Been keeping busy

I have had a busy couple of weeks so have not been on here, where to start, I guess with the move!!!! I have been offered a one bed flat and it looks like i will be moving on 2nd December.  It's in need of some work so going to spend a couple of days painting and then get some carpet laid and beds sofa etc but when it is all finished it should be great and I can't wait to get in:-)

Oh and I got an iPad mini, wow what an awesome device, so easy to use and powerful well it's an apple so I guess that's no great surprise but I am so happy with it.  

Kids have moved as well into a nice house and they seem to be impressed with it, not sure about the trip to school though?

Ok we'll it's half one in the morning and I can't sleep for some reason which is super annoying but I will try again 

Night world x

Bit of a long week, oh and the competition is coming to an end

Well, this has been a long week, I have not stopped and today i am having a bit of a chill watching Life of Pi of NOW TV, before my offer period ends, I wont be continuing with the service as it is overpriced for what you get.  Life of Pi is a good film however but not as good as the book, I remember reading that years ago and was so impressed so I had real hopes for the film, and it is good but not great!

The competition I am running end tomorrow so good luck to everyone and reading through all the jokes that have been submitted has kept me entertained, my favourite being "a Roman walks into a bar and sticks two finger up at the barman and says 5 bears please"

Ok well that will do for today

Mike

Back after my broadband failure

Well my broadband has been down for days, but finally back up and running, hopefully it will last for a while!!!

So I had Faye down for a few days and we had a great time starting with a trip to Chessington on Saturday, as it is nearly Halloween they were staying open till 7pm, which made it a really good day, with nearly 10 hours of fun!!! Faye loved the Vampire ride in the dark (as did I) and then we travelled back home to watch X Factor :-( but she fell asleep straight away so I got to turn it over :-)

Sunday we made a day of visiting some of the sights of London so we started with a trip to the London Eye, always popular and we then did the 4D experience that goes with it, amazing views of London. We followed this with the London Aquarium which I always find rather uninteresting, you can only look at so many fish tanks! but as it is all included it the Merlin Annual Pass I don't mind, if I had paid to go in I would be very unhappy, in fact even just queuing the 20 mins to get a ticket would have wound me up!!! still free and no queue so I did not mind.  Next was a trip up to the top of the Monument, 311 steps to the top, I always try to put them off but they love doing it, I really don't it's not the hight that bothers me, but it's a tight spiral staircase all the way up and the steps are not that big, so it's just very unplesant and people going the opposite direction make it even worse! still we got a certificate for doing it. We followed that up with a trip to Westfield and then went to the O2 to watch Cloudy in the sky with Meatballs 2, Faye loved it, it's a good film and works well from the first film as well.

Monday we went to the Guildhall Art Gallery and looked at the Victoriana the Art of Revival Exhibition, a very impressive exhibition and Faye was impressed with the whole thing.  I think the Guildhall Art Gallery is one of those missed bits of London, so few people go there but it is amazing.

Faye then got to stay at my parents for a couple of days while I went back to work, and now she should be home with her brothers and sister.

Well a great fun weekend and one I wont forget!!!!!

Kobo Mini

Today's quote of the blog is: There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it will be a butterfly.

Well on Friday I decided to get myself a Kobo Mini at only £39.99 it seemed to be a bargain, and to be honest it is! it is so easy to use and fits in my jeans pocket, so it can go anywhere I go. Items today always seem to come very stylishly packed and this is no different

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and once out of the box

I have since downloaded my first book which was The Circle by Dave Eggers, I hear a review on Raido 4 and thought it sounded interesting, and it was, a great read, really brining home the risk of the digital age, all very believable and easy to support the basis of the ideas which lead to a very different world, where everyone should no everything, "PRIVACY IS THEFT" what a great line.  This is a book I would recommend to everyone. 100 points!

OK so that's the book but how was it reading it on a Kobo Mini, well it was super easy, you can set the font size to what you feel comfortable and then just go I was not sure about the screen size as I chose the mini so it is only 5" but actually it caused no problem at all, I found it all flowed very easily with page turning so simple that I can't see me buying a real book any time soon!

So my rating for the Kobo itself it (in keeping with the Circle) 100 points.

Have a great week to everyone and I am off to some training at lunchtime then to work so will catch up again soon.

Mike

Quote of the blog today is, PRAY - To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

So how is my day going? went to the dentist this morning, and it was better than expected, the antibiotics I got on Saturday seem to have made a big difference, apparently I only need a couple of fillings replaced and some cleaning up around the gums, but i was expecting extractions!

Off to collect my weekends work this afternoon, as I am going to be delivering letters Saturday, should be a good bit of exercise and I will be getting paid for it!

Have been going through some of my photos and thought I would share this one with you, it's part of Hampstead Heath which is an amazing place, and this area is one of the more hidden parts but so very beautiful.

Some new bits and a review

Hi all,

Well I thought it might be a good time to look at the blog and see what I could do to improve it, I have decided to include a Quote of the Blog for each post! today I have "Do what you do because you should, not just because you can".

And I am going to run another competition for people so just check out the rafflecopter widget below and enter I have added a remembrance day entry option as it closes on 11th November and I want to show some support.

Comment below with your favourite joke and you will get extra entries as I thought it would be good to see who can come up with a great joke, my favourite is:

I went on a date with a model the other day, well I say a date, it was just dinner and a movie.
Then the plane landed.

I thought I would also start commenting on my recent service I have received at various shops, today I am going to talk about Amazon as that is who I have decided to use for the competition.

Amazon review: I have been using Amazon for a few years now and have some really good experiences and a few not quite so good, first the good points, Price, simply put they are cheap compared to most other sites and the high street, so I often look in the high street then check on my phone to see how much Amazon can sell it to me, and almost always end up buying from Amazon instead! Choice, again Amazon are great for this, the selection of items you can get there now is amazing, they seem to sell pretty much everything certainly not just books and DVD's any more.  Now for the so-so points, Delivery, is 3-5 days on average, which is not bad but they used to be better, and they now seem to be slower just to sell you paid for delivery options and Amazon Prime is just too expensive to justify.
Finally the Bad points, well as with all on-line sales, it's very easy to not really understand what you are going to get, pictures can be very deceptive, I have purchase items in the past such as ornaments and when they have arrived that are much smaller than expected, now in fairness Amazon did include the size in the description and I did not look, but it is an issue with on-line purchasing. Maybe they should include a photo that compares items size in relation to a fixed size item.

Overall I would give Amazon 8.5 out of 10 as price and range are great points to be good on.

OK now for the comp.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks for coming to the Blog.

Mike

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Toothache :-(

Well it's been a long week, had to go to the hospital on Saturday due to terrible toothache, and have been put on Antibiotics, still it's been getting better during the week, and I'm back at the Dentist on Friday so hopefully it will be getting sorted then!

Took the Kids swimming on Saturday as well, which was good, the kids so love swimming! and really looking forward to my weekend with Faye next week, we are going to go to Chessington and Cinema and other stuff then to my parents on the Monday as it will be half term!!!!

Well since then I have been at work including a 18 hour day yesterday but just this evening to go and then I have 4 days off, which will be good, although I will be delivering some paperwork around town.

That should do for today, off to work soon so have a good day.

Mike