Things aren't always what they seem....

I am off to Birmingham this weekend to re-visit a new type of Religious Building. The New Street Shopping Centre or the BULLRING as it is affectionately known?

This centre is truly a sign of how people have turned away from Gods and now worship "Goods". Now I am not a member of the God Squad so I am not going to preach to you but this place gives you a feeling of the world to come and frankly it 'aint what I want. There are techno maps to help you navigate from one purchase to another. I got lost! I got lost in a shopping centre?? The place is one big cotton candy advert synonymous with the USA and heaven help us if we end up being a UK subsidiary of the US.

On another note - I had a wonderful wake up to never making assumptions. I have been taking the bus to work on and off for the past couple of weeks and I noticed on three separate occasions a blue hatchback car jumping the Red lights at a railway crossing on the way to work. Given the recent rail crash and deaths you may be surprised at the utter stupidity of people, some divvy chav driving his trumped up hatch??

NOPE! a middle aged woman who works at the Chemist. Yes this irresponsible citizen endangering lives with her irrational haste is an assistant in the local chemist. Give it a miss will you woman! If I can get a piccy next time she does it ( and I guarantee she will) I will post it here.

Things aren't always what they seem eh?? ....

Yawn Yawn ...

It's bad enough that the railways are shite and the trains are always late and all Virgin Trains are interested in is selling you overpriced coffee that tastes of cleaning fluid. Lately ( the last 3-4 months) I have found it increasingly harder to get times of trains from the website, although funny how all the sales crap always works. Today I had to queue for ages to check out times as the engineering works is buggering up the lines on Sunday. The staff were very helpful but I could have done it all from my desk had it not been for the wonderful results once again from their website.

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I have given up complaining ( god knows I have done it enough) and just resign to the fact that their IT service is crap and probably outsourced. So when I found this I knew the reason why it is so crap!




Now where is my old paper timetable? .... progress!

On the road again

Following a brief break I am back on the road again. Came across this lovely old bike ( I won't say where 'cause some git will probably nick it) but lovely isn't it?



I was cycling into work this morning when I saw the blokey in front (on his bike) has a bumbag under the saddle and it was open. I thought I would be the kind chappy I am and let him know before I found myself being bombarded by his sandwiches as the escape to the big wide world.

I checked behind me and went up next to him and shouted the immortal words "OI MATE!" and whilst I did this some twat from heaven came up behind me in a Maroon Saloon (poetry!) and ok I was in the middle of the road but I was clearly bellowing at some bloke on a bike. Did he honk? no did he flash his lights and brake? no

The knob for brains over took me in the middle of the road ( or rather the other side!) on a bed leading up to the Crossroads at Mill Road. His passenger and equally stupid looking woman waved at me as if I was beating up on a granny and as they shot past me all holey than now, through the red lights at the crossroads I wondered if they would get it?

NO I don't think these SUN reading SKY watching LAGER drinking SMOKERS ( yes they definitely looked stupid enough to smoke) would ever get it?

MELONS