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Is it really tat loooong since my last entry
posted at 10:37 am on 02-03-2010
Well since I last put something in this blog My nice new bike has been nicked, I have parted company with my boss had a good drive around Wales and gotten swamped in debt.
Such is life.
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2010
posted at 09:34 am on 01-01-2010
Well it's 2010 - where's my personal jet copter, spaceship, holiday on Moonbase, 20' wall TV with integrated virtual sensory system, Intercontinental monorail network and all the stuff we expected to be around by now when I was growing up in the 60's
:) :) :)
Happy and Prosperous New Year to all!
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Christmas is over
posted at 10:50 am on 12-28-2009
It was a good one, Stayed with friends, ate far too much, liberal quantities of drink to wash it down with :)
Buuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrp!
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Going back tommorow.
posted at 02:25 pm on 09-16-2009
Well I'm a tad apprehensive I have had a break working in Hereford and am back in London now. I pick my boss up from the station and go to work tomorrow morning.
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Well I didn't quite get back to work
posted at 01:26 pm on 08-28-2009
Hi,
well after my holiday I returned to work only to get well pissed of and depressed at the sight of the place :( Not having any proper work I was given some grim tasks so in my return email to the boss I sent the message 'I QUIT!!!'.
I am now working for a freind in Herefordand enjoying it although it is not very profitable and did patch things up with my old boss who will probably want me when the work comes rolling in again.
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Back from short break
posted at 06:26 am on 07-31-2009
Hi,
Well I'm back from a short break in which I went for a good drive about in my Lotus first calling Warwick Castle on my way to my friends in Hereford then at PETT (Planed Environmental Therapy Trust) archive & study centre in Worcestershire where I dug up some writings about me and a picture I painted when I was 12 (a very long time ago), I then stayed with a friend in North Wales (Snowdonia) where I had a good rest, took the train up the mountain and had a good thrash around the island of Anglesey in the Lotus.
I will post some photos when I can.
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Again 2 months since last entery
posted at 07:22 pm on 04-12-2009
Well the worlds worst diary keeper is back again-
Well what have I done?
All sorts I went to France for a week in march that was great had a wonderful time. The love of my life (My Lotus) is running well just have to fix the many oil leaks and am getting some bushes on the suspension done next week.
On a sad note 2 of my neighbours have died both were good drinking buddies and I will miss them.
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February already
posted at 06:29 am on 02-09-2009
Had a friend stay this weekend have been soooo busy at work and my weekends just fly, I have been away working for some of them.
I want more me time!
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Had a groovy Christmas
posted at 07:06 pm on 01-04-2009
Well the holiday was pretty groovy I went to see my friend in Wales. She lives in a valley so there is no mobile phone service and she has no internet connection so we were delightfully isolated from the rest of the world :)
A nice day out shopping, I had a lovely walk in the mountains, an excellent Christmas dinner on Christmas day and a wonderful day out in Portmeirion.
The whole week was great!
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It's comming
posted at 12:36 am on 12-15-2008
Christmas!
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3 months since last entery
posted at 12:24 am on 11-05-2008
Aaaaaaggggggh!
It has been that long. Well today America has elected a new President and the rest of the world breaths a huge sigh of relief.
My beautiful car is still working and I am working too hard.
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Another week
posted at 06:44 pm on 09-07-2008
Well had the housing co-op annual coach trip to Brighton yesterday :)
It was cold & sometimes wet but the shopping was good :)
I bought a kite and flew it on the beach, it is amazing how it is such a simple pleasure can be soooo good, the last time I flew a kite on the beach was with my dad and my brother on Chesil bank some 45 or more years ago.
Otherwise a pretty crappy week the council are after me for there tax, too much hard work, too many bills :(
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Crazy weekend
posted at 10:35 am on 09-02-2008
Had a wonderful wild weekend with friends up a mountain in Wales. Sung along to the radio and CD with a fun Torrets'y Journalist all the way there and back.
:) :) :)
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Again, long time since an entery
posted at 07:23 am on 08-10-2008
Well I'd better write something...
Had quite some activity on my Friends reunited account people from a very long time ago. Strange name for an on line service that puts you in touch with you old school collogues, most of whom I would not piss on of they were on fire, in fact quite few might be on fire because of the can of petrol and box of matches I'm holding ^_^ but it is quite remarkable how many of the white hats I am finding.
The chap I wrote about helping me out of a bullying incident has contacted me and the girl who lived next door to my best friend at primary school.
All good stuff, have fun :)
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Back from Holiday :)
posted at 01:34 am on 06-11-2008
Had a great time learning first aid a very intense course and not for wimps :)
My Photo's
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Going on holiday :)
posted at 01:15 am on 06-01-2008
Well, I'm about to go off for a week. for my holiday I am doing a one week course in bushcraft first aid, it should be interesting :)
I have not been camping for a long time it was before I changed gender and I have to get a strategy to not grow a beard while away (hot water is a bit of a luxury when camping).
But I figure these skills will one day be useful I have no idea why but I do have ambition to go on a ling bike ride (round the world or to Africa) or maybe just organise a camping trip with some kids.
Whatever the coming week will present the odd calenge or two.
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Wet weekend.
posted at 04:31 am on 05-27-2008
Well that was a wet bank holiday weekend.
Supposed to shoot in two tournaments this weekend but one was rained off hence slept most of the day.
No Doctor Whoo because of some stupid song contest!
Yes a truly horrid bank holiday.
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Hopeless diary keeper
posted at 01:07 am on 05-19-2008
That's me.
Well I have been out re enacting at Rockingham Castle, was great fun and went to see Historic Racing cars at Silverstone.
Had a good pub meeting with other WP'ers Thursday.
All good fun :)
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Failiure!
posted at 01:32 pm on 03-09-2008
For the first time ever NOBODY arrived at the science Museum today.
So after waiting an hour i had a lovely look at some of my favourite exhibits, Babbage's Difference Engine and the Rocket and Aircraft gallery's.
:)
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Readability
posted at 01:25 pm on 03-08-2008
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Not good at keeping a diary
posted at 01:23 pm on 03-08-2008
Haven't made an entry since new year.
In the mean time 2 friends of mine have died. My boss has had me working flat out we are just soo busy.
M had been my boss for several years, a good drinking companion and first class engineer got me into cycling. Had many a good night drinking ESB I built some good electronics for him. Once we cycled to Northholt airfield to watch the RAF battle of Britain memorial flight land.
Very unexpected and sudden death from a heart attack.
JJ had been a good friend to whom I was introduced in the world of role play. Another engineer we shared a common interest in classic cars and motorcycles.
Had been fighting leukaemia for some time but as always death is very sad.
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2008
posted at 04:47 pm on 01-01-2008
starts here!
Well 2007 over it weren't to bad I just hope my Lotus actually works this year :)
284. Deep down, everyone's a Ferengi.
Wishing everyone a prosperous new year.
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Christmas
posted at 11:48 am on 12-26-2007
Was not a bad one.
Back on my head tomorrow.
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Sunday not bad
posted at 03:57 am on 12-10-2007
Well got lots done on the car yesterday hand multiple fuck ups fogeting things, like my purse.
saw my sister after got home to find today I have an early start :(
Hay Ho...
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wet and cold
posted at 01:00 pm on 12-08-2007
A dreary weekend
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My baby is back :)
posted at 01:26 am on 10-26-2007
My beautiful baby is back at home.
My beautiful Lotus is purring like a kitten and looking great.
I am sooo happy:)
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A grand day out.
posted at 05:24 am on 10-22-2007
Had a lovely meet in Winchester the weather was good and Winchester is a nice place.
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Too busy
posted at 05:08 pm on 10-13-2007
Just soo busy at work I can't remember having done a less than 12 hour day and of late there longer and hard work.
I fuck up frequently.
I'm knacked!
Bought a new bike :)
I've got a silver machine!
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Soo much to do
posted at 07:34 pm on 09-16-2007
Well I'm trying to organise the next WP London meetup but soo much has keept me bussy this weekend. I receved a phone call to go fix some computers had a good practice and a good torniment with 'Thumper' my compound bow (My longbow is called 'Bambi').
Work is like a crazy manick evermounting heap of tasks and worse still deadlines (I do sooo hate deadlines). As for organising the meetup 'A piss up in a brewary' is about the full scope of my organising skill <VBG>.
I kind of know it will work out and be good though.
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Boring
posted at 05:29 pm on 09-09-2007
I have had a nice boring weekend shoot Saturday but not very well my back is quite painfull from too much work the past two weeks. went shopping but didn't need much hence sat infront of the tv & computer most of the weekend.
Went for dinner in my local, Roast Pork :)
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Good Weekend
posted at 05:03 pm on 08-27-2007
Had a nice weekend, a good shoot Saturday morning, did my shopping in the afternoon bought new boots and a set of realy niffty coloured brush pens for drawing. Sunday was just sooo special!
I went to Waterloo to meet with some other Wrongplaneteers :) It was just so great to meet up with some people like us. I have to say I was pretty excited. the weather was lovley but the city was a bit crowded with lots of people performing along by the river.
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Well I'm back :)
posted at 07:39 am on 08-11-2007
Had a wonderful holiday the past couple of weeks. Denmark is a nice laid-back country. got home tuesday night back to work wednesday.
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Holiday :)
posted at 12:24 am on 07-25-2007
Well I'm off on holliday for the next couple of weeks.
Hooray!
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Long time since last entery
posted at 05:09 am on 07-18-2007
Just too bussy:
Never have been any good at this sort of thing and this is just a nothing.
Problem is I can see in my mind enormouse 10 page screeds of stuf I want to write but the actuale act of writing takes soo long I can never post them.
I have about ¼ of a piece about my 2nd primary school I just hope I get round to picking it up and finishing it.
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Last weekend
posted at 10:56 am on 07-05-2007
I went to see an old school friend at the weekend we had not seen each other for 34 years. there was much discussion of our old school, it was a weird place, I will write some more about it one day but writing is not a strong point with me. It was very nice to see each other though he was one of the white hats, there weren't that many of us I think we must have listed them all in his kitchen in the morning.
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Woe is me :(
posted at 04:20 am on 06-15-2007
My beutiful wonderful shiny Motor Car has bust a big end again. My mechanic was nearly in tears :(
As I have said before I have taken so much s**t nothing can piss me of any more; but this comes close!
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Memory of the day
posted at 04:01 am on 06-13-2007
Bullying.
Bullying happened to me so often every day at school at least eventually it spread to other places I had to stop going to the local cinema and I will always remember this incident at Wolf Cubs.
The kids at my school had found out that pulling there lower eyelids down with there fingers to reveal the inside of there eyelid thoroughly revolted me (to say nothing of starring at me from a short distance in the face) and this was at the time (I think I might have been 9) the current fashion for teasing me.
I used to attend the local Wolf Cub pack in the church hall about 400 yard from home with my brother. I had been introduced to it by my best friend I will call B more of whom you will no doubt hear of, but at this time he had moved from my home town and I was feeling especially lonely and vulnerable. I had usually enjoyed cubs the activities were highly organised there was always supervision and participants were expected to show a certain amount of discipline I had even made it to become seconder of my six. On this occasion we had visitors from another pack and this included my major antagonist and arch enemy I shall call Y.
Y was a small lad quite clever and the class clown at school but he used to really get off on antagonising me. The first time we met he said to me "Do you want a penny stamp?" and then proceeded to stamp in my toes. That was the day he arrived at our school and from then on he had made my life hell very quickly getting many others to join him and gang up on me, at school I was often mobbed .
This day the normally safe environment of wolf cubs was somewhat less at ease but games and activities proceeded without a major incident other than a few snide comments. It was afterwards when I left to go home things went horribly wrong, some boys had gathered waiting for me although a few from the guest pack mainly those from my own pack as about 20 - 25 of them mobbed me. It was dark, I remember these horrid kids coming at me out of the bushes pulling there eyelids back and yelling "Wooooooo" in a very short time I was in meltdown.
Afterwards I was on the pavement outside the church, I can't remember if I was still stimming but I guess I probably was, a boy I will call X was there. X had broken up the mob and sent most of them on there way home he was a big lad and at the time I recall clearly he had lost his two front milk teeth leaving a big gap. Although he went to the same school as me he was not particularly a particular friend, I have no doubt he would have to take some stick for sticking up for me. An adult had been called she (I cannot remember if it was Arcala or Bagiera) had some understanding of my state, disbursed the remaining onlookers. I was helped up from the pavement and X who lived around the corner in the other direction walked with me at least to the corner of my road although I think all the way home.
X I dedicate this memory to you. You are a real hero. Thank you.
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Memory of the day
posted at 09:13 am on 06-06-2007
The iceb fuckup is a well-established phenomenon in my workplace. This is a very normal thing for us but completely beyond the reason of NT's.
Now I will recall the first one. I must have been about 4 and we lived close to a parade of shops at the end of our road to get there I would walk trough a footpath and pass the butchers shop. This is why I would go the butcher had a big dog and in those days I had not learned to be frightened of dogs, my Mum would send me because she was frightened of the butchers dog.
It was a hot day and my Dad expressed a desire for an ice lolly so I had been given a shilling and asked to go to the shop and buy 'four lollies'
I walked to the shop and asked the lady behind the counter for "four lollies" she did not know weather I meant sweet lollies (lolypops) or ice lollies and proceeded to confuse me I did not know what I wanted outside the words "four lollies" and she decided I meant sweet lollies. When I got home and presented them to my Dad :(
He was quite surprised that I could make such a mistake I can still feel the horrible guilt that I felt having disappointed him so much.
He took the lollies back to the shop - I broke down in tears
I can say that Ice lollies were the subject for many a fuckup in our houshold. Of course now I can go to the shop and come back with complexity the wrong things!
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Memory of the day
posted at 11:27 am on 06-05-2007
Possibly brought on by listening to one of the autism radio podcasts:
I remember when I was 8 - 9 - 10 years old I was sent to a special unit at another school. It was always a good day for me I went twice a week one morning Tuesday I think and on afternoon which was always on a Wednesday. It meant a half day away from the tormentors of my primary school and I would catch a bus on my own with 2d (old money) to the other school.
Tuesday (or was it Thursday) morning I would get remedial help with my reading and writing that were (and still are) quite poor I did make progress there though but best was Wednesday. There were a huge number of toys and we were encouraged to play together as were were all on the spectrum somewhere there was none of the insidious bullying and peer pressure of my regular school and I did form friendships and enjoy games with others. Usually I played with a group of 2 or 3 boys and would dress up in Royal Engineers Uniforms and play war games but on occasion this was not so. I particularly remember playing a memory card game with a angelic little girl although I was far better than her she did learn and was catching up. I also remember playing with dolls in a dolls house. I suspect this is when I first thought I would like to be a girl. Unfortunately at age 10 we moved and I was no longer attending the unit :(
It was about the only bit of my primary school life from which I had any enjoyment.
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Well, a lot of travel
posted at 02:51 pm on 06-03-2007
well I have had some weekend!
I went to York for Friday performance driving - That was fun!
I did notice quite some resemblance of York to Ahnk-Morpork :)
The day was terrific!
I then went to see my Aunt some number of miles north of there.
We had soo much catching up to do we never stopped talking - All kinds of stuff, My Grandfather and Grandma, My Dad, My Uncles, Most poignant My Cousin who I only met the once. He was autie very much further along the spectrum than I, he had committed suicide some years ago at age 23. I really wish I could have known him.
There is much I want to say but not now.
Sometimes I just learn sooo much! this weekend was something real :)
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Well yet another one
posted at 04:48 pm on 05-26-2007
Been working too hard, shall be shooting all bank holliday, looking forward to next weekend with Lotus :)
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another week
posted at 01:23 pm on 05-12-2007
Ain't half got some work done this week full on 5 days 10 - 12 hours each. That is too much work:(
Trying to figure when an what my my Dx was I know your not shipped off to a school 200 miles away for no good reason. My stepmother say's I'm autistic and there is no dispute I must be high functioning AS seems to tick all the boxes. Somehow I doubt that I could get access to 40 year old records from a school that no longer exists.
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Last week
posted at 02:45 pm on 05-05-2007
I am very busy at work and as ususal in these situations I managed to F**k up and annoyed my boss. He is a person I have worked for on and off for many years and I really believe he is considerate just unaware of how much distress he can cause me.
I had been late returning from collecting a colleague and he gave me a bit of a beasting about it, then as if with expert knowledge of the aspie soul he tasked me with a stack of jobs insisting I start with one I knew I could not finish before I had to deliver some equipment for him and was quite unnecessary for me to start then, There were also a number of routine things that I should have been doing then that had to be done before I leaved. Of course I am unable to complete any of them.
What really gauls me is his repeated use of the phrase "It's not rocket science" I wonder if he at all knows what this means to an aspie? Rocked Science great stuff but I really don't know he can get me to phone the council and sort out his council tax!
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To All
posted at 01:28 pm on 05-05-2007
First I want to apologies to all aspies - I have lived since leaving school in complete denial of my aspieness.
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