18 Nov 2009

The Great Swine Flu Panic!!!

Well i'm sitting here this morning looking after my son who has got the worst case of swine flu known to man!!
Actually he hasnt imo,but all the hype has led us to believe that he had,let me explain.......
All over the weekend he had complained of a headache,sore throat,tiredness etc (and his temperature is nearly 40 degrees so we do realise he is unwell) so yesterday morning my wife phones the docs & explains his symptoms. The receptionist (coz you cant get past her,she knows best!!) tells wifey....'DO NOT BRING HIM DOWN HERE' but to get on the NHS 'swine flu advisory' website as our boy has clearly been struck down with this terrible disease. We obv do this and his symptoms tick all the boxes. We then get an authorisation number on line so i hot foot it to the local chemist to pick up his Tamiflu.
Obviously they do exactly what it says on the tin and he spukes 30 minutes after taking them!!!
So onto this morning and he wakes up as if nothing has happened,his temperature has dropped to normal & his ailments have all but disappeared.
Now obv we dont want our kids to suffer & will do anything to make them better but this swine flu 'pandemic' is a load of bollox if you ask me.
Two years ago my son would have gone to the doctors,been prescribed Calpol and told he had a bit of flu......But now it's Swine Flu & everyone panics,when my wife went into his school with my daughter and told the secretary that our son was absent because he 'might' have Swine Flu,the other mums in the office actually backed away!!! It was as if she had mentioned contracting a new outbreak of the Black Death!!
I only wish i had shares in the company that manufactures Tamiflu,they must be laughing their fucking tits off!!
So thats that then,glgl on the tarbs,thanks for your previous comments and next post might contain a bit of poker......unless I catch Swine Flu,in which case i will be milking it for all its worth!!!!!!! later. Smoothplz.

13 Nov 2009

Hello again!!!

Allrite chaps!!!
I'm back after god knows how long to write some drivel again!!
My last post mentioned about the wife getting her hours chopped & starting some thing else;well that went tits up,she got another job but we ended up about 7k a year out of pocket!!
Now thats not a fortune to some of you but we have allways spent as much as we earn (well ok,maybe a tad more!!).....not really wasting it (as such) but things like doing up our gaff cost a few quid tbh and expensive holidays can come back and bite you in the balls!! (oh,and doing our conkers on the credit cards etc dont help!!) now you could say its all our fault........and you're probably right,but please dont say it,because i'l just tell you to fuck off!!
Any way,to cut a long story short,we ended up seeking some proper advice,and now we are sort of sorted!!!(allthough this could take a bit of time to be 100% sorted!!!) ................allthough it was drastic & the last resort,we had no choice, (and as the house prices have dropped like shit out of a goose,meaning we have no equity that we have to give up,then we wont lose it.)
All this means that poker has obviously had to take a bit of a back seat,i have spent the last 8 months talking to money people,banks,official receivers and god knows who else so didnt have the heart or the right attitude to play,i allready spunked all my money on Stars & FT playing with a spinning head & home life,and any roll on Laddies had to be used on more pressing matters!!
BUT!!!............ now i feel like playing,blogging and getting into it again (slowly but surely! more on this next time!).

A quick mention for the Raise the River forum,its got a new look so get down there sharpish, click the link above and join the fun!!

Until later........later!!! Smoothplz.