It's been another one of those weekends, though this time, I did what I thought I was going to do - sort of! This Saturday saw me and Roz trek down to sunny Brighton for a day by the sea, and what a lovely day to pick for it. The weather was just glorious as you'll be able to see in the following photographs. I even managed to break out my sunglasses which pleased me immensely.

Anyway, we got up "brighton" early (sorry) on Saturday morning and caught the train down to Brighton. We hadn't eaten before we got there, so on arrival we went to the always famous Harry Ramsdon's chippy and got some haddock specials before deciding what to do. We'd originally intended to go down to the marina where they have a golf course and do the front nine, but on the way down there we saw an Adventure Golf course and decided to do that instead, and I have to admit, I think that was a lot more fun that doing a full sized course, especially considering how bad I was. Roz gave me a real thrashing, but I insist that I let her win *ahem*.

Once we'd done there, we decided to optimise on the 2-for-1 ticket that we'd had from the chip shop and go to the SeaLife Center, and I'm glad we did - it was great. My new favourite animal is the turtle after seeing the Giant Green Turtle that they had there. It was astonishing and a really beautiful creature. It was odd to see a turtle swamping a shark for size though. You can see what I mean from the videos. I've also decided now that I want to keep turtles, just two though, so I'm going to look into exactly what I'd need - obviously I'll keep you updated with that. Also, despite being a little weirded out by a spider crab, I faced my fear of it and held one as you can see in the pictures. Later on, we saw some that were a good meter across. I didn't like them in the slightest. It's the long legs that I don't like. They're too spider-like, though a lot bigger. There's one Japanese crab that grows up to 3.2 meters long. If I saw one of those I'm pretty sure I would actually crap myself as I sprinted over the horizon.

After treking around there for a while, we left after witnessing possibly the scariest sailor in the world (see the video below) and went for another round of golf on a different crazy golf course before taking some photos and finally leaving when the weather turned on us.

When we got back to London, we head back to my flat and had a chillout evening munching on pizza and I introduced Roz to the series Spaced. Before long, it somehow ticked over to 1:30am and Maya came home to find me snoozing on the sofa with Roz fast asleep on my lap. Good thing she was just coming in from work as I expect we would have been there all night. All in all - a very lovely day!

Tri-pod Fun

Shark Pool

The "Happy Sailor" (freaky)

There are a couple more videos to come, but they need trimming first... bear with me!

What do you do when you've spent 14 hours designing and painting a bike that you end up not liking the design? Simple, you get out the glasspaper and scrub it all off, so last night, that's exactly what I did; well, started to anyway. It's going to be a monster effort to do it all, but fortunately the glasspaper that I've bought is really good and cuts through the paint really well without leaving the metal underneath with an abrasive finish. If only the same could be said for the Coping Saw on the pesky seat bolt. It was more like the "not-coping" saw and the bolt saw off (no pun intended) two blades intended for thick metal. I've finally had it up to here *holds his hand near his head* with the bolt, so my drill is charging, and tonight, after my radio show, I'm going to show the little sucker who's boss

After the amount of messages I got on MySpace regarding the bulletin that I posted yesterday I thought I'd put it on here too to see if it gets the same level of response

You.

Can.

Only.

Type.

One.

Word.

1. Where is your cell phone?

Contiguous

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?

Pulchritudinous

3. Your hair?

Unfastidious

4. Your mother?

Taciturn

5. Your father?

Multiloquent

6. Your favorite item?

Recherché

7. Your dream last night?

Inscrutable

8. Your favorite drink?

Salubrious

9. Your dream car?

Exorbitant

10. The room you're in?

Office

11.Your Fears?

Arachnids

13. What do you want to be in 10 years?

Transpacific

14. who'd you hang out with last night?

Maya

15. What you're not good at?

Speeling

16. Muffins?

Nar

17. One of your wish list items?

One?

18. Where you grew up?

Home (obviously)

19: Last thing you did?

18 (that's the question)

20.What are you wearing?

Look, how do you expect me to say what I'm wearing in one word? I have seven items on, how am I supposed to round them up in one word?

21. What aren't you wearing?

This is getting retarded. I'm not wearing a squirrel, or a Ghostbusters Proton Pack, a snooker table... there's too many

22: Your pet?

Is dead, is that what you wanted to hear!?!

23. Your computer?

That's dead too... you're just rubbing it in aren't you?

24. Your life?

Is now flashing before my eyes

25. Your mood?

Well is was ok, but you've pissed me right off now

26. Missing?

That's not a properly constructed question now is it?

27. What are you thinking about right now?

Killing everyone!

28. Your car?

You think that's funny, fascist? I don't have a car, la de dar...

29. your work?

*twitches*

30. Your summer?

Have we had summer yet? No. Twat

31. Your relationship status?

You could have just clicked my name and found out couldn't you!!!

32. Favourite colour?

WHY DOES THIS MATTER!!!! (it's blue by the way)

33. When is the last time you laughed?

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH

34. Last time you cried?

NOW

When do I have spare time?

• Monday - Free though I may start climbing regularly


• Tuesday - Boxing then go home and collapse


• Wednesday - I like to try and work on the bike


• Thursday - Gym and radio show


• Friday - It's Friday, I'm always doing something, generally with Roz


• Saturday - Try to spend the day with Rozamundo


• Sunday - Gym for a few hours in the afternoon, relax in the evening or catch up with mates

Happy 200th Anniversary

It's finally happened - this is my 200th blog! I've been blogging since 22nd September 2006, 5 months and 6 days ago, or 159 days if you prefer it that way. In that time, the amount of readers has grown from strength to strength with every passing month, so I thank you for taking the time out of your lives to read my little thoughts, adventures and general ramblings. If it wasn't for you lot, I would have given up a long time ago.

Thanks again, and I hope you keep coming back