Time for an update. Have spent all day working on a spreadsheet so brain has finally arrived at a plateau of numbness.
What has occured this year thus far? - well - have spent a good deal of time on the chiropractors bench getting cracked and put back into some semblance of alignment. piece of advice if you’re reading this and you’re under 25 - dont play American Football or Rugby, will just fuck you up and you will spend thousands of pounds in later life getting it put back together!!
A sickness and Diahorrea bug has swept the Rhino household - lasts about 24hrs but is very unpleasant, another delight the juniors have brought home from nursery, some parents are just to bloody inconsiderate and just send kids in no matter if they are ill or not - tossers.
Visited the boat show which was a very enjoyable day out and worth a visit.
Am now busy planning the Easter Hockey tour to Holland, always a good time - just love the Dutch! Looking forward to 1/2 pints of beer and interesting breakfasts!

2011 arrives!
What does the New Year hold?
Xmas was pretty much snow bound but very enjoyable, youngsters certainly bring the childhood joy back into the festive period! Very little to rant about or report, sang on NYE which went very well, rest of the time was just relaxing or playing in the snow.
Not one for all this NY resolution crap but am setting myself a target of 2 stone weight loss before March - am just too fat - blood pressure, cholesterol and stomach issues are all made worse by this and its time i got back into some kind of shape, for my kids if nothing else. But what a pain in the arse it is, dont care what people say i still believe you are either programmed to be fat or not - not every one has this constant battle with love of food and pound gainage!! I gained just under a stone over Xmas so was almost breaking 19 stone - decided to diet on 01.01 and within 7 days am back to 18st 5lbs by eating sensibly and still going down - normal thinnies dont have this problem and losing 9lbs in 6 days would probably kill them but as i am predetermined to be big and gain weight easily if i dont exercise it comes and goes like fucking buses. I dont really eat that much - if i stuffed as much in as some of my friends i would be 25 stone in a matter of weeks. Ok so when i train i am lucky enough to gain muscle easily too but why should it be such an effort!!! Am seeing a dietician next week who will tell me all the usual crap which i know already but plain dieting has never worked for me, it has to be exercise too - i am never going to get a sensible BMI as they dont take account of body shape and build - at 5’7” i should be 13 stone according to the charts - ridicoulous, i have a 50” chest and 18” neck - without serious illness i aint gonna get near that - at 16 stone i had hardly any body fat so to achieve my suggested BMI i would have to chop off a leg! Anyway hey ho - perhaps there was a rant in there.
Back to hockey this weekend which will also help with the weight loss and can hopefully get another win under our belt. Am happy with my 2010 tumblr - just got to work on few more followers! bfn!

Absolutely tipped it down on saturday night - had about 8 inches in 3 hours - pretty impressive. County comes to inevitable standstill mainly caused by idiots who have no ability to drive in these conditions but insist on going out - ffs - i was driving into Ipswich in my 4 x 4 when a winnebago pulled out in front of me - a fucking winnebago - who the fuck decides that it is a good or essential idea to drive a mobile home immediately after 8 inches of snow has fallen - cockend! Proceeded to slip and slide all ove rhte road and nearly killed 3 other motorists - was forced to overtake as a means of personal survival.
Spent several hours making a snowman - definately the wrong type of snow as was not very sticky but became a challenge to complete - final result was acceptable but using charcoal for buttons was a poor idea as since the dogs have attacked and eaten the charcoal! Poor snowman looks dejected.
Sat in office today and capped pipe behind desk burst open spraying a wonderful foutain of boiling water everywhere, through the ceiling and into the boardroom - spent 20 mins trying to find the tap to cut off supply - whilst running around searching for a bung or hose pipe - in awe of complete fuckwittability of soome workers who have no sense of urgency at all - many gallons of water flooding into the office does not permit the walking from a to b in serch of items to assist - run you cockends! so fucking annoyed. Leak now capped and dryers circulating but am fearful of large amount of water spilled into roadway which at -15 is going to provide an excellent slideway later on - bring on the suers!
On the plus side, leg of lamb in slow cooker ready for drunken meal this evening - most excellent.
Have to publicise a new website i found which has caused me nothing but laughter since the URL came into my inbox - look uo TFLN - absolutely hilarious!
Rant over - feel better following vent - think this does actually lower my blood pressure!

What a week - running on fresh air at the minute due to massive lack of sleep! Grabbed the red eye Eurostar inboth directions on Tuesday into Paris for a big customer presentation - it is always so fucking cold there - biting to the bone cold. Had a good meeting and then several hours to kill, went for a shop round LaFayette which is somewhere i really should avoid - a combination of several of my personal dislikes - the French, people and crowds - not a good mix. Meandered back to the station and opted for a spot of dinner - 58mins from order to receiving a glass of wine, surely a record in any ones book - waitress then came back and informed us that she had forgotten the order. not surprised really - was a whole fucking hour ago! Stek on arrival was pretty good, just glad that we had time to kill, 2hrs for a single course meal. After food arrived we then had the entertainment of the waitress losing the card swipe machine - was literally swiped - cue her running around the restaurant looking in bins etc and then slowly descending into breakdown. Unfortunate for the poor girl but she was a crap waitress!
Heating is now functional, signed off and toasty warm, easy to forget the miserable freezing cold period, just waiting for the snow to come again so i can sit smugly whilst all those that have run out of oil freeze!
Have been for a check up at the hospital today and once more endured the misery of another man shoving his finger up my back passage - he was more polite this time - the gentle application of lube followed by a pronounced “finger up your bottom” oh the joys - cant help expecting him to lean over and call me his bitch with a small amount of saliva dribbling onto my cheek! The words “Nurse, pass the purple proctoscope” will continue to fill me with dread for many years, as i lie there duelling banjos loops around my mind. He’s is actually a very ameanable chap but God damn he has big fingers - i would be happier if he a) didnt spread my anus apart to have a peek in and b) didnt wipe my arse for me - i am quite capable of completing this operation at the present time! But the all clear is a weight off my mind. Just got to stick with the fibre!
Usual bout of colds is now kicking in, both Boys are up coughing and hacking as is Mrs Rhino - just hoping i can stave it off until saturday as i am out singing tomorrow night which is a hardship when ur sinuses are full of gunk.

Hurrah or so i thought! Boiler arrived and was picked up only to find on delivery that it actually weighed 225kg - not the easiest thing to pick up and place through a very small door, drop down a foot into what is effectively a large dog kennel attached to the side to the house. Four men and a lot of swearing and puffing later we managed to get it in place and all had the correct number of fingers and toes. Hot water tank was then lugged upstairs and fit in the airing cupboard - all going swell.
Mr Plumber then attached the boiler while Mr Sparky wired it in and for the first time in a week we had heating and hot water - the simple things eh - is amazing  how ofter i touched raidators as i walked thorugh the house to see if they were warm, despite the fact that the old boiler was lying in pieces in the garden! House actually started to heat up - Mr Plumber piped in the cylinder and everything was good in the world - almost! Mr Plumber had then had enough for a saturday (5pm so fair enough) and was going to come in next week to finish fitting the water softener - all good and he trotted off to van. He still hadnt gone some 20 mins later and on inspection i found him in the boiler house (dog kennel) mulling over the wiring. On a last check he had noticed the radiators were cool so had had a look at the boiler and noticed there was a demand but no flame - arse! checked wiring and despite me having gone to the trouble of buying the room thermostat and controller from the same manufacturer the wiring diagrams were completely different! How difficult can it be to make sure these things are correct - imbeciles - i could have saved myself £60 and gone for cheap and cheerful manufacturers version - the circuit for which was clearly printed in the boilers paperwork - but not the diagram for their own firkin unit!!! 2 further hours of trial and error and we were no nearer having a resolution - the only thing we cracked was turning the heating on and keeping it on - so at 7.30pm we called it a day. Must add that the day we finally got heating restored i was stood outside in a vest and the temperature was about 10degC - talk about Murphys law.
Mr Plumber then got into van and proceeded to reverse straight into my fucking gates! snapping the electric closing ram clean off and smashing his rear tail light - aaargh - he got out picked up the pieces and muttered something about a shitty day and drove off - cant say i blame him but will see what his bill is before i decide whether to charge him for it or not!
Things did improve - Saturday night I headed out to the HC club and had a great night of amateur texas hold em poker - 8 of us, pizza and a bar - very entertaining and i came away up - even better.
Today has been simply about getting the controller working which i think has now been achieved, i have ordered a spare for the gate which is on the way and fingers crossed nothing else in the unit is buggered.
All that now remains is to get kitchen units back in tomorrow after Mr Pumber has fitted the water softener and then house can be restored to some semblance of normality - if sucha  thing exists in the rhino establishment - Rhino-jnr is still insisting that 4.30am is an acceptable time to wake me up. Rhino-snr woke up at about 11pm last night and threw up over himself and his bed - the single saving grace was marvelling at the new power the old shower has due to the combi boiler asa i washed bits of chocolate cake and carrot out of his pyjamas before they went in the wash!
The run up to Xmas is now on, most of the shopping is done (thank the lord for the net - which to all intents and purposes has worked surprisingly well with orders and deliveries!) Ham is in the fridge - may even be able to relax for a short period during the festivities. But i am sure more fun will follow…

Been a bit tied up so havent been updating! Boiler remains fubar at home and the repair has been a bit more of a job than expected so carpets ripped up, kitchen cupboards removed, furniture out - house looks like a bombsite.
These things never go simply - the plumbers merchants have ordered the wrong boiler which is due tomorrow, the plumber has to finish this weekend so there is no time to order a replacement - so i am juggling all this with work - booking tickets to go to France, reading very important contracts, quotations, arranging deliveris and kit removal from Stourbridge which needs forklifts and atrics! feel like i am swimming uphill. These things never go simply - on top of that the hot water cylinder i have just collected is also the wrong one - ffs
Feel like exploding at someone to relieve some pressure!

Talk about ruining the game, these greedy overpaid gobshites have stripped the game of all dignity. They disrespect each other, the referee and officials - what kind of an example are they setting. On top of that they get paid a small fortune on a weekly basis, do nothing apart from play football which is classed as a job and yet they still miss open goals and make horrendous cock ups - they all need a good slap, cut all of their wages and cap their total earnings - bring some sport back to the game! Wankers

Ipswich have gone from 1-0 to 1-2 in 6mins - arse!