30 Days Of Me - Day 30 - Your favorite song.

Life of Brian ‘Always look on the bright side’. I want this played as I leave this place in a box.

Friday Fun - Google Street View

The Twilight Zone exists in Liverpool...

Google Street View

Take a step in any direction and watch the newsagents turn into a disused public toilet, before your very eyes....... 

spooooky!

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30 Days Of Me - Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned

Don't do this type of thing again. (I don't have much time free and this has taken a lot of it.)
Looking in at your self can be very hard, but worthwhile.
I can actually write a little something every day, even if it is rubbish.
I've learned a lot about the friends around me.
I've learned that family and friends make the world go 'round.

Some of the best presents are not objects, but actions that people take.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 28 - A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?

Finding pictures of me is difficult. So here are two different vidoes

This was me running Toby at Breach Lane on 8th Nov 2009. As you can see he loves trashing a course.

And this is me training with Toby on 9th Aug 2010. The aim was for me to stay in the box and push him out and over the jumps with out knocking them down.

What has changed. Two main things.

• Both Toby and I have improved.
• I have found some people who I thought I would never find. They are all very special, but so far away.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 27 - Why are you doing this 30 day challenge

It seemed like a bloody good idea at the time!

I am a bit sick of it now, and I've only kept doing it because I started it, and hate leaving things unfinished.

Sure you have read a lot of the other posts talking about how it was a idea that started wherever it started and then when I heard about it, it was spreading quite quickly around Twitter etc etc.

There were quite a few topics that I was interested in writing about – a nice mix of looking in at yourself and fun. It has given me a chance to post some video and photographs and images.

So I basically thought that this Bloggers Challenge could give me some motivation, and also put a bit of content into my new blog.

And it worked, I made some lists and got some things done, started to think of what I can put on here on a regular basis.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 26 - What you think about your friends

Well they are friends. I don't really understand what is being asked.

Your true friends always come through for you. Whether for a nice comment or a helpful gesture, whether its something really small or a huge big favour.

Real Friends are difficult for me. I don’t think that I let any one get to close. When I was about 14 my best mate killed his mum (an accident) and then committed suicide.

After that I have never really let any one else to get close, to soon.

So any one who I can call my friend "Thank you"

I have had many friends who have drifted away. When I see them again after a few weeks, months, or even years we can pick up a conversation straight away.

A few of my friends are no longer with us. Seeing them off I feel that the world has changed a little bit, and a bit we cannot get back.

I know that there are more people out there who will become my friend. So to you I say "Hi".

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Monday Munchies - Chicken and Pineapple salad

Ingredients

• One cooked chicken
• 2 pineapples
• small bunch of seedless grapes
• four sticks of celery

Sauce

• 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon apricot jam
• 1 tablespoon peanut butter
• 1 dessertspoon curry powder

Optional

• chives
• peanuts

Preparation

1. Mix all above ingredients, adjust curry powder and peanut butter amounts to suit own taste.
2. Cut chicken into bite size pieces
3. Cut pineapples in half length ways, scoop out fruit and cut into bite size pieces, leaving shell of pineapple to be bowl for finished meal.
4. Slice celery sticks
5. Combine chicken, pineapple, grapes and celery, add sauce and mix well.
6. Place above into pineapple shells to serve
7. Optional garnish with chopped chives and peanuts

30 Days Of Me - Day 25 - What I would find in your bag

I don't have a 'bag' but I do have a rucksack so that will have to do. Like most other things I have it is sparse in it's contents, as I always try to combine things.

A few years ago I always use to carry on me.

Mobile phone

Camera

PDA (Palm first then went to a Psion)

Walkman (or some type or some other music player)

Tape recorder (my note book)

but now that is just down to a iPhone.

Back to my rucksack (it is very geeky). Just now it is a bit full. I don't usually carry more that one laptop. Three will fit in my bag, and do at times.

Compaq Laptop with Widows Server 2008 R2. It also runs Server 2003, Windows 7 and Windows XP

MAC Book (Snow Leopard,at the moment, seeing if I can get Lion)

iPhone (Sometimes in the bag sometimes in my pocket or on desk)

Sony Ericsson P900 (Spare phone)
A number of pen drives from 1Gb to 16Gb.

Torch 

Various Key rings. Work, home, the vehicle I am driving.

Wallet. no money in here.

Credit Card Holder

Purse; some change, a few notes and another pen drive.
SD micro card converter.
Very small cross head screwdriver (I wondered where that was)
External HD 350 Gb
A few blank DVD's and a blank CD.
Space pen.
FM transmitter for the iPhone
BlueTooth head set. It is a pain my iPhone can not get it's act sorted where it wants to put it's output.

Different power and connecting leads for the above

and

Some small bits of fluff.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 24 - A letter to your parents

Oh this is difficult. I said on day one that I was adopted. So here is a definition of the word.

par·ent
–noun

1. a source, origin, or cause.
2. a protector or guardian.

So I think that I have two sets of parents as they both fall into the definition. One set is my source or origin (mother & father) and the others was my protector or guardian (mum & dad) when I was growing up.

Actually I don't think that you really grow up until you loose your parents, they should be some people who you can always talk to and feel 'warm & cosy' when they are about. But just like your own children they can be annoying.

To my Mother & Father. (Who are the people who are my blood parents)

Thank you.
You let me arrive into this world.
It is you that I am made from.
You are the foundation that made me.
I understand why you had to give me up. It must have been so hard.
I am just so glad that I have been able to contact you at long last. It was a part of me that I always felt was missing.

To my Mum & Dad. (Who are the people who brought me up from only a few months old.)

Thank you.
You chose me, and after me you still chose to adopt two others. This made us a family.
You looked after me.
You have always tried to help me whenever you can.
It is you who helped me become what I am.
You have always supported me, even when I have not done what you think is the ‘right thing’
We have had our disagreements, but all children do with there parents.

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