HUGE UPDATE

It has come to our attention that nobody actually reads these - so, goodbye cruel world, we are saying good bye... but not without our very last blog post;



12th of the month of January (or as the news has labelled it, The Big Freeze).

Whilst we acknowledge its cold, we found no need for the obsessive news coverage so we wrote to the BBC themselves! Here is what we wrote:

Although we did think all they actually did was acknowledge what we were saying in larger words.


As a licence payer I find that the excess News coverage regarding the snow/stories surrounding it, is becoming tiresome and frankly boring.

Whilst I recognise the significance in weather warnings, I hope you respect that constant coverage regarding 'how bad' it is and 'cheap' news stories relating to it only dilutes the impact of the warning.

Surely as human beings we can see how bad it is and gauge an understanding of whether it is safe.

Please take into consideration that for some habitats and forest areas it is actually a benefiting factor, so I do not agree with the sweeping generalisation that it is all 'bad' with phrases like "we don't really have any good news" "dreadfully" "so obviously our problems do not change" "The only thing that might save us". These, I feel are massive over exaggerations for what is essentially... Winter conditions.

These particular phrases were aired on North West Tonight on the 7th.

Well, well well, they responded to that so they did! Here is what they said:

Dear Mr Jones

Thanks for your e-mail.

I understand you're unhappy with our news coverage of recent bad weather, as you feel it's been excessive. I also note you feel newsreaders tend to use sensationalist terms which can be misleading to viewers - a recent example of this being 'North West Tonight'.

I'm sorry you're unhappy with quality of our news output and I can assure you our presenters don't intentionally use sensationalist language, however I realise you felt otherwise in this instance.

As I'm sure you're aware, recent heavy snowfall has affected a huge number of people throughout the country, and as a public service we had an obligation to report on this issue.

I do appreciate your feedback regarding this element of our recent news coverage, and to this end I'd like to assure you that I've registered your comments on our audience log. This is a daily internal report of audience feedback which we circulate to all news teams, editorial staff and presentation teams within the BBC, including our team on 'North West Tonight', ensuring that your points and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across all departments.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

Regards

Jill Petticrew
BBC Complaints


The fact they even responsed was pretty good! So we're happy about that. Thanks BBC.


Some other stuff has occured over this month, but thats Dan Jones' job, and he has just announced he is handing us his P60 along with his gloves. (About 1 hour before we cut our keyboard cables and call it a day.)

OK, so I guess this is it.

CHEERS!
LOVE!
NaNight!

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Your wildest dreams might just come true.

Timing...Clock...WoW!

OMGWOW!AMAZING.

I have just noticed, that we wrote the last blog post almost completly 24hours after we wrote the one before that! Only 1 minute out! 1:21am and 1:22am!

I find this amusing.

Dan to the rescue!

You'll pleased to know Dan has started writing in his book now. What book? Well I'm not sure, but he has this book, that he has been wanting to write in for some time (since he got back from his London trip) and well, now he is writing in it. Its a crazy mixed up world but someone has to document it. Dan to the rescue!

Time is due but only for you
when you hear the siran
dont start cryin'
we are in this mess together
now untill forever.

Thats an extract from Dans new book from London. Wow, what a tripadation I had before he read that out, it really moved me... Not! (Waynes World - Party Time, Excellent)

LOVE!

Some girly poem

To be read with the song: Fur Elise - Classical Gas (start speaking at 22seconds in)

By Dan Jones and Stephen Melling.

Tiredness kicks in.

I breathe the energy from deep within
it appears lifeless and often dim

constrained I am within myself
lost upon a dirty shelf

This world is big and dark and i'm lost at heart
nothing, it seems will stop or start

but laugh or cry you'll know the truth
when I tell it, without the noose

your secret stays with me
as it hangs silently from the tree
I am the life of you or me
living my own real fantacy

give up or die, time will tell
I shed no tears now nor then
I will continue, like many men
forgiving, seeking, wondering when?


LOVE

A snowball slurry, a wintery treat and a reet good slide.

As I type this message, the snow outside is well and truly magical. Thick as owt and white as a sheet. This is perfect for the morale and the confidence.

We are all happy. Talking of happy, Me and Ste were happy last night. We had beer and snow.

Sake bombs + Jagerbombs ÷ Beer @ FAB = Smile.

One of the happiest things of last night was using the outside to our advantage and creating a game. A 'how high can the snowball go' game.. I won, although we had special guests joining us aswell and it was cool. If I can remember correctly.. Yes, yes it's coming to me.. Yes.. that's it! It was the library in Manchester we aimed at.

Then something amazing happened..

We had the idea of snowballing the Brannigans bouncers.. Ambitious and fraught with danger - but doable..

Along came another man with the same ideas (his girlfriend didn't) .. 3 of us, 6 snowballs.. 3 bouncers.. we bombarded them and buggered off to.. surprisingly.. a multi story car park (right to the top.. great views).. We ran home after this, but as we got back.. The security guards here fancied themselves in a 4 person war..

Me + Ste vs 2 Security .. I think they won, due to Ste being hit twice from some cracking attacking play. We wished them all the best and tootled on back home..

We watched Inglorious Basterds and ate crisps.

I wish the effort I put into this was reflected in my life.

Hello once again fellow readers - It's the New Year and ten years after the Millennium ( I think we did a blog post for that, have a look to the right >> )

Happy New Year!

Well, I haven't spoke to you this year so I'm quite excited, in fact I AM excited.

Lets start it with a little story about London? OK!

I went to London for New Years and (to be honest) it was utterly fabulous. We had a hotel right in Trafalgar Square, more central than the middle of a pin. I'll now tell you who I went with and give you a character lowdown, yo!

Phill - He's a cool cat, likes to drive and listen to music. Also likes rolling with it and flowing smooooth.

Bob - Another cat, quieter than Phil, but loud in all the right places. Fabulously easy going and cluuueeeeed up!

Julia - Poetical and loud, but in a quiet way. Just wise really. Just a wise cat.

Rachel - Very listenable. It's worth listening when Rachel says something I think - like the roundabout of knowledge.

I hope this clears the characters up - it's the best I could do! ( It's actually taken me ages, so you cannot disagree about the detail, because it's right )

These gorgeous people aided the New Years blues (which turned out to not exist) .. And it was fun, man.

Then it was 2010 and it felt sweet.

Fast forward to January the 2nd if you will, I watched AVATAR with Sammy lad and Little Dean and well.. The best film I have ever had the pleasure of showing my eyes. Just actually astonishing.

Zoom with me, if you like, to that evening..

Tee Pee Powell, Dr Dean King, Little Dean, AntoeKnee and Sammy lad = Pub and town!

What a night I had. Oh, how I enjoyed myself. Beginning, middle and end was great, just happiness everywhere. I'm still beaming, you know.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say; I love Thomas Powell.

This is where the transmission will end. But, I have a feeling it won't be the last.

Look at these pictures, they were captured with a camera that I was holding!

All That Lingo

Heyho boys and girls (I feel like a school teacher with the new jumper I bought yesterday, it has rockets on it!)

I had a wonnnnnerful new year celebration, a bottle of rum, bit of whiskey, champagne and a shot of absinthe! Its safe to say I was fairly merry after that.

"When shall we drink the champagne?"
"I don’t know, maybe like half an hour before new year?"
"It's 10 to 12 now!"

The best advert in the world seemed to keep appearing on the tele too, I dont have a clue what it was selling, but it finished with the epic one liner... "Because we can be bothered".
hahahahahahahahahhohohohahahahahahhahhohohohohahahahhahahahahahahahhohoihoah, ah...ha, ahhh ha. ha, ha. ooooaaawwwooohh, ha, haha, ha. hah.

Thats pretty much a laugh turning into a chuckle! Whoever came up with that is a genius. No, hang on I don’t mean genius do I, that’s the wrong word, erm, oh yeah, Idiot. What a total idiot. "Because we can be bothered". ha!


Well anyway, I spent new years with Hayley and it was wonderful! Jules Holland show (we caught the end of it) was pretty amazing as well.
Lots must have happened because we stayed up till around 4am. I just can’t quite think what, hmmm, dancing; I know there were lots of outlandish dancing and singing and all that lingo. Lots of laughs anyway, so many I forgot to do the usual text everyone the same message and then wait half an hour for it to get through. Yeah, I forgot to do that. Oh well, a lucky few got late ones.

I'm hungry now, tea time. And I'm going to cook it myself, why? "Because I can be bothered".


Love

Should Old Aquaintance be forgot... ?

Well folks... Another Year has passed!

I take it upon myself to say: "Bloody hell son!"

Seriously though, the years just fly by. But what a year it has been...

You may choose to disagree of course, but I always say:

"Although sometimes things were bad, you always look back fondly on what has transpired"

... Mmm, I don't always say that but I think it's quite true. Although, obviously there are such things as bad years.

Now, I don't want to turn this post into sloppy nonsense but I wish to say a few things and I hope I can adequately portray what I'm feeling:

Every Year is a trial. Every Year has it's ups and downs and every Year has the potential to be the worst or best of your life. For me, every Year is a gift. It's quite possible that most of your year will be filled with utter tosh. By that I mean that the same old things happen and nothing really stands out. However, even if nothing of note occurred, well I always get that nostalgic feel when the countdown starts on the 31st December.

10,

Images flash in front of my eyes...

9,

The start of the year, the first few winter months.

8,

The beginning of spring. Warmth gently gliding in...

7,

Summer starts; warmth all around.

6,

Holidays abroad.

5,

Returning home on those last precious Summer days.

4,

Autumn arrives... you kick the leaves as you walk down a familiar path.

3,

Winter creeps in.. your old friends: gloves and scarf grin at you and beg you to make use of them.

2,

Snow falls (If we are lucky) and the country comes to a halt.

1,

Well, It's the end of a year and we are back where I started.

Now, obviously not everyone shares that same structure in their Year but I think it pretty much sums up what goes on. Years, come and go like leaves falling from a tree (pardon my cheesiness) yet each one, however insignificant, carries it's own pattern.

What I'm really trying to say is: I love Life. Yeah, sometimes it's pretty damn rotten but you get what you make out of it. You'll never get Time back so make sure every Year is the best one yet.

And make sure you appreciate the little things.

Happy New Year everyone!

Let's make 2010 a Year to remember.

Love,

Sam.