Some of you may have notcied ... most not even in the slightest, I havent been myself for the past few days.

I have seemed, distant, lost and not entirely sure of myself.

The reason for this is .... my pub has been closed as new management have taken over.  Woah is me!! How can I survive the hardship.  I have had to drink in O'Neils for the last week.  Admittedly, the bar maids now know me, and what I drink without me needing to ask.... sad, I know :-)

How can I survive, such hardship, you ask.  Easily .... because it is opening back up tonight!!  Yippee!

I am soooo easily pleased :-)

I just remembered.  Someone tried to rob me when I was at blinks on Friday.  Bugger!  London is dangerous.

I was stood chatting, at blinks, when this northern geezer walks up and says "hey, your from oop North arent you.  Where are you from?".  We go through the normal conversation, and he then staggers off to the toilet.

A bit later I notice, from the corner of my eye, him coming out of the toilet.  He makes a bee line for me as I am listening to a conversation.  I then felt him grab for my phone as he walked by. 

My hand came up instinctively and I grabbed his wrist, twisted it slightly and turned to look down into his eyes as he was hunched over.  I smiled at him and said, "nice weather we're having isnt it".

He looked up, eyes opened wide and said, "I was only joking, mate.  Just a northern joke, you know dont you" then he gave hollow laugh.

"Of course I do.  Interesting meeting you, bye", I said, then let go of his wrist.  He backed away rubbing his wrist then walked out the door.

It was then I realised what had just happened.  So I calmly turned round and went to the bar and bought another drink, smiling to myself that I must be an honorary Londoner now, being mugged and all that  :-)

London Olympia tomorrow.  I am just some wild Jetsetting dude.

I am thinking of starting a random conversation about chicken beaks with a stranger on the tube.  Who reckons I will get a response.

Oh, and can I have some advice on Tube etiquette.

Imagine the scene.  I am sitting on the tube when an old pregnant granny with one wooden leg gets on.  There are no other seats available and I am the closest to the door.  What do I do?

A. try to find that annoying piece of  invisible thread that is bound to be on my sleeve, blatantly ignoring her

B. Let her sit down, 5 stops down the line at my station

I need your help on this please, I dont want to do something that may upset the locals.

I decided to do another Cinema marathon yesterday.

Went to see Mission Impossible 3, Silent Hill and then Ice Age 2.

MI-3 is an excellent movie.  You have to go and see it.  Great Special effects and storyline, in fact, what are you sitting reading this for.  Get down the cinema NOW!!

Silent Hill is, well, ok.  I wouldnt recommend spending out your hard earned cash if you have something else to do.  Average special effects and not really scary.  Follows along the lines of the computer game in her finding clues and then a cut scene explanation near the end.  But hey, it was fun to watch for a saddo like me :-)

Ice Age 2, is good too.  Nice easy movie to watch.  Good laugh at times.  Even dropping my hotdog in my lap, and having to sit with ketchup and mustard slowly drying on me didnt detract from a fun movie.  It was lucky it was the last movie too, finishing at 11.30pm because walking out with dried ketchup on my crotch was extremely embarassing :-)

Still,  a good evenings entertainment.  Unfortunately 1 large bag of revels, 2 small Pepsi and a large hot dog destroyted the goodness of the Salmon and Mixed Chinese vegetables I had earlier in the day. 

And I dont mean beacuse of all the alcohol I drink.

Today, I have placed an order for a composter, for all my kitchen scraps etc, and a water butt to capture rainwater for watering the garden.

Now all I need to do is cut down the grass, and hunt the lions and tigers prowling in it.

So, on top of the rubbish recycling of paper, plastic, cans and bottles I feel so proud of myself.  :-)