Strike Factory

I bring great news, I finally have a new job following my interview this morning, working at the Gate Gourmet distribution centre at Gatwick, a full time permanent role with work starting within 2 weeks hopefully! Plus at the same time the door is still open for me to study part time at least whether with the great people at Rewards Training or possibly looking at Business In Management course as well, though due to aspergers will in the first month focus on settling in my new job before deciding to take on another course, plus will remain commited to roles at this blog and the We Luv Eastenders facebook page.

I would like to thank everyone for their support, especially the good people at CDG (Careers Development Group), for helping me get this role and fingers crossed it will lead to good and better things, so happy after years of seeking a full time job to give me a feeling of purpose, I finally have it. 

Got my ECDL Level 3 ECDL word processing certificate, sorted out and carrying on the jobsearching and I will be present at a jobs fair at Crawley Civic/ Town Hall next to the town hall next week next week hosted by local MP Henry Smith! 

So I was not quite right about the US Open final predictions with Marin Cilic winning, though I did have a great last weekend, with me making the most of Super Saturday at US Open watching the matches at pubs in Hassocks and Brighton, originally fancied a little drink watching the tennis at nice village pub that was easy to access decided on The Hassocks Hotel pub for the first match Special K stunning Djokovic, a nice pub that did a great meal and not afraid to play old skool dance whilst the sport is bring shown and the second one went to one of my fave haunts the Duke Of Wellington in Brighton where later on local minor celebrity Brett Mendoza emerged with mates to celebrate his birthday (that happens to fall on the same day as ex British No.1s Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski), after that visited my old fave clubbing haunt Audio for the first time in a year and a half where the raver Charles Ball really emerged, and had a cracking night where I thought I spotted ex Albion player Dean Cox also raving along, really want to visit that place more often and still got plans to go to Concorde 2 Carl Cox and Freemasons club classics night next month! 

Yesterday I got thinking of 9/11 again thinking back to what I was up to on that fateful day 13 years ago, when as a 15 year old schoolboy starting my last year at Abbotsford Schoool, it was the last lesson of the day and then suddenly we had Craig Anderson our Australian tutor who was known for pranks, stormed into our classroom and told us some planes had flown into a building in New York. At first we all thought it was another of his jokes but then once he switched on a TV in the classroom, we reliased sadly it was not a joke, and I went home being hooked to the radio in taxi home and then watching the tv in my bedroom all evening, a sad evening, never forget those about 2900 that lost their lives on that sad day! 

31st July 2014

Firstly very sad to to see and hear the news of Eastbourne Pier yesterday, its always been a fave haunt of mine in the Sunshine Coast town since school trips with Abbotsford in the mid 1990s. Plus of course whenever I visit Eastbourne for the tennis always means the odd photo oppertunity by the pier! Always sad to these these things happen to piers, as they are a big part of English coastal towns! The positive is at least it sounds like only one part of the pier has been damaged by the fire, unlike the other local piers gutted by fires in Sussex recent years like the Hastings and West Piers, for example, and Eastbournes Pier has been in healther state and not as neglected as it's neighbour piers, so hopefully can get fixed up and restored to its former glory next summer, though very likely to be out of action for the rest of the summer which will be a blow money wise to the town and owners of the pier, esp with Airbourne coming up!

Meanwhile I sadly narrowly missed out on passing the ECDL Level 3 word processing, but as I was within 5 marks, been invited to retake the test and don't have to retake the whole course and will find out the result quicker, so fingers crossed! It looks like I managed to avoid a gang plot to get me in Bewbush area of Crawley on Sunday, just after leaving my parents house to get the bus home, I saw 6 police cars and an ambulance gathered around the roundabout next to Bewbush shops and turned out that there had been a massive brawl around the shopping parade and nearby sports courts! A shame as the area has seemed to have improved recent years with the demoliton of The Dorsten Pub being replaced by community centre and part time police station, and nice new flats and houses getting built nearby but of course Bewbush sadly still has its problem people minority causing nonsense like they always have! 

So in the next week I will be resuming my search for work looking at Level 2 business admin apprenticeships retaking the test and on Tuesday will be visiting the city of Manchester for the day, sampling the Northern England cities delights and visiting the Coronation Street tour as well, something I have wanted to do since trying to win a competition to get tickets on the Granada Studio tours that were held in the 1990s. The football season returns next week with Albion at home to Sheffield Wednesday, so will be back at the Amex meeting with the usual fellow Brighton supporting crew!