@ Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 – 13.09:42
Yes. I have had a woman come into our shop on this very morning and correct my gramour.
a-hem! I was not "stood at the bus stop" I was "Standing at the bus stop". Also, i was not "Sat on the bus" I was "Sitting on the bus."
Gets her goat apparently, when people miss use the language, and she 'does not' like regional accents on television.
Thats fair enough i suppose, i wasnt all that taken with her condesending attitude. I didnt say anythinbg mind, she looked quite scarey.
@ Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 – 10.32:03
Due to the new way the charts are judged, and down loads now being considered as well as sales of hard copies every track from the new Arctic monkeys album went into the top 200 yesterday. A nother record for the fantastic Sheffield band, makes me proud to be from the same town.
@ Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 – 10.27:49
OK. So heres the thing. Old people dont all have manors. Because thats what they always say dont they, 'when we were young we were taught to respect people'. They dont respect us do they, not all of them.
Yesterday I was in Tesco perusing the fresh fish counter (yes, i do eat healthly some times) and some old woman rammed her trolly into my shin and prononced 'Oy. i wanna get in here'. 
What happened to her manors? What was wrong with 'excuse me young man. could i get in there please?'or better still, waiting her turn. Good manors dont cost anything do they?
It's always the older generation who say things like 'Oooo the youth of today. they have no respect.' maybe somne of them aught to consider the words Pot, Kettle and Black.
@ Saturday, Apr. 28, 2007 – 13.51:35
That wasnt the most healthy lunch I ever ate.
A pork pie, with thick crust.
thickly sliced white bread with thick lurpack topping.
A packet of cheese and onion crisps.
Thick sliced red leciecter cheese.
pickled onions.
folowed by an authentic greek style yougart topped off with three tablespoons of honey.
all washed down with a bottle of Pepsi Max, which i thought tasted rather odd, but i couldnt put my finger on what it was, untill i took a closer look at the lable and discovered that it was coffee flavour.
i feel bloated now, and i have to work until four.
Gamon egg and chips for tea.
you would think i would try to eat a little better, considering my Dad and my uncle have both had heart attacks, and each had triple heart by pass surgery. I dont excersise, i cant even run for the bus without gasping for breath. I only weigh ten stone five, people look at me and asume that i'm really fit. I wish....i'm just sooo lazy when it comes to keping fit, one of these days i'll do something about it. before it's too late.
@ Saturday, Apr. 28, 2007 – 11.11:48
I have a tendancy to worry on behalf of other people.
over the road a man is on the roof doing something to the tiles. he seems to be oblivios to the dangers involved, though i feel the need to keep an eye out for him in case he falls.
@ Saturday, Apr. 28, 2007 – 09.55:36
actually i bought it from a car boot sale. I have always wanted to learn to play, and some might say that at 37 i have left it a little late,(dont most musical protogees start in the whomb?) but what the hell. It is important that i learn to play, as i write lyrics, and have done for many years now, but having no musical ability, i can neither write or play (I did play recorder in school-Badly) and having a singing voice like a cat in a blender. all my lyrics are is a collection of words. Words without music are no use to anyone, and wont even be considered by most music/song producers.
I do have a medly in my head when i write them, and i have tried to sing them onto my dictaphone, but listening back is agony to me, so i could never subject the torture on anybody else. 
So, i bought the guitar, and a book that says it is easy to learn, and if i follow the instructions in the book, and practice then i wil pick it up in no time. The book lied!!
The problem i seem to have, is that my fingers refuse to move fast enough to change key (Do they call it a key?). I guess my dreams of being the next Slash or Gary Moore are a long way off, and as usual my patience wears very thin.
@ Friday, Apr. 27, 2007 – 15.37:28
After reading Chyna_Doll's blog I have decided that I have to go and buy alcohol when i finish work, quetion is what do i buy?
.Jack Daniels?
.Rum? Dark or white?
.Vodka. Smirnoff or absoloute?
decisions decisions....either way, i'm going to enjoy drinking it tonight...
@ Friday, Apr. 27, 2007 – 14.16:06
As a picture framer it is always my aim to do a good job and leave the customer happy, whether i be framing a signed fotball shirt, a collection of medals, a cross stitch or a painting or print. When a customer comes into the shop to select a frame, we have samples of over a hundred frames, be they wood, gold, silver, or a colour, and then the mounts (the cardboard surround) So many shades, 6 blue, 8 green,5 pink, 2 black, and beleinve it or not 5 white. 
It isnt unknown for a customer to spend over an hour chosing a frame and mount, afterall, it has to be done right as it is a long term thing. Some customers have ben known to bring in pieces of wallpaper, and fabrics used in the house to match them to the frame, but this would sugestr you change the frame each time you decorate!
Anyhoo. this morning, a customer came to colect a cross stich, and she complimented me on an excelent job, paid for it, and left. About half an hour ago she called the shop, and as i answered the phone she said,
'i came in to collect a cross stich this morning.' and she went on to discribe it.
Hang on a mo. i thought, what has she found wrong with it?(so cynical am i) A scratch on the glass? A chip on the frame? People have tried that one before, even tough it happened after they left the shop, and then, as sucjh it isnt our problem, but to keep the customer sweet we have offered to repair the damage at no cost to them, good customer relations is important, and they may mention us to other people. Anyway, i braced my self, but was slightly taken aback. The customer had called me to tel me that she had the frame on the wall, and that it looked. in her own words 'fantastic' and she went on to sday that she would definatly recomend us to her friends, and would infact be back next week with some more pictures for us to frame.
That is the first time anyone has phoned after taking a picture home with words of compliment. just goes to show, there are still some polite people in the world.
@ Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007 – 16.51:22
Yes, thats what i said. Men and women can never be equal, and here are the reasons why....
Men wont admit to doing 'womans jobs'.
Woman are glad to admit to doing 'mens jobs'.
women can fake orgasms.
women can go on for hours.
as soon as men think about sex it's all over, then they roll over and go to sleep.
Women look good on the beach.
Men have body hair.
most women out live men.
men loose their hair.
women dont feel the need to look good in front of other women.
men will go out of their way to out do other men.
women drive a car that suits them.
men drive a car that will impress women.
women go through child birth, they can withstand pain.
if a man gets a cold he will take the day of work and wxpect to be waited on.
women go to the movies to see a film with a good plot.
men go to the movies to see a film because the lead woman gets her kit off.
men think all women fancy them.
women know they can get any man they want, all they have to do is smile and show some leg and men fall.
women know when they have had too much to drink.
men dont stop drinking untill they can no longer see.
Lets face facts, Men are the weaker sex and always have been. We need women far more than they need us. we will never be their equal. 
@ Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007 – 11.49:35
So it has been sugested that employers give smokers paid time off work so that they can get over the habbit...
Does that mean none smokers
have to work extra hours to
cover their work load? 
Are non smokers going to get extra holidays?
@ Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007 – 11.16:09
FROM TODAYS METRO
An airline piolot tricked a teacher into having sex with him by saying he needed it for medical purposes.
Fabio Sabano told the woman he had stomach cancer and his oncologist advised him to have sex twice a day in order to eleviate the pain.
He also told the teacher she would be cured of an illness (does not say what) if she rubbed ointment onto his penis, then applied it to her internally. The woman agreed to give him £400 for the medicene!
Prosecutors described it as a case of 'rape by deception'.
The piolot denies 9 charges of rape, and 11 of obtaining money by deception.
Would you? I mean, really....You meet someone down the pub and they tell you they are ill, and the only cure is for you to have sex with them. How would that conversation go?
'Hi. would you like to come back and have sex with me?'
'I dont tend to sleep with people on a first date.'
'
Oh dont worry. i wont be enjoying it, it is medicinal.'
'oh, well in that case why not.....'
Worse still though...she gave hiom £400 for er...Medicine?
@ Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2007 – 13.07:37
A contestent on a phone in quiz on the radio has just anounced that she had never heard of the beatles!!!
She said, 'i'm only 19. how am i suposed to know who they are. i wasnt born in the sixties.'
The radio host Toby Foster came back with, 'im only 37, but i know who Shakespeer is'
@ Monday, Apr. 23, 2007 – 10.18:41
Monday morniong again. Thge weekend ends we all come back down to Earth with a bump. Another working week begins. Isnt it strange how no body wakes up on a Monday morning and goes 'Zip-a-dee do da!!!' Once more we all have to fight our way through the early morning rush hour traffic, once more we have to deal with irate customers who dont seem to realise that you are a human being and function much better if they speak to you politey.
I supose we can console ourselves with the fact that it is almost May, and we get two bank holiday mondays im May.
Working for a living is just 
. oh to be a rich man.
@ Saturday, Apr. 21, 2007 – 12.35:56
Its Saturday, the sun is out and i dont have to go to work today.
@ Friday, Apr. 20, 2007 – 21.58:07
Is it just me, or is this Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse show really naff? I used to love the fast show, and Harry Enfield was good when he used to be on Saturday night live and do loads a money. but this is just shit. What the hell is all that Bono stuff about? The jokes are so dated, i keep waiting for the punch line but it never comes. Bring back Who's line is it anyway, that was great fridaynight TV.
must go now, QI is on.
@ Friday, Apr. 20, 2007 – 12.54:31
Thought i would share this pic of my cats. Tabby (the black and white one) and Simba (the ginger one).As always hogging our bed. it's a good job they are cute!
@ Friday, Apr. 20, 2007 – 12.50:27
Feeling fine now (see previous post). sitting here eating a bacon and egg buttie, i think it's soaking up all the excess alcohol left in my blood stream from last night.
damn. ive got egg on the keyboard, and on my shirt, i have to face customers now with egg stains on my chest.
@ Friday, Apr. 20, 2007 – 10.35:41
What possesed me to drink sooo much vodka last night when i knew i had to come to work today? I feel like i have Michael Flatley and his dancers doing their jig thing in my head, i feel sick, i'm dizzy, and the work load is filling up. I have a replica Geoff Hurst England shirt to lace and frame. Want to go back to bed....
@ Thursday, Apr. 19, 2007 – 20.49:55
With everything thats going on in the world right now, i know my gripe is going to sound rather trivial, but my take away failed to materialize. 45 mins to an hour the guy on the phone told me, but an hour and twenty mins later and still i wait. I called them up, very politly pointed out that i was still waiting, only to be told that it had been returned to the shop because the delivery driver had been knocking on the door for half an hour to no reply from us. 'Hold on' i told him, our door is in the living room, if anyone knocked we couldnt fail to hear them.
Turns out, it went to Fenton way instead of Benton way, even though we went through the usual rigmarole of B for 'Ball' 'so it's not F for Freddie?' 'No. B or ball'. I wouldt mind, but we must order from Shajan at least once a month, you would think they would know us by now.
Anyway, the guy said 'do you still want it?' I said to him, 'not that one, but yea, i am starving'. So, twenty minutes later it arrived...Now i'm stuffed, ate too much i think. washing it down now with Vodka and coke.
@ Thursday, Apr. 19, 2007 – 13.19:56
There is talk on the radio today about roadside shrines, flowers left on lamp posts for example. people are saying they should be banned. One caller rang the station and commented that as far as he was concerned it was littering, and people could be fined for it.
One good thing about it, surely it will show people that an accident has allready occured, and encourage people to be more vigilant, and also, would you really take away the friend and familys right to grieve, and mark the spot that a loved one fell?
@ Thursday, Apr. 19, 2007 – 09.54:53
Since before Easter i have been un able to access my e mail's. My server insists that they were working to improve the service, but hit a snag and have not been able to sort it yet.
Apparantly, i'm not to worry because there engeneers have been working around the clock (What since Easter?) to rectify the situation, and if i have any queries i can call the technical help desk (60p a min).
Now i have been told that the majority of users are able to access e mail. guess what? Thats right , i cant. I called that bloody premium rate number, to be told that they will try and sort it out for me, to be patient (Isnt 2 weeks patience enough?). Bloody server, yea, still taking my weekly direct debit out of the bank.....
I guess it would be wrong of me to name them, all i will say is that i shall BREATH a sigh of releif when it is sorted.
@ Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2007 – 17.00:20
I have this craving for a pack of fruit polos, but apparently they no longer make them.....When did this happen? 
@ Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2007 – 15.26:23
The Simpson's movie is due to hit the screen in a few months.
The Summers almost here.
Our local corner shop has started selling scampi and lemon flavour Nic nacs again.
i've got over my bought of writers block.
women are wearing less clothes.
Also, i must say this. A mate of mine has got a Blog on your space. he keeps trying to talk me into it, i've had a look at the whole your space thing...cant say that i was impressed.
@ Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2007 – 13.13:33
I don't realy want to get all political and newsy here, there are other bloggers who do it much better (Steph's blog is great for news) but i feel a slight outrage at the news that people with personality disorders may be locked up even though they have commited no crime. I understand that this is to protect the public, but what about the rights of these people? They are members of the public too, and have the same rights as the rest of us.
Is it not the case already, that if a 'mentaly ill person' (I hate to stereotype and put people into brackets) is deemed a danger to either themselves or others then they will be put on a section? If this law was to come intop effect that resulted in locking people away with a personality disorder, then the question i have to ask is, where would they be locked away, and for how long? Life? At what point will they be deemed safe?
Before we opened our arts and craft shop i worked as a mental health support worker for ten years. I did work with people with personality disorders, they were not locked away, they could come and go as they pleased, and for the most part, as long as they stuck to their prescribed medication, and kept up to date with hospital appointments everytinng was fine.
Ok, there were odd incidents, a mised dose of medication, the odd psycotic episode where agresion was used against some of the staff, i adsmit on the odd ocasion i did find myself pinned in the corner of a kitchen, and having to dodge a fire extinguisher tossed down the stairs at me. I recall only four such insidents in ten years, and i have seen more violence used whilst on a night out when people secume to too much alcohol.
So who will have the final say? Who will have the right to say that a person needs to be locked away and take them away from their family and friends, destroy their lives when they have done no wrong?
@ Saturday, Apr. 07, 2007 – 14.01:01
Happy Easter everyone. Dont over indulge, remember, chocolate is for life not just for easter.
be back soon.
@ Saturday, Apr. 07, 2007 – 09.47:55
Saphire, ruby, diamond or gold
a wealth of beauty
so much to be told
a million stories
many so old
the pages keep turning
your future is sold
he's longing to have you
to make you his own
the demon, the devil
they all have a goal
to take power of you
take power of us all
were too weak to fight it
were all going to fall.
c. andrew bedell
@ Saturday, Apr. 07, 2007 – 09.40:01
Cold, no feeling
numb, unsacred
lost, deserted
darkness, lonely
where are you?
patient, waiting
cant find you
weak, dying
dont want to
fight, struggle
strength leaving
i need you
power surges
new meaning
heart pounding
new yearning
dawn waking
new begining.
c. andrew bedell
@ Saturday, Apr. 07, 2007 – 09.36:45
I have tasted your sweat befroe
in the throes of passion
you made me bleed
i've felt your nails down my back
you made me erect
the power you have over me
makes me look at you in awe
you are beauty
is it truly all for me?
i dont have to share you?
i can have you for myself?
lets lock the world out
when your naked you look divine
and you are all mine
just you and I
in the confines of our room
lets stay in here forever
lovers
you and I.
c. Andrew bedell