tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82472592011-12-12T13:44:10.274ZTophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-25524525653095724872011-12-12T13:17:00.004Z2011-12-12T13:44:10.281Z

I've just done a nice bit of analysis on the X Factor results for 2011 series and it seems the best way to guarantee a path to the next show is to sing just before the phone lines open. They currently open after the last act has finished performing, so it is fresh in the memory for the public voting who may have missed the first half of the show. In fact only 2 acts (Kitty x 2 and Misha) who sung

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9th July saw the 5th Annual Softball tournament with work and a load of other professionals from Huddersfield. It has now been moved from June in an attempt to avoid rain. This didn't work.We started off well with 3 home runs from the first 3 hits.Then we managed 2 run outs from the same ball. Being an experienced softballer, I am fully aware that I am quite rubbish so instead of going for slog

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The syndicate had two teams with a 40 point lead in the seasonal mini leagues at the end of March but the teams were simply not strong enough and lost ground and ended up 3rd and 5th. That is still another £2000 to the prize pot which totalled £12,500 for the season from an approximate investment of £4250. All this is split between 17 and that should be season over.Except it isn't. Look out for

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In January one of my own December leagues came 2nd in the weekly mini leagues just scuppered by a Torres (Liverpool) goal. The week after, one of my November leagues came third onlyscuppered by a Bradley Johnson (Leeds) goal. The following week I had the best individual team of the week though not picked by myself. Sadly they stopped prizes for that this year. We did win another weekly prize of

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-65448317525125801642011-01-08T12:45:00.004Z2011-01-08T13:01:39.224Z

Liverpool are on the worst points total since the 1950's have parted company with manager Roy Hodgson. They are on 25 points in 12th place and into the knockout stages of the Europa League. Last year Hodgson led Fulham to the final of the Europa league, 12th in the league (from 7th the year before) and was on 27 points at this time last year. He was awarded manager of the year for this.The side

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2010 was a quiet year. Everything that happened has pretty much been on here. Maybe 2011 will be a year for making things happen rather than letting than letting them happen. Thanks to Sarah and John for hosting a great New Years party. I drove but did this not spoil the enjoyment of the night and seeing all the old friends and some new ones too.On Wednesday I went round to see Rosie and Raff and

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Not had a lot of luck since my last post. Until the week between Christmas and New Year where the syndicate came top of the weekly mini league again. Currently £157 in profit each and not planning on entering any more teams.The seasonal leagues are closing in on the guys at the top. 8 in the top 100 including 6th , 8th and 10th. Prizes for the top 5 all currently held by the guy with 18000 teams

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LAst time I reported another £2k in week 8. This was based on the ratings given online printed on The Sun website which included the Burnley goalkeeper being given Star Man in their game with Aston Villa. However, the ratings in The Sun newspaper showed Ashley Young as Star Man. The points are awarded on what is in the paper so Ashley Young was awarded 5 extra points meaning the syndicate's mini

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Nothing much doing for the syndicate in weeks 6 and 7 but we did get a nice bonus by winning 2nd equal in the September monthly so that's another £500. Week 8 has just been completed and we scraped a 1.44 point victory for another £2000. The profit is now nicely building up. We've also made the prudent decision to invest any winnings in premium bonds until the end of the season to try and get a

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No update for a while as not much happened. My personal teams have fallen back and the syndicate has been quiet. Until week 5 that is when we were 2 points off winning Weekend Dream Team coming 2nd but that same team is in a league with similar teams and looks like winning the weekly mini league. This is our new immediate aim entering another 10 teams each, each month until December. This will up

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A couple of weekends ago I went to Northumberland staying in a Manor House with Ed, Becky, Kate & Jon, JJ & Caroline, Sarah & John, Rosie & Raff, and Lucy & Dave for a long weekend. A quick summary of activities done over the weekend other than talking and drinking follows:-I played pool a lot on the house pool table. I was pretty rubbish but finished 4 unbeaten to make wins and losses about the

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An awful week for me personally with low scores sending all my teams down the tables. The syndicate on the other hand had a great week coming 1st, 3rd and 5th for the week and thanks to an Agbonlahor goal on Thursday (before he got taken off injured), we overhauled the competitors and won the £2,000 weekly mini league prize. That's £117.64 each so we're well on the way to breaking even. We may

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Firstly, I should state that things haven't got any worse since my last post, nor have they got anything more worth writing about. The rest of the post is about fantasy football - boredom alert!I've gone big on fantasy football this season. We know I'm good at it so I thought I'd try and win something by reducing the luck factor a little. My 76 teams in Dream Team are split as follows:-14 of my

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-32549100701360355252010-05-10T23:12:00.002+01:002010-05-10T23:35:23.424+01:00

Very little has gone right since my last post. I'm now the only one in the family with a "sensible" car which can make life awkward at times. Little reward and even less respect has been received despite my recent success.I haven't slept more than five hours in a night yet this month. An early phone call this morning confirmed the death of my recently speedily detiorating nan from the cancer but

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-8794327203850342602010-02-25T23:15:00.002Z2010-02-25T23:41:47.128Z

Congratulations to...me passing my final exams at ACCA! That's six in a row with no fails. Just as i'm getting good at them, all over, no more exams! I am ecstatic though, after nine and a half years on and off, with a six year blip in the middle, hopefully it will all be worthwhile.Despite that shock achievement, there are more important things in life. My Nan turned 85 yesterday which will most

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So the blog got all samey and less interesting and other forms of networking took over, but the old dog isn't dead yet!Feb 2nd - It snowed and we were sent home from work just like Feb 2nd 2003 - Fact.Feb - BADCASS Dinner was good but a 30% decrease in numbers and only 4 on top table was a bit cosy but still worked well.Feb - Passed 2 exams.Mar - CASSH Dinner ran smoothly as normal. Beginning to

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Phil sold his Mazda MX-5 last week that he's owned for about nine months making a big financial loss and has learnt the important lesson never to buy a car from Andy Cobb aka Andrew Cobb of Rotherham trading as AC Cars. Hopefully others will heed this warning.I've been out for four meals in thepast three days. On Wednesday night I went to Zizzi's in Leeds. It's a nice place but the head chef

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Last January a new viewing record was set for number of viewers of this blog. 64 in a day, 257 in a week and, just beating the previous record, 399 in the month. As you can see from the figures below, all these have now been well and truly broken.27 Dec, Sat 16 28 Dec, Sun 21 29 Dec, Mon 36 30 Dec, Tue 25 31 Dec, Wed 54 01 Jan, Thu 77 02 Jan, Fri 119

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Chesterfield were drawn at home to Droylsden in the 2nd round of the FA Cup. Big deal. But from what followed you could almost make a feature length movie about. The match was played with Droylsden taking a 1-0 half time lead but then had to be abandoned due to fog. In an interview after the game the Chesterfield manager said (unsurprisingly) that the right decision had been made. I believe the

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2008 was quite a quiet year on the whole. Since my last post there's not been a lot worth mentioning. I did a couple of exams which seemed to go ok but will have to wait until February for the results. Then there were four Christmas parties with work (inhouse, students, work, and audit) which were all good and I don't seem to have put any weight on which is good (not that that really bothers me).

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-75063302197182259652008-10-31T19:37:00.001Z2008-10-31T19:39:50.219Z

For a full list of bonfires in Calderdale this year, please click here for a link to the report in the Courier. The Elland one will be Saturday 1st November.

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Having been working at Oval Insurance for the past couple of months or so I'd just like to thank for making me feel welcome and pretty much lie one of their own staff.After Oval, I served my jury service at Bradford Crown Court of which i received notice of a few weeks ago. The first day involved a lot of waiting around as I waited to be allocated a trial. I finally got one at about 3:00 and it

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-41299627555384599282008-09-16T00:26:00.003+01:002008-09-16T00:51:52.574+01:00

I should start by updating what's been going on at work recently (like the last 6 months). I took 2 exams in June, passed one and failed one leading to me doing 2 in December. Just after my exams, I think it was 15th June, I was returning to the office from hospital only to find no-one was being let in as the fish and chip shop underneath the room where i sit had a big fire. We were sent home

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-68075660994985849422008-07-27T04:18:00.002+01:002008-07-27T04:42:00.958+01:00

Right, apologies to regulars for lack of posts, I just seem to have stopped. However tonight (well it's almost light now so this morning really) I am angry.Calderdale's taxis are striking (25 out of 48 firms was the last figure i heard) tonight. However is seems very few are running at all. I have had a night out and left the night club, Maine Street at 2:10am. I finally got home to Brighouse at

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-10686564139022654012008-06-24T23:09:00.002+01:002008-06-24T23:11:22.192+01:00

Much has happened but little worth writing about. Although no doubt i'll get back into it soon.

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For the first two instalments of this trilogy (so far) see September 2004 and February 2006.The Friday after Valentines Day, Rob and I were out in Halifax and Liquid were running a Traffic Light Dating night. This involved stickers being given to everyone going in which were colour coded depending on people's availability. Red is "i'm not available", yellow is "try me", and green is "come and get

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I had a short sleep in the afternoon and then it was straight to The Midland Hotel for the Bradford And District Chartered Accountants Student Society. Esta picked me up about 6:40 and made sure I didn't fall asleep on the way there! I then had drinks with the other top table guests (I was representing CASSH) before being clapped to my seat which was very nervy. The meal was nice, the drink was

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We arrived in Vegas just after daylight and were met by slot machines in the arrivals area. We had a couple of hours before we had to check in so we went to the MGM Grand (just cos it's big) and gambled some more. I did quite well, actually winning on some slots and made $15 leaving my total gambling losses at $323. I didn't like this number and decided I wanted to lose a round amount so I put

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We arrived in San Francisco (SF) in late afternoon and were taken to our room and told there was tea and cookies in the parlour. How very english! We then set off in search of a bar showing the Superbowl which is easier said than done in a strange city. Anyway we found a bar with it on but there only seemed to be one guy watching on his laptop and the waiters. There was only 10 minutes left by

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Time passed, and I didn't blog for a while. This is also where I stopped writing my diary on holiday so detail may be a bit sketchy. On the up side it has given all readers a chance to catch up on all posts and from now on they shouldn't be too substantial. So here's LA.Kate and I arrived after a bus journey of about five hours. I seem to remember it raining on the journey. We left the Greyhound

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... Wednesday 30th January - I met Angela, Simon, Ann, Kevin, Trish and Kate in the hotel lobby at just before 7am and then headed outside to meet our tour guide for the day "Cowboy Dave". He was full of stories on our way to the Grand Canyon. He was also into falconry and loved telling us all about his Goshawk, Suzanna and about the snakes, turtles and other strange animals he has.We then

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... The wedding was a short affair. The minister (controversially in my opinion) said to the best man referring to the five bridesmaids "You're outnumbered there but that's how i like it!" Then the ceremony took place and photos were taken and in under half an hour we were back in the bar at Giorgio's in Mandalay Bay Hotel where the reception was held. The best man's speech was nice and just

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... Mid Friday afternoon and we couldn't do anything in the hotel without our luggage so Kate and I went for a wander round some hotels and casinos down The Strip including Caesar's Palace with an impressive gambling area and nice ceilings and New York New York with lots of New York landmarks in it. I went to bed at 11:00 after another really long day but some stayed up til 7am for the second

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..."Wa Wa Wa (alarm) and a slightly muffled announcement" and panic from all the waiters then back to normal. This turned out to be a fire alarm and the muffled announcement said "We have an incident under investigation" (you know like when a car jumps the start in F1). The waiters then came back in and decided to usher out everyone in the restaurant. Kate, Trish and I went out the an office

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It's going to have to be diary style again I think. It'll probably start quite detailed and get less and less so but i'll see how it goes.Wednesday 23rd January - Work was odd. There were floods in Brighouse so the roads were busy and I had to go to Sowerby Bridge but halfway there the client rung to cancel then they emailed me all their queries which took most of my day to solve anyway. I left

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Number of people asking if i was going to get married before i went = 12Number of people asking me and Kate if we were married while there = 10Number of people thinking i look like Mr Bean = 2Number of photos taken by a Mexican who couldn't believe I looked so much like Mr Bean = 3Number of hotel fires = 1Number of weddings = 1Number of times scammed = 1Ha what a rubbish post but fear not as a

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I'm off to Las Vegas and south West USA for a couple of weeks from tomorrow. Maybe I'll update when i'm there but probably not. Anyway, this is just to let readers know i'm still alive. I'm quite apprehensive about the 10 hour flight but other than that i'm very excited. I'm going with Kate for her brother's wedding or something. No we are not getting married to anyone wondering and to the 11

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Our router broke last Thursday. Sky have sent us a new one and it works better now.Flights are booked from San Francisco to Vegas and i'm ready for a holiday.Havant & Waterlooville beat Swansea who are 63 places above them in the league ladder and face Liverpool in the next round. Hmmm i'm not feeling very creative tonight so i'll just leave it there I think.

Tophhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535117777880041345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247259.post-12416176721652390012008-01-09T22:37:00.001Z2009-01-15T22:20:42.507Z

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about When To Take Down Christmas Decorations. Lots of people searched for this in the first week of January so here come the figures.Previous daily record was 34 visitors set in November 2007 and the previous weekly record was 133 in the same week. The monthly record wasn't broken and remains at 384 from December 2005.Jan 1 - 33Jan 2 - 33Jan 3 - 31Jan 4 - 64

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Oldham, Coventry and Sheffield United beat Premiership Everton, Blackburn and Bolton in the 3rd round of the FA Cup a the weekend. Havant and Waterlooville, in the 2rd round for the first time drew at Swansea. There were loads of shock draws too so we;ll have to wait for the replays to see if there are any more shocks.I always like this weekend for the football but this time it was extra special

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Over the quiet Christmas period I caught up on a couple of posts that got started but never got finished from earlier in 2007. They can be by following the links below:-Phil's 21stTipping DebateI'd like to congratulate JJ and Caroline on moving in together on Friday and wish them well for the future. I'd also like to congratulate Jodie on her engagement over Christmas and thank her for actually

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On New Years Eve it was decided we should go to The Moorings in Sowerby Bridge. So we did. JJ and Caroline stayed in as JJ was ill. Ed was also ill. Bill came but was really tired so left about 10:45 leaving just Kate, Shelley, Amanda and Luke. We left about 2:00 and went back to Kate's and finally got to bed about 6:00. I was very drunk and quite sick though. Must've been the glass of champagne

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No updates recently as not much has happened. Christmas was standard - It just gets less interesting each year now. There was a bit of a lack of football on Boxing Day. There used to be three games back to back but there was just one at lunchtime and one in the evening. My grandad's funeral went ok on 27th. Since then i've just been sleeping really. Maybe I should sort out what's happening

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The diary of my rubbish December continues...Friday 14th December - Woke up at 4:30 hungover. Didn't go back to sleep but felt fine by the time it was time to go to work. It was ACA exam results day and big congratulations to Eppy, Gillian, Adeel, and Cassie for all passing their finals. The evening saw Rob, Ann and I hit Halifax. We didn't seem to drink loads but did have a good night until

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I'm going diary like to make it easier!Friday 7th December - Not much to report but I did forget to mention that in November one of my fantasy football teams was in the top 10 of the mini league that came top for the month. This means I will win a share £8000 come the end of the season. The downside of this being that the share will be between about 50-60 people so my current estimate is that I

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I need to catch up a bit as things have been busy recently. I'll do a very quick summary in this post then fill in the details in the next post or two.Last time I posted I was stressed and the month wasn't going well. Since then it has gone from bad to terrible to bad to awful so i'd be lying if I said it had been the greatest December in history. So, to sum up in one sentence, here goes:-My

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Just a quick update to say the hot water is now fixed as Phil managed to get the knob back on and working again. It's windy though sohopefully it won't blow out again!

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2 or 3 people (not sure who but I have a rough idea) have been checking for posts recently so to reward them here is one. I went shopping last ~Friday which was rubbish cos it was shopping! Most of the rest of my time has been taken up by studying. I've also been visiting my grandad in hospital. He went in, then caught pneumonia and had a heart attack but is now described as poorly but stable. My

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Today I have taken delivery of a new sofa for my dining room. It's something we've been meaning to get around to for ages but never got round to it. We went to DFS the other weekend thoughand bought a little red sofa which is nice and bright for the dining room. It's only taken just over a year, but now the house is complete of furniture and needs nothing else doing to it which is great!!!

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Last weekend was somewhat cocked up by me having a mock exam on Saturday morning meaning no going out on Friday and no lie in on Saturday, making me tired. It seemed to go ok but haven't got the results yet. I then went to watch Hudderfield Town play Leyton Orient. We lost 1-0 but played very well on the whole. On Sunday the whole family went out for lunch at The Holiday Inn, Clifton for my

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I should write about the last three weekends.Bonfire weekend to start with and Lucy came over from Ireland. We went out in Rastrck with JJ and Caroline. I drove to make it easier and because i'd been drunk every weekend but one since July which is just crazy.The weekend after was a double party weekend. I once again drove for both the above reasons. Firstly was a band reunion at Brighouse Sports

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No more records and i'm getting about 8 hits a day again!Kate, JJ and I were joined by Kate's mum and husband at the quiz this week after a small break. We haven't changed though. 6th out of 8, 78 out of 141. C'est la vie. I understand help is on it's way from the south in a couple of weeks though so maybe we'll improve then.I've been on a bit of a downer recently and seem to have been trying to

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I majorly underestimated helping ten people out with bonfire news as well over fifty people found Toph's Blog just by searching for information. Glad to be of service, but no thank you comments :-( Anyway numbers time:- The previously highest day was 28 visitors (twice Jan 06 and Dec 06 I think). This was beaten on Friday (2nd Nov) with 33 visitors and Saturday (when most bonfires took place)

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To please about 10 readers over the next few days, this years Elland bonfire at Hullenedge Park will be lit at 6:15 with children's fireworks at 6pm and main fireworks at 7pm. I'm not sure what the difference is. Maybe the main ones spell rude words or something!Other ones in the local area include one at Calder Holmes Park - lit at 6:30, children's fireworks at 7pm and main fireworks at

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Last week England and Scotland lost at football making qualification for Eurp 2008 very difficult. The rest of the home nations are already out. England lost the Rugby World Cup final. Sad but expected I suppose. Lewis Hamilton lost a 17 point lead with 2 races to go and handed Kimi Raikkonen the Formula One title. Not a good time to be a British sports fan.I went out with Rob last night and had

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Last week's quiz went really well until the final round. Kate, her mum, JJ, Caroline and I were joint 1st going into the final round. Alas, we came 6th out of 9 with 83 out of 137 after getting just 4/20 in the picture round. The poor form continued this week without Steph and Caroline as we were last going into the final round. We ended up 10th out of 11 with 68 out of 133. We were only 10th

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So i've been busy recently. I went to see The Hoosiers on the 12th but never actually got inside due to Eppy and a ticket mix-up. Instead I got to meet his mate Tom again and we went to a couple of real ale pubs before getting home for the early start on Saturday. I was of course kidding myself that we'd be setting off from Sowerby Bridge at 7:30 but 8:15 wasn't bad. The journey down was quiet

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Kate and I did well at the quiz on Monday. Caroline left after the first round and JJ after the second, failing to text us about a picture from the picture round! We got 9th out 11th with 77 out of 146.I'm seeing The Hoosiers tomorrow in Huddersfield somewhere with Eppy but we're both having work issues so it'll be good to let our hair down. We'll then get up early on Saturday morning and I'll

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Monday's quiz was average. I seem to remember it being Kate, her mum and I getting 80 out of 139 coming 7th out of 9. On Tuesday night I went to the Yorkshire Bank quiz with Andrea, Karen and Louise from work and think we came 6th out of about 50 which was a pretty decent effort.It's the last early morning grand prix of the season in China this morning hence the strange post time. I'm really

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I've been tired recently. Starting work early after the quiz is never a good idea. The quiz by the way was not so good whilst tired. JJ and Caroline joined the three of us from the week before and reduced our score by two (though it was a harder quiz and not their fault)! Then I went to college which is always knackering. It was also Japanese Grand Prix weekend which meant a couple of 4:30 starts

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I went to college again today starting my 8th consecutive year at FTC (or Kaplan Financial as they now want to call it) in Leeds. There's only nine in my ACCA class which i'm quite sure is the smallest i've ever been in. I'm quite impressed with the new premises too but will always have memories of the old place. The training materials have seriously improved now having online assessments where

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It was reported today (yesterday now as i've been working so bloody late) that in the last month Facebook overtook MySpace as the most popular social networking site in the UK with 6.5 million log-ins to 6.3 million. Personally I think this is because Facebook attracts a wider demographic with the majority of users being between the ages of 18 and 30 whereas MySpace seems a younger place to be,

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Since last week i've been working - a lot. Me and Kate did the quiz and her mum came adding 25 points to our score from last week but still only making us finish 6th out of 11. We've still not been in the prizes since New Year's Day!I was out with Rob and Ann on Friday but Ann was ill so it was just me and Rob in Halifax for the 2nd week running. Things were just going normal, drinking in Jaks as

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Dario Franchitti and Colin McRae are two of Scotland's biggest motor racing stars and two of my favourite racers. Franchitti won the Indy 500 earlier in the year (I think I wrote about this in May) and clinched the Indycar Series title last Sunday after his title rival who was leading the race at the time, ran out of fuel on the penultimate corner of the last lap. He had let a big championship

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The last two quizzes have been as expected really. 84 out of 137 for 7th out of 9 with Kate, JJ and Caroline joining me and yesterday there was only Kate and myself getting 69 (haven't had one of those for a while) out of 136 coming 9th out of 10 which was very respectable as we didn't receive any outside help either (yeah I know that's how it should be but it's not)!Summer has arrived. It seemed

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It's not been an exciting week by any means. I have bought a new laptop as some of you are aware which is proving reliable so far. This coincidentally means I've started playing poker again a bit. I was meant to tidy the house up in my week off work but haven't really got round to it taking chilling out to the extreme. It's back to it tomorrow though as I start officially in my new role auditing

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A busy night it was on Friday. I'd been off work all day so I was out from 5:00 until whenever. We went to Head Of Steam for three hours then to Tokyo for the BBQ. There were enough people there to make it a success so thanks to those that turned up. It was nice to see old some old faces return too. It all went well for me until about 12:45 then stuff happened which isn't really bloggable making

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Tom leaves work today and since he's entertained me over the last 33 months or so here's a little tribute.Beer is one of his loves however things aren't how they used to be and burger and a pint at Head Of Steam at lunchtime never happens anymore. The social aspect has been dying recently hence time for the move. As the second longest standing member of the audit department Thomas was always the

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I've not posted for a while as I haven't got a computer to myself at the moment and I've been lacking in inspiration. Work has been keeping me busy which is good and i've also signed up to start training again though in this respect i'm feeling a bit like a cat whose had seven of it's nine lives so maybe it's about time I passed something!I went out in Huddersfield with Rob and Ann last Friday. I

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Last night Kate, JJ, Caroline and I performed below par including 4/20 in the theme round. We had a good music round but the poor teams around us also did. We were three behind three teams going into the final round but our (and Ed's and Kate's brother's) general knowledge (and internet) helped us to come 7th out of nine a whole five points ahead of last. I've been listing the top songs from the

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On a slightly smaller scale than last May but still worth writing about! As you'll have read in my last post (what you haven't?! Posts should always be read in the order they were written!) my laptop broke again. I took it in to PC World who said they'd repair or replace it. My dad then butted in with some legal mumbo jumbo demanding a full refund. I've never seen him be so scary before! They

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JJ and Caroline shared some big news with Kate and I on Monday. We got 74 out of 136 for 7th out of ten. Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison is the penultimate selection of best music.I got my laptop back again on Tuesday. It worked for a short while but now it keeps breaking so i'm going to have to be a pain in the arse customer tomorrow and demand something be done.I've had my fun this week. It's

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Today Phil and I went to Oulton Park in Cheshire to learn how to drive fast cars round a race circuit for his 21st birthday present (note to self - should really complete posts started in May, one of which being Phil's 21st birthday). We got lost due to amazing lack of signposting and only the man mowing the lawn outside the Foz & Barrel pub nearby saved us from being very late. We then didn't

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I'm not really sure if the title makes sense but I think it gets the point across. Read on anyways...Yesterday was an almighty strange day (up until about 3 o'clock after which it was normal) so here's why.I woke up to the sound of my brother's alarm as he didn't turn it off. Then it went off again without going off. He'd been out bowling the night before so I didn't see him get in. "Shit, is he

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After posting on Saturday, I phoned the repairs helpline up who told me to do a system restore (shock). I did. It broke again. I phoned them again and they decided to check my restore disk until I pointed out they restored it last time so this seemed rather unnecessary. After a total of about an hour on the phone they concluded the best solution would be for it to go into repair again. Therefore

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I'll get onto the title later as i'll do this week in chronological order. Monday was quiz night again and Kate, her mum , JJ and I got 85 out of 135 coming 8th out of 14. It was a very full pub again and the landlord even joked about bringing smoking back to stop overcrowding! The best music this week was Toploader's Dancing In The Moonlight - Everybody likes that one!On Tuesday night I went to

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I got home about 5:30 on Friday night expecting to have about 100 minutes before I had to go out to catch a train to Halifax. Instead, I ended up taking my Phil (brother) and his mates to Halifax prior to their Dublin trip. One of his mates had left his passport in Norwich so he was not going anywhere. Halfway up Salterhebble Hill Phil then realises his passport and flight details are still on

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I have a lot of tasks to do this weekend but i'm hungover so i'm writing this instead.Kate, her mum and I got 82 out of 135 at the quiz coming 9th out of 14. It was as busy as Christmas and as well as it being a lovely evening the smoking ban seems to have sent Big Six attendances soaring. They might have to buy the house next door soon! Music choice of the week (the 11th I believe) Robbie

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The Tour De France was in Britain this weekend. We have five riders in the race, acouple of which had a chance of winning the stage on both days this weekend but neither did.Lewis Hsamilton was on pole for the British Grand Prix but finished third which is still excellent and keeps him on course for the championship.It was also the second day of Wimbledon finals today and although Tim Henman

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It's 07/07/07 today - another Live Earth concert day to help save the planet. Ed's friend Wellsy has his own panet protecting ideas. I'm not sure I believe in it all really and perhaps it's just a natural cycle and the world will cool down soon. The smoking ban won't have helped as all the smoke formerly inside pubs is now outside polluting the atmosphere but not sure it all matters as that's not

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I've done a system reset to try and solve my laptop freezing problem. Hopefully it will work so i'm back in XP for now with nothing on my laptop.I'm still not feeling too cracking and am therefore below par at everything I do. However the way I see going to work (for example) is me turning at 50% productivity is better than me not turning up at all, even if some stuff has to be redone hence me

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Softball is a game a lot like rounders and even more like baseball. You hit a ball with a bat and run to bases. For a full explanation click here.My work entered a softball competition run by The Huddersfield Law Society or something with ten other teams in. It wasn't a fine June day. It was cold and that fine mizzly rain which makes you quite wet. This was not a good start. The next thing that I

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Ok firstly a quiz update. Kate and I got 81 out of 142 by ourselves (with a little help via text) last week but yesterday Kate, her mum, JJ, Caroline and I got 81 out of 138. We came 7th and 6th out of 8 in both weeks so that was average and I won a decent bottle of wine last week (Kate also won some sellotape). On the music front my favourite songs were Breakfast At Tiffany's by Deep Blue

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Manchester United won the Premiership with the final turning point being when they were 2-0 down to Everton while Chelsea were 2-1 up against Bolton only for Chelsea to draw and Man U to win 4-2. It had looked like the two teams would meet three times in May to decide three trophies but this was not to bewitht the Premiership encounter being a dead rubber and them both losing at the semi final

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Hmmm that's a long and very dubious word, anyway...Back when I was 23 I took a philosophical look on how life was and how I planned on life to pan out. I had other things on my mind when I hit 24 so now i'm 25 it's time to look at life again and see how it's going. I'm not going to repeat anything from previous years hopefully as they all link in together.There is no way now that I can be

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On Saturday I sent my new (well 8 month old) phone back as it keeps breaking so i now have my phone from 2002 for a few days. I then went out for lunch with all my grandparents. I won't be putting them in the back of the car again as they had trouble getting out. I then took my laptop back as it keeps breaking but they wouldn't have so i'm currently executing another one of Ed's plans to figure

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Last week's quiz was JJ, Caroline, Kate, her mum and I and we got 97 out of 146 coming 5th out of 10 which was pretty good. Special thanks to the random bald guy John who helped us before disappearing. I wonder if we'll ever see him again. Song of the week was REM - The One I Love. It was also an amazing week as we got ALL the pictures right for the first time ever I believe.Yesterday we didn't

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Phil, John, Hailey Gary and I (apologies if anyone else was there, i'm writing this some time after the event) went out for Phil's birthday and the Champions League Final. Liverpool lost the Champions League Final to AC Milan but it was a nice moment when Dirk Kuyt scored an equaliser as John had a Kuyt shirt on and also looks like him! I think we watched that in Bar Eleven then we moved on to

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It's been a while folks. I've written four posts in draft so hopefully these can be finalised and published shortly but once again i've just been lacking inspiration. Also as you can see from the title of the post, when I first started writing this one, my laptop didn't crash immediately for a change but the letter G stopped working. I've decided it's a display driver issue with my laptop perhaps

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I just watched a documentary on The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. It's sad that he died as he was such a kind, nature loving family man and i felt myself welling up at the end with a lump in my throat. Crikey! I pulled myself together and decided that the quote at the end should go on the blog - so here it is:- "Whatever you want to do in this world it is achievable, the most important thing that

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I've not had a debate since The Great Video Replay Debate in January 2005 so here's a good chance for people to air their opinions on the sometimes controversial issue of tipping.Back in April was the annual student society committee meal at Lounge 68 in Huddersfield. Tom, Mel, Sam, Emily, Cheryl and I were those present and it would be a farewell meal for Sam and Emily who moved on to all things

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This morning me and Phil both heard birdsong coming from the kitchen. It continued this evening. We've looked outside and can't here or see any birds and there is no bird trapped in any cupboard. There is a tiny vent but surely one can't have flown in there (being as wide as my little finger). We've called the "bird" Ruud because it is a rude bird always interrupting our conversation and we'd

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While snooker is finishing and my laptop is working, i'll write a short summary of the weekend. On Friday night I went to Halifax with Kate, JJ and Caroline where I had a couple of pints and a couple of cocktails before going onto the usual before I got completely drunk. As usual when round town, I ended up bumping into a few old faces and it was really nice to see Liz again (and Caroline and

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I went to see the final session of the semi-final between Stephen Maguire and John Higgins on Saturday with Wood. Maguire was 14-10 up but Higgins came back and won 17-15 however the atmosphere is not how it used to be.This is due to about 70% of the audience (guesstimate) having World Snooker Radio earpieces on. They are available for £5 and pick up the BBC commentary. However, if people have

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Last Friday the CASSH (Chartered Accountants' Student Society of Huddersfield) went to the dogs at Sheffield's Owlerton Stadium. It was a poor turnout from my work but credit should be given to me and Tom for going despite everyone else being an unsociable bunch. A far cry from the good old days. Anyway, everyone who went seemed to have a good time. I lost the first eight races I bet on but

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JJ and I went to The Crucible on Saturday and saw Ian Mcculloch pull off a shock victory against world champion Graeme Dott. JJ recorded the TV footage on his computer and came up with that photo.In other news, it was JJ, Caroline, Kate, her mum and I at the quiz and we got 75 out of 137 which was good enough for 6th out of 6, 18 points off 2nd last yet only 28 points off 1st. Song 4 would have

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I say explained, I can't really explain most of it but it's just a guide to my experience. I did take photos of it but they're not exciting so won't be appearing here.To start with I uninstalled programs that were not compatible with Windows Vista then I started with the Vista installation. It stopped after a few minutes telling me that it could go no further until I uninstalled Windows

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I have Vista. It looks different but in a cool way. It'll take some getting used to. Crashed 3 times in last 20 mins. Hopefully this trend won't continue. More details a nother time. It's late now and i've had an energy sapping couple of days.

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So, the update promised within a week was not quite within a week but this will do. My laptop hasn't died by the way but neither is Vista installed. I spent an hour on Saturday night trying to do it and it kept messing me around however another attempt will be made tonight.So last week there was only Ed, JJ and I at the quiz in which we came 5th out of 7 with 91 out of 139 but we were beaten by a

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Just a quick post to say i'm now about to defragment my laptop and then try and install Vista. If it doesn't work, this could be the last post for a while which is a shame as I have plenty to write about. Hopefully though everything will go to plan and i'll be a Vista expert (know more about it than Ed) by the end of the weekend.

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