Category: Life

Sunday 14 June 2009 | Life | Comments (0)

For those that are still following my personal site thanks are due, thanks for continuing to follow me despite a long quiet period. There’s been a long time with nothing being written, but I’m hoping to start changing that and pick up the posting once again. It’s been a tough...

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Sunday 12 October 2008 | Life | Comments (1)

Just a quick bit of background before I had over to my father. For his entire working life he's been involved in Environmental Health, from the beginnings of his career as a Sanitary Inspector, all the way up to being second in charge of Aberdeen's Environmental Health department - everything...

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Sunday 5 October 2008 | Life | Comments (3)

No, I'm not seven, I'm thirty seven, but I've never been to a football match before, and only twice set foot in a football stadium. Surprisingly both times were Pittodrie, once was very recently for the charity zip slide, and the other was way back in 1983 to watch the...

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Sunday 31 August 2008 | Life | Comments (1)

On Saturday 16th my brother David went on a charity zip slide off of a stand in Pittodrie Football Club down to the other side of the pitch, it was all to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity that has suddenly become very close to our family since...

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Tuesday 5 August 2008 | Life | Comments (2)

Recently my mother was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, there are two words you wish you'll never have to use in your lifetime about anyone you love, and since then both my mother and father have been through so much it's incredible. She's really been through a lot in the...

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Tuesday 4 September 2007 | Life | Comments (2)

It's clear out time at the Brunton house, so before I try getting rid of this stuff on Facebook, ebay, and then the local charity store, I thought I'd give first crack at it on my site. There's more to come in the guise of computer equipment, tons of videos,...

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Wednesday 29 August 2007 | Friends : Life | Comments (0)

It's strange how much of my past I feel is seeping away from my memory. Looking back to my school days I can hardly remember any of it, I can remember some events but without any clarity around actually what happened minute by minute. With something closer to today such...

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Thursday 15 March 2007 | Life | Comments (22)

I've never been one for this idea of tagging friends to complete lists, it seemed all a bit too like a chain letter for me. Then Martin goes and tags me with the 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me and I got interested. His list is pretty cool, comprising...

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Friday 29 December 2006 | Life | Comments (3)

Now, from the outset I'm going to say that there are an unusual set of circumstances around our extremely unfortunate visit to The Tower, and so let me begin by outlining the events of the day. It was my girlfriend's 30th birthday and we were expected at a big party...

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Sunday 3 December 2006 | Life | Comments (7)

Well it's my birthday today, and I'm the tender age of 36...oops, I really mis-typed that the first time and it came out 63, well sometimes I feel like that and this month I do. It's really not been a good month for some reasons I can't talk about just...

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Saturday 4 November 2006 | Life : Moans | Comments (13)

...so my poor fiancé crashed the car this evening (don't panic, not the S2k). She was fine when I finally managed to get to her but the car had been in one hell of a shunt. I won't be surprised if the car is written off. Eventually we got home,...

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Thursday 5 October 2006 | Life | Comments (3)

As happens nowadays, I go to bed really sleepy but my mind racing at two hundred miles an hour. I have so much work to do with Filmstalker and a real life paying job to attend to, not to mention a wedding to plan and a dwindling social life. So...

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Sunday 24 September 2006 | Friends : Life : The World | Comments (1)

My Mum and Dad have a great garden and they make good use of it, but they aren't the only ones. They have a couple of bird tables, various feeders, nesting boxes, even some bat boxes, all laid around the garden to let the birds enjoy the garden too. Now...

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Thursday 14 September 2006 | Life | Comments (9)

We live in a newly built house, a mere two years (and a bit) old, and so we've not really been bothered with spiders, but it seems that the recent weather has been kind to them and they've started moving into our area. Just the other day, during the warm...

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Wednesday 14 June 2006 | Life | Comments (3)

It was my Mum's birthday on Saturday and in ladies years I think she's somewhere around the 26 mark. So here's a big shout out to her. I'm not the best of son's you see, I have an awful memory for dates and can't remember birthday's or any date that's...

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Friday 24 February 2006 | Life : Moans | Comments (4)

It saddens me to say, but people let you down. They disappoint and so seldom do they actually surprise. In my life, for example, I'm particularly feeling saddened this week because people have once again shown me this is most certainly true. That's not to say I'm without blame myself,...

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Tuesday 21 February 2006 | Life | Comments (8)

Apologies for the lack of postings here, there's been a number of reasons, some I shan't go into at all but have just complicated my life of late. Mainly I've just been very busy and ill. For about two weeks now I've had recurring migraines, and yes I do mean...

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Tuesday 10 January 2006 | Internet : Life | Comments (6)

Henry Ford said that you can have any colour of car as long as it is black. However, that is not true, he never said that, and in fact the Ford T could be purchased in other colours. I do believe that it wasn't even available in black to begin...

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Monday 9 January 2006 | Life : The World | Comments (24)

Religion is a topic that I feel quite strongly about, so much so in fact that I don't talk about it much with other people as I know it will just lead to arguments and ultimately people who have religious beliefs just not talking to me anymore. So it's fair...

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Sunday 1 January 2006 | Life | Comments (5)

I had a look for any of those short questionnaires or memes, as some people call them now - does everything need to have a new name just because it's on the Internet? - but I couldn't find anything to suit my needs. So during the evening of Hogmanay as...

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Tuesday 6 December 2005 | Life | Comments (5)

Well I'm now officially 35 and my Birthday weekend passed quite uneventfully. Unfortunately after sitting in the presence of someone who was ill for a few days and a couple of nights out, I came down with a virus which has stayed with my until today. That didn't make for...

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Tuesday 22 November 2005 | Life : Moans | Comments (8)

Cycling back and forth to work is a great thing as I'm reducing my carbon footprint, something I feel very good about in general, especially considering that my annual car mileage is under four thousand miles. However attempting to be good to the environment and looking after my health brings...

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Sunday 9 October 2005 | Life | Comments (1)

I've had this idea ever since Martin dropped me his meme on books. Recently it became obvious that I wasn't the only one with the idea as it popped up on an advert for some company where they they were giving away six songs to make the soundtrack to your...

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Sunday 19 June 2005 | Life | Comments (0)

We were out for a cycle today, and looking to find the easiest possible ruote to my soon to be new place of work. It was gorgeous, although cloudy it was hot, even the breeze was warm, and we did a nice round twenty four miles. It took us quite...

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Friday 15 April 2005 | Life | Comments (1)

John, the editor of the MovieBlog dropped in a post that I'm non too keen on usually, celebrity gossip, stories about celebrities and their personal lives. Frankly I don't think they relate to the Movie Industry and I do feel for the celebrities who have their private lives intruded upon....

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Friday 11 March 2005 | Life | Comments (9)

I've cut my thumb. Not a little slice, or a nick, but a swathing, deep gash. Indeed the whole distance again and I'd have lost the top of my thumb from the nail up. Yes, it was that bad. I was busy slicing away some vegetables on Monday night ready...

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Wednesday 23 February 2005 | Life | Comments (5)

I think he does, because not so long after posting about the good old days of snow, along comes some of the most amazing snowfalls since I was young, and we're on the coast now on the lowlands. Well, that's not strictly true, we're probably as high as you can...

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Sunday 23 January 2005 | Life | Comments (1)

I've just had to type a couple of letters and print them out, sign them and place them in an envelope. Since I don't really waste ink printing the addresses on the envelopes, I wrote them by hand. I've actually forgotten how enjoyable it is to write a letter, I...

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Friday 24 December 2004 | Life | Comments (0)

...and Richard was at work. Let me say at work, not particularly working as such. I'm configuring the Collaboration Suite and thinking about the amount of work I have to do the first week back. No matter, I can totally swtich off in a few hours for Chrimbo....

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Friday 10 December 2004 | Life | Comments (1)

I've successfully completed another DIY project, and I loved it. On a week off I decided to spend a couple of days painting the garage walls with clear sealant, I'll explain why in a moment, but do you know the most amazing thing? I enjoyed it, much more than that...

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Saturday 4 December 2004 | Life | Comments (3)

Well I've now officially turned 34 - must get that profile updated - with my Birthday having been on the third. Many thanks for the cards and calls friends and family. Very nice, and special thanks to D and C for having a baby for me on my Birthday! I'll...

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Monday 15 November 2004 | Life | Comments (0)

No, please, don't get up from your keyboard. I managed to do some DIY, and quite successfully! Okay, I have had success before. I've managed to get six Ikea blinds up, and one bathroom door hook. That may not sound a lot to you keen DIY-ers out there, but I'm...

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Monday 1 November 2004 | Life | Comments (27)

My Dad wrote this article for a local website that had recently updated and removed all information regarding Richard Henry Brunton. Richard (great name!) was primarily famous for installing lighthouses in Japan, amongst other acts, he was quite renowned in those parts and a bust still remains in the town...

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Saturday 30 October 2004 | Life | Comments (1)

I've just come to realise that I hate DIY. After five IKEA blinds and one John Lewis blind (that was the easiest and the best to date), I'm rubbish. The blinds turned out really well, it has to be said, but the latest experience with trying to fix curtain poles...

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Saturday 2 October 2004 | Life | Comments (0)

I used to remember that the scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral when Charles (Hugh Grant) and Tom (James Fleet) are discussing how they thought love would come to them. Charles thought that it would be some big bolt from the skies and he would be instantly hit by...

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