I’ve been sat in front of the computer screen for a number of hours now. The shiny cursor was flashing across the screen at the same point it had been opened with at the beginning of the endeavour. And you know what, I am stumped. I’ve watched repeats of Top Gear in that time, been and had a shower, which would shock people alone, and done some washing all the time that cursor has stayed in the same place on the screen.

I couldn’t put it off any more. I had to sit back down at the wireless keyboard with the crumbs of bread and marmite stains all rounded off with the dust of neglect and just begin typing whatever came into my head, hence this opening few paragraphs.

I suppose the issue about this particular brand of bloggers’ block, came about when I decided to write about the summer blockbuster film known as the Dark Knight.

The first things that kept popping into my head were two questions: Hands up who hasn’t seen the Dark Knight yet? One,two,three…. OK forget that. Hands up who thinks Heath Lodger has got an Oscar. Ok, that’s everyone then.

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Well we’ve reached the end of a week in which quite a lot went wrong. I suspect now that this was the time of year where the warranties all expire, meaning the day afterwards, the lights no longer flicker, springs stop being sprung and a squeak develops on on the seat tilt control of you over-priced “office lifestyle” chair.

That basically sums up nicely the entire week, it just didn’t seem to stop at all. Night after night, coming back to mission control, after suffering more hot armpits on the tube and Docklands Light Railway, of which it truly depends what day you catch it on, as to whether or not it works, does indeed take it’s toll on your spirit and mind.

You’ve basically been going nowhere fast.

I can now understand why night after night, hordes of people in suits and possibly their own clothes go down to the bars and drink themselves silly. Even I succumbed to the need to drown the sorrows with the aid of the fruit portion known as “Cider.” Sometimes, because it can be such an intense time, it will affect your mood far more quickly than anywhere else you could possibly think of, with the current exceptions being the Middle East, Africa and China at the moment.

Let’s be fair, it’s not all sunshine in those places is it? Well it’s mostly smog in China but that’s a different matter.

When that fateful drink touched my lips, it went down a treat, the smooth silkiness of the apple-plumbed liquid on the mouth was something to be celebrated, something to be savoured.

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Everyone, oh I do like to be beside the sea….oh never mind, it’s just something to try and lighten the mood given the fact that our weather system has come back with a vengeance. But it’s not bad news at all.

I rather like the rain myself, as I’ve said on a few occasions now, things feel fresher, it’s a lot cooler, and it keeps a lot of people away from you that smell. What’s not to like? Besides as human beings we can actually do something about the cold. We can put on other people’s clothes, and end up looking like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.

But when it’s hot and sticky like cream cheese, and the sweat pours through the layers of fat you’ve built up through years of neglect, what can you truly do about it? Wander around in the nude?

Well, I would suggest that course of action for the more attractive of the human race, but if you look like something that fell out of a dog’s bottom, please just don’t do it.

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It’s the first post for August 2008 and amazingly I have an amazing announcement: it’s now been a two full years since Ooh Sometimes started on this bizarre digital realm, and at the moment there is a feeling of nostalgia hovering over us like the comedy rain cloud you see in….err….comedy films…

Let’s just have a look back at the very first ever blog post on Ooh Sometimes:

(cue wizzy special effects, failing that we’ll do the doodle-le-doo from Wayne’s World)

Well here is my first entry on a blog in quite a long time as it goes. At the great kindness of my friend, Mr Tebbutt, I now have a small place on the internet to make silly little comments about what is happening in life, and other things besides.

Bye for now and thanks for reading!

(cue the wizzy special effects again and suddenly we’re back to being in colour)

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