The fire alarm went off last night about 11pm, i'd been in bed about 10 minutes. Stood outside for about 20 minutes getting very cold, then got let back in. Turns out it was an extracter fan in the washing room that had set on fire. Lol im guessing its about as old as the block.
Well it was my day off today, so not really done much. Did my fitness test and failed on situps. The monged it in my room for the rest of the day, fell asleep. sorted my kit out just incase i get called out. Ironed my stuff. Blah
Thats all for now really, Just a boring day. Snowing again, i just know im gonna get board of typing that.
Mood - bored already
Song in my head - bum biddy biddy biddy bum bum-8 Crazy Nights.
6/10
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
20th
Falklands isnt listed on my laptop time zones so i had to choose another one, it was canada or something like that, well that turned out due to daylight savings was only 4 hours, so i changed it manually to the right time, plugged my iphone in to try and put some songs on and it changed the time so that it was an hour ahead of what it should be. I didnt realise this till 6am this morning, i was gonna get up at 7am, So i got ready, put my boots on and had a look at my watch, it was only 6am, looked at my phone 7am, watch 6am, phone 7am. I think i swore at my self and went back to bed. To be honest im not really having much luck with time, no-one told me the clocks had changed so i tipped up to work at 4am instead of 5am the other day. Yes lol at me all you want.
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
So i woke up to snow this morning, luvly. Went down the cinama for my arrivals breaf. The blocks are quite warm but the ''spinal corridors'' are so fucking cold its unbelivable, its like walking outside, inside but it feels even worst. Sat in there for 5 hours the instructer said they left the heating off to keep us awake. Jeeze it was so cold, shivering much.
Went into work after that with the idea of finishing at 4pm, that didnt happen. Left work at half 6.
So its all fun in the snow here, coming down quite heavy now maybe i'll build a snow penguin or a snow turkey vulture(yes they do exist). Thats all to say right now, day off tomorrow but i've still got shit to do on my arivals chit. ceow for now bitchs.
Mood - Indiferent
Song in my head - Sugar-SOAD
6/10
Monday, 19 April 2010
Falklands-the beggining
Well i've decided to keep a blog for the next 6 months while im here in the Falklands, maybe to keep me sane or maybe to look back on it and laugh. I'll try and write something every day but i might have to upload it every 3 days or so.
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Many moonths
Well i've done tons since my last blog, i've lost internet on base for the moment so no posts.
So cornwall was awesome, lots of drunken silliness, tons of water and fire, i really do miss it alot.
I seem to be doing an awfull lot of adventure training at the moment, went to wales did a sweet mountain bike track, took 2 and a half hours to get up this mountain and 25 minutes to get down, it was intence. Rock climbing, canooing (yes my spelling is atrochass).
Went to salisbury plain to do some shooting and cooking and general arsing around. It was cold, wet and muddy, oh the joy.
Soon as i came back i went sailing down south. Started in Gosport and went to Isle of Wight, Southhampton and some other places that i seem not to recall. We ended up back at Gosport, covering a total of 94 sea miles in 4 days. It was wet, windy and cramped. Really enjoyed it though.
Came back and moved rooms in to Z-type accomadation, its not too bad i now have a double bed, ensuité and a window with a lovely view of a carpark. That about brings you upto date. Im waiting for my line to be connected in the new blocks so hopfully by the end of next week i'll have internet.
I live my life a quarter pounder at a time.
Have fun children. Dan xx
So cornwall was awesome, lots of drunken silliness, tons of water and fire, i really do miss it alot.
I seem to be doing an awfull lot of adventure training at the moment, went to wales did a sweet mountain bike track, took 2 and a half hours to get up this mountain and 25 minutes to get down, it was intence. Rock climbing, canooing (yes my spelling is atrochass).
Went to salisbury plain to do some shooting and cooking and general arsing around. It was cold, wet and muddy, oh the joy.
Soon as i came back i went sailing down south. Started in Gosport and went to Isle of Wight, Southhampton and some other places that i seem not to recall. We ended up back at Gosport, covering a total of 94 sea miles in 4 days. It was wet, windy and cramped. Really enjoyed it though.
Came back and moved rooms in to Z-type accomadation, its not too bad i now have a double bed, ensuité and a window with a lovely view of a carpark. That about brings you upto date. Im waiting for my line to be connected in the new blocks so hopfully by the end of next week i'll have internet.
I live my life a quarter pounder at a time.
Have fun children. Dan xx
Monday, 7 July 2008
Poopoopapoo
So i only seem to be blogging once a month, but hey its ok. So boredom has long set in, cant wait for end of month to come around im going parachuting and then straight down to Cornwall. Be great to see everyone again. Be a crazy 2 weeks of sandy fun in the sun.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Crazy legs
Have you ever watched The hits at 6 o'clock in the morning? Theres a signer, grooving away to the music giving it big licks and crazy hands, Woooooooooooo! Anyhow, so i didnt pass my driving 'cos of a stupid roundabout, i'll pass next time, only got 4 minors, not bad for a weeks work.
So im back to work, its shit, really shit. Main kitchen is poo. Making me think if i made a bad career change. 2 years to go! Any how, got xbox live in my room not all bad then, Been slaying Americans on COD4 (SilencedBlaze if you want to add me)
So i've been spending a wee bit too much on things of late, bought a new laptop just waiting on delivery, its a desktop replacement so its quite powerful to say the least and at a very cheap price. enough of that.
Im off for a shower i smell of curry and onions and my turban is dirty.
May the fonz be with you.
Dan x
So im back to work, its shit, really shit. Main kitchen is poo. Making me think if i made a bad career change. 2 years to go! Any how, got xbox live in my room not all bad then, Been slaying Americans on COD4 (SilencedBlaze if you want to add me)
So i've been spending a wee bit too much on things of late, bought a new laptop just waiting on delivery, its a desktop replacement so its quite powerful to say the least and at a very cheap price. enough of that.
Im off for a shower i smell of curry and onions and my turban is dirty.
May the fonz be with you.
Dan x
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
secret squirrel
So the last some days has slowly slipped by for whatever reason it did or did not. Maybe it didnt and just flew away. As always my job it just...... Yeah just.
So im on a driving course at the minute, driving surprisingly. Going good, been on it since Saturday, got my test on friday hopefully will pass. how about some kibble? kibble is foshizzle. yeah. So im in blackpool at the minute is some bed and breakfast. its a pigeon and seagull infested place(not the bed and breakfast, blackpool) Well at least im not a work. I mean who likes work? Unless your a games tester of something or other thats good.
Yeah so we did jump matts car, over the greenhouse could have been better, i'll try get the pics.
laters mi bizzatches
So im on a driving course at the minute, driving surprisingly. Going good, been on it since Saturday, got my test on friday hopefully will pass. how about some kibble? kibble is foshizzle. yeah. So im in blackpool at the minute is some bed and breakfast. its a pigeon and seagull infested place(not the bed and breakfast, blackpool) Well at least im not a work. I mean who likes work? Unless your a games tester of something or other thats good.
Yeah so we did jump matts car, over the greenhouse could have been better, i'll try get the pics.
laters mi bizzatches
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