Haters can blow us....

... they don't even know us.

So crazy few days have passed, and now i feel it's time to share. So on Tuesday it was my Birthday... and on Monday Ross organised a surprise party....

Fruitbag* did an awesome little set.... Pieman* made an awesome little music stand.

*spellcheck is not keen on my friends names.... at all.

Will and peeps

the likely gals

Gary killing some shit. 

Seamus either tying to choke me to death or be very affectionate. 

Was a good night, i got 2.... yes TWO cakes! We ended up in the good ol' Mixer, where the bouncer ended up kicking us out at closing in a very unprofessional manner. douchebag.

So then i woke at stupid o' clock with the worst toothache ever..... and here begins my official birthday.

What i will tell ya is a throbbing tooth is the quickest way to eliviate any sort of post drinking head grog. really. 

spent the morning trying to:

 a) find a dentist 

b) find a dentist that didn't cost a million pounds

c) find out if it's possible to find a dentist who doesn't cost a million pounds.

long morning. anyways, i thought i had an appointment for later that day.... i'll save y'all the long story about why that didn't come to fruition. Anyways, met my Mum for lunch, although i wasn't exactly in a fit state for attempting to chew.... 

Later that night we had my real Birthday drinks. I wasn't suprised a lot of people who spent the night out previously didn't make it due to work or head grog... but we still had a nice little get together. 

Here are some terrible photos of that night....

apologies to everyone who wasn't in my camera's peripheral vision... maybe the lack of photos is for the best anyways, eh?

So onto the presents.... i got some cool shit, unfortunately i didn't take pics of what Ross got me, but it was this and this and this and this  which i've been trying to get hold of for a while. i lost my last copy and i love this film.... probably coz i love paul kaye.... but yeah. happy.

so i got some cash from family, and decided if i didn't buy myself something it just gets swallowed up with normal stuff....groceries, travel, crap and it never feels like a present. So i went out and bought this guy....

he's probably bigger than milo.

and at work, Naresh got me these....

yes, that is a star trek luggage/passport set

and yes, that's a klingon bird-of-prey corkscrew, which when u take it out of the packaging resembles the meanest looking knuckleduster ever.

So that's the end of this long kinda pointless blog. Anyone wondering bout the tooth, it's on it's way out, which means yet another wisdom tooth crunching bullshit experience. I'm gonna definitely procrastinate on that one, right or wrong.

Got the tattoo bug

(thanks for the pun Harry)

So this is what i did today. Can't post a long super eloquent explanatory blog about this coz i'm in between customers....

but thought i'd share!

had fun with this one. good times

Shouldn't have quit his day job

So, 1st post of the year, i've been pretty busy, and getting somewhere with internet has been.... trying.

Anyways, 1st up is a cover up i started yesterday.... I'm gonna post the after pic first, in case people glance at my blog and think the before pic is my work!

had fun with this one, still a fair way to go, but the bulk of the cover up is done n dusted, much to her relief. Long story short, some guy quit his job as a well paid lawyer coz becoming a tattooist is the done thing.... and this is what he cooked up outta his kitchen (keep in mind she asked him for a sugar skull with roses....)

awesome.

Anyways, this is what i got up to today... (cropped the bottom out coz it's an extension of a piece not done by me)

this was a fun one too, and tomorrow i got another cool piece in! can't complain.

In other news, here's some interesting stuff i saw this week and thought i'd share.

Oh, i also got name dropped in Total Tattoo this month by the lovely Miss Nina Kate, and they published another pic of my handy work they snapped at some music festival. I gotta say, i still get all chuffed every time i see a tattoo by me in a mag. I hope that never stops (the being chuffed AND the being published.) just to clarify. til next time y'all.

time flies

So, again, sorry for the lack of blogs. I spent Jesus-Christ-Mas on the Isle of Wight, and it's not dissimilar to my gaff in the aspect of no internet. In other ways.... it's ummm.... different.

Was a nice train ride down to Portsmouth...

By the time we got on the ferry it was dark, so no cross-sea photos, but i'm sure y'sll will manage.

Milo got festive...

Milo met a donkey....

Milo was cold...

Milo wasn't so keen on the freezing ocean...

(are you noticing a pattern here?)

Anyways, aside from being a great trip for milo, it was a nice getaway. I'm not gonna lie, i couldn't wait to get back to somewhere with open pubs and familiar faces.... but it was a relaxing few days.

Was nice to see the nieces again... I know everybody says this kinda stuff, but i'm always amazed at how much they've grown!

Aren't they adorable?

 Had to be the soberest Christmas i've had in about 10 years... but Punxmas made up for that when i got back!

It's an old tradition with my mates, and although a bunch o' people couldn't make it.... the turn out was still pretty good.

was a long night... long long night.... and Pieman, i can't even remember what that film we watched was even about. sorry.

Anyways, this is the last post of 2010.... so have a good new years... I'm gonna try (although crowds annoy me immensely, as do drunk people i don't know, as do women who take forever to piss and hold up cues, as do bar cues 4 people deep.) so wish me luck, and to anyone heading to La Grande Rouge tonight... please....piss quick, try to get out of my way and please please PLEASE..... no incessant squealing.

:)

jesus-christ-mas

Will from the Unloved came in yesterday to get some filler in his upper thigh. we were talking the night before bout doing a party hat coz he recently broke his edge after what i can only imagine as a very long 11years.... we ended up doing this....

so me n ross exchanged gifts today coz tomorrow we are heading off to the isle of wight. he got me these.....

ross showed me a few of the t shirts/hoodies he's been doing for me. they are looking pretty sick if i may say so myself. 

and the sleeve print....

and ...

he's also done the dog print on t shirts but i didn't have time to take more photos this morning!

Bad Santa, good gifts

So it's been a long few nights.... 1st up was the Big Red's Jesus Christ-mas do. They had an awesome AC/DC covers band play.... didn't get any great photos.... but you get the idea.....

Ben as Santa....

So enough of that night.... 

The Flamin' 8 x mas do was Saturday night.... and we exchanged gifts at the shop before copious amounts of alcohol were consumed, and before copious amounts of shouting at incompetent waiters peppered the night.

I got the coolest presents EVER. 

So Naresh got me these.....

James got me this....

Kirsty got me these (anyone who spends more than an hour with me at any given point in time will realise that Mountain Dew is my main sustenance.)

I've never even seen "Mountain Dew white out" before. It almost feels sacrilegious to drink it! 

And Harry got me the "wickedest" gifts too! 

a super awesome cigarette holder (i've wanted one of these for so long... all the ones i find always smell like old smoky dead lavender infused ladies) and a grouse foot brooch.  too cool for school.

Thanks everyone! You're alright you are!

they dont call it flamin' 8 for nothing....

so heres what happened at work today.....