Day #353

The day that I got recognised in town from my band.

Hello there, I'm afraid to say it but I only have 13/14 days left of my blog. After that I am not sure what I will do...

Look in the job centre? Sell my camera? Take drugs with Mr Blobby?

No, no, no, none of those things. I will probably wait 3 months and start it from the 1st of January this year. 

Today I woke up pretty damn early and got the bus. I got the early bus and got talking to an awesome guy called Mitch. He used to go to my school and he plays guitar. We are now bus buddies.

Once at school, I noticed I was an hour early for lessons. There was one thing for it: I was going to brave the sixth form common room. Only 2 other people in my year had done it and I was to be bronze medal holder of the imaginary event. I texted my friend to tell him my moment of madness and that he might not see me again and I got the reply "you sir have big balls, see you in form time." I marched in all triumphant like there was going to be a battle between year 12 and 13. Instead it was just me in a room with four computers and a load of leaflets about universities and STDs. Yep, school is fun. 

When I got off the bus on the way home I had a second moment of madness where I decided to get my haircut. I caught a sight of my overgrown thatch and after 20 minutes of planning, I was sitting in the chair with the cape around me, like a special kind of Batman. This haircut was different. The lady was talking to me, actually having a conversation with me. This made me uneasy. I like to just zone out and wake up with a snazzy new haircut and 10 pounds missing from my wallet. I recognised her from somewhere, but where? As the conversation drew more and more towards music I began to feel suspicious. Suddenly after a minute of awkward scissory silence where I thought she had given up the conversation she blurted it out... "I was at your gig the other day. I had a really nice time, thank you." She explained that she was at the music and beer festival on the 27th and had gotten royally trolleyed before hearing our set. 

Also today, I realised that for my ICT coursework I have to assemble a computer from scratch. The inside of a frigging computer! In the words of Forrest Gump, "and that's all I have to say about that"

Another day another dollar - No idea why I wrote this, my hands are just writing what they want now.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #352

Hello there. Yeah, this is an awful photo, but guess what, I have four videos to show you. 

The first one is called 'Two girls one c-'...

Only kidding.

They are band videos. Laura created two groups on Facebook for us, then we shot the videos. I've just made the Youtube account and now I sit and wait. Oh, you want the link? Okay, I will slot it in somewhere amongst today's post so look out for the links. Hallelujah, today we got stuff done at band practice, but the journey there was not fun. I live near a funeral home (they say it's a funeral home, it might be a brothel on the inside, who knows?) As I went past today, a hearse went past too Not only that, but a man in a suit and hat was walking in front of the herse, at my pace. I was walking next to a funeral procession. What am I supposed to do in that situation? I tell you what I did do. I stopped, looked awkwardly at my phone and walked in the opposite direction. I got to band practice 20 minutes late and now I feel like God is sending me signs. I also now know that my neighbour might be reading this so hey, welcome to me rambling about stuff.

Here's the link to our cover of 'A-Team'

Here's the link to our cover of 'You go'

Here's the link to our cover of 'I'm yours'

Here's the link to our cover of 'Hallelujah'

We would have recorded some of our own songs but someone, not naming any names (it was me, definitely me) forgot the laptop on which they were all written.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #351

Hello there, I have realised that actually today I have 15 days to go because this year is a leap year. 

This is my favorite song today, purely because of one harmony in it that is just delicious. Today, I woke up at half 10, ate, got showered and headed over to Folkestone. I was going to meet Arthur who I haven't seen for six weeks, so a lot of catching up was in order. Just before I met Arthur, I nipped into the park that I was in on 'Day #1'. The friend in question on day #1 is actually Arthur. After meeting, we played Playstation, during which he beat me three times on 'Fifa' and so we went out, had an ice cream, played football and I showed him my new camera. He took the second photo. I have just seen my views for today and thank you to anyone new to reading this. You have kind of caught the blog near the end, but make the most of me while you can!

I will probably do something really embarrassing tomorrow so enjoy that.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #350

Hello there. Might I say... You look wonderful tonight. Yeah, I said it. 

Day number two of my sixth-form life. It's pretty good actually. My biggest class has 12 people in it and my smallest class has 3. Today, during my study period, I learnt to read music properly, just sat down, did it and I even did some homework. This is my year. Today was my first philosophy lesson. It's me, 2 lads that I have never fully talked to before, a guy in the year above me re-sitting the year and two girls.

Once again, loads of other stuff happened like Teddy being late for school because he thought he knew the Stagecoach system and then complaining all the way home because the bus was late.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #349

First day back, already made a teacher hate me, good start, yeah, definitely good start.

Okay, so today my new alarm clock woke up me plus half my neighbours who I hope appreciated the gesture. I got on the new bus, saw nervous year sevens and thought back to my first day, terrified, innocent, wanting to be at home. Oh wait, that's how I feel now too. 

My nan gave me a helpful text, "Just read your blog, can't believe mum and dad made you do jobs on the last day of summer hols." Irrelevant but cheers for reading the blog nan. So, after getting off the bus, nearly being late and catching up with my friend Alex, who may read this but may not, we were given our timetables. I finish 3/5 days at 2:25. That is pretty damn sweet. In my music class is literally the poshest boy I have ever seen. I reckon he plays croquet and wears tweed with David Cameron. In my English, there are 8 of us, 7 boys and 1 girl. The first lesson back and we are looking at an Emily Dickinson poem about a boat mooring in a harbour and what it represents and all this jazz. Straight away, sex jokes, all over the place. To the point that by the end of the lesson, I am immune to it, maybe I am growing up. This was until someone said "the boat is a penis!" and I chuckled so hard that  I almost burst. Plenty more things happened throughout the day such as being told I looked like Andy Pandy.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #348

With the world spiraling into debt, wars raging in far away lands, it's time to sit down, and read my blog. Today I woke up at 10. On the unit outside my room was £7.50. I had no idea if it was for me. As I headed down for breakfast I found the list, the list that every teenager hates to find when the family are out. It was a list of jobs that had to be completed before mum and dad got back. Featured on the evil job list was 'hoover' and 'put washing out'. Damn. I was going to sit around all day and play Xbox. It worked out quite nicely. I did the jobs and then Teddy came over. 10 minutes of talking about school timetables and buses followed by an hour of Teddy beating me up on a wrestling game. I also went out to buy a pencil case and fill it with stationary. I went round finding pens and pencils and general pencil case stuff in the pound shop. 

As we stood at the counter behind a huge queue, I spotted that on one of the items I could get another for free. Back to the stationary aisle! As I was faced with the choice of buying another couple of highlighters or buying colouring pencils, I really thought about it. Teddy said, "you will never use them though. You don't do art, so they are useless, get the highlighters." Damn you, I would have failed all my A-levels (probably not) with my new colouring pencils but boy would everything look pretty.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #347

Good evening, how are you? Ah, you can't reply. I always forget that... 

Anyway, I am fine, what have I been up to? Nothing much, just sitting around with a friend watching DVDs and the Paralympics. Anyway, enough about me. Oh wait, that's why you have come to this blog. Well...this is awkward. 

I stayed up until half 2 in the morning playing Xbox because I kept losing, I am that competitive! I woke up at about half 11 in the end with an empty house and a very confused dog. Today's photo is of a little woolly man with a cute little hat on sitting in front of my framed photo from 'Day #39'. It's of the Ipswich marina and I quite like it. A couple of days ago I was thinking of what to do on the last day and also I am wondering what comes next. I have decided that I will make my blog into a calendar. 

I will take the best couple of photos and put them on each month because I think I have at least got one good photo per month. If you want one of these calendars or have any suggestions about the photos that should go on each month, please let me know.

Also, hello to my viewers in Russia as always, the USA sometimes and the people from Thames Dittion, didn't even know that was a place. Apparently it's in Surrey.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #346

Today I beat Teddy up, on a game. Chill. 

Hello there my lovely blog followers, I have a had a good and a bad day. Chill out with me while I tell you the story. 

Today I had Teddy and Laura coming over, it was the final time we would see Laura until she was back in Deal, whenever that was. Sarah texted me last night to let me know that there was an open mic gig round the corner (and then some), and suggested we should play at. We did. For the morning we practiced...a bit. The rest of the afternoon and day was spent playing a game where the objective is to hurt the other person. Teddy loved it. He actually beat me at a game, so did Laura. 

So we got to the venue and were the first people there. We met the sound technician called Geoff. Now, I am not normally great with small talk but when I am nervous or excited I seem to be fantastic at it. I was asking him and the bar girl all kinds of questions and I think it's called a conversation? I've never done a sound check before and so it made me feel so cool, especially because my guitar wasn't working properly...wait what? 

8 o'clock rolls round and Geoff says "yeah the vibe is around 8 o'clock." Still no idea what that means

The atmosphere in the room is awkward. In it are Laura, Teddy, Sarah, Sarah's parents and Teddy's dad + brother. Just as we were going to chill out and relax into the awkward situation, five guys about my age roll in and we have to play now that an audience has arrived. 

Geoff announces us and we play. First song, goes as good as it gets. Second song and we are smashing it with Laura's amazing voice. Third song, Jason Mraz - 'I'm yours'. This number features a capo, a clamp to move the key up and down. I had my capo but just as I clamped it open it broke. Six different tiny parts fell to the floor. This was a disaster. I quickly looked around and suddenly I saw Sarah.

"Sarah, have you got a capo?" She did! She let me borrow it and we played on. The gig didn't go that well because it took sound balancing into the equation. We play best pure acoustically and so it didn't feel quite natural. I quickly made my getaway, feeling like the gig went disastrously.

I grabbed my stuff and took a slow walk along the beach. I got in, lay on my bed and then my phone went off. It was Sarah. "Hey! You guys were great tonight, well done!" Maybe it wasn't so disastrous after all.

Also, I should mention that Laura took today's photos. I am laughing so hard in photo one because I didn't know the controls to the wrestling game and Teddy was just mashing keys and mashing me.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #345

Hello there. 

I've just cleaned up the house after a big house party while my parents were in Derby (That'll teach them to trust me). Obviously that didn't happen...

25 more days, just 25 more posts until it's all over. Last month I had the largest number of views in a month, so thank you. You are all so awesome! Let's make it all count...Or at least some of it. 

For the last day I want to do something awesome, go somewhere great and take some great photos. If anybody has any ideas or offers, please do not hesitate to mention or ask. 

Anyway, today I was pretty bored and lazy. I woke up at around 8, fed the dog, put him in the garden, got him back in and went back to sleep until around midday when I woke up, spent abit longer in bed and finally dragged myself to the shower. I wasn't feeling too great and I had nothing planned so the day was free to be mine. I spent it playing 2 hours of Xbox and a few more hours of Peep show - a Channel Four comedy, not an actual peep show...calm down. Nan. 

Tonight my mum, dad and I watched the Paralympics. The first photo was taken in my garden, the second was taken in the sink with yet more water! And the third, well the third I have only uploaded because some water photos are like watching clouds and sharing what you think they look like. In the third photo I see a man's head, turned sideways looking like Elvis spitting water (not me, actually made out of water). The Elvis water man is about an inch below my left eye.

Until tomorrow

Will :)

Day #344

Hello there. 

Only 21 days left until the end. Okay, so I didn't get a great night sleep. I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at four, then again at six because my family were off to get my brother settled in to his flat for a year...Complicated. 

When I woke up, had gotten showered and breakfasted I decided to rescue my music stand that I had left in the folk club last night. They had put it in a cupboard, nobody had stolen it and it was folded up neatly. Yeah, I belong here. The first picture is of the shiniest pound coin ever! It is dated as 2011 but I think it just fell from shiny heaven. Photo number two is water falling on my lens cap and photo number three is me flicking my lens cap into the air...Heads or tails?

Until tomorrow

Will :)