A Progress Report.
18:21 hours, Anglesey.
Books, dvd's and cd's are packed. As is most electrical stuff. Clothes are being boxed tonight.
At 23:00 hours on 30/01/07 I finished watching 24 up to 19:00. It just got very good and viewing shall recommence at 21:00 today.
No enemy activity sighted. General is considering a plan of attack to occur in the coming days. Details are to remain classified until such time.
Progress report ends.
Wednesday 31 January 2007
Thursday 25 January 2007
Snow in the Mountains.
There was such a lovely sight as I walked from my car to my house. Snowdonia was still coated in a thin layer of snow, and it still being light, I was afforded the sight of the sky's dusk shades reflected onto the snow. It was nice. I was going to take a picture, but it's dark now.
Anyway, I've nothing else to report. Other than I'm hungry and have a lack of money.
Take care
There was such a lovely sight as I walked from my car to my house. Snowdonia was still coated in a thin layer of snow, and it still being light, I was afforded the sight of the sky's dusk shades reflected onto the snow. It was nice. I was going to take a picture, but it's dark now.
Anyway, I've nothing else to report. Other than I'm hungry and have a lack of money.
Take care
Wednesday 24 January 2007
The Vultures Descend.
Am very annoyed right now. You will see why. But first, good news; I have found a new house and will be moving in the next few weeks.
Now for the bad news.
I will start by talking about the DVLA cos I think poor treatment of "customers" over the phone by folk whom I AS A TAXPAYER pay to keep in their f'ing job is f'ing appalling. The least they can do is not talk in a patronising, bored shitless and arrogant tone of voice.
I sent my licence off for the address to be updated. I left the necessary time before getting in touch and asking where it had got to. So I ring up and ask and they tell me they sent it in November and that I would have to pay them £19. I have to pay £19 because I didn't call within 3 months. Now it doesn't take a genious to work out that November is not yet three months away. So after 5 minutes of worming it out of the patronising get, I managed to find out that the 3 months is in fact 12 weeks from the date they received the licence.
So, folks, be warned.
I got a letter today, saying ever so casually that a certain company wanted £412 off me for the privilledge of moving out of this unsafe house and into a new one. I will be questioning this tomorrow but I think companies just see my coming and think "right, now how many ways can we charge this lad something".
ALSO, MOT is due on car. ALSO, car repair costs are due next month. ALSO, I'll be paying two rents. ALSO, I need to somehow hire a van but I don't have my driving licence do I?!
So next month I am going to be paying at least £1,194. Now, take the time to work this out. To afford all of that I would need to be earning at least £20,000 a year. Needless to say, I'm not. Needless to say, it's a f'ing high price to pay to have peace of mind, to be able to go outside on an evening, to be able to sleep all night without interruption, to have a house that doesn't freeze me halfway to hypothermia and most important of all to be happy.
Why is it that if you can be taken advantage of, companies just go ahead and do it. Whether it be a customer's naivity about your actual legal rights or just a 'simple' pressure sell to old people. Why, when it is perfectly possible to run a moral business do folk have to go for the cruel option; the option where a business is run on fear; the option where exploitation is a common occurence.
Is this really the level that we, as humans, feel obliged to sink to? I would have thought, that being able to think would give us an advantage over other animals. But no. Oh no. That would be far, far, far too easy. It's hard to be nice. Apparently. It's hard to do the right thing. Apparently. And society tries, subconciously, to drag all the good souls down with it when really they should be looking up to those few good people and encouraging, nurturing, but most of all LEARNING from them. THEY are the ones we should idolise and try to copy.
The world doesn't have to be so f'ked up.
Am very annoyed right now. You will see why. But first, good news; I have found a new house and will be moving in the next few weeks.
Now for the bad news.
I will start by talking about the DVLA cos I think poor treatment of "customers" over the phone by folk whom I AS A TAXPAYER pay to keep in their f'ing job is f'ing appalling. The least they can do is not talk in a patronising, bored shitless and arrogant tone of voice.
I sent my licence off for the address to be updated. I left the necessary time before getting in touch and asking where it had got to. So I ring up and ask and they tell me they sent it in November and that I would have to pay them £19. I have to pay £19 because I didn't call within 3 months. Now it doesn't take a genious to work out that November is not yet three months away. So after 5 minutes of worming it out of the patronising get, I managed to find out that the 3 months is in fact 12 weeks from the date they received the licence.
So, folks, be warned.
I got a letter today, saying ever so casually that a certain company wanted £412 off me for the privilledge of moving out of this unsafe house and into a new one. I will be questioning this tomorrow but I think companies just see my coming and think "right, now how many ways can we charge this lad something".
ALSO, MOT is due on car. ALSO, car repair costs are due next month. ALSO, I'll be paying two rents. ALSO, I need to somehow hire a van but I don't have my driving licence do I?!
So next month I am going to be paying at least £1,194. Now, take the time to work this out. To afford all of that I would need to be earning at least £20,000 a year. Needless to say, I'm not. Needless to say, it's a f'ing high price to pay to have peace of mind, to be able to go outside on an evening, to be able to sleep all night without interruption, to have a house that doesn't freeze me halfway to hypothermia and most important of all to be happy.
Why is it that if you can be taken advantage of, companies just go ahead and do it. Whether it be a customer's naivity about your actual legal rights or just a 'simple' pressure sell to old people. Why, when it is perfectly possible to run a moral business do folk have to go for the cruel option; the option where a business is run on fear; the option where exploitation is a common occurence.
Is this really the level that we, as humans, feel obliged to sink to? I would have thought, that being able to think would give us an advantage over other animals. But no. Oh no. That would be far, far, far too easy. It's hard to be nice. Apparently. It's hard to do the right thing. Apparently. And society tries, subconciously, to drag all the good souls down with it when really they should be looking up to those few good people and encouraging, nurturing, but most of all LEARNING from them. THEY are the ones we should idolise and try to copy.
The world doesn't have to be so f'ked up.
Tuesday 16 January 2007
Gossip From the Front Line.
There is one of these ferral youths whom I strongly suspect played a leading part in damaging my property. He got beaten up quite badly at the weekend. No sympathy from me - I laughed heartily when I heard this!
Also at the weekend, a lot of kids (about 30 so I'm told) gathered here in this village. For what purpose I have no idea, but since then, all has been very quiet.
There is one of these ferral youths whom I strongly suspect played a leading part in damaging my property. He got beaten up quite badly at the weekend. No sympathy from me - I laughed heartily when I heard this!
Also at the weekend, a lot of kids (about 30 so I'm told) gathered here in this village. For what purpose I have no idea, but since then, all has been very quiet.
News From the Front Line.
Unfortunately some people's idea of what constitutes "starting the new year on a high" differs greatly...
In my village, like just about anywhere in the UK at the moment, there are those sorts of kids that hang around outside the local shop wearing hoodies and tracksuit bottoms whilst getting drunk and taking drugs. Ferral youths I've heard them being described as. Up until the 2nd January I had had no trouble whatsoever with these lads, though they have been getting louder and more aggressive in general over the time I've lived here.
That was to change.
They started on me, smashed windows on my car and smashed one of my house windows. All in the space of 5 hours. The Police were called twice.
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly express my suprise at how well I was treated by the Police that night and how well they're keeping me up to date. I know that there is not much they can do - but there rapid presence certainly stopped these people from going any further than they did - and it is this that I am very grateful for.
Alas I can't go into too much detail at this time as there is still the possibility of arrests happening, but the full story will be posted here at a later date.
As of today, the car has been fixed (at a cost of £250) but the house window won't be done until later this week. I'm physically undamaged - luckily for me, they were too drunk/high to punch properly. I am also making arrangements to leave this house and village posthaste. Work is being extremely supportive, as are the letting agents. I thank you both, here, publicly.
I have a new house lined up - there's just a few formalities to go through and then it's sorted. It's going to be expensive - but you can't put a price on personal safety can you?! Anyway, the costs will be minimised.
Unfortunately some people's idea of what constitutes "starting the new year on a high" differs greatly...
In my village, like just about anywhere in the UK at the moment, there are those sorts of kids that hang around outside the local shop wearing hoodies and tracksuit bottoms whilst getting drunk and taking drugs. Ferral youths I've heard them being described as. Up until the 2nd January I had had no trouble whatsoever with these lads, though they have been getting louder and more aggressive in general over the time I've lived here.
That was to change.
They started on me, smashed windows on my car and smashed one of my house windows. All in the space of 5 hours. The Police were called twice.
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly express my suprise at how well I was treated by the Police that night and how well they're keeping me up to date. I know that there is not much they can do - but there rapid presence certainly stopped these people from going any further than they did - and it is this that I am very grateful for.
Alas I can't go into too much detail at this time as there is still the possibility of arrests happening, but the full story will be posted here at a later date.
As of today, the car has been fixed (at a cost of £250) but the house window won't be done until later this week. I'm physically undamaged - luckily for me, they were too drunk/high to punch properly. I am also making arrangements to leave this house and village posthaste. Work is being extremely supportive, as are the letting agents. I thank you both, here, publicly.
I have a new house lined up - there's just a few formalities to go through and then it's sorted. It's going to be expensive - but you can't put a price on personal safety can you?! Anyway, the costs will be minimised.
The Grand Christmas Tour of England.
This is the first post in a very long time where I've thought "where on earth do I start?!".
I'll start with December. I got my heating sorted - it's now on economy 7 and when they recalculated the bill for this 2nd quarter, I had to pay just £16.
Christmas was an impressive feat. The first Christmas party with work (the 'formal' do) was fun, I stayed out until 2:30am (we started drinking at 1pm). The second Christmas party (the unofficial one to celebrate the start of the holiday) went well. Only stayed out until 8:30pm but I had Tracy with me.
That last party was the Friday before Christmas Monday. Tracy came down and stayed until Sunday (Xmas Eve) where upon I drove her back to Blackpool. From Blackpool I then drove to Huddersfield to visit a couple of friends. They were VERY suprised to see me, but they seemed happy about it. I then drove down to the parent's house. I finished my epic journey just before 11pm Xmas Eve!
Christmas day and the week that followed it were wonderful; all I did was sit, eat, drink and watch old episodes of Stargate with Mum and Dad. Bliss.
For New year I drove up to Blackpool and spent New Year there. It was slightly strange being with a different family (and in yet another different place from last year!) but it was all good. New Year's Day I drove back here to Anglesey, with Tracy, and relaxed once more.
This is the first post in a very long time where I've thought "where on earth do I start?!".
I'll start with December. I got my heating sorted - it's now on economy 7 and when they recalculated the bill for this 2nd quarter, I had to pay just £16.
Christmas was an impressive feat. The first Christmas party with work (the 'formal' do) was fun, I stayed out until 2:30am (we started drinking at 1pm). The second Christmas party (the unofficial one to celebrate the start of the holiday) went well. Only stayed out until 8:30pm but I had Tracy with me.
That last party was the Friday before Christmas Monday. Tracy came down and stayed until Sunday (Xmas Eve) where upon I drove her back to Blackpool. From Blackpool I then drove to Huddersfield to visit a couple of friends. They were VERY suprised to see me, but they seemed happy about it. I then drove down to the parent's house. I finished my epic journey just before 11pm Xmas Eve!
Christmas day and the week that followed it were wonderful; all I did was sit, eat, drink and watch old episodes of Stargate with Mum and Dad. Bliss.
For New year I drove up to Blackpool and spent New Year there. It was slightly strange being with a different family (and in yet another different place from last year!) but it was all good. New Year's Day I drove back here to Anglesey, with Tracy, and relaxed once more.
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