Do you think I’m some kind of comic?

I’ve been playing around with an idea of posting more things about my everyday life to my Blog recently.  Then I remembered that my life is not all that interesting so a gave up for fear of making my life even less interesting.  Andy Cap isn’t the most interesting person in the world ether but for years people have been reading his comic strip.  So with that in mind I thought I would give my own comic strip a go.
Basically the idea is to do a comic strip about some of the things I see, hear and get involved in that make me smile or laugh.  There is one major problem with me doing this.  That would be my inability to draw a straight line; or for that matter a wavy one.  The fact that I can’t draw however; shouldn’t put me off.
So hear it goes; my first ever comic strip with its educational story line and its high quality drawings.  Hope you like it and please let me know what you think in the comments below – smlp

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New Toy.

Today we my first outing on my new bike… I’m sure none of you actually care about this fact however I was quite excited about this so I’m going to tell you about it anyway.

I’m very must a new starter when it comes of Mounting biking; about three months ago I bought a bike from my flat mate for next to nothing.  It was one of them cheap £79.99 things that are always on offer at Harfords.  I had been using it to get to work and back but it became apparent that it was not going to last me long the way I had been riding it.  When I found out my company did a Cycle the Work scheme it was time to get myself something that won’t fall apart on me when I was riding up a hill.

I got myself a Carrera Kraken; with Suntour XCR 120mm travel fork with magnesium lowers, 30mm stanchions, Adjustable pre-load, rebound damping and remote lockout, 27 speed, SRAM X5 front mech, X5 triggers, and X5 rear mech, Tektro Auriga hydraulic disc brakes, wavy rotors, 180mm front, 160mm rear AND Truvativ Isoflow chainset with Powerspline bottom bracket.  Sounds good?  Just don’t ask me what the hell it all means because I just don’t know.  Basically I got me a voucher for £700 popped into Halfords picked what seems like a good bike and got loads of acessiores; Panya rank and bag, clothing etc etc.  So today was here maden voyage from Gateshead to Newburn and back.  Camera on my back…

First trip out so I thought I would get a nice picture of my new toy.

New Toy

Anyone out there into there monuntian biking got any advise for a new starter I would be more that happy to hear it.

NCL Photo Walk – The Calder Leadworks.

It was the day after the worst flooding in Morpeth since 1963, heavy rain falling all across the north east, massive train delay in and out of Newcastle and I didn’t bother to bring any decent water proof clothing!

The fourth Newcastle Photo Walk went ahead yesterday and it was a wonder off to wasteland next to Newcastle Metro Arena to find a derelict building.  I found out about the building from Flickr user Arron Cupid.  The waste land the building sits on was the site of Calder Industrial Materials, a lead manufacturer.  The site shut down in 2002 and since I don’t remember it even being their I thought I would have a quick look and see what I could find out about it. Continue reading NCL Photo Walk – The Calder Leadworks.