Getting Closer

Time seems to be wittling away for the Punk Worship night! It's in 2 weeks on Saturday! It's been through various phases since our initial idea back in June/July of last year and it's getting pretty exciting if I'm honest! I've just had a call that our 6foot by 2foot banner is ready - if you want to see it you'll have to come on the night!

I also found these guys: Sounds of Salvation - a band of 10 who do Ska-Worship down in Reading. Pretty cool actually!
See ya around

MaFt

Time To Be Childish

I found this: Glossary For International Recruits

Apparently it's a glossary for foreign GP's put out by the Doncaster NHS Primary Care Trust. Why am I mentioning it? Well, it has 14 different words for 'penis' including my all-time favourite of 'todger'!

MaFt

Smashing!

My CD collection is spread about the house. There are a hundred or so singles in a box in a cupboard in the attic, there are about 80 CD's in the stand in the lounge and the remaining 400 or so albums are in storage cabinets in the attic. Every so often I grab a handful or CD's from the tower in the lounge and swap them for a handful of CD's from the attic just to mix things up a bit and provide some variation. Generally I need to go up to the attic to find a CD that I want to listen to (at least until I get a network sorted out and a media player connected to said network) seeing as only 15% of my CD's are easily accessible at any one time.

Last night I fancied some music and reached for the CD's in the lounge and grabbed at random - I pulled out The Offspring's 1994 album, 'Smash'. I've not listened to this for ages and had forgotten how good an album it actually is! If you've not heard it then go check it out, you never know, you might enjoy a slice of classic 90's American punk rock. I put it on in the car again this morning - great way to start the day!



MaFt

Teethgrinder

Mini-MaFt, having recently acquired some top teeth, has got into the habit of grinding his teeth. It's one of the few things, along with cotton wool (it squeeks, it's bloody awful!), that succeeds in making me cringe! I've asked a few people at work who said their kids did it for a while but not for long. So, with any luck he'll stop soon!

Until then, I'll just have to entertain myself singing Therapy?'s great 1992 song, Teethgrinder:

This feels good, nothing can stop me
Every nerve pumping hard through me
Every thought rushes at full speed
This false smile grates through babyteeth

(I'm a teethgrinder) Teethgrinder (In my sleep I grind my teeth)
(I'm a teethgrinder) Teethgrinder (In my sleep I grind my teeth)



MaFt

The Peoples Petition

http://www.thepeoplespetition.org.uk

Sign up, help us all benefit from medical research!

From the site:

"Like almost every human being alive today, I benefit from medical research using animals. Apart from this I have no vested interest in research. I'm not a doctor or a researcher. I don't work for a drugs company or own shares in one. I don't even have a scientific background.

I wanted a way to show people who carry out medical research that I value and support their work and that I want to see this important work continue in Britain.

To do this I approached the Coalition for Medical Progress with my idea because they shared my view.

The UK has some of the strictest controls on the use of animals in medical research in the world. You can find out more about these standards here.

If you share my belief in the value of this research then I urge you to add your name to The People's Petition."

The Dangers Of Smoking

Man killed in cigarette accident
"A hospital patient being treated with a flammable gel for a skin condition has died after being engulfed in flames as he lit a cigarette."

Blimey, wouldn't that have been a scary thing to see?! Just imagine nipping out through the fire exit for a short-cut to the car park and seeing this bloke up in flames? Just goes to show there's more than one reason for having hospitals as no smoking areas...

MaFt

Almost Easter

It's almost Easter and I've clearly given up regular blogging for lent!! I'll get back into it just as soon as I've devoured my weight in Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

Soon enough the easter bunny will be laying his eggs all over so kids can remember that Jesus died on a cross in order to take away their sin... or something... Just where did the bunny come from?! There's no obvious link between death on a cross and a cute furry bunny that, strangely for a mammal, lays eggs. Eggs made of chocolate. And they say religion is hard to believe? Look at what secular society has made easter into - now that's hard to believe! Chocolate-egg-laying rabbits? Get real!

Maybe the colour of the chocolate is supposed to remind us of the colour of the wood used in the crucifix? No, can't be that cos we get white chocolate eggs now... Oops, can't call them white can we - the PC brigade wil be onto us, erm... cocoa-deficient chocolate eggs. I heard once that the egg is a symbol of new life and thus is used to remind us that with Jesus taking our sin away we are given new life. OK, that makes a bit of sense but when was the last time you saw a baby rabbit grow out of a chocolate egg? And it still doesn't explain what the rabbit is for.

Thinking a bit deeper now, there's that lovely phrase "shagging like rabbits" - maybe that's the link between new life and rabbits? All that shagging must surely bring forth numerous offspring as I'm yet to see the Durex Bunny squaring up to the Duracell Bunny I can only assume that there is not viable form of rabbit contraception freely available to les lapins as the french would say.

So, there you have it - that's where the easter bunny comes from (no pun intended). He brings forth new life to remind us that Jesus did something for us and helped to invent chocolate.

MaFt

PS - see how easy it is to get side-tracked with secular commercialism and forget the real reason behind Easter? I challenge you to get to church over Easter and seek out for yourself what it's all about!

Projects Projects Projects!

Ey up, I'm back! Not that I've been anywhere, just having a break from blogging. I've been busy finishing off the Punk Worship site and doing some work on another site I've been asked to do. Various parts of my car now function: i got a new speaker which was a bugger to find seeing as Ford decided to make their own shape speaker so standard ones won't fit unless you spend about £15 on convertors for them... Thank the Maker for eBay! I also have a fully functioning heater too - apparently a common fault in Fiesta's. Mr-DM (not Danger Mouse) bought me some wiper blades cos he was sick of mine squeeking (cheeky sod, but thanks mate!) and, finally, I stuck some Red Ex into my fuel-tank to stop the thing from juddering and generally being crap when it's cold.

So, onto my next projects! I spent a while trying to find a holder for my mp3 player (Creative Zen Xtra [I upgraded it to a 60GB drive though]) that I can use in the car. PDA holders are no good as they cover the buttons on the side of the player... Seems I would have to dig deeper; I found some nifty things by Brodit that looked great and would have done the job. However, the total cost would have been well over £50. I then found this thing:

Which sells at a slightly lower £20 but would need another £15-20 of attachments in order for it to hold the Zen Xtra. I still think £40 is a bit much for something to hold an mp3 player. So, instead, I've decided to make my own holder based on this thing that fits in the side of my Ford stereo but which will be better (cos I made it) and a LOT cheaper! Mr-S has said I can use the engineering workshop on my dinner hours to get it done! Should be fun, if it doesn't work I can always spend some money.

I'll post some designs later on. That's all for now, I'm off to catch up with other people's blogs!

MaFt