Happy June the 8th

After a long holiday I am thinking of blogging off again, it was a bit of fun and would be a shame to waste all these creative juices.

A brief update on my current habits includes mostly study and procrastination in the form of  free legal streaming music (somehow makes me feel honest). You can stream almost anything within a media player that looks nicer than itunes, plus you are able to share playlists with the world:

http://open.spotify.com/user/gary.wood/playlist/5txyzVrgqMK2J68myDSUVD

Get spotify from here:

http://www.spotify.com/en/products/free/

No subscription necessary, just an occasional annoying advert, an acceptable cost.

WoodNight

WoodWork Orange

After 8 months in my new flat I decided to look under my bed.

Not only did I find the solution to the credit crunch (or at least my credit crunch), but an unbelievable amount of socks and feathers.

I have no feathered friends to date – my only assumption is that they were planted under my bed to enrage my allergies – I’m onto you William!

Aversion to study is the cleanest time of the year.

Clean-a-leane.

Rockness Part III

Need I say more?

Still Nothing to Say

I’m not one for babbling on without good cause (on-line) so would prefer to blog nothing at all rather than recite pathetic anecdotes about new socks – which also come in black by the way, oh boy!

I wouldn’t want to stop WithWood though, I really enjoy blogging one off now and again and like to read through my past ‘adventures’. The blog will eventually become something for the family to look over when I’m older and no doubt provide inspiration for a major movie – you know for kids!

The main reason my blog dried up was that I combined the pressures of full time employment with home study and Leith only had a limited supply of small shops/parks/dog toffees and dead animals to review.

To pass some time and keep the site active I’ll just post some photos accompanied by a few words – much like the other project I soon became tired of, I love fads and crazes, no doubt I’ll take up leather-craft and pocket-watch repair soon.

The first of my pieces was inspired by the first thing I saw and the last thing I smelt.

Nothing to Say

Not blogged anything off for so long, I’ve been too busy you see and had very little to say.

I still have very little to report back on, expect for one new development…

My socks look like my shoes!!!

Happy new year!

Are We Human?

In times of study you will notice my blog move away from Leith and into music, this is mainly due to my incarceration in the flat.

This weeks method of procrastination has been the latest Killers album, produced by Stuart Price – which will probably be the most remixed album of the year:

Here is the first:

Human (Thin White Duke Remix)

Keeping on the Stuart Price theme, another artist to look out for is FrankMusic:

FrankMusic – 3 Little Words

As soon as exams are over I will be back to journalism, visiting the much discussed ASDA of Leith.

What Credit Crunch?

Time to get topical…

Tried to get new credit card.

Got one.

Easy.

I see no trouble ahead.

I urge you all to invest in credit cards, my financial advice is nothing but sound, get at least three.

Once you do, buy the following albums:

Van She – V

Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke

Bags for Wife

Yesterday was my shopping day.

These days I visit the biggest Scot-Mid in Edinburgh (Leith) for all my necessary items (although I have been known to visit Lidl for deals on suspicious foods, such as an octopus in a jar)

It’s a BIG Scot-Mid, easy enough to lose yourself in, it took quite some time to gather my meats, vege and sauces, but was well worth it.

The Indian lady who served me was exited to see a wide array of curry ingredients coming towards her on the conveyor belt, she soon put her enquiring mind into action – are you making a curry? What kind of curry would it be? What meat would it contain? Who would it be for? Would it be for my wife?

WithWife?

Me?

Surely not!

We discussed the possibility of the checkout lady attending my meal and then another lady in the queue soon enquired about attending. I knew neither really wanted to come, just a kind attempt to provide some comfort to a lonely single young man. This three-way-role-play was quite fun, until they starting asking for my address, I’ll just make sure I double lock the door from now on.

After discussions about my relationship status, I was told I would have to pay for my bags.

This may be company policy in Lidl, we all know that’s how they make their money, luring you in with cheap beans and then forcing you to buy a bag or carry 26 cans in your pocket.

I had already bought too much for my pocket, so opted for two 10p bags for life instead.

I realise these have the added benefit of saving the environment because people are more likely to re-use the bags they pay for, but this would require me to carry them everywhere just-in-case.

The old free bags got so much more re-use in my house, in small bins, storing socks, carrying rubbish from living room to kitchen, making ad-hoc swimming trunks or doubling up as handy rain garments.

These bags for life will get no such use, so far I store them in a secret cupboard, ready for the day when I’ll need a robust bag. Surely this is so much worse, I’ll have thousands soon, not willing to use them, not willing to give them back.

What a dilemma.

I bet my wife would know what to do with them.

Get Sky (we can all be rich)

Say we are friends to Sky (which we are) subscribe, we both get £50.

Repeat this process with everybody in the world.

I won’t go hungry ever again.

Deal?

Keep an Eye Out

As a member of the neighbourhood watch scheme, my housemates and I take shifts staring across the hall.

Not a great deal happens, but I’m fairly certain it’s our careful watch keeping us safe.