What makes Joey

Happy Easter

2008-03-25T07:13:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter. Its that time when the rabbits mate, creme eggs are sold in the shops as well as the nights seem to be shorter as the summer time begins. I find easter time no different to that of christmas. it always seems to be the kids. Kids get lots of xmas presents and same with easter; lots of eggs. My mum is such a spoilsport and reckons i am too old to get a easter egg. She even reckons my younger 12 year old brother is too old. I would say age is just an excuse for not geting some1 a chocolate egg. There was a consolaton, i did get 1 egg off my nana

This week many of my counterparts at the Lyme valley trust have gone for a weeks holiday in Weymouth. Due to unfortunate circumstances i wasnt able to go. However i am determined to wipe the misery i have endured from this misfortune out very quickly by going away myself. i can bear in mind the fact i can go to Weymouth myself anytime i want but

would have liked to have gone with the Lyme Valley because i think of everybody there as my friends and it is good to have friends around. i got over this misery by going away to France. i visited Paris and Lyon. Lyon is the 3rd largest city in France after Paris and Marseille (i visited both of them places) and Lyon is twinned with the city of Birmingham. i discovered a kinda conection of these being twinned cities. This being a highrise tower block identical to 1 another. Birmingham has a highrise building called the Rotunda, which was built in the 1960's. Lyon has also got a huge tower block called the credit lyonnais tower, which is shaped similar to the rotunda but is a lot higher

Basic 1st aid

2008-03-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

Today i completed a basic 1st aid course. Here you learn knowledge you can take away with and hopefully use to save peoples lives. i think the important aspect of what you learn on these 1st aid courses is that you remeber everything so when there is a real life situation where some1 collapses, becomes unconscious and in desparate need of resuscitation you can use the knowledge learnt because what you learn during the course is a kinda false environment. Another effective method is constant practice and i consider this part and parcel that to become a well qualified 1st aider that everybody should have to undergo a number of real life situations where somebody does require 1st aid. The more times you practice such a task the better you become at something

Comment ca va

2008-03-11T07:03:00.000-07:00

Hi there

How is everyone, sorry i havent made any blogs for a while. i have been busy attending Newcastle under lyme college working towards the European computer driving licence and have already completed level 1. Level 1 consisted of 3 modules, which involved development of basic IT skills. level 2 is slightly more advanced and will involve completion of a further 4 module; where you develop knowledge of Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access (Database). Getting the qualification will boost my employability and add to my credentials having obtained a degree.

I have also been visiting Coventry once a week to speak to a counsellor called Maxine Aston. She is a qualfied expert on the subject of Aspuger syndrome and autism. She has written 2 books, one of which being well known called Aspergers in Love

Bon Annee

2008-01-08T06:22:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR! to all mindbloggers. Hope xmas has delivered all what you scribbled down on those mile long xmas lists. comiseratons to you if it faild to meet your desires. xmas is about knowing where people stand in life and a chance to reunite with family, friends and a chance to bury or setle unfinished business/conflict caused over the course of 2007 or in some cases prior to this.

A discusion what always come round for around between the xmas and new year period is the making of new year resolutions. Majority of people who make them break them after 2 weeks. i would say that this is geting thru "The wall" where it starts geting tough achieving such goal. The most common 1's are losing weight and quitting smoking and many find this very dificult to acomplish. However, nothing is imposible you need willpower. 1 staff member at Lyme Vally trust made a resolution to stop smoking and she cracked it and now she has not smoked for 18 months. she has now got the goal of trying to lose weight

I would say the company who manufacture nicorette patches will fear the subject of willpower as many who cant crack giving up smoking will waste money on the patch and the company will thrive on the mega profit if many lack the wilpower, particularly on the new year resolution period

My new years resolutions are 1 - To be in a long term relationship and 2 - To build on my career and professional development. if i achieve 1 of these goals, it will be a bonus

Big Bird

2007-12-12T07:08:00.000-08:00

The next subject will be about the Sesame street character Big Bird. Big Bird is a big and bright yellow bird who has lots of talents (including riding a unicycle) even though it supposed to be only a 6 year old bird. Another special feature of Big Bird is that he helps children to feel good about not knowing everything yet because learning is a important lifeskill. i am not sure what bird it is but im guesing its a ostrich or an owl

There is 1 thing about myself, which i often do and that is study individual people. i study by seeing the person, make observation and create a profile of that person accounting for their figure, build, personality traits and so on. Overtime after knowing some1 i create a image in my mind, which tells me what i think about when i see the person i have studied. There is a staff member at the Lyme Trust called Yvonne Heath. She is realy helpful and she shows a lot of wisdom (a sort of wise owl). she has also got a kinda tall figure. i have known Yvonne for 9 months and studied Yvonne and ended up creating a image of big bird, which has locked in my mind everytime i think about her.

She went balistic when she discoverd my instincts and i never relate Yvonne as Big Bird again. i have also regreted this now for having this perception but i only have this regret it because i have realised Big Bird is actually a male bird and not a female 1

Placement

2007-12-12T06:42:00.000-08:00

I am gonna write about the work placement i have finished. i am on the brink of completing a 6 week placement, which i did at Stoke on trent City council at the swann house building. i worked in the purchasing and procurment department.

This placement involved doing 2 sessions per week over a 6 week period. whilst on the placement i did basic admin duties including data entry, the filing of envelopes and faxing. Considering i posess a degree, many people think i am fulfiling a basic role. however i am also showing i have got patience, perseverance and commitment. These are known as personality traits and these are claimed to be equally important as what skills you curently have.

i have a degree in international business studys. i chose to study this degree cos i hope it will stand me a chance to work overseas. i hope that the placement will have been the 1st rung of a ladder to helping reach my goals.

Eurostar

2007-11-27T06:26:00.000-08:00

Travelling by Eurostar is the most convenient and quickest way to travel from Central London to Europe particularly Paris and Brussels. Eurostar has been operating since 1993 and departed from waterloo station. From the 14th November it now starts from London St. Pancras, making it even easier for those who come from the North and Central england and Scotland to get to London as a tube ticket cost £4 for a Zone 1 single to reach waterloo

That is unless like me you have a Oyster Card. here you can get cheaper fares and is easier to use saving time, money and hassle buying tube tickets

St Pancras International was closed for around 3 years awaiting refurbishment and development to allow for the eurostar terminus. You can now get into Paris in under 2 hours. The Eurostar will soon have a stop at Stratford, which will open for the 2012 Olympics

One of the features of St.Pancras is that is has Europes longest champagne bar

Fireworks

2007-11-14T08:01:00.000-08:00

If you remeber remeber the 5th of November, It is a day, which reflects on the failure of a conspiracy to blow up James the 1st and the Houses of Parliament with several barrels of gunpowder. The conspirators including the leader being known as Guy Fawkes was caught, tried and executed.

This is celebrated with a display of lots of fireworks and by putting an effigy of a figure known as a "guy" through the name Guy Fawkes on top of a large fire. Guy fawkes was the main leader who conspired to this failed act of treason.

The piece of history is over 400 years old and has been celebrated ever since. To add a bit of fun on some occasions, effigies of other hated figures have replaced Guy Fawkes, examplars being Saddam Hussain, Osama Bin Laden and on 1 year, even an effigy of David Beckham was on a bonfire back in 1998, This was because David was an hated figure at the time when England went out of the World Cup as a result of Beckham getting sent off for a foul on a opponent.

This annual celebraton has created external issues, this being noise and some often dread this event as it often frightens some people such as the elderly and animals in particularly dogs and cats. i would conclude that if the gunpowder plot was sucessful, would things have been different and the now the only option to avoid the external problems is if the Goverment could have to prohibit the annual event altogether. it was a shame the 5th of November came before the day it was announced the England manager Steve McLaren was sacked for his failure to get England to qualify for the 2008 European championships. An effigy of him on the bonfire would have been perfect to replace the guy

King Spin Disco

2007-11-06T05:51:00.000-08:00

On saturday the 27th october a charity disco was held at the Kings Hall in Stoke. it was staged by Bruno Brookes and the intention of the event was to raise money for the North staffs Aspergers and autism association. Bruno has a 9 year old cousinwho has Aspergers syndrome and it was this reason for the event taking place and why Bruno got involved. The type of music was classic 60's and 70's dance music because the venue; The Kings Hall did stage these events back in the 70's on a regular basis

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158338&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158321&contentPK=18880063&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Tickets sold out for the event and got a huge article in the local sentinel days after the event, which stated what a success it was. Bruno Brookes states he thinks it should be staged again next year

Blackpool

2007-10-09T06:23:00.000-07:00

Last week (friday), myself along with loads from the Lyme Trust went on a field trip to Blackpool. it was a good day cos we had some fine weather and we found more good things, which followed when we got there. Our initial plans were to go for the day and then see the iluminatons at night.

We arived at Blackpool at 12:00. i and some others went streight for the pleasure beach and found a street vendor selling all day wrist bands for a cheap price, which let us go on all rides in the pleasure beach for the day. we spent 3 hours in the pleasure beach and we found it nearly empty so we can endure as much thrill and pleasure from the rides as much as we want. i went for the Pepsi max big 1, revolution, avalanche, Tango ride and other white knuckle rides i cant remember.

Because of the lack of people around, we definatly got our money worth from the wrist band. We then got a tram to the north side and had some dinner at a fish and chip restaurant; harry ramsdens and i had 1 of the most largest and
yummiest plate of fish and chips around.

There are loads of things and images, which symbolise Blackpool including aspects considered intangible. this being tackiness and many things expensive; examples being Kiss me quick hats, Blackpool Rock.

It is claimed that is cheaper to have a holiday in Spain than go to Blackpool because of the price of everything there and the fact the costs do mount up when you are constantly spending. Another factor could be the introduction of the euro in Spain and you can get more Euros for a Pound than the old pesata. This could be the contributing factors, which has led to the demise of popularity of tourism surrounding Blackpool considering its heyday in the mid 20th century.

The labor government plans to build a supercasino would

have been the answer to resolve Blackpool unfortuante

demise from being a popular tourist destination and to regenerate

Blackpool of being favorite to beingthe location for the super casino

Karaoke

2007-09-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

I am going to write about 1 of my obsessive interests; this being karaoke. This interest has increased gradualy as i have got older and i often play "circuit judge" by frequenting pubs all over Stoke on Trent and Newcastle where i find there is karaoke on.

i think i posess this interest is because of my good knowledge of music and that i dont have the fear of being on stage (unless it is a pub i havent been yet)

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The karaoke experience is enhanced when there is a good jockey on, a huge song book and loads of humor when some just sing for a laugh. 1 of the best places to buy karaoke stuff is a place in Longport (near Burslem) called Cookies. They sell loads of decent karaoke equipment as well as writing a disc with your own karaoke songs

The Eatles

2007-09-11T06:34:00.000-07:00

I am gonna talk about a band called the Eatles. This is about a group of lads from Liverpool known as the flab 4 who spent so much time eating they didnt have time to do any concert gigs

They did however produce some realy good songs

Here are some of them

1. Please feed me

2. I want to hold your ham

3. I am the walnut

4. When im sixty four stone

5. Gut back

6. Strawberry fools forever

7. Love me chew

8. A lard days night

9. A tub of margarine (a parody of Yellow submarine)

10. Sargent Peppers lonely hearts club sandwich

11. Give peas a chance

12. Here comes the bun

Finishing off with the Salad of John and Yoko and the majority of these songs were produced at the Flabby road studios.

Haagen Dazs

2007-09-05T03:27:00.000-07:00

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The next subject is about Haagen Dazs. the plesure you get from consuming Haagen Dazs is huge. The dificult element is choosing the type of flavor to go for and this decison is part and parcel of the Haagen Dazs experience. the image is of the triple chocolate and chocolate chip type (1 yummy example). i can think of more, which are either just as yummy or more yummy than the chocolate 1

The snag about haagen dazs is that it is expensive; especialy in a cinema where you can pay around £3 for a small tub

There are special cafes, which specialise in the selling of Haagen dazs, i have been to the 1 in Leicester square in London and could spend forever enjoying ice cream. Most of them are in the USA.

1 surprising thing i have learned about Haagen Dazs is its origin. the name suggests it orginates from Holland, but it has started off from the USA and the founder decided to give it a foreign sounding name of ice cream.

I will offload my favorite flavors; these being Baileys irish cream, Banana split, belgian chocolate, cherry vanilla, chocolate peanut butter, mocha almond fudge, pralines and cream and strawberry cheesecake. Haagen dazs also did a malibu ice cream but you cant get that now. there are loads of other flavors i can think of and are real nice such as lemon sorbet and peaches and cream but they are a little scarce

Americas main ice cream rival are Ben and Jerrys, which do some nice ice cream but Haagen dazs is even nicer, the 1 thing Ben and jerry have got is humor as they have a flavor called bohemian raspberry; a paraphase of queen song bohemian rhapsody

Win some lose some

2007-08-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

I will conclude my debate re: the nanny state nation with the subject of gambling. If you remeber the labour governments proposed idea to build a Las Vegas style super casino in the UK. This has been welcomed with a lukewarm approach by Tony Blair's pre-decessor Gordon Brown

The proposed site for the supercasino would be in East Manchester Sport City, a large derelict area adjacent to the stadium, which was the venue for the 2002 Commonwealth games and is now home to the Premiership football team Manchester City. Manchester was the surprise choice to be the site for the casino considering that Blackpool and London Millenium dome to be favourite

The Sport City area of Manchester was a former industrial heartland, where many years ago was a booming metropolis for industry and trade until its demise around 30-40 years ago. The area has been deprived ever since and is now 1 of the deprivist areas in the UK. The sucessful bid for the supercasino would have created a re-generation of the deprived area, boost its economic growth and would have created under 3,000 jobs

This idea has been shown with a lukewarm approach because of the social implicatons created as a result a increase of problem gambling and issues surrounding. i would say that giving the number of ways people can gamble in the UK (bingo, lottery, slots, beting shops, the list goes on and on), the abolition of the idea of super casino would not make a huge diference in the increase of the problem gambing

As with smoking and the drinking of alcohol, many are capable of making

choices and deciding for themselves of whether such habits are a good idea or not. This whole saga of the gambling issue of the super casino is another example of Gordon Brown nanny state approach

I will conclude this subject with this, The Goverment will publish a report on gambling in the UK and the social aspects created as a result and it could conclude with the proposed idea of the super casinos being scrapped altogether.i would consider the real losers here would be the derelict area of Manchester, which was to be the site for the proposed casino. This is because they have been waiting for decades for a

regeneraton of the area, which was a powerhouse for industry

and employment

Same again

2007-08-13T06:01:00.000-07:00

My concerns re: the smoking ban and the benefits that it brings do worry me because the government could adress another issue to promote health awareness and tackle another issue to achieve this. this being the sale of and consumption of alcohol.

1 measure they could use is to levy high taxes on the import of alcohol coming in from overseas as well as measures imposed on UK breweries, which could result in them having to charge high premium on its exports. Lack of exports and expensive imports, will result in pubs and off licences putting prices up on alcohol and well you know the equation and outcomes of the whole part and parcel of the possible strategy dont you

Goverment will debate it is a good thing as the generated revenue as a result of high taxes on alcohol could be used to fund better health care as well as funding services such as rehabilaton centres and clinics, which would help adress alcohol misuse. However i think it should be a public opinion of whether or not such measures take place rather than a goverment think tank who decides what the public need and let the public decide for
theirselves as many can make their own minds of whether alcohol
is good. I will conclude this "nanny state" debate with the next
subject to follow.

Defense de Fumer

2007-08-10T07:52:00.000-07:00

i am going to raise the issue of smoking. I have never smoked in my life and many will think last months smoking ban has suited me well to the ground. In 1 sense it has. i can now walk into a pub and the air within the pub is as clean as the cool fresh air you find in the Alps

However i think there is a twist behind this though the probable success as a result of the smoking ban may prompt the Goverment with further ideas of how to promote health awareness and create a nanny state telling people to "do this do that". i think many people in the community are capable of making their own minds of whether habits such as smoking is bad for them. This entry will bring a follow on my next subject

Cheers

2007-08-08T06:58:00.000-07:00

This entry is about 1 of my favorite comedies. This is the classic US sitcom on Channel 4 named Cheers. Cheers was set in Boston, Massachusetts and over 270 episodes were filmed before they ceased filming in 1993. Channel 4 now simply put on repeat showings of Cheers. I found it a sad occasion when it was found no more Cheers episodes were to be done.

Cheers stars the actor John Ratzenberger who played the mail carrier Clifford Clavin as well as other known actors who have gone on to star in other sitcoms such as the spin off Frazier.

Who has ever watched Cheers, The programme was very funny and 1 episode, which i will remember is 1 where they have a karoke session in the bar and they are constantly singing the song Lollypop by The Chordettes. The point, where it got funny was the constant bickering amongst the singers over the lyrics of the lollypop song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVtk7mIEfg8

Anyone who has seen Cheers. I would like to visit Boston and will be 1 place on my list i will be eager to visit the day i visit the USA

Puzzle Games

2007-08-07T07:27:00.000-07:00

I am gonna write about another 1 of my interests; this being puzzles. Puzzles realy do stimulate the mind and strengthens the brain power in the areas of logic, maths and spatial awareness.

Not all puzzles do adress all 3 areas and you do need a lot of patience and stamina to crack some; 1 example being Su-Doku. I have crackd a Su-Doku puzzle once but you get versions of Su-doku, which gets harder and harder.

1 puzzle i can play all day is 1 called Maj Jong. You can play Maj Jong with simple tiles (similar to dominoes) or on the internet. Maj Jong is also a casino game, which involves a lot of skill similar to Poker. Majong is where you locate and match tiles with another. the idea is to clear the whole board of tiles. Majong tiles are always stacked up with other tiles.

Finally there are many puzzle games, found on internet and another i enjoy is 1 called Jewel Quest. Jewel Quest is a type of solitaire game on MSN games and is very addictive

Cats

2007-08-07T06:10:00.000-07:00

The next subject will be about cats. Many people just love the harmless, domestic little creatures. I stay at Lyme Trust and a elderly man feeds a large number of stray cats (around 7-8) and every morning he just bangs a tin can and the cats all run into the garden at once.

There are many ways of how you can love cats or any domestic pets be it dogs, parrots and so on, You can look after them yourself or sponsor a care home, which supports domestic pets such as the Battersea dogs home in south London. The Battersea dogs home is well famous for taking care of abandoned dogs and cats or for those who have sustaind injuries. It is a charity so it often relies on donations made by the general public

Scooter

2007-08-06T06:24:00.000-07:00

I am going to write about a something i have always enjoyed playing with. this being a pedal scooter. i can ride on them all day and just use them to get around. Un fortunatly scooters do wear out and the wheels of the scooter have simply come off cos of excessive use. i just get another 1.

i will never forget the time i decided to ride all the way from Stoke on Trent to Leek just riding a scooter. Doing a sponsord event where you travel a long distence riding a pedal scooter would be funny

Fancy Dress evenings

2007-08-03T03:36:00.000-07:00

If you read my blog and noticed my disgust at the horrfic cancelation of a planned fancy dress do i was really looking forward to, i thought id raise the subject of fancy dress an ask for peoples experiences. i cant remeber an actual ocasion, which stands in my mind where i have gone and done a fancy dress so that Pinocchio idea would have the mint oportunity.

When i was at Staffs University, the student union run 2 social nights a year known as the ABC night and each sports club/society gets allocated a letter and then the club decides on a fancy dress theme begining with the allocated letter. i playd hockey (well tried to) for Staffs Uni and the hockey was given the letter E, we decided on egyptian theme. Therefore we dresed as pharoahs, mummies and i decided to dress up as an snake, cos Cleopatra opted to take her own life by getting bitten by an Asp

I did spot a group of girls last week on a train who were bound to go to Newcastle on Tyne and they were in fancy dress costumes. i think 1 was dressed up as Superman, another Robin Hood and other. They seem to have loads to drink and 1 let me finish, which was almost a full bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne. The drink was lusios and i hadnt had a drink all day

Wagamama

2007-08-03T03:01:00.000-07:00

In this entry i am going to bring up 1 of my favorite places to eat out, which is the chain restaurant Wagamama. Wagamama is a noodle bar devised from Japanese culture. You only seem to find them in London and in plush places around the UK, where there is always a vibe and a hip hop culture.

I have been to loads of wagamama places in London as well as the 1 in Manchester and Birmingham. i always go for the chilli chicken ramen, which is yummy.

Has any1 else been to a Wagamama, if you love noodles, you will like Wagamama

Chocolate fountain

2007-08-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

The next entry is to discuss chocolate fountain. They are very commonly found in special events such as weddings, parties and huge gatherings. They are often found in chinese buffet restaurants such as Buffet Island near Newcastle as well as a place called Mint in Hanley. The worlds tallest chocolate fountain is found in the Jean-Phillipe patisserie based at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas

For those who havent endured the luscious experience of going to a chocolate fountain, you are suposd to dip fruit such as orange, strawberies or you can dip other sweets such as marshmellows or nougat.

If i have managd to save room for the fountain after some yummy chinese, i have simply scooped the chocolate in a empty dish and had some ice cream with it. i will conclude this subject with "How do you eat yours"

I will survive

2007-07-31T06:04:00.000-07:00

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I have to warn you to take care when viewing this link cos you may find it very funny

My next entry is going to be about the 1970's disco classic by Gloria Gaynor; i will Survive. It is a very famous karaoke song and is well sung.

I am particularly putting this referral to the blog for 1 reason, this being that the song is used as a backdrop in a very funny video clip found on You tube, where it shows Jesus Christ dancing through a city street dressed naked.

Ovaltine

2007-07-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

My next blog entry i am going to put on is about Ovaltine. Ovaltine is a drink, which is used to help people sleep. I am not so keen on the ordinary type of ovaltine but i do like the chocolate version even though i think that is a little sweet.

I have added to the site an MP3 piece of music, which is the song "we are the ovaltineys", if you listen to it, you might find it funny

Maths and chocolate

2007-07-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

If you think back to your schooldays. you will experience subjects, which you either loved or hated. if you conducted a survey in a large town such as Hanley and stopped people randomly asking what subject you liked and disliked at school, the chances are you you will get a mixed bag of results. Many people did hate the subject mathematics however some people did love it and this love hate relationship does makes the opinions of each subject even out.

I did like maths because i was quite good at it. To be good at the subject, you need to have a good mind and have the ability to think logically. You can also make it interesting. When i did my maths GCSE coursework, you could choose your own research, therefore i opted to investigate the area and volume of a chocolate orange.

It was a little tricky but it was just a matter of being able to calculate the area of a ball as well as as a cubebox. You can divulge by working out how the volume of each segment. The more maths you incorporated, the more marks you get.

The list does go on with chocolate. You could do research in a bar of toblerone and working out the area of a triangle is easier than working out the area of a ball. To find the triangle, you find the cross section; this being the breath times the height divided by 2, The alternative is to apply pythagorus theorem to the research.

To prevent those who will be reading this blog from going hungry after reading about chocolate. Research can also be done by finding area of a polo mint.

This is easier than you think. it is simply the area of a circle is Pi (3.14) times by the diameter of the whole circle. to get the hole, it is pi times by the diameter of the circle inside. You simply subtract the diameter from the area of the whole mint

Leffe

2007-07-25T06:57:00.000-07:00

I am going to write about some of my favourite tipples, these being Leffe Blonde and Bellevue Kriek. They are Belgian beers and you can buy these drinks in Paris and around Belgium in the same casual way you can get the likes of Carling, Stella and Carlsberg (which are boring to drink) in the UK . You can get Belgian beer in the UK if you look but it is scarce to find and expensive (through having to import) and it is often in bottle but some places you can buy on draft. The best bar in Hanley is called the Metro (which was called the French Horn), i could spend all day there drinking myself to death cos of the lusious beer they have.

We had some1 from MAGMA (media action group) called Emma who has left and had a nickname Emma Blonde thru the Blonde hair and we also have a Emma Brown. Leffe have 2 beers, a brown beer and a blonde beer and to add humour, i decided to give Emma a bottle of Leffe Blonde as a leaving present to reflect her blonde hair

Dumbo

2007-07-24T06:33:00.000-07:00

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Dumbo has been won on e-bay and i am awaiting the parcel. Flounder did arrive and it is a smaller 1 as to the last 1. Many people think he has shrunk. someone at Lyme Trust said why did you not keep the big Flounder as i would have had daddy flounder and baby flounder.

Lets see how big the Dumbo will be when it comes in a parcel. i am gonna leave you a movie clip of dumbo. the backdrop music is the song leaving on a jet plane

Bye

Flounder

2007-07-23T07:02:00.000-07:00

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I am going to write about the soft toy i bought on e-bay, which is Flounder from the Disney film; The Little Mermaid. i did give away a big Flounder to 1 of my family, which i bought back from Disneyland. I had to get a new 1 because everybody liked the old 1 and this Flounder is a baby flounder cos its smaller than the last 1

Mannequin Pis

2007-07-19T07:34:00.000-07:00

I will add extra to the blog to reflect on my trip to Oxford, where i was aiming to secure a job to work in Brussels. I have visited Brussels before and this is 1 of the attractions of Brussels. This being something known as the Mannequin Pis. it is simply a little boy who stands over a pool of water representing a water fountain. Radioman (Leigh) has also visited Brussels and he sent me a message. Other attractions of Brussels includes the Atomium and the Grand Place (a kinda square)

Pinocchio

2007-07-11T05:37:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately the Lyme Trust decided to postpone the Fancy Dress evening. That really upset me as i was counting the days for it to hapen. Waiting for this was like waiting for christmas day to come round as i couldnt wait to attend the function and of course wear the Pinocchio costume. i was able to claim the money back of which i paid to hire the costume. We did have a field trip to Llandudno this week, which was good but the weather was a little dodgy and i had a feeling it was going to rain. if i had the choice of what i would have liked to postpone, i would have liked the Llandudno trip cos ive been there many times and it is not a really fab place. i am determined to choose the Pinocchio outfit for when we decide to hold the event and as before i am determined to win.

Next week the Lyme Trust are holding a fancy dress competiton. i am choosing to go as Pinocchio and hired the costume from the fancy dress shop in Hanly. The fancy dress competiton is to help the Lyme Trust . I think it will be good fun and both staff and residents are making an effort to speculate. Everything i do i aim to suceed and win things and i think the money i paid to hire the Pinocchio costume will be worth every penny if i win. i am counting the days until the fancy dress cos i cant wait to put the costume on. Pinocchio is 1 of my favorite Disney films and i have been to Disneyland in Paris loads of times in fact more times then i have been Alton Towers, which is a lot closer to me. i would like to visit the 1 in America prefably the 1 in Florida and with ideas of how to make money i would be able to achieve whatever i want to do!

The Lyme Trust decided to cancel the fancy dress competition, this really frustrated and upset me because i really wanted to go as a Pinocchio and many say i would have done a really good 1.

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2007-07-03T06:51:00.000-07:00

I received a e-mail this week telling me i didnt get thru the next stage of the aplication process for the role in Brussels. i was not horibly disapointed as i wasnt expecting to land the position it was a matter of having a go. I wish more luck on my cousin who has given birth to a baby girl. She has named it Shanade but i think it is spelt Sinead as in Sinead O Connor. She was sadly expected to be born with Spina Bifida was means a child aparently has a hole in the spine. The baby didnt turn out to have the condition but she needs to have an operation in a few weeks to establish whether she will be paralysed downwards and there is a 50% chance it can go either way and if i could choose i would rather the baby would live a free life with no illness than whether i would have got the job

On Friday i have been invited to go to Oxford to take an analytical test. This is to assess my potential on a role of project developer. if i get thru the interview and land the position, i will be posted to Brussels. I went to Brussels last year and it is a nice place even though i have been to other cities, which are nicer.

I am a bit anxious and worried about my future career as i have no financial stability and not sure of where to get financial/social help in moving to somewhere more prosperous. i am a graduate in international business and keen to do well and work somewhere such as London, where there are more chances to get employment and work overseas. i will need to identify where i can get funding, to help me relocate if i am sucessful in geting the position