Wow, so it’s been almost a year since I last blogged here! Can’t believe it!

There’s so much going on in my life at the minute that I shall try and dedicate the upcoming last weeks of the year to give you a round up of 2007.

I’m also trying to work out what to do with this site. I may change the layout and start hosting it from home. Not sure though so stay tuned!

Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year…

Hello all

Yes, I know it’s been a while. If I was to say that I have been busy well…..that would be an understatement.

Life is good at the minute, uni is going well (loads of work to do in my final year), social life is going good and work is ok. It would take me ages to give you a run down on everything that I have been doing over the last couple of months.

This weekend though, I got the chance to actually sit down and read a couple of news papers and see what’s been going on in the world. I have to say that this weekend had two of the best articles I have ever seen in news papers.

The first was an article in the Times on Saturday and was in the ‘Books’ section. I had to do a double take when first scanning through, just take a look yourselves:

Yes, an article dedicated to me (I wish).

The next article made me near enough wet myself. Good old Mail on Sunday for completely throwing out the politically correct madness that is engulfing this country at the minute (mind you it’s pretty obvious that it’s all a PR stunt and this person is actually Avid Merrion):

I think I shall leave you with these and ask for your comments please.

Martyn

I saw this picture and I thought I would share it with you all.  I had to laugh when I read it because it does get across the message quite well!!

My my my, it has been a while hasn’t it?

So, let’s give you a bit of an update on where I am with my life.

Firstly, I’ve now started my third and final year at university.  I’m trying to sort out my final year project at the moment, wow it’s a lot of work when I start it, but for now I’m just trying to work out the project and what I want to do. Hopefully, by this time tomorrow I shall know what I’m doing.

Before I came back to uni, I was working hard over the summer at Reed Social Care as a recruitment consultant.  I really enjoyed the work and worked with some fantastic people.  Unfortunately they have now given me a nickname which shall stay with me for a while. I am now known as David Brent. You know, Ricky Gervais’ character from the office. It’s my goatee and bad sense of humour aparently!!  Ah well, I think I now know that I want to go into recruitment once I graduate.  Maybe not in Social Care, probably more into IT/Telecoms.

What else can I update you on? Hmmmm?

Ah yes, most of you may know by now that I am single.  To be honest, it’s definately something that can only be used to my advantage in my final year at uni. It means that I have extra time to spend on my work.  I think I’m planning on staying that way for a while – definately until I graduate.  Still doesn’t mean that I’m open to offers and won’t stop anybody from trying to sway me

What else? Ah – a big part of student union stuff at the mo is Student Direct.  Now, most people will know that I no longer write for the paper after the election of the new Communications Officer and I still stand by that.  This also means that I will not contribute in any way, whether that be giving a quote for an article or writing a full column.  Hey, what can I say….I’m a man that stands by his word!

I think that’s about it for now, hopefully I won’t be so long in updating this site, sorry about that.

Martyn

As reported in todays Manchester Evening News, Israeli scientist plan to summon rain out of a cloudless sky by painting the ground black. Scientists hope that the technique, to be tested later this year in the Negev desert, will banish drought. Computer simulations have shown that heated air rising from the black panels (made of thermal material) will cause vapour to condense into clouds and fall as rain. Researchers believe that manipulating air currents in this way can beat droughts.

Reading this, not a week after the world was condeming Israel as the cause of most problems makes a nice change.