Those were the days!!

Fun Monday is here!!!
Before we go to all the participating blogsite and have a good laugh or go all soft about the cute pictures, let me just say this:

I am tagging Swampy to suggest the next Fun Monday post on the 5th February!
So, go girl, GO!!

So here then without further delay are my pictures:


Me being 3 years old (above)
and 13 years old (below)


Now go and have a look at the other participating blog friends:

Vicki at Living Life & Catching Light
Swampwitch at Anecdotes, Antidotes & Anodes
Beccy at Peppermint Tea
Kila at Momto3cubs
A Novelist at All you can't leave behind
Peggy at Peggy, as she is
Robin at Pensieve
Songbird at My Way
Karmyn at Dreaming of What If's
Tiggerlane at Tiggerlane, the Neophyte Blogger
Willowtree at A Dingo's got my Barbie
Marnie at I didn't say it was your fault . .
Leann at View from the Eagles Nest
Heather at Fumbling for Words
Desert Songbird at The Ice Box
Chrisb at Ms Cellania
Amy W at A Family Story
Anvilcloud at Raindrops
Yara at Hovering over Mediocrity
Jenny at Mama Drama
Cuppa at Brown Betty Brew
Enid at Third-Person Singular
Sharon at From Fattie to Hottie
Mert at Almost somewhat positive

Thank you to all of you who have taken part!
Erik

Remember, remember!!

Fun Monday

Just a quick note to all you blog friends out there to dig out and scan in your childhood photographs and to post them this Monday!

The Artist formally known as "My Daughter"!

Some of you might remember this post about my daughter's drawings versus my own!
Well, in a further attempt to discredit my work she has created this masterpiece, thus putting me firmly in my place - Last place!!

I came home one evening still feeling confident in my artistic naivety to be greeted with the words:
"Hi, Dad, have you seen Angus?"
After searching my brain for friends and associates called "Angus" and coming up blank she produced this!



She has now enrolled into a local "Watercolouring Art Class" and only had one lesson.
The mind boggles!!
Even though it pains me to admit, I think the score is:
Erik 0 - Victoria 1

Addendum:
Debs pointed out that the above score is incorrect as Victoria won the last time as well!
Under protest and with much squirming I hereby declare the score to be:
Erik 0 - Victoria 2
(I hate you, Debs!!)

IKEA strikes again

Since my DVD, Video and CD collection is constantly expanding I felt the need to visit IKEA to buy some shelves and attempt to put them up!
I think I did quite a good job! What do you think?



Now that I have more space I also have a good excuse to buy some more DVDs.
Any suggestion of good films I should get??

Fun Monday:
The following people have so far indicated that they wish to participate in posting a picture (or pictures) of themselves when they were a child on Monday, 29th January:

Vicki at Living Life & Catching Light
Swampwitch at Anecdotes, Antidotes & Anodes
Beccy at Peppermint Tea
Kila at Momto3cubs
A Novelist at All you can't leave behind
Peggy at Peggy, as she is
Robin at Pensieve
Songbird at My Way
Karmyn at Dreaming of What If's
Tiggerlane at Tiggerlane, the Neophyte Blogger
Willowtree at A Dingo's got my Barbie
Marnie at I didn't say it was your fault . .
Leann at View from the Eagles Nest
Heather at Fumbling for Words
Desert Songbird at The Ice Box
Chrisb at Ms Cellania
Amy W at A Family Story

To partake, just indicate this by leaving a comment or send an email to me!
Thanks

Please scoot over to Swampy who has put up a tremendous post regarding Breast Cancer with several useful links!
We all need to support the fight against this affliction!

Now that's more like it!!!

Having bitched on about not having any snow here to all of my American blog friends, I woke up to this:







So thanks to all of you who have sent some of the white stuff over for me!


Fun Monday:
The following people have so far indicated that they wish to participate in posting a picture (or pictures) of themselves when they were a child on Monday, 29th January:


Vicki at Living Life & Catching Light
Swampwitch at Anecdotes, Antidotes & Anodes
Beccy at Peppermint Tea
Kila at Momto3cubs
A Novelist at All you can't leave behind
Peggy at Peggy, as she is
Robin at Pensieve
Songbird at My Way
Karmyn at Dreaming of What If's
Tiggerlane at Tiggerlane, the Neophyte Blogger

To partake, just send an email to me!
Thanks

My suggestion for next Monday

Hi, Blog friends!
After Vicki's successful suggestion to post a view from our front door I thought it might be fun to carry on doing something similar every Monday.
So my suggestion for the next Monday would be this:

On Monday 29th January we should each post a picture (or several pictures if you like) of ourselves as kids, stating the age we were when the picture(s) was taken!

If you are up for it, then please email your blog address (http://.......) and your Blogsite Name to
talktothefly@yahoo.co.uk
and I will add you as a link on my posts.

Here's hoping for a good turnout of participation and for many more ideas for future Monday postings!

Vicki's International Front Door View Day

Vicki wrote:
Using my very best British accent when I say, "What a grand idea!"
I had an idea yesterday that perhaps we could post a picture on our blogs of the view from our front door. Willowtree had the idea we post them all on the same day. I thought that was just a fabulous addition.
So here's the plan Stan.
So that all people who are participating can have one central place to see all the front door views, if you want to participate (and I hope you do) email me your blog link and the name of your blog by January 19th and on Monday January 22nd I will post a list of blogs that are participating. We can all post our view from our Front door on the same day, Monday January 22nd.

So, folks! Here is mine!!
Happy Front Door View Day!!!

The End is in Sight

Dear friends,

I thought it is about high time to update you on my situation at work.
As you may or may not know, my company has decided to once again reorganise and in the process lose a lot of people via redundancy.

When I joined the company in 1986, there was a truly international feel to things, people were seen as the most important asset of the company, training and development opportunities were good and there was a buzz of work and excitement in every department.
This is in stark contrast to the company that exists now and I have returned home from work nearly every day in the past 3 years without ever feeling that we actually achieved anything, made any difference leave alone being appreciated.

It is therefore time to end my employ with this company, thus avoiding yet another two years of utter frustration in the hope that “things are going to be different” only to find myself back in exactly the same position we are in now.
My exit will happen anytime in February or March.

Am I bitter?
I am disappointed, since most of this could have been avoided had someone listened to the people in the first place.
I am also relieved to have finally made this decision and a burden has been lifted from my heart.
After 20 years, it is an end of an era but for me it is always better to have ‘an end with horror’ rather than ‘horror without end’. At least I have preserved my dignity and most of my sanity and health.

Well, that’s about it for now and if you need someone to do a job or know someone who does . . I might well be your (very nice) man!

Tagged again!

I have been tagged by A Novelist (thanks Desert Songbird for pointing it out!)

Here then are five useless facts about Me:
1) I have never taken any drugs (not even smoked a joint)
2) From the age of 16 to the age of 23 I had over 30 girl-friends
3) I am one of those men who will cry with others without feeling embarrassed
4) When I was a boy, I used to listen to music with my headphones on in a dark room and dream of being the lead singer of a band (me . . singing??? Mohaa!)
5) One of my dreams is to win a few Million Pounds on the lottery so I can help a lot of people

Right . .
I am tagging Tonya, Heather, Kila, Leann and Aisby

The Master at Work

This picture greeted me on my way to work this morning!
God's recreation of a new day!
The master painter at work!