We’re known for being quite random, odd and funny in our house. I think that’s why we get on so well. But on Sunday Laura exceeded our “strangeness” expectations by deciding that she would make some Paxo stuffing to have as a snack!?!
The other day I had the pleasure of helping my flat mate, Will, put together his flat pack shelf which had been in his room since September. I decided to document our progress because in simple terms, we’re a bit crap at flat-pack stuff. Actually, Will is bit crap with flat pack stuff. He can’t follow instructions properly, he can’t screw, but he does everything with such wonderful energy and charisma that you can’t help but feel he knows what he’s doing!
The box of goodies
So here we see the box of goodies, slightly dishevelled in our excitement, but fear not, we lost no parts!! Infact for some reason we had a few spare, so expect photo’s of a collapsed shelf in the near future!
So stage 1, build the frame.
Will attempts stage one
Will begins inserting the wooden knobs into the outer frame. Unfortunately, Will sticks together the wrong bits of wood in stage one, but Matt is too slow to catch his shameful schoolboy error.
Will messes up stage one
Following Will’s cock-up, we finally complete stage one, the frame. (Note the wooden spoon on the floor. A very useful alternative to a mallet)
Stage one complete
So with stage one complete we can now attach the back to the unit. This requires screwing and provides me and Will with the perfect opportunity to test out those tiny screwdrivers I won in a christmas cracker. In what could be considered as a scary coincidence, Will also produces a set of screw drivers that he won from a christmas cracker! It’s as if it were destiny! (I should point out that me and Will are not gay nor in any kind of dodgy relationship together, we just happen to have the same screwdrivers, though mine look slightly better!)
Quality Hardware
As you can see, they are an incredible present to receive along with the customary joke and paper hat. Unfortunately, Will has a lot of trouble screwing with his. He blames it on greasy palms and wraps a tea towel around his hands in an effort to reduce the slip-tion (new word!!) he is experiencing. I pity him, it doesn’t help and I end up screwing everything!
The completed back
Finally, after about an hour and 16 screws later (i think that averages to a screw every 4 minutes), we have the beautifully finished back panel! Once again the wooden spoon makes an appearance in the above photo.
Will's hairy arms attach the last piece
The last stage is for Will (and his hairy arms) to attach the roof to the unit which I think he did brilliantly and without any help from the wooden spoon! Now that it’s finished, all that was left was to put in the shelves and stock it with CD’s and DVD’s!!
Me pointing to the masterpiece of a shelving unit
And here we have the finished masterpiece! Beautiful flat-pack-craftmanship!!!
Well, I’ve just got back from London having completed another of my challenges with the aid of Amy (cheers chuck!!). I feel pretty pleased that I’ve actually done two of them now! It doesn’t feel like some pointless wishlist that I came up with in a moment of boredom, but it has become meaningful list of life-fulling challenges (yeah, whatever!).
Anyway, as I said, I need to prove I’ve done the challenge, so here is the proof! Me eating Sushi!!! (which is actually really really nice!!)
Here is the hallowed tray! £6.50′s worth of Sushi.
Me holding the hallowed tray
The blessed Amy who helped me complete my chllenge eating sushi whilst scratching her chin. (we also kinda broke the law later on, by smuggling me in to her Uni-trespassing, but her and her friend are gonna find a random law for me to break. They’re both studying law, so they know lots of random laws)
Here’s how to eat sushi with your eyes shut. A talent worth having.
Aphex Twin, that God of electronic music did something rather clever and yet possibly very disturbing in one of his songs! He created a song and hid his face in the song! My dear buddy Mul, when after me showing him a website with someone who had found the image, decided to have a look for it himself and here is his findings!!! The picture can be found at approx 5.27 in the B-sdie to Windowlicker (the equation track) .
Aphex Dace in Song
Rick also found a spiral at the end of Windowlicker! (using spectrum analyse for anyone that cares! Bloody genius!!
Look, I know we’ve all done it. Whether in a moment of pure boredom or simly as curiosity, we’ve all put our names into google to see what comes. I’ve done it several times (mainly to see if my website was at the top of google – it is now!) I also did it a while ago on my blog and discovered i was featured on several porn sites (see here). Anyway, I thought I’d try and find out whether there are any interesting Goldspinks in the world (apart from myself). I only know of a few relatives called Goldspink, we’re a pretty rare bunch, but some of us have been making a name for ourselves!!! Here’s a little look at the Goldspink’s that have gone somewhere in the world!
according to imdb.com but thats about it
I thought I’d reflect over the year to make sure I have actually done something.
When I was copying the photo’s from my camera of London, I realised I hadn’t posted any of the photo’s from ym trip to Paris with Kerrie in the summer!!! So here we are! Some fantastic Parisian Photo’s! I hope you enjoy them!
Yesterday I went down to London for the day to visit Amy (pictured below). I don’t really know what I was expecting, but definately NOT what we ended up doing! It was ace!!!
I set off bright and early from Manchester Piccadily at 9.15am and arrived at London Euston at 11.28am. I met up with Amy and then we headed off for Dim Sun at Ping Pong! Mmmm! We then rushed off to Westminister for a guided tour of Parliament from one of Amy’s friends! It was so cool! I never expected that we’d go to Parliament and go in all the random back rooms. We even had a cup of Earl Grey tea in the Portculis House or whatever its called!!!
After parliament, we went and had a quick game of bowling. I won (of course) 117 to 90! I won’t brag though, Amy did get a strike, which i couldn’t achieve 
After that we went on the London Eye and watched the sunset oevr the city (a very difficult thing to time, but I think we managed it ok!) Here’s a beautiful picture of the sunset with Big Ben on the left shadowed.
After our round trip during which we tried to do a stupid pose for the automatic photo thingy but were hidden behind the bars on the capsule so we just liked like a pair of idiots, we honked off to Oxford Street to see the turning on of the Christmas lights! What a celeb filled fandabbydozzie show that was; Toby Anstis, the ex-kids TV show presenter, Jamie Theakston, Louis Walsh (who got a right royal booing from the crowd), A few X-Factor guys (namely Chico, Nicholas, Brenda and Andy (i think)), and the biggest show-stoppers of them all Westlife!!! It was such a treat. However, I do have to admit, that the actual turning on of the lights was much better in Manchester last year with Shrek and Shazney Lewis because there was fireworks and stuff. London just had falling snow and the lights came on really slowly, like on row at a time!! Hardly riveting! I suppose thats why they need big names to draw in the crowds!!! Anyway here’s a few pics of Westlife and the lights coming on.
After that, we met up with Richard who I lived with in the summer and went for another chinese banquet in china town. Mm-mmm! I finally departed from London at 10.05pm and arrived back in Manchester Picadilly at 01.28am! I was pooped!! But I had such a fantastic day! I never expected to fit that much in! So a huge thank you to Amy for organising it all! I shall leave you all with a picture of me in ladies spectacles (hmm… sexy and sophisticated!)
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