The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

This is the first post dedicated to Dan after his win in the Easter Egg Hunt. His chosen topic was: “some of the folklore of the UK”. So, I’m going to give a brief overview of the subject, because it’d be a bit of a bugger to collect it all! I’m going to avoid the [...]

This is the post dedicated to Dio after her win in the Easter Egg Hunt. Her chosen topic was: “I think you’ll know what I like (and no I don’t mean furry smut, kthxbye).” Yeah, that was a major cop out right there, everybody noticed it, right? Of the subjects that I know Dio is [...]

I like getting things for free, I’ve said it before and I’ll damn well say it again. I love the idea of having to put in minimal or no effort to be rewarded with something I obviously don’t deserve if I can’t afford it myself. On a routine basis I enter a week-load of competitions [...]

I am a GOD!

My brother and I moved in to this place in September 2007, on the tenth of this month it’ll be the six month anniversary. In some cases I’m still living out of the boxes I used to move stuff with. I still don’t have proper curtains in my room or bookcases to store things. However, [...]

I was going to post this before, but I forgot about it until yesterday. Earlier on in the month, Matt over at X-Entertainment.com, commented on a PSA advert about drink driving which had given himself and some of his readers a case of the spooks as children. During the course of discussion, DJ D made [...]

After my last entry complained of the Emil Effect of the replacement CRT monitor, and following a period of adjusting settings and layouts to accommodate the less defined screen, I had a pleasant surprise arrive this morning. Although I had been told that my new monitor would be delivered in three weeks when I ordered [...]

At the start of the week my wonderful little TFT monitor, which I’ve had for two years, started to have a few problems coming back to picture after a shutdown. This was getting frankly annoying as the only way to bring the monitor back to life was a hard reboot of the entire system. I [...]

The young female superheroine and Jensen Button ‘squee’r, DistractoGirl from LiveJournal, and I were discussing how annoying it is to have to attend a service – for example, a wedding – when you haven’t been provided a dress code. Now, the likelihood of me asking people to attend a wedding or a christening in the [...]

Just before the New Year began I decided that I wanted to get back in to writing. It seemed to me that in 2007, as compared to the previous few years, I had lost a lot of the motivation and ability to write in either quality or quantity, most of my writing had become overly technical [...]

Bright spinning lights. Huge industrial engines pushing heavy machinery. Music thumping from speakers so loud and close you can fill the impact in your chest. Cold rain hitting your forehead. Girls in revealing outfits – some very well toned – all chained to articulated vehicles and gyrating as they appear before you. Older people strapped [...]

I thought I’d share with you what I told about the advantages about this place as regards to protecting our property, nay our lives, as far as this new flat is concerned against what is a very real threat to our way of life. No, I’m not talking terrorists, burglars, chavs or the welsh. I’m [...]

So, despite a rocky start and an aching spine, we are all now moved and, for the most part unpacked. and I are getting things sorted out quite swiftly, and the first set of the mythical ‘new stuff’ will be coming by the end of a fortnight. It wasn’t quite as easy as first planned. [...]

I found a new found awe for those serial killers who after committing gruesome, violent acts of bloody murder, squeeze their victims corpses in to a freezer to preserve them until they can dispose of them. Having myself this weekend had to fit the lifeless bodies of several stiff limbed recent born and toddler-like figures [...]

So, went to go out for the show and a fight was going on outside the flat, one guy I didn’t recognise had an older guy I didn’t recognise atop the bonnet of a car, whilst a guy with a baseball bat was shouting. So, I threatened to call the police and then did. Turns [...]

Another attempt at an A Softer World clone, this one inspired by a conversation with Songward whilst playing Legends of Terris. Guise says ‘I wouldn’t know, but sometimes cultures have magics beyond others…’ Guise says ‘Look at genies…’ Songward says ‘Genies? ‘ Guise says ‘There were three who formed Devardec from the rock and sand…’ [...]

I saw this on the sea front and decided it had to be shared, because I know this kind of gig just has ‘once in a lifetime’ appeal. How can anyone resist the CheekyGirls and The Wurzels sharing stage, with a classical tenor as warm-up and a Robbie Williams tribute band. Oh, how I long [...]

Tonight, Tim and I went to see Rich Hall perform stand-up at The Playhouse in Weston. The show started really strongly, the warm up act was a Canadian stand-up called Craig Campbell, who currently lives in Devon. The guy was an absolute dynamo, he came out to an almost dead audience and, I felt at [...]

A combination of being getting close to the summer season and the same feeling I get whenever I’m meant to hang out with people always makes me feel less confident, and with going to Exeter soon to see , the imported and the ‘Kiddo’, Alex, I am of course even more nervous. Granted, I’m in [...]

Didn’t sleep too well last night, kept waking up and feeling hot and stuffy. Probably not the best of moods to spend a day travelling and touring Bristol. It was also overcast. Nevertheless, off to Bristol and I trundled. He took care of his business while I stood far too close to the youth courts [...]