Twisted Kites

Hey everyone, it’s been a while I know. I’ve either been busy, unmotivated, tired, working, out, or a mixture of the above.

Bought myself a new tent so hopefully will get to use it soon, want to make the most of my long weekends over the next few months and take it out more often. Last season I was using a blue and white dome from Tesco, now got a proper one, which is a bottle green Vango Omega 450 with large porch area and a cool bright orange sleeping area (Omega 450 isn’t on the Vango site but is the same size as the Beta 450), picked up the last tent of stock from Go Outdoors in Coventry so that was good. The tent is slightly smaller than the Tesco one but better quality, faster to pitch and nicer looking.

Also bought a matching windbreak, an improvement on the stripy seaside ones I was using before. Of course much time has been spent in Go Outdoors and Jackson’s of Arley, my two favourite outdoorsy shops.

Seen N a few times recently, been fun

Work has been pretty chaotic recently, with the holiday traffic and numerous accidents clogging up out roads. Got two early starts tomorrow and wednesday then 11 days off, that break is well needed, just hope the weather holds up.

I’ll try post a bit more often, I also don’t get chance to comment on other blogs as much as I’d like too but I do read.

Hope everyone else is well.

This weekend I…

Went bowling again but could not beat my score. Although 125 isn’t bad. I swear the lane was wonky.

Seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Very dark and quite funny.

Bought myself a new car entertainment unit (the term ‘radio’ doesn’t really fit) which replaces this one (on my old blog, scroll down a bit). It’s modern, it’s shiny, looks gorgeous, and it actually has NO CD player built in. I’ll explain with a few piccies in another entry.

Started to update my iTunes music collection. Upgrading all my tracks from 128 kbps AAC to 256 kbps AAC. So that’s a lot of re-ripping CDs to do over the next however-long-it-takes.

Worked nights. And played that usual game of Dodge The Pissheads in Manchester at Midnight. You’d think a 50 foot coach would be encouragement enough for them to get out of the way, but it’s usually the opposite. And the Prestonians are no better.

Tried the new orange flavoured Coca Cola. Wasn’t expecting much, but it was actually really nice! The taste combination was just about right. Good job it’s delicious because it was BOGOF at Morrisons on 6-packs so I have a dozen cans of the stuff.