last weekend I made a very impromptu decision to travel back to Manchester to visit my old drinking buddy.
"Let's do that pub crawl!" I immediately regretted saying.
"Well..." said Darren hesitantly "If you want to..."
"I do. I really think we can do this!" The eagerness outstripping my common sense.
"You're on." Said Darren knowing full well in would all end in tears. He is the clever one you see.
And so on Monday morning I jumped on a train and after a belated exchange of Christmas gifts we headed off into the wilds of Manchester city centre to complete the Manchester Heritage Pub Crawl.
We decided to only drink half pints of whatever local ale each pub served and at around 2pm we took our first sips of something called BLACK RAT.
it was nice.
We chatted and walked and drank and moved on from one pub to another. This continued for a couple of hours until we were joined by another friend known affectionately as The Incredibly Upsetting Boy.
The Incredibly Upsetting Boy and his Incredibly Upsetting hair style and skinny jeans (you can already begin to see why he is so upsetting) took a gulp of his pint and made a very strange face indeed.
"What on Earth is the matter my old chum?" I may have said with more emphasis on swearing and less on compassion.
The Incredible Upsetting Boy told of how he had lost part of one of his teeth and was in a lot of pain.
Both Darren and I laughed.
The Incredibly Upsetting Boy did not laugh but instead made a noise akin to agony.
The decision was made that a chilli burger would numb the pain and very soon after we realised this was not a good idea.
Two more pubs were selected and numbers 14 and 15 were entered with suitable drinks consumed.
At this point in the evening I realised I had lost my list of pubs and so we said our goodbyes and went home.
On reflection, It was a bad idea... no STUPID idea of mine to think that we could make to 40 pubs in one day.
This event will therefore stand as test run. 15 pubs in one day means that it should be more than possible to complete the whole list in 3 days. This is a task that will be completed before the end of this year.
The results however, will not appear on this blog but "somewhere else".
If you want to keep informed and see the video that will accompany this adventure then now is the time to get a front row seat to the newest hip hop happening down with the kids too KOOL 4 SKOOL (see what I did there??) internet ... um... thing by clicking this link: SinkingShip Google + Page
And then this one for good luck: SinkingShip Twitter Page
Teasers and ticklers will be popping up all over the place as stuff gets done.
It's going to be exciting, it's going to be fun.... IT WILL!
Greetings readers *does a quick head count* I see we all made it through the New Year in one piece.
I come at you today with words of updates, updates and more updates.
Firstly, as you read this I will be in the midst of putting myself in a certain amount of personal danger for episode 4 of TALKING THOUGHTLESS GIBBERISH the accompanying video blog that started as a one off and now seems to be fast becoming a semi-regular feature... but more on that when (and if) I survive.
Secondly, you may remember a few months ago I mentioned one of my little hobbies regarding betting on the football.... no? never mind.
Every year I like to spend a very small amount of cash (18p a go) on the football results. This year I have been placing bets on premier league matches to win for Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs - only excluding games where one team plays the other. Seeing as how we are half way through the season I thought it would be a good idea to perform a mid season review.
Before I give away the results of any profit/loss I would like to point out that due to excessive celebrations at the new year I forgot to place any bets on the 1st of Jan, one of the few weeks where ALL THE TEAMS ACTUALLY WON!!! - damn and blast!
Anyway, regardless of that I am currently making a little bit of profit as the totals below show:
TOTAL SPENT: £13.44
POTENTIAL TOTAL WINNINGS: £21. 56
TOTAL ACTUAL WINNINGS:£14.82
so as we can see, half way through the season and I have made a total of £1.38 which may not sound a lot, but when taking into account that is around 10% profit it suddenly starts to look a little better.
Betting can become a habit and quite a costly one at that so I always make sure I only gamble with small amounts of money that I can afford to loose. It is all in fun and having done this for the past 4 years I lost less than £40 in that time.
This is mainly due to things like horses, which I am not very good at picking so I have stopped that. haha.
There will be more news on the final results of the football betting as we near the end of season in March/April.
Thirdly, The new blog is coming along very nicley indeed. I still have a lot to do before I can release it into the wild, but hopefully the wait will be worth it. There will be many different types of entries including videos and audio as well as poorly written gobbeldy gook similar to what you read on here.
Stay tuned for more updates and wish me luck as I travel out on Monday to attempt a very poorly thought out plan!
I have a horrible feeling it will all end in tears (or tears depending on how you read the word tears)
TTFN.
