Hello again!!

It’s Lock-In day 2. I’m writing this on the couch. Watching the repeat of Celebrity Big Brother. I’m basically just up, had a shower stuck my slacks on and I’m now messing about on the laptop waiting on Gemma getting ready – after which I’ll be making lunch.

Last night was amazing. After dinner we stuck on a movie called ‘The Boat The Rocked’. You Yanks out there will probably know it as ‘Pirate Radio’. It did the job. Light-hearted, funny and a lot of cracking old school tunes. The highlight being ‘So long, Marianne’ by Leonard Cohen (See YouTube Video). Gemma thought it was alright too. Probably not as enthusiastic about it than me.

During the movie I ate half a bag of Thai Chilli Sensations with a Garlic dip. I had a beer then opened up some of my cheese and had a few crackers. The main cheese event is tonight so I only had a wee bit.

A Classic

Straight after dinner me and Gemma were both knackered so we went to bed. I, however, stayed up and got started on a new book that I plan to get in-about later on today. It’s called ‘How To Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie. Of course I’ve heard of the book before, but it wasn’t until my buddy Colin recommended I watch a TV program about millionaire Warren Buffet that I became interested in reading. The program centred around how Warren Buffet was the unlikeliest kind of man to become overly successful and how he was still very grounded in his routes even through his unbelievable power.

One thing stuck with me. He talked about the aforementioned book as being his Bible. ‘I wouldn’t be anywhere without that book’, he joked.

I’m looking forward to getting into it. Especially the chapters on public speaking as I have the biggest public talk of my life coming up during my Wedding in July .

So with that, I leave you and get late lunch made.