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August 22 And we're all city dreamers, racking up sweet misdemeanours...Discovered today that Nottingham Forest have yet another celebrity fan of sorts to go alongside Kenneth Clarke, Su Pollard, Carl Froch and James Dean Bradfield.
Yes... apparently David Nicholson, the recently-appointed new Chief Executive of the NHS, is a die-hard Reds fan!
Suffice to say, Nicholson probably spent today feeling just as embarrassed as I did, following Forest's latest cup humiliation - an utterly shameful defeat away in the first round of the Carling Cup against... Accrington Stanley.
Yes, that's THE Accrington Stanley - as in the team universally regarded as the epitome of the rubbish no-hoper, after they were namechecked in a legendary TV ad for milk in the late 80s!
If any of you want to get a flavour of this latest low for the once-mighty Reds, click here to see some coverage of the game from BBC East Midlands Today, which I've just uploaded to YouTube.
The quality isn't brilliant, as I filmed the footage straight off the telly with my digital camera!
And for some reason, the sound starts to go faster than the pictures... so where there's people speaking, it starts to look like a dodgy pop video where the lip-synching is all out of time!
However, you may spot a familiar face at various points in the footage!!!
August 20 I'll get a guitar and a lover who pays me. If I can't be a star I won't get out of bed...Very proud to say that my brother did a bungee jump today off a massive bridge up in Middlesbrough!
His exploit was all in the name of a good cause - for full details, click here. August 18 Well you're probably alright - but under these lights you look beautiful..Well, I think it's fair to say that my brave leap into the world of blogging didn't exactly get off to the best of starts!
There I was, all excited about the fact that I had my own little corner of the web... only for my site to inexplicably corrupt itself within a matter of days, crashing the web browsers of anyone who tried to view it.
Disheartened, I decided to write off the whole thing as a dead loss. Yet for some reason, the site this week suddenly seemed to start working again!
So here I am, giving it another go. And it had better not go belly up again now, cos I've just spent the best part of an hour adding various new features to the site - including some links to some cool places on the internet, and also a nifty feature that gives you a blast of music when you first visit the site.
But what have I been up to in the month or so since my last entry?
Well, three things of note - two of which can be seen in my photo gallery.
First of all, there was the excitement of a bunch of film-makers visiting my place of work, to shoot some scenes for a movie called 'Control', about the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
As a massive fan of Joy Division's music, I was only too happy to give up a Saturday to supervise the filming! And it was a fascinating experience.
The film-makers had asked if they could come and film at my work's site because they felt it'd make a good 'double' for Macclesfield District General Hospital, and the scenes they shot on the day involved Ian Curtis arriving at aforesaid hospital to witness the birth of his daughter.
The guy playing Curtis, a relative unknown, was absolutely uncanny. It was like seeing a ghost! And Curtis' wife was being played by Samantha Morton, who's been in proper Hollywood films and stuff!
I also managed to get a nice souvenir of the day, by nicking one of the fake 'Macclesfield District General Hospital' signs that were put up!
Meanwhile, the second shenanigan of note was a German-themed fancy dress party at the home of the redoubtable Mark 'Hornblower' Hornby, a former colleague of mine from my days at Boots. This saw myself and numerous others get dressed up in Lederhosen and get very drunk! Upstaging everyone though was my bro, who grew a luxuriant handlebar moustache and then dyed it blonde, just for the occasion!
And last but not least, my other tall tale from the last few weeks concerns the wedding of my friends James and Tara. Music-wise, the happy couple had wanted to end their 'evening do' with an hour of the guiltiest Guilty Pleasures - and it was decided that there was no better man to bring the guilt than myself!
So, cometh the hour, I plugged my iPod into the sound system, and slayed an eager dancefloor with a barrage of the sort of uncool tunes that everyone secretly loves - from 'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits to 'Easy Lover' by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey. Pleased to say that my efforts went down a storm - and needless to say, I'm now very much available for bar mitzvahs, christenings etc!
Anyways - hopefully I'll be able to offer more regular updates now this site's back up and running again. Ta-ra though for now...
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