I read somewhere this morning that Lego Back to the Future may actually be happening! As much as I hate being ripped off by Lego I have to admit, I will NOT be able to resist buying these bad boys:






The DeLorean would look pretty wicked sat next to my Harry Potter Knigtbus!

This is me trying my best not to kill an Elliott Smith song. I failed. Anyway, It's Between the Bars. Hope ya'll like it

Nearly 2 weeks now without beer - a bit of will power can go a long way. I still seem to have a bit of a "tummy" but that might be because I eat 12 times a day

So the news is that I have a new job! Obvs it's mega relief mostly but I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. When I took redundancy at my old place a big part of that was because I wasn't sure I wanted to be a joiner any more. Yet here I am, about to start a new job Monday morning as a joiner. I'm doing it because I need the money. Plain and simple. If at this point there was another way I could make the money I'll make doing this then I'd do it. There isn't. Perhaps night school is a thought? It'll take time, yes, but time isn't the real issue. The real issue for me is not knowing what I want to do with my life. I've been out of work going on 3 months now and in all that time I haven't come up with something solid that I could actually see myself doing.

Ah fuck it - when I grow up, I'm going to be a house husband

So I'm on a detox from alcahol. I decided after bonfire night that I'd take some time off. Only for a month or so just to see if I feel any different at all. I started playing football again on Tuesdays and next week I'm joining the gym. I've found that since I've been made redundant I've lost muscle tone and I'm not down with that because being the slim, ravenesque guy that I am I don't have all that much to loose in the first place. Anyway, I reckon that dropping the beer for a few weeks is no bad thing and the money I save from that will more than pay for the gym. It's a win win!


In other news I picked up a copy of junior othello so I could teach lil G how to play. Man that kid's a sore loser She's only ever happy when she's winning!



Earlier in the week I installed a DVD library for my dad. You know how some people are ungrateful and just moan about everything? Parents hey? Who'd have them?



I've been watching Twin Peaks again. I seem to need to watch this show once every 18 months or so. The owls are so not what they seem!



I was reminded this week that I NEED to watch Team America. It's at the top of my to do list, promise

Thought I'd put up some pictures of Saturday night. The party was epic fun with a good 90% of people way past the point of tipsy at the end of the night.










Some other kitty bopped mine's eye! Poor Puss!

When I was a kid me and my brother would go trick or treating on halloween but would come home pretty much empty handed every year. The people where we live just weren't into it. Most wouldn't answer their doors when knocked upon. Choosing avoidance as the best option available to them. Others would open their door and stand there with confused looks on their faces when confronted with two kids dressed as ghosts cheerily chiming "trick-or-treat?". So it was with a great reluctance that I said yes to my daughter's ask of "Can I go trick or treating dad?". Thinking to myself that if refuse (and how could I?) I would be depriving my little G of part of her childhood, yet if I agree then I risk her coming home empty-handed, heart broken and perhaps a little more cynical of life.

Anyway, this was what was going through my mind this time last year. Of course I let her go. My brother had bought himself an amazing costume and wanted to take his niece trick or treating and I wasn't ever going to deprive either of them of that. I still had my doubts about our neighbours but I swallowed them and watched my daughter skip off with her uncle down the driveway. So, time passes, about an hour or so before I hear the front door open and come down stairs to see a llittle girl with a big smile and an even bigger bag of goodies. They hadn't even gone very far - only around the block and yet she had amassed a greater bounty than her uncle and I together ever had over the course of our entire childhood. I stood there a happy, proud father.

And so today, a year on, lil G and her uncle once more venture out around the neighbourhood on what has now become their "annual neice/uncle halloween outing" together. I have to admit though, I was still a little bit nevous for her. Trick or treating on a Monday night is never going to be easy I thought. Thankfully though I was wrong again. She again came home an hour or so later with a bulging bag of treats. All smiles and full of tales of cats following her around the block and pensioners giving her bags of coins.

I guess seeing how much fun my daughter has on halloween now is making up for how much it used to suck for me when I was her age. So next year I will be dressing up. I'm going to get myself a cool-as-fuck costume and carve as many pumpkins as I can in one night.


Uncle Jonth & Lil G


The Bounty!

My friend's having a halloween party tonight but I don't feel like dressing up. Is that a bit lame of me? If it it was at a booked venue then I'd totally make the effort but as it's really just a house party or more like a bunch of people sitting around watching someone play PS3 then I just don't see the point. Ughh I am lame! Next year I'm dressing up as Red Skull from Captain America.....maybe.

Anyway, here's this

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!!! One pumpkin carved. One still to go! Halloween a week and a half early? You can get away with all sorts when you have a kid