My photography skills are being recognised!

I have a Flickr account, not many pictures on it as it takes ages to load up but i got a email from a young lady asking if she could use one of my pictures of the WaterFront Hall for a website called Schmap which are online interactive maps

Shmap!: "Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest"

Anyway my pic has been used to describe the Waterfront (as well as some others) which is awesome!

The Des has a son!

The big news story of the year is that my good friend Mr Dessie Thompson and his good partner Lisa have had a baby boy!!

Hooray! He was born a couple of days before xmas and is called Rory (Hope this is the right spelling)

No pic yet but i'll take one and post it!

Christmas is over.

Well Christmas is officially over!

Is it just me or did it sneak up really quick and pinch you on the bum and then run away!
As I'm getting older xmas just seems to sneak up and go, no more fanfare, no more razzmatazz, it used to be a lot better when i was a kid, it seemed to last longer and the Tv was a lot better!

Maybe I'm being cynical what with my family all away for xmas and getting no prezzies! (I hope your reading this dessie) but xmas is losing it's charm!

So anyway thats my xmas rant over,

IKEA Belfast Grand Opening!

Hello and Welcome or as the say in Sweden "Var snäll och prata långsammare"!

The reason for the Swedish outburst is because today after a bazillion years after everyone else including China a developing country we get our first IKEA for the whole of Ireland!!! A great behemoth well known for its modern, utilitarian design Woohoo!

Me and the "Hoff" from work went today to the grand opening where we were expecting long queues down the roads and thousands of customers but apparently one of the dudes who work there told us that the media had scared loads of people away by saying that there would be queues and thousands of people! so that worked in our favour as we worked our way round the store which are designed around a "one-way" layout which leads customers along "the long natural way".

This layout is designed to encourage the customer to see the store in its entirety the sequence involves going through furniture showrooms, housewares (market-hall), then the warehouse (Self Serve) where one collects flatpacks for products seen in the showrooms, and then arrive at the cashier's station to make payment.... Awesome!

We didn't have much time as it was our lunch break and because we were seen by our chief we quickly moved around and picked up a photo frame and some finger puppets!

Thats the Hoff beside a swedish Viking who i thought were all from Norway! They should have had more ABBA there!

3rd part of The Poem!

Post coitial spasms
Borne from great orgasms
lying back smoking on your Super kings
These are few of my favourite things

Sleazy and teasy
As easy as peasy
A family bucket of hot chicken wings
These are a few of my favourite things

Shagging and dragging the dead bodies away
Mind out for the neighbors, oh what would they say
Put then in bin bags all tied up with string
These are a few of my favourite things

Slicing and dicing clawing and sawing
look out for the filth and be on your way
Snapping and breaking and stealing the rings
These are a few of my favorite things.

2nd part of The Poem

Candyfloss nipples
Jokes about cripples
Doggy style Sundays meaningless flings
These are a few of my favourite things

Leather clad Goth chicks with
Inverted cross dicks
Bisto on Sunday with my gravy rings
These are a few of my favourite things

A Poem

Recently we have had a unknown person writing a poem on my blog in the comment section, and it has been decided by me and the lads in the office that it deserves a blog of it's own cause it's brilliant:

So without further ado the lyrical rhyming of Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin:

Goosebumps and Udders
Sharp knives and cutters
Scabies and flatulence, big wasps that sting
These are a few of my favourite things

Stanley blades in golf balls
Scissors in free-fall
Riots with peelers and gays with cock rings
These are a few of my favourite things

Smooth shiney ball-bags
And leather-clad street slags
Pig sweat poppers and bingo wings
These are a few of my favourite things

Fighting with wheel-braces
And smashing up faces
Drinking in the park setting fire to swings
These are a few of my favourite things

My Shoe Dilemma

I am having a real dilemma at the moment!!!!

My favorite trainers for the past 3 years are getting harder and harder to find!

They are the Puma Mostro, Truly a wonderful comfortable trainer that looks good.
Puma has stopped making them.
I have even resorted to going to Ebay looking for them.

So if anyone knows where i can get a size 11 tell me or i'm going to poke you in the eye!

Fucking Insomnia December

What the fuck is up with December, every frikkin December for the past 3 years i have suffered from insomnia!!

Why only in December? Is there some sort of weird december insomnia bug going around?

I'm not happy!

A real Alaskan

This is a real Alaskan wilderness dude!

He goes around hunting and shooting and building shelters all around the woods,

If you cross him you end up being stuffed by the local taxidermist!

We got on well.

A Moose loose aboot this house

I was about to shoot me a moose in these parts but my parade got rained on!

Alaska day..... who knows!

Bonjour from Alaska!

It's all going well up here, it's still cold but i'm getting used to it now!

Filming is going well, only a few mishaps but other than that it's all ship shape and Bristol fashion!

This is where God gave me a sign, and he said.. "Wrap up warm my son"

North Pole

Apparently it's a city and we are quite close by to it!

Alaska is weird

I'm at my filming destination of Delta Junction in Alaska!! It's known as the Friendly Frontier and has a population of around a thousand people of whom 350 are inbred!

It's a real weird town, people eat Buffalo Burgers and there are no chain stores at all, just weird little diners and strange shops that sell moose poo!

Filming has got off to a good start and can only get better as Alaska is frikkin beautiful, the scenery where we are is so beautiful, snow is on the ground and mountains are looking really cool, the only flaw is, is that it's bloody freezing!!! It was minus 18 today, i had about 20 layers on and still froze!!

So cold! Brrrr!

Alaska is bloody cold!

Hello from Alaska!!!

It's so bloody cold here!!! I'm freezing my ass off,
Stepped out of the airport and had to go back in put on another layer and then walked to the hire car!! It's so cold!!

So cold! But really pretty!

But still damn cold!

Blog

God, I haven't blogged in ages!

Your own Tissue Box!

For just $5, you can create a custom Kleenex Box

At that price point, the customization is clearly a marketing strategy for Kleenex… and I dig it!

The site describes, “Let Out Your Creative Juices! Create your own Kleenex® Oval tissue box and bring your personal style and vision to life. Celebrate a special occasion, feature a silly moment or simply show anything that makes you smile. Only $4.99 + shipping.”

Really cool idea and would make a great present

Only frickin problem is, is that they don't deliver in Europe!

Gay!

Another BurgerKing update!

Whilst walking past the local BurgerKing in Belfast i saw in the window that they have reintroduced the Ocean Catch which is a fish burger!
I remember they had it about 10 years ago then stopped it in the UK and I had only seen it since being served in America and Europe but it appears they have brought it back!

It's tastier than McDonalds Fillet-O-Fish and consists of a deep-fried white fish patty, Tartar sauce and lettuce on a sesame seed roll.

Try it now! I said now!

Spicy BeanBurger Update

Update:

Due to my extensive campaigning to BurgerKing they have reinstated the Spicy BeanBurger!
Truly the greatest burger in the BurgerKing arsenal!


I went to my local BurgerKing drive thru and ordered it!

It was Glorious!

That is all.

Vending Machine Bread!

If you are living in Japan then consider yourself as a lucky skunk for endless reasons. But today’s reason for believing your self to be fortunate is that you won't need to buy a fresh loaf of bread every second day. All you got to do is stuff your kitchen cabinets with Canned Bread that are sold from the vending machines. It is real Bread that comes in a can and stays fresh for up to three years that too without preservatives.