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

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

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 apart from Blue, yeah poor Vince is holding down the fort while Mel’s having a girls night in Blackpool with her sister, I was hoping to have a lad’s night, but it seems most of them are in the Lakes at either Phil’s or Ben’s caravan, so what is Vince going to do with himself today ?

Thus far I’ve done Blues morning walk round Ivy Green, i’ve managed a Supreme Breakfast at Orlando’s and now I’m sat in Electrik’s having a nice cold Hoeggarden and watching the world of Chorlton slowly go by, actually thought there’d be more people out and about today, but’s it fairly quiet round here, not many people in the bar, guessing there all outside somewere enjoying the sun.

Tried ringing Ben and John to see if the’d care to join me, but Ben’s got plans at the moment and as for John he’s still in bed recvering from last nights excess’s after the Prodigy gig, no doubt he and Sophie went overboard and probably did’nt get to bed till stupid o’clock this morning, I’ll try giving him a call later and see if he’s up for drink or 2 tonight.

Anyway while I was at Orando’s had a quick chat with Rupert who’s given me the heads up about his next little project, can’t really say much at the moment, but watch this space, for when the time comes I shall divulge more.

Best get back to people watching and drinking my Hoeggarden before it gets to warm and the sun disappears.

Laters

Heading into Chorton last night with Ash, John and Sophie for a night of merriment and met random strangers, said random strangers where however very decent folk and to top it all were actually Yorkshiremen, well 2 of them were anyways.
The Yorkshiremen in question were Paul originally from York and his dad Steve who’d come over to visit him, they’d come out with what I’m guessing were Pauls mates in Manchester and we just sort of sat next to them and then just instigated ourselves into the group, though by the end of the night it felt we’d known them for alot longer then a couple of hours.
I’ve added a few photo’s to the flickr account of the night, not many though as I was to pissed to take that many, it was a very enjoyable evening in the Nook and I most certainly think we’ll be going there for a drink again in the not to distant future

I’m going to end the post here as its still only 7:58am in the morning, I’m still hungover and have now got to find some mug who’ll drive me to Chorlton to pick up my car . . . wish me luck.

Picture 067, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Well this is all that remains of Bernie’s caravan and her daughters boyfriend Johnny’s car after somebody decided to torch it in the early hours of Sunday morning.

No idea who’s done it and the Police don’t appear to be all that interested in the situation, they’ve just told her that it’s her responsibility to have the remains removed as there a health hazard due to all the toxin’s that were released when the caravan was alight, so as well as losing the caravan, Bernie’s then got to find £150 to get the thing removed, don’t know what Johnny’s going to do with his car as yet, guessing his insurrance company will come and take that away at some point, the only good thing to come out of the whole incident is that thankfully no one was hurt.

to go pick John and Sophie up, there going to be dog-sitting while me and Mel are in Blackpool, Mel went last night and I’ll be setting off myself in about 20-30 mins, hopefully be there for about 4:30-5:00pm, so you won’t see any posts off me until we get back late Sunday, that is unless they have wireless access there, ver unlikely but you never know.

Hope Blue does’nt get to lonely for me and Mel while we’re away, reckon she’ll be ok as she’s met John and Sophie plenty of times

So see you all after the weekend.

Its only another 24 hrs before the weekend when me and Mel shoot off to Blackpool for her companys works do, its at the Doric Hotel again, which is pretty cool, its a fairly decent sized hotel, with lovely seafront views.
We stayed ther last year as well and if its as much fun this year as it was last year, I know I’m gonna be getting pissed

We’ve managed to get a dog sitter for the night, John’s kindly offered his services, so we know Blue will be in capable hands, we’ve made sure theres plenty of toast in for him and plenty of cider, so he should be happy as larry and Blue likes him so thats an added bonus, think he’ll be bringing Sophie with him this time, which is cool, she gets on with Blue as well.
Hopefully picking them up early afternoon and then setting off about 4-5pm to get to Blackpool, just hope I’ve got enough petrol in the car to get across there as I’m pretty broke at the moment.

Will hopefully post some pictures up when we get back

You never seem to have enough time to do all the things you want on a weekend, we had loads of stuff planned, but none of it really happened.

Spent Saturday sorting out a friends PC for them, they’d bought it as an ex-demo, so it did’nt come with a OS, I had one to put on it, but it just would’nt take, spent about 3 hrs trying to get the bloody thing on, eventually did a low level format of the hard-drive and finally got the bloody thing on, though it did’nt install all the correct drivers and now its a case of speaking to HP to try and source all the correct drivers, should be fairly easy once we have those.

Saturday afternoon was spent walking Blue then our usual brekkie in Orlando’s, but even that was computer related, one of the barstaff in there Amanda had a few problems with her Laptop, turned out some guy had supposedly been sorting a virus out on it for her and when he’d given it her back he’d not re-installed the ram, turns out he’d upgraded the ram without asking her then was going to charge her for it, so she said she did’nt want it, so he gave it back, but did’nt put the memory back in (being akward I expect), anyway it was the wrong ram so would’nt fit, so not much I could do really.

While I was in there Sophie and John turned up, so stayed for a while and had a few beers with them, before heading home.

Well how about Sunday Vince “Was that exciting ?”

Nope not very !

Intended heading to the German Market again, but just could’nt be arsed, waited in for Tony to come collect his PC, then headed out to give John a lift to Aria to get some parts for his PC (yes another PC), seems this weekend was destined for fixing PCs’, afterwards went to Orlandos and Mel treated us all to tea.

And now here I am sat at home wondering where it all went . .  gotta do something next weekend or I’m going to go mad with boredom, should be spending the weekend enjoying it, not working so to speak, so roll on next weekend.