Strike Factory

A lot has been happening since my last blog update, both in career, romance and personal life! Lets start off with the romanace front as there has been a little rumour linking me with a fellow Albion supporter (who I shall not name in fear of rejection though she may or may not know already) who is a female in her early 20s not at present romantically linked to anyone as I wrongly assumed! I would like to confirm before the rumour gets out of hand that I did express to some footy friends on the train that I do like this girl very much but have not approached her yet expressing my thoughts too scared that she would reject me my shyness kicking in. ;p; what should I do people your choice? 

On the career front, there has been a lot of change at the two charity shops I help out at. With Oxfam moving to a much bigger home in Crawley town centre after being based at the same site for about 30 years. Its launch at the new site has proved a massive suscess under the guidance of Colin Pitt (who has done a sterling job in slightly difficult circumstances), I have been invited to partly run the Oxfam Crawley facebook page! Plus things are looking up at St Catherines Hospice after the sad departure of Zuzana a new euthastic manager by the name of Amy who has the rare talent of being able to fit into little kids tops! Again under her guidance with a new manager comes new challenges and has been giving me a chance with data entry work in the back office which has been fun amongest other things! :) I did have an interview last month but nothing came of it! Christmas is just around the corner and looking forward to spending it at the parents along with the crazyiness of the St Catherines Hospice Christmas Dinner at Goffs Park Hotel and not ruling out a possible public appearance by my femme self in some form soon! Anyway promise another update soon! :)

Hello been a little quiet lately, there is a good reason though. I have been a little bit down recently and had to take things easy in addition to taking some happy pills (aka antidepressants!). But would like to thank friends, family and online pen pals for being supportive! Day by day I am slowly feeling better. I also have been doing confidence building stuff with career advisor at next step along with a further revamp of my CV!

On the sports front, I would like to congratulate Andy Murray on his suscess at the US Open being the first Briton to win the US Open in 76 years! Plus the Albion looking strong in their second season in Npower Championship. I attended Walkabout in Shepards Bush on Thursday last week to witness the legend Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy), and UK group Lucas perform a charity gig for Blue September raising funds for cancer awareness in men, it was all in all a great night and was an honour to meet Alan Fletcher and Chris Milligan (Kyle Canning), regrettably could not get photos!

Finally I would like to congratulate Steve and Leigh Valder on their lovely new born baby son Bertie Charles Valder, who has a great middle name that is also shared by his father Steve that excited yours truly! May he grow to be as legendary Albion supporter as his father! :) Its the end of Summer now so got Halloween, Bonfire Night and Christmas all around the corner!

A few days ago, it was a very important date the day the first ever episode of popular kids show Knightmare was shown on ITV with the theme about to be played for the first time!

Now for those too young to remember or not in the UK at the time the 8 series aired between 1987-1994 here is a basic explanation of this legendary British children’s adventure game show! It involved a team of 4 (usually aged between 11-16 years old) consisting of one person being the 'dungeoneer' as they were properly called who is blindfolded with a special holy helmet and was guided by 3 team mates the advisors. Basically the advisors from the safety of Knightmare castle under the watchful eye of Lord Treguard had to assist and guide the dungeoneer around 3 levels of the dungeon layer to complete their chosen quest which could vary series after series. In the latter series Treguard would have an assistant the legendary Pickles the elf who would have endless banter with Treguard at the end of episodes, and in the final two series Pickles was replaced by an Arabian genie named Majida who could be a little irratating but was still entertaining. There was the oppisition headed in the early series by Mogred, and in the latter series by the legend Lord Fear! Plus we should never forget the lovely dragon Smikenoff! :) The show was most noted for pretty much ahead of its time for its use of blue screen chroma key technology borrowed by Knightmare creator Tim Childs from TV weather broadcasts which were starting to make use of it, as well as the famous 'virtual reality' interactive gameplay on television.

This was an addictive must watch show for UK kids, after the intro us viewers would be greeted as the 'watchers' by the legendary host Lord Treguard to the castle of confusion! The show had many classic moments down the years and I was hooked right up until the final episode was shown in November 1994, the next year uncertainty loomed whether this show would continue until finally looking up the TV schedules to see that Pat Sharps Fun House had occupied the old Knightmare slot for late 1995, I was in mourning!

It was a pretty challenging show, out of the large number of teams over the 8 series that took part only 8 teams were victorious overall, most failing in the first 3 levels, whether it was falling down the causeway, getting cut up in the corridor blades or the opposition catching the dungeoneer in some form! Thankfully all the episodes can be accessed from youtube for the likes of me and others to relive our childhood or for those that did not see the original series if too young or not from UK originally! Plus if you petition Challenge TV hopefully they will show repeats of the classic show again! :)

Plus I leave you with this classic moment “Simon sidestep to the left”! :) A guide to insistant on moving their dungeoner to the left! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIfcYwI6Ps