David's blog

Today I went to Betws y Coed to look for a new pair of walking boots, the ones I have are leaking water, I thought I would treat myself to some new ones.  I took the lunch time train to Betws, I wanted to go to the Sports direct shop, I finally found it and had a look round and eventually bought some boots, made by brashier which is famous for making walking boots.   They seem quite nice and will hopefully do the job for a few years and will keep MY FEET DRY. It is not easy buying boots as there is so many to choose from.  I read the review on these boots and they reckon they are made for low land walking, well I guess that's what I do most of the time.  Anyway, they too 20 quid off the price which was nice. I rang the DWP this morning to ask for a more appropriate form to fill regarding the benefit I receive.

Well, I finally found my memory stick, where I thought it might have been, under the carpet.  I had been looking for it for ages, but was convinced it was not there but I finally thought I had better take a look in case it was there and it was.  I can stop mythering about that now anyway.  I am glad I got the photographs back I was not that bothered about anything else really.  It seems my twitter account is ok again too, which is good. Today I went to Bangor to look for some walking boots, mine are in a bad way, they let in water everywhere, lucky I have waterproof socks but I need a good pair of boots, its not easy to find some though, they are so expensive and I am worried I might buy the wrong things, I did see some good ones today, but I was not sure whether to buy them or not, I am not how I will come to the decision about buying them, maybe I will just go for the brasher hillmaster, which seem to be the ones that everyone wears, they are over a hundred quid, but I guess once I h

Its been a vile day weather wise, I really hope next weekend is a lot a better as I am going walking for a few days.  I bought a set of stamp commemorating Jade Jones's Olympic triumph today, they might be worth some money one day, probably not when I'm around.  They also got a bit wet in the rain, as did I.

The weather has not been too good today, I  had to go to the doctor this morning and it the rain was lashing down.   For the last few days I have been following the gold medal winner Jade Jones on the tv and on twitter, its interesting to see how her life is changing now she has won a gold medal.  This evening she was apparently moved from standard class to first class on a train as she was going home from London.  Someone asked her if she wore it all the time, she must be getting fed up of having it constantly round her neck Just listening to the football game between Wales and the Bosnia team, it is another piss poor display by Wales in a whole line piss poor displays.

I had a day out on the bus to Abergele today, I was trying to find olympic stamps, but had no luck there apparently Llandudno did have some but they are finished, and could not tell me when they would be there again, I guess I will just have to give on that one.  It funny travelling around here and hearing the way that none Welsh speaking people pronounce the names of place, today I heard someone pronounce Llandrillo, as landrilo, quite amusing.  I found it difficult to pronounce names in England too, it take time I guess to understand how things are said.

Oh well, the Olympics are over, and they were pretty good too, it was 2 ladies who made it for me, Jade Jones winning the taekwondo and Gemma Gibbons winning a silver in the Judo.  I think probably it was Gemma's which was the most significent win as I don't think she was given much of a chance of a medal, and also British Judo was in relation to the Olympics was not in a good state, hopefully it will get better now due to Gemma's success.

I was asked to do a shift of work today, I guess the money is handy, though I am not enamoured by the job, I have been doing it for years, I have not been able to move on, there is no work about.  There was someone new there today, who I had not worked with before. This evening I went to a meeting of the volunteers who work at the local pub, I volunteered to do some washing up, I guess it all helps in relation to the place being a success.

I had a bit too much to drink last night, did not feel too good this morning.  Beer has got very expensive, not surprised that people drink at home.  I seemed to have developed a sore wrist, hopefully an ice pack will help me sort it out, my other health problem has improved. I had a bit of a disagreement with my cousin on facebook regarding whether the guy with false legs should be allowed to run against people in the olympics, I don't think he should, the race should be for people with 2 human legs, I think its political correctness gone silly.

I was asked to do some voluntary work down the pub today, but there was no one there who seemed to anything about it, so came home, to watch more olympics, where hopefully the lady from London will do something in the Judo, she is through to the semi final.  The weather is a bit better here today.

I have been watching judo all morning, from the olympics in London, no British success so far in it, but some interesting bouts, Judo seems to have changed a bit since I was a child doing it,  You had to hold down the person for 30 seconds when I was young apparently its only 15 now and the score of koka seems to have disappeared, which was present when I was younger.  I guess I wish I had carried on with it now, especially seeing it in the olympics, I made some good friends in the club, the problem I had was my father I guess he sort of took over and made us go so we got fed up of it I guess.  I remember some of the names used for throws even though its such a long time ago. Today is also council tax paying today, which I have done. I also have a dentist appointment, they seem to come round quite quickly these days, I guess time goes by a lot quicker these days.  This is my first day back on blogger,  I thought I would give it a go again with it. My teeth seemed to fine and I have