ebay speculation...

I'm going to write like I was never gone, see if anyone notices...

Hehehe...

Heellooooo....

I'm currently watching 'Most Haunted' which gives me nightmares... )= Just I can't reach the controller and I'm being super lazy and it would involve way too much work!! So nightmares it is then....!

By the way I found myself in this situation last night too..... "Ooooo the orbs, the orbs....!!" ...

Reminds me of my sausage-roll fetish... should probably explain that..

Everytime I eat eat a sausage roll I get a headache, if I eat another sausage-roll then my headache gets worse, quite simple really.... no idea why!!

But that doesn't stop me eating them... if I'm at someone's house and they happen to have a plate of those delicious treats, then I'm buggered! Literally.... well not literally, but you know what I mean.


So I wanted to talk about ebay speculation, which is a term I've just decided to make up, I think it could become a sensation!! Watch this space!

It involves buying stuff on ebay and then selling them on for a profit, come to think of it someone else has thought of it before... but did they coin a term?? Should I copyright this?

Probably not...

Back with a bang...

... what better way than with this Eddie Murphy classic...



Apparently only 3.5 stars on youtube.... what??? What is the world thinking...!!

Check out the doos, the dancing and my hero Eddie...

Well it's about time I started writing again!!

I'm going to make it easier on myself, and post a photo along with a story each time I write.

Hope you like it!

(:

Here's a pic that I like to start the whole thing off!

This is a picture from Fuzhou zoo. A funny family moment!

Many goings on...

Thought it was about time for a post here, a lots happened in these past weeks...

Just got back from Portugal, had an awesome time there!! Saw all the sights of Lisbon, Faro, Albufeira, Portimao and many other places you've never heard of... My parents were out there too, we saw them for two days. It was sooo hot down there, I absolutely loved the weather. However, coming back, not happy, the weather is shit! Rainy and cold, good Asturian weather!! However, this will not last for long as we're moving to the warm climate of Fuzhou in South East China in a matter of days.

Yeah, I said good bye to our boss (yesterday) of the academy, which wasn't the nicest conversation in my life, oooooooo! And we're packing our bags as we speak!!! We'll be flying off to Shanghai very shortly and to our new abode in Fujian province. We've been offered a lucrative job in Minjiang University, that means we'll be University teachers!!! So that means no more sweet teenagers, no more sending people out, no more "-1 for speaking Spanish" or for the smaller one's " ): unhappy face for speaking Spanish"!!!

So we're definitely looking forward to that. It's Carolina's first time in China, so she's caking her pants as we speak, as is her family!!! I enjoyed the phone call to her mother when aparently she was speechless!!! Happy times!! Last time in China my mother refused to visit, but the lure is becoming too much I think... we'll see though.

So we've already planned a trip to Hong Kong to get our official visas so look out for photos of that soon, as well as many other trips around the place.

I'm going to leave you with a description of Fuzhou which sounds really cool....

"Capital of Fujian provice, Fuzhou is a 2,000-year-old city with rich cultural heritage. It lies opposite Taiwan across the strait. The city abounds in banyan trees that were mostly planted at the time of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127). So Fuzhou is also known as Rong Cheng, meaning the City of Banyans. Fuzhou has been the native place of famous men over the generations who made history. More historical sites are found in the city of Fuzhou than most of other Chinese cities. The three hills of Yu, Wu and Ping stand at triangular positions, while the two pagodas Bai Ta(White Pagoda) and Wu Ta (Black pagoda) face each other at a distance. These make up the city's landscape. Places of interest include the residence stone carvings and the cork sculpture, are objects of admiration since early on both in China and abroad. Fuzhou has abundant hot springs, and good quality hot spring water is supplied at the bathrooms of hotels. Fuzhou is also famous for culinary art. Gourmets' fascinations are such delicacies as Fo Tiao Qiang (Buddha-Jumps- Over-The-Wall) and clams in chicken soup. Fuzhou is accessible by modern routes of communication. It welcomes tourists from abroad and elsewhere in China".

Back...

I've been away for a while, it's true, but now I'm back, really. After working my ass off for 6 long weeks at summer camp(pictures above), I've finally found the time to write a post about something. I thought about writing about my love of today...Branston Pickle... but you don't know what it is and there's not many words I can use to describe it, delicious, tasty and great, not enough to fill a post. I can tell you what book I'm reading..I started reading it today and I'm already half way through it, it's by a new author to me, Sydney Sheldon, it's a book called 'Sands of time' and Carolina has promised me that it's better than Da Vinci Code... so far it's v.good, so we'll see.

I'm reliving my fast reading skills days. When I was 10/11 years old I read all the books on the school reading book trolley, I know what your thinking, but yes all three shelves!!! Then the teacher said "Great, you've finished!", I was happy to have achieved something, which is important as a 10/11 year old, even if it was to finish a book trolley, there were more than 100 books!!! A modern day 'Matilda' except I didn't really read a book since. I did go through a phase of reading those 'decide the story' books, where you read a page and you chose what you should do next, which decision to take... they were pretty lame though, I cheated. For example, when you knew you were coming to the end of the book and the decision at the bottom of the page was

'throw the magic rock at the mad wizard from hell' turn to page 33
'run like hell back to the enchanted little village' turn to page 178
'try to talk to the mental wizard and reason with him' turn to page 233

...a quick sneaky peak at page 233 revealed a certain and gruesome death, and turning to page 178 meant that you'd have to read the last 20 pages over again and retake the same decisions, then throwing the magic rock was feeling really attractive, especially after the mad wizard from hell had kidnapped the precious diamond finger from the hand of Dragnar that held the power for all the land... ...so they were pretty lame...

Sometime between now and finishing the trolley I read all the Roald Dahl classics... not sure when. And a book along the way called 'Winjin Pom' which since then has been my favourite book. And considering no one else has probably read this book, then you know it's bad... ...the plot was about an Australian talking caravan and I remember that talking crows were the bad guys, and the good guys travelled around in this caravan, doing crazy capers. Not a day goes by without me thinking about that book, and the TV series...

But I'm trying to make up those lost days since 10/11, having been told I've finished reading now... my new favourite books are probably 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Wild Swans' -Jung Chang(just in case you'd heard of him), both awesome, for completely different reasons.

So I've officially written enough for a post.


I have got even more photos on my flickr account, loads with our new Nikon camera!!!

Make sure you try some Branston Pickle.

And don't listen when someone tells you to stop reading, unless your in certain danger, i.e. mad wizards, buses, poison...


And go see Charlie and the Chocolate factory...

And take a look a Carolina's flickr too while your at it!!