David's blog

It has been a very nice day weather wise I had a bit of a stroll round the town in the nice autumn sunshine.  I then did some shopping as usual and came back here. I heard a story the other day about this lady who had a cult round here in the 17 hundreds she believed she would marry jesus christ and in fact had a wedding in the village here where her followers attened.  The name of this lady was Mare'r fantell wen, its hard to think of a woman leading cult its usually derranged men who get up to those kinds of things especially you would think in those ages where women were I guess or I would think were even more subordinate to men than they are today, anyway she was buried this time in some year in the 18th century I guess there is a halloween twist to the story as she was a cult figure.

It was very sad to see today a homeless person still sleeping in a doorway in the high street in Bangor their quilt was on covering a part of the pavement its hard to understand the mess the Tories and their supporters have made of this country really. It must be so undignified for the person to in that state I guess it gave me a glimpse of what goes on after dark in these larger towns.  It could probably happen to anyone given enough bad luck and 'bad' choices. It has been while since I had visited Bangor its not looking too good a lot of closed shops and there is rumour about Debenhams which might close which after seeing the prices of the stuff in their is understandable its too expensive. I also noticed today that the Traws cymru buses have a thing which tells you the next stop this has been present on arriva buses for years well the coast ones anyway it does not seem to be available on the route I use locally.  This service is useful for people who can't see too we

I went for bit of a stroll this afternoon along this old railway track further on it is very over grown and its difficult to pass through it there are tree actually growing on the track now it has been closed that long.  I think the last train used it in the 1970s removing stuff from the power station which is now taken by road I assume. As a child we used to put coins on the line and wait for the train to go over it and they would have flattened them, no train could go on it now or I doubt ever will again due to the state of it.  While walking on it today a couple of young girls were on it I was surprised to see anyone there really as its a bit awkward to to walk I think they were visitors to the area I guess as its half term. I don't really know what will happen to the track I guess it will just be left as it is and get worse I suppose.

I learned the other day that these flowers are called Welsh poppies they are in my garden and grow every year they are wild flowers and I don't know much about them even if you can make opium out of them.  They are a nice change from the weeds which are usually present in the garden. It is a very chilly autumn day today and this morning I was trying to get to understand the source connect software that you can use to make and record phone calls or interviews which could be handy if someone wants to make a podcast or something which seems the way to go these days.  From what I can gather the quality is quite good really and should not need much editing I guess it depends on the quality of the microphone I am still trying to make it possible for the local blind society to record the local rag, the group that does record it is a bit slow in moving forward with the issue its been months now

Its another drab Sunday I just hope it is not as frustrating a day as yesterday which involved me having heartburn all night.  It started going bad when I missed the bus to go and pay the rent I was watching the football and thought I had enough time to catch the bus even if I sat and finished watching the whole thing the extra time didn't help. Anyway I was wrong I missed a bus I worked this out due to the app. I came back an hour later to see if I could catch the next one but this one did not turn up at all which was a bit of worry if I was going to get the next one as i might not get a bus back, this not turning up by arriva buses has been going on for months there was a meeting a few weeks ago but I guess it has not made any difference. There is no bus service round here to we are at the mercy of this unreliable service. I did manage to get to where I wanted to in the end anyway not sure it was worth all the hastle but oh well its done now. I woke up today to a wet sunday t

It has been an awful day, the wind has been blowing really hard and the rain lashing down it took me three attempts to get out of the this village I got wet on the first two times.  It is good to get out of this place and go down to the coast as the weather can be a little bit better down there and it was I guess though when I came back here it had improved regardless of the what the bus driver said and that it was going to get worse.  It has been dark and bleak all day they are calling in some storm or other though and its a new thing to give these periods of wind and rain names we have always had bouts of wind and rain but they never had a name before I wonder if they will start giving names to sunny periods and calling them drout billy or something like that it really seems odd to me I gues it has come over from America like a lot of these stupid ideas. I regard a storm as something that incorporates thunder and lighttening so when the word storm is mentioned to me I think we are

A strange day really I missed the bus this morning to go swimming due to the arriva bus tracker which said the bus was 2 miles away and it wasn't I guess there is a disclaimer on it saying they aim to be correct but I guess I will have to rely less on it than I thought.  I guess its free so what can you expect. I was lucky with getting to the swimming though my sister was passing as I was walking home with a glum face and she turned round and gave me lift to catch the bus. I really needed the swim this morning as my back has been hurting again I am torn about buying a new mattress too they are not cheap I will have to see how ti goes. After the swim I tried to get hair cut but they had no room apparntly even though there was no one there. I guess I will have to find somewhere else tomorrow or the day after. I heard yesterday that the weather was going to be nice but it has been frequent heavy showers today so I guess that forecast was wrong which was the same this morning hop

Its all change today I have a new broadband supplier now as BT were a bit of a pain and too expensive.  The new one was easy to set up so we are off. I also have new furniture in the bedroom which has made it possible for me to tidy the place up a bit and not have clothes around the place all the time.  The delivery was a bit early but that was no problem they were kind enough to help me carry the chest or drawers to the bedroom.  The room seems a lot bigger now which is quite nice as its a bit pokey at the best of times I have decided I would like to go to the rally gb tomorrow but the entry fee is a bit steap especially if I can't see anything which is quite probably with my eyesight I have had a suggestion that I should go to another vantage point but I am not too sure as it might be even further away its a bit of risk I have had some advice about the venue and tried to phone around a bit to get some more but I have not thus far managed to connect with anyone the line is bus

The shite chest of drawer in my bedroom has fallen apart once too often.  I bought it a few weeks ago and had someone who I thought knew what they were doing put it together for me.  It seemed to be ok for a couple of hours then the front of the of one  of the drawers came off, I put it back and moved the drawer to a position where I thought I used less to the bottom really and I thought the ones that were ok would last. I have been using for a couple of weeks but not too comfortable with the thing I have been anxious about the way I use it it sti smells new and look good but is really just a pile of shite. I did not pay a lot for it and I guess the old saying goes you buy cheap and you buy twice.   The other day it came apart again and this time I used some glue to put it back together and had some bricks to make sure the glue stick ed down. I replaced the the drawer the next day thinking I had sorted the problem on that drawer anyway I moved them about again so the ones which