| Are u safe without it? |
[Nov. 11th, 2007|10:09 pm] |
Best not to ask how i stumble on these things, but this is surely the must have book of the year? read the reviews?
wtf? |
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| I fired a CANNON today!!!!! Eat that!!!!! |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|09:31 pm] |
Yes a full on cannon. Similar to the one on the right of the vid. I was allowed to shout "Have a care!" in my loudest, most commanding voice. Followed by applying match to powder making an explosion better than and fireworks display u'll ever see.
In case u haven't gathered, I have been to another Sealed Knot weekend. No battles, just a public display, but, most importantly, with gun powder :). I was also allowed 4 practice shots with other people's muskets, which is quite an experience. Had to do the display in Pike which was actually hard work and not really my thing. Apparently, the pike is more for the thrill seekers, who love being crushed in a mass of people. Firing the cannon is indeed an amazing experience, doing it for a battle would strike me as rather boring, because u just repeat, loading-firing routine, with no hand-to-hand fighting. Fantastic every once in a while tho :).
I have an interview with Whittard's Simon in Reading tomorrow. This has been on the cards since before last christymas, but has been complicated very much by the fact that Threshers are now very confident in my abilities and very short of good managers, they are harassing me to run one of their shops! While it is most gratifying to be in such demand, it has made leaving them very, very hard.
Although, initially Threshers was very hard, there are a loads of pros and a load of cons, where as taking a job for Whittard is very much a straight forward return to something I know. The next few weeks are going to have to be very carefully trodden I think.
Did I mention that I made a cannon go BOOM today? I did? Good. :)
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| Thought for the day |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|11:19 pm] |
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Apparently American editions of Cluedo have Mr Green instead of Rev. Green. Potentially because the USA is such a religious extremist country that any indication that a priest could commit a murder is unthinkable?
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| Battle of Shugborough |
[Jul. 19th, 2007|12:19 am] |
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Had a glorious weekend in the midlands fighting battles and getting drunk with the ( Sealed Knot )
Back in the 21st century, work have put me in for a personal licensee test in Reading on 28th July. This is a very odd move because I told them that I wasn't intending to stay working there very long and that course is pretty expensive. Still it looks good on me and maybe handy if I decide to run a pub in the next 12 years. |
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| A post |
[Jun. 7th, 2007|11:33 pm] |
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This week I went to a Threshers wine school which was cool. I have a certificate to say i know the basics about wine. I even learned some of the finer points like how wine can taste of toast and vanilla.
Threshers itself has it's ups and downs. The security aspect is very interesting. I have had 3 blatant shoplifters already. I have to give another statement to the police this week. The customers vary quite a lot and the frequency that you see some of them quite tragic. I am actually coming round that ID cards may not be such a bad thing as the amount of people I ID who look under 21 but probably are 18, yet still don't have the sense to carry ID with them, even when I tell them to is astounding. The threat of an £80 personal fine and the fact that I get a kick out of politely telling people that they can't do things is very good reason to ID people frequently. I haven't actually had many times where I've ID'd really stupidly (25 yr olds etc). I did turn a kid away the other day while he insisted that he was 18 even though the ID he choose to give me said that he wasn't. It probably works else where.
( Battle Reenactment )
Ashley |
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| An election day post |
[May. 3rd, 2007|12:31 am] |
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In honour of a rather minor election day, (on which I'm not actually planning to spoil my paper) I have finally manged to find the image from the front cover of The Independent from 10 may 2005.
The best site that I have found is makemyvotecount.org.uk the best bit being in the Golden Anorak quiz (under Fun if u can be bothered).
Question 4: How many countries have reserved seats in their legislature for hereditary tribal chieftains?
You can choose between 0 and 4. ( Answer )
I just thought that was the best put question I have possibly ever read. |
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| GET THIS!!!! |
[Apr. 24th, 2007|07:12 pm] |
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Sorry Ashley but I didn't realise that ur birthday was eclipsed by Towel Day |
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| Any volunteers? |
[Dec. 17th, 2006|05:28 pm] |
I need a favour from someone in Exeter please :) Smiles like a little Ashley.
I have stupidly manged to get a parcel sent to my old address in Fore street. Would someone be kind enough to go round, (it's probably just in Reform records cause they keep all our parcels) and claim it for me. let me know if u can :)
Alternate Office Space Trailer |
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| Has anybody noticed the acronym of 'The War Against Terror'? |
[Sep. 20th, 2006|07:04 pm] |
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Arsenal beat Man Utd. Thats the football out of the way. :)
I went to the Berkshire show with Christy the other day. I was really surprised by the scale of it. I wish that I had more money then I could have bought loads of stuff. They had an Australian hat, solar panels, tractors, weird sheep with horns (1 sheep had 3 horns like a unicorn), ducks, piggies and lots of nice looking food that I wanted to eat, all under 1 ummm... sky. The weather was good which was amazing because everyone else said it was raining where they were. :) |
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| Maybe it's not as good as we thought |
[Sep. 8th, 2006|07:28 pm] |
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Now, not only did my attempt at filling this in from the perspective of Adolf Hitler produce a higher conscientiousness score but it is actually higher than me!! I don't know if it better to be lower or what? If some1 else wants to have a go feel free.
This is accurate by star sign and age (20,April 1889) so people over 61 must be right bastards anyway.
Even though I answered the questions about thinking I was better than everyone else etc. as Strongly agreed, it says :
"Others describe you as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative." !!!!!
( Here are the results for Hitler ) |
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