• 04:27 4:25 am - have been unable to get to sleep - been trying since 11:30pm l- bastard cough just won't quit - hoping a hot drink will help. #
• 11:08 Awake. Just. Managed about 5 hours sleep. Need. Coffee. *Bleh* #
• 11:30 @LeighBarlow It looks lovely, might go for a drive to get out of these 4 walls. am on the verge of climbing them after 3 weeks housebound. #
• 23:08 A much better day, despite sleep issue last night and great to see Nigel tonight for dinner and to crown the day new Gavin & Stacey AWESOME #

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• 06:15 Debut article for Stillgigging.com - if you are into music please join the site to read my review of the new album by The Idle Hands. #
• 16:14 Is there nothing that James Corden can't turn his hand to ... amazing ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyI0BdnBWAA #

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The Idle Hands - All Night Sinnin'

The Idle Hands hail from the town of the crooked spire, Chesterfield in Derbyshire - a classic British Blues Rock band of 20 years standing with four albums already under their belt. All Night Sinnin' is their fifth release and their vocalist and lyricist Phil Allen tells me "… and we've already started writing the next album". It is clear that this is not a band sitting on its laurels - as Phil describes the past couple of years of the bands history it is clear that they are as hungry as ever to grow, develop and to continue to make great music. With influences like Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin (and many more cited on the band's website) you will not be disappointed by the characteristic sound of The Idle Hands.

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• 04:33 4:31 am - been awake about 2 hours, coughing like mad again, can't get back to sleep - as soon as i try, the ****ing coughing starts again! #
• 19:14 RT @stephenfry: I'll keep at this till a million sign! We mustn't let Mandy do this WRONG thing. Please sign & RT: is.gd/50gQK #

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• 09:54 @perception101 NG8 2FR curtains still closed, no idea :-) #
• 10:10 @perception101 He he .... we're off out later on, in about an hour in fact. Meeting up with some of the old Index III ers for lunch. #
• 10:26 @sarlitchin @perception101 He's good, but not *that* good :-) Happy Birthday Sarah. #
• 10:39 @perception101 ent #
• 17:44 Man, I am knackered and all I did was go out for Sunday lunch and visit my daughter and family for an hour. Be
  ing ill is energy sapping !!! #
• 19:42 @perception101 It ain't gonna get any lighter until about 7:40am tomorrow - hope you had a good day. #
• 19:43 Note to self: Adding a pinch of cayenne pepper to soup to give it a bit of zing requires much smaller fingers than mine !! *GLOW* #
• 20:02 @kyocum Heya Kes - I love soup US style - when I lived in Wisconsin "soup & s'wich" was my fave lunch. Hard to buy Salttines in UK though. #
• 20:13 Well I can do little more, I have voted for the 4 acts that I like in the x-factor. myloc.me/1Eo2
  G #
• 20:19 Man, Susan Boyle can sing but she is as mad as a bag of frogs - good luck to her though !! myloc.me/1Eocy #
• 20:29 I think it might be Randy on bass with Mariah ? myloc.me/1EopL #
• 20:40 @simes2112 song would have best left with Foreigner though Mariah ... AND ... Olly in the bottom 2 ... I don't ****ing believe it !!! #

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If it was down to talent and capability - then either Jedward or Lloyd, but this year I feel it is hard to predict anything with any certainty. As far as singing goes then Joe, Danyl, Stacey, Olly are streets ahead - but Lloyd will no doubt be appealing to many teenage girls and will have the Welsh vote and Jedward have generated huge media interest and will have the Irish vote.

Joe's performance was excellent last night, as was Danyl's. Olly and Stacey were both good - but they've been better I think. All we can do is wait and see (sorry for the statement of the bleeding obvious).

SCD, I wasn't surprise to see Ricky Groves go - just a shame that he was clearly very annoyed with himself after the routine and he more or less threw the towel in before the dance-off. This ones is much easier for me - if the final 2 are not Ali / Brian and Ricky / Natalie then I'll pickle Len's walnuts myself.

In other news, feeling considerably better today - thank heavens. The past two weeks have been pretty rough. Looking forward to going out today to see friends and have a nice lunch.

• 07:42 It is 7:42 am here and I have been up almost 2 hours - surely something is wrong - on a Saturday morning dammit. #
• 10:09 I can't believe that I have been up 4 hours already today and it is only 10am ish. Not complaining, it is just weird and not like me. #
• 11:51 @LeighBarlow Sounds ominous? #
• 11:58 @LeighBarlow I let you off, since I lub you. #
• 12:00 @LeighBarlow Much improved. #
• 21:28 Joe on the x-fact
  or was absolutely amazing !! myloc.me/1De4n #

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• 10:46 The introduction to Rod Stewart's Maggie May is one of my all time favourite song openings - can't resist doing the drum part of my desk #
• 11:31 @perception101 It certainly is. Made me laugh though - I still have a lot of my bank statements - I need to have a good burning session! #
• 11:35 @perception101 I don't keep them anymore - I don't even get them anymore come to think of it since I do all my banking online. So NO then. #
• 13:00 I love Roy Keane (well not in the biblical sense of course) ... news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8370497.st
  m ... get over it Ireland #
• 14:36 @perception101 Yeah I liked it - stop whinging about idiosyncrasies of the game Ireland and put in a good enough performance to win !! #
• 15:38 Hmm, Marie forced me to go to the doctor again - more steroids and yet another bloody inhaler - seeing doctor again on Tuesday. *sigh* #

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• 09:00 *Bleh* I clearly overdid things yesterday - I feel like complete crap today. I ache all over from coughing and sinuses are now throbbing! #
• 09:25 @perception101 @randomwittering I'll be OK - I am just very tired and fed up - yet I am not very good at sitting on my ass doing nothing #
• 22:26 Time to try and get some more sleep I think - the cold and cough symptoms seem much improved now - but my chest is still in asthma spasm! #

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I caught up with a very good old friend recently - he reminded me of a poem (I use the word poem in the loosest sense of the word) that I wrote when my eldest son Andrew went off to his first day at Comprehensive School. Although, I wrote this about Andrew - it applies equally well to Kim and Dan, the years of childhood just fly by.

I've never forgotten how strong my emotions were that day - where had the first 10 years of my first born son disappeared to? Over the past few years I have become more emotional I think - not in a bad way, but seeing your kids leave home, have kids of their own, etc. I am very proud of them - but sometimes, I selfishly want to go back about 20 years.

Anyway, here is that poem ... with a bit of nostalgic technical stuff for some of you out there before and after it :-)

Area: Dear Diary

Date : Mar 09 '95, 10:13
From : Simon Gledhill 2:250/343.0
To : Diary
Subj : 9:42 am - it's been a hard day!

@TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 93-0951
@MSGID: 2:250/343.0 87CC1085

Dear Diary,

One hour ago I saw my little boy go to school ...
He looked smart - he looked very fine - he is mine ...
His first day at the comprehensive school ...

Surely he is not that old already?
He is not such a little boy any more is he?
He probably will not look smart when he comes home!
How much longer will he be mine?

I can still remember him 20 minutes old staring at me,
I can still remember him keeping me awake all night,
I can still remember him ...

I want him to grow,
and develop,
of course I do,
I just wish he'd do it at my pace!

I cried five minutes ago,
I am crying now,
Could I do more?
Am I a good father?

I hope so...

Philosophers and ploughmen each must know his part.
--- ind3x/JAM/Gecho
* Origin: ind3x - nottingham - (0115)9855607 - (0115)9855661 - (2:2503/203)
@PATH: 250/343 25/54 10 53 2503/104 203

• 10:12 @perception101 Amazing costumes ... wow !! #
• 10:16 @perception101 Aye, I read the forum thread - looks like he's getting all the accolades he deserves, and good for him :-) #
• 10:25 @perception101 Indeed !! #
• 12:33 Jensen Button has signed for McLaren for the 2010 F1 GP season - Lewis and Jensen in the same team - go team GB !! #

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• 09:30 Well tweet my deck if I dont feel much better ths morning - coughed 4 an hour when I got up - but easier 2 deal w/ after 5 hrs of gd sleep #
• 09:45 yfrog.com/j7i1ttj - testing image posting from twhirl #
• 10:05 Yay Rush on Radio 2 - Ken Bruce plays the only Rush track that I ever hear on the radio, can you guess what it is yet? Inivisible airwaves! #
• 21:32 @robertmilne nice one, I am going to try tweeting from household appliances next. myloc.me/1yLUe #
• 23:24 Time for bed me thinks ... let's hope the Benylin knocks me out again eh :-) #

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• 08:53 Monday morning - another crapola night - off to the hospital this morning - asthma symptoms about the same - still coughing a lot. Oh well. #

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• 11:40 Still can't walk more than about 10 yards without turning my lungs inside out with a combination of wheezing and coughing ... BUT .... #
• 11:41 But I used 10 of those yards I could walk to get in the car with Marie and go and have breakfast in the sunshine down by the Trent Bridge #
• 20:44 As I expected Lloyd and Jamie are the bottom two-bet Simon wishes he had booted J & E last week now #
• 20:58 Gob. Smacked. But the it was deadlock and Jamie got the lowest number of votes. Ah well - plus ca change plus la meme chose #

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Just my views on last night's show ...

My two-penneth on last night's X-factor:

Jamie Archer - Radio Ga-ga - 6/10

Lloyd Daniels - Crazy little thing called love - 6/10 right until the last line so 5/10

Olly Murs - Don't Stop Me Now - sounded a bit off key to me ... Hmm ... 7.5/10 (Louis named the same 3 comparative singers as me and Marie - Robbie, Gary Barlow & Will Young - perhaps he is not so bad after all)

Joe McElderry - Somebody To Love - best so far - 9/10 ... Best singer in the competition. (I want Dermot to stuff Louis' rule book where the sun don't shine)

Jedward - Under Pressure - destroy Queen and Bowie in one go ;-) ... They're allowed to ruin Vanilla Ice tho! A few bum notes and I hate to say it but it was not too bad 7/10 (LOL@Dannii - Louis broke the rules)

Stacey Solomon - Who wants to live forever - my favourite Queen song, I absolutely adore it - wow she looks lovely tonight tonight - 9.5/10 amazing and Scowell is right ... So far ;-)

Danyl Johnson - We are the champions - this guy can sing ... But something is missing for me - he messed with the melody too much for me - 9/10 ... Judges loved him, but tonight Stacey was my fave tonight.

• 11:34 Crap night - managed CPAP from 11:30 until 2:00am - awake then until 7:00 - slept without CPAP until 10:30 - breathing bad, but than yestday #
• 11:36 Breathing better than yesterday I meant to say - Coughing has eased, cold is easing - risk of 999 call to get an ambulance is low. #
• 19:11 @robertmilne for those that were too slow can we nosey buggers have a sfw description of the offending item please? myloc.me/1ucT8 #
• 23:03 @robertmilne OMG ! I think that just about covers it. :-) Or in his case, does not cover it. #

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• 13:30 Arse !! Been to see the GP, very nice lady, came away with another 4 (yes FOUR) meds and if my breathing gets worse call an ambulance. #

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• 13:36 @LeighBarlow suspect real story is - it is cheaper to transport 200 staff on 4 privately hired coaches vs. cheapest possible rail tickets #
• 22:50 I wish I could get some sleep - I lay down, I cough - and the f***ing wheezing, I am sure I have ODed on Salbutamol - 2morrow=Anewday :-) #

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• 10:32 At IBM Leeds Thorpe Park for a meeting and then back to Nottingham for medical appt - exciting myloc.me/1qFtn #
• 13:11 Home now - but feel like c**p - sore throat and a dry cough reminiscent of the Sahara desert (aka top grade man flu) - Strepsil time !! #

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