Yessshh, Amshhhderdammsshh...

It's here, DamDay, possibly the most exciting day of the year except LotteryWinning Day and I'm sadly yet to see one of those. Everyone is running around in anticipation of the weekends events, Gnomes and I were dancing in our underwear immediately after getting out of bed this morning, a practice I'd recommend for a fun start to the day, though you may wish to keep the curtains closed...enjoy.

As Expected..

As of 3.45pm, The Badger also appeared. Oh well, it is the holidays.

Oh Yes....

In spite of last nights advice from The Love Of My Life The Badger's Aunt has just arrived. I'm hoping The Badger himself has the decency to not appear until at least tomorrow's festivities commence.

Time & Time Again...

Hey, I managed to change the time zone, thus making much of my first and second posts completely nonsensical....ho hum:)

Amsterdam Here We Come

So, here I am, the day before our 4th annual Amsterdam extravaganza! I can truly say I love the city. If you never do anything more decadent with your entire life, at the very least visit her once, walk the red light district and get stoned in a coffee shop.
Amsterdam I have just realized has acquired a certain status in my life, it's actually one of those places that I can genuinely say I have lost count of the number of times I've visited. I can still remember the first time as a 'Dam Virgin', it was the most incredible city I'd ever seen, this bizarre juxtaposition of the seedy alongside the humdrum.
This year we have broken all records, there will be sixteen of us staying in one apartment block right on Damm Square, and, in spite of an earlier disaster when our venue was closed down and the owner arrested just a few weeks ago (so very Amsterdam) we have had an excellent bit of luck, and our group will now be hosting the dance party at the infamous Hells Angels bar, the location of the best Dance party in recent years! This is the big one, favourite party of the year, I feel like a kid before xmas day! My posts may be somewhat limited over the next few days!

Time Gentlemen Please...

Where in the hell is this thing based?? My first comment written by me at the un-Godly hour of 1.10am in the UK, and according to the blog clock, it was posted at 4.55pm?? It's now 1.13am by the way... confused.

Time has always done that to me. I'm nearly forty now, and still my enduring fantasy from childhood days is to be able to travel in time. The reasons for being able to do so have of course changed with different stages of my life, (tending more towards aiding sexual conquest in the teenage years, allowing me to perform amazing feats of grand theft or other dubious means of financial gain as a young man, and finally being able to actually go and meet all those names on the family tree that it's taken me so long to put together, as I reach this age).
Still, the excitement burns in me when the idea of time-travel pops up. You can actually take any old piece of middling tv drama, bung in a 'time-travel' episode and I'd get into it. Start mulling over all the usual rubbish in my head....paradox's, alternate realities...blah blah. I stumbled across a tv show recently on cable, "Timecop" the series, a spin off from the movie. Classic example, possibly one of the most ill-conceived, badly written, appallingly acted pieces of junk to roll off US tv's production line, yet still I was compelled to watch it!......... Ok, like I said, it was just a passing thought....

Hello, Good Evening, And Welcome....

Where does one start?

I guess it was only a matter of time before a man who has a reputation for talking too much got into blogging, so, this is the result.
My main concern when heading down the blogging road was my past experience of attempts to keep a diary. I would set out with the best of intentions, and within a few weeks.......


you get the picture.
Then it dawned on me that there was something different here. This isn't an attempt to gather my thoughts, some sort of record for me to look over down the line, this is a opportunity to just express (sometimes ever so transient) feelings about a particular issue or issues, just as the mood takes me. My blog doesn't care if the Badger is biting hard that day, or if Badger's Aunt had come to visit, (though doubtless there will be occasions when she has and my blog entries will be bizarre in the extreme). My blog doesn't care if what I have to say actually makes any sense, it wont laugh at me if my opinions are totally groundless and based on spurious evidence. It's like having a 'crack-on' audience there for me, on call, 24-7, to talk complete bollocks to as I see fit.
So, with absolutely no fanfare, ceremony or introduction, this is it, my first ever blog!