If it's not Scottish its CRAP!

So I'm off to Scotland this weekend for Bank Holiday Fun. 2 days in Edinburgh and 2 days in Glasgow. Or I might make it 3E 1G depending on what I get done.

I'm taking an overnight bus Thursday and arrive in Glasgow Friday morn 7am where I take the train to Edinburgh. Then I'll leave Glasgow Monday night at 10pm arriving Tuesday back in Euston station at 7am wher ei'll scoot right into work. Gives me 4 whole days in Scotland. So whats a guy to do?

Well I've been reading up on these Ghost and walking tours in edinburgh, now I do sorta semi beleive in ghosts and paranormal shit, but not tot he extent that ive been reading about the Mackenzie Poltergiest. I'll leave you to do a google search on your own, tons of referneces. But elts jsut say people have experienced poltergiuest atatcks on this tour. Now it elaves me to beleive a few things:

A) theres some kook running around dressed up freaking people out on this tour. I aint paying 7 quid to get spooekd by some kook!

B) its all marketing and tour hype and they have people posting false stories in hopes of greater paranormal ticket sales.

C) it is real in that yes there is a chance of being atatcked by a real Poltergiest. FUCK wouldnt that change your whole outlook on life.

Now I am curious, but I am scared shitless as well, I'll be honest. Weather I do the evening ghost tour into the masalueum ive yet to decide. Here is the link for all you curious blokes and blokettes:, Yes I am a wanker ok!

http://www.blackhart.uk.com/cotd/

Like I said, google MAckenzie Poltergiest, I dont take stuff too seriously off the above link because it is a tour company, but there are LOTS of google refs that are apart from it.

I'll let you know how I got on after this weekend.

dtm

Roadstar!

The M25

The M25 is the circular highway, 3 lanes each side that goes all around London, one of Europes craziest highways. The reason is that its a commuter highway feeding into and out of London in a circular fashion. It is always busy for that reason. I'm sure plenty of things happen on it each day.

Well, this past Monday while driving into Heathrow to return the rental van at 8am, there was some crazy shit going down.

See the rental Van was pretty high, and usualy sits at least a cars height above a typical small euroato. This BMW ahead of us with a male driver had a cuddly female companion in the passenger seat. First her head was on his shoulder, then her head was on his heaad, yah his small one. We're talking down there for 35 minutes. And we wernt moving on the M25. The first instance she popped her head back up she wiped her mouth, then went right down again.

Brilliant. We layed on the horn and cheered, after all, she deserved applause. And this made me wonder, hey, if they have a 'Mile High Club', was that a ROADSTAR?

dtm

Moved!

We've moved! Last weekend was the first weekend in the new place. We now live in Blackheath, which is way cooler than Forest firkin Hill! Blackheath has a massive ehath\pitch about 3 times the size of Stanley Park. Apparently they buried people there during the tiems of th Black Plague. In any case heres a link to the Location. Still only 10 mins from London Bridge and only the second stop into town so its very close to City:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Blackheath,+Greater+London,+SE3&ie=UTF8&ll=51.466039,0.008411&spn=0.012726,0.042915&t=h&om=1

New address is:
40 Bennett Park
Ground Floor
London
SE3 9RB

its a 2 bedroom flat and Blackheath is like a cross between Point grey and Kits, very cool area.

dtm

Thought of the Day

Inspired by my hike up Edgware Road Tube station each morning (143 steps):

"I take the steps up the shaft, not the lift"

dtm

Pictures Can be a thousand words, Words can screw up pictures..

Ok, so on a continuation from my last post:

I can be a real freak sometimes, I admit that, but I only do it to liven up a situation. Ok I dont know why I do it, but there something to it. See, the way I feel about it taking group pictures of people is fine, no problem, but they have to suffer what comes out of my mouth. Traditionally people say CHEESE, which I find is really cheesy. If your going to say something, and I'm a firm believer one must say a word for the camera effect, say something other than cheese.

My preffered vocab comes from the depths of my corrupted mind. So what do you get when you mix a posh dining experience, 4 blokes who look like they are movie stars but working in the online gaming industry, one female who is our friend and me taking the group picture. Well I said "Pink Pussy". It just came out. Would have loved to see the after pic. Always say something original for camera effect.

dtm

Back to Normal, and a Review

So it's official, I'm back to normal eating after the MC. its now Sunday. I weighed myself at the gym on Saturday and am 84.6 kilos, or about 186 pounds, down from 200 so thats a good 14 pounds off, now I just have to stay there, but I feel shiny and new on the inside!

So my official dinner, we had a friend in town last night on business. She works for a merchant company in the online poker business and her and some guys went out inviting us last night.

We went to a restaurant called "Sketch" which I must write about. The menu wasent the best, food was ok, but you're paying for the ambiance. It's one of those Celebrity type places where you go to see and bee seen. There is a website for the place here:
http://www.sketch.uk.com/
2 reviews here:
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/2596.htm , http://www.londontown.com/London/Top_Ten_Restaurants

Even though the pictures dont do it justice online it was a complete Salvadore Dali Experience. Its actually an art gallery restaurant, and had some funky bluish and reddish changing lighting inside with arch de tromphs everywhere, sofa and table seating. The washrooms were interesting, they had an oval doable staircase with a red aura on one side, a blue on the other (for male\female sides). Up the stairs was an open plan area with several egg shaped pods which were toilets. A french maid (who served both sides) would help you find a pod. No she didnt do anything inside the pod :P

So my first big meal, half a bottle of wine, gin and tonic, ceviche which admittadly was not as good as real mexican ceviche, and medium duck breast with steamed veggies. The menue was rather bland, with only maybe 7 starters and 8 or 9 main courses, so not much selection.

Starters were priced around 8-11 quid, mains were about 20-30 quid. Prices you'd pay at Rain City Grill, Diva at the Met, Blue water etc on par in Van. But really you go there for the ambiance and atmosphere which was pretty cool with the art and lighting. They had massive projectors with short films playing on the walls (high 100 foot ceilings). So thats it.

I have another story i'll put in another post not to bore you with the long read.

Setting a Double Standard?..

Yesterday as most people would know, the British Police and counter terrorism team foiled a plot desgined by AQ to blow up 10 jets leaving the UK into the US massacaring 4000 people, a far larger scale atatck than 9/11. Great job by the intelligence unit, that was a fine pice of work, ironically it seems to have little effect amongst the British People (more on that later).

I have no real problem with them at all, but obviously if I saw an extremist (and you can tell by their beard and clothing), I wouldnt be hanging round him or her too long. What pisses me off is the fact that they think the whole terrorist fob yesterday was a 'claim designed to Scare the British People, and there was no attack'. What the fuck?...

Here is a quote from the daily Metro story august 11 ...'AN ISLAMIC fanatic said the arrests of 24 suspects over the alleged plane bomb plot was a baseless attack on British Muslims designed to scare the public. Anjem Choudary, right hand man to 'cleric of hate' Omar Bakri insisted he did not believe the police's claim that a plan to commit mass murder had been foiled. 'I think it is another case of whipping the public into a frenzy over terrorism with very flimsy evidence'.

Well who else do you think would concieve a plot to blow up airplanes, buddhists? fucking guy..

Of course he would deny the whole thing, he's an Islamic fanatic! jeeze louise we hit gold. What would make things a lot better is if these fanatics would actually support the issue of counter terrorism, not deny it. No wonder people are freaked of them. Try supporting the efforts to fight your krazy extremists and you'd do more unity for the populace.

dtm

Liver Cleanse Result

Ok, so this about completes my internal bodily cleansing. I did the liver flush last night, now being Friday August 11 10am of writing.

Im not going to rehash the recipee for this, do a google on liver flush and you willg et a myriad of results on the first page which will tell you all about it.

Drinking the epsom salts wer enot as bad as I thought they went down relatively easily. Its like drinking Alka Seltzer.

Drinkign the olive oil was rough. 10pm I proceeded to down the halfpint olive oil half pint grapefruit juice in 5 minutes, did so then immediately lay down. The sensatio was weird. Im not sure if it was the so caleld 'stones' passing through my system or the olive oil coating my internals, but my insides felt very slippery. I lay there on my right side in the fetal position as still as possible thinking of what was going on inside.....snoooze...

3am I awoke with the ruge to hit the washroom. I did and yes stuff came out. not a lot but looking in I saw 2 floating almond sized green stones. That was it. The reading I had done said that gallstones will float due to the cholesterol. P plucked them out, washed them off. They were green, almond size and soft and mushy, like mushy peas. I pt them into a bag and decided to bring them into work for the non-beleivers (gross eh)

Nice response I got this morning...'Are you mad, thats disgusting!', 'hey look at Dans show and tell', ....'what the fuck, sick bloke' was a mixture of responses...I calmly told them all they all had the same and I was going to turn them all into believers. I'll post the pics when I downlaod them from my camera later.

To say the least, there really are about 5 people who are considering doing the master cleanse and liver flush, 2 perhaps that i think will actually follow through and were amazed at what I'd done. Other than that the guys all said they respected what id done and gone through, yay (:P)

I didnt do this to convert anyone. I simply did this for myself and thought I'd share the results, thats all. I could care less if anyone did itl, but if it helped to inspire, then great im happy.

Perhaps will have more update later in the day. the onlien reading said people flushed 100 stones, 50 stones, some even 400. (but they wernt all gallstones) I dont think I got that result at all and am happy knowing if only 2 came out, then i must only have a small amount and thats fine by me!

dtm

London Metro snippet, story published aug 10, 06

"Boyfriend broke girl's leg in penis pump row"

A THUG broke his girlfriend's leg after he asked her to buy him a penis pump on the Internet and the transaction failed. Darren Colliver, 30 flew into a rage when Louise Franklin told him the sex aid would not go through on her Visa card. Prosecutor Simon Hodgett told Inner London Crown Court: 'He threatened to beat her up when she got home. She did not go home that night because she was so scared.' The next day, Ms Franklin - aged in her 20's - bought Colliver his favourite cake to placate him. But, when she arrived, he smashed a drawer on to her legs and poured shampoo in her eyes and mouth. He then threw her on the floor, breaking her leg. When Ms Franklin was in hospital, Colliver moved the controls on her electric bed to hurt her more. Colliver, from Peckham in South London, admitted grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, criminal damage and common assult between 2003 and March this year. He will be sentanced on August 21.
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Had to publish this gem of a story. Gotta love the free daily paper.


dtm

MC Part 6 thereafter...

Wednesday August 9, Day 10 ----Its tough to down 500 mls of OJ in one sitting. I used to pound back the bottle, now I can only take 1/4 of the bottle every 15 minutes or else I actually feel stuffed. My stomach was a bit quesy all day after getting used to the OJ but other than that liquid juices. I also had 2 cups of yogurt in the day to line my insides with acidophilus friendly bacteria. Apprently I 'smell' a lot better and my skin is clearer. I can't tell, I always thought I smelt great all the time , but now it seems my skin always smells like fresh scent. How cool is that!

Thursday August 10, Day 11 - Stomach feels much better today, I even awoke and took a nice one so that seemed to help. I had the laxative tea the night before whic gave me cramps at 6am prompting me to hit the loo, So far so good. I want to do the liver flush tonight so I will continue the oj until afte I compelte the liver cleanse. I am aiming for this tonight if I can get ahold of some epsom salts.

dtm

MC Part 5

After feeling ill nauseated and terribly weak on Day 9 in the evening, Ive decided that day 10 will be my breakign the fst with introduction to juice. During Day 9 and the evening I felt numbing and tingling sensations in my wrists. It was concentrated thereabout and did not feel comfortable. I am a tad sceptical about the release of toxins there, so am making an executive decision that the juicing starts tommorow! Besides, 10 is only a number, anyone can pull a number out of their ass. It all depend son how you feel and how youve cleansed!

Day 10 August 9, Wed. ...I started drinking apple juice when I got into work. The feeling was something very foriegn in my tummy. I gained immediate energy (maybe it was excitement!) which felt great. I have to drink the juice in small amounts tho cause I get full very fast. Unfortunately I cant weight myself as I dont have access to a scale, but I think im down to about 190 to 192, and I'm 6'0 and a half (ok almost 6'1 :P). I probably wont get a chance to weigh myself soon, mroe out of curioisty, but the more I think about it, who cares, it wasent for the weight. I know Ive elaned ou a bit and I know ive lost 2 notches on my belt buckle, thats cool enough.

dtm

MC P4

Day 9 - august 8th...man this has been tough. I have been feeling very chill for the past 2 days, like my insides are ice cold. I still am feeling week, but in good spirits. I am also experiencing some anti social tendancies, where I just want to get the days done. Been this far. The lemon juice has been hurting my teeth and rankly I am getting sick of the drink. my tongue is still white but getting pinker. my craps are watery and dont smell as abd as before so perhaps im almost there?..... I am looking forward to thursdays juice time breaking the fast. I was offered a free pita pork chiri chiri wrap today and took it, so tempted to eat it but holding out. I am putting it in the fridge for when i can eat proper foods. Im afraid if I rush into solids too fast i'll barf.....ok day by day, almost there..

dtm

MC P3 - Update

Halfway through my day now, I am knackered as hell. Can't see my condition improving. I shouldnt have worked out last night. My arms and most of my body muscles are stiff and sore. So much for breaking down muscle when you can't build it up again for lack of food. Silly me. Pressing on....... Work day has been so to say the least, unproductive....

dtm

Master Cleanse P3

Day 8 august 7 Monday...I awoke today at 5am with some intestinal cramps. I drank 2 cups of laxative tea the night before and now I cant sleep. Easiest way to overcome this was to sleep on my back. Im now writing his from the office as i had to share my eperience. dont drink 2 cups of lax tea consecutively. Other than that feel a bit weak but full of enthusiasm, once this day is done it will be 2 more days to go. Since it's early am at time of writing i'll see if any updates come along. Boy my job is fun! (hint o sarcasm)

dtm

Picture of the Week

Would you like some Jerk sauce on your BBQ, jerk?

Master Cleanse P2

Alrighty,

Day 5 August 4, Friday - Thinking its going to be tough with the weekend upcoming. I didnt feel too bad but had some minor headaches in the afternoon which surpased after I had some lemon drink. I also had a little discomfort in my stomach, not hungry but it felt like mild pain bu bearable. My nose was a bit running as there was mucouse in my throat which I expelled pretty fast, by evening I was feeling fine. My craps havent really smelt as bad as in my first days, perhaps Im getting cleaner. My tounge was turning my white. My buddy Geoff had a BBQ Friday night, so that was a tough one, beers and beef, but I pushed through with my lemond rink, they couldnt understand it.....

Day 6 August 5, Saturday --The house hunting didnt make it easier. After spending half the day out and about I felt weak, but I hadnt had any lemon drink until maybe 4ish. I did my salt water flush in the evening and it seemed to smell as bad as day three, so sometihng wasent right next day. I was weak and tired so I just chileld out. By night my tounge was coated white and kind of crusty. I did feel a bit bloated today, could have been the salt water.

Day 7 August 6 - Sunday ----felt really good today. I even managed to hit the gym and do some weights. toughest part, had to go to a BBQ at Tmaxs aunt and uncle, I could have broke down right there but kept strong. Now in the evening i feel pretty pumped up knowing I have three more days of the shenanigans. My salt water flushes are producing more water. No solids have been coming out but they still smell. I do notice my tounge is a bit pinker, but my energy today is great!

dtm

Food for Thought - The Master Cleanse

Ok (Warning, graphic text in daily descriptions)

Its been 6 months since in this country and the excess of beer and kidney pies are piling up. I remember my friend Mak telling me he did the "Master Cleanse", a detox program to basically clean yourself of all the crap eaten that accumulate in your intestines. Google "master cleanse" and there will be over 5000 pages of info on it and user experiences. Basically it consites of fasting but drinking a lemonade , maple syrup and cayene pepper concoction as much as you like. Lemons are the source of vitamins and nutrients and the maple syrup contains B vitamiens providing evrything you need. The Cayenne pepper helps to loosen the mucous. All of this is supplemented by drinking sea salt water in the mornings which flushes out your system and peppermint and taxative teas.

I should have published it sooner but here I am on my 4th day of it and I feel fine. I'll provide a recap of the days and whats gone on below:

Sunday July 30 was my last meal in the evening. I ate my risotto dinner and that was it.

Day 1 - Monday July 31, I awoke with a dtermination to see this through for at elast 7 days possibly going onto 10. I ate nothing for the whole day and drank my lemonade religiously. I thought it was relatively easy on the starting point but during the day I did get hunger pangs as my body was trying to figure out why I wasent feeding it.

Day 2 - Tuesday August 1 - my stomach was starting to feel a bit compresed, as if I Was wearing a snug corset. It definately helped my posture and I didnt feel bloated whatsoever. I went to the washroom normally surprisingly. Second daywas toug because I still kept getting hunger pangs, but they were milder and were cured with some lemonade sips.

Day 3 - Wednesday August 2 - This was the most productive day of the cleanse. WARNING GRAPHIC TEXT. The stuff that was coming out of me was crazy. after my morning salt water drinks, id run to the washroom 5 times to flush it all out. It was the worst smell ever. Usualy one gets used to the crap smell, but this Ive never smelt before. It flourescent yellow mixture of crappy paste with water that was flushed out. It made me feel good knowing it was working. I had to cover my nose each time. I also started to develop some minor aches in my shoulders and back. It wasent too bad but I still felt them. That evening my tongue had turned white which is a good sign that further toxins were expelled. Eventually it says the tongue will come back a nice rosy pink color and this is the ultimate stage.

Day 4 - Thursday August 3 - I seem to have a heightened sense of smell today. I can pick apart onion, flatbread, curry, sandwich meant, roastbeef and burgers quite easily all in London Bridge station, as well as the streets. Its quite odd but I dont feel any hunger at all,e ven smelling the food, it kind of gives me more energy as if im smelling it rather than eating it. I'm sure ive lost some weight at this point as my pants feel a bit looser, but thats not the approach to doing this, it is a detox, not diet. My craps today have been mostly water and not as exciting as yesterdays smelly liquidy waste, seems like its all clearing out.

I will continue this each day until I complete it with updates each day..yes I promise!..

dtm