A historic post....

This post happens to be my 200th...but thats not what makes it historic...what make it historic is this:

We have sold our house! which is a very strange feeling mainly cos Iv lived here all my life and hence leaving it is going to be very strange...and mum and dad have lived here for nearly 25 years...which is well...a long time! so yeah its a strange feeling...Im happy to be leaving Manchester cos I hate the city but its gonna be sad leaving pretty much everything and everyone I know behind. Oh well I'll be getting a car when we move so I'll be able to pop back now and again...well quite often to see County play at Edgely park...All we have to do know tho is find a house with about 5 bedrooms (or more) two garages a lot of storage space and a nice kitchen (for mum) for at £290,000...so easy really....oh yeah it cant be in a town! So if u know of a house which fits the bill in the market drayton region of Shropshire or the cheadle area of Staffordshire please let us know!

Right rather amusing story...This saturday I wasn't working :D so me and Lee decided to watch the rugby and listen to the football round at his place, and have bacon and sausage butties for dinner. So while we were in Somerfield in cheadle hulme we decided to get a couple of beers for the game. So we decided to get some ale, a Hobgoblin, and a Black Sheep...so I walk up to the till where the manager is stood, and he looks at me and says "do u have any ID?" Fair enough...I dont look 18...really if he'd been thinking tho he'd have known I was th right age cos which under age drinker drinks Hobgoblin and Black Sheep's ale? So anyway I hand him my driving license and Lee hands him his...now the date on saturday was 3/02/07 and my DOB is 5/10/88 as shown on my driving license. Now its not hard to do a quick bit of mental arithmatic...107 minus 88 = 19...maybe 18...anyway the manager stand looking at my drivers license for about 2 minutes and after a while Lee says "It doesnt take this long in the the pub" at which point the manager replies..."Im just trying to work it out cos to me this says ur 17." At which point me and lee nearly fell on the floor laughing! But our disbelief that a manager couldnt do simple mental arithmatics kept us stood still! How the heck did he become a manager?!? It took him 3 minutes nearly (after prompting by me that Im actually 18) to work out 2007 - 1988! Wot on earth do they teach in schools these days?

Today I pushed the boundaries on my bike some more...u see for the last couple of years my usual bike rides take me down a hill at styal near wilmslow. This hill is 12% and has the biggest kick ass bend near the bottom...in the past Iv only dared take it at about 34mph...I once did it at 36mph...but that was by mistake...but today I decided to throw all the cares of life behind me, and put my life on the line....trust me if I was to come off on the bend I probably would die...anyway today I hammered it down the hill and shot round the bend with only th slightest bit of braking...and much to my delight I discovered that I took it at 38mph exactly...which isn't bad considering how damp, greasy and cold the road was...but thats not it...next time I take that hill Im aiming for higher...Im aiming for 45mph...now thats pushing the outside of the envelope.