David's blog

Well, today is the last day of 2013, I will not be sad to see the back of it, it wasn't good, another year of no work, and therefore not much money, had some refurbishments to the house, but the house has ended up in a mess by the end of the year, due to some not very good builders being here.  They have taken the rendering off but forgot to put it back and therefore water is coming in, they may remember to finish the job next year, as it is at the moment, but the fact is I might not be here as I am suppose to be going away to college in Hereford.  I have been there before but I think geting away from here might be good. I did some intensive labouring this morning, ie cleaning the kitchen, I hate the job, there always seems to be a lot of stuff from garden ending up on the kitchen floor, no matter how much I try to get the stuff off, by wiping my feet on the mat by the door.  I thought I had better get the house in to some kind of clean state by the time I leave.  I love going on

Well, I still don't have a washing line, and I decided to do some washing today, by hand, I don't have a washing machine either.  It has been quite a windy day, ideal for drying I thought, so I have had to improvise again, by tying ond end of the washing to the bin which is full of green waste, it seems to be doing the trick, though the wind has died down and it is starting to rain a bit, oh well.  I will need something better than the green waste bin I think. There is only 2 days until xmas, for me it might as well be 200 hundred days, as the thing seems to mean nothing to me this year really.

So Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber has died at the age of 84, that doesn't mean he was a 'great' train robber, the robber was was titled the Great, train robbery.  It doesn't mean he was the best train robbery that had ever been.  He ran away to Brazil to evade being put in prison, but in one way he was in prison, as he could not come back to GB and be with his friends and family.  I think some people admired him for 'getting away with it'  like I say, I am not sure he did get away with it, I guess he was always looking over his shoulder, and in the end could not handle that, and came back to serve some of his sentence, or maybe all of it.  I think he escaped from prison, that is how he managed to 'get away' with it.  I guess there is something inside most people that is fed up of following the rules and wanting to do something outrageous, kind of break away from the norm, like robbing a train, it seems a quick route to riches, such as robbing a b

accident I got some really bad news today, the daughter of someone from the village here, has been killed in a car crash, it happened yesterday, I assume it did, as she was coming from work,  These roads are very dangerous,  I also heard yesterday, that a friends son is very ill with cancer, he is only 18, the world does not make sense at times, young people, as a rule, don't get too seriously ill, its ill health that happens to older people, but I guess the world does not operate to my expectations of it,  Some people are bad all their lives and can get away with it, while others suffer for no apparent reason, I guess that is life, as human beings we are fallible.

It has been a very dank and miserable day today.  Well, after a lot of procrastinating, I deciderd to pay the damned tv licence, I think if you don't bother with BBC, it should be free.  There wasn't much flexibility given by the person on the other end of the phone regarding ways to pay, its not a nice thing to pay it really.  I thought I had better had as there are people coming and going here at the moment so the tv people might pester them. I got the local newspaper today, its called Llafar Bro, as regards the news in this village, even the fact that a bit of snow fell was mentioned, I guess if that's all the news there is round here, it would explain how I guess boring it has been round here recently, or maybe there is a bit going on and not getting into the local newspaper, I guess its hard to know to put in a local rag, but I suppse this time of year, there is not a lot happening,things die down in the winter, or is that what we expect to happen and therefore the p

I went out this morning to catch the bus to Caernarfon, to go for walk with a group and then go for lunch.  I got to Caernarfon at the time stated on the email, no sign of anyone, I walk around a bit could not find anyone, so I came home, a waste of time really. I got phone call wondering where I was, I told them I was a few minutes late due to the bus, getting to the destination, I think they could have waited a bit, I did say I was coming, the thing is stupid really, I  could not ring the person who was in charge as my phone won't upload the contacts from the sim for some reason, I will have to go to a shop so they can sort. My gold crown fell out last night and I was given an appointment to put it back today, I was given the choiee of getting put back or having a new one, I decided on the putting it a back but if it doesn't stay I will have to have a new one. I hate dentists but this time I was not in there long, I hope it stays in, as I can't be bothered with messing

Hopefully today I got rid of New call telecom for good,  they have been hastling me for weeks about some money they say they I owe them for some calls I made after the date I had left them, they have been emailing me and sending me text for ages, I have called them and once or twice they said they would stop the messages, but they kept on coming, hopefully they will stop now, the person on the other end of the line gave me the impression, that they were able to stop it, I guess I will have to wait and see.  If they try to get money of everyone who moves on to other companies then they will make a lot of money if those people don't check, it was not a lot money but that is not the point, its the principle of the thing It is very mild today weather wise, there is nothing wintery about it all, its very nice and apparently its going to be that way for the next week which is good and I can go for a walk on thursday

This is a pic I took the other day of a very calm afon dwyfor, I had not been there before, I went on a walk with the ramblers and really enjoyed it, I had the chance to go on a walk today, but it was quite a way away, an hour in the car, I could not be bothered with that, though maybe I should have gone, as there was not a lot going on here/  I had not been for a walk for a long time until the other day, as my girth is beginning to prove.  There is a chance to go on thursday but its a bit awkward to get to the start point as usual as I don't drive, I will have to try to sort this out. As I have said nothing much was going on here, just some cleaning, which needed to be done, there is a lot of mud outside the door, and i hope the builders will finish the job this week, as its a bit awkward having them around the place, The tv and radio at the moment is just full of Nelson Mandela, he was great man but I think they are over doing it, but I guess it take the emphasis away from