In The Garden

Today I've been having some fun in the Garden. I was messing with the camera. I thought this shot was worth Blogging, and Picasa has a way to send things to blogger, so I don't mind, it's easier for me.

I'll post the rest of the pics on my Facebook

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Aaron x

Nokia Sports Tracker

The weather has been so nice here in Manchester over the last couple of days so I've decided to hop back onto my bike. Since I got my new phone (Nokia E72) I have been looking around for some interesting applications. I came across one named Nokia Sports Tracker Beta, which tracks your work outs.

So, having this amazing application on my phone, I just couldn't wait to use it. I've been cycling around Newton Heath today, I went to university on my bike the other week, and this week, if the weather stays nice, I might take a trip down the canal. You will be able to see everything I get up to of course as my Tracker Profile is set to public so everyone can check it out.

If you are a keen user of Sports Tracker let me know and I will join you on the site.

If you have a nokia and a bike, Go and download it, its tons of fun :)

Aaron, x

Barmouth Attempt 2

As I promised here is a nice blog for the wonderful week in Barmouth Wales. It is my second time to visit this place and my last in these cold and wet days. If I return here I hope the sun is shining and the wind is on the low. Apart from the weather, Barmouth is a great place.

I didn't take any photo's myself but I decided to steal some of my friends who were with me. Thanks to them for their photos.

The train journey was packed up with card playing and some wonderful Shrewsbury changing. Once we made it to Barmouth it was all heads up towards the camp site. The memories flooding back of that loooong walk from the town to the Camp. When we got there it took me a moment to remember how to get in. Finally we made it and went to reception. It was a fairly reasonable price at £8 per night per person. Setting up camp was fun, at first the guy wanted to put us up in a high field, but we convinced him that it would be hard for us to walk from there all the time. So he put us on one of the low fields on our own, just 5 seconds from the shower and toilet blocks, which was helpful!

Setting up was fun, we all had our tents out and ready to set up. Once that was done we enjoyed the fact that we had a few days of outdoor fun!

We got some sausages, snacks, alcohol, the usual... from the village, and relaxed for the night, in the rain ofc, as rain was a big factor in this wonderful trip. After a few hours of rain I realised that my tent (£10 from Asda) didn't like the rain and allowed some to enter inside. (Fun). I wasn't too bothered, as I expected it to be a 'not so very good tent'. That night was cold. I wrapped up really well and actually got an ok nights sleep.

We ate sausages on the barbecue, they were nice! The shower was HOT. And it needed to be to make up for the fridge tent.

Second night was colder. - Cards in one tent then sleeping in my own. Well, sort of sleeping.

Third night was colder still. That was the night when hail hit us and the mountains collected snow. It was difficult to sleep although, the time we had before we went to sleep was amazing! We all stayed in one of the tents and basically had a laugh. And I mean none stop laughing.

Travelling back was hard work. Well for the second half anyway. The first half, to Shrewsbury I slept all the way. Then there was a delay on the train from there to Manchester. We got on the delayed train that decided to terminate in Crewe, so we had to get another train from there home. Fun journey.

All in all I had an amazing time in Barmouth with some great friends. The weather may have been cold and wet but it didn't stop us from having a top time. Thanks to everyone that was there, and I hope you enjoyed it too!

Aaron, x

Movie 09

This is not hard at all. I had the privelege to watch this movie twice, once in 3D and the second time in 3D IMAX. It is amazing. There is just one word.

AVATAR

AVJA movie of 2009

Review - UP

Disney's Pixar's Latest Film Hits The Big Screen With High Spirits. Doesn't it?

If you went to watch the film then you will know how upsetting it really is. It makes men cry. But its not all depressing as the film encounters flying houses and talking dogs. This film may be a kids film but it is definitely entertaining for all ages. Take the kids to watch it, you won't regret it. Pixar don't stop there though, they are also recently released Toy Story 1 on 3D, Toy Story 2 will hit the big screens soon and next year (2010) they will continue the story with Toy Story 3!

We look forward to what else Pixar has to give us in the future, as it definitely seems to be going UP in my estimations.

Thats all from me.

Aaron, Laptop Style. UP :D. x

Two Years Blogger

After a lovely time here on blogger, I have finally managed to make it to TWO years!

So I made a fun little graphic which will also be used to advertise Aaron's Blog.

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Aaron's Blog, Back Track

Time to picy

These are the pics from my holiday to Devon. I will put in a pic and a caption underneath.

Enjoy :)

Outside my Bedroom Window

The Lake On the Farm

'Seed' At the Eden Project

The Eden Project

Rescue Day

Biggest Bee

I caught a FISH!!! :D

Aaron, Laptop Picture Style. x

Clouds

When the weather is peaking 25° its hard to concentrate properly. Today I went for a swim to calm my temperature down. I will be going again tomorrow. It is really relaxing.

Happy July btw. Its a nice month. We all like the sun, even if we do complain about it. I understand it can be hard to work in the heat and we would be very happy if we were out there enjoying it all the time. Thank you for letting me be off Education and Work. Its actually amazing. I can sit at home and do nothing and waste the day reading my book in the sun, or go to town mingle with the countless number of unemployed people or just have a lie in and not get up till my back hurts and my stomach is shouting at me.

I did burn my neck the other day (reading in the sun) it was painful! I'm healing and it is going brown to match my arms. :D

Well to the title of the blog - Clouds. With the sun beaming down on you its very rare that you will even think about looking up above to save blinding yourself. So this means you cannot enjoy the wonderful cloud shapes. My cousin has a facebook group that is all about Taking Random Photos. The groups current task is to take some pics of some wonderful cloud formations. Here is my contribution:

I've just realised that my images are taking a little longer to upload this time round. I'm thinking it is because of my new camera I was telling you about last time, it is 10mp instead of my phone which was something like 3.2mp. So hopefully you will enjoy the difference. Wow lets hope they do actually upload... dum de dum dum dum...

While i'm waiting for them to upload I will tell you about the Facebook group my cousin started:

The most random pictures in the world.

And that is preety much the name and the description!

Link: Here

Long post I know, but its summer and I have nothing better to do so expect more!

Aaron, Update, Daily Graphic, Link, Camera, Laptop Style. x

Ok So What Now?

You may be reading this because you haven't heared from me for a long time. Maybe you just wondered why I am always talking about this website, or maybe its just because you noticed that this is the first post this month and I am slacking as a blogger.

Well here is what has been going on. Since I went to watch those wonderful three films and since I posted about three of the most wonderful adverts, I entered my Exam Period. Its not really difficult to explain. I had to spend most of my time not enjoying myself, revising, and actually doing exams. I'm not too bad at doing coursework as that can be improved, but the thought of being tested in 2hours - 6 months worth of preperation, I just think it is evil. Nevertheless I revised, and I gave it my best shot. If I don't do too well then I will just have to get over it.

I've moved into the Adult classes at MSOA which is very exciting, up to now I am really enjoying it and reaping the benefits. Fun.

Like I said, my exams are over, which leaves me with endless hours of free time. Ok, So what to do now? Maybe launch a new website, go swimming everyday, read my books, sleep? I could do anything. Oooh I could even ask for more hours at work. I wonder if they will give me any?

Hmm... anyway, its good to be back here on my computer spending some of my endless hours blogging. Maybe tomorrow, on my way to buying my dad a wonderful gift and going to swing band rehearsal I will take some nice photo's of Newton Heath. Maybe I will take my mums camera out... :O - With permission ofc.

Well I'm getting sleepy and hungry. Can't wait till breakfast!

Have a wonderful day. I'm going to leave you with a nice picture of Duck, who I've been working on for a while.

Aaron, Laptop Style, Update

Three Films One Day

Hey guys, I've been busy the last two days. Watching films.

The first one I watched was Drag me to hell

It was a good film with a good story line, I guess it was predictable at times and if you don't like jumpy films then this one isn't for you. But all in all it was an excellent film.

Today I went to watch two films. The second film of the three was: Monsters Vs Aliens.

Once again an amazing story line, more for kids and of course us big kids, there is a lot of humor. I really enjoyed it and I recomend any age who just want to have a laugh! Really good film!

Then I was going to go swimming but as I took my brother with me the pool was closed for kids so we decided to go watch another film. We were going to watch Night at the Museum 2 but we had missed the last viewing for the day, so instead, as this is a favourite of mine and my brothers we watched the new edition to the Fast and Furious collection, a good addition as the film takes you back to the original cast of The Fast and the Furious. Overall a good film and recomended for those who like cars, fast paced movies. The line on the poster makes me laugh. 'New model, original parts' which is refering to the new film but original cast. Good film!

That is all for today, a nice update on some good films. Two films in two days, not bad right?

Tomorrow, +Vert as requested!

Night!

Aaron, Laptop Style. x

Time to sit down

The sun is out and manchester are enjoying the sun. Some people today have complained about how got it is, i think it has been the perfect temperature. I have to take this chance to apologise about my lack me posts over the past week. Since i've been home from wales my work load has been enormouse so i've been catching up on everything i need to do before the deadlines. But i haven't been completely boring... Gangsterhood has been very exciting this week. My lack of posts will most likely continue over the next month and onwards as the exam period begini. Its a scary thought but i need to do well if i want to in to university. Well my stop on the bus is the next one. Have fun this week. Aaron mobile. X (apology for spelling mistakes.)

Barmouth

Apologies in advance for the long post.
I'm back from my camping trip to Barmouth, Wales. Due to signal difficulties I couldn't send out blogs with my phone, so as I explained in the blog post: A Picture Blog, I will do a recap of everything that has happened this week. I did manage to send one blog on the way while I was on the train, that blog was called On The Train.

On the Way (Tue)

Well the train journey on the way there was interesting, we had one change at Shrewsbury, if that's how you spell it, which didn't take long for us to swap, I played cards with those who were sat near me and enjoyed some nice food which I had prepared before I set off from home.

When we got There

The weather was fine, it wasn't raining but it wasn't sunny either, we got there in good time to put up the tent before the rain started, which was good because we managed to put it up in dry conditions, I don't think I would have liked to have put it up in the rain. It cost 16 pounds each for two nights, that 8 pound a night EACH! I was a bit shocked at that, its not a lot on your own but when 12 of you are going then that's a lot of money, they could have easily given us a price per tent or at least a family deal but no, they gave us a full price. Once the tent was prepared and ready to be slept in, we planned our food. We went to the shop and met Sue the shop keeper, she was a very nice woman and we went in there a lot for something to eat and a good chat, that shop was a life saver (literally, I will say more later). Sausages was the food of the week, me and two others put in to but sausages that took about 40 mins to cook, they were actually boiling in their own fat, they were nice tho, in the end.

That night

Everyone got drunk, I drank a lot, but for some reason I couldn't get drunk, I think it was because it takes me a while to get used to somewhere new, and as I worry about things too much, I just couldn't settle, I still had a good time tho, until I got in bed, was sick on and stormed away before I snapped too much, I didn't want to make a show and I did get pretty angry at the mess of the tent and my sleeping area. So yea, I walked around the camp site while everyone else went to bed, I waked too and from the toilet block in the rain, the wind was getting worse and worse... making my way back to the tent to check on it I noticed that half the tent was collapsing. Yep, one of the poles that keeps the tent up had snapped... it could have been for any reason, maybe it was too tight maybe it was too loose, I have no idea, but it snapped. That was a big worry for me, I just didn't think I could sleep in it at all, but after making a few more trips to the toilet block and a few more cups of water, I finally gave in and slept in a corner of the sleeping area all curled up in a ball.

In the morning (wed)

I got up early, so 2 hours of sleep, had a good old wash, then went for another walk before the shop opened, I needed some milk for my cereal. Then after eating my cereal I relaxed had some nice food from my cousin and sat on a rock for a bit. We then went to visit sue to see if she had anything to fix the pole with as gaffa tape wasn't working, luckily she had a spare pole for sale (5.99) so we bought it and went back and fitted it, I could finally relax. One of the girls suggested I got some sleep in one of their tents as my tent still smelt like sick and I wasn't feeling too good myself, I had been getting a cold the day before, but after not sleeping much it was begining to get on my chest and it was hard to breath, I had some paracetamol and fell asleep. I was woken by my saxophone teacher phoning me, she had good news she told me that I had passed my Grade 7 Saxophone, with a Merit!, I was extremely happy, she told me all the comments and she was happy too. Then I got up and went looking for everyone. It seemed everyone had gone for walks to the town to get some food supplies so I just waited around for them to return. When they got back they made dinner (sausages) and then went off to the beach!

At The Beach

It really was amazing, the sun was shining and the sea was on it way in but not too fast, plenty of time for us to have all the fun in the world. Some of the lads played football while the girls went to the sea to get their feet wet, we had two kites to fly. Me and some of the others drew pictures in the sand, dug holes and then played a game. The game was, we threw one large rock and then the winner was the one who hit that same rock with smaller pebble. "You know why this game is fun?... cos you don't run out of pebbles" That's what I said, because it was completely true! I had such an amazing time. I burned my face on the beach as the sun was really hot, but it really was worth it.

Back at camp

When we got back we set up the fire, two of the guys built rocks in a circle and put the disposable barbecues on the top (all four of them) and then we all sat around it, we started it up to cook the meal. Burgers, Sausage burgers, and stake... you guessed it Burgers. Well I think it was only fair, as sausages were yesterdays speciality, burgers deserved to have their own day. Once we had used up the barbecue food we used the fire base to start a real fire, using wood from around. We stopped that for a while and a few of us went to watch the sea, the tide had come in and it was against the sea wall, it really was an amazing sight. Then when it went fully dark we headed back to camp and watched the stars 'If you stop and concentrate, there are more stars than there actually seems.' It stated to get cold so we set the fire going again using some more wood and a cricket bat that was no longer needed as the day was over and we wouldn't have taken it home or used it the next day. When that fire died we all went inside the now fixed tend (the one I had brought as it was the biggest of the four and had somewhere for us to sit) and meditated while getting drunk. One of the guys told some jokes and one by one we all fell asleep. I slept well that night.

The final day (Thurs)

After an amazing day the day before, this day was a nice day to just get packed up and go. I had a shower then helped pack away the tent. Once we had done that we went to say bye to Sue in the shop and bought some last bits that we will need for the journey.. you know things like chocolate and crisps. Then we went and walked up to the cafe and waited for all 12 of us to turn up. We had to wait there for the rest while they packed their tents away. The cafe woman was nice, she made my a bacon sandwich (yep Thursday was bacon day) and a nice hot chocolate. After seeing all of our bags (they took over her cafe) she suggested that as our train wasn't till 5 and it was only 12 we should ask the train station if there was anywhere we can keep our stuff till the train arrived. When we got there they were a bit hesitant and said that there wasn't really anywhere we could keep the bags, then when she saw that there was a lot of us she suggested that we could put them in one of the bicycle lockers near the platform and they would be safe if we had a padlock. So everyone put there stuff in there and we bought a padlock, I kept my bag with me because I didn't really trust leaving it on it's own. We went around all the shops, and some of the guys bought some meditation stuff. I bought a wrist band and then we all went to the station and waited for the train, we waited from around 3 till 5. I went to the Co-Op to get some food for the journey home and then we got on the train. Once again the train was good, I had bought a crossword book to kill time and we also played cards again. I ate all my food and was completely stuffed by the time I had finished. We got back to the station and I got a lift of one of the guy's mum. I got home and watched Untraceable with the family. 

The Pictures (Click for larger view)

I hope you enjoyed today's update and the pictures that go with it. It took me ages to write everything so I don't expect anyone to read it all, Its good to have it there tho for the memories and the pictures too. Remember if you want the full size image just click on it and it should come up. Tomorrow night I might post a +Vert or a Doodle Doo, I've got a good one for both of those topics.

Have a good night.

Aaron, Big Update, Long post, Holiday, Laptop Style. x