Strike Factory

As I write this just been at a quarterly meeting with the lovely people of CCVS discussing our plans over the next few months, having only just found out about the meeting earlier this morning via Michael on Facebook, but once I was informed was there in a flash, and despite my initial shyness and quietness the meeting was fine.

The last week, things have been looking up my flat is getting sorted, the Albion in football are performing and enjoyed Great Britain in the Davis Cup beating the United States for the second year running, in Glasgow with the James Ward John Isner match possibly one of the best tennis matches I have ever watched with the victor winning 15-13 in the final set. It means a home tie with France in July hopefully held at Wimbledon or Eastbourne (easy for Mr Ball to attend), though imagine Nottingham and Birmingham will be considered as well as Glasgow, so wait and see. Plus on course to make my Wembley debut at the end of the month watching England Vs Lithuania.

So next week will be the Neighbours 30^th anniversary, with special episode, past cast interviews and showing of 2 classic episodes (though I have got them both on DVD at Strike Towers.), though something I am looking forward to as a long term Neighbours fan since the early 1990s. The return of Harold Bishop and Sky Mangel being the biggest highlights, though this week looking forward to the debut of a lady in Emmerdale on Wednesday, I know well from a few TV shows down the years pictured below.

My work experience at the Citizens Advice Bureau has continued to go well, with me running the twitter pages of the Crawley CCVS, and currently tidying up Strike Towers with plans to revamp it after 5 years at current Strike Towers and had a bit of female help so can attract girls when I decide to look for lovely one, although until I get paid work deciding to firmly stay single. Plus I want to thank Colin Bryden-Pitt and George Thacker for a great Oxfam annual dinner at the Harvester in Crawley a few days ago, was fun even though I was a bit late.  Sadly I wont be attending Audios final night tonight, though I visited the legendary club 2 weeks ago for the final time with the legendary Ben Miller (not the actor/ comedian the more famous Brighton legend one), was a nice mix of 90s style American house, and the usual electro goodness that has come out of that club since my first visit back in 2005. It has been a fave of mine down the years, with the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Babyface, Cagedbaby etc, I have witness performed there, won't be another place like it. 

While the Eastenders has come and gone and boy it was a great episode though a bit surprised they have brought Kathy Mitchell back from the dead, got away with it with Den Watts, wonder what next Pete Beale coming out of witness protection or Dee Bliss coming back to Neighbours to give Toadie a shock of his life ( to be fair the idea of her return is pretty popular with sections of the Neighbours fandom even though it might destroy the show, has to work out well and be well written.), but if you see a dead body in soap thats death and no coming back. 

Finally I did manage to see one of the stars of last weeks Eastenders specials Jamie Lomas who played Jake Stone in the Flashback episode appeared in Dead Simple the play at Theatre Royal,  

So have left this a bit late, well been pretty busy with life recently gaining a new role at CCVS this time helping out with their social media like I do the Oxfam Crawley shop, plus been pretty busy helping out the folks at We Luv Eastenders fanpage prepare for the BBC One shows 30th anniversary,which will be screened next week and as an watcher of the show since 1994, I am looking forward to the occasion. Indeed last night saw legendary original villain Nick Cotton, bow out in style of an overdose of dodgy drugs given by Dot, and his fate decided by guest appearance of Jesus, in the very same room of the house where he commited his first vile act in the opening episode of Eastenders killing Reg Cox. The house is similarly just as dark in 2015 as the dreary flat Albert Square residents entered to discover Mr Cox's corpse on the sofa in 1985, I loved the black out at the end though shame there was no Nick's theme at the end, and unlike poor Reg he died with a loved one present well the only person to care until finding out full truth at the end, nice Karma for Mr N Cotton. But credit to veteran legends June Brown and John Altman pulling off those amazing final scenes and whilst Walford won't be mourning Nasty Nick's demise, sure me and plenty of other fans will miss John Altman and his recurring potrayal of Nicholas Charles Cotton. Gee plus got Neighbours 30th anniversary to look forward too next month, and the appearance of a certain ex Oaks fave girl into Emmerdale, so a bit into the soaps at the moment. 

RIP Nick Cotton 1959-2015