The joys of being an anti-social git

I do like being anti-social

When I say this statement I do want to clarify it with the fact that I do enjoy the company of friends and relatives as much as the next man but I do think I value my own space more than many people.

The reason I have decided to tell you about this probably dull fact about me is that I have just spent a blissfull day of absolute solitude lazzing in my back garden. My family were all out and my friends are all on holiday so I had the day to enjoy my own company.

Magnificent it was to, I must say. After last week when I was social in one form or another everyday I had this urge to just retreat into myself and just read and play games all day.

On the note of the booksb I must highly recommend Sir Paddy Ashdowns new book 'Swords and Plaughshares' to anyone interested in how we can do humanitarian interventions right. He does right it a bit gung-ho in style but in principle every assesment he makes is correct and many of our leaders should be reading it.

Speaking of reading I should really go and read the last chapter :-)

I love my friends but my god can they annoy me...

I write this entry tonight when 2 hours ago I expected to be now out enjoying a fine summers evening with some friends. That however as you may have noticed from me writing this now has no occured.

Before I start this moan I want to make the point that I have some of the best friends a man could ask for and love there often deranged company to bits. HOWEVER before I regail them all with fountains of praise there are some that can be mildly irritaiting with there organisational plans to say the least.

It has emerged that the two friends I planned to go out with this evening had infact neglected to organise the lift that they told me they had so muggins hear now has no company.

I suppose the reason for my grumpyness is partly increased due to my own over obsession about getting to somewhere on time. This can I am sure be irritaiting for both family and friends of mine in that this over interest in getting to places on time can turn me into a a real pain to be around.

This however I dont think is the main problem because many of my friends are infact appaling keeps of time and experts in planning as they will regularily forget to get the right buses and forget times that we are supposed to be meeting at which as I am sure you can appreciate is most irritaiting.

Many appologise for todays post just being an over winded complaining session, I will endever to make the next one much more enjoyable to read. I am off to the Transformers film tomorow so I am sure I will have a strong opinion on that to give you tomorow :-)

RPGing can actually be fun

I have personally never been a big convert to the suposed big interest for reclusive, teenage boys that is RPGing. Many of my friend had done it for years and I had once or twice partaken of a game of D and D (dungeons and dragon's for the luckily uninitiated). It however had never really grabbed me and to my best degree had managed to avoid getting dragged into it to much. The perception which I had held of it was one of boys smelling to much of cheese and onion crisps pretending to be barbarians.

This view had without a doubt been partly created by some of the friends that I had played D and D with. As dear as these friends of mine are to me, they do to a large degree fit the stereotype that I have just described.

In the past few weeks however my defences have weakend and I have begun to take part in a star wars RPG. While my girlfriend and many other friends have castigaited me for taking part in what they view as just grown up makes believe, it has infact been brilliantly enjoyable.

Yes, it is grown up's make believe, but I dont see why that should be a problem. It gives me and the friends I have done it with an oportunity to meet up and have a laugh and also to play the parts of bounty hunters...

The reason that I write this is that I have spent the past afternoon engadging in this for to long shunned persuit, and I can now happily say I am Bram McGaw, slaughter of a thousands wookies!

Roll on the next game

The startings of my ramblings...

My blog could very easily be viewed as an act of desperation by a very bored man. That is infact what I think it is. I do however intend for my posts to be at the very least an interesting insite into the brain of a politics and music obsessed teenager.

The reason for the boredom that has inspired this blog is that I am currently on a long holiday before the starting of the terror that is my incomming first year of University. Excitement is also a major feeling about this rapdily approaching avent in my life but terror is the greater. I however am digressing from the point that I am on a long holiday which has rapidly become dull due to my friends all being on holiday and that without there company my life is worryingly empty..

This blog however will fill that void!

Appologise also for the appalling spelling, for this I blaim my dyslexia (which as you may notice I quite possibly fail to spell correctly).


I know this has been a rather dull first post but I will endever to make the comming ones much more interesting and at the very least more terror filled :-)

Bye bye for now steelchaffinch