Month: October 2013

Someone, and that’s all I am currently saying on the subject publicly.

 

My new car (Nissan Qashqai +2) is due next week. It’s in a dark purple colour, a favourite colour of mine I share with all the best people. It’s not affordable and I am horribly in debt but, for once, what the fuck!

 

Pleased to say that an extra special has been made this week and, on the whole, the house is tidy and clean and a pleasure to be in albeit a little too busy at times and sometimes at the wrong times but, no matter.

 

Awesome to hear some great mixes going on in the lounge and I don’t just mean the music either. No way am I going to say that ‘it is different this time’ because it is always different until it become the same we expect and have gotten used to. I would just like to hold out a hope that this different becomes the new normal. It would be by far the best outcome for all concerned. Apologies for the cryptic nature of this paragraph.

 

Got a new batch of coffee today for the Nespresso machine. So far, each has been excellent, do ask for a coffee when you visit.

 

Finally we have the breakfast bar up in the back room. It doesn’t work particularly well as a breakfast bar but affords us a lot of extra space, practical space both in there and the kitchen, it looks good too. As a bonus, I have not stubbed my toe on the damn thing because it doesn’t sit on the floor in the hallway any more.

 

I have learnt so much in the past couple of months I never knew I didn’t know and it’s great to know just a few new things about the world. I look forward all the more now to exploring it.

 

Are we going to win the battle trying to stop Mollie from sleeping where she now likes to sleep? I suspect not. She is a cat, they always win.

 

It is Danny’s 2nd birthday next Tuesday, I am still undecided what I am doing as yet, we shall see. On Halloween it is Tyler Leeding’s birthday and I have regret we are not friends any longer but wish him a very happy birthday anyway.

 

Pub Night at the Hopping Hare, Northampton on 9th November, would love to see as many people as possible

Someone, and that’s all I am currently saying on the subject publicly.

 

My new car (Nissan Qashqai +2) is due next week. It’s in a dark purple colour, a favourite colour of mine I share with all the best people. It’s not affordable and I am horribly in debt but, for once, what the fuck!

 

Pleased to say that an extra special has been made this week and, on the whole, the house is tidy and clean and a pleasure to be in albeit a little too busy at times and sometimes at the wrong times but, no matter.

 

Awesome to hear some great mixes going on in the lounge and I don’t just mean the music either. No way am I going to say that ‘it is different this time’ because it is always different until it become the same we expect and have gotten used to. I would just like to hold out a hope that this different becomes the new normal. It would be by far the best outcome for all concerned. Apologies for the cryptic nature of this paragraph.

 

Got a new batch of coffee today for the Nespresso machine. So far, each has been excellent, do ask for a coffee when you visit.

 

Finally we have the breakfast bar up in the back room. It doesn’t work particularly well as a breakfast bar but affords us a lot of extra space, practical space both in there and the kitchen, it looks good too. As a bonus, I have not stubbed my toe on the damn thing because it doesn’t sit on the floor in the hallway any more.

 

I have learnt so much in the past couple of months I never knew I didn’t know and it’s great to know just a few new things about the world. I look forward all the more now to exploring it.

 

Are we going to win the battle trying to stop Mollie from sleeping where she now likes to sleep? I suspect not. She is a cat, they always win.

 

It is Danny’s 2nd birthday next Tuesday, I am still undecided what I am doing as yet, we shall see. On Halloween it is Tyler Leeding’s birthday and I have regret we are not friends any longer but wish him a very happy birthday anyway.

 

Pub Night at the Hopping Hare, Northampton on 9th November, would love to see as many people as possible

Yes, sorry about that!

 

For reasons I am not going into here, I have not written a blog entry for quite some time. Suffice to say, I have had other things on my mind and, all GOOD things

 

Since my last blog entry I had a lovely stay with Ian & Richard in Twickenham. It’s always good to spend time with them, have intelligent adult conversation. I don’t get that much time to speak to people anywhere near my own life experiences and interests so it makes a pleasant change.

I agreed to do an interview on Gay Parenting for BBC Northampton on 27/8 which I am pleased to say went well, quite enjoyed that. The first time I did one of those things and didn’t even listen to it, how strange!

During September I drove down to Kent to collect Javis and popped into see my friend Don on the way back. Don lives in Brighton so, not exactly a direct route home but well worth the detour. On the way there my car started flashing a picture of a spanner at me. I didn’t pay a lot of attention as it didn’t seem to be misbehaving at all and, if these things are vital, I would have thought a red STOP would be more appropriate. So, I drove on.

 

Handed the car over to Robin on the Sunday and borrowed his for a visit to Wales

Whilst we were in Wales Robin contacted me to say the car had sort of died. Nothing surprises me with that car. I was really annoyed to find out that the RAC had insisted on sending the car to the very dealership I went to a lot of trouble to avoid this last year. Indeed, I despise them now and know them to be a bunch of liars who couldn’t do an honest days work if they tried.

Needless to say, they have been true to form. They should have contacted me no later than the Friday of that week but, by the Wednesday of the following week (1 week after they got the car) I’d still heard nothing. I called them and got the normal bull shit stories which were inconsistent and clearly made up on the spot to fob me off.

I spoke to Motability on the Thursday, they called the dealers and, got the same sort of treatment as I got, they were no happier about it than I was. Indeed, they have escalated the matter. The dealers now have until Tuesday to have either fixed the car or come up with a damn good reason why not and an expected completion date.Motability have voiced that they may terminate the contract early if a satisfactory outcome is not achieved on Tuesday.

Right now I am driving around in a Ford Focus courtesy car. It’s a fairly basic model and a little confusing. It’s a semi-automatic and has manual override on the gear selector. It also has bluetooth and Dab radio but, it doesn’t have cruise control. It has a panel behind the rear view mirror usually used to house the sensors for rain and light and yet, it doesn’t have either of those go on automatically. Why add DAB radio (which is pants in this car BTW) and not auto lights? Wouldn’t making sure the lights were on be more vital than offering an alternate radio source? Why have the manual selector for the gears and yet, no cruise? Typical Ford I suppose.

Whatever, I shall be glad to see the back of the Ford, it’s uncomfortable and horrible to drive.

Of course, the possibility of an early termination has placed me in a tricky situation … how do I suddenly replace the Seat if they ask me to? Hopefully they will give me some cash back. I have looked at a few cars with Sean and narrowed it down a little so, I do have some idea.

 

Oh, nearly forgot, since my last blog my divorce came through so I am now single, as in, not civil partnered. It would also be very accurate to say, I am totally not looking any more for the next husband, I don’t think I need to.

Yes, sorry about that!

 

For reasons I am not going into here, I have not written a blog entry for quite some time. Suffice to say, I have had other things on my mind and, all GOOD things

 

Since my last blog entry I had a lovely stay with Ian & Richard in Twickenham. It’s always good to spend time with them, have intelligent adult conversation. I don’t get that much time to speak to people anywhere near my own life experiences and interests so it makes a pleasant change.

I agreed to do an interview on Gay Parenting for BBC Northampton on 27/8 which I am pleased to say went well, quite enjoyed that. The first time I did one of those things and didn’t even listen to it, how strange!

During September I drove down to Kent to collect Javis and popped into see my friend Don on the way back. Don lives in Brighton so, not exactly a direct route home but well worth the detour. On the way there my car started flashing a picture of a spanner at me. I didn’t pay a lot of attention as it didn’t seem to be misbehaving at all and, if these things are vital, I would have thought a red STOP would be more appropriate. So, I drove on.

 

Handed the car over to Robin on the Sunday and borrowed his for a visit to Wales

Whilst we were in Wales Robin contacted me to say the car had sort of died. Nothing surprises me with that car. I was really annoyed to find out that the RAC had insisted on sending the car to the very dealership I went to a lot of trouble to avoid this last year. Indeed, I despise them now and know them to be a bunch of liars who couldn’t do an honest days work if they tried.

Needless to say, they have been true to form. They should have contacted me no later than the Friday of that week but, by the Wednesday of the following week (1 week after they got the car) I’d still heard nothing. I called them and got the normal bull shit stories which were inconsistent and clearly made up on the spot to fob me off.

I spoke to Motability on the Thursday, they called the dealers and, got the same sort of treatment as I got, they were no happier about it than I was. Indeed, they have escalated the matter. The dealers now have until Tuesday to have either fixed the car or come up with a damn good reason why not and an expected completion date.Motability have voiced that they may terminate the contract early if a satisfactory outcome is not achieved on Tuesday.

Right now I am driving around in a Ford Focus courtesy car. It’s a fairly basic model and a little confusing. It’s a semi-automatic and has manual override on the gear selector. It also has bluetooth and Dab radio but, it doesn’t have cruise control. It has a panel behind the rear view mirror usually used to house the sensors for rain and light and yet, it doesn’t have either of those go on automatically. Why add DAB radio (which is pants in this car BTW) and not auto lights? Wouldn’t making sure the lights were on be more vital than offering an alternate radio source? Why have the manual selector for the gears and yet, no cruise? Typical Ford I suppose.

Whatever, I shall be glad to see the back of the Ford, it’s uncomfortable and horrible to drive.

Of course, the possibility of an early termination has placed me in a tricky situation … how do I suddenly replace the Seat if they ask me to? Hopefully they will give me some cash back. I have looked at a few cars with Sean and narrowed it down a little so, I do have some idea.

 

Oh, nearly forgot, since my last blog my divorce came through so I am now single, as in, not civil partnered. It would also be very accurate to say, I am totally not looking any more for the next husband, I don’t think I need to.