At last

Today I recieved via a call, confirmation that I will obtain my degree come October. Must find me a cap n gown now. yeeeeear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I FINALLY DID IT.....

I finally got my Degree in Digital Media. Now its on to.....?

So now I am in Print

Woke up this morning and found that my story had been put into print. The local paper have been really nice after I explained about my problem with the local council. I don't like my photo much but you can't have brains AND looks....can you?

New Start

Its been quite a while since I wrote anything on my blog. In all honesty, life being life has simply not provided me the motivation required for this simplist task of typing a few words. But being a new year I am going to try and put a bit more effort and catch up on things.
Its about 7am right now and I've been up for a good hour or so.

I recently took a long hard look at my life. I'm overweight to the point now that it is causing part of my unhappiness with myself. I mean afterall, its not something anyone really wants to go through.I for one have certainly had enough of feeling fat, aching too quickly on long walks and waking up "still fat each day"
So, what have I done to sort this out. Well, I have been promicing myself that I would sort my bedroom out and put the treadmill down and start using it. But alas although my heart is in the right place, for so long this has been left to the realms of good intensions left on the back burner.
So I decided to investigate the concept of natural (because they are not harmful) diet pills and supliments.

So before Christmas having first bought, tried and been dissapointed with my first researched purchase, I changed and went further a field as in the more expensive and HIGHLY recommended ones.
Opera Winfry had a guest on her show a while back. He basically, came on to show the research etc that he had done on diet and research.
His resulting papers were amazing from all accounts. He found out the natural suppliments we need to sustain our fitness levels where food intake is concerns. I will edit this blog a little later as my little one has just woken up so I need to finish.

Anyway. As a quick end note. I started taking the world wide popular diet pills about a week ago. My initial weight was 19 stones and 11 pounds. Well, when I weighed myself yesterday, I now weigh 19 stones and 3 pounds.
The pills are called: LIPOVOX-TRI ACTIVE

The first ones I tried didn't work for me. They were called:metabolo Extreme

The Lipovox Tri Active really work!

Read the story here http://www.lipovox.com/?gclid=CJfl25ru8ZcCFUob3godRnJCCg

Not only do they work but they ARE safe (research is my forte and something I pride myself as being very thorough in doing before undertaking anything in life)

Better go now. Am going to post my weekly results too, just to see how much I can loose in the hope to get back in shape and at the weight I know I should actually be.

Girls...watch out in the summer for the new look Nick!! he he

Summer time, a crazy car driver and too much rain

What a naff summer (weather-wise) it's been. Spent a lot of time at the beach when the suns been out. The newly nearly finished breakwater/tidal defance building work has made a big difference in the overal fun factor. It is supposed to stop flooding, but from what I've seen it's just a pile of specifically placed rocks imported (apparently) from France, and placed in long lenghts along spaced out sections of the beach. It looks strange as its changing the appearance of the whole horizon of the beach, when seen from beach long view. The only concerning factor is that there now seems to be a permenant foot or so cliff which has formed at the edge of the pebble section. So now, when you want to "hit" the beach and go paddling or building castles, you have to remembed to bring you hiking gear so you are able to get "down" to the beach itself. Hopfully this has been calculated and is simply part of the finished outcome. But I have my doubts. Its come about from all accounts, because the newly placed sand (dredged from the seabed?) has been quickly pushed by the moving tide, to a point where the waves stop, and hence a wall of sand is now created.

That aside, the new sand is wonderful for making castles and digging with.

So many lovely shells that my daughter now loves collecting them. I am also a bit sad about the colour of the sea itself. It's now got a strange yellow muddy look to it.

The froth from the breaking waves, which is left after each wave craching against the shore, is not something I would want to walk on, touch or for that matter choose to see. But I hope it's just the new work that now has to settle down which has caused it.

That aside....
Today, our new trailer arrives. I dont have a car just yet, and so decided that because we need transport, and I need to loose a few pounds, I would get us a bike trailer. I've only seen one in use, and that was a friend at my daughters old school who used one to take her little one to and from school. They (trailer) looks odd at first glance, but the appearance is outweighed by its usefullness. My daughter as I am myself, is looking forward to trying it out. There's room for luggage along with being able to transport (in safelt via two seatbelts) two children. So Sophie and a friend can sit in there whilst dad peddles like the wind to the destination....ha ha

We've been doing a bit of gardening too. I moved a tree from the back garden and planted it in the front.....and its now nearly dead. Oops! Still it was a valuable lesson learnt about now moving certain buds etc.

We now have a kitten called Max. He is great. Together with our dog Harry, they have quickly become inseperable. If Harry gets stuck and can't find Max he will look everywhere until he finds him, and then usually curl up beside him. Max (Kitten) has become a permenant squater in the no-longer-used-very-much large dolls house my daughter has in the front room. Whats funny is that Sophie my little one (not so little anymore as she is nearlt 6) has sorted out all the furniture and fitting, and along with removing the movable iserts has created a luxury detached house just for Max. He can curl up anywhere now apart from the loft. The stairs are far too small. Althought Sophie asked if we could make a lift for Max. But logistics and materiels and obvious difficulties aside, I have had to explain why this wouldn't either be a good idea or possible. Cats don't know how to press buttons (or could they be taught?) to take themselves up and down to the different floors.

Yesterday, we both went crabbing down on the jetty at Felixstowe ferry. Great fun! We caught in total 11 crabs, various sea weed and an old crabs claw. We hoever lost two fishing weights and nearly lost the fishing net. I managed to rescue it after it slips out of Sophies hands, via the throw ing the fishing line and old cod head bait at it until I caught it and managed to pull it in.
Things have certainly changed down there. I don't recal ever having to wait for a space on the jetty previuously. But yesterday we had to go and use the other side of the water way until someone moved. Its amazing how many people got down there these days from what we were told.

A few days ago, we called on a friend and family from across the way. I had been meaning to visit for a while. Great people and great kids. Sophie had lovely afternoon and it was great to catch up on old times with my friend. What ever nicer is all the children go to her school. So it will mean even more friends for my daughter. She loves the new school and so do I. Everyone so far has been great. I have even bumped into a few old faces from my own school days. It only seem like yesterday when I was at school. And its funny how faces stay pretty much the same. In my case I guess it's just the weights around my middle that gives the game away...he he he he

Recently.. I got hit by a car whilst about to go around a corner on my mountain bike. The old guy was certainly in now fit stage judging from how he looked and sounded when he eventually pulled over to explain. I have a nerve in my right arm at the moment that is causing a bit of a problem. As the car nudged my handle bars, I put my arm out to steddy myself, and the car pushed up again me forcing my arm up. This is what caused the nerve to become damaged.
I called the police straight away having got over the road, and .........

Well. I have a few things to do today, so had better stop writing now and make some breakfast.

Nick

Sophie at the wheel

Sophie at the wheel
Originally uploaded by non_com

We were waiting for an Ipswich bus on Saturday. One came along quite quickly so it was great start to a lovely sunny day.We were off to the swimming pool. Trouble was though that the bus on turning up, brought with it a smoking brake disc on its left front side. Bit of a shame we thought as we were told another bus would be 20 more minutes. But the hand of thanks must be passed in the direction of the kindly bus driver, who obviously is one of the most decent people we've met in a while. He simply told us to not only wit in the bus out of the hot sun and slight wind, but told my little one that should she want to, she could sit in the drivers seat and look around. Wow....it made Sophies day, and to be honest I couldn't wait to see her face light up when she got in the cabin. We eventuallygot to the pool that day and had great fun. Then to the park, where we collected sticks to and had a stick sword fight before constructing a wigwam for "tiny people" that was actually supposed to be a pretend fire...then we did a bit of shopping and having woken Sophie up on the bus when we got to our stop we were back just in time for tea.

A neat day....

life update...and rather a lot of my waffling

Hello out there...

Firstly, I am sitting in the front room at the moment using the old laptop. So I don't have access to any pics to upload of the new house or garden etc. So I will have to do that later. Still, its just cool to get a moment this morning to write at least something in my blog.

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Its certainly been a while since I last wrote on here, so I thought I would add a few lines regarding what is happening in our life. First off we (my daughter and myself) have recently back in April moved into a new house. Its great and has changed our lives so much. Coming from a large no garden two bedroomed appartment as you can imagine makes it fantastic, as we now have two even bigger bedrooms (Sophie my daughter got to choose which one she wanted and guess what, she chose the biggest room and at the front of the house) I got the back room and am happy too. Two outhouses in the large garden means (although Sophie chose the first one which incidently is once again the biggest and best, but she DOES have a lot of stuff to tidy away..ha ha)

I can put my recording studio dream into action once I get into teaching and life gets to a point where everything slots into place, I bring home a nice wage, I manage to find a writing partner who can also play an instrument such as a guitar: accoustic? and...blah blah blah Can't wait for that.

We now have a happy little jack russel called Harry who I'm sure I've written about previously.Anyway along with the fact that her adores the garden too, we have a park not far away and we have both made a ton of friends. So I walk him when I can which is most mornings after my daughter has gone to school and I have an hour before I have to further my studies on the computer. Sophie also uses the garden daily and we've at last been able to use the rather large Swimming pool I saved up and bought over two years ago (never thought I would ever get to inflate it let alone fill it and put a slide at one end).
Just got buy some chlorine later today so the water can stay fresh and usable, oh and a filter at some point. It really IS a fairytale come true.

I have also gotten into gardening somewhat, and with help from family, managed to transform the previous incarnation into a more personal and relavent piece of estate especially with my daughters needs in mind. Just have one more thing to do with the back garden in particualar and that it to extend back about just over a meter. There was a rockery and build up of soil when we moved in. So I have been saving up for a skip rental to remove it and plant some grass. After that its going to have add lenght to the already long garden. I have already moved the group of garden slabs and extended te patio (it wasn't really a patio previously BUT is now) I've gotten both Picnic table and bench too which are great. Oh, and an old American type rocking chair which I fixed up, sewed up the seat fabric and use on hot days. At the moment the pool is in use daily as my little one has chicken pox and it keeps her from scratching when she is in there. I checked up and just like the benefits of a cool bath the pool helps her skin. Luckily Sophie has not really scratched as once I told her the problems with chicken pox she understood. Thanks be for a great daughter. Shes actually missing school too. She has to be off until the crusts appear on her chicken pox spots which hasn't happened yet. But already she misses her friends. Bless her. We've been doing lots of painting, drawing and reading. I bought her a complete pottery kit recently from my favorite charity shop called the PDSA (animals can't speak for themselves I always say so hence they need our help right?) We got three full bags of clay which is specially made for auto hardening without the need for a kiln along with a powered potters wheel.

Neither of us managed to finish off whate were making, as Harry ended up jumping on the table and killing our work whilst they were drying.

Oh well. I've also started writing music and songs again although my lyrics are somewhat in need of fine tuning and NOT like they were.
Words dont come easy these days but I'm sure they will. Before I forget, we have great neighbours. One of the main points that can make or break a move into a new place is obviously getting on with those next door. I couldn't believe how nice the people are on either side. Infact I would go as far as to say that the whole street is a very nice place to live. People are so friendly where we are. Its certainly a breath of fresh air to say goodmoring or have goodmorning said to you when you walk down the street to get a newspaper or are taking the dog for a walk. I'll be off now and will upload some shot of the new life very soon. So just incase someone out there is tuning in now and again these are for you.
Finally, its great to say that we are now in a position to be able to recycle at least 50%. All cardboard and paper is sorted into a bin, and the next step is to get a can crusher and seperate metal bin.


OK, I'm being called so had better go. Cu/
Nick