These are a few of my favorite (sic) things

I was browsing through my favorites (sic) and came across a few gems. Here's one that I can go to again and again.
Punk Rock Kittens

MMM Yummy...Chilli Gravy

Here's a lovely recipe to add a bit of spice to bangers and mash.
You'll need:
1/2 Onion
1/2 Red Pepper
1 large red chilli pepper
1 OXO cube
1/3 Pint Boiling Water
2 splashes Olive Oil

Slice the onion, pepper, and chile, and fry them with the olive oil in a small pan. After about 5 mins they should be getting tender, then add a sprinkle of sugar. Next mix the boiling water and OXO in a mug, and add to the pan. Simmer on a high heat till it reduces slightly, and then use as a spicy gravy on bangers and mash.

I just had this today for dinner....Bootiful (In a Bernard Mathews Stylee)

Just do what comes naturally

Does anyone ever get that feeling to stop watching Telly, go outside to that mess you call a garden, pick up some tools, and put in some hard work so that even Alan Titchmarsh would be pround of you?
Well about a month ago I moved back home and set myself a task of doing exactly that. It didn't happen an Mr. Television became King of me.
OK, so half my garden is in a pretty good state, but then the other half is, well, not in a good state. A few years ago I dug it all up, put down a layer of this magic material that should keep weeds from every growing again, and covered it in pebbles and shingle, and thought "the job's a good'un, I'll never have to do that again, goodbye weeds". Well that magic stuff wasn't magic at all and now I'm left with an area covered in shingle, weeds and crap lining material, and I've gotta clean it up.
Yesterday I came back from my travels and got in the garden. I thought I'd start with something small, so I have dug up, weeded, and generally kicked ass, and made my very own veggy patch at the bottom of the garden. (anyone remember that cartoon 'the herbs'?)
Hopefully the stuff will grow, but I've had to opt for planting seeds of the variety radish, lettuce, and carrot, as we are getting quite late in the summer and all the fun stuff is past there 'sow by date'.
So that's my effort of Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall standards to get a bit of organic in my life. And now I have to crack on with the Ground Force part of the task and make the rest look 'shit-hot'.
I've got the tools, the motivation, and the skill, to make it happen. Keep posted to see how it develops. Hi ho, hi ho, it's of to work I go..........

New Photos

Hiya everyone.
I got a new phone last week, a nokia 7250i, with a camera. So whilst I've been on my jollies, I've been like a kid at Christmas, and have been snapping away.
Now I've just bought an infrared receiver to plug into my PC so I can transfer my photos onto the PC, and then.......ta da.....onto my blog.

So here's a lovely picture of my local pub in Ramsgate.

I went to Chichester and Bournemouth for a long weekend. I went paintballing with my old friends from Chichester on Friday (I've still got the bruises), and I stayed with my mate Sam (see below)and his missus Jo.

Then on Saturday I went to Bournemouth to see my old friend and ex-housemate Christine (see below), who I went to university with. It was cool to see her again and catch up on old times.

See, I really have been taking loads of pointless photos. Ah, technology nowadays.

South Coast Tour

I have arranged a tour of the South Coasts best Venues.

Thurs 22nd July - Chichester
Fri 23rd July - Chichester
Sat 24 July - Bournemouth
Sun 25th July - Brighton

I will be putting on a great show, and each one will be have the usual meet-and-great at regular intervals.

If you are interested in meeting a living legend then tickets are available from AdemIsKing@ticketmaster.co.uk and only cost the price of a pint of beer.

Hurry they are going fast.

p.s. much, much, more.

WARNING: SPECCY POST

So anyway as I mentioned in the previous post I've now got broadband at home.  I signed up with Tiscali for £25 a month, and this gets me a speed of 512k and an always on status so I can download aas much as I want, whenever I want. I also got a USB Modem, an RJ11 cable, and 2 microfilters, so I was able to connect instantly without having to buy any new hardware.
 
Well, here's where we start having fun.  I downloaded a program (sorry about the american spelling) called BitTorrent which is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol. Learn a bit more by clicking here.
Sorry we haven't had fun yet. OK, you may be wondering "what is adem babbling on about, he always does that", well it means that people can share files without going through a server which will be the only PC holding the file, instead you download segments from lots of diffent people, and when you are downloading it others can download from you the bit you've already downloaded, and this turns into a menagerie of file sharing, so when you are downloading, you are als ouploading too!

So I've already got the following gratis (that means free to you thickos) - Maromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1, Macromedia Flash 5, Stephen Kings 'Kingdom Hospital, Little Britain 1st Series, School of Rock, plus some other games.
I didn't pay for them, I got 'em free.........brilliant
 

I warned you about the nerdy nature of this post.....sorry

Still Jobless

Well this is the life. Still chillin' at home and doing nothing during the days, but there's always stuff to do in the evenings.

Just got broadband at home. Woo Hoo!

Over and Out.

End of Euro 2004

Well that's the end of the footy for the summer. Roll on the Premiership.
The squad of the Championships were announced today and there were 4 England players selected in the squad. Any guesses to who they were??
Well have a look at the my entry a couple of blogs below and you'll see I'd already selected Campbell, Cole, Lampard, and Rooney as my men of England. It seems that the men from the selection committee have been looking at this blog!

I'm back.

Well that's it. Goodbye Chichester, Hello Ramsgate.
I got back to Ramsgate yesterday (Monday) after squeezing all my belongings into the car and saying goodbye to my home of the past 5 years.
I thought I'd just put on this short blog to let people from Chi know that I got back. That's all for now, I've just got to find a place to put all my crap I brought back with me.


the lovely Ramsgate Marina
(no I can't put it there.)

I can't believe it.

The man in the black below is an idiot. That's my statement of the day. I could use fouler language but my swearbank has been used up after the ridiculous decision last night not to allow Sol's goal in the 90th minute.......gutted.

But the boys did us pround, especially Ashley (he was brilliant up the lefthand side making up for our lack of a left-winger, also he defended like a god, putting in some excellent tackles and snuffing out the threat of Christiano Ronaldo), Sol (He was a rock at the heart of the defence, getting his head on every ball and inspiring the whole team), Frank (A good all round footaller whose goals from the midfield were priceless ,with a return of 3 goals in 4 games), and the boy Wayne (he was cool as a cucumber, didn't get sent off, and scored some corkers). They were solid throughout the tournament and showed that it's not all about Beckham (who incidently played shite.)

Where Did I Go Wrong?

So anyway, it was our end of year staff leaving do/piss-up. I had a really good time but note the map below and my not so direct route home. I got lost, more lost, got to a roundabout which shouldn't have been there, and finally tried to retrace my steps, whereupon I ended up outside the police station, further back than from where I started, and finally i decided to bite the bullet and get a taxi back, by which time it was around 1:30am. I was very, very, drunk.

Big Bear Diaries

So anyway last night I was a little bored and had been looking through some photos of when I was in Canada last summer. I went through a mad tourist stage of getting my photo taken with the huge abundance of large stuffed toy bears, and so got these photos together and made a new blog which you can see at The Big Bear Diaries

"We're on the Ball!"

What a game!!!!
4-2!
Rooney is King!
Jumpers for goalposts!
Superb!

Croatia 2 - England 4 (Scholes, Rooney 2, Lampard)

Last Week in Chichester

Well that's it...the end of an era. I will be shortly leaving Chichester, my abode for the past 5 years, and moving back to kent, my abode for the previous 18 years of my life. Goodbye to lots of old friends in Chi, hello to lots of even older friends in Ramsgate.

It's warmish-cold, with sunny spells in between

Take that Mother Nature!!! Kapow....Blammo...ummm...I run out of batmanesque expletives but I think you get the gist. I had a hayfever free sleep last night, the clouds are out, and I'll get to watch the England-Switzerland game at the pub without dying from heatstroke.

N.B. As soon as I get a break in summer and I want to go to the beach then it would be appreciated if it was very hot. thankyou

It's Hot Hot Hot

I was wrong, I admit it, I woke up and thought 'thank god'. After the previous days pollen count of a gazillion nubits per cubit (Hayfever Assissted Suicide)I was glad to see a day with clouds when all the pollen decided it was too cold to come out.

Well all that changed in the afternoon and Mother Nature got her revenge......bitch!

It's a bit warm, warm, warm!

My god it's quite warm. Too warm to blog.....

It's HOT HOT HOT

My god it's hot! Too hot to blog......

Something Useful on the Net Shocker!!!

Wow!! What can I say? I've found a place on the Web that has actually prooved useful to me. It's called www.pslover.com and has shitloads of Photoshop tutorials on it. I spent a while going through them and although I'm pretty good at photoshop I've also learnt a few new things too. I'd recommend anyone who's got photoshop to have a look and get some pretty cool effects out of your PC.
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It's been a long time coming......

Phew, how long's it been since the last post?? Too long I think.
England won the London Rugby 7's tournament, and I had the privelidge (?) of watching around 16 teams battle it out at twickenham, with England finishing the top of the pile by beating New Zealand in the final.
Well after supporting England Footy at the pub on saturday, and contributing to the landlords retirement fund, I feel I've now contributed to English Rugby....and the retailers who ply their trade in the vicinity of Twickenham! What a wallet-thinning day!
After getting my official tournament ticket (£20), my rail ticket (£22), my official programme (£3), my authentic south african boerewors (a traditional south african farmhouse sausage (£4.50), my icecream (£1.60), and my official England Rugby Shirt (£40), I seem to have spent a fair bit!!!!!
Now back to work to earn some more money and repeat the cycle another weekend.