Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on...

Sorry for lack of updates in recent weeks, just when I was starting to get back into the swing of blogging n' all.

This month's excuse is my impending house move.

I move in two days time.

Yikes!

At present, walking from the living upstairs to the bedrooms is something of a military assault course with the ammount of... Well, stuff I have boxed, bagged or rolled waiting to be packed into the hire van on move-day.

Two years; who'd have thought I needed all this... Stuff?

Where'd all this stuff come from?

Anyway.

Appears I may be offline for [*shudder*] upwards of a week. Strangely, for a new-build only a few years old the previous tenants never connected a land line. Although I don't really use a land line per se, without one I can't get back online. Cue delicate negotiations with the agents as to who's paying what exactly.

Expect pictures and musings on the new digs & location as soon as I get re-connected.

In the meanwhile I'm setting this to autopilot; ditto Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail pages & the like.

Right then, where's I put the packing tape?

[*whistles*]

Maybe tomorrow I'll wanna' settle down.

Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Sunday, February 01, 2009

25 Random Things

Another one of those meme things...
  1. I'm an avid Guardian reader.
  2. I can happily devour an entire packet of biscuits in one sitting.
  3. Deep-down, even at my lowest ebb, I'm still an optimist.
  4. I have a love for dance/electronic music, but my tastes are otherwise broad; rock to classical, hip-hop to indie.
  5. I'm 6'3".
  6. At the last count, I have visited 22 countries and rising... Travel is one of my great passions in life.
  7. Following a friends' recommendation I am currently a massive fan of 'The Shield' and secretly wish policing was a little more like that sometime.
  8. All the women I've had relationships with were born outside the UK.
  9. I drive too fast.
  10. I enter a ridiculous number of competitions. Someones got to win, surely?
  11. I'm intrigued by religion but am still an agnostic.
  12. Bad manners infuriate me - when you hold a door open for someone and they don't say thanks...
  13. I'm a bit of a romantic, really.
  14. Though I don't read as much as I used to, I've always got a book on the go.
  15. I think I'm starting to develop insomnia.
  16. Unusual for a bloke; but I love cats.
  17. I'm typing this to avoid packing. I move house on the 19th of this month.
  18. Before becoming a copper I worked as a bookseller, and prior to that for a small environmental charity in The New Forest.
  19. I'm a terrible, but slowly improving cook.
  20. When I get some more money through I would like to get a decent digital SLR camera and become a better photographer.
  21. I cannot function properly without a morning coffee.
  22. I long to be a father. Eventually.
  23. My heroes include Moby, Neil Armstrong, David Attenborough, Captain Scott and Ellen MacArthur.
  24. I have a strange fascination with cold places, particularly The Antarctic.
  25. I can still speak (rustily) fluent Swedish.