Tony Sutton’s Blog!

Here I am, the long lost Tony which you thought you managed to get rid of. Have not updated my blog since the start of Sept. My excuse? Nothing. Just lost interest in updating my blog ever since work got busy and house improvements got in the way.

The reason why I’m writing this is because I get a few emails from you (and other people outside LJ) asking me where I was and why was I not updating anything. So here I am, attempting to get back into this. As I haven’t posted for over a month, this may get a bit of a long post, so if I bore you, I don’t care - I’m not forcing you to read. But if you’re interested, read on…

House

Things are doing well for the house. Still have not done the bathroom improvements as we wanted, but never mind. But we have done the following:

* Garage cleanup and tables/cupboard in place
* Tidied up my study room (still got a few paperwork and boxes around, but much better than before)
* New wardrobe in our bedroom
* New mattress ordered for our bed, awaiting delivery
* Tidied up the back garden (still not done the front yet)
* New pond in our back garden
* Threw away old stuff, old carpet, old boxes, etc, so less crap for us!
* New lights for the living room - but haven’t put it up yet
* New lights for the kitchen - again haven’t put it up yet
* Currently looking around for new sofa
* Currently getting quotes for new double glazing door for the porch
* To do - get a quote for the bathroom improvements - possible next year
* Long term future - fix the doorway arch in the garden as the current one is falling apart
* Long term future - new fence around the front & a bit at the back garden - old one are ugly & broken

I might have missed out some other things, but that’s what I can think of so far.

We are hoping to have someone coming round to give us the house price just to see how much the house is worth now. I hear the house market is going up and up, so we’re interested.

Work

Work is still the samey, but with extra work as a workmate and myself has been temporarily bumped up to the next level of job to cover staff shortage. So we are getting the extra money, which is very useful for me, considering I am now starting to run out of money a bit due to spending on the house stuff. :/ We have been doing that for a month so far and it looks like we’re doing that for another month too. Bonus. Should now let me save up quicker & easier until they dropped us down to our normal job. Can’t wait for my payday which is due next Tuesday or so, then I can spend spend, sped (and save up to).

The overflow of stuff

I have decided to start cleaning up my piles of stuff (maybe this month or next month or never? lol) and sell them on eBay or other methods so I can get rid of the stuff and get the money back to my saving account, which will be used to buy some stuff for ourselves like holiday, bills, house improvements, etc. So if you want to own a piece of Tony’s stuff, keep your eyes peeled for my link to my eBay auction.

My life

Myself, I’m doing okay. Have been keeping myself busy around the house, at work, helping out at the local Deaf Club, organising events, keeping my websites updated - acquired two new sites which are Pet Advice and also Avian Flu Info - something to keep myself busy. Same with my Ford Focus ST170 website too.

7th Oct - we had a Boys Night Out - 14 of us going out for dinner, drinks, nightclubs and catch up with all of the news and we all enjoyed it. What a great night for us! Didn’t get home till 3am! Sadly, I had to get up very early in the morning to catch the 9am train. :/ By the time I got home I was wide awake, enough for me to start digging up the hole for the pond all day! It was worth it because as soon as we filled it up with the water, we had frogs living in there (not now, no idea where they are lol)

Next Sat (28th Oct) - we’re going to Halloween Fancy Dress Party - we got ourselves some clothes for this party and I got the best kit I found. I’ll take some photos and post it next week, don’t want to spoil the surprise for other people reading this, who are going to the same party. Should be a great night and we can’t wait to go!

Then two weeks time from now, we’re off to Santa Pod for the weekend event of Flame & Thunder - drag racing, fireworks, Freestyle Motorcross Show, Monster Trucks, Jet Truck, Stunt Displays, Drifts, and many more. Really can’t wait for this event and hoping for lovely weather. My digital camera is going to be so busy taking photos!

Anyone going to this event too?

My Car

I still have not sorted out the big stone chip on the bonnet yet. It has already formed rust and it looks ugly. Filling it up and respraying the whole bonnet and lacquer the whole bonnet costs around £180 to £200. And brand new bonnet costs £110 + VAT and then the costs of respraying & lacquer will cost an extra £50 or more. So I might go with the new bonnet method since there will be no filling up and sanding crap as it can lose the value of the car if I sell it. So something to think about. Maybe in Nov or after Xmas.

But apart from that, car is doing good. Need to have its major service and also cam belt change as it’s due. Going to cost me £££ but it will give the engine longer life.

Well, there you go - the long due update that you (or may not) wanted to read. That was 3 pages long in Word, so hopefully it won’t be too long for you to read when I post this!

Questions? Thoughts? Anything? Comment away…

And have a great weekend!

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