Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The World of Ghostwriter56 and Friends
So, me ole mucker Jason finally has his blog on line. 'The world of Ghostwiter56 and Friends'. I am so glad I never went to the Christmas meals now, it seems that everyone there was subjected to some weird transmogrification. And that would of well put me off my food! Thanks for the link by the way the favour is returned.
Monday, December 18, 2006
The BIG 3!
The big 3 are coming! With exactly one week to go, the 1st of 'the big 3' will be on our doorstep. The 1st: Christmas Day. Presents, turkey, mistletoe, James Bond and 'Only Fools and Horses'. Following promptly a week later is the 2nd of our 'big 3', and that is: New Years Day. Hangover recovery, resolutions and turkey sandwiches. The 3rd in our wondrous trinity, and the most important; again one week on is: My birthday! KERPOW!! 'Big up yourself Squishmeister'. Presents, presents and more presents. Plus burfday cake! They always say 'the best things comes in threes'!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Ha ha ha!
Now my friend Steve in Australia sent me this video by email a little while back, and I also wanted to share it but I'm not an 'email' person (as I'm sure many of you have noticed). As luck would have it I just found it on a 'youtube' like site call 'ifilm'. This video is from a new bus lane bollard set up in Manchester.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Christmas Carols with the Stars.
I thought I was to be singing in a nondescript Christmas carol concert at the Royal Albert Hall, but when we passed Graham Cole; the guy who plays Pc Tony Stamp in The Bill, in the changing rooms I realized this concert was to be a bit special!
Mr Garner was kind enough to invite me once more to join the Caterham School choir for their Christmas concert, which I had to miss because it clashed with my work Xmas do Monday night. There was a 2nd concert Caterham had this season, one which they were hand picked for, along with one other school, for the aforementioned Carol with Stars concert.
The Stars were all from British tv soaps like Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat and Bad Girls, plus an 11 strong cast appearance from The Bill. I myself don't watch the soaps so most of the actors were new to me, but the 5500 people in the audience seemed to know them all, and enjoyed the carols and Christmas themed songs they sang.
The 2 schools each done a solo piece, then, for the main part sang 7 traditional carols with the audience. There was guest announcers too like Carol Baker and a guy who has been in both The Bill and Eastenders and does voiceovers for Talk Sport radio (I don't know his name).
The concert is annual and was in association with TV Times for Leukaemia Research and raised £12,500 with just a collection during the interval! Not bad for 10 minutes.
Mr Garner was kind enough to invite me once more to join the Caterham School choir for their Christmas concert, which I had to miss because it clashed with my work Xmas do Monday night. There was a 2nd concert Caterham had this season, one which they were hand picked for, along with one other school, for the aforementioned Carol with Stars concert.
The Stars were all from British tv soaps like Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat and Bad Girls, plus an 11 strong cast appearance from The Bill. I myself don't watch the soaps so most of the actors were new to me, but the 5500 people in the audience seemed to know them all, and enjoyed the carols and Christmas themed songs they sang.
The 2 schools each done a solo piece, then, for the main part sang 7 traditional carols with the audience. There was guest announcers too like Carol Baker and a guy who has been in both The Bill and Eastenders and does voiceovers for Talk Sport radio (I don't know his name).
The concert is annual and was in association with TV Times for Leukaemia Research and raised £12,500 with just a collection during the interval! Not bad for 10 minutes.
No cock tonight!
Sorry. I couldn't resist it. Apparently the key to good blogging is in eye-catching headings. And this one I felt was eye-catching alright!
Those Squish Pages regulars will know that Wednesday night is badminton night. Now this Wednesday past we didn't play, hence, no cock. You know, shuttlecock! The collective reason; Phil has done himself an injury and has been told to take things easy for a few weeks. Jason had a very early airport run the next day and passed for that reason, Martin was feeling under the weather, and whilst initially coming, backed out last minute. Now that left just me and John. Now I had admittedly called John to say I was not up for playing singles that night (1 on 1, as it would have been just me, Mart and John), but when Martin later dropped out, I folded like a bad poker player. Poor John, he was the only one who wanted to play.
Those Squish Pages regulars will know that Wednesday night is badminton night. Now this Wednesday past we didn't play, hence, no cock. You know, shuttlecock! The collective reason; Phil has done himself an injury and has been told to take things easy for a few weeks. Jason had a very early airport run the next day and passed for that reason, Martin was feeling under the weather, and whilst initially coming, backed out last minute. Now that left just me and John. Now I had admittedly called John to say I was not up for playing singles that night (1 on 1, as it would have been just me, Mart and John), but when Martin later dropped out, I folded like a bad poker player. Poor John, he was the only one who wanted to play.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The work Xmas do!
It was a good night. Definitely much better than expected. The night was Monday, the place, Jongleurs in Bow. Now I've been to Jongleurs many times before but always the one in Camden; this became my 1st visit to the one in Bow. Jongleurs, for the uninitiated is a chain of comedy clubs. If you've ever watched the Paramount Channel late at night you might of caught a stand-up comedian filmed at one of the clubs.
Altogether there was about 35 of us from the 6 different offices in our region, including the Regional managers from the house selling and mortgage selling sides. The night started with a sit-down Christmas dinner. 3 courses. I made myself queasy on the starter which was a Stilton cheese pate!, and stayed off the alcohol for the rest of the evening!. The main was the traditional turkey with cheesecake or Christmas pudding for dessert. Next up came the comedians, 3 in all; each one funnier than the last. And I don't know if it was by design that we estate agents had the closest tables to the stage, but there we were. We took flak from each of the acts.
At 11pm the comedy was over, the tables and chairs cleared and the DJ cranked on the tunes. All the tunes were a bit 'late' i.e hits from a few years back (maybe he was gonna get 2006's songs for Xmas!), but entertaining all the same. Got home about 1.30 and had to be up bright and early for an 8.45 start the next day!
Most of these dudes you guys will never know but I'll name my office mates.
Sharon, Alan (my manager) and yours truly
Melissa and Moi
Sunny and Geeta (from the Ilford office)
Altogether there was about 35 of us from the 6 different offices in our region, including the Regional managers from the house selling and mortgage selling sides. The night started with a sit-down Christmas dinner. 3 courses. I made myself queasy on the starter which was a Stilton cheese pate!, and stayed off the alcohol for the rest of the evening!. The main was the traditional turkey with cheesecake or Christmas pudding for dessert. Next up came the comedians, 3 in all; each one funnier than the last. And I don't know if it was by design that we estate agents had the closest tables to the stage, but there we were. We took flak from each of the acts.
At 11pm the comedy was over, the tables and chairs cleared and the DJ cranked on the tunes. All the tunes were a bit 'late' i.e hits from a few years back (maybe he was gonna get 2006's songs for Xmas!), but entertaining all the same. Got home about 1.30 and had to be up bright and early for an 8.45 start the next day!
Most of these dudes you guys will never know but I'll name my office mates.
Sharon, Alan (my manager) and yours truly
Melissa and Moi
Sunny and Geeta (from the Ilford office)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
It's the party season!
Last night was the first of the festivities seasons nights out. Sadly there were a number of no shows despite the lead time given; but nether the less, six brave soldiers made it to the front line. Myself, Greg, Dave and Jack, and for the girls Kirsty and Charlene. We went to Jumpin Jaks night club in the Leisure Festival park in Basildon. With the reduced numbers it made little point ordering a cab especially as we was quoted some £18 each; so I nominated myself as designated driver. We had an absolutely blinding night. Plenty of drink flowed and with 4 cameras there, plenty of photos. The girls kinda started a game of taking close up photos of I think mainly me, ambush stylee.
Kirsty broke her little hat whilst trying to stretch it to fit her head better. Poor thing. She also got up on stage and sang a few lines of a song during a sort of full club singing contest. A bottle of bubbly was up for grabs but she didn't get one. The first part of the evening was all about drinking and the second part all about dancing. All 6 of us shook our tails up on stage until 2.30!
Kirsty broke her little hat whilst trying to stretch it to fit her head better. Poor thing. She also got up on stage and sang a few lines of a song during a sort of full club singing contest. A bottle of bubbly was up for grabs but she didn't get one. The first part of the evening was all about drinking and the second part all about dancing. All 6 of us shook our tails up on stage until 2.30!
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