...or Halloween or Samhain or All Hallow's Eve or whatever you want to call it.

I can't believe how big an event it is over here. Most pubs have had their decorations up for at least two weeks, and a girl I work with has had her house decorated for two weeks too! Mad people.

Does anyone remember this:

What to watch tonight... hmmm...

...if you are at all squeamish, it made me nearly vomit.

This is especially for Nickerless. About 1:50 is the best/worst bit.

I have done a search on Google and this seems to be true, the artwork is on the Hampshire Police website. I reckon the designers had actually thought about the placement of the exhaust pipe, but decided it was too good an opportunity to miss:

Reminds me of a story a friend told me once about the first draft of of the artwork for an Ainsley Harriot sausages box. It showed the man himself with his cheesy grin, holding a sausage on a fork.

Underneath, ostensibly in the cooking instructions, it said "prick with fork".

They should have left it at that.

What will I do with my time now?

I recently started using Google Reader for RSS feeds, and I'm lovin' it. You can view your RSS feeds from anywhere you can access a browser, and you can have bookmarks for adding feeds and viewing the next unread one, which saves some time - if I have a minute to spare, I click "next" and go straight to a new blog post or news snippet. It's all integrated in with gMail and Google search.

So I clicked my "next" bookmark, but there were no new feeds for me. I was taken to this page.

I followed the link on the page and it took me here!

What now?

...POETS day!

Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday!

*does the "we finish at 4 on Fridays" dance*

See that hole up there, where you can see the sky through the castle wall?

That's where the Blarney Stone is. You have to lie on your back, and lean over it, and plant a great big smacker on the wall.

Can you imagine all the people who have done that? We did think about wiping the stone down with an antiseptic wipe, but we thought it might clean the magic off it!

Quite glad about the bars - before, you had to just lean out with someone holding onto your legs! It would have been so easy to just slip down headfirst!

Can you please check and see in the settings if you have a tab for "Forwarding and POP3" or if it says "Forwarding and POP3/IMAP".

Apparently they have started rolling our IMAP access for Gmail, but I don't have it yet, and I wondered if it was only in the States at the moment.

EDIT:

26/10/07 - Still no IMAP. Bah.

EDIT:

31/10/07 - Yay!

Had a bit of a mad weekend, I had Thursday to Monday off so we could go back to the UK, we had to go to Cork to collect a trailer, then over to Rosslare to get the ferry, we ended up getting there too late for one ferry (we were booked on the next one but were way early and it wasn't worth driving back up to Galway) so we slept (ha!) in the car, got the ferry on Friday morning to Pembroke, drove passenged to Llanfuckwit, discovered the trip switch had gone so the stuff in the freezer had defrosted, dumped the trailer, passenged to Walsall Sutton Coldfield, had dinner, passenged to Sheldon, fixed a computer, passenged to Longbridge, picked up a lush and her zookeeper, passenged to Asda, picked up six multipacks of Niknaks and some gripe water, passenged to Llanfuckwit (again), shivered all night cos the heating wasn't working, got up on Saturday, packed stuff, loaded the trailer, took loads of crap and rubbish from the garden to the tip, panicked about the state of the place, tidied up, passenged to Pembroke Dock, panicked that the lush had left her passport at home, found the passport in a jumper in her bag, slept on the top bunk in a cabin, kept everyone awake with my snoring, Sunday morning I passenged to Galway from Rosslare, we unloaded the trailer, went out drinking in Galway, saw an excellent band, ate a SuperMac burger, Monday we took the trailer back to Cork, ate in a lovely little hotel, kissed the Blarney stone, got wet in the rain, passenged back to Galway, had an early night cos I was back at work the next day, worked on Tuesday, got home and had beans on toast for tea (yum!), went out in Galway again, saw another band, sat and talked about ex partners for hours, realised it was 12:40am and we hadn't been kicked out of the pub, took the lush and the zookeeper to kick the wall, got in at around 2am, woke up late for work, wrote the longest sentence in the world, ever.

Hi everybody! (Hi Doctor Nick!)

Still here, still alive, still living with our friends, still househunting, still working, still... uh... yeah... stuff!

On Sunday, we went to the beach. It was windy and wet...

...the tide was out, and we played with the dogs...

...and collected MUSSELS! Real live mussels off the beach!

Which we proceeded to wash...

...cook...

(was so excited I forgot to take pictures of this part of the process)

...and eat.

And I wasn't even ill or anything, fresh lovely mussels from, like, nature.

Does that mean I am now a hunter-gatherer? I quite like the idea of being a hunter, without all that messy shooting things bollocks.

Mussels everywhere, beware, for I am Brad, mussel-hunter extraordinaire!

Am actually amazed I ate them, cos I don't really do shellfish. Bit of a misnomer, really, calling them fish. They look sort of like little orange vaginas. I didn't think about that til after I'd eaten them, thankfully.

So today is blog action day. I don’t have long cos we don’t have full internet access here and they’re forming a queue behind me for the little internet thing, but I just wanna say that if everyone - including me - did a little something like walked to the local shop instead of driving, the world just might be a better place. So next time we need some milk, I’m gonna walk to the shop.

As long as it’s not raining, of course.

Hi, sorry for the lack of posts but we don't have proper internet access and I am, after all, Laziest Blogger (TM).

Guess what...

I'm at work!

I have a job in the office of an engineering company. I had the interview last week, and here I am! It's early days yet but it's going quite well, I've already done a quote, and made some calls. Mostly just answering the phone at the moment though. Hopefully the role will develop!

Anyway, I'll check in again soon, I have internet access at work, but don't want to abuse it! Lunchtimes only.