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Pinky & the Brain...!!! ...Have you ever seen a cartoon anything like Pinky & the Brain....????... A cartoon that tugs at the brain cells, tickles the psyche and generally masterbates the mind even more than shadow on a good night.... 

Legoland libido...!!! ...one of my all-time favourites, lego.. I really got into the Technical Lego, and had a bloody great load of it too...!!!... in fact, I reckon I wouldn't have this job if it wasn't for the Lego...!!! ... anyway... enough of that... I'm off to build myself an articulated lorry with working pistons and steering..!!!.. (haa-haaaaa....!)

For (a little) more information... go to the Lego site... but be warned... it is a bit slow...! 

Matchbox cars was another place I used to lose myself... playing for hours with either my sister.. (god bless her patience..!!)... or with other friends around the village... but strangely never with andy...... hmmm.... I think he was always much too cool to play toy cars, but little does he know, they are in fact one of the most cool, hip and trendy things on the face of this beloved planet..!!!!... still.. I'm sure he'll learn one day...!!!

For more information... visit the matchbox cars site here.... but for us 'long-time-users', there's not much there to bring back the good old days..!!! 

Riding a bike...!!! ...Whatever happened to the old fashioned thing of really enjoying spending time on your bicycle... going round and round the village every night until it was dark, going down the woods, in the mud-puddles... excellent... ahhhh... it all takes me back... the bomb crater, the railings on chestnut drive, the pak-shack, and not forgetting, last but by no means least, spencer doing his diamond-back bunnyhops down laurel grove...!!! whilst we're on the subject.. we should take a rest and, remember the good old times when knights were bold, and nights were cold... and forget the 'nintendo-nerds' of today, whatever happened to reading a good book before you go to bed, or listening to the archers on the wireless...!!!...hehehe....

Kids of today, huh... I live in despair...

School time...You can't beat them... they're just the greatest years of your life, the highs and lows don't get better than this...!!!... and as for school friends, some of my very 'best-est friends ever' come from my time at school... I wanted to mention a few names of people I remember from school, I don't have any contact with most of these any more, they're all really just names in my head... some weren't even friends... and if you're one of them, I can only apologise and remind you that I'm about 6000 miles away, just you try to get me back for it..!!!... hehehe....

• Richard Wates... he never swore... couldn't get him to say 'fuck' for anything...

• Mark Stocker... He was so thin, come to think of it, he was probably anorexic..!!!... tee-hee...

• David Wade... or 'waddle' as he has known to his friends... slightly anarchistic, and a great sense of humour...!!!

• Darren Cooper... Now he was a Mod (of sorts)... strange looking bloke, I had a feeling he was always up to something..

• Rachelle Nicholls... PHWORRR...!!! everyone had a crush on her... and I mean EVERYONE...!!!

• Mark Bridges... dodgy character.. had a rich dad... you know the sort...!!!

• Jason Henderson... DEFINATELY the school bully... a vicious person...

• Mark Honey... a blinking weirdo/strange smelly bloke...

• Derek... helluva bloke... amazing electrician, and a silly, but kinda funny guy...

• Elisabeth Addison... she apparently married our old Physical Education teacher a few years ago...!!!

• Charlotte Tillman... hehehehehe.... wouldn't you all like to know... we bunked school together once... that's all... hehehe.....

...and so the list could go on and on... but I had a few closer friends, very good ones that I still keep in contact with now... I miss you lots... see you when I get back to england...

• Andrew Baker... he never did give me a copy of 'kickstart' for the Spectrum... still on speaking terms...!!! ...tee-heee...!!!

• Emma Daniel(s)... known as "the BIG 'M'...!!!" .... enough said...!!! ...still a good friend...

• Matthew Bright... a little more pessimistic than most people about the plight of the world... but a sound character all the same... (EH???)...

• Andrew ford... a great friend then, as now... really great at football behind the sports hall at lunchtimes...

This is, of course, not forgetting the other side of the terrible two-some, Andy Staff, or Talon 'ACE' Karrde as some of you may know him... he was in the year below me at school, but that didn't seem to stop us getting up to the usual stuff, bringing mayhem and havoc to Swadelands School, Lenham...

...NICK'S PARENTAL ADVICE

TO ALL YOUNGSTERS...

• Be good... take care...

• live life and enjoy it, it's a lot more fun that way, and you'll make other people enjoy it too...

• hear what other people say, but don't always listen to them... if you agree with what they're saying, that's o.k. ... if you don't agree... say so...

• be yourself, don't be what other people say you should be...

• listen to your parents and older people, after all, when they were young they experienced how you're feeling now... they understand... it's just that they can't express themselves in a way you'd understand. They don't want you to make the same mistakes...

• Make mistakes... it's all part of life... accept them as a part of life, the more you learn from them, the better your life will be...

• respect other people, after all, they have a reason for saying what they say or being what they are, just as much as you have a reason for disagreeing with them or being different from them,...

• Remember that there are thousands of kids going through the same thing as you, and yet not one of them could ever replace you... ...do good, keep safe, live life...

thanks for listening to all my waffling... if I have brought just a small spark of happiness to just one persons life, all this will have been worth it... 

I just couldn't leave it behind...

Nick's disty thing....

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