In recent years, for an extended period before and during Christmas, Bath has had an outdoor ice rink. Previously it has been sited on Queens Square which is a smallish lovely Georgian park square with trees and a stone obelisk and once the ice rink is up and they've put lighting in the trees it looks lovely and very festive.Now, I don't know if that is a different rink, but it seems another one was proposed around the back of the sports centre (which isn't very far away if it's the on I'm thinking of), and this is a good thing as far as I can...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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...while I fuck about with the design. It's crap and always has been. I just can't decide what to do so it will look even more crap for a bit. Sor...
Monday, July 21, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 10:23 pm with No comments
Ah, holidays. This is the first day of mine although I've been on leave since the middle of last week. It would seem that I have hit the jackpot weather wise as my quite badly burnt face will testify and that was from just wandering about. You might wonder, quite reasonably, why I'm blogging on my hols, but it seemed like a good idea as i might have the time to compose a good one. Time will no doubt tell. Anyway, I'm on the Isle of Wight which is a stuning location and the journey here was a bit of a trip down memory lane as i went through Southampton,...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 7:29 pm with No comments
Yes, I know, another hole the size of an open-cast diamond mine but it's my blog and I'll forget it periodically if I want to.Actually, today is a good day as I have just embarked on ten or so days away from the office and have a few things planned which ought to keep me out of mischief and help relax me a bit. More on that in another post in the next couple of days.For now, I am just going to say that I swear that I will never again write about the perils of internet dating. Not because it finally worked out for me (it didn't) but because I no...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:24 pm with No comments
In lieu of a decent post for ages (or indeed, anything at all), here's a list of Things That Have Annoyed Me Recently:1) Traffic lights, especially those in Bristol. They're out of phase and often go wrong, especially the ones on the stupid 'showcase' bus lanes so that they change every 10 seconds (yes, really) whether there's a bus coming or not. All they do is cause congestion because there are too many.2) Janet Street Porter. Stupid, loud, obnoxious, bag-faced troglodyte. Whenever I see her on TV I have an irrational urge to straighten her teeth...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 6:31 pm with 2 comments
Really big. I mean HUGE. A new military hovercraft has come into service and it's the biggest there has ever been. It's 57 metres long, weighs 500 tonnes, has five (yes five) 10,000hp gas turbine engines and positively bristles with guns and missiles and is even stealth capable. It looks exactly like the kind of military vehicle that is badly drawn by small boys everywhere and I have to say, hands in the air, I think this is bloody marvellous.So whose is it? The Yanks are the obvious choice because everything they have is usually bigger and better...
Monday, April 14, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 9:32 pm with No comments
Ahh London. Nary a week has gone by since I ridiculed the actions of Westminster Council and I am in the very borough (or whatever) that I poked fun at. Why? I am on a works induction course, all three days of it. Today was the first day and I wasn't impressed. Not only was most of the course irrelevant to me (and so will most of the rest of it be) but I am in a city which I dislike more than any other I have ever visited (including Bradford, a town I found to be dirty, run down and thoroughly dislikable. Mind you, the people were invariably friendly...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:25 pm with No comments
Lets go crazy with the posting today. Some crazy kids at Westminster Council have decided to copyright the design of the street signs which you find all over that part of London in order to protect the image of the area as a top class tourist destination. Exactly how? Well, they claim it will prevent dodgy street hawkers punting hooky gear with slightly iffy copies of the street names on them. Wow. I'm sure that'll really help London's image more than, oh I don't know, cleaning the streets properly, not ripping everyone off for pretty much everything,...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 4:22 pm with 2 comments
This gentleman seems genuinely proud of the fact that he gave up his job in order to attend every single day of the Diana and Dodi coroners inquiry with the words 'Diana' and 'Dodi' painted on his forehead and cheeks respectively. He even thinks he'll go down in history for it and that there will be a portrait of him in Kensington palace in a hundred years time. I have just one word to describe him:Twat.'Nuff sa...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 1:50 pm with No comments
I've been an avid Terry Pratchett reader for years and even once met him (briefly) when I queued for hours with my mate Rich to get my copy of Soul Music signed (and monogrammed with a little scythe) back when I was at uni, so like all Pratchett readers I was saddened to learn a while back that he has a rare from of Alzheimers, a disease which is little understood and which needs a lot of research to try and find effective treatments.It's a terrible thing to happen to anyone but when the mind involved is one which has devised a fantasy world that...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Today is budget day in the UK. Woo and indeed quite literally hoo. Generally it's just a way for the incumbent Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell us that overall he will be rummaging about a bit deeper in our collective pockets over the forthcoming year in order to finance illegal occupations, ministerial expenses and monolithic 'national' projects which inevitably cost a fortune and bring precisely no benefit to anyone. Sorry, I meant improvements in healthcare, education and social infrastructure, of course.Anyway, little of it ever comes as...
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 7:12 pm with 2 comments
...It gon' rain! A lot by all accounts, and it'll be windy enough to ruffle the undergarments of incautious ladies who have a penchant for mid-20th century underwear and quite possibly take your chimey pot off or uproot a tree. I love storms so I hope this one comes with all the trimmings like thunder and lightning. According to the Met Office it'll most likely be the worst storom of the winter, natures last crack of the winter whip before spring proper starts to really get a grip on things. Watch those falling trees and the like fol...
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:56 am with No comments
One of the few remaining hereditary peers has been gobbing off about nurses at the Royal United Hospital in my adopted city of Bath. The peer in question is Lord Mancroft, a former heroin addict (and also cocaine, alcohol and pills), Old Etonian and so far as I can see a general waste of space and deeply unqualified to be a law maker for any reason other than the fact his dad was one.The nature of the slur stems from a stay at the RUH for Mancroft in august 2007 and in essence he claims that the nurses were grubby, lazy, drunken and promiscuous....
Monday, February 18, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 9:45 pm with No comments
Ever seen a Picture Loans advert? Ever thought that you'd rather burn out your own eyes with a flaming stick covered in poo than take out a loan with them? They've actually been censured by the ASA for being flippant about borrowing large amounts of money which become monstrous amounts when repaid. Well, someone has turned the banned advert on its head and done quite the best spoof I've seen in ages. Bring it ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 10:18 pm with No comments
Valentines. Depends entirely on your point of course but I've always seen it as a rather cynical commercial day intended to screw money out of people in the gap between Christmas and Easter. Probably wouldn't be so bitter if I hadn't spent so many single but never mind.Anyway, if you're unlike me (in other words not a bitter, twisted, cynical, curmudgeonly old arse), then Happy Valentines. Hope your postman had more of a struggle than mine.Listening to: Corrosion of Conformity - America's Volume Dea...
Friday, February 08, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:20 am with No comments
It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams (weird-beird Welsh God botherer who likes to be seen as a bit mystical and druid like) has suggested that adopting elements of Sharia law into the UK legal system is "inevitable". Quote from the BBC news website:“Dr Williams said the UK had to "face up to the fact" some citizens did not relate to the British legal system.”I don't give the tiniest shit if they relate to it or not. If I moved to a Muslim country they damn sure wouldn't change their legal system to accomodate my background...
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 10:41 pm with No comments
Bath that is (cockney rhyming slang, for the uninitiated). WARNING: jargon-laced poker discussion ahoy. If you don't understand poker then you won't have a scooby what I'm on about (see what I did there?).It's just not been my evening. I was playing in a monthly game that I've become involved in, which is a tenner buy-in with unlimited re-buys (fiver each) for the first hour and then an opportunity to take a top-up as well after the hour (five or ten quid, your choice). It started well enough with me doubling my stack in the second hand with my...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 9:25 pm with No comments
'They' say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do in life and I can well believe it. I've moved plenty of times before but mostly of my own volition (with the exception of two previous moves one of which was rather fraught as I was trying to get away from a psychotic landlord who wanted to break my legs but the other time was due to a tenancy not being renewed but I had 3 months to find somewhere else). This time it is again thanks to the non-renewal of tenancy not, I hasten to add, through any fault of our own or indeed...
Monday, January 21, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 10:14 pm with No comments
Apparently the most miserable day of the year was in fact today. Well, all Mondays in January are pretty shit to be honest, especially when you're up at the crack of dawn in the dark to go to work, it's windy, wet and grey and you haven't had enough sleep. Roll on, err, February? No, no that's not a lot better as it contains that day of the year to which I have a particular aversion, St Valentines. How about March? Yeah that'll do - there's St Patricks day on the 17th and there's a long weekend off work thanks to Easter and of course Easter eggs...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 12:21 am with No comments
It's late on Saturday night (or early Sunday morning) and I'm watching a repeat of this years Jools Annual Hootenanny which features, amongst others, Kylie. I've always fancied her, most blokes do, but on this show, in that dress, singing that song (Two Hearts) she was utterly, utterly captivating. If there is such a thing as the perfect woman then for me, she is it.Hot diggity damn, schwing and indeed quite literally, oh mom...
Friday, January 11, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:25 pm with No comments
I was just wolfing down my dinner, an excellent takeaway curry (big up my local curry house The Panahar in Bath for not only a fine and reasonably priced curry but for chucking in loads of freebies too and extra onion bhajis. Gwan the rood) and I had the gogglebox* on in the background which was showing some sort of program on ITV about consumer debt, a popular subject these days. At first I assumed this might be interesting in that it might investigate and explore the factors that have driving the rising tide of personal debt in the UK but it...
Monday, January 07, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 6:38 pm with 2 comments
At least, it is acccording to some university mathematics boffins with nothing better to do (although the actual date seems to vary according to where you look, it's always a Monday in January. Apparently divorce lawyers always expect to do well on said day though). Thing is, I can believe it. Today, I have been miserable as sin. I shouldn't be really - I got away from a job that bored me, I'm young (ish), healthy (I hope) and I'm not constrained by a family or mortgage. But I'm not happy.It's only been a few weeks in this job and already I hate...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Posted by Captain Flymo on 1:05 pm with No comments
Although it doesn't feel it thanks to a lot of beer and a 5am finish. Time for a beer break I thnk - I usually last about 2 weeks. Will this year be any different?Edit: Amusingly, I've just noticed the post I did at 5am and forgot about. Ah, you've got to love drunken internet usage.Currently feeling: Utterly ran...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 4:55 am with 1 comment
Sod a fucking dog but it's 2008. Right now I'm more drunk than a random group of Ausies but nonetheless, happy new year and I wish and happy and prosperous new year to all readers.P.S. And I really am fucked off my tits - it's nearly 5AM and I've been drinking for about 9 hours. Bloody brillia...
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