Went for a couple of walks over the weekend.
Firstly we took Pinky for a stroll quite close to our house and unfortunately we were witnesses to a recent traffic accident.
I called the police to report a case of Trollicide, but they told me to stop wasting their time.
A little further along the road and I saw this -
Now that sounds like a fun day out to me. Old knock knees in front was not having any of it though.
We had to go to the town of Carrickfergus on our way into Belfast so LL could sort out some wedding stuff out by the power station and I was left to walk the dog around the town and along the seafront where they have a castle (seen here from a pub I stopped at to warm up).
Carrickfergus turned out to be a hot spot for street art and I was fortunate enough to see with my own eyes an original Batesy piece -
Whoever owns that skip is going to be in the money if they ever choose to sell it.
The last thing that really caught my attention was this lovely local grocers -
A SPIRIT Grocer. Otherwise known as a pub. Only in Ireland.
Whappnin' peeps?
Long time no speakey. Sorry about that. Shame on me.
Have been tootling along, cutting down trees and chopping up wood.
Have done a bit of shooting at things but the only bird that I have shot at that fell to the ground was shot by someone else at exactly the same time. Until I have one that I can say was mine and mine alone I will not accept that I have got one yet. LL says that I keep saying that and that I am shite at shooting. If she carries on like that much longer she will have to "Say hello to my boomstick"
Have spent some time watching TV including that heavy duty brain exerciser The Weakest Link where I witnessed this little gem of an answer -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUGdGIEvero
Obviously I have also been working out the essential 21st century skill of how to update videos to Youtube, another of which will follow in due course.
We had LL's folk's dog Alfie come and stay for a night. Was a bit of a mare with Pinky being slightly territorial, snapping at Alfie's face and peeing on the floor. This however was a moment when it looked as though romance may be on the cards in the future (she latched right back onto his face after they had posed for this) -
I have made my mind up to train as a tree surgeon, arborist and general tree hugger so have been over to my friend FF's house to do some more tree climbing which went well. Luckily my fear of heights is not quite as much of a grundy soiler as I had previously thought.
Whilst there FF showed me around some of the random rooms and crypts where I noticed this slightly depressed looking door -
The other thing that happened there was Pinky and FF's 6 year old black and tan terrier Sita showed us they were experts at Terrier Capawera, as can be seen in this video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFdFlqvKIks
Looking forward to the coming weeks. Got friends coming for LL's 30th birthday and plenty of good stuff to do between now and then.
Peace out y'all.
BB
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.....I should have looked through that last post before publishing it.
Will remember that for next time.
Hi all
Hope that you all had a great Christmas and new year and are not struggling too much at being back at work.
I had a great week back in England for Christmas. Got to see a lot of friends in London, some I had planned to and some that just were in the right place at the right time - such as this little Christmas Pudding.
I spent actual Christmas at my sister's house where I got to meet my new nephew Jacob
Also in attendance were my Ma and Pa, my brother and brother-in-law, and my other nephew Jack, for whom this was the first Christmas where the opening of presents was the most important thing. I remember those days well.
Missing and missed were LL and Jack's mum Lisette. We got to see some of the extended family on Boxing Day but would have liked to see some of the others as well. Next time.
I came back to NI on the 29th January and got to spend some time with LL's family, our friends and my dawg.
The night I got back there was a Viking party in one of the teepees which was a blast.
Luckily we got out of there before the hour of scrummaging and breaking stuff started.
We had three friends visit from London for New Year and took them to a party at a dairy farm in Ballycastle - fancy dress as countries. It started reasonably civilised and then went rapidly downhill when LL decided to stuff a party popper with chocolate cake and blast it first at her friend Emma, and then all over the wall during supper.
Looking slightly guilty at all?
Was a hell of a new years party and thanks be to the SMs for it.
We got up on the 1st of January feeling somewhat rough (why is that always the case?) and went on a mission to the Giants Causeway - Northern Ireland's premier hexagonally-shaped-rock-formation-based tourist attraction.
I couldnt believe they allow people to park on it.
I definitely should have stood on the other end of the line for that photo.
I should also have done the Sarkozy/Tom Cruise thing and asked the photographer to leave my feet out of the picture - busted.
It was a cold and windy day and blew out the cobwebs nicely.
We also saw the Bushmills distillery but with the hangovers we all had, this was as close as I would allow us to get.
So far in 2011 I have been shooting a bit, starting with some friends and some clay pigeons.
PULL!!! It was an encouraging start to my shooting career with me rarely missing a thing and I even managed a left and right - both barells into two clays launched at the same time.
I thought I might be a natural until I went to a proper shoot at my friend Charlie's house where during the day I shot at a lot but hit not a jot. At dusk we went to the duck pond and I think I got something there but because it is dark it is virtually impossible to know who got what and in some cases things got shot twice - just to be sure.
We hosted Come Curry With Me at our house on Friday night. Put on a banquet that meant we could have curry for days and got well and truly blasted with some friends - so much so that I forgot to take a picture the whole night.
2011's exercise regime for me is going to be mostly based on walking and yesterday LL, Pinky and I went for a walk on the beach at Tyrella.
Pinky got to meet her first sheep, which she seemed desperate to start herding about, and some horses too.
Was really weird to be walking in the sunshine along a deserted beach and be able to see, across the water snow covered mountains. The camera on my phone does not do it justice but you get the idea.
Hope you all (all 3 of you) have an awesome 2011. Is going to be an eventful one for me what with getting married, starting to build a house and various other things and I am looking forward to it immensely.
Hope to see you in it too.
BB
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