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As some of you will already know I had a nasty accident on my motorbike last week. A car pulled out in front of me at the Park Street Roundabout. I swerved to go around her, but she managed to clip the back of my bike which sent my bike sideways and me with it. I bounced along the ground a bit, hit a curb and finished up crashing into the central reservation. I shouldn’t really say too much more as its all going through the legal process now. I damaged my left leg pretty bad and the doctors were worried (not half as much as I was) that I might have ruptured my spleen. Thankfully after some further examinations they told me it wasn’t anything too serious and thankfully my leg wasn’t broken.
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Okay, so it has been far too long since my last update. But the problem is, as with many things in life the longer you leave something the harder it is to get back into it. Therefore am printing an excerpt from a book I’m currently reading a) because it’s quite funny and b) in the hope it will help get me back in the swing of things. Read the rest of this entry »

This is somewhat of a full lap for hopkins81 as Clara’s last birthday was the first set of pictures I put on here. Scotland was a fantastic weekend, I didn’t really think there were going to be that many great photos but how wrong I was! Neal appears to have taken over from Gomez as being the most photographed man, but with such beautiful eyes who can blame us. But even he would have to agree that Clara was the bell of the ball, and didn’t look a day over 23 and 11/12. Read the rest of this entry »

Chip and pin is fucking brilliant. It’s safer, faster and cuts down fraud, but that’s not why I love it. I remembered this week just how much I hate having to sign my name on credit cards. It’s a skill I simply don’t posses. I must have been off school when they did the lesson on how to produce a signature and I must have also missed the follow up lesson on how to put this signature on a camouflaged, plastic strip the size of a fingernail. Read the rest of this entry »

So September 29th is upon me again, 24th time by my reckoning. This every increasing number is bringing with it many unwelcome bodily changes. Aches and pains are at an all time high, whereas hair follicles and tadpole counts are at an all time low! What I needed to alleviate this grimness was some kind of immature outing that could get the red blood in this males pumping again. What was delivered was Weekend at Dave’s. Read the rest of this entry »