Strike Factory

Ouch I have badly neglected this blog, but it still lives on! lol Well for starters what have I been doing for the last month. I would like to note firstly that this time next week will mark one year since I moved into Strike Towers aka my first flat in Three Bridges and will spend the next week giving it a good old cleaning and decorate some bits I have not bothered to do (yes not quite everything has been done silly me. haha)

Secondly I have been looking for possible work experience with local museums in Crawley and possibly elsewhere in Sussex, main place of interest has been the Ifield Watermill Museum which is not far from my parents manor! This is to broaden the experience I have to add to the hard work of Oxfam, St Catherines Hospice and some business admin experience I have to boost my uncertain prospects for work full time!

On the way to purchasing an Albion season ticket from someone who has now moved to New Zealand (the lady in question was not involved in tragic Christchurch earthquake luckily), arriving at Brighton Station in quick time, I got on a 20 bus to Woodingdean, but somehow took me on a tour on every road of this suburb on the downs, bar the road I was due to meet the person eventully to prevent getting lost arranged an alternative place to meet in Woodingdean!

Brighton and Hove Albion continue full steam into the Npower Championship with a match winning goal by Liam Bridcutt that caused the Withdean faithful to go wild like never before in almost 12 years of football at the temporary home of the Seagulls! The goal was such quality that even Manure and Gooner fans would even be in awe of its beauty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVXPHizUvBY&sns=fb

Anyway I leave you with this clip of a remix of a classic Sonic The Hedgehog theme by an up and coming DJ called CliffHanga aka Pete Clifton, that attended the Haywards Heath branch of Central Sussex College like yours truly well I slightly recall the lad anyway from my time there. Keep an eye out for that name in future!


http://soundcloud.com/cliffhanga/sets/sonic-themes/

I would like to thank Colin and the team at Oxfam for a wonderful meal at Pizza Express last week it was a later meal than planned and a nice way to celebrate the last year with other members of staff. The cheesecake thankfully nowhere near as scary as feared and was nice to see some members of staff making intresting fashion statements ranging from Rays colourful shirt to Colins Nickel55on shirt! It has been great helping out at Oxfam and hopefully will carry on making the shop a suscess entertaining employees plus mentoring the hardworking youth that help out at store sometimes!

Apart from that not a lot has gone on the last week, although I do have plans to visit Hartfield the home of Winnie The Pooh and bring a review of the Sussex village thats home to Britains most famous bear! Plus upgrading my training for my long term return to long distance running!

Finally I leave you with this tune that was the theme to a certain popular Channel 4 Sports show for the nineties and early noughties!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upFmi6KruUc

"Is there a football match on today?"

Is the comment of a local girl I walked past as I entered Watford town centre towards Vicarage Road to see Brighton defeat Watford in FA Cup, main highlight included witnessing a small group of Albion fans get drunk out of their heads pre match waiting at Bushey Station with the likelyhood they would not remember a single thing of the match!

Getting lost trying to locate Watford High Street post match and on the train took slightly alternative route via Charing Cross where I encountered this girl in the teletubby outfit you can see in profile picture! All in all a good weekend for Sussex football that sees Brighton in round 5 for the first time since yours truly was a month old baby and play Stoke in a reasonable tie that should not distract from league progress, it also saw Crawley reach the 5th round and will play at Old Trafford! Living in RH10 I wish them well, but not jumping on the Reds bandwagon if anyone was wandering, SEAGULLS FOR LIFE!!! (although there might be that chance I could end up in a Claire McBurnie situation one day. lol)/

I could be making a TV appearance on Meridian as been asked to discuss about the Jedi religion but wondering as a lay Church Of England guy that adopted Jedism for a but of fun if I qualify in reality I have mostly been doing work experience watching Australian Open tennis, and was devastated when I found out a planned Oxfam "Christmas Meal" (we observe the Julian calendar there) at Pizza Express was cancelled for some unknown reason. Plus I had suscess sorting out water bills getting a £64 refund for paying more than I should of, which will go nicely towards clearing debts or buying more Dead Sea Salt Scrub

Meanwhile the last two weeks has witnessed a revolution in the country that inspired one of the Bangles most famous hits! I am not sure if the few contacts I have out there have actively taken part due to Egyptian goverment cutting all internet and phone connections there, but hope my fans out there are well!