Blimey….

How long since my last post here? Tutt tutt slap me…

I have been chocka for what seems like forever… New hobbies, work, home etc etc. So – what’s new?

Well I finally got the tattoo – 3 hours in the chair and I now have a rather large Saltire on my upper right arm, and rather nifty it is too.. I am already planning for what can now go on my right foream – starting just above the elbow and running down to the midway point. Gotta be done. I just gotta figure out what will fit in underneath the Scottish flag and not look out of place.

TV watching has been filled with 2 seasons of Southland – an almost documentary style LA based series about a group of Police officers and their everyday lives. Very good indeed. I let Lost finish and then watched the entire last season in one hit. Quite a good ending and one that wasn’t too much of a surprise but it also was a surprise in a way – bit of a paradox there. I am currently working through Season 8 of 24 and The Pacific simultaneously.

I have joined the Airfield Information Exchange now too! Its basically an online community who share and research information about former, used and disused airfields all over the UK. Living so close to Suffolk means I am close to a gamut of such fields I have already been to the former RAF fields at Rivenhall and Boxted, with RAF Birch on the agenda for this Saturday coming. The history of all these places is actually quite interesting and its great to find all these places – some with and some without remnants of their former selves – this ranges from Control Towers to Hangers to runway light fittings. In some places things have almost been untouched for 60 years, and others bear no resemblance whatsoever – the fun part is looking and then photographing them.

On a similar vein I have now joined the Bentwaters Cold War Museum and am helping them overhaul their website for starters. They are having an airshow this Sunday. so I will be at that. Quite a few guys from the AIX are also going, so it will be a double meet up.. Result. And the kids are away this weekend, so that makes Sunday even easier in some respects.

I have also kicked off a few pieces of work for website redesigns for different people and will be paid accordingly. I am now going to set up a limited company and run this stuff through it to legitimise this sort of work as it’s picking up right now for some reason. Not sure why, but I for one am not complaining.

Work is worse than ever – my main man Andy has resigned and is off in 3 weeks, whilst we have a new 1st line guy starting next week. Things generally though are fucking dire – knee jerks all over the place, and the same old shit. Andy has made a good call with his position I believe.