Hi there,

I know that I haven't blogged for quite a long time, I haven't been very well over the past few weeks, I have had some ups and downs but am feeling better recently. Never underestimate the power of positive thought such as positive affirmations, but you need to apply these before your state of mind gets to the stage where you cannot apply these things. Looking on the positive side I have nearly finished my plumbing course. I have got an exam this evening which is the last one, and then a practical assignment next week which involves stripping a bathroom out along with the pipework, and then putting it all back together from scratch. I will then be looking for another course to do to occupy my time, and to take my mind off things. I don't fancy anything to do with construction, because it is too blokey bloke. I fancy doing a health and beauty course, because there will be plenty of nice women to talk to.

I have also joined a gym on off peak membership, it only costs me £22 per month, and the only time I can't use it is first thing in the morning and in the evenings on week days, but I will be able to attend regularly because I work part time, and would be able to go during the day on Mondays and Wednesdays, and weekends of course. Keeping fit is helping alot to make me feel better, and I am also meditation every morning which is good for the mind too. So things are looking up.

Hi there,

Now that the novelty of my MP3 player has worn off a bit, I thought I would blog about the walk that I went on this Sunday gone. I went with my Spice group for a 'Malham Meander'. It was a good day, but tempered by a sad lamb near the end. For those that have not been to Malham, it has a magnificent limestone edifice at Malham Cove that is essentially a sheer cliff that people used to abseil from, but that has been banned due to the presence of rare birds nesting there. We went up over the hills, to Malham Tarn, and then descended towards the top of the cliff where you can walk across the strange rock formation caused by millions of years of rock erosion. However before that I saw a lamb hiding behind a rock, bleating, and it's mother was no where to be seen. I reckon it must have been in a bit of a state because it allowed me to stroke it, and it was trembling. I really felt sorry for it. The thought crossed my mind that I could take it home and put it in my back garden to keep the grass down, however I thought it might look really dodgy walking through Malham with a lamb in my arms, and besides the farmer might come after me with his shotgun. So I had to leave it there, and when I got back to the village I reported it to the visitors centre. They said that they would inform the farmer who does his rounds looking for injured animals. Any way, that made me feel a bit better about it, having to leave the poor lamb there.

this is a link to a really good website showing pictures of the area, including the Cove.

http://www.leaney.org/outside_the_lakes_walk.php?walk_id=504

Well, I guess that if you want someone to comment on your blog, one should avoid doing posts on Friday or Saturday night, or any where near those times. The response to my Land Rover blog was posted at just the wrong time when all you fellow bloggers are busy going out for the night or watching telly. Or perhaps my posting was just so 'bland' that your fingers did not receive an impulse from your brain to even so much as twitch over your keyboard.

Well any way, it's Sunday morning now, I have decided to go to one of my 'local' buddhist centres. I say 'local' because it is actually in Pocklington near York, nearly and hours drive away. But I could have been going to one in Southampton, so in my eyes, near York is local.

I have been busy putting tunes on my MP3 player from my computer and I am really pleased with it. I am slowly but surely getting to grips with using play lists and drag and drop menus in Windows Media Player, although it can be a bit of a drag sometimes.

Any way, I'll let you know how I get on today in my next blog. See you later.

Hello there, in a car park I saw this Land Rover, and I came to the conclusion that the owner is not entirely satisfied with it. I happened to have my camera with me and could not resist taking a shot of it.

Hi there,

I got my MP3 player the other day, it's a Sony and its a wonderful piece of kit; it also plays video and shows photographs, although the screen is not really big enough to watch a film, although it would be ok to watch short clips. I am having great fun putting my CD's onto it, and I will have a go at downloading some tracks from the internet.

Just one question: I know I might find the answer to this on the Sony site somewhere, but I'm lazy at the moment, so I thought I would ask my friends:

I am using Windows Media Player to transfer music to the Walkman, and there is a drag and drop system. However when I drag and drop a particular album into the 'synchronise' box and then click on 'synchronise', the Walkman then proceeds to download all the other albums on my computer, plus all the photos. I don't what this to happen, I only want to transfer the albums I want to, and nothing else. Any comments?

ps have tried altering the synchronising settings but it won't let me.

My last blog only got one comment. Come on you boring farts out there, get some comments written for goodness sake. (I'm pissed by the way, and i'll soon be taking some anti depressants which is not recommended) but I'll do it anyway, and fall into a deep slumber and wake up tomorrow to write another blog which not many people might comment on.

Your's boringly,

David (hic)

Hi folks,

My day today has been great so far. I have been on a treasure hunt in Huddersfield town centre, have got some cut price second hand CD's in mint condition from a specialist shop and now I have just gone to a friends house. We are going to go out for a meal this evening; probably a carvery where we will absolutely stuff our faces.

By the way, if you are wondering how on earth we manage to eat a sweet after stuffing our faces with savoury stuff, the answer is that we have two stomachs, a savoury stomach and a sweet stomach. When the savoury stomach is full, we can then go on to fill the sweet stomach!

I know that Mp3 players have been on the market for many years, but have not really payed much attention to them. I have always been a bit of a purist, thinking that CD's played on a good hi fi system at home cannot be beaten. Well perhaps they can't but I've been thinking recently that I ought to loosen up a bit and catch up with modern technology. I've been looking at MP3 and MP4 players with a view to buying one, more as a play thing because I need some retail therapy to take my mind off things. MP4 players are generally more expensive but they can also display photographs and play video material. However I would not be tempted to try and watch a whole film on such a small screen. I am a member of Which on line, and have been looking at their best buys. One of the Sonys seems to come near the top for sound quality and ease of use, with a decent display. I wonder if anyone out there had any comments about these players. Have they changed your life, or are they just a toy which ends up in the cupboard after a few weeks?

Every so often my computer has been doing something strange, Once it kept trying to open an infinite number of windows on my desk top; I had to go into task manager and shut things down, but even then it was a struggle as lots of task manager windows kept opening up, and I had to use task manager to shut itself down!

And then in my bookmarks for Firefox browser, my bookmark for this blog has stopped working properly, so i have had to recreate it. Is there something spooky going on, is my computer haunted, or is there a perfectly rational explanation?

Hi there,

I went to a local snooker centre with some friends today. We played pool on a large table for an hour, and then we played a game of snooker. I haven't played snooker for many many years, and i had forgotton how large the table is. When you see snooker being played on television, it does not convey the size of the table. I liken the game to astronomy, where you are viewing distant celestial objects (the balls). I could have done with a pair of binoculars!