tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:28:29 +0000Life, the Universe and Everything - a bloghttp://www.foreverblueskies.com/noreply@blogger.com (Lever)Blogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7982646038238175977Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:20:00 +00002009-01-08T20:51:56.029Zaldershotguns n rosesrecordsmusic...it was New Year. Where TF did that go? Ah well, enough of the pleasantries, like Xmas, it's the same shit every year. But that would be rude, so Happy New Year to whoever still reads my crap these days :) Anyway... People moan about Farnborough, and I agree it's not the best place in the world, not since they shut down The Tumbledown Dick. There's no reason for this town to be the centre ofhttp://www.foreverblueskies.com/2009/01/nobody-told-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7717336744063942556Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:49:00 +00002008-12-17T14:23:19.988Zmusichawkwind After a few pints, a burger and a tot o' rum in a London pub (hello Ray & Diane) we ambled on up to The Astoria for Hawkwind's Christmas gig. Because we got chatting with some homeless guy outside we missed most of the support act 3 Daft Monkeys, who I saw supporting The Levellers back in August, but caught the last couple of songs from ex-Hawk Huw Lloyd-Langton. Despite me first hearing http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/12/hawkwind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-6748043327328254790Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:37:00 +00002008-12-16T13:47:13.419ZmusicI logged in to Amazon last night and, underneath the book, CD and DVD recommendations, there was a new list of MP3 downloads; all individual tracks. Of course the list is supposed to be based on my music purchases but I haven't brought any music off Amazon for months and it certainly wasn't by any band from this list, so I was well happy to see the list dominated by: The ClashPortisheadMC5New http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/12/amazon-mp3-recommendations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-6086862300898155477Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:28:00 +00002008-11-30T15:09:40.405Zspace ritualmusicAs with all things Internet, I'm not entirely sure how I found out about the Space Ritual gig but I'm glad I did. I even debated seeing them in that magical town of Glastonbury on Friday night even though Pronghorn were playing at the same time. So who the devil are Space Ritual, some of you might be asking? The clue is in the name. Back in 1973 Hawkwind released their 4th album, the live LP http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/11/space-ritual.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-2186606784196575142Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:28:00 +00002008-11-23T15:34:55.623Zsaxonmotörheaddanko jonesmusic After all these years it's a bit embarrassing to say I'd never gotten 'round to seeing Motörhead, but it's true. I could reel off a long list of excuses, including falling out of favour with rock, metal & punk whilst I hit the rave & festival scene for a few years, but I won't. What matters is that after seeing Feeder last weekend, with The Chemists supporting, my mate said he was seeing http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/11/motrhead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-5708580150297653122Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:59:00 +00002008-07-14T19:29:58.967ZfarnboroughairshowIt's on! Update 20:22 I went through the small handful of photos I shot during my short lunchbreak and the best shot is of the Airbus A380 which, despite being the world's biggest airliner, was a graceful plane.I love Farnborough sometimes.http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/07/farnborough-airshow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7312983349343794475Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:18:00 +00002008-07-13T09:42:29.558Zthe jamsenserthe damneddreadzonemusicpink floydguildfordIn the spirit of Guilfest we only went for one of the three days... I'd have loved to have seen Carbon/Silicon again after shaking Mick Jones hand last year (I now realise guitar prowess cannot be passed on my mere touch alone) and we're going to see The Levellers in August anyway so that was Friday out of the reckoning. And Saturday was Blondie headlining; my mate was in the second row for http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/07/guilfest-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-4689283846741605757Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:19:00 +00002008-06-29T22:23:46.820ZfootballI'm not normally a betting man but seeing as there was £5.27 in my Ladbrokes account I made a couple of quid bet on Holland, my adopted team for the Euro 2008 tournament, beating Russia. They lost. Then I picked Russia to beat Spain for a few quid. They lost. Tonight I decided to back Spain vs Germany with the remaining 27 pence left in my betting account and... I won. I fucking won. WOOHOO. http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/06/32-pence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-5150775855044381873Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:25:00 +00002008-06-21T03:52:07.552Zsunsummer solsticestonehengeJune 21st. The longest day of the year. Summer Solstice. I had planned to drive or hitch to either Stonehenge or Avebury and watch the sunrise. But keeping an eye on the weather forecast was right - it's a grey cloudy morning and it's friggin' raining. Bummer Solstice more like. Maybe next year... Photo © Andrew Dunn 2005http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/06/some-solstice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7364230255946772185Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:40:00 +00002008-10-01T14:53:45.228ZtravelpolandIncase you didn't know, we're in Krakow, Polska. Cheers! Everyone's asleep as it's silly o'clock in the morning but I'm awake, just. Yeah, we got here on Thursday AM. A quick flight from LGW to Krakow's closest airport and then a 40 min minibus ride through the Eastern European countryside to this old city. It's nice. I like Poland. Growing up with all those films of the eastern borders of http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/04/na-zdrowie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-3966484203651582178Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:25:00 +00002008-10-01T14:58:08.554ZpubsmusicSign the petition! Oh woe is me! They shut down the Tumbledown Dick. In fact, this is old news, they shut down the Tumbly back in February. For those of you who don't know The Tumbledown, it is (was) the best local pub in the area for live music of the alternative/rock/punk kind. OK, there's The Agincourt in Camberley and the West End Centre in Aldershot (each 5 miles away) but the Tumbledown http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/04/tumbledown-dick.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-2559721453728055837Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:58:00 +00002008-04-08T13:50:24.063ZlifeweatherWell, as you can see, the blossoms that have been around since February (!) are still here and now we've had snow (Sunday). For us Brits, and especially us southerners, it was weird to get snow in April. Even more surprising was the rapid change in weather from driving rain ("I can't sleep because the rain's banging against my window" at 7:00am) to a thick blanket of snow ("Look, mummy, it's http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/04/snow-in-april.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-4250536028856617410Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:50:00 +00002008-04-05T08:13:53.705ZlifeAfter 37 years of constantly forging onward I feel battle weary, I'm far from home and my army is stretched. Death and mutiny, souls lost at sea, leadership challenges, cowardice in the ranks, the once loyal deserting their general and a plague amongst them... others have gone before this and endured greater hardships, suffered higher losses and yet every struggle is different for its own http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/04/regroup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-8588530548129361705Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:57:00 +00002008-03-29T11:01:40.730ZmusicHaving nearly had my foot broken at Judo on Thursday night I strapped my left extremity up in my old German army boots and drove the posse to nearby Camberley. I'd been looking forward to this gig for weeks, the first time I'd seen a band down The Agincourt in 20 years! Last time it was The Sweet and the place was absolutely rammed. This time the bill included Tainted Grace, Primitai and of http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/03/senser-soul-destruction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-3389944599048498559Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:08:00 +00002008-03-25T12:56:03.780Zbookssci-figeekAnother blog post? So soon? Take the man's temperature! (Yeah, they took my temperature yesterday, just so they can find out WTF is wrong with me - heart, lungs, temperature & blood pressure are all normal but the claret they took out of my arm now needs to be analysed...) So, as I watch with interest my friend Nigel's "progris riport" on Flowers for Algernon, I realise that the book he's http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/03/sci-fi-geekery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-3189337899910508288Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:12:00 +00002008-03-18T16:46:08.464ZmemelifetaggedI got tagged, well at least it gets me blogging again, aye BulbBoy? What was I doing 10 years ago? > Blimey, that was March '98... I think I was living in Fleet, Hampshire, in a rented house with a fat curry-eating lager-drinking German and "The Crow". I was back at college too, doing a part-time course in Graphics & Design whilst doing a full-time job driving a forklift truck... Things On My http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/03/about-meme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-6769775165412430706Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:22:00 +00002008-03-25T12:58:23.880ZrandomlifeWednesday: 00:30 Becky had just gone to bed and I was not long behind her. I crawled into the sack but my mind was still racing, having just slaved over a client's website for the last couple of hours whilst keeping one eye on The Wedding Crashers. I was tired to say the least. And yet, when my head touched the pillow, I was not ready to sleep. It was nearly 1am. I lay there; tired, brain http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/02/did-earth-move-for-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-3307887292468508346Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:13:00 +00002008-01-28T14:15:31.280ZfootballpoliticsBarack Obama is a West Ham fan. I thought he was a good bloke, now I know for sure.http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/obama-hammer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-8062133718575438855Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:22:00 +00002008-01-16T11:58:02.005ZrantcarsadsThe French carmaker Citroen has just pulled the plug on a full-page ad it placed in a number of Spanish newspapers because it features a scowling caricature of Chairman Mao. Citroen apologized for the ad and admitted it was "inappropriate" after some members of the Chinese public mao-ned that the ad apparently insulted Mao, the WHOLE Chinese nation and purportedly "hurt their national pride". http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/mao-ning-about-citroen-ad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-99715339937308309Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:44:00 +00002008-01-15T13:11:46.105Zquote of the dayQuote of the day has to be in this post on a forum from a third party in response to two other forum members having a dispute. It's actually a month old now but I only just spotted it today: "To funny, Although I think your both retards."And if you think that's funny you can get a t-shirt in the same vein from bustedtees ;)Now, if only people could be a little more accurate in there grammar & http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/your-both-retards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-2332956876463659294Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:51:00 +00002008-01-10T14:56:30.493Zrantcelebrity twatsvictoria beckhamandy warholEver since "Posh" Spice married David Beckham and shed the few remaining pounds she had that made her curvy and feminine, I've thought her to be a narcissistic stick, obsessed only with the shallow desires of celebrity status and the easy money that being so far up your own arse brings. Take for instance the "wedding of the year" when they sold their pics to that epitome of superficiality, the http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/victoria-beckham-looks-like.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-5442221851209411611Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:20:00 +00002008-01-08T11:27:11.440ZbeerpubsguildfordBecky's sister and her husband have been in England for just over a week now and we've been mega busy. Unfortunately muggins here is back at work but there's just time to say that we did the Ghost Tour of Guildford last night, run by a dear old friend of mine. Guildford's a fantastic town anyway, so to be shown around in the cold dark night by our hilarious guide was a Monday night well spent. http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/guildford-ghost-tour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-2090674766178654583Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:00 +00002008-01-01T13:39:17.188ZfarnboroughbeerpubslifeWe left Ohio and flew to NYC for a couple of days and then touched down in old Blighty on the 30th December, just in time to prep the house for the arrival of Becky's sister and her husband. Being a little jet-lagged ourselves we spent the best part of 12 hours labouring to get the house ready before dumping ourselves in our new spa bath at 1:30am on New Years Eve to drink a well-earned glass ofhttp://www.foreverblueskies.com/2008/01/hny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7655715998885699005Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:46:00 +00002007-12-21T17:01:14.470ZtravellifeSo yeah, apologies for not visiting or keeping all you fellow friends, bloggers, countrymen updated but it's been kinda crazy... I'm not working my nads off with my usual full-time job and the newly acquired part-time consultancy gig. In addition we've escaped the pergatory that is "doing the bathroom" and it's now Christmas holidays (aka no work and no DIY) until the 30th December when we fly http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2007/12/ohio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066643.post-7756014051228725822Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:35:00 +00002007-11-29T14:35:58.556ZrandomHelp!http://www.foreverblueskies.com/2007/11/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lever)5