Puppies and Books

Bonjourno Deano

Yeah, I just watched the Fosters advert. I like those adverts...

Anyway, I forgot to mention yesterday, that like two days after we got back from Greece we got a puppy.

Cute no?

He's like twice the size he was when we first looked at him, such a little fattie right now. To be honest that picture doesn't give you a real picture, he a complete terror, bites anything he can get his teeth into. My arms are covered in scratches and bite marks at the moment. He's only just started sleeping through the night which is quite a relief. 

Wow, that made me sound like such a parent.

Anyway, I also had quite a bookish sort of day. It started off me going down to the library to get loads of books for my History coursework on Italy. The library wasn't the most helpful thing so I ended up just getting any book that mentioned Italy in their index. Ended up with four books which seemed pretty unhelpful. I think I may have to either venture into the big library in Reading, that or asking my mums friend to get me some books from the University library.

Oh, and then the Song of Ice and Fire box-set I ordered a couple of days ago arrived. I bloody love these books. I'm already nearly 100 pages into the second book (I've already read the first book before I ordered the box-set).

Anyway, I'm off to go and get back into mah books now.

Good Night xxx

I'm Baaaaack!!!!

Hey there strangers, haven't seen you in forever. Yeah, wow it's actually been a whole month. Sorry about that, I got home from holidays two weeks ago and just completely forgot about you. But yeah, I thought I'd fill you in on what I've been up to and stuff.

As I mentioned before I left, I buggered off to Greece for two weeks where upon arrival I discovered how freaking hot everything there is. We arrived at like 10 at night and it was still 28*C. The holiday didn't get off to the best start seeing as I neglected to put any sun cream on my shoulders on the first day and they just burned up. Seriously, it was the worst sun burn I've ever seen, it blistered and pussed and burst and then peeled before leaving my shoulder all pale and weird looking. Seriously it was gross. That sort of meant I had to spend the rest of the first week sat in the shade pointing at the sun and shouting "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT?!". Didn't really stop me from enjoying myself though, I went swimming with the fishes (in the literal sense, not the mafia sense), had a rummage around the castle of the Knights Templar, cruised around the Aegean on a yacht, climbed into an active volcano and even had time enough for a little bit of shopping. Bloody brilliant holiday all in all and now I'm now going to bombard you with pictures of stuff.

The is the Hippocrates Tree which, as the name suggests, was planted by Hippocrates and was where he taught medicine. I kinda now have a leaf framed on my wall now.

This was some random ruins in the middle of Kos Town. I'm not sure what used to be there but the town was full of random ruins just strewn around the town.

As you can probably tell, theses are fish and they were in the sea...

This is me and my brother in the volcano *

This is said volcano from above. Isn't it awesome?

I'M ON A BOAT!!!!!

Yeah how cool is this places nickname?

And this is some shield I found in the Castle, it looks really cool.

Anyway, I'm sure you're fed up of hearing about somebody else's holiday so I'll leave you be for now.

Good Night xxx

*It's a stetson, I wear a stetson now, stetson are cool.

Potter and Puppies

Hey, haven't seen you guys in a while.

Hows the missus? and the kids?

Good to hear.

Anyway, I was out last night at the cinema watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Oh My God! It was absolutely bloody brilliant, if you haven't already seen it then you should now. It was one of those films that are so good when it ended the whole cinema broke out into a round of applause. In fact, we broke into a round of applause whenever anything awesome happened in the film. Gah, I loved it so much, all the secondary characters became absolutely amazing, mainly Professor McGonagal and Neville Longbottom, who by the way now looks like this:


Yeah, I couldn't believe it was him either.

Anyway, today was equally epic. I started off going down to Staines to look at puppies and then we ended up putting a deposit down on one. I mean, how could we not? Look how cute he is.


And his name shall be Diggory Dumbledog Davison. We get to pick him up in two weeks once he's old enough to leave his mum and we're back from holiday.

Then after that I ended up waitering for a website which was loads of work but I made sixty quid off of it so it wasn't all bad. Now I'm going to sleep for ages.

I'm also going to take a little break from blogging because I'm going on holiday in a few days and I don't really have the time for it at the moment.

Anyway, Good Night xxx

Trock On!

Yeah been busy lately. Lots of personal statements and school tours, generally been too tired for blogging. Anyway, I'm pretty much sorted now so ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!!!!!!

Basically on Monday I spent all evening in the office with my dad writing my personal statement for my Uni applications. I'm actually quite pleased with it but it still needs a bit more tweaking and jiggery pokery before it's good enough to submit. So yeah, that took a good couple of hours to finish and by that point my brain was pretty fried and really didn't work.

Then yesterday I had volunteered to give tours of my school to parents of kids that are coming here next year. It wasn't too bad, I've given enough tours of the school by now for it not to be that big of a deal, it just took ages and people kept wandering off and tagging along to my tour. It wasn't a problem, just difficult trying to keep track of whos who and where they should be when but all done now so t'sall good now.

And now to today. It's been alright I suppose, nothing particularly interesting, although I did spend the whole of our assembly listening to Chameleon Circuit's new album, Still Got Les. It's awesome, I got the download last night and at first I wasn't a big fan but it's grown on me a lot. It's odd, although it's fundamentally a Trock (timelord-rock) it is like proper music, y'know stuff that could pass for like proper music and stuff. So yeah, go and check it out somewhere, it's all over the internet.

Good Night * disappears in a puff of smoke*

Holister and Stuff

Appologise for no post yesterday, I was out a evening at TOM'S summer party, twas pretty damn epic, saw some good friends and made some new ones and what's more woke up completely hangover free. SUCCESS!

Before the party I'd spent most of the day in Southampton looking at the Uni, it was really sweet, the life sciences department was pretty much brand spanking new and looked so modern and cool. The uni was actually a lot better than I thought it would be and it's gone way up in my regards. The town itself aint half bad either. We had a wander around the big shopping center there and I got a load of clothes bought for me for the holidays. So I was pretty chuffed about that. Even managed to blag a Holister t-shirt. Holister is an odd shop. From the outside there was no signage or anything denoting what shop it was, just a tiled porch type bit. It was a bit odd. It was also really really dark in there, almost irritatingly so. Considering it's a clothing store, they're mannequins displayed a sever lack of clothes. I didn't get the logic behind that but perhaps that's just me...

Right, back to today. It hasn't really consisted of much, just chilling really. Also catching up on all the photos from last night which is always fun. I may even have to print some off and add them to my massive collage frame thingy. It'll be nice to have some photos that aren't all take in the dark.

Right, I'll see you all later then.

Good Night xxx

Hair Cut!

Yeah, I'm being nerdy again. I ordered some genome magnets a few months ago and they've finally arrived. Hence now I'm sat gene sequencing them by following the instructions they came with. To be honest I don't care what you think, they're too cool.

What else happened today?

Oh yeah! I had all my hair cut off!

Yah, it's very short but it's actually a bit longer than I wanted it, but still I think it looks pretty cool. What does the internet think?

Anyway, I'm gunna go back to my gene sequencing again

Good Night xxx

Epic Week

Yeah, TV got in the way of me posting yesterday and the day before. Sorry about that.

Anyway, these past few days have been pretty epic to be honest, we got to use an air rifle in Physics. To be honest I'm still not entirely sure why. We did some calculations which showed that the bullet was traveling at 260  odd miles an hour which Wikipedia verified to be true. So that was pretty cool. Also I got elected as House Captain which is rather awesome. I'm not sure what it means I have to do but still I'm pretty glad I got it. Oh and some more epic things are coming up both tomorrow and the day after. But you'll just have to wait and see.

Right, I have to go and catch up on YouTube videos for the last couple of days.

Good Night xxx

Copy, Paste, Print

I think it's finally safe to say that Summer has finally arrived. Not because it's been really sunny and nice today, I mean come on, this is England we're talking about. It's more the fact that it was cloudy and over cast all day yet still managed to be really quite warm. I think in England that's the only real sign that Summer's really here.

Today was actually rather good, it started off watching a DVD of our schools pantomime from 1994, yeah that's the year I was born. It was weird seeing teachers who teach me now performing in it. Especially seeing two of our deputy head teachers wearing dresses and dancing the YMCA. After that entertaining, if not slightly disturbing start, I mooched over to Physics where we did some more stuff about circles and our quiz team won a packed of biscuits. Success! Then I had History blahdey blahdey blah! And then I went home.

That's when things got productive. I started out by hoovering my room and cleaning out the hoover. Yes, I did just say I cleaned the hoover. Our hoover is the most pathetic excuse for a cleaning implement ever devised. It can't be used for more than five minutes without the filter clogging up and stopping it from working. It's bloody infuriating. Anyway, I did that and then did all the homework that needed doing. It didn't take long it was only a 'research' homework so all it involved was:

1. Google stuff
2. Copy
3. Paste
4. Print
5. Sorted.

Aaaand that's where my OCD took over. I then spent about an hour chucking out all the clothes in my wardrobe that don't fit anymore and arranging my existing clothes into type and then cross referencing them by colour order. What of it? You're just jealous.

Anyway, I'm gunna go slouch on the sofa and watch telly for a bit

Good Night xxx

The Importance of Austria in Blah Blah Blah Blah

Well today has been thoroughly unfun. Literally spent all day writing an essay on the importance of Austria in blah blah blah blah. Hence there is nothing for me to write about today.

To make up for it here's that video I promised last night

Good Night xxx

Onsies and Roadtrips

Oh hello blog, I'd forgotten about you.

Well, actually no I hadn't. I was busy last night doing cool things.

Yes, you guessed it, I finally got around to making a new video. This one is probably the shortest I've ever done but somehow took the longest to edit. Seriously I hate Windows Movie Maker SO MUCH!!!! Every time I tried to trim a clip, it wouldn't trim the audio so everything was way out of sync. *RAGE*. Anyway, I finally managed to fix it and it's currently uploading to teh YooTubz nao. It should be up later tonight.

In other less ragey news, I've spent most of this evening trying to decide which onsie to get from THIS!!!! shop should I ever get around to getting a job. At the moment I'm thinking of getting the wolf one although that is subject to change. Seriously though, they are epic.

On another equally epic note, my friend Tom (BLOG HERE!!!!) passed his driving test yesterday and as celebration he took Saskia, Ben and I out on a mini road-trip around town. There was lots of loud music and laughing. We also had all the windows down in the car and now my hair is like destroyed, totally knotted and weird. Still, was pretty awesome, things are going to be so much cooler now that one of us can drive. I'm thinking more road-trips out and about places.

Anyway, I'm going to go and sneak past my brother and his friends to go and get another drink.

Good Night xxx

Telly Watching Homework

I'm currently watching Inside Natures Giants so this post may seem a bit disjointed seeing as I'm trying write this during the ad breaks.

Inside Natures Giants is probably my favorite documentary series out there, it's all about dissecting the giants of the animal kingdom and explaining how all their bits and pieces work together to make that animal suitable for it's environment by cutting them up and having a good old rummage. I know it might not be everybody's cup of tea but I find it really interesting. Oh and I have to watch it for my Biology homework. I love getting homeworks like that, personally I think all homework should involve watching telly.

Grrr, my telly's just packed up and decided it's not going to work anymore. That's frustrating. Never mind, I planned ahead and recorded it on the big TV so I can watch it later. In fact I may go and pester my parents to let me watch it on that TV now.

So I'll big you adieu and I'll see you all tomorrow.

Cat Gifs

TO THE INTERNET *jumps through computer screen*

Good Evening Ladies and not Ladies. How are we all this fine day of wed......nes?

Wasn't it superb? Y'know aside from the school stuff and things.

Anyway, I suppose I should mention the schooling bit seeing as it made up a fair bit of my day. Probably the highlight of the day was discovering that tumblr isn't blocked on the school network. This led to me spending both form time and 'Critical Thinking' watching gifs of cats falling over instead of doing 'proper' work such as my personal statement which will help me get into university. Oh well!

I also managed to spend the entire of break listening to yet more Nigel Thornberry remixes and discussing what it means to be hipster, that counts as working on my personal statement right?

As you can see I've been very productive today and that didn't stop when I got home. Oh no! I planned two videos and killed two monkeys. Yeah, I did actually kill two monkeys. Not real monkeys, they're wooden and ornamental but still, they're broken now and I feel really bad. *sobs* I'm actually on my way to the funeral now. It's a bit of a traumatic time for me now, I would appreciate it if you would mind coming back tomorrow, it's just I was very emotionally attached to those two monkeys.

Rain...

HUZZAH!!!! The half way point of my stick of rock has been reached and it's only taken me five days.

Have you ever noticed that lol looks suspiciously like someone drowning?

Speaking of drowning* I felt like I was drowning today, not in the metaphorical sense of getting overwhelmed, but the literal watery sense. Yeah, it absolutely chucked it down around lunch time, but it was alright, just jammed in the sixth-form center listening to dubstep. I don't know why but heavy dubstep really suited the torrential downpour.

Right, I'm sorry but I'm finding it really difficult to write anything right now, me heads just not working properly. Apologies but if I persevered it would be a really bad post that no one would like.

Good Night xxx 

*Expert segway is expert

Nigel Thorn-BLAAARRGHHH

AHMAHGAD IS SO HOT!!!!

Seriously, I got to school at 8:10 today and it was already 24 degrees centigrade. Then it kept getting hotter until eventually I lost all molecular stability and I melted into a puddle of goo. Well, not really but you get what I'm saying. Yeah, you get me bruv. Innit. As it turns out other side effects of heat include sporadic gangster-ness. Please excuse.

Anyway, lucky for me I only had one lesson today which was in quite a cool room. So that was good, then after a brief talk about gap years during 'Enrichment' I got to head home at about 12ish. One thing I wasn't happy about was having to leg it down the road in order to catch the bus in 28 degree temperatures. I swear I nearly died. Silly buses and their being early and whatnot. On top of that, the stupid bus driver felt the need to turn the radiators on meaning I was sweating more than a person with thyroid problems... Yeah there wasn't a joke there, people who have thyroid problems generally sweat more than others.

After managing to drag my sweat sodden corpse up the hill to my house I jumped into shorts and a t-shirt and cannon balled about three ice lollies in an attempt to cool my body down. Eventually I returned to some level of normal temperature before heading to the internet to look up more remixes of pop songs featuring Nigel Thornberry (the Dad from 'The Wild Thornberrys'). They are hysterically funny and if you go to eddplant.com you can find a collection of the best ones.

"DUGONGS!!!"

Right I'm off now,

Good Night xxx

p.s The hot weather partially melted the stick of rock, much progress was made today.

Wasps Nests

So, day three of the marathon stick of rock eating contest rolls on. Still very little progress made despite several hours licking. I'm beginning to think that this is actually just a piece of rock.

Anyway, I'm going to keep his short as I have to get a crap tonne of history research done tonight so that I can got to Chesington World of Adventures tomorrow. Eek, kind of excited seeing as I haven't been there in years and they have a zoo there too. To be honest I'm kind of most excited about the zoo bit seeing as I've been having a craving to go to the zoo a lot recently.... Yes, I am sure I'm 16, why do you ask?

Today mostly consisted of me researching Komodo Dragons for a biology project interspersed with heading to the tip to get rid of some cardboard boxes and peering into the loft because a wasp nest had appeared in there. It was seriously big, even the exterminator guy said it was massive. It was probably the same size as a fairly large football. So yes, that happened but then the exterminator guy showed up dressed in his bee suit and did something to the wasps so that he could take the nest away.

So that's about it for today,

Good Night xxx

Clever Monkey

So, I'm still munching my way through the stick of rock. Mouth is beginning to bleed. BUT I SHALL NOT BE BEATEN BY MERE COOKED SUGAR!!!!!! I've been eating it for like three hours straight and I've still only eaten about half an inch of it, I may have to take a hammer to it soon.

Enough about sugary treats and on to more interesting stuff. Well to be honest, I doubt you'll find any of my day really interesting but I'll give it a whirl anyway. So I started off with history learning about source analysis and some such nonsense which very nearly made me fall asleep. Then I had a free which consisted of my downloading various games onto my phone and then playing them for the hour. We sat and watched a documentary in Biology about some crackhead botanist who did something to do with photosynthesis. Then I got a free period because my other Biology teacher was helping some kids do some work to help with something or other. To be honest I stopped listening after she said you don't have to come to the lesson. Finally we had Chemistry which as usual over ran and nearly made us miss the train. But alas I managed to catch it and wasn't late home.

Oh one other thing, recently I saw a clip on YouTube where a Gorilla got up and walked on two legs for a bit. Now the thing is a lot of the internet has exploded into "OH MAH GAWD THEY IZ BECUMING CLEVUR! I R SCARD". First things first, this clip was released by the company who are making a prequel to the Planet Of The Apes film which coincidentally about how the apes evolved to become the superior race. And Secondly, Gibbons have been walking on two legs for thousands of years and nobody gave two hoots, just because a Gorilla did that people are getting freaked out. Silly People are silly. Anyway, I'll let you make up your own mind. Heres the video:

Good Night xxx  

Bath And Beyond!

I'm currently writing this while eating a rather large and rather yummy stick of rock *drools*. It's awesome.

So today was actually quite exciting, it started off normal time but then instead of uniform I donned a Jack Wills t-shirt and a hoodie before heading off down the motorway to Bath University for their open day. On the way down me and my dad pretty much sorted out everything I need to put in my personal statement. Now all I have to do is actually write it.

 Anyway, once we arrived we wandered round lost for a little bit before finally pestering one of the student advisers for directions to the information fair which basically consisted off lots of little stalls advertising their course and such. I went over to the Biology one and started chatting to two postgrads who told me all these stories about their third year work placements. One of the guys told me all about his 6000 mile roadtrip across America at the end of the year. It sounded awesome.

After that we pottered over to the Biology department and chatted to some more students while peering at all the weird and wonderful creatures on display. There were fire bellied toads, fire salamanders, corn snakes, pythons, Axelotls (Which by the way are way bigger than I thought they were, like 30 cm long!), some geckos and some stick insects. It was really cool. Then we had a look around the accommodation which was all well and good.

After we left we went down to my gran's house because she lives nearby. My aunt came over too for lunch and we had a good old chat which was nice. This was when I got the giant stick of rock which I'm currently nomming on. It was like a gift to all the guests at a wedding my gran went to and she thought I'd like it.

Then we went and had a look round my Aunts house which they're building at the moment. It looks really cool, like something out of those grand design programs, just y'know not as massive and OTT. It's still gunna look really nice when it's finished.

All this only took us up to about 2 o'clock-ish. I know, we really packed it in. But we still weren't finished. Me and my Dad popped into Bath hospital to visit my dads uncle, my great uncle because hes been in hospital for the past week. So my dad had a nice chat with him and then had chat on the way out with my dad's cousin who was also at the hospital visiting.

As you can imagine it's been a long and tiring day, so I think I'm going to go and lie down and eat some more rock to give my feet a rest because I've been on them almost all day and they're absolutely killing me.

Good Night xxx

Right, I currently have 50 minutes until Waterloo Road starts. That's about enough time to write a blog post I think. I swear it's taking me longer and longer to write my blog, I used to be able to get one out really quickly but now I keep getting distracted by my ever increasing pile of subscriptions in my YouTube sub box. Seriously I just wrote than and then immediately went and check Facebook, what is wrong with me?

So today started off as every day this week has, with me waking up forty minutes later than I normally do. A massive rush of showering, dressing and eating ensued. But since my usual routing involves me taking far too long to do anything, if I'm in a rush I can do everything I normally faster and still leave the house on time. Go Me. Anyway, school consisted of me spending more time debating my future and stuff. Then I got picked up from Sainsburys where I managed to fix the TV at home simply by text. Basically my brother couldn't get the telly to work so he asked me what to do and I was able to give him instructions via text on how to fix it. I felt epic...

 Damnit I just went and spent 10 minutes checking Facebook again. I swear the internet is infecting my brain, I must fight back *goes and gets sword* * realizes swords wont work on the internet* *unplugs internet*

...

Cardboard Boxes

Huzzah! I haz teh mad skillz innit.

Is that how you talk gangster? I can never be sure with this 'hip-hop' lingo, I try to keep up but you know how it get, it all builds up so darn quickly.

Anyway, in reference to my 'mad skillz' I actually did some things today. Y'know those things. No the other ones. Yeah those ones. Yeah I used my epic man skills of being a techie and a chippy almost simultaneously. For those of you born before 1990, a techie is someone who has some technological ability and for those who don't understand slang, a chippie is a carpenter. The reason I was being a techie was because some furniture my parents ordered arrived today including a new TV stand which needed all the TV peripherals and accessories to be wired through it and then everything plugged back in. I know it wasn't the most technologically challenging thing in the world but my Mum didn't want to do in case she broke something. Actually now that I think about it I think I was just her insurance policy, so that if anything did break she could just blame it on me. Anyway, so after sorting all the telly and stuff, I turned my attention to the new, big, heavy table that needed some assembly. So, after some faffing around with a spanner and some nuts and bolts it was all ready to be eaten off. The one thing that I wasn't happy was the severe lack of playing in the boxes. When I was growing up I could have spent hours playing in the boxes the table and chair, I mean they were huge, I could have made an entire fortress out of them. Damn you age, making it unacceptable for a 16 yr old to play in cardboard boxes. I am also slightly worried because as my mum walked in and saw the boxes, the first thing she said was "You could probably hide a body in there".

Should I be worried?

Library Card

I thought I'd use this brief respite in the torrential downpour in order to write a post. Actually, the rain had nothing to do with me writing this, it was just something I noticed  as I began writing. You really wouldn't know that we're supposed to be in a drought right now.

Enough about the weather, its bound to be different where you are and therefore my previous statement is going to be totally irrelevant. Anyway, so last Friday I told you I tried and failed to get a library card, well today I managed to achieve it, albeit with the help of my mother who reminded me that I already had one but I just lost it. So that was easy enough to fix, the nice lady there just gave me a new one which now takes pride of place in my wallet. Armed with my new library card I went to go and get some 'research' material for my history project on Austria. As it turned there was only one book in our whole library about Austria and even that one was based on the entire thousand year period of Austrian existence. Lot of irrelevant stuff to sift through. Despite that I'm thinking I may have to hit the library a lot more often because it's a hell of a lot cheaper than buying the books which, with my reading habits will save me quite a lot of money.

Anyway, I'm gunna go and sift through 1000 years of Austrian history before settling down to Game Of Thrones (Ahhh, it's the finale tonight :D)

Good Night xxx