It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

kennys party 071, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Kenny reached the grand old age of 50 last week along with Andy reaching the 40 mark, so they had a joint party to celebrate and used the oppurtunity to get everyone back togeather again.

It was good to see all the faces from the partys togeather again having a laugh and just generally getting on, party kicked off at of all places Stretford Cricket Club, then moved onto Lisa’s flat, where drinks flowed and people talked bollox (mainly due to what they’d had).

We left fairly early on in the morning 5:00am so maybe not so early, but the party carried on after we left, ending only when John, Ben and a few others decided to place most of Lisa food stuffs in the freezer . . . oh and after Ben had emptied a full bag of flour over the sleeping Lisa’s head (not nice Ben).

Gotta say Kenny was looking good for an old man and no doubt has many years left in him, all the best Kenny and Andy

As mentioned earlier headed across to Chorlton to take Blue round Ivy Green, met up with Luke at Electriks then headed across to Ivy Green, anyways decided to head along the Mersey to Jackson’s boat for a beer, absolutely stunning views with everything totally whited out by the snow, like being in another country.

Met a few other dog owners along the way and just generally enjoyed the walk and then it happened . . . Blue headed for her favourite bend in the Mersey, where she usually goes for a drink of water, but the edge was all iced up and Blue being Blue didn’t bat an eyelid, just went storming onto the ice, well ice and a 7.5 stone dog don’t exactly miss and the next minute there’s the sound of ice cracking and Blue disappears into the inky black water of the Mersey to reappear a few seconds later out of the ice hole she’d just created.

Soon as I saw her disappear I dropped my camera and dived down the rivers bank trying to get to her, she was a couple of feet out, way beyond my reach, but luckily for her and me there was a fcuking big branch log just laying nr the bank, so used this to smash through the ice and create a passage for her to get to the side, scariest 60 or so seconds I’ve experienced in a long time while smashing that ice I can tell you.

So managed to get her to the side and she was back to her normal self in a few minutes, though slightly damp for her ordeal, she soon shook it off, then headed to Jackson’s Boat so she could warm up and me and Luke could get a beer.

Apart from the unexpected dip in the Mersey it was a pretty good afternoon, nothing like trapping through snow and cold bracing fresh air to make you feel alive, finished the afternoon off with some very tasty French Onion soup at electriks, now at home watching Blue chilled out on the bed with Mel pampering her.

Might head out that way again tomorrow, but this time stay away from the ice . .

Today started off with a flat battery, just what I needed at 8:00am, believe me trying to find a neighbour with jumps leads and who’s not rushing off to work at that time of the morning is like trying to find rocking horse shit, spent about 30 minutes knocking on neighbours doors trying to find someone who hadn’t already left for work and could spare the time to give me a jump start.

Thankfully Mona’s son from 2 doors down was just walking past his front room window and I managed to catch his eye, so after about 10 minutes the car was up and running, really need to get a new battery for the car though now that winters here, this is about the 3rd time in as many weeks I’ve had problems starting the car.

Anyway got into work a bit late, but had rang up to let them know why, so didn’t get any shit off anyone when I got there which was a nice surprise, was expecting to get a 20 minute lecture on the pros of leaving for work earlier . .

Rest of the day was spent using photo-shop to mask some images for a catalogue I’ve been asked to create by a colleague, seems to be going well and I’m quite enjoying learning new photo-shop tricks, so the day passe’s by pretty quickly when you’ve got your head immersed in adobe.

Anyway 5:15pm came about pretty quickly and left work early to get home so we could take Blue to the vets for her annual checkup and her booster shoots.
She’s getting pretty used to the vets now and just walked in without any fuss, previous times I’ve literally had to lift her across the threshold, which for a big dog like a Cane Corso is not good for one’s back.

Vet gave her the booster shoots and some worming pills and gave her the all clear with her checkup, also complemented her on being a beautiful looking dog, something I think Blue already knows and uses to her advantage on many occasions.

Took her for a walk around the football fields afterwards and treated her to a large sausage from the chippy for being a good girl at the vets, don’t know what it is about our dog Blue, but she is honestly the most well behaved dog I’ve ever met and by far the best dog to cheer you up if your ever feeling down, so glad we found her . . .

Chris the guy who punched me in the back of the head has kindly posted a reply to my post about him punching me, I’ve posted his comment below, as its only fair he give his side of the story, so here it is in all its entirety,

# chchrison 06 Sep 2009 at 12:22 am

“hahaha u dick im a scally, hahaa u were begging me 2 stop battering you haha depression haha u wud get raped in jail u dik hed, it will b a laff wen i c u in chorlton agen hahahaha safe dik head btw you did slap my arse in the toilets so dont chat shit on ur blog yh”

Thanks for leaving the comment Chris

Went out for the night in Chorlton with John, Myles and Sarah, was a good night until some scally mate who I’d spent the previous 30 mintues having a chat to and had a laugh with, he seemed ok,  got on fine with him and his mate, left them to go have ciggy out front of the bar, came in for a piss walked passed them both and gave them a tap on the back to acknowledge them and say what a good night we’d had and hoped they were having a good night, next thing I’m having a piss when suddenly i get a fist in the back of the head and turn round and its this scally punching me, because i’d apparently touched his arse, being the big man he bitch slapped me from behind, was’nt really hurt, just more in shock then anything

His mate was sound though just dragged him out of the bar, though next time I hope he has the decency to hit me face on rather then sucker punch me from behind

On the way to work this morning Barton Road in Stretford was cordoned off just before the Robin Hood Pub, my first thoughts were that there’s been a crash of some sort, but as I continued to work there was a report on the BBC News that a 16yr old boy had been shoot outside the pub in the late evening of Sunday.

Seems that the young lad had been with friends at a music event at the pub and as he was leaving in a car with a group of friends the car they were all travelling in was shoot up by someone, out of the four in the car he was apparently hit in the head and later died in Trafford Hospital.

Just when you think you know somewhere you discover that its not as safe as you first thought, I know Stretfords pretty crap, but I never thought there’d be drivebys on its streets, thoughts go out to this lads family and to any family effected by gun crime, Police initially arrested 3 people in connection with the shooting, but have released 2 and keeping the other for further questioning, I’m guessing the 3 arrested were the people in the car with him and there just going through the process of questioning them and figuring out whats gone on.

Its bullshit that people have to resort to guns to sort out differences, that such young life’s have to be wasted because there members of the wrong gang or in the wrong place, just hoping that the Police can find out who did it and get another killer off the streets, but as one goes to jail there will always be another waiting to take there place.

A very sad state of affairs our worlds coming to . .   and people wonder why I don’t want to bring children into this world . .

Seems I’m spending more time on Twitter then I have been on my Blog of late, so here I am back to update you all on whats been happening in the world of Vince.

Bank Holiday Weekend:

Spent most of the holiday weekend in the company of Mel, Blue our dog, John and Sophie, introduced them both to Pi-chorlton and the delectable PIE they sell, me and John went for the Mooo PIE while Mel and Sophie went all cheesy on us and had the Heidi PIE, think they both will be visiting that fine establishment again from the comments they made about the tasty PIE.

Also popped into Electriks for a few beers where Blue got plenty of admiring glances and pets on the head.

Saturday we met up with Bernie, Lisa, Andrew, Paul, Rik, Kev and Riks missus Clare I think, introduced them to Electriks fine beers and free Jukebox, though we couldn’t stay to long as we’d been out most of the day drinking and were fairly pissed fairly early so headed home around 9:30pm, Sunday and Monday was spent relaxing watching movies at home.

As for today, well I’ve just dropped my car off at BMTec for its annual MOT and hopefully after a few fixes to a leaking front shock absorber, a faulty parking brake and a few knackered lights it should pass, though might be a tad more expensive then I’d hoped, will now how much around about 3:00pm today.

On about Twitter . . . I now have 76 followers, so slowly but surely I’m getting a nice set of people following me and I in turn follow them, seems quite a few are dog owners like myself and its nice to know our Cane Corso Blues getting more fans, seems where ever I out something about her on the Internet she attracts attention, but hey shes a pretty princess so its to be expected lol

Anyway gonna shoot now and catch up on some TV i’ve missed, got about 4 episodes of The Fringe to watch and the whole of Series 3 of The Wire, looking forward to The Wire especially as this series there on the trail of the Avon Barksdale gang again.

Nearly forgot I’m also using AudioBoo now so check out the AudioBoos in the menu at the top right to here my lovely voice lol

Well I’m awake and its only 8:26am on a saturday morning, my supposed day of next rest, but theres reasons for this :

Reason 1. Blue jumped on the bed

Reason 2. I had an early night

Reason 3. My alarm went off

Ok there not very good reasons I know, but I did actually need to get up early this morning as got quite a few things to get done today, first off theres a visit to the vets, seems Blue might have got an eye infection from having her big loveable chunky head stuck out of the car window when we drive around (gonna invest in some doggles for her me thinks), thats all arranged for 10:00am, and then theres my planned visit to the Farmers Market, something I’m looking forward to with gusto, why gusto, well if you knew there was going to be a speciality cheese stall there and cheese was one of your favourite dairy product you’d be full of gusto, mmmmmm cheeeseeee.

Anyway hopefull I’ll be twittering from there once I arrive letting you know what yummy products they have one offer, but for now I think its time for toast and coffee.

When we all get pulled outside for a little chat with our Dept Heads to discuss this year’s pay review . .

So how much are we all worth this year you wonder . . . well wonder no more for our company has valued us all at 3%, yes so for every pound I get paid this year another 3p will be added to it, just enough to cover 1 months mortgage payment (well it would be if I wasn’t taxed on it that is), while being given the “Good News” I was also informed that I might hear that some people got bonus’s this year ( I wasn’t one of the lucky ones), but not to worry because it wasn’t a lot, well excuse me but it may not have been a lot, but its more then what I actually got . . so of course I’m worried, who was it that got the bonus? What did they do that I didn’t ? What can I do next year to ensure that I get one at the next pay review ? Please someone tell me. .

Nothing like a Pay review to get you down is there . . .

Yes I’ve been one of the unlucky one’s, I’ve spent the last 2 days holed up in bed with m body not knowing which end it wants to spontaneously produce bodily fluids first, horrible horrible experience I can tell you, on top of that I’ve had hot and cold sweats that have made sleeping near impossible, as of a couple of hours ago the sweats have stopped and I’m hoping the rest of the syptoms die down a bit so I can attempt to get in the car and head to Yorkshire to my mothers.

If I feel any better by about 3-4pm I’m going to have a go at driving across there, so keeping m fingers crossed, if I do manage it I should be back in Yorkshire for about 7-8pm.

Mel’s staying in Manchester as her father Fred’ back across from Ireland for the festive season, so gives them time to catch up, much the same way me going to Yorkshire gives me and Mum chance to talk, Mel, Gail, Sel and Fred are going for a meal later all being well, so there’ll be some more photo’s for the Moore clan on flickr at some point.

Time for me to bugger off now as need to start getting ready if I’m going to attempt 80 miles without being sick in the car, plenty of dry toast, Lucazade and a bottle of mineral water to prepare for the journey.