. can see we are going to have to pitch our tents nearer to certain people for alices sake too

thoughts on yesterday
sheffield uni campus looks really lovely, and had a buzz about it that makes me want to go to uni, just wish time and money would permit it in my life. suspect as well the experience you have as a mature student is totally different from the one you would have had when you were younger too.

perfect driving roads, from sheffield to preston is the a57 snakes pass, and having driven it for the first time i can understand why soo many bikers were whipping past me , it is such a pleasent drive. have suggested to my sister that when we next visit molly we drive up that way for lunch possibly.

google knows, but only if you ask the right questions
did a bit of research last night into choler a word in shakespear that alice wanted a meaning for.unfortunately i thought it was spelt chollor so needless to say got very few entries that meant a thing, but thankfully managed to find the right bits i think by tweaking

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:40:00 GMT

just spent an evening setting my arse whipped playing settlers of catan and i am beginning to doubt the laws of probability. it seems every time we play this game, and there can be 6 of us, it gets skewed by the inordinate number of rolls on a particular number. in fact considering the number 8 is supposed to be a high roller it hardly seems to occur at all.
this last game favoured the number 9 consistantly leaving three of us in the wake of the two leaders in the game. still much fun was had with two of us deciding to spurn culture and sticking as humble peasants with just settlements and sea routes.

looking forward to getting my revenge

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:03:30 GMT

is it me or are portions of food in restaurants getting bigger!
went to a new place near me that specialises in steak and grill food, and they had a challenge item on the menu that whilst tempted i knew i would never be able to finish, it remnded me of a wafer thin mint moment.

for a princely sum of £59.95 you could take the challenge which was to eat 64oz of steak

and if you could eat it all, plate clear in under an hour you got it free.

having had a 17oz steak and felt bloated and once in my life having had a 32oz i think i would die!

sara,relationships,love,heart,long distance

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:39:42 GMT

i have just done a thing for the first time in my life and ended a relationship.
not an easy thing to do as i never want to hurt anyone.
we have been in a long distance relationship for just under 6 months seeing each other approx 2 weekends out of 4 sometimes less sometimes more.
the long distance part was difficult to deal with and i respect anyone that makes that work.
the reasons for my decision are many and i will keep them to myself but in short i had hoped deeper feelings would develop over time , and they haven't .
for my sake and hers i felt it better to part now than to allow her to get hurt further on down the line,

do i feel like a shit? yes, completely. sometimes think it would have been easier to act the utter bastard but it is not in me to be nasty or cheat, just to be honest

do i care for her ? yes a lot but that is not the same as love and long term it is love i need not just a friend

old friends

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:12 GMT

spent yesterday catching up with quite a few old friends that i have known for about 15 years or so. some i hadn't seen in ages and had felt awkward about setting back in touch after soo long, just proves i shouldn't have hang ups about that and just get in touch.

oh and fireworks wine and a chocolate fountain to boot. so happy as larry me.

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:29:44 GMT

am getting excited about the upcoming maelstrom

think it is because i have had my new breeches and frock coat delivered and can't wait to try them on . think i must be turning into a vain tart.

still need to start practising my irish accent again and become nathaniel ermolt. to be sure.

next purchase will need to be some sort of hat, just not sure whether to go tricorn or head done the route of a more colonial style maybe

cats

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:26:09 GMT

i am in a dilemma , over the past 10 weeks have been bringing up the kitten that one of my cats gave birth too. think she is now about 9-10 weeks old. tomorrow however i am meeting up with danielle , and i think she will be taking grace and the mother home with her.

the dilemma is that i am not sure how i am going to handle them being gone. have tried my best not to fall for the kitten but they are armed with the whole warderobe of cute love me weapons. it is going to be strange with them gone.

the only upside to it is that my other two cats will finally be able to move back in to the house , as they have been fighting with the mother cat.

i can seriously see myself getting another kitten to replace the ones that go

decorating

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:21:15 GMT

spent today waiting in for a tumble dryer repair man who quoted me a time of "i'll get there when i get there" !
as such many of the plans i had today went out of the window, namely popping up london for beers with some of my friends , or plan 2 popping round racheals to catch up!
instead i thought i'd carry on with the saga that is my hall stairs landing decorating.
this has so far taken an aeon to complete, as i am too tired during the week to do it and a lot of my weekends are taken up with other things.
however today i have managed to paint most of the woodwork with the first coat ( in theory it should only need one).

only bummer is when i came to clean up after myself and found only the smallest amount of white spirit! needless to say things got messy after that. it seems this damn paint gets everywhere. came home tonight to find that one of the cats had left a nice foot trail across the laminate too!

holidays

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:30:11 GMT

am finally in holiday mood, counting down the days before me and sara disappear to crete, and i can't wait.
already started packing and am popping out thursday to buy more bits too.
things i am looking forward too.
SARA
SUN
SAND
SEA
KNOSSOS where the minatour comes from
PLANE
NO WORK FOR A WEEK

have already got in place kitten watching, have sorted out my malstrom ticket for july and have found out my new clothes for that should be coming for when i get back :-) so alls good

Mahjong

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:32:44 GMT

dug out my old copy of mahjong the other day, and am trying to reteach myself the art of playing the game as i want to teach my girlfriend how to play. it seems so simple and yet rather complex at the same time! and i am known for being a bit crap at trying to explain things.
still i'm sure i'll figure it out.

Maelstrom

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:27:07 GMT

Getting things ready for the next event of maelstrom. new boots have arrived. very nice. unfortunately the new clothes haven't so i will either be exposing myself or borrowing my friends gear again. still settling in to the whole thing as it is only my second event, should be warmer though :-)

kitten

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:23:57 GMT

for the last few weeks i have had a wonderful bundle of joy in my life that is a new kitten called grace. have watched her first steps heard her purr and fight her mum and am having trouble keeping myself from getting too attached which is not easy as they are designed to be cute! still in about 5 weeks she will be off to her new home so i will have to get used to her not being around

old enough to know better or old enough not to care?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:42:13 GMT

spent the weekend just gone down in brighton visiting my sister and brother. the occasion being my 38th birthday gulp
was a quiet one spent taking them out for a meal in the local pub as they are both a little skint. spent the evening talking about alsorts of things from the rivalry me and mat have over chelsea arsenal through to dating etc
sunday however was a winter wonderland and really brought the child back in me. 5 inches of snow fell and settled in preston park and with mat kate and cessi her venezulan flat mate we snowballed each other rough and tumbled into the snow and built snow men.

WHAT A F**ING LAUGH :-)

did i care that i was 38 or that mat was 37 kate 34 and cessi late 20's nope not a jot. in fact most of the people building snowmen were adults.

i think if god invented the perfect outdoor play stuff then snow is it!! soft mouldable and you can fall into it without being hurt

the only thing i would change about snow.... it so needs to be warm!

heaven is

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:13:08 GMT

as a somewhat reluctant cook i have a failing in life and that is the temptation of a takeaway. near me are options of pizza , fish and chips , thai , two chinese a kebab shop that is only ever to be used when very drunk , and finally an indian

a thoroughly english concoction it may be but an indian after a long day is simply heaven. with lamb bhuna balti being my current poison

how some one can eat the phal hot ones are a mystery to me as the only time i had a taste steam came out of my ears at a rate of knots!

anyway i hear the cold beer that should accompany any good indian calling to me from the fridge