tuesday 26th july
mk for victa and a spot of boarding. most days i go to improve my riding, to keep learning and today i just rode as fast as i could. for the wind and cold air.

saturday 3rd - monday 25th july
no assets so i build the end logo and save myself three days of later nights.



tuesday 16th july
last year's favourite client calls me back after i ask if i can help out. sweeet. but who was it and what is it?

monday 15th july
funks does mordor. with a precious beer. yeah and a rock, dude, har har. i bcomposit part two of 'two''.



sunday 14th july
driving home, arm out of window. roasting away.

saturday 13th july
barbie at ravenscliffe and it was a treat to see uncle john and liz again. it's been a very long time. good to see them happy, healthy and bouncing around with the kids in the crazy daisy

friday 12th july
hoping the nail in my tyre doesn't blow me out i cruise up the a1 to the towers'. i meet woogie the boxer, lou, stu and maddie again, and harry for the first time. he bites. so we're waiting for dad to get home, running around in next door's garden with amy and ethan trying to releive lous handful a bit and i see toast walking around. my favourite cat. i remember when sat in my left hand as a kitten back when i was still at college and he's always known i was the last out of bed so i used to wake up with him looking for the last movement-free part of the house. he skipped over, and came to say hello, the social tart that he is. louise said i could have him if i didn't live in london and my heart broke just a little bit. he's so qr.







wednesday 13th july
'it's freaking me out without no picture on it!' i finish part one of two black stripes. minus the floor, whatever that should look like.



tuesday 12th july
black yellow and red.

so i'm just about to leave for the day of sitting in the garden and cycling with dad down the road and back when i check my phone messages and mum's blown me out. apparently the warehouses were a better offer, or it's too hot. so i get in the car then get out, buzz all the windows down, start the engine, get out wait for the heat to evaporate then get in again. first stop halfords to check out the new sony in-car stuff and i come across a lush pair of 17" oz alloys at a very reasonable price. with effort i resist instead spending £17 on a strimmer. garden day one way or the other, i decide. this is where i went wrong.

it was all going so well for a while. t-shirt off, hammer down, gloves on and only one chunk out of my shin before the majority was clear. got way easy although i give up after trying to dig the stump out of the middle of the lawn. whoever planted it there about twenty years ago good one, clown shoes.

so i could finally get to the fridge that's been sitting around waiting for rupert and check the watch. quarter to three. the dump closes at 4 so ages. planks, tiles, bottles, paint tins, a mop, bin bags and a few dozen snails flew over the fence and in the back of lbc. brrm. dump. man brings forklift over with a chair on and says 'chuck 'em on there, mate.' so i do and he winds it up and drops the whole caboose in the crate. brrm. home. i drag the fridge freezer to the wall (it's about 5 feet high), hoist it up and rest it on my shoulder ready to lower it over the other side. my ankle stings and i presume nettles, so move my feet away only to feel five or six more go in. i look down and see wasps circling my feet. i hop up and down, drop the fridge over the wall and run back to the house. a bloke from the garages behind hears me yelling and comes over to see if i'm all right. i look at my watch. 3.15. no time. he helps me stuff the fridge in the car and the boot won't close so i eek my way through school pickup traffic, my ankles on fire, time ticking. i make it to the dump but can't get under the six foot barrier with the boot open so park up and drag it from corner to corner down the street. i crawl home, run to the chemist for calamine lotion and stand in the bath hosing my legs with cold water.


monday 11th july
made meself a web logo for me website.

sunday 10th july
the moseying around in lbc continues with another trip to st. albans again. super hot, super funny as ben takes his first photo (slight pressure on the finger by me) and all of a nano second to sit on the rug after kate spread it - and less time to have his hands thrust out for his bib. he ate more than me, factory production-lining the sausages from pot to mouth. then a stroll round the abbey in the cool and an ice cream on the way home. summer days with family



saturday 9th july
more fireplace work, car wash, oil change, t-cut, wash and wax.

wednesday 6th july
yep, the ipod shuffle needs glueing up so it's the thrift store again. four tubes of superglue for a pound and all the way from osaka. cheapo.

tuesday 5th july
jo moved into her new flat yesterday and today the electrics fused so she's here and panicking so i make calls to help. a huge chunk out of the kitchen work surface so paul the fitter's the man on the other end today. then sainsbury's for filing boxes so i can get the foot high stack of bills organised, then blockbusters for oceans twelve (shame about the julia roberts / bruce willis part) and more website designing. it's all html these days.

monday 4th july
dentist, home, mail amd steve rings. whaddup, he's got the hire car still and a free day so why not? a couple of endurance wins, a drive to angel, borders and we tick off the sith. which was good apart from the obligatory montage and cheesy circle of life birth / death cheese.


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