Scottie James Granger

As I was watching TV last night I noticed that William Hill are offering a free bet to the value of £30, now that’s ideal for me, because I haven’t got an online account with them and the grand national is coming up and some places all ready have some early prices for the horses.
Last year Mon Mome who started out at an incredible and unbelievable price of 100/1, so putting £10 on to win would have seen me win £1000.

I’m the sort of person who will use my free bets on a combination of bets I’ll usually look for a good Jockey like Ruby Walsh, then I’ll bet on a horse under 15/1 and finally on a higher odd horse, oh I might put a few £1 bets on a 1/100 horse you never know.

The weekend was pretty standard, it was just a relaxing weekend spent at home with a sport of shopping.
My t shirts are selling quite well on eBay as well, they are going at a very steady rate of 1 a day which isn’t great but it isn’t bad either.

When visualising the world of free bingo, perhaps images of wealth, celebrity and glamour would not be the first to pop into your head. Indeed, mention of the game tends to conjure up an image of a phoenix nights-esque club, full of blue-rinsed ladies of a certain age, frantically daubing while a cheesy fella at the front enthusiastically shouts about “two little ducks” and “key of the door”.

Well, it turns out that this image may need updating. Over the years, bingo has begun to attract a younger, trendier clientele, who have fallen for the charms of this incredibly popular pastime. This may be due in no small part to its numerous celebrity fans extolling its virtues.

Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones is said to be a staunch supporter (perhaps due to her Welsh roots..?), while Sharon Osbourne has always been a huge fan, going as far as appearing in the ad campaign for Gala Bingo, promoting their online bingo site with evident relish. It has been reported that model Kate Moss and presenter Denise Van Outen also enjoy the “eyes down” experience, and Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding loves the game so much she recently held her hen night at a bingo hall.

Now, you may have noticed that these celebrity fans are all women, but don’t be fooled into thinking that bingo is solely for the fairer sex. In an interview with People, British World Champion boxer Carl Froch admitted to preferring a good game of bingo to a night out, while singer Robbie Williams recently entered a swanky Hollywood bingo fundraiser. It appears that the pastime’s charms may even extend to royalty, as Prince William was recently spotted relaxing after a stint at Sandhurst by – you guessed it – playing bingo.
So, the next time you’re invited out for a game, just imagine who you could bump into at your local bingo hall!

Not being a big fan of the dentist I begrudge having to go for my check up every six to eight months, but at least it keeps my teeth in tip top condition. I got to the waiting room around 5 minutes early, thinking that I would be waiting for ages but to my surprise the dentist called me straight away (this has to be a first!).

I was shown into the dentist’s office and asked to sit in the dreaded dentist’s chair; I think the only way I’d like it is if the chair was in a bar and I was having drinks poured down my throat. The dentist came in and asked me a few questions before giving me a check up. After looking around for a bit he said that everything looked fine and that I wouldn’t need any work this time

After dentist check-up I had an appointment with the hygienist who gave my teeth a good clean. It’s amazing how much better you feel when you don’t need any work doing, makes all those minutes standing in front of the mirror brushing your teeth worth it.

Not many sales over this weekend so I doubt I’ll be going into t shirt printing straight away but it is making me a small amount of money. So I’ll just have to keep on going and see how sales go throughout the year.

This week’s going pretty quick already, I can’t believe that its Thursday tomorrow. It seems like I’ve got nothing achieved in the evenings this week.

Work is manic as ever and it’s managing to keep me occupied past the usual 5.30, and lunch times seem to go nowhere.

The weekend will be just as busy as there’s a baby due in the family, well its due today but we all know how baby’s come when they want so i reckon the weekend will be manic if the baby hasn’t come by tonight .

I’m not sure what surprises next week will have in store for me or work. Hopefully it might be a bit quieter or at least my lunch will appear to last longer.

Seesaw is a great new website that allows you to watch programs from the BBC iPlayer 4OD and ITV, it even allows you to watch series that aren’t advertised on their own players

It is absolutely freezing here right now, yeah the snow is melting, but it doesn’t feel like it has got much warmer!  Whats worse is that my boiler is screaming “We jus’ dinna have the poor” so I think it may be time for me to consider alternative forms of heating.

One thing I was considering was installing one of those underfloor heating systems from Floor Heating Online, it’ll have to be one of their electric underfloor heating kits though, as I don’t think I’ll get any benefit from a water based one linked to my boiler – as I said, its just not able to cope.

I’ll have to save up a bit, and I’ll probably wait until summer, although by then I’ll probably have drunk my savings and decide to punish my future self by deciding I can hack it for another year!

What is everyone else’s experience with underfloor heating? Is it any good?

My brother came round for some beers last night while we watched some of the Winter Olympics coverage from Vancouver. A few of the women’s skiers took nasty falls in the downhill event, i mean they must be doing 80mph at least so I presume it’s like coming of a motorbike with a slightly softer landing if you hit soft snow hit ice then I guess it’s like concrete.

I’ve really been enjoying the BBC coverage of Vancouver 2010, they recently came under fire for sending more reporters to the Olympics than Team GB had Olympians.

This morning I went downstairs to find my brother had left all his smoking gear, rolling papers, tobacco, filters and his tobacco tin. Hopefully he’ll get them picked up tonight. He’ll probably come round on his quad and annoy all my neighbours. He’s got a Yamaha 700 Raptor with twin exhausts so it makes a right noise, and the worst part is he hast to warm it up before he leaves so he’ll be having a fag outside for 10 minutes before he leaves.

Over the weekend I managed to sell a few of my t shirts on eBay, so I posted them on Monday. Selling 3 over the is quite good if this keeps going I should have sold out in 2 months I’m also hoping that sales will slowly rise as well. Which means I’m going to need to look for some more t shirt printing companies online, I would use the company that I used last time but I’m going to shop around a bit more this time to see if I can get a slightly cheaper t shirt.
I’ve seen splashlogo which I have sent a quote off to and found really helpful.

I’m thinking of increasing my order slightly as well if the sales increase. I will use all of my profit as well so that I can have a budget of £200. I’m looking at having a new design aswell “No Lighty No Likey”

Posting them isn’t that bad, as I have some large jiffy bags which I can just slip the t shirt into and then seal the jiffy up.

So fingers crossed for a sale of 5 t shirts this weekend which would be great and make my weekend. I’m also offering special delivery with the t shirts so that people can get them sent the next day.

We went round to the brother in laws last night for his birthday, I managed to drink a few cans which he usually hides because he’s tight.

Any way he seemed made up with his present which consisted of two tobacco tins, we originally got him one, but we thought 2 might be a better option. So that he can keep his blunts in one and tobacco and papers in the other.
He seemed a bit puzzled with the blunts, but once I explained about how to use them he soon got the idea.

The other presents ranged from a poor boots voucher to a nice digital camera from his wife, to be quite honest i was a bit jealous about the camera, it was a new canon 500D and it came with a Canon 18-200mm lens.

We stayed round there for a few hours and then left, hopefully this has seeded me a good birthday present in return.

I’ve managed to sell a few t shirts on eBay which has made me happy as I thought I wouldn’t sell any.

Yesterday my t shirts arrived, i placed the order at the beginning of January and the online tshirt printing company has done a great job I’ve gota batch of 3 prints made up in 2 sizes medium and large.

It cost me just over the £150 i had budgeted as the delivery was slightly more. but I’m really impressed with the quality of the print and the t shirt. They are Fruit of the Loom branded t shirts which makes a nice change as i thought they where going to be really cheap t shirts.

Getting t shirt printing sorted over the Internet wasn’t that bad and was quite an easy experience.

Hopefully I’ll get all my t shirts sold on eBay and down the local pub, I’m hoping to get them all sold by the end of march, if i can get them all sold I’ll make £50 which isn’t a lot but its enough to run my van for the week.