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The Soft BulletinThe Soft Bulletin is a bit of webspace owned by a man called Rich - basically an outlet for him to share with anyone who's interested words and pictures depicting what he gets up to... February 16 What I've been up to in recent weeks - part one...
For those of you who don’t bother with the nation’s favourite waste of time – otherwise known as the social networking website Facebook! - this is the first part of a two-part compilation of my ‘status updates’ on Facebook from the last few weeks.
Given that I don’t seem to ever find the time these days to update my blog here on www.softbulletin.co.uk, this will give those of you who are sufficiently interested in my antics a vague insight into what I’ve been up to lately…
Monday 21st December 2009 Rich feels that yesterday was a truly monumental day for music. First of all, Rage Against the Machine bagged the Xmas number one - a timely 'up yours' to the ubiquitous X-Factor! And on a more personal level, Rich & Em went to see Babyshambles at legendary Nottingham music venue Rock City last night... and they were absolutely ace!
Tuesday 22nd December 2009 Rich & Em went out for dinner last night to celebrate a significant occasion - for yesterday was exactly a year since the two of them went on their very first date! Much love & thanks to Miss Brown for what has been an exhilarating year - though it remains hotly debated between Rich & Em as to who kissed who first..!
Wednesday 23rd December 2009 Rich is enjoying being off work and actually having time to do some of the things he never normally has any spare minutes for. Yesterday for instance, he gave some blood! Pleasingly, the good folk of the blood centre were happy to take Rich's donation - last time he went back in the summer, they turned him down as his iron levels were too low. Looks like the subsequent broccoli diet has worked then..!
Thursday 24th December 2009 levels were too low. Looks like the hardcore broccoli diet of the last few months has worked then..!Rich has been listening to 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto' by James Brown - and accordingly, would like to wish everyone a funky Christmas! Love and thoughts on this Christmas Eve go particularly to any of you who may to some degree find Christmas a difficult time, for whatever reason...
Friday 25th December 2009 Rich is up bright & early this morning, & wishes everyone a Merry Xmas! Pressies have just been opened, & Rich is feeling pretty secure right now in his 'bestest boyfriend in the whole wide world' status - having just made Em shriek by presenting her with a ticket to go to Glastonbury 2010! Oh, & a copy of Patrick Swayzee's autobiography too!
Saturday 26th December 2009 Rich & Em had a tremendous Christmas Day yesterday - spending the daytime at Rich's folks', and then the evening at Em's sister's. Big thanks to everyone for making it such a tremendous day! Alas though, the after-effects of all the festive food consumed are starting to kick in. In the immortal words of Bing Crosby - pa-rup-a-pum-pum..!
Sunday 27th December 2009 Rich loves it how normality gets chucked out the window at Xmas. It's surely the only time of year where it's perfectly acceptable to eat a Terry's chocolate orange for breakfast! There is however a disappointing lack of houses blinged up with festive lights in Rich's 'hood this year - though there is one with a waving snow
Monday 28th December 2009 Rich finally has his car back, after it got crashed into by a drunk driver a few weeks ago. Brilliantly, as well as the damage from the crash, the garage appear to have fixed a whole array of other things that weren't quite working properly with the car - with drunk bloke's insurance footing the entire bill! Just need the c
Tuesday 29th December 2009 Rich has been beavering away while he's been off work on his little film project - namely, his grand plan to put together a feature-length movie of his and his pal Ed's shenanogans back in summer 2008, when the two of them decided to try and drive all the way to Mongolia in a Peugeot 106! To see a brand new trailer for this
Wednesday 30th December 2009 Rich , after missing it when it was originally on telly, has finally managed to watch Jack Osbourne's adventures on the Mongol Rally this week! The intrepid son of Ozzy did the rally the year before Rich & his pal Ed did it, for his 'Adrenalin Junkie' TV series. Some kind soul has kindly uploaded the entire series to the we
Thursday 31st December 2009 Rich is muchly looking forward to 2010, and would like to to recommend an accessory that no Nottingham household should be without as we embark upon the new year - namely, the 'Hunks of Nottingham' calendar that comes with the latest edition of 'Left Lion' magazine. It's genius - each month is dedicated to a different Notti
Friday 1st January 2010 Rich believes that this new decade is going to be a cracker! if you want an early sign that this will be the case, just look at the TV listings - Smoky and the Bandit is on the telly later on today! Oh, and MC Hammer is rumoured to be one of the housemates in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, which starts this weekend!
Saturday 2nd January 2010 Rich is looking forward to flicking on the TV this evening. After all, with 'X-Factor' and 'Strictly Come Dancing' both having finished, there's actually a good chance for the first time in ages of being able to enjoy an entire Saturday night's telly without any talent show nonsense...
Sunday 3rd january 2010 Rich and Em went out on the lash in downtown Nottingham last night with Rich's pals James and Tara - who have been 'back home' for Christmas and New Year, having emigrated to Australia a couple of years ago. Always great to catch up wiih friends you haven't seen in ages. Cheers for a great night guys...
Monday 4th January 2010 Rich is disgruntled by the lack of MC Hammer on Celebrity Big Brother, despite media claims that he would definitely be appearing! Mind you, Rich has already had his fill of two-bit celebrities lately - as yesterday, him & Em went to Liverpool to watch a panto production of Peter Pan... starring no lesser luminaries than He
Tuesday 5th January 2010 Rich is limbering up for his second day back at work after the Christmas holiday. Depressing isn't it, how it only takes one day back at the office to banish all the festive frivolity into the realm of distant memory. Feels very weird as well putting '2010' when writing the date on one's whiteboard..!
Wednesday 6th January 2010 Rich has just finished reading 'Bit of a Blur' - an autobiography written by Blur member Alex James. An excellent book. Rich's favourite bit was where the silver-tongued bassist's talks about the time he attempted to chat up supermodel Helena Christiansen. The line he claims to have used was "God you're beautiful. Do you li
Thursday 7th January 2010 Rich is keenly listening to the radio to find out whether or not his school will be open for business today. Yesterday everyone got sent home because of the snow - and so essentially, Rich got paid to spend the day lying on his sofa watching the BDO World Darts Championships on BBC2! Which, let's face it, is not a bad gig really..!
Friday 8th January 2010 Rich has discovered an absolutely brilliant new TV programme, which may well have even dethroned 'Come Dine With Me' as his fave thing to watch... namely, Bill Bailey's 'Celebrity Birdwatching'! The title speaks for itself really - and it's well worth a look. Thursdays at 9pm on Sky One...
Saturday 9th January 2010 Rich believes he is officially the king of romance! Sod chocolates and flowers - yesterday he picked his missus up from work... and surprised her by casually revealing that he was whisking her straight to the West Midlands for her first ever Forest away game! Happily, the Reds did the business by playing West Brom off the p
Sunday 10th January 2010 Rich has put his house up for sale! It's available to view, in a 'Through the Keyhole' stylee, on http://www.rightmove.co.uk. To find it easily, go to Rich's profile here on Facebook, as Rich has posted a direct link. Feel free, people, to forward the details on to anyone you know who might be interested in buying a two-bed
Monday 11th January 2010 Rich is rather sorry that Monday has come around - though he has had an excellent weekend. Highlights included him and Miss Brown making a trip to Woodthorpe Park in Nottingham for a spot of sledging. That's sledging as in tobogganing, folks - Rich and Em didn't just stand in the middle of the park calling each other fat ba
Tuesday 12th January 2010 Rich wishes people would stop moaning about the snow. Yes, it causes a certain amount of havoc - but c'mon, does is it REALLY justify the level of whinging it seems to generate? Personally, Rich quite enjoys the fact that, in current conditions, his daily drive to work feels in part like some sort of madcap Top Gear adventure..!
Wednesday 13th January 2010 Rich remains very proud to be a Nottingham Forest fan at the moment, despite the Reds finally ending their run of 18 gamees unbeaten last night with a 1-0 defeat in their FA Cup replay match away at Birmingham. It's certainly no disgrace to lose so narrowly to a Premier League team who themselves hadn't lost in their last 1
Thursday 14th January 2010 Rich is just about compus mentus again, having been clobbered yesterday by a humdinger of a migraine. He's feeling pretty demoralised though by the fact that he's suffered regularly with these things for years, and tried just about everything to try and eradicate them - both medical and holistic - and yet nothing seems to r
Friday 15th January 2010 Rich played football last night for the first time since before Christmas - and after all the chocolate, cheese and booze consumed over the festive period, it unsurprisingly proved to be a deeply painful experience! Despite this though, Rich is playing again tonight - so hopefully it won't be too long before he's sweated of
Saturday 16th January 2010 Rich currently radiates a zen-like state of calm, what with him having begun his weekend with a Friday evening trip to a see a holistic therapist - who gave him a massage that involved him having hot volcanic rocks placed all over his body! Today meanwhile, he's off to Lincolnshire, where he'll be fulfilling all his lifelon
Sunday 17th January 2010 Rich muchly enjoyed his 'juggernaut taster experience' yesterday - which was a present from Em for his birthday. Not only did he successfully drive a 55-foot lorry round a series of private roads, he managed too to reverse it round a corner... and also successfully weaved it in and out of a long line of road cones without knocking any over! Truck on! What I've been up to in recent weeks - part two...
For those of you who don’t bother with the nation’s favourite waste of time – otherwise known as the social networking website Facebook! - this is the second part of a compilation of my ‘status updates’ on Facebook from the last few weeks.
Given that I don’t seem to ever find the time these days to update my blog here on www.softbulletin.co.uk, this will give those of you who are sufficiently interested in my antics a vague insight into what I’ve been up to lately…
Monday 18th January 2010 Rich is very amused by the following updates that appeared on BBC online yesterday, as part of their live 'videprinter' coverage of Aston Villa v West Ham: "1510 - Ball kicked into stand, knocking BBC Radio Five Live pundit Robbie Savage's headphones off. 1512 - Robbie Savage is bleeding"! Class…
Tuesday 19th January 2010 Rich , though all the ice and snow has melted, is still amused by the story that was in the news last week about two muppets up in Scotland who tried to drive a Peugeot 406 down a frozen canal! And you thought Rich and his mate Ed's attempt to drive to Mongolia back in summer 2008 was the stupidest thing anyone had ever attempted to do behind the wheel of a Peugeot..!
Wednesday 20th January 2010 Rich knows it's not very nice to mock the sick and weakly. Nevertheless, he wonders if all the Notts County fans who got all over-excited over Sven still think their team are going to end up eclipsing Forest, given that they barely managed to muster a victory against non-leaguers FOREST GREEN in their FA Cup match last night..!
Thursday 21st January 2010 Rich has been enjoying looking this week at a selection of fantastic photographs of his family that were taken during the Christmas holidays by our photographer pal Marc. The photos came about after Rich's Ma decided she wanted to get some family shots taken professionally. Marc writes a blog about his photographic exploits
Friday 22nd January 2010 Rich is glad the weekend is in sight, given that it's been a bit of a shitter of a week at work. There's no Forest game though this weekend - which is a shame... as Rich can't get enough of the mighty Reds at the moment, such is their superb current run of form. Still, roll on NEXT weekend when Billy Davies' men take on their woolly neighbours Derby!
Saturday 23rd January 2010 Rich is a bit disappointed, as he's just found out that he was unsuccessful in bagging a ticket for next Saturday's Forest match away against Derby. The stingy so-and-sos from down the A52 only allocated a measly couple of thousand tickets to Forest fans - presumably as a measure to minimise the volume of the inevitable cho
Sunday 24tb January 2010 Rich had a bit of a cinema-fest yesterday, going to see two movies at the flicks back to back! 'No Distance Left to Run', a documentary about the band Blur, was excellent. Pick of the two films Rich saw though was 'Avatar', which was an awesome spectacle in 3D. What's more, some of the blue alien fellas in it looked remark
Monday 25th January 2010 Rich suspects he's not alone in his belief that the UK music charts have become an irrelevance in recent years, through having become saturated with chumps off various TV talent shows. Nevertheless, he was amused yesterday to catch the Sunday countdown and notice an act called 'Wizard's Sleeve' occupying a fairly high posit
Tuesday 26th January 2010 Rich , being the owner of a parrot called Doris, is highly amused to discover that Chris Evans declared it 'National Doris Day' on his radio show yesterday! Evans asked listeners to contact him if they have 'a Doris in their lives' - and so Rich has fired off an email eulogising about the virtues of his feathered companion.
Wednesday 27th January 2010 Rich is buzzing about the continuing excellence of the mighty Nottingham Forest, with the mighty Reds having extended their barnstorming run last night by thrashing QPR 5-0. One can only take one's hat off to manager Billy Davies for the ace job he is doing - although there is still no denying the man's frightening resemblence to little Jimmy Krankie..!
Thursday 28th January 2010 Rich is highly amused by latest shenanigans in the Celebrity Big Brother house. In a tender tribute to a certain music video from the 1980s, the housemates were given the challenge of not only making a clay model of Lionel Richie's head - but doing so whilst blindfolded! Class...
Friday 29th January 2010 Rich 's workplace is currently in the grip of wedding fever, with seemingly half of Rich's colleagues due to get hitched this year! One of the brides-to-be is currently planning her work hen do - and amusingly, Rich has been invited along to be the hen party's 'butler in the buff'! Sadly Rich has had to turn this offer down
Saturday 30th January 2010 Rich is excited about Forest taking on their mutton-molesting neighbours Derby later today! He's also a bit nervous - not nervous about the actual match, mind... rather, nervous for his brother Al, who is going to the game, and then has just three hours after full-time to make it down to Heathrow to make check-in for a flig
Sunday 31st January 2010 Rich still can't believe that Forest ended their run of 19 matches unbeaten yesterday by losing against, of all teams, Derby! And as if that in itself wasn't bad enough, Rich had a prospective buyer come to view his house a mere half an hour after the match had finished - and it turned out that the bloke in question was a b
Monday 1st February 2010 Rich , in spite of Forest losing, has had a superb and eventful weekend. As well as enjoyable and long overdue catch-ups with his great friends the Bakers and JHH, he also went to see comedian Richard Herring do a fantastic stand-up show called 'Hitler Moustache' - which surprisingly enough, was all about moustaches!
Tuesday 2nd February 2010 Rich loves it when you discover amazing things you didn't know about your friends! This weekend for instance, he discovered that his pal Ed made a brief appearance on telly when he was about 15, by bagging a part as an extra in a BBC costume drama set in Victorian times - starring alongside no lesser luminary than the great Keith Allen..!
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 Rich , following on from his musings the other day about how entertaining it is when you discover something amazing you didn't know about one of your friends, has also discovered recently that his pal Neil used to be in a death metal band in his youth! If you go to YouTube and run a search on 'Aggression' [the name of the b
Thurdsay 4th February 2010 Rich is rather concerned by the news reports that that awful Katie Price woman got married this week out in Las Vegas. With Rich's brother out in Vegas at the moment celebrating a friend's 30th, Rich would be glad if someone could confirm that Al wasn't involved in the nupitals in any way..!
Friday 5th February 2010 Rich has a friend who has decided to start internet dating - and amusingly, she has asked Rich to write a 'testimonial' for her, eulogising about her virtues, so she can include it on her profile on the dating website she's using! Rich feels slightly like a pimp as he attempts to undertake this task..!
Saturday 6th February 2010 Rich took some kids from his school to Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall yesterday, where they performed on their violins - which they're learning - with the world-renowned Halle Orchestra! There were also hundreds of kids with instruments from other schools - needless to say, a raucous cacaphony ensued! A now partially-dea
Sunday 7th February 2010 Rich Fisher , after their slip-up against Derby last weekend, was pleased to see Forest get back to winning ways yesterday by beating Sheffield Wednesday. Both of the Reds' goals were scored by the redoubtable Dexter Anthony Titus Blackstock, who is rapidly becoming a bona fide Forest legend. In the immortal words of the Kings of
Monday 8th February 2010 Rich 's heart is full of sorrow as he awakes to the realisation that it's bloody Monday. Good weekend though. Amongst other things, Rich caught up with his brother Al, who is now back from Las Vegas. And happily, Rich can now confirm that Al definitely had nothing to do with the Katie Price wedding. His trip to the USA has
Tuesday 9th February 2010 Rich is sad to report that the set of 'grow your own mushrooms' kits that his brother brought him for Christmas appear to have wheezed their last. Rich and Em nevertheless have had a lot of fun lately having their own little mushroom farm in their kitchen - though Rich isn't wholly sure whether Miss Brown has forgiven him y
Wednesday 10th February 2010 Rich is annoyed that a certain someone has been suffering with a nasty cold this week and is clearly too ill to go to work - and yet has still been dragging herself in and probably making herself worse... largely because her employers have more or less told her she's had "too much time off sick this year". How can you have
Thursday 11th February 2010 Rich is amused by the fact that early-90s one-hit wonder Chesney Hawkes played a gig in Nottingham last night! Years ago, Rich and his mate John had to go and interview Chesney for a radio station! Naturally, this would've been a real high point of Rich's media career - tragically though, 'The One and Only' threw a big flou
Friday 12th February 2010 Rich is rather cock-a-hoop about the fact that today is the final day of what has been a hard slog of a half-term at his school. Saying that, this week has been pretty cool, with Mr Fisher having been teaching hid class all about Chinese New Year. This has included a lesson on Chinese food, where the kids were challenged to try and eat some noodles with chopsticks!
Saturday 13th February 2010 Rich is not entirely surprised that Sven Goran Eriksson has decided to jump ship at Notts County. It's all quite sad really for County fans. All in all though, Sven's departure can only be a good thing. The womenfolk of Nottingham will certainly sleep better in their beds at night in the knowledge that the randy Swedish sex pest is out of here..!
Sunday 14th February 2010 Rich had another viewing on his house this weekend - the fourth he's had since he put it on the market a month or so ago. Rich just wishes someone would make him a decent offer, as ritual of running around hiding clutter and putting nice cushions everywhere before each viewing is starting to get tiresome. Maybe people are b
Monday 15th February 2010 Rich and Em had a lovely Valentine's Day yesterday, Miss Brown outdoing herself in the kitchen by rustling up a stunning Indian banquet! Rich himself meanwhile proved that romance isn't dead, by avoiding cliches such as flowers and instead presenting Em with a ticket for tomorrow night's Forest game against Sheffield United! January 07 RICH HAS UPLOADED SOME NEW PHOTOS TO THE WEB
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Many of you will know that, in early January 2007, I set off on a round-the-world travel adventure. This saw me visit 12 countries over five months, starting in Australia and finishing in Russia. Whilst 'on the road', I wrote updates about my adventures on this site regularly... so regularly in fact that some of you complained that you couldn't keep up with my missives! If that was you - well below, in reverse-chronological order (i.e. starting with the most recent), are direct links to my witterings about some of the more exciting parts of the trip, so you can click on them and read them at your leisure without having to trawl laboriously through my site's archive! That's if you want to, like..!
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