Archive: October, 2005

I have decided to sell my old scans, as I havent used them in 3 years, and they are in need of attention. 2 are fine, one needs the gobo wheel reset, and the other over heats, but I do have 3 spare main boards which can be used to repair the over heating one.

It seems Google is having problems over the name gmail in the UK. There is a legal dispute happening, and at the moment, no more @gmail.com accounts will be issued to UK residents, they will instead be issued with @googlemail.com accounts. They dont know if this will affect existing users, only time will tell.

For my 30th birthday this my good friends Sy, Alan, Chris and Bex got me a £100 voucher for use at Paradise Tattoos in High Wycombe. What they didnt realise was the strange story that they have just completed.

My first tattoo was done in the same tattoo shop when it was Woody’s. Its now run by Kneill and Si. Kneill used to work in a tattoo shop in Hemel Hempstead, and he did my second tattoo on my wrist. Si used to work in Incisions, another tattoo shop in Wycombe, he did my third and fourth tattoos on my leg and shoulder. Kneill also did my fith tattoo on my neck. My sixth tattoo was done in Minehead, but was from the same sheet as my wrist, so was designed by the same artist. Now, for my seventh, I am back in the same shop as my first tattoo, and Si did the outline, and Kneil did the filling in.

Well here it is at the start, near the end and what it finally looked like.

My Dad turned 60 this year, and me and my brothers decided to chip in and get my dad a Red Letter Day experience. We chose a microlight flight, but due to Red Letter Days going down the pan and then being saved again, not all experiences were honored. Luckily my Dad was able to rearrange his and he chose a glider flight instead.

My Mum, brother Dave and his girlfriend Gillian, Loo and I were all there, taking photos and filming the experience. Once he had taken off you couldn’t really see him much, as they went over Marlow and Henley, not Wycombe. He was in the air for about 25 minutes. Normally they only get 15 minutes, but my Dad caught some thermals and had some fun. You can see how happy he is in the second photo when he has landed.