It's your Birthday. Happy Birthday... and why haven't you done a Video Blog yet like you said?

Yes, well, erm, I still haven't got round to writing my first Video Blog yet as I said I would in my previous written Blog. I've got a good excuse this time. It's been my birthday and I have just been chilling. Doing nothing is very time consuming.

Another year older and not at all wiser. It's a theme that works and I can easily stick to.

Birthdays eh? They seem to happen every year at about the same time. I blame the weather.

Any way, I haven't completely been doing nothing. Just mostly. Here are a couple of vids (not really blogs). The First is just me thanking all my cool Facebook friends who wished me a Happy birthday. A few on Twitter wished me a Happy Birthday too so THANKS also to them.



Yes, I can't play the piano. I can't sing either. It's good to keep an even balance through all the disciplines. Don't believe me? Here's the proof.



And yes yes yes, I'll put up a Video Blog soon. Um, follow me on Twitter by clicking on that Twitter button in the right margin... jenkin7Nick. :o)

I'm still alive after that first video by the way. I do all my own stunts and am available for major Hollywood Movies. My Fee starts at 18 Million dollars.

A brief Interlude or delaying tactic

What's this? No blog entries in six months then two in a matter of days? Well... sort of. This is a kind of non-blog.

I'm currently preparing some stuff to put out as a Video Blog. I've always been a bit hesitant of this form of media and have consequently shyed away from it. With a written blog, the author is pretty much hidden behind a keyboard in a safe military tent miles away from the battlefield.

A video blog isn't quite like that. In a video blog your face is out there for anyone on the Net to Like, Dislike, or take massive offence to for no apparent reason and write as much as a stinging comment below. You're on the Battlefield with guns firing and massive bombs going off. Maybe I'm over-dramatizing. Maybe not. Well yeah, I am a bit. It's not like war at all is it? War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Now I'm just going off on a tangent.

What were we talking about again?

Oh yeah, Video Blogs. I'm preparing an initial Video Blog to put on YouTube... a kind of Pilot. A test run to see how it goes.

Anyway, I've got over the potential Embarrassment factor from presenting yourself to the public and have thought to myself, 'What the hell'. The worst case scenario is that I'm hated by everyone, Sectioned and then have to spend the rest of my life in a Top Security Mental Hospital. As long as they have biscuits, I'm fine.

Anyhoo, in the meantime, here are some Dancing Vids I put up. Yes, I like dancing. If that isn't a colossal Ice breaker, I don't know what is.





The Video Blogs will be pretty much of like similar to my written blogs previously. Well hopefully. Well maybe. Well, who knows. Life is pretty random at best.

Z minus

Last entry February 19th 2012! Oh dear. I knew I wouldn't keep this up. Blogs have to updated regularly and it looks like I've headed for Epic Fail. I've almost lost my readership of 1, which was me. I'm grading myself a Z minus for this attempt which is quite generous I suppose.

I'm very sorry readership of 1 !!!!

Think I'll convert these or start doing video blogs instead. That seems the way to go. If I have enough courage. Don't want to be slagged off by the Pope or someone in the YouTube comments underneath.

Watch this space... well not for too long, your eyes might go funny.

GrimEnders - Lucky Heather

EastEnders on BBC1. Time after time I ask myself, Why do I even watch this programme? It's probably because it's comfortable, I'm in a rut and there's nothing else on.

EastEnders is a long running continuous soap opera often likened to Twitter in that it tries to convey a pointless message using 140 characters.

Okay, that was maybe a bit harsh, but boy, is this show grim. Set in a fictional borough of London called Walford, a long standing character called Pat Evans recently died of cancer, another character called Tanya is due to die of cancer and if rumour is true, hapless Heather (pictured above) is due to get grisly murdered. Yep, it's all fun in this show! It's best to watch with Prozac and a hearty supply of alcohol near by.

When getting home from a bad day at work, it's always nice to be presented with the line, 'Life's rubbish and then you die'. Yes, that's just the pick-me-up I need to face the World tomorrow.

Despite all of this, somehow I'm still addicted to EastEnders so I will probably watch it what ever they write regardless. The only light I gain is from the comedy characters that drift in and out. Heather is currently my favourite. Obviously the writers have finally caught wind of this. They've noticed the one bright light in the morbid darkness they've somehow allowed to creep into the show, so have arranged poor George Michael obsessed Hev to get murdered. Cheers.

When actress Cheryl Fergison found out she was to be written out of the programme she hoped to exit EastEnders in a nice way. She hoped her character's idol, George Michael, would turn up and they'd go on tour for a few years.

But this is EastEnders isn't it?

I think she is brutally murdered in her flat with bad boy Ben fleeing the scene covered in her blood. I may not be Sherlock Holmes, but I think he's guilty. He used to be such a nice lad into West End Shows and Ballet dancing. Oh well, now he's a cold blooded murderer.

Fun, Fun, Fun....

The show is on 4 times a week, but I'm just about to watch the Omnibus edition. Please get ready to talk me down from the roof.

Old Comedy in Musical Remix Format

There have been many comedy sitcom shows over the years I have enjoyed. The Young Ones, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Black Books, The Green Wing, Only fools & Horses, Bottom, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd and of course, Panorama.

I've recently rekindled my memories of these fabulous shows by watching clips and episodes on YouTube. The videos I like the most are those where some clever music DJ bod has somehow managed to edit the clips into some cool trance techno dance tune... well, after you've filtered out the rubbish ones. And most of them are rubbish. Very rubbish. Put together by a fool with the talent of a walnut.

However, here are my two favourites. i.e. the brilliant ones. Pure genius.



The above is mixed from The Mighty Boosh and the below from my favourite episode of Bottom of all time, GAS MAN !!!!!



All I can say is, "You Must Drink Our Teeeeeeeeaaaaaa...

Bubblegum Forever

When you're casually walking anywhere as a pedestrian these days, if you glance at the pavement you'll probably see quite a lot of roughly circular white or discoloured splodges about the place.

What are these then? There are loads everywhere. They're on pavements, train platforms, lamp posts, old women's legs, everywhere ! Where are they coming from?

Well... they're spat out bits of bubble or chewing gum aren't they. Attractive. Lovely. Or to put it more accurately, 'Completely disgusting!'

We were taught as kids not to swallow bubblegum so what do people do? That's right, just spit it out onto the street. People do not seem to be able to just wrap the used gum into a piece of paper and put it in the nearest bin. Oh no, that's way too difficult. Out onto the pavement it goes.

I think we should draw a line. I think we should employ special wardens to combat this gross behaviour. Bubblegum Wardens. When they notice someone releasing their used and disgusting gum, they should hit them over the head with a Cricket Bat. TWACK! Firm, but fair. It's the only way they'll learn... possibly.

Bubblegum was invented in 1928 and people have been spitting it out ever since. The vast majority of bubble and chewing gum does not biodegrade. It stays there... forever. After 50 years we should place a blue Commemorative plaque on some of the splodges. "Here sits a diseased riddled gum glob, spat out by a fat bloke in 1942. Visit out gift shop."

At some point in the future Nike and others will invent special expensive shoes specifically designed for walking on bubblegum. Trains will be adapted to hover over it all for fear of getting stuck... although it probably won't improve the service.

Long after the Human-race has gone, when Aliens finally discover this planet, they will find a sticky world completely coated in bubblegum. If they're into Text speak, they will say WTF!

The World is doomed. Not by Nuclear fallout or global warming, but by bubblegum.