Kieran the stuntman!

I'm on holiday!!! School has finished for Christmas so I'm off work till the 3rd January.

Had another driving lesson today. Drove round town, (same route as before) and did another three-point turn - I am getting better.... Honest. Had a go at reversing round a corner (which I did really well), and then had a ride along the Evesham bypass and through town.

Kieran had a little accident and we thought we were going to have to take him to casualty. He was playing, but got a little carried away running in the living room, tripped over and whacked his head on the edge of my surround sound sub and amplifer which is next to the television (in true stuntman style). He had a pretty big lump come up on his forehead, and took a big lump of skin out which bled quite a bit, but after a few seconds crying he was fine and went back to playing.

I took a photo, but the lump had practically gone down by the time I had taken it. He's just got a scab now (which he insists on scratching!!)

























I think it looked worse than it actually was.

And since I've been posting quite a few photos of Kieran on my Blog lately, I thought I'd include the following one - Action pose Kieran (perhaps he is trying to imitate Sportacus on the TV?)
























Anyway, only 4 days till Chrimbo, and am I looking forward to it? Not really. Actually, besides watching Kieran opening his presents in the morning, I'm just looking forward to the xmas Doctor Who special on BB1 (sad aren't I).

Bah Humbug!

England 0 - Poland 1

I've come to the conclusion that 'alot' of people in this country are arrogant, selfish, and damn-right unpleasant.















Kieran was playing happily down the park by the river yesterday and got friendly with a very kind Polish boy who was also playing in the park. The polish boy's Mum stood by (hardly spoke any English, but hey!) and let the two boys play. Now, another family (British) came along with their son. WHAT A F**KING STUCK UP, SPOILT LITTLE BRAT. He wouldn't let Kieran on the slide, and kept pushing him out of the way, and pulling stupid faces at Kieran. His name was Sebastien and what was so annoying was that his stuck up parents were just standing, watching him.

Again, I took Kieran to the same park today, and Kieran was happily playing on the slide and climbing frame until some old geezer decided to bring his awful two grandsons into the park, and once again one of them began to push Kieran, blocking his way so that he couldn't get onto the climbing frame, and all the old man seemed to be interested in was smoking his fag.

DO PEOPLE NOT TEACH THEIR CHILDREN MANNERS OR HOW TO SHARE??

Kieran has always been a kind, gentle boy who loves to share his toys with other people (especially when he goes to Playgroup). When he goes to the park, he always lets the other kids go on the slide before him. I'd like to think that its because Michelle and I have taught him the simple things like how to share etc.

Kieran.... oneday when you are old enough to read this, I want you to know how bloody proud I am of you.

Oh.... and my opinion of the Polish has changed. Evesham might be full of them, but they have more decency and respect than a lot of the British citizens who live around here.

Are you ready for your closeup..... OUCH!

We had a professional photo of Kieran done at his Playgroup two weeks ago (his first one!), and today we finally received the photo!

Here it is!!!!!

Look at him smiling.... shame he won't be tomorrow as he is having his Pneumococcal meningitis jab at the health centre!!...

... Poor sod.

Gone with the wind...

Were you woken up last night by that ferocious wind and rain?? We were well and truely batten here in Evesham (as was much of the UK by the sounds of it!!)

Retro-spec

My retro gaming sessions usually consisted of me running an assortment of emulators on my PC, and playing them on my television via a very long S-Video cable from my graphics card to the TV.... From one side of the living room to the other... Not ideal, especially when you have a young child rampaging through the living room..... TRIP!!

Readers of my blog will know that I recently purchased one of those Linux based GP2x portable game/entertauinment consoles, and one of the many good things about it is that it has a TV-out port for hooking up to an ordinary television (something you can't do with PSP's and Nintendo DS's!!). Anyway, I purchased a TV-Out cable for my GP2x yesterday from www.gbax.com and amazingly it arrived this morning in the post - I would highly recommened this company if you wish you purchase any GP2x related products.

Anyway, as you can see from the pictures I can now play all of my favourite retro games via my GP2x on the television as if it were a normal games console or old computer. The top picture shows me playing one of my favourite games of all time - Flashback (using the excellent DrMD Sega Megadrive emulator) , and the picture below is of course the startup screen on a Commodore 64 (using the VICE emulator).

Now, I've got emulators ranging from the Philips G7000, Atari ST, Atari 800XL, Commodore Amiga, Plus 4 & C64, Acorn Electron, Archimedes, Sega Megadrive, Spectrum and many many more - all stored on a 2Gb SD card on my very portable GP2x. Imagine having all those machines, and the thousands of games available on them on the go... in just one small machine!!!!

Oh.... I've also been playing Day of the Tentacle and the first two Monkey Island games on it as well using the Scumm interpretor. Happy days are here again!!

If like me you like retro gaming..... GET ONE!!!!

No talking, and no mobile phones...

I was asked to go and setup the sound system in the large Sports Hall at work yesterday for the mock exams, and as I walked in, this is the view that I had...

What is the point of this post? Well, it just made me think back to when I did my exams - 13 years ago! It certainly doesn't feel that long ago since I was sitting my very last exam (a CDT exam on Friday 25th June 1993)

How things have changed since then...