Moving home

Well for past couple of weeks you havent heard much from me.

Well thats because I have been busy.

About 3 weeks ago housing dept wanted a meeting with me at home.

Now I had one of those before and it usually means 1 thing. Moving!

Some of you may remember I was nearly dead in hospital just over 2 years ago and from that I got put on housing list at maximum points for my category.

The system changed and I kept waiting in Auchinleck and 18 steps to get to my landing. I wasnt sure if I had been forgot or nothing for me would come up.

So I had my meeting with housing. just patch that home. I can preoffer a house in central Cumnock. Would you like to accept subject to inspection. Yes!

So that afternoon I came down outside to look in windows and thats when I started packing. Housing will phone me when house is ready.

In the mean time me and Rodger fae rugby club a bet we made in June payout for Andy Murray at wimbledon and olympics which comes in very handy.

The council phoned last Wednesday. Friday 10.45am. So I come down.

I sign for it, get keys and carpet fitter. I get sizes and head to Killie to get carpets. The winnings r now spent on carpets.

Now firstly I talk to mates around rugby club can I get help moving, Mark, Tober, Rodger, Donald, Morton, Harry say yes when I knew I was going.

The now chuss the carpet fitter is fitting the carpets.

I have cooker, washing machine, fridge/freezer, chairs and couches, double bed, wardrobes still to shift to Cumnock. So anyone fae Rugby Club if you can help with the 18 steps they need to come down. See me and I will give you address to go to. Its for Tuesday night.

Beer will be included afterwards, the more the merrier.

Team GB Dont stop me now

Firstly, this is great, great laugh. It's good to see the guys and girls have some fun with the queen tune. Thanks to Mr Real John Mackay for facebooking/twittering it today. There is a lot of slagging go on in the comments, just enjoy it.

My day at #olympicfootball at @hampdenpark

Well as some of you may know I was going to Olympic Football on Thursday and so to hear of the madness of showing South Korean flag for North Korea does not make us look good. It has been said since it was London who supplied the video (it wasn't done by scottish officials), but it was still Glasgow it happenned in. For the record I saw no graphics like that in Hampden when listing the teams for the 2 games and as you can see I had a big screen quite near me. So my day, I left home in Auchinleck at 850 bus (even though it was a few minutes late). We got to Buchanan Bus Station 1025, I found out where the shuttle bus was (the other end of station) and walked down. We stopped at gates and got told by a very nice man just to wait to get in quee. I thought there would have been another way to get to quee, the other stairs around platform 14/15 for example. We got to back of quee quite quickly and only had to wait a few minutes while the steward entertained us. A real great man. There was #london2012 signage there. We finally got moved onto those stops and got on bus quickly. It was filling buses (free) and letting them go (I expect locog are paying for these buses). We left about 10.45 and took us about 30 minutes to get to drop off point. We walked along to park and passed the fast food vans (remember how much liquid you could take in, 100ml) so just overtook them. The got the security checks. Put my stuff in a clear plastic bag, got patted down by Strathclyde Police and then put stuff back in my pockets and headed into ground. It was about 11.25. There was lots of Stewards outside directing people to get to stadium as well. I got up to where I was sitting g5 and row v. I thought I was going to be quite high up, I wasnt, only about 20+ rows from front for my £20 ticket (which I bought). Before when I got to Hampden I went for a Hampden Pie, Pringles and juice and got that for £6.20. I expected that to be worse but there was no quees. Then we got towards our games. Honduras vs Morocco was a great game. end to end stuff at times I thought. There was 1 of the goalkeepers that had the bruce grobellars about them. It was a very entertaining game. the worst bit was when my phone rang after a goal and with all the noise I wasn't going to answer it. I phoned him back after the first game. You will see above I took a number of photos of that game. It was harder in 2nd game. I didn't go for food inbetween the games but the quees looked terrible. I had tweeted Sweenyness who was down other end of hampden and he did not like quees. We got to the Spain vs Japan game and I expected Spain to win, but there was just lots of passing, it was Japan who scored and then Spain got a man sent off and couldn't recover. I would also say japan didn't shove everyone forward when they got the lead, atleast 4/5 still sitting back when doing forward moves. I still thought Japan would score more from the chances they got, but didn't really see Spain doing it, but it was the other end of the pitch. So well done to Japan and that will be a good group, more interest than thought there would be. The game finished about 4.35 and we got back to buses at about 5pm, there was loads of them, but there was a number of problems. 1. Not enough stewards showing way back to buses. park & ride was right beside pitches, the rest of us 5 minute walk again and basically just people walking across road, not controlled like how we got there. It was controlled once you got to buses. We got a bus which left around 5.25. 2. The road there had rush hour traffic, not just the 37 thousand at Hampden leaving there after the football. That meant a lot of extra traffic over there. Also you get into a slightly quicker part and run into roadworks on way back to Glasgow city centre. That wont help people still to goto Hampden this year, but I am not sure commonwealth games are going there in 2 years. I got back to Buchanan Bus Station 6.20pm. If I had used buses I would have got back to auchinleck 9pm. I chose to head over to train station, get something to eat and get 7.12 to Auchinleck and get back at 8.08pm. Also later I heard from friend there was no parking for wheelchair users at ground, that is something that can be fixed for next games. I hardly saw any entertainment outside ground apart from steel drums at Toryglen so that should be left for these users. I am glad I went to it and enjoyed the football I was watching, there is just some tweaking that needs to be done. I hope you can all enjoy the olympics.

Saturday 21st July

Well after the Friday night and going to bed late, I had a lie in and went down to the rugby club. On Thursday we got a new jukebox and pool table and the players were down. I havent played pool in a while but somehow beat Jason Robb in my only game. It was good to see the boys down and enjoying the new things. So I went upto Cumnock next and eventually went into The Sun Inn and Choopacabra were playing I have took a couple of videos and added them to their facebook page but here they are:- After it was getting busy in there I went across to TC's until about midnight with John McBlains tunes, so it was a good night.

Wet Wet Wet 20th July 2012

hello, well Friday night I went upto Wet Wet Wet at Glasgow Green. I left at 3.45 fae Auchinleck and got to Buchanan Bus Station 5.15. I got a taxi out to Glasgow Green which was £5.20 I knew at this point the last train was 11.15 from Glasgow Central and it could be close. I got down to the gig and ran into some mates who went "why are you here", (I hadn't told them) and I go silly question, they asked how I got up, bus and I asked "how are you going back", they drove so got a lift home (great, no trains which I would have missed or night bus and £30 taxi to get home). Raintown started first at 5.45pm roughly (that was me just there). They won a competition on Real Radio (which I don't get easily unless I use computer). They were very good and a great start to the night. The take aways were about £5 which wasnt that bad. I didn't head to beer tent (lots did which meant VERY LONG WAITS). Red Sky July were a good county band and wernt bad but it kept the pace going which was very good. James Walsh finished the warm up acts and he was very good (from Starsailor). We got Wet Wet Wet at 8.45, they had fireworks and whole stage of graphics, big televisions and Marti and the boys were amazing. If you want a large review on the gig, go someone else. What I do think I think there will be a DVD of the gig (or there should be). The gig finished just after 11pm. Here are my photos from the gig:- I also did a video of American Pie The other thing I am going to say Kelly Ann Woodland was reporting from the gig at 6.15pm on STV News and I took a photo of her. I thought Mrs Woodland looked about 5ft 3in and me being 6ft 3in would look tall and I wimped out of asking to get a photo with her. I didn't not know she would be there reporting. I tweeted the picture to currentbunsuk which martin retweeted (cheers) and this morning I have done some caps from Kelly Ann piece on STV News. So it was a great night. I got to sleep after 2am after a great night.