Just Some Blasts From The Past

Came across Some old photos when I was clearing up my Facebook account which I'm not really using anymore.

Anyhow, here's a laugh for you, my brother Tony and I way,way, way back in the day....

My First Administration Job, Service Advisor @ King Ford, Skelmersdale, England.

Oh Dear......... check out the moustache :-/ in my defense it was fashionable back then

Its That Time of the Year ...... Again......

Well, in my last post I showed you that I have been trying to get myself fit, or fitter at least. Well this is the time of the year when Digicel (Our biggest mobile phone network provider) and the Digicel Foundation host their annual 5 Kilometer Walk/Run event to raise funds for children with special needs.

Being as I had only started back in the gym in the August, the thought of running a 5K in October was kind of daunting but at the time I was working out and being put through my paces by my friend Oneal who doesn't really give up when it comes to training. So my company Stewarts is a big supporter of several charities and organizations and they just happen to enter a corporate team each year which I became part of......

Originally, given my state of fitness I decided that I would take the WALK option, but, Oneal had different ideas and we embarked on what became a merciless training regime. Here's the route in Downtown Kingston.

Time For An Update....

As usual its been a while since I put anything up on here, In fact its been nearly a year already......

So, thank you to Martin, Katerina and John for kicking my ass via email and prompting this update :-), I didn't realize it had been so long.

For me the last 12 months have been a bit of a roller coaster year with various things going on, not least of all is that i started back at the gym last August with all intention of losing all of the weight I had piled on. I'm sorry to say that I haven't put all of the commitment into the gym as I thought I would be doing and social engagements kind of kept me off routine but hey, what u gonna do :-) I am glad to report though that from a massive 200+ lbs and a 37 inch waist whilst on a break in the U.K, I am now a fighting fit 168lbs and sporting a 32 inches around the gut, Happy days, Still more to go though cus Ive still got a bit of a pop belly (Read beer) but I'm working on that so watch this space. Here are  a couple of the Work In Progress photo's.

The mid way result being........

Frenchman "Foreplay" Party. Ocho Rios, Jamaica

What a weekend!! every year in Jamaica there is a party weekend called Frenchmen, so called because it was originally held at Frenchmen Cove in Portland until they out grew it as a venue. For years now it has been held on a beach in Ocho Rios and a huge section of the beach is cordoned off. The tickets are not badly priced considering that when you get in all of the food and drink is included in the price, and its all top shelf stuff. We had a private villa for the weekend with some friends and it was very comfortable to say the least!! Private cook, maid and a butler for 3 days, private pool, jetty into the ocean, great fun.

Hurricane Sandy.

I think I dodged the worst of hurricane Sandy but it wasn't without a few inconveniences and a few valuable lessons being learned. Kingston was hit pretty hard but it seems that where I live escaped relatively undamaged save for a few downed trees. Other parts of the Island suffered moderate to high winds especially in the exposed areas which wreaked havok with power lines and water supplies.
Not being one to watch or listen to the news or read the local newspapers and having been off work with a back/neck injury for 2 weeks, I only found out about the impending storm the day before it was due to hit from a work colleague.
Even for the 2 weeks prior to this the rainfall has been really heavy but the amount of torrential rain that fell during the storm and in such a short period of time was incredible to say the least.
An estimated 150cm of rainfall in 3 days would challenge even the best of infrastructures but on a self proclaimed third world Carribean island where surface drainage is normally the furthest thing from being a priority it caused chaos and turned major roads into rivers.

Greetings From Jamaica...............

Surfs Up..............

Here we go again, I'm back in the trade....... Strange how the motor trade has a habit of not letting you go...

There I was, enjoying being my own boss and making the rules up as I went along when along comes a job in Qatar back in the Middle East via an agency that I was with way back when.
That didn't happen because after 3 months and a few telephone interviews which went very well, they decided to promote somebody from within the company ........ hmmm... "why waste my time?" I thought