Yesterday must have been a busy day for me as I had fallen asleep by 9.30 last night!! After work I met up for lunch with Lydia as she had been unable to come out with us when I had gone out for my birthday. Had some really interesting gifts of her, an Tequilalix lolly(I don't know why people seem to think I like tequila), and a Doctor Who mobile phone alert and the most interesting item was a packet of freeze dried ice cream and I have to admit this is the thing I am looking forward to tasting and don't worry I will post some sort of review about it (unless I am dead)

I spoke a few weeks ago about changing my car and one of my brothers have been helping me search and had told me about two cars he had seen advertised on the internet at a garage up in Swansea, so after lunch I went to take a look the first one was easy to find and looked pretty good (well if you forgot about the colour) so had a look around the car and saw the reason why they had only put photos of the drivers side online - bit of damage to the sill area of the car and looking it seemed to be pretty new with the paint coming off in my hands. This put me off the car immediately and having a look around the garage I was unable to see the second car or anything else that caught my attention.

So getting home I watched Doctor Who and was all set to watch Broken Flowers but fell asleep minutes before it started only to wake up just after it had ended - why does that happen?

Went to see THE INCREDIBLE HULK at the local cinema last night and after getting over my initial anger at being charged £5 for the ticket (I really was glad I had bought my own popcorn with me).

I can remember watching the old television series every Saturday afternoon and was disappointed with the Hulk film which was released back in 2003. This new movie however is a completely different story we are not taken back and given the story of how Bruce Banner, played by Edward Norton (and what a great job) became the Hulk. Instead during the opening credits we see the failed experiment and the aftermath we then go forward in time and catch up with Banner who has been moving from place to place avoiding the authorities and doing casual jobs. It was very nice to see that that the film makers played homage to the late Bill Bixby who had stared in the original Hulk television series (he appears on a television show as Banner is flicking through the channels) we also get to see cameos from Lou Ferrigno who was the original Hulk and from Stan Lee which you come to expect from Marvel adaptations. Another nice touch was the use of the classic theme tune, I only noticed it once but it really did strike a cord.

Back to the film, as I have already said Norton was a great choice to play Banner and we join him and learn that he has been taking steps to keep his anger under control and to find a cure and you just know that this control is going to be tested to the limit before we get to see the alternative side of Bruce Banner. However General Ross (William Hurt) has other ideas and wants to be able to use the secrets locked in Banner to create super soldiers and with the assistant of Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) they go after Banner…

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This film is spectacular and superb in every way, with good effects (I could be picky if I really wanted) and plenty of action it is a must see film and certainly one that I shall be adding to my collection when it comes out on DVD. Some of the scenes were pretty scary so maybe not one to take your younger children along to see.

As always been a little slack when it comes to updating this thing, I had a good birthday (was very surprised to get a personalised card from the bank). As two other friends (Andrew and John) were also going to be turning thirty at around the same time big plans were going to be made to celebrate this milestone birthday, however plans change and we ended up going to Heatherton Activity Park near Tenby. The plan was to spend a few hours there taking part in the various activities before heading to Swansea for a night out. With Heatherton Activity Park you don't pay to enter but you do need to pay for any of the activities that you want to do, I would suggest one of the activity credit passes as they tend to work out cheaper. I did think that after half an hour we would have used up all of our credits (we got the 10 credit pass) and maybe it would have if we had not decided to try our luck on the pitch and putt, this activity cost three credits and could take about 2-3 hours. We did not play for that long as none of us were really any good and it had started to rain but when the scores were counted up I came out as the winner.

Next was the karts and again another activity that cost three credits, because they run the karts for adults and children we had to wait a few minutes before being able to race and I have to say that the karts were pretty fast, normally you would expect them to be rather lack lust. I thought that John had the one kart that was slow (there is always one) but apparently it was just his driving. We also managed to get in the pistols and the laser clay shot and archery each costing just one credit.

How does that old saying go, something about time flying when your having fun!

Well on the 3rd June 1978 (thirty years ago for those that can't count) in West Wales General Hospital I came into the world and well been living. I am sure that most people from time to time will stop and wonder if they could have lived their life so far better. I am sure no one wants to get to their deathbed and have regrets about the things they never got around to do or places they wanted to visit.

So 30 years have passed and I am still living in Carmarthen, looking back on the last thirty years, I have already started recording details of my life on this site (this is currently being rewritten with a load more information and memories and I have also began work on my life after I left Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in 1997 as a part of my 1001 project) I have no idea when this will be completed but it is something that I have been trying to do for the last few years as a sort of aid to when I get really old and start losing my memory.

You might come across people who when they were 18 or 21 had some sort of idea of where they wanted to be with their lives by the time they got to 30 but I was not one of those people, heck when I was 18 I considered retail work the way to go with my career, I seem to remember in school thinking that people would always need food and clothes so it would be a safe job - Today a job in retail would fill me with dread.

Queen Elizabeth Cambria comprehensive school was established in 1978 previously the building was the old girls grammar school and had opened its doors back in 1958, I was a pupil at this school from September 1989 until July 1997 and during the years since I have left there have been a great many changes. I suppose the biggest change was the announcement that Cambria and the neighboring secondary school in the town (Maridunum) would be merging and housed in a new purpose built school building. A few years ago both schools lost there own identity and became QE High, Cambria becoming known as the upper campus and Maridunum housing the lower campus. This new school building has been constructed on the playing fields at the Cambria campus and with it due to open its doors for the new term in September the two old schools will need to be demolished. On Saturday 24th May the school PFA organised an open afternoon which gave past pupils the chance to revisit their school days and walk the corridors one last time.

With these sorts of events you never know what sort of response you will get or what to expect, the article in the Carmarthen Journal had mentioned that there would be guided tour of the school and not much else. On arriving at the school there seemed to be quite a few people already there and once signed in and with a sticker with my name and years at the school I was all set. The school was open from 1pm - 5pm and they had attempted to have some sort of structure to the day with a programme of events but I felt this was ill advised as pre-event advertising had not made any mention of this and as a result the "welcome" which was billed to start at 2.30pm ran late as they were wanting to wait for as many past pupils as possible. They did have a few displays and even though I like my history I felt that a lot of the displays related to the time that the school had been a girls grammar school and even before the school of my generation had been built. I suppose this was down to the fact that the people organising the event had been pupils of the school pre-Cambria and I suppose over the last couple of years as the teachers who taught me have left and been replaced with new teachers that have little knowledge or interest in the more recent history of the old school. The principle guests were the two former head teachers of the school, Miss M M Wooloff (1960 - 1983) and Dr W A Evans (1983 - 2005) I don't really know why they were invited as they did not actually do anything but I am sure that the past pupils would have liked the chance to catch up with them.

I was surprised however that a lot of old teachers did not turn up, speaking to the current head teacher apparently they had been invited, of course the ones that did turn up were the ones that you always knew would turn up to such an event. More surprising was the lack of pupils from the more recent years to attend as the majority of the people who had come back to take a look around the school were from the time it had been a girls grammar school. I suppose those pupils who left the school over the past ten to twenty years did not feel the need to return for one last look around the school, maybe they would rather keep the memories of the school the way they remember it as I have mentioned at the start of this entry a lot has changed over the years since I left the school so yes it was good to visit old classrooms and remember the times spent in them but those classrooms have changed so much that all you really had was your memories.

It does seem a shame that a school that has existed since 1958 will soon make way for a bus bay and car park for the new Queen Elizabeth High

It has been a long time in coming but every time I have seen a preview of the new Indiana Jones film and that classic musical score starts it gets me longing to see the actual film. In fact as most of the early previews were just scenes from the old films I have to confess that it is the music that makes me smile.

Some people might think that after "The Last Crusade" Indiana Jones should have hung up his Fedora but as that old saying goes you cannot please all of the people all of the time.

With Harrison Ford reprising his role as Indiana Jones (I don't think they could ever have made it without him) the Germans have been replaced as the villains of the piece by the Russians with Cate Blanchett playing Irina Spalko.

One thing I have always liked about the films is the fact that the Paramount logo would always start off the action with a little snippet of story that does not greatly relate to the rest of the film. In Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull we do get to see the Paramount logo blend in to the scene - However unlike previous films in the series we are introduced into the action straight away (in fact it is a good few minutes into the film before we first get to see Indiana Jones). Of course when you do see the silhouette of Indiana putting on the Fedora you just want to cheer, or at least I did but with a full cinema I doubt it would have gone down well. I don't want to spoil the film for anyone so if you want to know more about the plot you know what to do show

Personally I think Indiana Jones is a great character and I always enjoy watching the films. This film was good but not as good as the previous films, in fact I would say it was in a completely different league, everyone knows with these types of film that you have to give a little leeway when it comes to story lines but I felt this story was just not believable as the other films - that said I will still get the DVD when it comes out.

Would you believe I don't have any sort of freezer, I have a fridge supplied by the landlord but that does not have a freezer compartment and I have pondered the idea of getting one for quite some time as I think it would be more cost effective with food in the long run. A few weeks back when we had the warm weather I fancied some ice cream but because of my lack of suitable facilities to store it I cannot justify getting the larger better value packs as everything frozen I get has to be used very quickly. Looking at the types of freezers available I could either get a tabletop freezer or for an extra £10 an ordinary freezer, I have decided that even thought my room is small it would make better financial sense to get the normal sized freezer.

So today spent a little time cleaning up my room, it has been a while since I last mentioned cleaning my room and generally speaking since I had my last major sort out a few months ago it has remained pretty constant. I think this is the problem as the last time I had a clean out I got rid of a lot of videos (with the car boot sale) and other larger stuff. Today I was faced with little things that don't really have a home anywhere so I either have to bin it or find a home for it and no I will not bin things just because I have no where to keep them!

I have bought a few shelves and they still need to be put up so maybe when I get around to doing that they can be used to free up some space, or make better use of the space I already have. When I get back tonight I will have to sort out my card making stuff as that seems to be spreading out all over the place.

Also been looking at combination printers and scanners, I have a perfectly good scanner but it will not run on my laptop which uses Windows Vista and the scanner manufacture don't have updated driver software for it so since my last printer was recycled as no one wanted it at the car boot sale I decided that to save space I would get an all in one, and there is just so much choice but feel that I have limited it down to two - if anyone has any recommendations I am looking for a printer/scanner for less than £100 and is not too bulk or heavy as I may need to move it from time to time?