Trainer Day

  • Saturday, July 18th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Trainers, sneakers, runners, fancy man shoes, bits of plastic and leather made by kids in sweat shops, shoe champions, not-gloves, foot warmers, trouser stoppers – whatever you want to call them, I’m going to buy some today. Once a year I have trainer day where I spend far too long trying to find one pair […]

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Wait Till You Play The Drums…..

  • Friday, July 17th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

I feel damaged by Guitar Hero. Until last night I’d never played it before and had no idea it was so brain damaging. I think it may have something to do with my lack of coordination. Hitting all the different coloured buttons at the right time, to music, just doesn’t work with my brain. They […]

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Rush Eternity

  • Thursday, July 16th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

How long does rush hour actually last for now? Its not merely an hour, and I think the name now poses some sort of false hope that within 60 minutes you will be freely racing around the city as though you were the only car in the world. In fact, what happens when the initial […]

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Villandry

  • Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

My flat is very grey today. Think its possibly due to the lack of sunlight and the fact I haven’t yet put the lights on. I should probably do that. But by not doing it, I can pretend I am helping the planet and at the same time pretend I am in a film noir. […]

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I Drove All Night

  • Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

I feel knackered today after my 4 and a half hour drive home last night. No wonder lorry drivers are always such miserable bastards. There is something about monotonous driving for hours that completely wears you out. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Technically you are sitting down, and I don’t usually get tired […]

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Oh My Darlington

  • Monday, July 13th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Short blog today for once again I am resorted to blogging by the tPhone. This is not too much of a loss as I really haven’t done all that much after escaping the horrors of the flat in Newcastle. After making it to Darlington, a feat which sounds easy but was almost dangerous thanks to […]

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Diary of a Survivor (or Tiernan vs The Hyena part 2)

  • Sunday, July 12th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

They said we wouldn’t make it. There were times when I thought so too. Three men, more hens than a Chicken Cottage warehouse, a broken boiler and the hard streets of Newcastle. Essentially the odds were against us. And they were odds. Some of them in fancy dress – using ridiculous head garb and name […]

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Tiernan vs The Hyena Audience part 1

  • Saturday, July 11th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Second attempt at blog writing today. First was from my iPhone. The amazing iPhone that can do everything except save my blog on it. I spent 30 minutes giving the forefinger on my right hand RSI just so the tPhone could tell me to get bent and erase it all. To be fair I don’t […]

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Mini-Jim

  • Friday, July 10th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

This is my second attempt at being awake today. My first was at 7am when I opened my eyes to see Layla’s 5 year old nephew Angus waving his Nintendo DS at me and shouting ‘Play Lego Star Wars!’ Its not the ideal way to wake up. What’s worse is that I had planned for […]

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Squash Kings

  • Thursday, July 9th, 2009
  • Posted by: Tiernan Douieb

Its amazing how days that seem like they’re going quite well, can, within the first 10 minutes, go very wrong. I woke up about 15 minutes ago. Ten minutes after that I received a voicemail asking where I was. It was only then my brain clicked that I was meant to be in a meeting […]

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