Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Broken Chairs and Broken Chemical Drums...

Went into school today to leave my exam papers in and I went to see my friends on the way out. The visit stretched a bit longer than I had planned (about an hour - whoops!), but I hadn't seen them in a really long time, so it was worth it! Matthew showed me the chair he'd broken in a French exam...

We then went on to Strawberry Fayre to have one of their nice toasted sandwiches (Cheese and ham for me!) and that's when I took this photo:

I wouldn't personally prop a heavy trailer up on a container marked "Corrosive", but hey...

(Also, Strawberry Fayre is supposed to be completely organic...explain the chemicals then, please?)

David

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Coleraine goes international!

I was in Coleraine today and I saw this French market in town. It was quite interesting, but there wasn't any technology, so I wasn't really interested! :p

My mum did buy some soaps for a friend's birthday present, though and they were really quite nice. To my surprise, the owners of the stalls didn't have much English at all, so I had to rely on my schoolboy French... *gulp*.

We got the transaction completed without too much difficulty though. :D

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Those cool doors...

I was walking down to the local Spar today to get the paper when I saw all these lovely DeLoreans in the Distillery car park. There was literally tonnes of them!








Sunday, May 21, 2006

Deep Fried Shredded Chilli Beef... *drool*

I went to the Water Margin tonight - really enjoyed myself!

I had a great time during the day with posting in the annual CustomPC "24hr Thread" - it took my mind off the pain! :D

When we were coming back from the WM, we saw a limo going by...stopped outside a small terraced house in Bushmills:

David

Friday, May 19, 2006

A&E

I just spent two hours in A&E getting the leg seen to...

Waste of two hours, basically...

They don't think there's any fractures, but they're not sure. Needless to say, I don't have a massive amount of confidence in them.

The hospital was filthy - there was blood on the floor and no one was cleaning up - it was a disgrace!

Ho, hum - at least I got to go to the York for a meal!

David

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Falling...

Well, I fell this morning - not good because I twisted my bad leg...

I'm in a lot of pain at the minute, so goodbye...

:(

David

Friday, May 12, 2006

North West 200

The amount of motorcycles on the road at the minute is ridiculous! The North West 200 is tomorrow, so every biker in the country (and many from Britain and the South) is traveling to the triangle area and setting up camp in one of the many dedicated sites. I would go so far to say that at certain points in the day, motorcycles made up as much as 50% or more of the traffic!

We went to the York tonight and discovered that (for a fee, undoubtedly) a hot dog van had set up in their main car park, which meant that we had to go to the back one...this resulted in me trying to get down the steep hill on crutches - not easy.

Anyway, once we'd gotten in to the restaurant, we discovered that is was packed with bikers...drinking lots of beer and cider and eating impossibly large steaks. We got seated near the back, but I didn't mind the packed nature of the place, since it meant it had a great atmosphere!

Fingers crossed that no one gets seriously injured tomorrow...

David

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Melting at a slower rate

Well, it isn't as hot today, although it's still very warm. Stayed clear of cars though!

Went to Physio today - came out exhausted as usual - my physiotherapist is never afraid to give me a good workout!

The Ballymoney traffic system really can't cope with the amount of cars it's expect to carry. We discovered the above fact when we tried to go to Tescos to get some groceries, after we had a bacon sarnie in the La Patisserie cafe in said town.

Basically another fairly normal day...

David

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Melting

The weather is HOT today! The temperature was probably creeping up into the high twenties! It was so hot I nearly passed out - I had to sit in a car for nearly an hour and I really did think I was going to be sick.

Anyway, apart from that, not much happened - it was too hot to do anything else!

We did go to a nice cafe called Strawberry Fayre on the Coleraine/Bushmills road. Their toasties are really tasty and we ended up eating two traybakes each...

David

Monday, May 08, 2006

Blonde...James Blonde

I was watching the James Bond trailer recently and it's looking good, with lots of nice violence and Bond still likes a good woman - despite the fact that there were reports early on that Bond was going 'child friendly' (less violence, no sex).

It seems fairly action packed, but I'm still in two minds about Daniel Cray as Bond - he just doesn't seem to have the right demeanor for the job. A lot of Bond fans share my views about him, which could hurt at the box office...

David

P.S. Sickness seems to have gone - I think I'm nearly back to normal...I hope.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Gonna Pop

I was going to post yesterday, but I was sick. Very sick.

I vomited over twenty times and I could hardly stand up never mind cut through the crap that XP throws at me when I log on...

I've sort of recovered, but I'm still weak and very tired.

David

Friday, May 05, 2006

Come fly with me, Let's fly, let's fly away!

I went to Ballymena today and got a massive load of shopping from Marks and Spencer's. It was fairly uneventful - just the usual sort of shopping...

What was slightly more eventful today is that (just this minute) I have booked some flights to England for the whole family.

England, here we come!

David

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Boring...and slow

Well...nothing very interesting is happening at the minute.

The robot control software that I'm writing is coming along well and it should have the speech and vision tests soon now, but other than that there isn't anything happening...except I'm trying to defrag and clean up my laptop HDD...Nightmare! :-(

Ah well, I only have myself to blame for the sluggishness - I have eight other programs open at once!

David