David's blog

I decided not to go to the Grapes today, as feeling a bit under the weather due to having had too much to drink last night.  There was a school reunion in the pub, they had all congregated in bar, as the room that was laid on for them had really loud music in it, I felt a bit like I was in the middle of something that I shouldn't have been. It is really surprising how the time has flown since we were all in school, its nice that friendships can develop after the rotten time, I believe, gives most kids, the boredom of having to sit while some clown bangs on about this and that, which has not relevance to a young person at the time.  School is just somewhere to dump kids, for a few hours, it has nothing really to do with learning, well that's my opinion

  I went for a walk today, I have done this walk many times, its from Dolwyddelan to Capel Curig, its an interesting walk as there are different terrains. There are parts of it which is an old drovers road, which the drovers used to use to take their sheep to market in the big cities in England, they, used to bring back all the news that was going on in the country, there were not as many national newspapers as there are today, and the news took a bit longer to filter through. It looked like it was going to rain but it held off all day.  When I got to the end of the walk, I had planned to catch the bus back, but while looking at the bus timetable, a bus went sailing past, well you know what I mean, I know buses don't sail, I was gutted, I could either hang around for another hour or walk to Swallow falls, where the buses seemed more frequent, than where I was was for some reason. I decided to go to Swallow falls, but when I got to there, i still had a some time to wait for another

I was umming and arring for ages this morning about what to do today, its hard trying to think of things to do every day, most people work, but I don't have a job at the moment and have not had one for a while now.  In the end I ended up going to Pwllheli on the bus, its not a very nice journey, a bit boring, well unless you haven't done it before it is anyway,  Anyway, so old lady came on the bus with her husband, and asked me to shut the window, she didn't ask if I minded closing the window, she asked me to shut it, Anyway I did shut it, well one of them anyway, I couldn't be bothered to shut the other one, maybe i was a bit daft, but I guess I was in a bad mood. There wasn't much in Pwllheli, there never is, it was nice day though, I wanted to go for a walk today, but the rain was quite bad this morning so I didn't bother, I was wishing I had gone by mid afternoon as it was very warm, by then, the weather people mess you around, they say one thing and the wea

Sometimes you get to wondering if messing around on these social media sites is a good idea.  On Sunday, someone seemed to having a go at Chelsea FC fans on the telly, implying they were antisemitic, implying they were all anti Semitic, which is not true, as I am a Chelsea FC fan and have been for 40 or more and I am not anti Semitic, I decided to use twitter as a way of expressing my displeasure, with this person for having a go at Chelsea fans.  I am sure there are some people who turn up to Chelsea matches, and to be anti semitic, they probably are not Chelsea fans at all but are cowards and just want to use the platform just to be anti semitic.  I was annoyed, and maybe my initial tweet was not very clever, but I guess I just left it there, and, maybe, I got what I was trying to get,which was a reaction.  But I also did not want a reaction.  it is easy to sit behind a computer and have a go, its kind of safe, but not safe too. The response I got, I did not understand, so acted that

I went for a stroll round the village this morning, and came across these little horses again, apparently they are miniture shetland ponies. It was very wet under foot and I got my feet a bit damp.  Usually on a Sunday I would go down to the local pub for a bi of a jam but it didn't happen today, the next time there is one is on Wednesday. The skip is still outside the house, its been here for weeks, not the neighbours are using it and they might as well, as its standing there., I have been using it to move my own rubbish really, A clock which I have had for a whiles seems to have broken, I came back from the walk and saw that it had stopped, I changed the battery with what I thought was a good battery, but they had been here for a while so decided to go to the shop and buy some, and they were expensive, it turns out that its the clock that is broken, I wonder if its possible to fix digital clocks., either to fix the mechanism or to replace it, I guess I will have to look into it,

      Been feeling a bit weary today, due to the activities of yesterday probably, all the walking and paper stripping, gardening and jamming until the early morning, not as young as I was so can't keep going in the same way.  The walk yesterday was very nice, connecting the above villages, it was not as straight forward as I thought it would be, which I guess was good. I have been removing more wallpaper today, and then went and did some shopping, then did some gardening again, I have this tinnitus problem which has been brutal the last few days, it really takes it out of you. The weather said it was going to be a bad day, well it was in the morning but it was like summer in the afternoon, of which Sunday is the last day of and i guess we will just have to get on with Autumn then, which I guess is ok as the summer has been quite nice

Well, I had to remove wallpaper again, and usually in this house if that happens, some plaster comes down with it, due to the walls being so bad here, but apparently its a common problem, I have some old filler but its dried up so I had go and get some from the local Wilkinsons in Porthmadog.  When I got to Wilkinson, I found some unibond, a make which I thought was quite good, on offer, there was 95p off it, so off I went to pay for it after I got couple other things, that shop seems to make me get more than I go in for usually. Anyway I paid for my things at the till and thought the total was a bit high, so looked at the receipt on the way out and saw that they had charged me for full price.  Now I don't like going back and asking for a refund, but I did anyway, they had to go and check the price on the shelf, their records did not show the fact that it was reduced, not very good really.  Anyway the lady back later and said yes it was reduced, and someone gave me my money back wh