Anybody else watch Test Pilot Eric Brown's life story in flight, this evening on BBC2..? Recommended. On iPlayer so there's no excuse to say, oh damn, I missed it. Incidentally, I can't help it, the recollection still makes me grin. One of my relatives bought a Samsung Smart TV a couple of months back. A schedule breaking TV if ever there was one. Watch any programme [if it's on the various players - nearly every programme is] at any time you like. What does he do, but sits down at the TV at the same old evening time, and if he he misses a programme he still says, bugger I missed it. I can't help but smile as he clings onto tradition. I usually accompany the smile with, no you haven't.
Since I brought the subject up, it is chedder cheese or simple cheese. I take it that people do know the difference..? Modern cheddar cheese and all of its variations which involve the cheddar process and/or an aging process, can be much harder to digest than simple cheese. Simple cheese that anyone could make at home can be as young as a day or two old.
Just got a text from a mate in Nottingham, telling me that someone who has just started uni has fallen off of a nightclub balcony, onto a set of steps and has been lying motionless in a pool of blood for about 30-40 minutes. Club evacuated, music off, emergency services in and police starting to tape the area off. Horrific. I feel bad for the poor parents who are probably still blissfully unaware right now.
Just woke up and the pinched nerve in my back is at last starting to behave itself. That's a whole two weeks. I guess the trip to the Osteopath worked from Monday. Anyway, I awoke full of the joys, for some reason and then I saw the above. Jesus, that is crap. Yep, it's horrific, and indeed those parents might still be unaware at 3.15am, but their lives are going to change in the morning. Cripes, it makes me feel sick just thinking about it. I'm going back to bed and listen to some Sherlock Holmes or something to drive it out of my head. Night.
Unfortunately it happens. There's getting pissed and then there's drinking so much you can't stand up. Too many students drink far far too much - I did it once but I was in my house when I did it so all that happened was I woke up in bed the following morning, not knowing how I got there and remembering nothing of the previous night. When I went out I always knew my limit.
I had that horrible phone call in the night once, my son hadn't fallen far but had a fractured skull. Could have been life changing, but luckily all he was left with is tinnitus and loss of most of his sense of smell. His sense of taste luckily returned, though he prefers strong flavours. Hope the young man concerned is as lucky.
I've had the knock on the door from police at 3am. It's not good. You know the one person who isn't in the house with you (but should be), you're never going to see alive again. I remember my mum screaming, and the pointless thing the cops have to say to try and console you.
I was at a nightclub while at uni and there was a stabbing in the room next to the one I was in. The victim died at the scene and I didn't dare tell my parents about it.
What on earth is a "shalln't" when it's at home? Anyway, stop being so self indulgent. Nobody asked you not to, you're doing the unattractive "don't look at me/please look at me" thing. Did you speak to her or not?
I was doing some work in a hotel lobby recently when all hell broke loose...turns out some guy decided to exit the building via the 17th floor balcony. Felt sorry for everyone involved especially the emergency response people who have to deal with it up close.
