Preparation H

Today has been all about preparing for the arrival tomorrow of Catherine's parents. We have moved beds and wardrobes around today, and I managed to get my finger crushed by a wooden Ikea box (it's the one every think's they ought to buy cos it's so cheap!). Anyway I can tell you it bloody hurt when the floor of the wooden thing lifted up and trapped my finger whilst carrying it.

All that aside, we went to see Charlotte's Web at the cinema with other parents for little Lily's birthday. Emma was reasonably well behaved for about 30 minutes, then she got fidgety!

It was the first time at the cinema, not sure it's something to repeat too often!

Don't Stop Me Now

No holding me back today, the thrills of working for a large IT company just know no bounds!

Got an interesting call from Catherine today, her exact words....

"The dentist just called, and didn't leave a message. Do you know what they wanted?" to which I replied "No, because I don't have superhuman powers or can read people's minds from 22 miles away!"

Is it me, or do women ask some really daft questions sometimes, like "Where's my hairbrush?", as if a man would know.

Still last night I got accused of leaving a window open that she opened and I knew nothing about. Of course it was my fault, I should have known she'd open it during the day whilst I was at work!

Anyway, the new Mondeo seems to be very popular with the auto press at the moment, but it's stupid money on our company car list. So it looks like its a "fun bus" for me, I am over the hill and heading towards 40 as every year passes.

Tomorrow is off to Cineworld in Bristol to take Emma to a kids party, her first visit to the cinema, so it should be fun.

T-minus 2 days until Catherine's parents arrive at our house from visiting her sister in  Bath.

The Company Car Dilemma ....

It's time for me to choose a new company car, this time for 4 years as a contract. My current car is a Ford Mondeo Zetec S Diesel.

Let me tell you this, it has eaten the front bloody tyres, so anyone out there thinking of getting a 18" wheel Mondeo with 224/40 R18 tyres be warned! I have had 7 sets during 62,000 miles. The longest set being the Continental's from new, the worst so far being Michelin. It has consistently lost about 10psi of tyre pressure every 2 weeks since the first tyre set were changed.

Anyway onto the new car, the two shortlisted are the

• Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 CDTi Diesel SRi Exterior Pack
• Mazda 5 Nav Sport

I am waiting for a test drive next week on the Vauxhall, although i did try the VXR model last week and nearly had a heart attack (boy was it quick!!).

If you have any views on the two cars, leave me a comment.

Day One

Here I am, 36 years old, 19 of which have been spent in the wonderful world of computers. Yet it is today I finally get a blog site going, cutting edge stuff for me eh!

Anyhowz the idea is that I will post some stuff on here from time to time, maybe something funny, maybe some family pictures, maybe I'll brag about how good I am at Forza Motorsport 2 on the Xbox 360.

This is not me, though it is my celeb lookalike, Max from Phoenix Nights... superb program... t'internet... garlic bread!