Mock the week was the funniest 3 hours of my life last night, it was non stop, our sides ached after, on a few occaisions I was in tears of laughter, Michael Jackson featured heavily, how the hell they will get a show out of that filth I will never know

Off to see Mock the Week being recorded tomorrow, should be a giggle, Young Finch is fuming as its strictly for over 16s only, it is his favourite show! Poor lad. Last time I was in a TV studio I was in front of the cameras, I am told my appearance will be on in the Autumn! Have a look and guess which of us had demolished a vast amount of red wine, there were 3 main culprits, one was a certain Mr Hound the other two should be easy to guess...

Been to a scout meeting this evening, we are having a camp in a few weeks, for our explorer scouts, guess who is doing the cooking all wekend for 50 Explorers plus leaders! The menu is done and we are going on a recce of Makro this week to work out what we need for budget. Talking of cooking instead of going to a BBQ last Saturday a quiet night in was order of the day, a DVD, forgot what it was but it had Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton and was quite clearly a girlie film, and to top it all I cooked a vegetarian bolognese using Quorn.... not the best I have done, but went down well.

Got a letter from Young Finch's school about Swine Flu, I am still not convinced that it is as bad as they say, the stats say nearly 5000 people die every year from various flu strains, this has killed less than 5 and they all had underlying health issues, hyped up old toot as far as I am concerned. According to the letter we have to phone NHS Direct if we have any of the symptoms....waste of a bleeing phone call if you ask my opinion, the symptoms on examinng them seem very similar to man flu....

Got some bad news yesterday during the day, so what is in a fearful mood when I got home, thenkfully Dan is away! By the time I went out in the evening I was in a better mood, which improved even more after our meal in the noodle bar, not the best idea for my poor knackered old stomach, but was very tasty, after which we retired to a friends place and spent the evening in their pool with some chilled wine! very relaxing. A nice easy day today we had a late breakfast of bacon eggs and now have bugger all planned! marvellous.

Sunday we have a meeting to plan our trip to Switzerland in 2010, a party of 25 explorer scouts and leaders will head off to Switzerland on Boxing Day for a weeks ski-ing and snow boarding, we will all be fundraising to pay for this trip, at about £700 each we believe we can raise the majority of the cash that way, as a side event 2 of us have had long standing ambitions to ride a 4 man bobsleigh and close to where we are staying is one of the best tracks in the world, and we will be having a go, although not driving ourselves we will however be passengers! Young Finch is coming and is looking forward to the trip, what I think he wants to see is the old man make an arse of himself on skis, I would find it hard to dissapoint the little sod! A fellow scout leader with experience of the slopes reckons the more mature members should avoid snowboarding as its a young uns game, and we will find it very difficult, sounds like a challenge to me! The lodge we will stay at is stunning, with stunning views over the Alps, and a great chance for me to get back inot some extreme ironing! Our Explorers have just worked out that you can drink beer in Switzerland aged 16... god help the Swiss, sadly they will be too young to enjoy the delights of the Schnapps, more for me!

Its amazing what you read on these blogs! especially when people read things totally wrong, I would lke to just say here and now I am not pineing for anyone or hoping anyone will fall in my arms.......
Glad we sorted that, It stops here.

Watched Glastonbury all weekend, thought Bruce was awesome, loved the Specials and my son has been banging on about Lady Gaga for ages, so I watched, man alive she was good! cue the Young Finch having a fit over the fact his old man quite likes the music!, apparently it his music and I should get my own, double standards here from the young un, this coming from the boy who nicks my ipod and is found listening and singing along with Pink Floyd, Tears for Fears and much more of my music! although his singing is better than one of my brothers was, when he had his headphones on listening to The Faces, The Who and others...I am still traumatised!
Tom was at Glasto this weekend and enjoyed Lady Gaga and revealed she flashed more than he bargained for, his terms were slightly cruder on the text I received, I would reveal a snatch of it but decency prevents me.

Had a good weekend, Saturday found us at a friends, cleaning out his pool in preperation for a pool party next week, we hatched the mad idea of having a game of poker in the pool!
Sunday we trundled down to Biggin Hill for the airshow, the prime reason was to see the Vulcan, sadly at 3pm just when it was due to display we were told it was not coming due to a problem with the plane, at the time I was hugely pissed off, this was the sole reason for me going, apparently they were working on it all night, and they waited til the last possible minute to tell us, I felt a bit conned to be honest, its like buying a ticket to see Bruce Springsteen and support and Bruce does not make it! still once over the hump we tried our best to enjoy the day, the Typhoon was awesome, Young Finch thoroughly enjoyed seeing it hammer up and down, and the pilot had fun to, we think the afterburners were switched on as often as possible! I even popped into the Scout Centre at Biggin and flew the Comet flight simulator they have, I took off from Biggin, flew to the dome then on to Tower Bridge and began my descent to Heathrow, a text book landing followed!

I got a snotty email from a friend about me making comments about my ex wife on here, firstly she deserves all she gets, and believe me I am holding back on here..... more importantly I sometimes need somewhere to let off a bit of steam, and this is my chosen place, she does not read it neither does my son or any of her family, I have not gone in for writing about what happened, I could but I wont, because some of it would make your toes curl! and frankly tats not what this blog is for, I just like to write down things that happen from time to time, and its my blog and I write what I want to.

I also have someone who seems to follow me around on facebook and twitter, in an effort to find out who I am seeing etc, I will never ever put that sort of info on here or on Facebook, so forget it, they know who they are and have been blocked on all of these sites, so this is there only source of info...well it aint going to happen so move on.