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Day 63

So.. Yeah, it's just about September but the shop where I work doesn't care! Skip Halloween and ignore fireworks night.. Straight to Christmas. Go for it.

Da pic

Day 62

Once again I failed to acquire a picture, good thing I have a stock of Harry Potter stuff to fall back on. This 'set' is actually very small. It was designed to be used in one scene only and in such a way that web filmed, it would look about 45 foot long. In reality it's probably no longer than I am tall. Perspective is an important thing.

Lego

Totally went to Lego Land today, I don't even care how old I am. It was free with the pass so why not? 

The drive there was really quite horrible.. There was lots of traffic and we got stopped for ages.. Then there were a load of crazy drivers which kept cutting me up or just generally being douches. I have come to terms with it now because.. I got there and it doesn't matter but I just don't understand why some people do what they do. And they say that young people are the dangerous drivers? RANT.

Anyway, we got there and walked in and I honestly felt like a little kid again, I just wanted to be one of the ones running around looking at everything screaming 'it's so cool!' I can do it in my head, I acted like a mature adult I'm afraid. There will be no viral videos of me. We walked around the mini village first, I know it's been there for ages and I have been before but for the life of me I could not remember it at all. It seems like the type of thing that I should remember but I just couldn't. So I guess it was a good thing because I got to enjoy that again like it was the first time seeing it.

We had a little ride on the sky rail.. It was most definitely not called that but I honestly have no clue as to it's real name. Some people waved at us and I had to resist doing the royal wave back. Otherwise, the place was packed. The queues were completely filling up the designated areas and then shooting off up the side of the footpaths. We just wondered around, then decided to head home. Just to once again be tailgated by an impatient driver who ending up speeding off on the wrong side of the road because the speed limit was too good for him. 

We stopped off at our favourite services, Cobham on the M25.. We didn't have a burrito today; just stopped for a toilet break. Then we quite happily toddled off home.

Then we were bored again. So we thought we would go and see a film and have some food. We went to the Pizza Hut at the Dockside Outlet Centre in Chatham and it all started off fine.. We got the pizza and then our table disappeared off the face of the Earth apparently. They literally ignored us until it got to the point we wanted to pay. Unlimited refills is pointless when no one comes over to offer you a refill. After we finished we were waiting a good 10 minutes anyway. I don't want to be mean and rant again but it was quite annoying, it made me feel like I'd done something to offend them therefore earning me no service. Maidstone Pizza Hut is still the best. Yeah.

We saw 'The Way Way Back' and it was just darn amazeballs. Yes - #amazeballs. I was a bit skeptical as right at the start they had a hashtag and a Facebook page up on the screen asking you to let them know what you thought. But it turned out to be one of the better films we'd seen this year. It's about a young boy on summer vacation with his mum and her new boyfriend and how he comes into his own person by working at a water park. Reading that really doesn't make it sound all that exciting but it is really worth watching, I felt quite involved in the film just from watching it. Watch it!

Thanks for taking a looksie on here today, I haven't mentioned this for a while but the Blog is pretty close to 6,000 views now so.. Ahh cool. Thanks. Blog you later.

Day 61
I was planning on using one the pictures we took today but as we were out again we didn't get a chance to whack them onto the Mac so.. Here is another one from the wonderful world of Harry Potter. They had the set of Dumbledor's office and when I walked in the first thing I said was 'Where is Fawkes?' because he was always in there.. But a bit further round the tour we found him. They had him in the creatures section which makes sense. Still would have been nice for him to be in the office - just my opinion.

A quick snap

Day 60

Feels strange knowing this has gone on for 60 days in a row. But it has. And here it continues. 300 or so more to go. That's a lot of pictures. Anyway, here's another one from the Harry Potter studios. This door that they made for the bank was hand made and actually works. It was used twice in the entire series 10 years apart which was pretty mind boggling. Now it's just sitting there waiting to be out away I guess. Like all of the stuff there. It does mean that eventually there won't be a Harry Potter studios your but they have so much stuff it should mean you can see something new upon returning visits.

Supermarket

Once again we were confronted with the fact that we couldn't think of anything to do. It just seems when it is getting to the end of the summer holiday all of your ideas are burnt out or.. Done. Started off the day with a bacon sandwich which was huge - it was basically half a baguette filled with bacon. Amy's dad got them for us from his favourite food van and I can now see why. Gorgeous.

We thought we would go and get a board game form that new toy shop that has opened up in Aylesford - Smyths - but that was to no avail. It's not that they were lacking board games, it was they were lacking one which was reasonably priced that we actually wanted to play. Turns out there is another version of Monopoly out where you buy brands instead of properties, pretty good idea I must say. The little player pieces are gold on that one.

I really like playing Monopoly, the originals problem is that it goes on for too long, you have to be the only person not bankrupt to win. And once everyone owns little bits of the board and has hotels and what not.. It takes a really long time or a lot of luck for the game to finish in an enjoyable time. The new ones have better ways of winning like first to an ex amount of money and the such.. Rolling with the times. Short attention spans of teenagers. They need tech!

We then went to Asda and got Ellie Goulding's album. Pretty good value, 20 or so songs for £10 which is a lot better than most of the CD's you get. Also bought Mean Girls as it's one of Amy's favourite films and I hadn't seen it. I have now. I enjoyed it. Just a good thing that real school life is completely like that.. Just a little bit.

We also went to Tesco's for some roasties because they are so yummy. We needed something to go with our tea of chicken gridlers and couscous because the plate would have been a bit bland and empty. We also got a 12 pack of Fosters Radler for £6 which was a bargain, we're going to a BBQ on Saturday so now we can bring our own booze you might say. 

After tea we wacthed 90210. Yup. Turns out there is like.. Another 10 episodes even though so much is already going on which surprised me.. They must have a hell of a lot of funding because the series will be about 20-24 episodes long or something. It is the last season though so it'll go out with a bang! And then we watched Mean Girls.

Voila! That's my day today. Blog you later.

Day 59
So there is this game called The Binding Of Isaac and I have watched people play it on YouTube since it has been released and.. I've also wanted to play it but I have never had a computer which is able to do so. Amy now having this Mac asked if it would work on here.. I didn't even think of that. Turns out it does and I can now play it. Not too much because this is still Amy's toy but I am very thankful to be able to play it. It is really hard to get used to but there is going to be another version released on the Xbox at the end of the year or next year. I think I'll be a lot better at that and I really can't wait for it. Woo!

Mind blank..

So, to put it simply - we couldn't think of anything to do. At first we just lounged around, had a shower each and watched some of the Food Network. Easily my new favourite channel, it just makes me want to go to America to eat everything!

We had no idea what to do with ourselves. Ended up playing a little bit of Minecraft with Mr Tate; unfortunately I felt a headache coming on and thought it best to stop. Covered my eyes, had some dark time to calm my brain. We then decided to just get out the house - destination Bluewater.

I find bank holidays funny because more people will have time off work to go out and shop, but all the shops shut early or don't open. Seems strange. Bluewater stays open until 7 and we got there with plenty of time to wonder around. Amy got another Yankee Candle which we burnt as soon as we got in - a Bahama breeze scent. It's nice and relaxing. She also got some other bits - you'll see one later. 

With the boredom from earlier in the day came hunger and a lack of enthusiasm to cook. We ventured back to Chimi Changa because we were so impressed last time. I tried a chorizo and cheese quesadilla - the word I couldn't spell last time. It wasn't as good as the paella, but I thought I should try something different. Kind of tastes like pizza. Amy went for the BBQ pork quesadilla again, that was so much tastier. To me anyway, she also agrees. We were good and opted for tap water to save money and to be healthy. Mainly the money. Kept it under £20. 

The way the tables were positioned meant I was basically opposite another couple about 4 metres away.. And she kept offering him rewards for eating food he didn't like. Between arguments. It was quite strange. Each to their own?

That'll be all for today. Thanks for having a look. Blog you later.

Day 58

This is something that Amy bought for me. I'm not really all that into aftershaves and what not but I used to have this one back at school. It was a Christmas present and Amy remembered the smell of it and really liked it so she treated me. The bottle in the middle was £16 or this set for £20 so.. Value is value!

Rain..

So as you may or may not know, we went to Chessington yesterday - Saturday if you aren't reading this on Sunday. I won't go into a lot of detail because we are going again on Thursday and I'd like to go into more detail about it then because we sort of got rained out yesterday.. We got there at about half 9 and it was drizzling and we thought nothing of it.. We ended up leaving about 2 because it was pouring it down. We were soaked. It was ridiculous. We still got to do most of the rides but some were't running properly because of the rain and what not.. We plan to do them all properly on Thursday weather permitting. Oh well.

We then decided to all go back to mine, by all I mean me Amy and Mr Tate. We thought we could watch some films, have general good times and stuff. We watched Inception, I am pretty sure I understood it - I know people say you need to watch it more than once but I'm pretty sure that I got it. I would like to watch it again because it was very good anyway. 

Amy made macaroni cheese for tea, she made the sauce herself and everything. It was really tasty. It was quite rich because there was a lot of cheese but I love cheese. There was also bacon - and bacon is bacon. It was very good. I want some more right now. I was full up but there was some leftover and I managed to squeeze that in as well.

As for today, we went to the cinema to see We Are The Millers and it was fantastic. It was another genuinely funny film which was nice. I won't spoil anything for anyone so.. Yeah. Definitely go and see it. 

That's where I'll leave it today. Bank holiday tomorrow, something interesting will happen I'm sure. Blog you later.

Day 57
So this should portray how wet we actually got.. My jacket weighed a tonne after all the rain had got in to it. It is still drying now I'm pretty sure.

Meerkat

Day 56

Look at them. I love meerkats. It was pouring down with rain so they were in their little indoor bit sitting next to the window. Luckily that means pictures for us!

Going to Chessington

Yeah, going tomorrow. Awesome sauce.

Day 55

These have got to be my favourite things from the studio. If I'm ever rich and they start selling these I want to buy one. I just think they're awesome. I know they look sinister and all that but the detail is amazing. And they are just awesome.

Chim Chim Cheeroo

We went to a new restaurant today, me Amy and a Mr Tate. What started off as plans to go to the cinema and get a Maccy D's ended up becoming a very long discussion about where to eat. 

We'd just got back from Maidstone as Amy's dress from Primarni had a hole in it so we went to get that exchanged. We also had a milkshake from Cafe Nero off the bat but it was really good.. I had a chocolate mocha as I felt I needed some caffeine, Amy went for a simple chocolate one. Tate had just finished work and came to mine to see some things on the xbox and then we planned to go to the cinema. We couldn't decide on a film so we thought how about a proper sit down meal instead? Somewhere that we had never been before. We decided on Chimi Changa, a Mexican grill.

We went to the one at the Dockside outlet centre in Chatham for the free parking and we were very impressed to say the least. The place was huge and nicely decorated, the only downside was a wobbly table but then that'll happen anywhere. Tables are tables. The service was excellent and then there was the food. Holy food it was good. 

We had a big sharing starter as it was cheaper than getting one each. It had an assortment of Mexican things which I won't try and spell as I don't want to butcher the words too much. It was basically a fried pulled pork wrap with chicken spring rolls, salad and tortilla chips with dips. For the main I had a Mexican paella which had rice, chicken, chorizo, tiger prawns and some random veg. It was so good. So good. It was also the best chorizo I've ever tried, so good I made the other two try a bit. They both went for a pulled pork fried wrap type thing, once again avoiding spelling the word. The total was £47.00 which we were very happy with. Two courses and a drink for 3 under £50. Awesome. The best bit for me was that the drinks we in glass bottles because drinks just taste sooooo so so much better out of a glass bottle. It's just a shame you can generally only buy coke in a glass bottle and it's super expensive. Like £5-6 for 6 bottles.

I think it is safe to say that we would all recommend going there at some point, great value, great atmosphere. Yummy food! Food. Although we did end up at McDonalds to get a McFlurry. Can't beat £1 ice cream.

Thanks for reading peeps, blog you later.

Day 54
Just because it was in a glass bottle I thought I would use as the picture of the day. I really do love getting a glass bottle, whenever I see that on the menu I jump at the chance. It was a nice surprise today as it didn't actually say it was a glass bottle. I should have assumed really from the 330ml size. Bit bigger than a can and much smaller than a standard 500ml bottle. Awesome. Bet you've never heard something rave and rant so much about drinking from a glass bottle. Yeah. First.

Suited

Day 53

All of these images are courtesy of Amy as she managed to get right to the front to take pictures. I think she did that because I really wanted to see the penguins. Amy's awesome. Anyway, here is a suited animal just for you. Not a real one anyway. She tried many a time to get this picture with its little head having a look out of the water. Worth it!

I'm a wizard

Harry Potter world is awesome. Lets do it in order though. First things first eh?

We went bacK to the Sea Life Centre because we get in free with our cards. I will mention them as much as possible just because we have them. I really wanted to go back there because last time we didn't get to see the penguins properly. I like me an animal in a tuxedo. With our passes we also get to skip the entire queue which was nice but felt a little mean walking past all the other people. We didn't spend too much time looking because we didn't want to be too long to make sure we got to Harry Potter on time because it said to get there like.. 45 minutes before the time stated on your thing. Luckily we got there when the penguins were being fed so thats even better. Watching 'em swallow some fish. That was strange.

After that we had a little adventure on the tubes to Bond Street - I've got the underground down. It's actually a hell of a lot simpler than it looks.. Just find it on your phone and zoom in and you're sorted. 

Getting to Watford was a pickle. 18 stops to the end of the line from Euston. A standard London travel card won't get you there either which we didn't know.. Had to pay a little extra at the other end so be warned! Then a £2 bus fair to take you straight to the studio on a bus with Harry Potter art all over it. Feel like a cool kid.

The tour is very hard to describe I won't lie. It's a mix of everything and it is quite surprising how much of the stuff you can look at and you'll know who wore it or where it was from or what it was for. The Great Hall had real stone flooring from up north which is traditionally used in castles. We were lucky as they had some extra props out to be catalogued so we got to see the different umbrellas used by the Hagrid's. Turns out one was Robbie Coltrane, the other was a 6 foot 10 ex England rugby player who's name eludes me to create the giant Hagrid. That was pretty cool. Turns out the actress playing Moaning Myrtle was 37 so she was the oldest student. It was crazy to see all these little sets scattered around and that is what they used. It all looks so strange up close and without all the fancy camera antics. 

I took a load of photos so I was thinking it was about time I used my Tumblr again to make an album which I can just link to. I will do that when I get a chance to stick my photos onto my NetBook. I really want to wipe all the photos from my phone so it doesn't feel like it is about to burst. 1 gig left is a lot but more would be nice..

They sell butter beer. I don't think it is really like what they pictured in the book because it looked like appleade with melted white chocolate on it.. And it didn't really taste like anything.. But you drink it anyway not knowing what they've handed over. 

They had the giant chess pieces out, all of the Death Eater masks which when I am rich - want to buy. They had all the masks of the goblins, a giant spider which I was so happy was  fake. The dragons head. The moving boar mounted on the wall. Broomsticks. The night bus. The car that disappears off into the woods. Hagrid's bike and sidecar. Just so many things. They also had the duelling thing out in the great hall as that was another thing they had bought out of storage for the summer.

Near the end there is a lot of the concept art and models which they built to help them make the sets. They were awesome. The amount of work that had gone in to them alone was ridiculous let a lone a set which could be put together in a couple of days, used for one and then gone the next. There was also a giant scale model of the Hogwarts grounds which was insane. The detail was perfect, you could recognise every little bit of it. My favourite place was Diagon Alley which was just like it was in the films. They had the moving sign on the shops and ahhhh it was just so epic. 

The only gripe I have with it was the crazy prices in the gift store, like £25 for a wand or £75 for a wizard robe? Buy a lab coat and spray paint it black. Not as good I'm sure but it will make your wallet feel a lot fuller for longer. 

Verdict - go there! If you want to anyway.. My Dad for example wouldn't want to because to him it would ruin the films because it would just further more prove that they aren't real. We all know they are but seeing would remove the magic so to say. For me it just immersed me more because I can safely say I will watch all the films again and feel awesome saying 'I know how they did that.' Blog you later.

Day 52

Here is Diagon Alley. Awesome awesome awesome. Also I feel it was a pretty good picture anyway.

Excited

It is safe to say that right now I am super excited. Tomorrow, me and Amy are off up London to go to the Harry Potter studios and it is just going to be freaking epic I can tell. Even though I've known about it for a while.. I am only getting excited now. It's what I'm like. I don't get excited until the last minute. Woo.

Today I am lucky enough to have the pleasure of Amy's MacBook to post on so I thought this would be the best time to do some typing and talk about Cadbury World. I know I have dropped little bits and bobs in odd posts but I really want to do something proper about it. 

First things first - I would definitely recommend going. I drove up there which was about.. 160 miles and it was very much worth it. You could do it in a day if you wanted or stay at a  hotel like we did just because.. But just get there somehow. It was very interesting finding out about all of the history behind Cadbury, for example, how chocolate used to be considered an equal to alcohol and drugs so selling it was frowned upon. The first bit is like little exhibits and movies before you get into the actual factory. Once in there you can't take any pictures which is fair enough.. There was this little ride you go on which has all these little coco beans doing stuff which was pretty cute. Theres a black light tunnel at the end of it which makes your clothes look awesome if you're wearing some luminous things. 

The factory had some pretty cool stuff, for the amount of room they had it was surprising how little machinery there was but.. There were facts dotted around. Like it takes 45 minutes to cool a chocolate bar so it stays nicely shaped. They gave out little pots of melted chocolate which is just nummy. I would think it would be quite awkward to be one of the chefs - chefs? - there because while they are working.. They're all on show. Behind glass. Like a zoo. You could see them decorating stuff which they sold in the shop. As most places do, you exit into the gift shop after walking around the only difference was that you actually wanted to buy stuff. We ended up spending about £25 in all. It was all pretty cheap compared to shop prices obviously because they could probably just carry it there rather than sticking it on a lorry.. That also got us the free teddy bear.

There was a little extra bit outside called Essence where you could go. It had a little video showing how they made the discovery of milk chocolate.. Kind of. It was a fake dramatisation to be fair. At the end you got to pick one of the sweets on the wall and they would cover it in melted chocolate. You could choose from white chocolate buttons, jelly babies, rice crispies and wine gums. I had jelly babies and that worked pretty well. Amy went for white chocolate buttons which was interesting but didn't work for me. They also his a bit called the Bourneville experience which was just a museum of stuff from the original owner.. Yeah.

The area around the factory was all build by Cadbury and was really lovely and had trees everywhere and green areas and huge gardens. It was just a really nice place.

Now why aren't you going there?

Thanks for reading people. There'll most definitely be a post about Harry Potter Studios at some point. So excited! Blog you later.

Day 51
Today for tea, we went to Pizza Hut to use our 2 for 1 offer which you get from filling in a little question from the link on the bill. So we got our usual.. Twice. Now we just have this lovely thing sitting at home waiting to be devoured for breakfast. Cold pizza for breakfast is one of the best things ever. Someone needs to make a place where they sell cold pizza in the morning and warm pizza at night. It would taste so good. And do so well. Business plan made.

Sunday

Day 50

Big 5-0! It's strange to think that I have done this for 50 days in a row and I must say at first I didn't think I would make it past 20 but.. Well. Here we are. 

So you would think that I have all these pictures lined up on my phone ready to use day by day and I have recently thanks to our trip up north but honestly a lot of the time, unless I see something that would be interesting - I just grab something random. Today is one of them days.

On my desk I have some little bits of origami that I did for my GCSE in Art and I paper clipped them into my book for part of a project. I didn't think I would get them back but turns out I did. Now this little swan floats around my desk usually just getting in the way. It's not exactly made that well because my hands are too big to make the tiny folds but it turned out pretty well for a first try. The swan is like the iconic origami thing. Here's mine on some lovely pink flowery paper. Manly.

See now Amy is pretty convinced I've ready used this little guy on here so here is a picture of it on the bed with Amy hiding under the duvet, just for variation. For scale. As to why I said tiny folds. 

Toffee!

Day 48

I don't know about you but to me a good alcoholic beverage doesn't taste like alcohol.. It should be nice to drink because from what I gather, alcohol tastes yucky. I very much like this toffee apple cider by Brothers, when I first saw it I wasn't really all that sure what to think but now it's one of my favourites. Doesn't beat a Rekorderlig but its still good.

Hero

Day 47

So at Cadbury World there was obviously a shop. And if you spent over £20 you got a free teddy bear, this is the one we got and we called it Hero. It seemed appropriate as it was from the Cadbury shop. Not actually sure how much the bear is worth as the website doesn't actually tell you.. I like knowing how much free stuff is to see if they were being nice by giving it away for free. Then again free stuff is free stuff!

Star City

Seeing as I didn't type anything out today, I thought I would give another insight into our trip up Birmingham alongside some shananigans from today. See my iPhone says shananigans is a spelling mistake yet auto corrects to it anyway. Pretty sure I've never used that word before..

So today, I started off by doing some bits up the shop. Stuff. Newspaper. Topping up phones. Yeah. 

Sometimes I get this random urge to go on my Xbox and play some multiplayer, but I don't like to because its the main source of rage for gamers. I used to get angry but I boycotted it for a long time and now I'm nice and calm. I think it's mainly because I don't care anymore. I thought I would try something different and went on Halo 4, not going to lie - I kicked buttocks. I didn't over stay my welcome because having a nice short stay is better than having a long bad one. Words of wisdom for nerds. 

Then we popped off to Tesco's to get some bits and bobs. Also to try find tea. You would have thought it would be easy in a shop full of food. Nope! We settled on bolognese.. But with tagliatelle not spaghetti. Of course with the lovely smooth sauce and some mushrooms. It was really good, sometimes all you need is to mix up the pasta. Just because when you hear bolognese you think spaghetti doesn't mean you can't penne. Food.

This evening we caught up on some TV that we missed whilst away because the TV's in the hotel were from the Stone Age.. Only 5 channels, the rest you had to pay for. £9.99 a night! 90210 was just a dramatic ball of good time. I don't even care. Gimme some extensions and paint my nails - I like 90210. Blergh. What just happened?

What I really like for my phone is free stuff. It's awesome. Like why I was very excited to find out that Plants Vs Zombies 2 is free! I got the first one when it was free so I jumped at the chance to get this one. So much has changed but it is so much better. And it runs really smooth. It's just a shame there is a lot of paid plants.. I'm sure you can unlock a lot of them through gameplay anyway but.. I guess making the app free meant they had to try and find ways to make money. Someone'll do it.

The app of the week is Doodle Fit 2 which makes it free also, grab it whilst you can. They've added more game modes in which I think will help you keep playing it.. As good as the first one was you knew that once you get stuck you can't get around it. This one seems to give you different paths to go so.. Better!

I've just looked at my games and realised that it looks like I've paid for loads of apps.. App of the week makes your phone look rich too. Hell yeah.

That's all for today, the photo down bellow will be about Birmingham! Blog you later.

Day 46

So the hotel we stayed at was an Ibis which is really good value at £33 a night. It would seem that because of this everything is ridiculously overpriced. As I mentioned.. Full TV access was £9.99 a night, I know that included movies as well but it's crazy. Monday night we were hungry as you might assume but we had no clue as to where to go for food. Usually the hotels restaurant is a good shout but it was really expensive! £5 for any alcoholic drink, £10-20 mains which seemed a little under par.. It just wasn't worth it. So we hit the Internet and looked for a Pizza Hut. 3 were in the city centre so parking wasn't a problem - it would just cost more than the food. Then we found one at 'Star City.' It was this quite strange entertainment complex with loads of restaurants and a cinema, bowling allies, arcades, little fair ground attractions, football pitches, rock climbing, laser tag and even an indoor crazy gold course. 2400 parking spaces. It was crazy. There was also just a random Subway plonked on its own in front of the place. Everyone loves a Subway though. All in all we were just very happy to find a Pizza Hut. It's just a shame the SatNav told us to turn off one turning too early and.. The road was a bit shady. A dodgy looking garage and a load of lorries. Best 3 point turn ever.

The ICC

So I still haven't got enough time to give you something half decent about Birmingham but I have had work today.. I shall have to try and type something up during the day and finish it at night. That sounds like a good idea. 

Day 45

For now, I shall leave you with another picture from Birmingham. This is the ICC and we had no idea what it really was. It was just a really impressive building. We were too scared to walk inside because there seemed to be lots of business people wondering around.. We found this place after we had been to the Sea Life Centre and we had time left on the parking. I always thought where I lived wasn't countryside but.. Going to a city like Birmingham made me feel really small, so many big buildings everywhere. Strange feeling to be honest.

Back

Cadbury world was awesome, but at the moment I haven't get the time or the pictures to do a proper post about it all. So today I will leave you with a picture. By the way - we bough about £22 worth of chocolate. My fridge is awesome.

Day 44

This was from the first section of Cadbury world and I thought it was awesome so have a look for yourselves!

43

Day 43

Look at the fish. It's a fish, and something else with a shell.. Woop!

I'm away tomorrow..

As you can presume by the title - I am away tomorrow. Me and Amy are off up to Birmingham to go to Cadbury World so.. Tomorrow will just be a picture as no doubt I'll be quite busy and/or tired from driving over 150 miles.. None the less, I shall not miss a picture!

This weekend has been pretty interesting. We went to Royal Tonbridge Wells on Saturday as we haven't been there in ages. It would appear the talking bins have stopped working.. They had Mr T's voice last time we were there.

In the evening we went out to the cinema with Tom and Chloe, we saw Grown Ups 2.. 3 of the 4 of us were not very impressed by it. The first one easily outshines it but don't take this to mean don't see because you might love it. To me it just felt like a follow up film to rake in some more cash.. I hate saying it because I think Adam Sandler is hilarious but this is not his best work. You'll still laugh but I think you'll find yourself trying to piece together a coherent story line to justify the film being made. I did.

Today for lunch we had 'random stuff from the freezer' as it needs emptying as it is getting rather frosty. Ended up having chicken nuggets, beef burgers and chips. I covered all of mine in sweet chilli sauce because I had the craving for it. All it did was make me want a sweet chilli wrap from McDonalds but.. I'll survive without. 

We then ventured somewhere new! We went to a little retail park in Orpington as the Argos there had a good deal on a Sims 3 starter pack. The game plus two expansions - £20. Assuming all together they cost about £80 individually this was rather awesome. I got myself a little gizmo also, which you'll down bellow. 

This post has been a little mismatchy and jumping around the weekend but.. Tuesdays and Wednesdays should be a biggun' to cover what we got to off up north. We are planning to go to the Sea Life Centre tomorrow also as our annual passes allow us free entry. Happy days. Might do a post about that.. Tomorrow's will be dependant on if I am relying on 3G or if there is wifi. I doubt there will be though. Thanks for reading, blog you later!

Day 42

This little gizmo I mentioned is an iPhone mount for your car. I'm planning to use my phone as the SatNav so.. This stops me having to look down at my phone. Safety first!

Quickly

Day 41

Before my time is up! Our evenings entertainment.

The power!

This post has an epic title with a really full conclusion. I'm sorry.

Basically, as me and Amy are going to Cadbury World next week which is up in Birmingham, I wanted to get an in car phone charger. Birmingham is about 150 miles away, so over 2 hours drive easy. So having the phone on for that long would destroy the battery and leave me without directions. Hence the power. Lots of it.

We went to Bluewater to get it as they had some good priority moments on there. Didn't use any as it turns out all the ones I wanted I didn't need.. Like there was a free pair of flip flops but they'd run out.. And 10% off in O2 but they had no in car chargers.. 

Amy got some sharpies on a really good offer. Usually £16.99.. Get them for &6.99 with any pencil case. Got a tiny one for £2.00 so it all worked out well. It's a 24 pack as well so that's even better!

Then I went to work. Bah.

Thanks for reading, have a good weekend! Blog you later.

Day 40

This is totally the best name for a DJ. You wouldn't ask him to play Barbie Girl would you?

Quite a busy day..

So we knew we had some stuff planned and then it went overboard and turned into a pretty awesome day. 

So today we had already planned to go to the Ashford Designer Outlet Centre, not really to buy anything but to have a look around. We are all saving for stuff and even though it was pay day we didn't really want to spend a lot. There was four of us, me, Amy, Tom and Chloe. The most we spent was on food really. Food is good though. Even though the woman in subway seemed to have a personal vendetta against me. I wanted to order two subs, one for me and one for Amy.. I did Amy's first and then she ignored me and went to the next customer so I thought 'Okay, just queue again!' Then he put gherkins in it when all I asked for was green peppers and red onions. Doesn't remotely sound like gherkin. I ate that one instead so waste not want not. 

I found a really nice shirt that I wanted to be mine but they only had two and they were both small.. It was a purple stripy buttoned shirt in Animal.. I always seem to find something I like in there. And the discounts are always huge! One of my favourite hoodies had £50 off. Crazy! Amy got a nice dress from there, £55 down to £8. So good.

After that we got lost a little bit then found our way to Maidstone. O2 are offering a free valet clean of your car from the people in Fremlin so.. Do that. You need to get there early though because we got there at 15:15 and they said they wouldn't have enough time to do it before they finished. Wondered around there for a while, had a look at some stuff in CeX because it's awesome.. I just find it annoying when stuff in there is the same price new in another shop. Whats the point of getting it second hand with a possible batch of problems than getting it new? Logic be damned. 

By the way, I really want a 3DS right now so if anyone wants to buy me one.. Give me one.. Knows where to get one dirt cheap.. Much obliged, thank you.

After Maidstone we headed to Rochester for a spot of dinner. Hungry Horse style. Not going to lie - I was a bit apprehensive as their service seems a bit hit and miss as you seem to get served by a load of different people. Thursday's deal is a free starter of dessert with any big plate meal. Awesome. So I went for a prawn cocktail because I love prawns. For the main, obviously a gammon steak. Its a pretty big steak, not the beast quality as it is cheap but you do get an egg and a pineapple ring - but this ring is tiny. Like a baby bracelet size. I'd rather have a decent egg or a normal sized pineapple ring. Amy went for cheesy garlic ciabatta and then chicken sizzler skewers. They were bubbling but not sizzling - tut tut. We had our starters for about 2 minutes when they came over asking if we wanted to wait a while for our mains.. We said yes.. Once we had finished and cleared our plates it took about 10 minutes for the mains to come! Someone else had them, I know it.

After that we went to Hollywood Bowl, a seemingly posh bowling place. It was £11.50 for two games which is pretty steep as some places we know it's £2 a game.. But it was really nice. The lanes are nice, the balls are nice, posh touch screen thingys where you can order stuff straight to your lane. The bowling area was very slippery though and on your first shot catches you off guard as you almost launch yourself down the lane. Didn't do too bad but didn't do amazing.. I am generally just happy to break the 100 point mark. That'll do me nicely. 

We then did have a little Tesco's trawl but didn't buy anything.. Wasn't too bothered really. We went and saw Amy's Nan and Granddad as they were back from their trip. And now I am here. Sitting in a chair with a lovely MacBook on my lap typing. I want one. You can stick the 3DS in the same box if you'd like, I'm not fussy. Long post as well, feels like I haven't done one like this in ages! Read it all!

Thanks, blog you later.

Day 39
We also dropped into a garden centre on the outskirts of Maidstone that I never even knew about.. There were a load of hamsters there and this one seemed to be dead. It wasn't but it had a rather epic pose for sleeping. Zombie style.

Wednerdsday

I said nerds day not because I did anything nerdy but because its geek week on YouTube and there's a lot of stuff on there right now. Lots of brain enriching awesomeness. 

So me and Amy went back to watching How I Met Your Mother today because we haven't in ages. I'm pretty sure the next season will be out on DVD soon too. We finished up season 2 and made a dent in disk 1 of season 3. It's pretty good. We keep watching some and we've already seen it; then out of no where a complete new one. 

We had these sausages from the coop for lunch, they were amazing. Chorizo. The skin on then was quite tough and then orange stuff would come out. It doesn't make them seem that nice but they really were. My cat wasn't so impressed by them though.. 

My mum asked me to do a thing on Facebook to warn people about an attempted kidnapping and now it's got over 400 shares.. That's crazy I must say. At least the word is getting out there.

And I had work. Meh.

Thanks for reading! Blog you later.

Day 38

Bought these at the coop today. Cake bears. Chocolate inside them. Tasty. Feel a little bit bad because its like killing a cute thing. A tasty cute thing.

Murp

Here's a picture for you. Sleep is healthiness and I would quite like some right now!

Day 37

HMV has this huge wall full of awesome shirts now in Maidstone and this one caught my eye. It's so awesome! They only had a small one there so I didn't get it as I am not small.. Muscles.. And food.. Ahem. Anyway, it's awesome. They had a Big Bang Theory one with soft kitty on it too! Get some nerd.

Medium?

So it's not going to be super long but it's not going to be super small.. I'm not at home again today but I don't want to be rude and not post something proper once every now and then!

Today we decided to go to Maidstone to do some wondering and maybe some shopping if the needs came to it. We went to Frankie and Benny's for lunch as the lunch menu is good value! I won't lie.. I don't like to moan.. But the service wasn't quite as good as usual today. I don't mean to be mean but it wasn't very busy and it just felt like they were avoiding our table. Otherwise the food was good though. Always is.

I am finishing this post up on Amy's new toy which I will get to later but it should let me get a little bit more into the post. Lucky you!

After we had lunch we wondered around Maidstone for a little while, Amy got a pencil case from Paperchase because everything in there is freakin' awesome. She wanted one for when she goes back to school - sorted.

We then headed home for a little while then we went off to PC world or Curry's.. Whichever it is. She has a Macbook Pro 13" now. She likes her Apple stuff and I like it to so. Yeah. 

Right now I am watching Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter because I really wanted to see it when it was in the cinema and now its out on DVD and now.. AHHH! It's so good. Yeah.

Well I am going to watch this and then sleep. Sleep is good. Thanks for reading. I guess this counts as a medium post as it is a lot longer than just your bog standard picture only post. Blog you later.

Day 36
We also went to Asda today to get some shopping in. If you go towards the end of the shops open hours, there is a trolley full of lovely cheapy bakery goodness. Picked up this bargain. 12 doughnuts - 20p. Happy days.

Piccy

Day 35

I am not at home tonight so I shall provide a picture for you to look at. By the way - they announced the new Doctor for Dr Who today so look it up if you want to know. This pic is of the thing hanging about my head at home. It's the backing bit from a photo frame we bought and its not even supposed to be hung up.. Yeah!

Bridge

Day 34

So Lakeside is a place where you can go on a rather large bridge which makes it feel like you're going to drive off into the the sky like an alien. I didn't.

Dave

Day 33

This is Dave. Dave is a dragon. Made from Hama beads. Dave is awesome or Dave will burn you with his flame. Yeah.

Another film?

Hello again. You.

I'm going to jump right in at midday because this morning mainly comprised of self grooming. In the form of shaving my face down to a goatee again.

Lunch time we had some chicken nuggets because they are so yummy. They were a little dry but.. Still yummy. With chips of course. And a generous helping of ketchup, tomato variant.

We spent the afternoon watching some TV and doing some Hama beads. Well Amy did, my part in this was mainly bead finding, colour scheme aider and setting up the ironing board to finish them off. If you're unsure of what a Hama bead is there'll be a picture down bellow. I thought everyone would know what they are but my mum didn't! I remember using them at school in graphics.

We did spend about 15 minutes shop hopping looking for some grease proof paper as you iron them under this or they'll stick to the iron I guess.. Turns out no where in Borough Green sells it. As far as we know. Did get a slush puppy though so it's not all bad. And my sister had some paper anyway so.. Guess it was a slushy run more than anything.

For the evening we went out with Mr Tate and Caz for some tea and to see a film. We had Chiquito's, me and Amy used to go there pretty often because it was pretty cheap and really tasty with huge dishes. We've been putting off going back because the new menu didn't look as good and there are no set menus any more. Turns out Tate gets 20% off with his Cineworld card so it wasn't all bad. I had a chorizo and sweetcorn wrap, Amy had some meatballs in sauce with rice. I kind of wish I went for something like that now as mine wasn't really all that filling. Just tasted good.

We then saw The Heat, it was pretty awesome. Very funny, it was nice to go and see a film that was genuinely funny. Quite graphic.. Which seems to be happening more and more now, funny and appearing to be light hearted until stuff gets serious.. Worth a watch though! It was also ironic as the air con was broken so it was pretty hot.

Thanks for reading, blog you later.

Day 32

I just got lost with the numbers because its the 1st August not the 32nd July. Bleh. Anyway, here are some Hama bead creations. The minion is awesome, we know. Amy also made a C and a T for Tom and Caz but they are currently with their respective owners.