My Lucky Charm

Recently I went to Manchester to take part in an assessment day.

I like travelling around the place you get to witness all the other accents that are around our little country and also see scallies from around the Great Ilse as well.

First, off it astounds me how many different accents there are around our Great Britain. From the odd throaty accent of Liverpool to the Londoners other wise known as "Cocker-ney". It's not that far a distance yet it could be a million miles when you listen to the locals try and communicate to each other.

As I also said I like seeing what the scallies get up to. It seems to be universal that they wear scarves around their mouths, baseball caps low and hoods on to cover anything that might be recognisable. But they aren't up to anything un-toward. Just you know being scally.

Highlights from this trip were listening to the drunken Liverpudlian, who was listening to the Everton game loudly on the train, his drunk wife who couldn't stop laughing at her own joke(you see she was on the phone and said that she was in Nuneaton and saying she HADN'T EATEN), getting ripped off by a Manc git of a taxi driver and also this peice of graffitti.

This kept me amused all bloody day.



Let's see, say yes to......Crack, whores, gambling, sweets from strangers, getting into a strange mans car to go and see his puppies and keeping the blinds open at all times to keep the very friendly neighbours happy.

But Seaworld? Well you can go right to Hell mister. I'll never kneel to you.

But to get to the point, I went on an assessment day to go for a promotion.






Which I got!


A quick timeline of Craigs recent life where everything is going ace-ingly golden.

November 2006 Have an interview for Operation Manager Role. Also The Amazing Sarah starts back at work.

December 2006 Get told I will have the job in 3 months time. Also start going to the pub with TAS.

January 2007 Pass NGS (don't ask) Means I get paid more and taken advantage of more. But still more money for me!

February 2007 Start going out with TAS.

March 2007 Have an aces holiday in NY.

April 2007 Get new job! Now I have power.

June 2007 Move in with TAS.

January 2008 Get named Best New Operations Manager 2007 for my area.

February 2008 have year anniversary with TAS

February 2008 get promoted for second time in less than one year. Because I ROCK!


So you now see why I love having her around so much.


She brings more money my way.......yet more work as well.


It's an odd balance but she is also very pretty so I'll keep her around.


I'm nice like that.

Well That Sucks

I'm sorry to inform you, in case you didn't already know, that pandora is no longer available outside the US.

If you don't know Pandora is a brilliant site that works as a radio station playing only music you like. You type in an artist that you like and then Pandora, very brilliantly, plays music associated with that artist so you should like it all.

However, we not being US citizens are not as good as them so are now no longer able to listen to free music.

This may be a blessing in disguise for Col. Orange as I think he has sold all of his internal organs (apart from 1/3 of his liver, 12 inches of small and large intestine, one kidney, one lung and only enough blood to keep him alive) so that he could buy all the music he liked from this site.

But for people like me, that have a good library of music but sometimes want to listen to something new, are screwed. This might mean I have to listen to the actual radio, or worse still the AOL radio stations.

This does mean of course that I am open to suggestions of CD's that I should own to widen my taste and perhaps just have a jolly good ol' bop along to.

All suggestions welcome, apart from pop music and jazz.

This includes jazz flute.

And Being Delivered To My Door This Week.....

Plagiarism






… pure joy. Yay for cheap dvds.

...And Relax

Hello folks,

Sorry it's been a while but things are a little bit hectic this end. This is just a quick note to keep you all up to speed really.

1, Work is going 1000MPH's a minute for me at the mo. It's all well and good and I am enjoying the challenge so bring it on.

2, I won Best New Manager for my Area. I really am kicking ass.

3, I won some HMV vouchers at work. I spent them the next day on an Alfred Hitchcock boxset.

4, The Amazing Sarah and Jecka are both greatness.

That's pretty much it. I could go in to some good detail but I am trying to get flat things sorted out at the mo.


So till next time Craigy Fans