Not blogged in a while. Been doing alot of holiday action that doesn’t involve any form of computer action. Back to work today, Macca is on form with his banter today. We all know mushrooms are like a vegetarians meat…Macca claims to have found the fruit equivalent…genius.
Also any other stand alone fruit you can have in a sandwich?
I love lego…I mean really love Lego. Here are some intersting facts and figures on it. I still make the same spaceships and wee cars as I did 20 years ago…is that wrong?
Saturday seen me straight up and out the door after about 4 hours sleep to go climbing with fellow dog ross. We hat some midweek banter about going for a wee hike and decided the weather would be suitable on saturday. Grabbed a train and headed to tarbet and arrochar. The train stops at tarbet and there’s a 30 min walk to arrochar…don’t be fooled like we were. From arrochar you join the footpaths into Argyll forest, it was here we decided to climb The cobbler neither of us having done it before. A nice jaunt through the hills a fairly steady incline and at places actually quite busy…full of lots of friendly people swapping such banter as “aye aye”, “lovely day” and my personal favourite from people coming down as we went up “you’re nearly there” even though we quite clearly had another 2 hrs of uphill to struggle with.
The walk runs round the back of the cobbler and some clever fellow had built steps right to the top. This was tough going. Once we reached the summit (after about 2hrs 30 mins from when we arrived off the train) we failed to notice the clouds had crept in. Was cool, they rolled in just as we arrived. So we temporarily saw the view but it was quickly obscured and it all got a bit x-fileseee
At one point on the summit a huge wedge is cut out the top where you can look right down…it just turns your legs to jelly…even cooler though was the fact you couldn’t see the bottom it just faded off into nothing…creepy…like that bit out of lost boys when they all drop off the bridge (just keeping it real) 
the descent was easy once off the summit. Nearly skipping all the way to the pub. We made a decision not to get food in arrochar but to get back to Tarbet just so we could run and catch the train. This was a mistake…the banter all the way down was gammon steaks and chicken pies., only to discover the ben lomond pub had a private function on and couldn’t serve us food. Devistated…me just cried into our pints and went home. Arriving on a sataurday night in glasgow wearing shorts in the freezing cold isn’t how I imagined my saturday night would be. All in all a great day out. A busy one…but a good one
Macca invited me round for t on sunday. I got quite excited cause he’s always cooking good healthy stuff. Nope not today…The order was 2 tins of fray bentos meatballs (formally of campbells fame) mashed up with extra gravy granules with rice…Just filthy. And apparently his mum knows he eats it…no way.
Whilst out dancing with macca on friday night he spotted this guy. Macca insisted on a photo, as he had his old haircut from roughly 10 years ago…I don’t think we ever told him why we wanted the picture…but he seemed more than happy enough. I think macca even had a dance with him…Then they both went home early…I never questioned it at the time
Well Another good weekend of out outdoors photography type shenanigans. With macca this time going for a wee walk round the Glasgow necropolis…the place was dead…sorry. Poor taste. Some amazing photo opportunities. Although it did feel a bit strange just hanging around graveyards taking pictures…with your mates. Bee wanting to try this technique for a while now though. It’s called tilt shift. Basically it’s taking a normal picture with alot of depth, then removing the depth to one focal point to make it look like a tiny model. Genius. This was just a quick test…much better ones on Flickr…also some real bad ones too
Liv tyler was in it!…I never knew this…instant appeal. Much better than the first one. Went to cinema then got caught up in a “should we see ironman or hulk?” debate. Would have been an easy decision if i knew Liv tyler was in it. Good monsters…bit violent and gruesome in bits…big green thumbs up. Couple of silly hulk wrestling moves in it, but can’t fault it really…if only it wasn’t tarnished by it’s first attempt.
At work I sit next to ross…occassionally people confuse us when verbally addressing us. Not to miss out on an opportunity we decided to cash in…everytime someone in the office does it…20 pence goes into the piggy bank…Today however my boss made an even bigger blooper and called Ross another workmate that didn’t even start with ro…that sat on the other side of the office. So we decided that must be at least a £1. On closer inspection though…the said pound coin had heads on both sides? turns out this is a swazi lilangeni worth precisely 6.3p so this afternoon we’re off to see if any vending machines can be fooled
Went fishing Sunday…headed back up to Lochwinnoch as the weather looked pretty good. This time me and lee tried the other side of the loch up past the bird sanctuary. Once again we were plagued by midgies. Long story short lee caught a fish I didn’t. So in an attempt to steal his thunder here are some beasties I found when I was in my no fish huff.
Jeremy the Slug…not very exciting but some of them were massive and I thought it would be rude not to include Jeremy (we got quite attached)
Loretta the little green bug…dunno what type it is other than small and green. hoping that someone can be bothered looking into their latin names etc.
Pedro the Frog? Toad? bit of a jump in the hierachy here…I think everyone loves frogs…
Scott the little cool Lizard…He was cool. Just hiding under a rock…didn’t move particularly fast…or wee on me which was nice.
As you can see I’ve done no form of research whatsoever but it has been a very lazy sunday so I felt it was in keeping…also I watched lost boys…Classic
Another one to add to the collection…good today though got to watch karate kid III and dip in and out of conciousness…well as good as it could get
