Author: Olly

On Saturday, many of us got together to celebrate the Marriage of Helen and Phil.  I have known them both for many years, and i was not about to miss their most special day!

I arrived with Gemma and HSB, and there were already many people there as they had all been to the actual wedding in the daytime.

Im not gonna go into too much detail about what happened, or who did what. I just wanted to blog about the awesome atmosphere there was. Everyone was getting along, and everyone was speaking to each other.

Recently there has been quite a few disturbances in the force, many people falling out, and its just generally been shit. But for this one night, probably so as not to ruin the newly wed’s occasion, everyone got on fine. Everyone was talking to everyone. And it was awesome 🙂

It upset me a bit if im honest, as surely everyone can get along all the time?

Isnt life too short for petty arguments?

I guess people will do what they want, and will like and dislike who they want.

I just wish that people would play nice and get along all the time. I know that there will always be the little sub groups, but when all together like at the wedding, or at a show, it doesn’t hurt to say hello to that person that your not really all that fond of. It doenst hurt to make the effort,and show everyone that your a lot more grown up than everyone perceeves you to be.

NB – this is not directly aimed at ANYONE. Its just a general observation of a situation that occurred.

If anyone who has beef with another maxxd member reads this, then just reassess the situation please. What do you have to gain from being stubbern and holding this grudge? Can you even rmember what started the disruption?

Please, end the war. Lets be friends.

I have never liked the brand “Starbucks” – I feel paying so much money for a cup of coffee, is just criminal. So when i read this entry on Forbes, a smile crept on my face.

In a nutshell, Starbucks is going BAD! The fact there are so many competitors, and the cost of dairy products going through the roof causing starbucks to have to put their prices up twice in a year, means that many people favour cheaper alternatives from Maccys or other coffee outlets.

I know i eat at subway, and they do just basically sell sandwiches for twice as much as anyone else does (like starbucks does with coffee) but these two companies are in different leagues. You cant buy a subway style sandwich from anywhere but subway. You can buy a cappa-frickin-chino from tescos.

Whilst searching for starbucks logos, and other such crap, i stumbled upon this little gem from a guy who discusses the history behind the starbucks logo.

Its mad what you find on the internet!

As many of you know, i have lived in this House since september 11th 2006. And my landlord has been up once, and didn’t come in that time. My mum rang me yesterday and pre-warned me that he was coming up so i was to make sure the House was tidy and free of dog stuff.

It hadn’t actually occurred to me, that the dude who owns the house may object to us having a dog, we have been so caught up in actually getting the house ready for one we didn’t stop to think!

Anyway, i gets home last night after driving VERY slow the whole way back, hoping id miss him. I pulled into my drive and he turned up. Ahh shit. I hate this kinda thing..

I went to unlock the door, and gem ran in and hid the dog bed and stuff. They both came in and sat down and started talking to us about our house rent and shit.

As it turns out, i didn’t need to worry as he was really sound with us, even though i owe him £700! He doesn’t mind if we have a dog, and doenst mind if we paint the walls and shit. I guess its saving him a job if/when we eventually move out.  he mentioned he will probably want to sell the house in about 3 years, and that if i was in a position to buy it he would offer it me first.

But he basically said all was good, we aint got nothing to worry about. AND we can have a dog!

WOOOOOO!

He did put the rent up, but gem and myself anticipated this and re-budgeted about a week ago including the rent increase. So its all good basically!

In other news, im watching the latest EP of season 3 of prison break tonight, thanks to my man woggo. Me and him are by far the undisputed PB kings!

Another post coming in a sec for new pics of our baby!