Don't have big birthdays

Just before my 21st Birthday, like three days, my Grand father died and so all celebration were cancelled. In those days, maybe still now, 21 was the big one, not 18. For my 30th and I can't complain about this, my first child was born a strapping 10 Lbs 13 oz's, For my 40th I was out of work and depressed, this year its my 50th, in fact, its on saturday - St patricks day - I had a new job of 6 months and everything has been going well, with the exception of some personality problems with my number two. So last week, I was all prepared to be made permanent, but the meeting did not go the way I thought it would, in fact they wanted to extend my probation by two months. Then on Tuesday - bombshell .. you don't fit into the culture of our business despite performing well, we would like you to leave today .....

Knock me down with a feather, one months pay in lieu - not sure if thats tax free and I need a job. Today is day two, yesterday I was up felt great, but those night time demons have got to me .. oh my god, will never work again, have felt really crap this morning, but need to work my way through it and be positive again.

On the good side of it my nephew was interviewed on Phil Jupitus's radio program on BBC Radio six this morning - ok nobody listens to it but its a start for his pro music career.

Sun continues to shine

Despite losing to the Manc's and Chelski we still seem to be in with a chance of staying up, amzing the change that pardew has bought to the club. A lesson in leadership and management. It still will be a pretty mean achievement for us to stay in the Premier League, but when Pards joined we were dead and buried, now we are 5 points from safety, with probably the easiest run in, Spammers look dead and buried, but Wigan have turned the corner and suddenly are looking powerful - still we have them at the Valley, so 3 points against West Ham at Home, 3 against Watford away and another 3 at home to Wigan and there is only a two point gap.

Weather is rubbish at the moment, the snow last week was not too bad, worst part was the company car park, when I thought I was going to take out three colleagues cars, still managed to sort my driving skills out just in time.

Forest Hill and Catford Roads were just a bit slushy by 7.00 am, easy peasy driving. 50 miles and the only troubole was the last 10 meters - typical.

How to use a Speed Trap detector

I've got a Snooper detector which is claimed to be one of the better detectors, you see I have a bit of a problem with my right foot, it just can't help pushing down and this leads to lots of points - what do points mean, points mean .... driving bans. So now that I have this job requiring 100 miles a day I invested in this speed detector, just short of a ton.

Lesson 1 Find the On Off controls

They don't work if you don't turn them on, so poodling along past Bromley, in what I thought was a 40 mile an hour zone, double flash oh bugger, still cameras don't always have film in them, not any more, upto 6 points on my licence.

Lesson 2 Don't guess the legal limit when its on the screen

Driving to the bottom of the M11, a familiar speed trap, which has done me before, assumed the speed was 50 mph, heard the machine beeping, did I check it - no, another three points.

Its going to be tough driving to the limit over the next two years while some of the points come off.

Now apparently local authorities are allowed to place speed cameras where they like, so look out for them appearing all over the place, in the interests of road safety, not income generation.

They have just imposed a 20 mile limit down my road, that will be a good place for a camera, I defy anyone to be able to drive at 20 or below down there without getting abuse from fellow champions of the road. More money to waste for the council.

What a difference 12 days make

Well we won at Portsmouth, our scorer never having scored in english Football before, despite playing for Charlton, Newcastle and Portsmouth, so miracles do happen, maybe we can hope. Down at West Ham, my old mate Curbs seems to be imploding, cheesing off the squad he inherited from Pards by bringing in average players on massive wages and still losing to Watford and the like - roll on the end of Feb when we meet them at the Valley and we have got in a couple of cool signings, including Song from Arsenal on Loan - we've only got one song, we've only got one song .... then we play Bolton tomorrow night so it could be all doom and glooom again, but lets enjoy while we can.

Sunday after the match

Well this is a bit of a record. I have not posted so close together, any way I am bored. Went to the must win match v Middlesborough. After going 1-0 with the Fat Eddie Murphy scoring, much against the run of play we we lost 3-1 - hio hum, down we go, of to Pompey next week - the good news is that our last win away was at Pompey in October 2005. In another moment of boredom and the discovery of movie maker on the pc, not to mention despondency over the addicks I produced this Fans Lament
- enjoy or not

Hello anyone there????

Oh well its quiet here, its been a long time, the blog police have not been around to remove me! - absent without leave!! Its scary in the time of my absence, I have changed jobs, now working in deepest East sussex, very different from Croydon - sheep crossing the road, had to stop for a deer the other day, not to mention the pheasant preening itself. Oh, on the way home through dark country roads there is a farm that apparently if you find some road kill, as long as its warm they will prepare the meat for you. Fortunately have not hit anything yet.

Since May Curbs has left Charlton, as has Dowie and Reed and we're preparing to leave the Premiership :-( Still we'll be playing Palace next season :-0

Another good place in Forest Hill is a chinese restaurant called Tse's (020 8291 0019) on the South Circular opposite Wetherspoons. Try it.

Now thats more like it.

Again a long gap between postings and only rubbish to write, but nice to see that my normal expectations have been resumed with the only comments between gaps being spammers (I was alerted by my Charlton mate - David, cheers David.

Any way if yoiu want some free porn then there is an address on the comments although if I were you I would find a more legitimate site to get material to strain your wrist and give you bad eye sight.

The other bit of spam is getting a degree, much more useful, I fancy getting a degree in nuclear fusion but can't be arsed to study, I may try it. Of course, I will justifiably be able to say that the degree is not worth the paper its written on.

Blimey

I have not really thought about what use I am going to put this blog too, although I have one or two thoughts, other than its original intention, which was to be able to leave comments on other peoples blogs... particulalry Football related to Charlton... I did retun to the blog today to find 3 messages on my original posting, what a shock, gob smacking to say the least....should have answered them. probably won't get any further visits but then when you don't include content why should you.

Anyway, Horinmans is still there and is growing, seems to have had lots of funding in recent years... well worth a visit. lots to do and see and its FREE.

Why Forest Hill?

Well why not? Stuck in the middle of Catford, Brockley, Sydenham and Dulwich, I have lived here most of my life, having attended Rathfern Primary School, Fairlawn Primary School, sent my kids to Perrymount Primary School, where I was a Governor and my wife works and my son went to Forest Hill Boys (Dacres Road) and then Hillside Sixth Form college and my daughter is at Sydenham Girls.

Forest Hill is a nice little Town, with lots of potential and plenty of past, particularly surrounding the Museum, Hornimans - presented to the people by Lord Hornimans.

On the negative side Sainsbury have just extended their monolithic superstore and there is the Old ABC Cinema which is now a Wetherspoons. Positvely, apart from Hornimans, there are the Victorian baths which are continually being threatened with closure or character destroying refurbishment, then then there is the victorian public loos which are closed. Dartmouth Road has lots of good shops and pubs and restaurants, question is a favourite haunt.