DIY - Update

Another weekend of successful DIY'ing in the Pennock household - the blind is up and doesn't look too bad if I may say so myself! The beast drill did the job again!

Apart from that we had a weekend of rugby and motor racing misery, me and Loue went and saw The Coral on Sunday night at the Oxford Carling Academy, which was a pretty good venue to be honest, would definetely go and see more bands there - they have Ian Brown, Pigeon Detectives and Maximo Park playing before christmas, so is promising to see more bands next year.

Anyway - album hint time - if your not a fan of the coral a good start is there self titled debut album:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coral/dp/B00006AKOH/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/203-9430811-4969548?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1193053090&sr=8-2

A good mix of many different styles, but a quality album.

DIY - Hint - Buy a Big Drill

My DIY experience continues - I borrowed Chudders hammer drill to put curtains up above our patio doors and found that it just wasn't up to the job - it broke - sorry chudders.

So I went out and bought a big boy for the job:

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First hole - took about 3 hours

Second hole - took 30 seconds

Therefore - my DIY tip - buy big and don't waste an evening getting nowhere.

Of the original list we have so far:

Painted front and back doors (both sides)
Put curtains up in 3rd bedroom and dining room
Mowed lawn (don't think that was on list)

This weekend - putting blind in the kitchen. Should be fun as long as we don't have to cut it!

10KM Run

A friend of mine is doing a 10KM run for charity:


http://www.10ksponsorme.org/daveb10krun

Sounds like a good thing to do - maybe we should all do one soon?? Would love to see Chudders run 10KM - I reckon he's got the physique for an olympic runner....

List of DIY jobs for this weekend

Loue is working me big time - this is her list of things to do this weekend:

To do (Plan of action):

Paint front door
Paint back door
Change light at front of house
Curtain pole dining room
Curtains dining room
Curtain pole bedroom
Curtains bedroom
Dismantle desk bedroom
Pack up computer bedroom
Excess furniture in bedrooms to loft (CD rack in bedroom 2 & 3)
Futon into garage
Empty garage to skip
Put blind up in kitchen
Clean inside of front door
Take mirror off back door
Clean inside of back door
Clean windows

If I survive I will blog next week.

Wine Festival, Pirate Talk

So the first Newbury Wine festival is nearly upon us, fingers crossed we get a decorative wine glass to keep like we do at the Reading beer festival each year. Can't imagine a hog roast is going to be welcoming us at the corn exchange, or that we will attend in tweed - maybe next year.

Here is the link to the festival if interested:

http://www.newburywinefestival.co.uk/da/51786

So what else has happened since last blog....... moved house, decorated house, selling house now.... been to Canada,Rome, Portugal, Valencia and Scotland, Loue has a new job at Vodafone, Bert has a baby:
(http://picasaweb.google.com/pessutojr/BabyAlexander)

My brother is getting married in 3 weeks, my cousin is engaged and Spurs are still letting everyone down!!!! Oh and Putin is talking like a pirate and making up games such as the 'Jack Russell'.

Stag do......

MMMmmmm - the time is nigh for Rosspo to go on his stag do, everyone has done really well to avoid telling me where i'm going - DL let slip after a few beers after the England loss that i will need my passport! Ha! Nice one DL!

So this leaves me with 2 options - Flying or Eurostar???

I think the Eurostar might be better for the way back - I don't want a repeat of Prague again!! Or a repeat of what happened to Putin in Prague for that matter!

Well, what will be will be - I hope to have a good time, and look forward to seeing all my friends together and then roll on the wedding!!!

Exams........ where do i begin......

Right - I guess this Blogger thing is about getting things off your chest - so with my exam tomorrow this would seem the perfect opportunity to question my existance in accountanting and wander what's the point of it all.........

Hours and hours of work for a 3 hour exam on something some geek has thought up in his / her head to cause as much pain and suffering as possible to all the students, and prove to him / herself that they are smarter than we are. Well your not, and were all smarter than you and have a life that's not just writing exams every 6 months.

Roll on beery Thurday, beery Friday, golfy, knicker shopping, beery Saturday...

Mmmmmm...

I just logging into blogger and i've got 2 blogs to choose from.... maybe rosspo.blogspot.com may be alive and kicking and i just didn't know it!