Got back from a weekend in Manchester yesterday, to distract from the fact I didn’t end up going to Leeds but made £300 quid instead. Went to watch the Pride parade on Saturday and then into the Gay Village to soak up the atmosphere, even got to see Sophie Ellis Bextor play. Was going to [...]
27 August, 2008
Categories: General Post . Tags: BT phonebooks, Bury, decorating, DIY, Gay Village, Ikea, Manchester, Pride, Sol, Wardrobe . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Right, I have just bought Bloc Party’s new album off their site. Its the third album they have produced and having loved the last two albums I had to buy it, even buying myself a pioneers membership so I could download all the previous b-sides which there are some absolute gems, such as secrets. I [...]
22 August, 2008
Categories: music . Tags: Bloc Party, Bloc Party Intimacy, Drums, Guitar, Intimacy, New Album, Pin Me Down, Review, riffs, Russell Lissack, Synth . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
This year I will be running the Great North Run for the second time, last year I finished in a time of 2 hours and 34 seconds. I have better that in the second half marathon I ran at Wilmslow this Easter, finishing in 1 hour 53 minutes. Over the next few weeks I will [...]
20 August, 2008
Categories: running . Tags: Great North run, half marathon, long distance, newcastle, running . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Just got round to posting since coming back from staying in Holland for a week, we also went on a trip to cologne for a couple of days so my brother could practice speaking German. Which has motivated me to start learning it again, I got a B at GCSE but that was ages ago [...]
19 August, 2008
Categories: Holidays . Tags: Beer, Cologne, Festival, Football season, Holland, Kolsch, Leeds, music . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Spent an hour this morning just watching Family Guy waiting for the postman to come, a little sad I know but with going away tomorrow I needed my laptop to be sorted so I can work while away. Anyway finally came around 10 and both the packages had come, my new fan (which was slightly [...]
11 August, 2008
Categories: General Post . Tags: Cricket, Fan, Fitting, Great North run, Hardware, Holiday, Isopropyl Alcohol, Keyboard, Laptop, Poshpads, Problems, running, Work . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Three main things to discuss today and they are all sport related, the slightly average though still interesting Community Shield match between Man Utd and Portsmouth, England’s inability to bowl out tailenders and Lancashire’s currently shoddy performance against Worcestershire who are 173-4 off 23 overs.
First off the prelude to the start of the football season, [...]
10 August, 2008
Categories: Cricket, Football . Tags: Community Shield, Cricket, England, Lancashire, Man Utd, Manchester, manchester united, Pompey, Portsmouth, South Africa, Worcestershire . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Unfortunately yesterday the fan gave out on my laptop so I had to come back from Bristol, it was slightly boring with no TV and no laptop which meant I couldn’t even work properly.
Anyway on the upside I found a replacement fan on eBay new for £7 which should arrive within the next few days [...]
7 August, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Bristol, Fan, Flat, Holloways, Laptop, Photos, Work . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
Just got down to our new flat in Bristol for Uni next year so i’ve taken some pictures for you to have a look at it.
Posted them to my Flickr account, the set is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/manutdfan1988/sets/72157606539928335/
Haven’t yet got the internet so had to trek to the University to get on the wireless which was a [...]
4 August, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Bristol, Flat, Photos . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Bus dropped us right in the centre of town, having never been before we had no clue where to head. Luckily there was a massive crowd walking up the street so like sheep we set off following, however soon we came to a problem a choice between left or straight on. The crowd was [...]
3 August, 2008
Categories: Holidays . Tags: Benicassim, Festival, music, Spain, Tent . Author: manutdfan1988 . Comments: Leave a Comment