So much has happened since I last posted on this blog I thought it would be wise to do a quick update.
The most significan personal development for me is that I am now married. Actually, last Sunday saw my wife and I celebrate our first anniversary. The wedding was an amazing experience, one that far exceeded my expectations. We were married at Pinewood Studios on the only sunny day in a rainy week. It is funny how focussed on things like the weather you become in the build up to a wedding. Wedding and flowers if I recall correctly.
The wedding was followed by our honeymoon in St Lucia. It was a beautiful place, but probably less luxurious than the Maldives in my opinion. We had helicopter transfers though which was a brilliant experience.
Post wedding was settling down to a life of no wedding-planning. We just enjoyed being married really. We booked flights to Australia as my new father-in-law was unable to make it to our wedding for health reasons.
The end of the summer saw The Fat Disciples do our first gig - a set of covers at a friend's wedding. I think The Bear described it best when he said that we were one-nil down at half time, but it finished a stunning two-one victory to the FDs. We invited the groom up on stage to sing Live Forever (a favourite of his), this got the crowd on side. Finishing with Killing In The Name seemed to go down better than expected as well.
The Australian trip saw me spend my first Christmas away from home. My mum decided to have Christmas a week early at home, so we flew over for that before flying to Oz. Our trip was amazing. We experienced record temperatures in Sydney and had an amazingh New Year in Melbourne. The trip made me realise that I really want to live in Australia, at least for a little while.
Since that trip we have been planning for our move. It is proving easier said than done. We want to keep our flat in London, so we need to save up to allow us to have money behind us in Oz. That is alongside the fact that we are planning to take up to a year to get there. More saving....
But plans are afoot.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, November 28, 2011
November
It seems the weather has finally realised that we are approaching winter as the days have become cold and crisp and my breath visible.
November has been relatively busy - we have finally had the wardrobe installed in our bedroom (although the bed has yet to be delivered) and i had my 36th birthday.
No Fat Disciples in the month due to lack of finances, a bassist in Thailand and a drummer in Poland.
I went to see Nosferatu in the Prince Charles Cinema with live music by Minima. It was really, really awesome (and the cinema was packed). The same cinema is hosting an Adults Only screening of Muppets Christmas Carol in a couple of weeks. That I am really looking forward to.
Celtic seem to have turned a bit of a corner. Two wins in a row, one of them spectacularly convincing whilst the Huns have dropped points two games in a row. This season may just have some legs in it after all....
I've been getting round to the last bits of Christmas shopping. My parents are sorted, as are my brothers and my nieces. Just my sisters to go. Rina and I will be paying for a coffee table that extends into a dining table as a gift to each other.... I've always wanted one of those... Saying that, I am now the proud owner of an ipad - my birthday present from Rina!
Just 5 short weeks until 2012. 2011 has been a full-on year. I am looking forward to Christmas with my family, because after that it is just a quick 6 months to my wedding.
Holy fuck.
November has been relatively busy - we have finally had the wardrobe installed in our bedroom (although the bed has yet to be delivered) and i had my 36th birthday.
No Fat Disciples in the month due to lack of finances, a bassist in Thailand and a drummer in Poland.
I went to see Nosferatu in the Prince Charles Cinema with live music by Minima. It was really, really awesome (and the cinema was packed). The same cinema is hosting an Adults Only screening of Muppets Christmas Carol in a couple of weeks. That I am really looking forward to.
Celtic seem to have turned a bit of a corner. Two wins in a row, one of them spectacularly convincing whilst the Huns have dropped points two games in a row. This season may just have some legs in it after all....
I've been getting round to the last bits of Christmas shopping. My parents are sorted, as are my brothers and my nieces. Just my sisters to go. Rina and I will be paying for a coffee table that extends into a dining table as a gift to each other.... I've always wanted one of those... Saying that, I am now the proud owner of an ipad - my birthday present from Rina!
Just 5 short weeks until 2012. 2011 has been a full-on year. I am looking forward to Christmas with my family, because after that it is just a quick 6 months to my wedding.
Holy fuck.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
It's All Getting a Bit Real
This weekend saw Rina and I, along with Fra and Jennie, head to Heatherton Hall at Pinewood Studios to attend a wedding fair. Rina has been to a few such fairs (normally with my sisters or mum) but this was the first time I accompanied her. the reason I went to this one is that Heatherton hall will be the venue in which we get married.
It was a useful trip. Rina found a couple of suppliers who can sort all the flowers and table settings for the reception and I found a good wedding suit hire place. Fra (who is my best man) and I will be going to get fitted at the start of November.
Tell you what though, what with having a venue, sorting out suits and table settings, it's all getting a bit real....
It was a useful trip. Rina found a couple of suppliers who can sort all the flowers and table settings for the reception and I found a good wedding suit hire place. Fra (who is my best man) and I will be going to get fitted at the start of November.
Tell you what though, what with having a venue, sorting out suits and table settings, it's all getting a bit real....
Monday, September 12, 2011
Someone's Lucky Day
I was at a wedding at the weekend. It was a top wedding (and if I'm being honest, I'm not a big fan of weddings) more like an awesome party with free beer and a silent disco. But the wedding was not the main event of the weekend.
The other half and I had hired a car for the weekend. We left London on Friday night and travelled to Swindon (our hotel was about 20 miles from the wedding venue). The wedding itself was on Saturday and we drove home on Sunday. Shortly after getting on the M4 at Swindon I was daydreaming and Rina was driving when she slammed on the breaks and said "Oh my God, they've gone right over. Phone the emergency services". Suffice to say that snapped me out of my reverie. I looked up and all I could see was a lonely tyre rolling away ahead of us. We pulled onto the hard-shoulder and Rina pointed up onto the verge beside us. There was a car and it was on its side. The car had suffered a blown-out tyre, had flipped in the air and rolled up a 6 foot verge before coming to rest on its side against a fence.
I jumped out of the car and up the verge. Other cars had pulled over by now, but I was the first person at the car. The front was crumpled and the side windows had blown out. The way the car sat, my view was of the car from above. I could see the roof and the bonnet, but not into the car. Looking at the distance the car had travelled and the damage it had sustained on the way I ran up to it expecting to find some very seriously injured people.
As I got to the car a head popped up out of the driver's door window. It was the girl who had been driving. She was able to climb out through the window, so me and another guy who had arrived by now helped her down. I looked in through the windscreen to see a shocked, but in one piece, passenger. The girl's partner. We asked if he could move, he could and climbed out of the window. We all walked down to the hard-shoulder where they sat down and started to come to terms with what had happened.
The police arrived and we left, heading back home.
On refection those guys should be feeling very grateful this morning. The fact that they both walked away from that crash is little short of a miracle. I was fairly sure, approaching the car, I was going to see some very hurt people. It seemed like they suffered little more that some bruises (and considerable shock).
What I try not to think about is that if a different tyre had blown that car would have flipped in a different direction - towards the middle of the motorway and towards us.
Yesterday was definitely someone's lucky day.
The other half and I had hired a car for the weekend. We left London on Friday night and travelled to Swindon (our hotel was about 20 miles from the wedding venue). The wedding itself was on Saturday and we drove home on Sunday. Shortly after getting on the M4 at Swindon I was daydreaming and Rina was driving when she slammed on the breaks and said "Oh my God, they've gone right over. Phone the emergency services". Suffice to say that snapped me out of my reverie. I looked up and all I could see was a lonely tyre rolling away ahead of us. We pulled onto the hard-shoulder and Rina pointed up onto the verge beside us. There was a car and it was on its side. The car had suffered a blown-out tyre, had flipped in the air and rolled up a 6 foot verge before coming to rest on its side against a fence.
I jumped out of the car and up the verge. Other cars had pulled over by now, but I was the first person at the car. The front was crumpled and the side windows had blown out. The way the car sat, my view was of the car from above. I could see the roof and the bonnet, but not into the car. Looking at the distance the car had travelled and the damage it had sustained on the way I ran up to it expecting to find some very seriously injured people.
As I got to the car a head popped up out of the driver's door window. It was the girl who had been driving. She was able to climb out through the window, so me and another guy who had arrived by now helped her down. I looked in through the windscreen to see a shocked, but in one piece, passenger. The girl's partner. We asked if he could move, he could and climbed out of the window. We all walked down to the hard-shoulder where they sat down and started to come to terms with what had happened.
The police arrived and we left, heading back home.
On refection those guys should be feeling very grateful this morning. The fact that they both walked away from that crash is little short of a miracle. I was fairly sure, approaching the car, I was going to see some very hurt people. It seemed like they suffered little more that some bruises (and considerable shock).
What I try not to think about is that if a different tyre had blown that car would have flipped in a different direction - towards the middle of the motorway and towards us.
Yesterday was definitely someone's lucky day.
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