I thought an update for what has been going on this week would be in order!!!

I have been having a bit of a nose around to see if Adam Atherton had done any more comics on Zuma barring Lilly of the Valley and I have found that he did another called Bleed, which looked quite interesting. If you fancy a look then head on over to http://www.zudacomics.com/node/945

I saw 3 movies last week...The Hangover (I got preview tickets for free, which was nice), Drag Me To Hell and Terminator Salvation.
Drag Me To Hell wasn't too bad, it was about a woman who is cursed to be dragged to Hell by a demon and her race against time to break the curse. I'm not going to spoil anything, but I did like the way that a small item near the beginning of the movie changed everything right at the end of the movie. This one is certainly one that I will be adding to my DVD when it is released!
Terminator Salvation....oh what a can of worms this movie has opened! A lot of people have "boycotted" this movie as there is none of the original cast in it, but to be honest I think that was a good thing. I enjoyed the movie (Cuddle Bunny went with me, and she liked it but thought that the previous 3 movies were better) and I liked the way that it seemed to ignore the third movie. In a lot of ways this felt more like a franchise "reboot" than a prequel/sequel (not sure what catergory it would be in because of the "time travel" element of this franchise). I liked Christian Bale as John Connor, and look forward to getting this on DVD as well. For people who enjoyed this movie, IMDB have it listed that "Termiator 5" is to be released in 2011 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/).

My birthday went kinda well, which was nice too..me and cuddle Bunny went to Southsea and walked from South Parade Pier to Clarence Pier. We went into every arcade between the two points and played all the 2p machines! I won quite a few keyrings and stuff which I gave to Cuddle Bunny, although I Kept 2 that I had won (Clumsy Bean and Nurse Bean from Bean World, have a look at them on http://www.bean-world.net/) and kept one for me and gave the other to my flatmate. We also had fish&chips by the sea, which I was really looking forward to but they were horrible...the fish was swimming in grease!
We also went to Victoria Park which was nice, although it has changed a lot since I had been there!
It was just great to have a day with Cuddle Bunny, I loved every minute!

My DVD collection has broken through the 1,000 barrier! That is a LOT of DVDs! sure I know there are people with loads more than me, but I have only the DVDs I want, and most of them as collector's editions which is nice. Here's to breaking the 2,000 barrier!

Well, that's all for now, but I'm sure I'll be back soon!

Whoa another post so regular, what's wrong with me!

Three Faces of Foley arrived yesterday, and it's not too bad! It shows the interview as Mankind when he attacked Jim Ross which is slightly disturbing, why can't they do storylines like that any more? As far as I'm aware I have all the WWE/WWF Mick Foley DVDs in my collection, I'm now on the hunt for Undertaker ones.

Guitar Hero: Metallica is released today! I'll be picking up my copy before I meet Cuddle Bunny later, and I'll give my impressions of what I think it is like after a few plays.

Me and Cuddle Bunny are going to be seeing Angels & Demons this evening...I'm looking forward to the movie and it's even better I get to spend time with my Cuddle Bunny! I've been told that apparently it is difficult to compare this movie with The DaVinci Code as this one is a lot more action based. I'll give my thoughts later or tomorrow.

Kosh and Lisa are down for the weekend (Kosh is Haunted Rock Cake's son and Lisa is Kosh's wife) and they were kind enough to give me some more postcards for my collection. These ones promote the games Resistance: Retribution and WWE SmackDown Vs Raw 2008. Cheers Kosh!

Well, that's all for now folks...maybe some more later.

Well, it's been a couple of weeks roughly since I uploaded the blog of The Fat Bloke, so I guess I should say what is going on in this crazy place...

Amy, my sister, is pregnant! She sent me a text this morning (Saying HELLO UNCLE SAIRE....I bloody hate being called uncle!) and then called me up and it would appear that she is 5 weeks gone. She is off to the doctors today and I should have some more details later. Jamie (Amy's fiancee) was so shocked he almost walked in front of a bus!

Things are going well between me and Cuddle Bunny...I really love her a lot, and I'm happy to say it looks like the feelings are mutual! Hopefully we are going out for the day tomorrow but Cuddle Bunny has been feeling a little poorly so it may not happen as yet.

Apparently, I apologise too much. To be honest I had never really realised this (there again I guess you would not unless someone pointed it out to you. Cuddle Bunny has currently taken it upon herself to slap me (and not exactly gently either...she gonna hurt herself if she not careful!) if I even begin to apologise! I guess it is down to the fact I'm always scared that I am screwing things up, I have had to say sorry for so many wrongs in my past I guess it has almost become second nature that everything I do IS wrong so I have to apologise.

I'm annoyed with Twitter...I am unable to send messages via SMS or via mobile internet on my phone! I have a Nokia N70 (yeah, an oldish phone I guess) and it is on the O2 network...has anyone else got issues with Twitter and the O2 network?
Oh well, at least I can do status updates to Facebook...

I have some more DVDs to add to my humble collection, and all of them were quite well priced too....

• The Golden Compass 2DVD - I was curious about this movie when it hit the cinema, but wasn't sure if I wanted to go and see it. I was able to grab this for £7, which seemed quite reasonable and it's not too bad a movie! I look forward to seeing the other books made into movies in the future.
• Al Murray's Happy Hour Season 1 - I am a huge fan of Al Murray (better known as The Pub Landlord) and have been lucky enough to have 2DVDs signed by him. I was looking in HMV and saw this for £3! This is great as I'm sure it is supposed to be about £20! Great bargain and some great laughs.
• The Eye (Lenticular Sleeve) - Ah yes, nothing like a bit of horror...I think this is yet another based on Japanese horror, but don't quote me on that! It was nice to be able to get hold of the lenticular sleeved edition too, where a hand "crawls" out of the eye! This cost me £5.
• WWE Judgment Day 2008 - Again in HMV they were selling this for £4, not bad when the average price is usually £15 for wrestling PPV DVDs (barring WrestleMania which is just a hige boxset each time!)

I was also kinda gutted too, I was able to get hold of The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment 3DVD set a while back for £8 (which I thought was an excellent bargain) and I saw this in HMV...reduced from £30 to £3!!! I am going to have to keep an eye on the wrestling DVDs there because they seem to be dropping to silly prices now and then.

It's Cuddle Bunny's birthday on 9th May, and sadly she will be in Wales then (on her way to Ireland for a week with her folks) and she said I had to get her present early (charming!) and when I asked her what she wanted she said "surprise me"...aw man, does she realise what she has let herself in for?

A really REALLY cool game has been launched for the PS3 and PS2...SingStar Queen! anyone who knows me well know that I think that Queen (before Freddie tragically passed away) are the best thing before during and since sliced bread, I have been a fan as far back as I can remember (mind you that does not say a lot when I have problems with my memory) and when Sony announced this I thought it was amazing! The game was released 20th March (along with the eagarly awaited wireless microphones) and I hope to grab myself a copy next week...I hope the neighbours windows are insured and/or reinforced!

The cutting Edge...

Well, Easter kinda came early for me this week...

Met Cuddle Bunny on Wednesday and we went out for dinner. We decided to grab some chicken from Nando's but it was a bad call....Cuddle Bunny cannot eat spicy food so she ordered lemon and herb chicken, and got spicy chicken, which kinda ruined it all. I do wonder why it is so difficult to listen and take note of instructions/requests.

After that, she asked me what I wanted for Easter (I don't do Easter Eggs as I am diabetic, people tend to buy me DVDs or CDs or other stuff) and I said to her I'd like a wrestling DVD, and so we went to HMV, and I showed her one DVD (I never got to show her the actual wrestling section, which had a selection!) and she grabbed it and that is my Easter present from her, wow!

So I have a few more DVDs to add to my collection...

• Edge: A Decade Of Decadence - I almost bought this the other day, but Mel got me this, and all I can say is wow cheers hon! I have not watched this as yet, I will be waiting until Mel has said she has eaten all or some of her Easter egg.
• Moulin Rouge - I have been looking out for this in SteelBook for quite a while now, and after watching Watchmen on Tuesday I thought I'd have a look in HMV and see if there was anything that might be of interest...and there it was! Not bad for £7 either.
• John Cena: Word Life - I've been after this for a while now, but was adamant that I would not pay stupid prices for it. Last week on Play.com a PlayTrader was selling it for £5, that was good enough for me! This is a good companion to the My Life DVD set I got last weekend.
• WWE Live In The UK November 2008 - Yup, as you can see this update is mainly wrestling DVDs!! This is a 2DVD set with the episodes of ECW, Raw and SmackDown that were recorded during the WWE November 2008 UK Tour. Some good matches on there, and all good fun.
• TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments - Not really any fights from TNA Wrestling, but some of the highlights of some of the cool things that have happened from the start of TNA until 2006. I wonder if they will do another disc like that in the future?

I'm off to Newbury at the end of the month...well, me and Cuddle Bunny are anyway. Obviously Cuddle Bunny wants to do shopping (as you do) but I want to take some photos of the area, and kinda do a bit of exploring which should be fun. Hopefully I'll be better than when I went Christmas shopping there last year, I was rather unwell and kept throwing up, and rather embarrassingly projectile vomited outside the Woolworths! Hopefully it will be a good day, and of course more on that when it happens.

Before I go, anyone who is a Watchmen fan (and if you are not, why not?) may be interested that there are 2 companion DVDs that will go well with the movie (that I hope will be released in the Summer) and they are The Complete Motion Comic (yes, the animated graphic novel!!), and Tales of The Black Freighter (an animated story within the story). Add this to the Director's Cut of Watchmen that has been confirmed this is all good!

The weekend has been mental!

Whoa, the weekend has been totally nuts! I'm so glad that Sunday is classed as a day of rest!

The meal went well on Friday, again nerves were all over the place. We had a nice Italian meal, and it was good times, good conversation and good company...all good! Hopefully we will be meeting up again this week, maybe we will have a meal...but who knows?

I was supposed to watching Watchmen last night, but a few things got in the way, so I'm going later in the week.

Went to Andover shopping yesterday, got some good bits and bobs, and got 2 good DVDs for my collection (almost 3 but more on that later...) and they were as follows:
John Cena - My Life: Yup, yet another wrestling DVD set for the collection! 3DVDs about Cena, not bad either considering I got in in almost pristine condition from Andover CEX for a tenner!
The Simspons Season 6 In Homer Head Case - Yes!!!! At last! I have been after all the heads for a while, and again while in CEX Andover, I saw this and knew I had to get it, and at £16 for a brilliant condition set it's all good!

CEX did piss me off however, as I saw Season 7 of The Simpsons in the Marge Head case and I bought that at the same time, however for some reason I had a feeling I had to check the cases before I got on the bus home, and man it was a good job that I did as I found both cases were empty! So, I went to CEX and politely asked for the cases to have the discs in (as you do) and after all that they could not find the discs for Season 7 so they had to give me a refund...firstly why did they not check the case when they sold it to me (after all they checked the John Cena set), and secondly, how in the blue Hell did they lose the discs for the boxset? Looks like I'm the hunt for the other 4 Simpsons head sets.

Despite that though there was something that really brightened my day, it was truly the silver lining to the "cloud day".
I was sitting by the River Anton in andover, just basically chilling out and watching the birds on the water when a lady and her son (or I assume her son anyway, you just never know these days) went to one of the nearby benches. The lady handed her son a crust of bread to feed the ducks and geese there, and he lobbed it with all his might at this Canadian Goose, knocking the poor thing over! I'm so glad I didn't have a mouthful of anything, because it would have been all over anyone who passed by me! It was really funny and something I will not forget in a hurry.

Well, I guess I'll be hobbling off to do some bits and bobs...I'm hobbling as my knee has given out again (all good fun, the joys of some muppet trying to run me down several years ago when I was working security at the Vodafone HQ when it was being built..) which is great, as they say pain is a way of your body letting you know you are alive...guess pain is good then.

Well, 'til next time...

A meal, a scar and an accident...

Well, things have been kinda busy here for The Fat Bloke, so here is a general round up of what's been going on...

Charlie got run over by a car on Wednesday morning. She's ok, just bruises and scrapes really (maybe a little hurt pride) but she was very lucky the car was only travelling at 20mph, it could have been so much worse.
She crossed the road from behind a bus (not be best of ideas) and was in a panic because the school keep on saying she is late even though she gets to school 5 minutes early.
What did she learn? Pedestrians and cars on a road do not mix.

Went and saw mom yesterday, she seems to be doing well which is nice. She's alittle frustrated that she cannot do a lot of things like she used to, but after a major operation that is no big surprise, although I know how she feels as I felt the same after my heart operation when I was 18.

I bought the movie Scar and I watched the 3D version...and I think it was kinda ok (certainly a movie that you switch your brain off to) but I think it lacked depth. It's another DVD for the collection though...

I'm off for dinner tonight with Cuddle Bunny, nothing special as such, just some pasta or a pizza in Ask, but it's all good. It's been great catching up with her, I have missed her oh so much over the 10 years we had not spoke.

Well, that's all for now...I will try and update things a bit more regular though!

Well, it's time for another update in the life of The Fat Bloke....



Went to the doctors on Tuesday and for the first time EVER my heart rate seemed to be perfect, which was kinda odd considering the way my heart is. I also discovered my blood pressure is always high when I'm at the surgery because I do not like doctors and nurses (nothing personal to them, they are lovely people...but had a lot of bad experiences) and that has now been noted on my records.



I think things are going really well with Cuddle Bunny, we will be meeting up again next week. Not sure what we will be doing yet though! It has been great to see after so long, reminds me of many good times.



Finally, most people who know me know i love penguins, and I had to add this to my blog:

Seeing Cuddle Bunny again..

Well, with the initial meeting with Cuddle Bunny going well and we have been chatting to each other ever since (I see this as hopefully a good sign!) we are both going to the cinema on Monday to see The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and maybe have a drink afterward.

I'm still as nervous as ever...but looking forward to it!

Good times...bad times...

Well, I met Cuddle Bunny and we had a coffee (well, actually we had 3, in 3 different coffee shops!) and it wasn't too bad. We had a chat about old times, I kinda had a weight taken off me when I explained what happened to which in turn caused our relationship to break up...and Cuddle Bunny was happy as she had someone to talk to (I pride myself in being a good listener...kinda have to be when you are partially deaf!).
A lot of good memories flooded back, a few bad ones too (as they do) but we are different people now, older (for sure), wiser (perhaps?) and that can be nothing but a good thing.

But, as always, there is always something to rain on my parade.....

I have just checked the bank, and the Benefits Agency have screwed up! This time they really have too, I am over £60 down on benefits (not including my DLA, which is paid seperate as I found out last fortnight). I guess I will have to call them up later on this morning and see what thier reasoning is about this...and they cannot say they sent me a letter about cutting my benefits, all I have ever got is letters saying about the CWP (Cold Weather Payment) they gave me last week...mind you the letter was over a week late so maybe I'll get told about a reduction next week....damn what a bunch of idiots.

UPDATE: OK, so I phoned them up and asked what was going on and they explained they were supposed to take more money than they did, although I get it as a monthly lump sum. I really wish they would communicate about things...they were supposed to have sent me a letter about this (apparently sent in December) but I got nothing...nothing unusual there though I guess.

Well, at least I wasn't being conned of money...I just have to wait longer for it.

I have not felt like this for a while...

Tomorrow is full of aprehension for me....

It's mad, I have been threatened with knives and guns, I've died on the operating table a couple of times...yet this tops the lot.

What exactly would be making me feel like this?

I'm meeting Cuddle Bunny for a coffee!

I cannot believe that something like this is making me feel like this....sure, I've not seen her for 10 years, and I have only just recently been in touch. Sure, it was kinda my fault we split up all those years ago (I was drinking heavy, I was depressed and my life spiralled downward with me dropping out of college and pushing friends and family away...) but that was then and this is now.

Will it go well? I guess we will have to wait and see.

Why do you miss someone when they could be bad for you, or you bad for them?

It's odd, I was speaking to someone today, and a whole shedload of memories came back...my fondness for them, how close we were at one stage and so on. It was great chatting (although it was very brief and we didn't really say too much if I was honest)....and it was always nice to know she was ok.

But it struck me...and hard...I miss her in my life.

It's mad, even after all these years I really miss her so much, even though she doesn't work or live too far away (just a bus journey)...thing is I know that even if we were to get together (which to be honest is highly unlikely) it would not be a good idea as I don't honestly think I would be good for her, or her good for me.

Why does life do this to me?