RIP Terry Wogan

It's a sad day to hear that Sir Terry Wogan has died, Blankety Blank and his chat show 'Wogan' were a staple diet of entertainment when I was growing up and his narrations over Eurovision were pure class.

He also made my daily commute to work enjoyable, his breakfast show was an oasis surrounded by bolshy Radio 1 DJs and simpering characterless commercial radio DJs. His silky Irish brogue was so damned calming to listen to!

Ireland has lost a national treasure and the UK has lost an adopted one.

RIP El Tel, Togs up and down the country are sobbing into their hot cocoas...

It's the small things...

I love that 'bedgasm' feeling from an electric blanket when I get into bed after a long day...

Says a lot about my mundane life I suppose.

The Results from my Alcohol-Fuelled Saturday

A fond memory from last Saturday... I can recall that moment through the haze of alcohol, perhaps I shouldn't have done that one-man pub crawl afterwards?

Magnums, Cornettos and Ben & Jerry's tubs will shrink in size due to new health guidelines

So there'll be less in a tub of Ben and Jerry's but it'll still be the same price?

Fine, but I'll just add more sugar to my cups of tea to compensate, those interfering scientist fuckers can't influence the size of teaspoons!

Post Wasps Game Pub Crawl #5

Fifth pub and I've made a schoolboy error here... I went to the curry place next door and ordered my takeaway before I came in here... which means I'm on the clock for drinking a pint.

Bugger, that makes it a bit gassy!

Post Wasps Game Pub Crawl #4

Arrived at 4th pub...and it's O'Neil's... finally!

Went to the toilet first and had a massive sneezing fit whilst in there, so much so that, after I left and when I got to the bar it made it somewhat awkward when ordering my pint.

It's gone off now... thankfully. This place always plays classic disco hits until the small hours of the morning. I've had many a good time boogeying away here... this time though I'll just sit here, nursing my sneeze-ravaged nose and drink my pint.

EDIT: O2, your wireless upload speed suck balls, ffs this is the 21st Century!

Post Wasps Game Pub Crawl #3

ENext pub... and it's a Rugby pub :)

No, not O'Neils, a Walkabout Pub... totally Aussie and bang smack in my home town, brilliant!

Again, not busy but whatever... just seen Sky's quick highlights of the European Champions Rugby pool group winners and it makes my beer taste oh so much better to see a big capital 'Q' next to Wasps in the table, meaning they get a home quarter final :)

This pub will be where we - en-masse - will watch England play some of their game in the 6-Nations... lets hope Eddie Jones' philosophy has sunk into the squad quickly enough.

EDIT: There's a bloke sat in one corner who keeps staring at me, he's wearing a flat cap, long coat, is lounging across the the seat propping his head up with one arm, he looks well pissed off...

Now he's sat back and is looking at the TVs, thank fuck for that. Still looks miserable though, can't be a Leinster fan, they are all way too cheerful, regardless of the result.

Came back from the toilet and sat at a table directly opposite miserable looking bloke, only because my place at the bar was lost.

Ah man! The effort that he is making to downturn the corners of his mouth to form an unhappy expression is directly proportionate to the lack of effort the rest of his body is doing... i.e. fuck all, which means he looks the meanest most unhappiest person in the entire universe! 

This guy makes the Grinch look like Father Christmas.

Post Wasps Game Pub Crawl #2

Second pub now... and if you've read previous posts it's the one that I left quickly after watching England in a dull 0-0 draw with Algeria in the 2012 World Cut group finals stage... still get a shudder from that game.

This pub is huge, two floors high and Wetherspoons branded (so cheap beer).

Not much to report beyond that, I'm even thinking that my next pub selection should be O'Neil's? Might not be the best idea going there sporting a Wasps scarf after the tonking they gave one of Ireland's premiere Rugby teams!

But, hey ho, the Irish are, if anything, gracious in defeat... and damned good drinkers to boot!

Post Wasps Game Pub Crawl #1

So I'm in my first pub after being dropped off after the Wasps v Leinster game... if you've read my last post I had a near miss with wetting myself due to having a few beers at the game and it being a close call!

It's pretty quiet here, West Ham v Man City live on Sky, a few people watching... it's basically that 'calm' period before the serious evening revellers turn up in their masses, said 'revellers' are probably getting off on cheap booze so they're sufficiently drunk enough to make their evening a bit cheaper when they do turn up.

Anyway I'm on my own, clad in my Wasps scarf, in my own little corner sinking my pint with na'ery a care in the world and long may it continue... well, until the next pub anyway.

Novotel - I thank you!

Went to watch Wasps' demolition of Leinster today at the Ricoh and as it's a Saturday I had a few beers, which put some stress on my bladder... so I had a piss 5 minutes before the game ended, a tactical piss if you may because we had a  long walk ahead of us to the car park.

So the game ends and as we took the long walk back the urge slowly began to build up until it became a 'critical mass' situation where it was either I pissed myself or risking public exposure, lobbed it out and took a piss in front of hundreds of fellow Wasps fans.

Thankfully, just before our car park, was a Novotel hotel which pretty-much like every hotel ever had a bar and by that definition, a toilet :)

Wild horses couldn't drag me away, ne' a solid 80ft steel wall wouldn't have stopped me getting to that toilet and when I did it was sheer heaven... in fact if you're a spiritual person I think I can safely say that that moment is clearly what heaven feels like.

Now we're headed back home and I fully intend to pub-crawl around my home town but with another visit to the bog as I can feel it building up again... God damn it! I've got a bladder like rice paper!!

Go Wasps!

The Gym

Just been to the gym, first time this year... seems like a lot of loud twenty something nobs have joined since I was last there, perhaps they're having a 'young dickheads joining get 6 months free' or something like that.

'Yeah man, I'll definitely do that sometime but my legs are toast man!' exclaimed one loudly as I entered the changing room. Probably did a few quadriceps reps then spent the rest of the session gassing with his buddies. Gym's are full of people doing that...

The life choices we fail to make

We've all done this: spent time reflecting on stuff we wished we'd learnt when we were younger.

For me it's three things, learning to play the piano, learning history and speaking a second language.

I just think it would be really cool to be able to walk into a pub, see a piano in the corner, stroll over to it and bang out the piano solo in Bruce Hornsby and the Range's hit song 'The Way It Is'.

Or, again, in a pub, correct people when they mention something historically inaccurate or regale them with deep historical facts. Not crappy tabloid popcorn stuff like "Queen Victoria liked her eggs scrambled' etc., but deep meaningful stuff like "I think the latter half of 15th Century was an important time as the Renaissance period was just beginning to break out of it's infancy and if it wasn't for the likes of Michelangelo we wouldn't have such stunning architecture and such detailed artistic styles we have today", beats the hell out of stuff like like "Who's going to win Strictly?" or what that bunch of retards the Kardashians are up to.

As for speaking a second language, the reason's are twofold: 1. Shows respect when abroad and 2. Know when I'm having the piss taken out of me and being able to retort back, fluently.

Yes it's a shame I'm not adept at any of those, although I like to think I have a firm grasp of our history, like others, I still find myself reaching for Google. Musically I have two left feet and as for speaking a second language I could spend an eternity asking directions to the beach and still end up getting lost!

So what can we learn about this? Well, for young people, follow your dreams and don't get distracted by the joys life throws at you (like alcohol for instance). If you do, you'll find middle age is way more interesting!

Carry on Laughing

I haven't posted for a while due to being too depressed to think of anything worthy enough to share with the web-o-sphere...

I have, however, just watched Carry On Up The Khyber and it cheered me right up!

You can always rely on a Carry On film to do that :)

ESO - Latest Adventures

I finished my first working week of 2016 with a lengthy session in Elder Scrolls Online...

It's amazing what you can see with a nVidia GTX 970:

Back to Work

Ho hum, back to work tomorrow... and it's my birthday too.

Worst day of the year to have a birthday:

1. Most people go back to work
2. Most people are hungover
3. Most people are skint

Yeah so like no-one's ever in the mood to celebrate it.

Netflix has Hacked my Brain

You know recently I've found myself thinking about two movies that I haven't seen for ages and that I'd like to watch them again and boom! Netflix e-mails me that they are now available to watch, how weird is that? The two films in question were We Were Soldiers and Big Trouble in Little China.

Most would say it's coincidence, I reckon they've wirelessly hacked my brain... good job I partitioned off and encrypted all the sordid stuff!!

2016

Crappy New Year everyone... I didn't do anything for New Year's Eve, just spent the day playing Squad, Reign of Kings and Dayz, then went to bed around 11.30pm and read my Kindle until midnight. I did that 'cos all the fireworks would have woken me up anyway.

Yes, pretty sad but whatever, I spared my liver and saved a bunch of money.

Here's more of me messing around in Just Cause 3: