Weekend begins

I had a couple of hours more overtime last night and luckily it was easy work. Kerching! I went home and watched The Theory Of Everything while playing Minecraft. Ah, the life. 

Feeling refreshed today for the Friday feeling. I've a painless days work today too. 

Flash forward to right now and I've finished work. That's time travel in text form dudes. I'm sat outside my son's school once more with half an hour to spare. It's a very grey day today since the drizzle keeps spraying up on the cars. I had invited my stepson to stay this Saturday night but he had plans so maybe next week. 

I want my son and I to do something this weekend so we aren't just stuck indoors. He got his first letter through the post on Wednesday from his auntie. He said "I can't believe I've got my first letter" and then saw that it was two sides of an A4 so proceeded to ask me to read it out. 

I'm sat listening to the Adam and Joe podcast from Glastonbury 2011. I'm sat smiling and laughing in the van, seemingly to myself. 

 

Friday morning nov 21st. 2014

Four months of hitting the gym now and I did my first day of a three day split workout targeting 'push', 'pull' and 'legs' over a week period. I ache in a satisfying way this morning. To close my evening last night I went to the first day release of Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 which seems to be the part where nothing happens. I've seen it and I've moved on already. 

I have a half day at work today and just one full colour job to concentrate on so I plan for a straight forward day with no pressure. 

Expect the unexpected though. 

My food intake will be mostly muesli until my tea because today I can have my 'naughty' meal. Could be pizza, I've not decided. 

6:57Am. It's dark and cold but the Friday feeling is burning through already.  

PPS paranormal investigation brings up no ghost.

Myself and one other team member headed to a house to investigate possible ghostly goings on last night, only to come up empty handed. This is to be expected and should happen from time to time. Not every house in the world will be haunted. The family hopefully feel better for the most part and yet I still had to let them know that I did detect unhealthily high EMF readings coming from the unused and faulty home alarm system. There are pages on the internet which highlight the dangers to human health from this problem and I hope that they can get that sorted. 

Exercise is bad for you,

On Sunday I awoke at 6:30am and got up to eat breakfast and drink a coffee in the hope that I could hit the gym fuelled up and ready to go. I watched 'Human Universe' for the hour leading up to the gym opening and then started my exercise. 

I was nearing the end of my workout when I suddenly felt light headed and dizzy. I slowly walked towards the changing room to sit down. Once sat down I felt sick too. I wasn't about to be sick but I had that hot yet cold sweat that comes before it. I rested my head on the unsanitary sinks in there and then realised I'd look awful if someone else walked in so after a look in the mirror I'd go sit on the toilet and close the door. My reflection spun as I looked at myself and it slots felt like a dream. But no, this was real. I was going to black out, so I better sit down quick. I leaned over the toilet but no retch came so I sat instead. I was sat but with my head on my arms across my knees. Thirty seconds later I felt a bit of respite. Another thirty and I could stand. Four minutes later and I felt normal enough to grab my things and leave. I wanted to be home. 

I had imagined myself found slumped in the cubicle and yet I still couldn't bring myself to notify a member of staff etc for help. 

The breakfast I'd had didn't prevent this from happening and so I told myself I'd never come to the gym in the morning again. 

I was fine for the rest of the day but it had scared me a little. 

Exercise is bad for you.     

PPS paranormal investigation write up from Glusburn.

Private House in Glusburn. 

23/10/2014

It was almost Halloween when I pulled up outside a home in Glusburn awaiting the rest of the team. It took me about fifteen minutes of self congratulating myself on my punctuality before I worked out that the team were already inside the property before me. When I entered, the reports of activity were in full flow. As I entered the house I found myself at the foot of the stairs and straight forward was the hall which led into the kitchen where everyone was gathered. On my right was the doorway to the living room. The family reported hearing footsteps in the house and even smelling odd smells such as LILAC and something like nail varnish or remover. But most compelling of all was a recording caught on a laptop when they had hoped to catch the footsteps. 

(The names of the family etc are changed in this write up). 

Nev got the laptop evidence up for us and told us we would hear the radio turn itself on in the middle of the night and then hear a voice say "I wish to speak". I started to record the laptop screen with my iPod camcorder so I could analyse the footage at home. The recording the family had made was an hour long before it cut off and it was fourteen minutes of silence in that the first noise was heard. This was said to be the radio being switched on. The family told us that they were in bed at this point. It was the next day when they listened back, not really expecting to hear anything at all. A radio dj is speaking for seconds only before the sound slows to a crawl like a vinyl record would sound if you applied pressure to the disc. Then we heard a male voice say "I wish to speak". Firstly the words were surprisingly clear, much clearer than I was expecting. Secondly the words were also slowed down which made me suspicious. My approach is always the same, start with rationality and see what doesn't fit. (I'll tell you what I found later) I listened on for five minutes as a voice slowed further making the words incomprehensible with only the family describing their views on the audio. At one point we were told there was a 'pig' noise and on another 'the spirit songs along to the radio'. 

"How long does this go on?" I asked as my arm tired of recording. "Until the recording ran out!" Nev said. In other words at least 45 minutes. We'd heard enough. I'd analyse it later. 

The team set up and I took some base line readings. In other words I found what the natural levels of the home were in order to see what alters once we start communicating. The usual kitchen hotspots lit up our meters and when I entered the living room I discovered an African Grey Parrot called Kenny plus a blip on my gauss meter where a wooden bureau stood. Next to that was a fish tank that I assumed I'd picked up on but I was wrong. The top drawer of the bureau led me to open it as I followed the reading. There was an item which was lighting up my gauss causing it to crackle slightly. I got a family member to lift the item out. It was a grey metal box similar to that which I imagine tobacco could be kept in and as it was lifted out, the bureau stopped giving a reading and the box itself still did. But ten seconds or so later the box also stopped giving a reading. Haunted objects themselves, it is said, can hold on to the energy of a spirit and be the crux of problems in home hauntings. I asked that this object be put near the ouija board for later. I found no other anomalies. 

Nev was eager to tell us about some research he'd done about the area and it became apparent that we wanted him to keep that info to himself in case he unwittingly led the team askew. I rang the singing bowl in the kitchen in order to boost any likelihood of EVP's. 

The room temperature was 19.6 C and the we started protection in the kitchen where our ouija board was. 

Si "If you'd like to make noises or show yourself..." Si explained different ways to communicate with us. 

Then Si knocked out hard on the kitchen table in the hope of getting a response. Next, he whistled and then went on to talk about our equipment around the house. 

As we got under way the family members said that there were breezes and chills felt at knee level which is commonly where spirits first are felt. In the quiet we could hear the flow of water as the house stood over a water way which again seems to be a thread with haunted locations. It appears that the flow of water is one of the energy sources a spirit can borrow from. Since a spirit is essentially an electrical current of some form, water would be conductive to some degree. "Was that a gauss click?"

The glass moved after a short time and Nev asked "Are you anyone who is around me?" 

The glass now moves in proper circles which can't be mistaken for the family all naturally putting pressure on.si steps in and calibrates the board, which is done successfully. 

Nev says he can feel the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Again, this static charge fits with an 'electrical' energy close by. 

Si "Are you the person who people see sometimes?" NO

"Are you the person who 'wishes to speak'?" NO

"Is the person who 'wishes to speak' still in the house?" YES

"is that person male?" NO

"Are you linked with anyone in this room?" NO

"Did you live in this house?" NO

"Were you anything to do with the land here?" YES

"Are you male?" YES

"Would you please give us your first name?" I

'"I?"

Kevin "Surname maybe?" The glass rotates around NO which usually means the answer NO underlined. 

"What year was it when you passed over?" No answer. 

Si "How many of us can you see around the table?" 6. 

Si "...err....how many living then , just to be clear?" 5.

   Was the spirit including itself with 6?

"Please take the glass to where you're stood" The glass God to between easier and Nev. 

"So you have something to do with the land?" YES

"Did you own the land?" YES 

"Were you a farmer?" NO

"Did you rent out the land sir?" NO

We point out that the movement seems aggravated. 

"You seem angry sir" NO

"Oh, are you excited?" YES

"Do you just visit here?" YES

"Are there any others here wanting to speak to us?" YES

"Do you have any message to pass to us?" K-I-L-L-E-D

"Did you kill somebody?" NO

"Were you killed by somebody?" YES

"Can you spell out a word to help us understand what that was over?" L-A-N-D

The glass then spells L-R-J. We don't know why or if it was relevant. 

Communication seems to lead us to think a few people were responsible for 'i's' death. 

"How many people tricked you?" 3

"Were any caught for their crime against you?" DON'T KNOW

Kevin "what year was this in?" 1851

"Was your body found?" NO

Nev "Are you in the river?" YES

Chris "so your energy rune under this house perhaps?" There is a big burst of energy from the glass. 

Kevin "Is there some way in which we can make things beeper for you sir?" J-U-L-Y

Chris "What about July?" W-I-W-I-W

There are two other spirits in the home with us at this moment so Si has the one at the bard agree to step back. 

Si "Is this still 'I'?" NO

"Is this a lady? YES

"Are you the person who 'wishes to speak'?" YES

"Were you aware that people could hear you?" No answer. 

"Are you associated with this house?" YES

"Is that because you once lived in this house?" NO

"Are you associated with anyone around the board?" YES

Is it someone with their finger on the glass right now?" NO

The glass actually identifies Kevin but then admits it's 'playing around'. 

Chris "If we caught a smell of you, what would you describe the fragrance as?" F-L-O-W-E-R-S

Now if we were actually leading the glass, I'd have expected us to write lilac or lavender as these had been spoken  aloud earlier and so would be in our subconscious and would be what we all collectively expected the glass to write. I found it interesting that a word came out which was independent and yet relevant to the claims. 

In my peripheral vision I saw a flash of light on the k2. Upon review I heard the clicking sound of a mobile phone signal interruption. 

Chris "Are you a relation?" No answer. 

"Is it a lady you are associated with?" YES

"Can you tell me her name?" The glass slides to GOODBYE unfortunately. We plead for the spirit to hang on a moment longer but it spins around NO. 

Si "Are you getting annoyed with us?" YES

"Are you a little scared of us?" YES

Chris "So what do you know about the third spirit?"

Jean "Are you here with 'i. w.'?" YES

So "Can you see the other spirit?"YES

"Is the other spirit a male?" NO

"Is it an adult?" NO

"How old would you say she is?" 8

"And how old are you yourself?" 47

"Do you know how old I.W. was?" NO

Chris "can you make a guess maybe?" No answer. 

Nev "Do you sometimes have a dog with you?" YES

Si "Was it your dog?" 

Nev "Was it a dog which belonged to someone who once lived In this house?" (May be a leading question.) 

I get a strong smell of deodorant all of a sudden and Sue says she smelt it earlier. Nobody seems to be able say if it was their scent. 

Nev "Is the dog's name Scamp?" YES

"Are you the person who we capture on our recordings?"

"Are you Debbie's mum?" NO

Chris "What colour is Scamp?" (I'm after proof since spirits can seem to go where you lead them, probably for fun.) 

The glass spins and spins. 

Kevin "What breed of dog was Scamp?" (Another good proof question) DON'T KNOW

Nev "Is Scamp a small dog?" 

"Is Scamp a terrier?" 

Si "It's getting annoyed"

Si suggests that the spirit just play with the board and the glass travels wildly and spins. 

"Can you change direction" it does. 

"Can you twist on the spot?" This shows the group that the glass can twist under the fingers irrespective of their fingers falling over eavh others. Then the glass twists back the other way. 

The lady of the house joins to put her finger on as she's just been spectating. The glass spins with her finger on too. Only the family have their fingers on at this point. 

Meg "Are you any relation to mum?" YES

Si "Had you passed before THIS person could know you?" YES

"Are you looking after this house?" YES

"Are the other spirits any trouble? " NO

Nev "Are you thre a family?" NO

Kevin "Do you all get on well?" YES

Nev "Do you just visit here?" 

Si "are you still there?"

I head towards asking spirits to calm activity down for the family but in doing so it becomes clear that the family will continue to encourage communication as long as the spirits don't mean harm. 

The spirits express that they are starting to trust the team now.

Si asks the spirits not to startle the family. 

Kenny the parrot starts 'woofing' leading to the remark "Don't worry about that, it's just the parrot barking" 

You don't hear that everyday. 

We have assessed that there are no bad agendas here. 

Chris "Is there any other way of giving us evidence that you're here"

Kenny "Eh-SHUT UP"

Kenny the parrot seems to have livened up when the second spirit came to the board. 

Si knocks out hoping for a reply but only Kenny knocks back. 

I ask the board about the grey metal box which gave off a reading. It was Nev's dads. 

Si "Is there a spiritual energy attached to this box? YES

Chris "What was their name?" 

Nev Are they male?" 

Chris "Just be careful of leading questions to what you expect"

Si "Do you know their name?" YES

I suggest we say a list of names. 

Nev "Is it David?" NO

"Stephen?" NO

"Brian?" YES

"Does Brian wish to talk to me now?" NO "that's ok" 

"Does Brian visit here?" YES

There is a delay between question and answer which signifies the question being passed on and an answer being granted. 

"Has Karen's dad been here?" YES

"Do you know his name?" (Give choices) 

Nev "Peter?" NO

"Alan?" NO

"Jack?" YES

"Has Jack any messages?" NO

"Is Jack with you?" NO

The glass moves from left to right to left to right fast. 

Kenny "I'll see ya in a bit"

We allow the glass to play 'lose your fingers' as the glass moves so fast people' hold flies off. 

We close the board and close protection. 

***upon analysis of the family's laptop audio I sped the recording up until a mans voice said "I wish to speak" and can attest that it wasn't Nev speaking. The audio played on and I identified it as a local radio station's news talking about a story in Halifax right up until a record is played. The audio from this point slows further causing me to speed it up even more to hear it normally. There is a record playing on the station and the noise identified as a spirit singing along to the song (plus what was wrongly labeled as a pig noise) is merely the records vocalist. 

What we are left with is the anomaly of a radio stations output being slowed down, which is staggering as it's not a physical medium to be meddled with by the family and then an Evp of a male voice. The clip shows no signs of cuts or fakery as it changes speed into three sections. We had a female spirit take credit for the male voice which I can't explain. 

A fascinating clip when all's said and done. 

There were no other Evp's caught on our recordings. 

C WHITEHOUSE 2014.  

 

Interstellar

The Earth is doomed and humanity is staring death in the face. We need to find another Earth. Matthew McConaughey is  a farmer these days but once was a pilot. One day he is off to parents evening and within a hop, skip and a jump he's leaving his kids behind. "See ya, i'm off to save mankind, yee ha".

It's been said already...but I agree...it's CONTACT meets 2001. 

Now I am a person who could happily watch six hours straight of Wonder Of The Universe and then Stargazing Live without having my enthusiasm for the subject wain. I lap up books like A Brief History Of Time, Biocentrism and Quantum Mechanics because it's damn fascinating. 

But it's certainly not everyone's cup of tea. 

 This film falls in my ball park, and yet, if anything, it's HOLLYWOOD trappings which made it all too 'obviously film like'   were like bumps in the road. Imagine Brian Cox doing a three hour programme where he gave an Oscar baiting speech where he was in tears. To me, amongst the brilliant space scenes where just like 2001, the silence and vastness of space is effectively used, the dramatic scenes delivered by the actors brought me back down to Earth as they tried to outdo each other. Once more, it's also been said that there's only one man on the mission who seems to know how space works and it falls to him to explain it seconds before they need to know. 

Black holes and worm holes are great things to base a film around the sheer wonder of it all is something I thoroughly enjoyed. But the drama back on Earth was a weight around its neck. 

Within the first three minutes ish there is a happening involving a bookshelf which immediately had me think "oh that's going to turn out to be because...." and two and a half hours later I was proved correct, delivered in a big reveal way which had me thinking 'did anyone not know that?'. 

I place the film in the 'really good' category but certainly not in the great category. I've seen it, I enjoyed it, now on to the next film. It seemed to be ending for ages and i rolled my eyes three times in the last half an hour as every loose strand seemed to get neatly tied up. 

I prefer Inception and Memento. 

Good but not great. Half an hour too long. 

Brief blog before bed

My son couldn't wait to get back to my house and play FABLE some more now that he's finished story mode. His youthful energy and wide eyed fascination over learning is intoxicating. The evening went so fast together and was rounded off with him reading all his reading book in one sitting. I put him to bed and watched 'What If' starring Radcliffe and Kadan, it truly warmed the cockles of my heart. There's six weeks left until Christmas and finally I got a handful of overtime last night. It's all about the money now as I try to save up to move in a year or too. Maybe. 

I haven't been to the gym in five days and I need to jump back in quickly to stay motivated. I want to be buff by summer of next year, at least to a degree that I can notice. Lots of eating and lots of lifting between now and then. 

A week in my life (1995)

A WEEK IN MY LIFE (1995) 

On this day 19 years ago it was a Friday and I was 21 years old. Even though I lived in Keighley I found myself on a pub run with my pal Ste R at our Bradford haunts which basically was a run of quiet pubs in which we could talk and enters tin each other. We went from The Lord Clyde to The Commercial to The Exchange to the Cobbles before getting a taxi back to Keighley for £13 in those days by 12:45am and in to the Rat Trap night club. This  is all taken from my diary. I had a girlfriend at the time who I shall, refer to as G. G was blonde and petite, in other words just my type. When we met up with her and her friends in The Rat Trap, she was very drunk. Now girlfriends are one thing but drunk girlfriends are another. Annoying to be exact. The way she draped herself on me got on my nerves pretty quick. Naturally, all these years later, now I'm 40, I feel far more tolerant of such quibbles but my young self could be a dick. 

G lived a couple of streets away and I'd been with her for all of 6 months which would be nothing today but at 21 seemed like 6 years. I've come to understand my failings with others in the recent years but back then I only knew what and how I felt at that exact moment. G stayed at my house that night and soon collapsed into sleep until the morning. I lay in my bedroom which oddly also had a free standing shower cubicle and those storage heaters with the bricks in which are shite. It was a depressing house but I was also happy to have a place of my own. I remember the curtains were on,y held up by some of the hooks. It was only when I was sorting it out to move out that I briefly had those sorted. I had no idea why I hadn't sorted them sooner. 

Sleep took me and I dreamed drunken dreams in a smelly bed. 

Long weekend with son 2014

With work out of the way after an hours overtime I called into Aldi for a few bits. It was terribly busy and xmas paraphernalia was abundant. It was a great feeling to have wrapped most of my xmas gifts last night. To see the throng battling with extra shopping made me so glad that I needn't tackle this bedlam too often again this year. 

The rain has arrived and the grey clouds rolled in above which makes for a normal November look. I drove along to be outside my son's school whilst listening to Frank Skinner's podcast via Absolute Radio. I listen to a handful of podcasts and the chatter makes me feel like I'm in company. 

I felt good today with the stained muscled feeling after a good workout yesterday. It being Friday helped obviously and the three day stretch with my son is a wonderful prospect. His mother is going away I presume, for her birthday and so I get him all to myself. I had the thought of travelling to Leeds tomorrow but I'll have to see what my son makes of that. 

Cod:AW has put me a little behind on my tv series but I believe in doing what makes you the happiest at the time since any day could be your last. 

This rain is becoming harder on my metal van roof. People walk the streets with hoods and umbrellas. I'm very lucky to get a works van and I do appreciate that fact every single day. 

Xmas in the bag.

The gym two hours was filled with mostly cardio as I watched RHLSTP podcasts, 3 in fact, ending on Steve Coogan. The I played more of Advanced Warfare which is the great new Call Of Duty game. I got a high score of 7 on Team Deathmatch followed by 10! 

This is shit compared with everyone else but I was happy with it. 

Whilst watching The Apprentice (a programme where you get sacked BEFORE YOU GET HIRED) I wrapped xmas presents which puts me so far ahead and in control that it'll be an anticlimax I imagine. 

I have my son for the next three days and I'm looking forward to that. I hope the weather stays dry as I have plans for us to hang out with a friend and his daughter. 

#tiredbody. 

Fable over bonfire

Last night was bonfire night in England. My boy wanted us to play 'Fable' on the xbox where we finally arrived at the Arena challenge. I kitted our character up as best I could and we headed into battle. By round seven I wanted to leave the arena to buy health potions but my son pushed me to not quit. By the skin of my teeth I won without a rest and was awarded the maximum gold. If I'd have played it alone (which I have done- I've completed it twice alone years ago), i would've ducked out about round five and replenished supplies. Thanks to my son, he pulled us through to victory. I was proud of him- and us. 

We missed the fireworks and yet I'm not sad as the paper shows the accidents caused by the odd yearly celebration of playing with fire and putting a makeshift corpse on top. 

 

Time fillings

I have had a trying day at work with a job which wanted to make me kill myself but ultimately failed. "I win!". 

I am gym bound very very soon....to the land of sweat and machismo where the worlds foulest toilets dwell. The whole place has a stench to it and you can feel the grime on everything you touch. 

The males pout in the mirrors like their own biggest fans. They throw the weights on the floor in a way that suggests it's cool to do so but it actually makes them look absolute cunts in my eyes. 

There's far too much preening over their own reflection if you ask me. 

•••••••••••

I crushed my muscles in just over an hour and then ant home to continue COD: AW. It's the best Call Of Duty game so far. 

I could lose myself in the latest games I've bought this year for weeks and weeks and there's many other things which take time to best enjoy. 

Time is made to be filled. Although Biocentrism tells me that the only true notion on time is right now, as yesterday is now just a memory and tomorrow is just anticipation of what will be. 

Call Of Doodie?

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare arrived today and the campaign started brilliant. I played a couple of levels and switched to the online team death match which was also brilliant. I didn't lift a finger on write up to be honest. There was a chill to the days air today which had been missing last week. It's stop inside weather. 

Christmas talk loiters in people's minds as plans are made for present buying. It feels good to not have to stress about xmas. I need to buy no dinner or gubbings for the day itself and have only a few gifts to sort. 

I sit here in bed with tiredness fast encompassing me. Tuesday tomorrow which means gym and free night. 

I now weigh ten stone. Up from nine and a half, although my body has shrunk. Does this mean I'm putting on muscle mass from this point on? I am able to fatten up for the winter anyway. 

Ok that's all, I need sleep. 

The magical forest.

Due to my son and I hibernating on Thursday on my day off, we were dressed and out to St. Ives park by ten AM on Saturday morning. It had been the warmest  Halloween since records began yesterday and the sun broke through the trees warming our faces as we walked and played FABLE amongst the orange brown branches. His American accent broke the quiet. It was the one which he'd picked up from too many American tv series. We soon trudged up to the play area and the autumn dew made for excellent building sand in the sandpit. I allowed him to get dirty rather than chastising him as his mother probably would. The day was magical and I took photos to hold the day forever. 

Once home we continued with Fable on the xbox until the scratched disc froze for the second or third time causing me to order a replacement online. 

We had a few play fights which always defended into hugs and laughter. I revelled in his company and he enjoyed mine. You couldn't find two happier people. 

His tomfoolery makes me genuinely laugh and he's the first EVER person who I find funny. I've laughed at people in the past but never taken joy from them as I do my son. 

The dark nights drew in as people walked down to tonight's firework show in Silsden. Next week my son is with me Friday until Sunday and we can't wait. 

It's 6:55pm on a Saturday night and the house seems deathly quiet apart from the ticking of a wacky clock which my mum bought me for my 40th. I have programmes to watch on my kindle naturally and also podcast, audiobooks and books to lose myself in. Tomorrow contains more of the same along with the gym and the cinema double bill of NIGHTCRAWLER and OUIJA. 

I will know disappear into a world between a set of headphones. Goodbye.