Changes

Since I last blogged on here umpteen months ago a lot has happened! Me and Katie now are officially home owners! After months of graft and toil and general hard work we're almost in a position to say we're done! We've had to replace all the carpets, repaint every wall in every room, sand - stain - and varnish all the floors downstairs and finally transform the garden. The garden has been the bit I was looking forward to doing the most and so far the transformation has been very encouraging. I'm hoping to update this blog with the progress on how the garden is getting on - well we'll see if that happens in real life!

Not really news

While sitting on the Metro en route to work this morning I just read on Twitter that the breaking news is that William and Kate have now gone on their honeymoon! Sorry for the lack of excitement but whoop de doo, I really don't think it constitutes news - especially after they've asked for complete privacy! Although it was from Sky News so what do I expect!!

iPad

I've just read back through this blog and on 28th May last year I blogged about the newly released iPad - I was definitely a fan however wasn't sure i'd want one. I was pleased to read that I said I wouldn't bother with iPad 1 and instead would wait to see what iPad 2 would bring. Sure enough I'm sat here just under a year later and I'm typing this on a new iPad 2! I was lucky to get some money back from a bank after claiming back PPI which I was sold with a loan I took out a few years ago, and I decided that instead of being sensible with it all I would spend some of it on myself and Katie. The timing coincided nicely with the release of iPad 2 and after reading a lot of info about it I decided to take the plunge. Back in May I was unsure as to where the iPad would fit into my life in-between my iPhone, iMac and Sony laptop which are all knocking around the house. I can now say that I love it and I'm now not sure I could do without it. I'm finding that i'm not using the laptop and iMac as much and instead of sitting away from Katie while she tortures herself watching Glee, Greys Anatomy, X-Factor I can sit next to her on the sofa and do pretty much the same on the iPad! As ever the lack of Flash is a bit of a pain however there definitely seems to be a shift happening away from Flash towards other mediums! I'm definitely an iPad convert and would recommend it to anyone.

I'm becoming a grown up......

....ish! After getting married, becoming a father and more recently buying a new family car it's looking like I'm likely to complete the set and become a homeowner! It's easily stages yet but so far all the signs look good, the house will require lots of work in and out but strangely enough that excites me! I've been dying to find a hobby to get my teeth into - and this house could just be it! Fingers crossed!

Forgetful

Well, it looks like my last blogging session was once again a few months ago! Ah well! I'm definitely one of those people who will have a great idea pop into my head, whether it's a line for a new song, or something to write on here and then within five mins it's gone - I really should carry a notebook or my iPad round with me but I don't unfortunately!

Aghhhh!!

Once again I've neglected this blog! Humph! Finding the time when I also have something worth blogging about are minimal! Anyhoo - I'm sat here on the new blue three piece suite we got from my brother and sister in law (thank you)! While Katie watches Grey's Anatomy, not my thing really!

Inspiration

For the last few years I've been part of what we describe as 'a band' - it all started with me and a friend meeting up each week to play bad covers with a rather gruff voiced bloke! Time went on and an evening playing covers involving Mr Gruff always wanting to be as close to the original as possible became less fun and so it stopped. Since then we've moved to a more stable set-up of 5 of us (I've moved from bass to drums) and we're now playing all our own stuff - some of which is marvellous. The problem for me always seems to come when it's time to craft lyrics - I'm wondering if I'm devoid of an imagination or something as I can sit for ages and nothing comes at all! Even if I came up with something about a ghost eating toast up a lamppost I'd be pleased! But nowt! I wonder if I can just get away with writing instrumentals!?

Next week

Well, this time next week we'll all be finally able to have at least a basic understanding of what the new iPhone looks like - whether they call it 4, 4G, HD or even Jeff I'm not really bothered but what it does differently is really what I want to see! I'm not especially fussed that it won't have flash - I think that just means less rubbish to load from a site so it should make it quicker! I am interested in the camera, the speed of operation, any new bits of software brilliance nobody had guessed about! I regularly trawl through Google to read the latest blogs about rumours, sightings and made up things and they all seem to have their own ideas about what we will and won't see - I'd guess some of them will be wrong an others spot on! One thing I have determined is that there are people out there with far too much time on there hands who need something better to do with their time rather than play a guessing game with Apple!

It's here

Well after all the hype and expectation it's finally here - the iPad had arrived! I'm a huge fan of all things Apple however due to financial constraints I am limited to my only interaction with them being my iPhone. So when the iPad was announced I was naturally a bit intrigued and as with most people I was keen for a 'go'. Thankfully Phil (Fredspoon) had decided to take the plunge and preordered one which arrived yesterday - so last night I got to have a 'go'. Did I like it? Yes I did! Would I buy one? - No I wouldn't! It is an amazing piece of gadgetary however despite the size there's not a huge amount of difference between the ipad and iPhone! If I was somebody who spent a lot of time travelling on public transport I'd maybe consider it, but not yet! For the moment my iphone and home laptop cover all my needs -even with my sausage fingers I can still dance round the iPhone keyboard and hit almost all of the right letters!

One major thing that put me off being really tempted was the cost - for the price of the ipad I could also get a pretty decent spec Windows laptop - not that I'd want one but just saying!

I think I'll hold fire for a year until Apple bring out iPad v2, who knows it may have a camera, it may do Flash, it may sync with the iPhone making a behemoth of a gadget - who knows!

I am however very much looking forward to the new iPhone which with hopefully be unleashed by Mr Jobs on 7th July - will I be getting one? - I think I will!

Kurt Wenner

If you have a spare moment when you're supposed to be working have a search in google for pavement art by Kurt Wenner - it's amazing and very clever!