Andrew's beach front bar

It seems Andy Murry has hijacked the airways!

alcohol consumption - high

chocolate consumption - high

fatty food consumptioin - high ish

caffeine consumption - through the roof

excercise - nil

Wish the weekends were longer.

Twice now, last week and thi whilst doing the news

"Look at this." says one of them, and they and the audience see something on the screen tat we are not alowed to see, and the audience all laugh.

What can be so bad that we cant see it?

One minute torential rain, next brilliant sunshine.

I wish it would make up it's mind.

This craving for more is so great.

Damn Pringles.

And the person you said it too looks at you as if you are stupid?

Well it just happened to me.

As many of you will know I earn a living (just) as a picture framer. We have samples of over 100 frames for people to choose from when they bring a picture in to be framed.

A woman was just in, and she said, 'oh you have too much choice. I'm not good at making up my mind.'

to which, i said. 'yea, i'm like that with cereal, they have so many to choose from in the supermarket.'

she looked down her nose at me, and just said, 'yes.' and then made a 'tch!' sound.

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now?
Dont have a car, I cant drive.

2. When was the last time you threw up?
March.

3. Whats your favorite curse word?
Bollocks.

4. Name 3 people who made you smile today?
I haven't smiled today.

5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning?
Eating bran flakes..

6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Looking at my bank statement and frowning.

7. Have you ever been to a strip club?
Yes

8. What is the last thing you said aloud?
"No. I dont like it with white around the edge either dad."

9. When is your birthday?
Dec 27

10. What is the best ice cream flavor?
Mint choc chip

11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
coffee, i'm still drinking it.

12. What are you wearing right now?
Jeans and a Smirnoff T shirt with the logo 'if you dont ask you dont get'..

13. What is the last thing you ate?
Bran flakes..

14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
No.

15. When was the last time you ran?
Run? I dont do physical activities.

16. What's the last sporting event you watched?
Wimbledon last night.

17. What's the last sport you played?
Pool.

18. Who is the last person you sent a comment/message on myspace?
Daniel

19. Ever go camping?
Yes. All the time as a kid.

20.Do you have a tan?
No.

21.Have you ever lost anything down a toilet?
yes, a pen.

22.What is your guilty pleasure?
Pies..

23.Do you use smiley faces on the computer a lot?

24. Do you drink your soda from a straw?
No.

27. What are you doing tomorrow?
Working on my script..

28. Where is your mom right now?
At home..

29. Look to your left, what do you see?
a 2002 year planner!.

30. What color is your watch?
black and silver!

31. What do you think of when you think of Australia?
The reef.

32. Ever ridden on a roller coaster?
No, they scare me.

33. What is your birthstone?
I have no idea.

34. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive through?
Never been through a drive through, always go in.

35. What is your favorite number?
three.

36. Do you have a dog?
No.

37. Last person you talked to on the phone?
Jason.

38. Have you met anyone famous?
I once peed in a urinal next to Brian Tilsley from Corrie.

39. Any plans today?
I'm at work..so i plan to do as little as possible.

40. How many provinces have you lived in?
eh?

41. Ever go to college?
Yes.

42. Where are you right now?
at work.

43. Biggest annoyance in your life right now?
Too little money.

44. Last song listened to?
Monkeys, A little bit me, a little bit you (it's on the radio right now).

46. Are you allergic to anything?
Pear drops.

47. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
My blue ones from River island..

48. Taste in your mouth right now?
Coffee.

49. Are you jealous of anyone?
Brad Pitt!.

50. Is anyone jealous of you?
Brad Pitt! (I have an over inflated ego!)

51. Do you love anyone?
Michelle, very very much.

52. Do any of your friends have children?
Yes.

53. Do you eat healthy?
Why would I?

54. What do you usually do during the day?
Work. skive.

55. Do you hate anyone right now?
Erm, yep! You know who you are Neil.

58. Do you own any big sunglasses?
Yes.

59. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
No.

60. How did you get one of your scars?
Drinking glass, step, trip, crash!.

Is it Summer?

As well as The Doctor and donna we have Rose, Martha, Sarah Jane, Jack, Gwen, Llanto, Davros and the daleks all fighting for screen time.

Looks like being a cracking episode though.

when you have so much that you want to do, but something gets in the way?

Today has been one of those sort of days.

ah well, only half an hour and it'll be time to go home. :p

Yea we really are that sad.

I said my fav words were Peripetetic and Serendipity, he said his were polyester and cryogenics.

not sure what this proves, if anything.

Most people know I am a wanna be writer.

I would love to write for Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Maybe write an X Files episode.

and also Eastenders.

But, the chances of getting into TV are pretty slim. I have submited scriots to the BBC, as many of you know, but I still await any responce.

I tell you this though, I wil never surrender!

We have to ask ourselves, am I where I want to be? Is my life following the path I want it to follow? If the answer is yes, well done, if the answer is no, then what can you do to get back on track?

I'm happily married, I have a lovely wife who I love to bits and I wouldnt change that for anything, but when I was young I never saw myself getting to the stage where money would be so tight that I couldnt pay off my credit card, or stay out of my overdrafdt come the end of the month.

The problem is, as I guess is the same for mny people I didnt make enough of an effert at school. I thought it was all a waist of time, was more interested in watching TV and playing on my Comdodore 64!!! If i knew then what I know now then perhaps I would have payed a little more attention in class.

As it was, i left school at 16 with no qualifications to speak of, and spent the next fifteen years of my life on minimum wage.

Eight years ago my Dad opened his art and craft shop and I went to work for him, but alas things didnt work out for the best, and business was slow, all we did was scrape by, mostly just about keeping even but never getting into profit.

Then things got worse, Marks and Spencer moved out of town to a big retail store about half a mile out of town. BHS, Matalan, River Island, TK Max, Dorethy Perkins. Burtons, WH Smith,Superdrug, Boots and most of the big chains opened here too, leaving just the small specialist type shops in the centre.

Now the council are working on a 25 year renaissance, which will bring river side cafes, theatres and bars to town. To make way for this, they closed down two car parks to build flats on, and turfed 25 shops out of their council owned units, forcing them all to close down.

Now, Rotherham town consists of a handfull of about 10 shops, (one of which is us but with takings now down by at least %50, and neither my self, my dad or my sister having had even minimm wage for the past eight months we may soon have to pack up), at least 8 charity shops, seven banks, numerous pubs and take aways, and at least 6 mobile phone shops.

Parking has gone up to extortionate rates, and with so few shops for people to visit, and Parkgate retail world and Meadowhall shopping centre both less than a mile away, both offering free parking all day, and all the high strrt chains there Rotherham seems to be ringing it's final death toll.

So, I have to start thinking ahead, deciding what path I want to follow next. Do I stay in retail, or go back to care work as I did for the fifteen years before we opened the shop?

What I would like to do is write, that is my dream job, to carve a living as a script writer. But, the competition for this is emence so i guess that will only ever be a pipe dream

I'll stop now before I send you all to sleep.

I find it so relaxing.

Johny Cash
Bob Marley
Queen
INXS
Nirvanna
Buddy Holly
Elvis
Janis Jopplin
Kirsty McKoll
John Lennon
George Harrison
Marc Bolan
Barry White
Otis Redding
Billie Holliday
Lynard Skinnard
Keith Moon
Cozy Powell
Jimmy Hendrix

it would be one awsome gig.

And the reason they give is that most rock fans, who lets face it make up the greatest part of Glastenbery's audience are not happy about American rapper J Zee being a headline act at the event.

From it's early days the event has always had more of a folk/rock feel to it, though of late it has had to diversify a little and featured people like Kylie Minogue and even Shirly Bassey on the bill.

I have to admit, i have never been in favour of putting music into pigion holes. I have always beleived that music is music. On my MP3 Player I have many styles of music.

Iron Maiden.

Johny Cash.

Kylie.

Jamie Cullum.

Bob Marley.

Ultravox.

Whitesnake.

Lilly Allen.

Bon Jovi.

Tori Amos.

Pink Floyd.

Green day.

Music, lets face it falls into just two brackets, Good or Bad.

but i'll leave you with this thought:

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Me? knowing my luck I'll just get left to pick up the tab.

Cant remember where i read that.

so i'm watching this on DVD

When the man on the phone asked me what address it was coming too I told him Benton way, he asked Benton or Fenton. I said, Benton, B for.....and then my mind went blank and the only word I could think of starting with a letter B was the word Bee.

If you are ever tempted to have tinned sardine in tomato sauce on a sandwich for lunch, dont make it in the morning, wrap it in cling film and stick it in the fridge for 5 hours.

I have just done this. The clingfilm has drawn out the tomato sause, as has the bread which is so soggy it no longer has any consistancy to it, and now I have fishy fingers, and tomato sauce all down my shirt....

Now I have to go and speak to customers.

'Please come again.'

200 people apparently complained about it being 'poor taste'.

Sad !!

1. Who's the black sheep in your family?

That would be me, but I can't tell you why!

2. Do you take your coffee black?

I can do, but i would rather have a dash of semi skimmed milk.

3. Do you own a Blackberry?

No

4. Which black forest would you rather eat - cake or ham?

Cake please, if you are offering.

5. Have you ever had a black eye?

What like the peas?

Scuse the language, but I'm angry.

Michelle she took a Top Gear DVD into work yesterday to watch on her break. When she went to the staff room to have her lunch she opened the fridge to discover that somebody had eaten her lunch, so she had to go out and buy a sandwich. She went back to the staff room, went to watch the DVD but was shocked to find that Somebody helped themselves too it, left the case, empty, just took the disk.

She checked the DVD player incase somebody had chosen to watch it, but it wasnt there,asked around but nobody knew anything about it.

So she told the boss, and told her work mates that she had done so, and apparently the responce fropm several of them was less than rosey.

'Oh stop winging it's only a bit of food and a DVD' was the responce from one of them.

I hardly think what has been taken is the imporant thing here, it's the fact that one of the work force may be a stealing.

What if next time it's money, or credit cards, or keys? What if Michelle had thought it too trivial to mention, and then in a couple of days time somebody had had their car keys stolen and Michelle had said,

'oh yea, i had some stuff stolen last week but i didnt bother to mention it.'

They would have been up roar then, and I bet if one pof these other people had had one of their DVD's taken they would have been un happy.

Besides which, it was my Top Gear DVD so if these people have anything to say about triviality they can come and ses me, because I want my DVD back.

but going to the fridge i was shocked to discover

no eggs

only two rashes of bacon (between the two of us)

one mushroom

No beans (not in the fridge)

so tea consisted of Fish fingers and oven chips.

Looks like a trip to Tesco after work tomorow.

He'll be living it up under those tropical skies and drinking that cheep booze again.

Bloody lucky buger!

Do you ever find yourself inn one of those situatioons when you start screaming and yelling at somebody because you think they have done something bad to you, or damageded your property, or upset/hurt someone close to you?

You go red in the face, call the person all kinds of names, tell them in no umcertain terms what you would like to do to them, and then realise you were wrong and they are totaly inocent of guilt?

I want the floor to open and swallow me up.

makes up a portion of fruit for your five a day?

Apparently three.

Three is one portion, so for your five a day you would need to eat fifteen apples.

Scrumping anyone?

Michelle and i were walking to the shop this morning, went through the park, gales were blowing. All at once there came this large cracking sound above us, we looked up and a branch on a large oak tree had split and was hanging precariously, as if it was going to fall at any moment, right over the car park, and directly under it an Audi TT.

Imigine the owners horror if that branch falls and he comes back to find his car wrecked.

There were a group of bokes playing fotball, in that wind they must have been mad. We asked them if any of them were the owner of the car, but it turned out not so i dont know who it belonged too, but at least we asked. Thats my good deed for the day.

Ready for Top Gear now, talk tomorow.

But I read that this current series of Top Gear due to start tonight is to be the last, that Torchwood is to be axed and after the current run of Doctor who in two weeks time it will be taking a break for a couple of years.

Three of the best shows on TV, it cant really be true can it?