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Saturday, 21 June 2008
I Am The Source of Knowledge
I'm back from the longest period of absence in the history of this blog. I've been busy doing the following:- Preparing for exams
- Thinking
- Working on my Euphony business
I've been thinking a lot about everything lately. Getting involved with the Euphony business has put me in a place where I'm spending time with people from a whole range of backgrounds, and similarly to the parkour community, this is a great way of getting everyone's ideas together and sharing thoughts with strangers. There's a great emphasis on personal development, which, I feel in a very general sense, is basically my life purpose. Everyone I'm involved with has their own attitude to life and to business, and feel that listening to people and really thinking about what they are talking about can be a great way of self-improvement. I've been attending various conferences, seminars and training sessions with a range of people in the business, and I've been given some great talks, great advice and really encouraging and inspiring sessions.
The reason for this post (other than to get back into the swing of things) was meant to be about wikipedia, but it seems to have taken a minor segment of the post, but I'm not changing the title now, I like it, it sounds cool! Anyway, I was doing some random browsing earlier and found that on the Lisses article on wikipedia gives a source for its information, the source being a blog post entitled Trip To Lisses 2007 written by Ben Nuttall. That's me.
I thought it was pretty cool how someone had come across my site in their research and thought that it was a reasonable source of information. It's not like my site is the sole source of information about lisses and parkour, so it's not like I could have written any old rubbish and someone would have used it as the truth. It's also weird how I've had 3 people contact me in the last 2 weeks, from 2 different continents, all asking me how to get from Paris to Lisses, which hotel to stay in and for general information about Lisses. I've hardly had anyone ask me about that until the other week, and then I get two more within a matter of days. Weird. I wrote an extensive reply and sent it to the other two guys, I think I'll upload it as a web page and stick it in the site as a parkour resource.
I have lots planned for this Summer. I go on holiday to the Spanish Pyrenees in about a month, which I'm really looking forward to. But while I'm here at home (until I move out in September for uni), I have plenty of tasks to be getting on with, including redesigning this site completely. Hopefully I'll have a new site up and running by the end of Summer. As well as changing the layout of the site, I intend to revolutionise the content by taking a leaf out of my friend Joe's book and try to post at least once a week. So far I've been sticking to about one a month on average, only posting when something amazing happens, but wouldn't it be nice if I could have something to write about every week? I'll be keeping posts much shorter and much more to-the-point in the hope that more people will actually read the posts. Please give feedback in comment or email form, I want to know what you think of the site and I want to know when you read a post. Be back soon.
Labels: Featured, Internet, Lisses, Parkour
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 18:35 
Sunday, 20 January 2008
Place de Chevreuse - Parkour Pilgrimage Preview
Here is a short preview of a long-awaited Parkour Pilgrimage Video by TK17. The video is made up of many traceurs' Lisses trips and will be around 70 minutes when complete and will feature action, interviews, history and a load of great stuff like that. The preview only features a small section of the action, all around the white walls area of Lisses near the school. It features clips of me from my Lisses video and Sam who was with me on that very same trip, his video.
The video's going to be shown to David Belle in March for approval and should be publically available soon after that! I'll keep you posted.
Read about the project at p.net
The video's going to be shown to David Belle in March for approval and should be publically available soon after that! I'll keep you posted.
Read about the project at p.net
Labels: Featured, Lisses, Parkour, Travels
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 02:34
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Lisses Google Quest
Remember when I told you about the guy who found the message that Danny and Paul had left for me on the Dame Du Lac in Lisses? Well I decided to leave my own message for another traceur (in the same spot) in the optimistic hope that someone would find it, Google me and send me a picture of the message at the Dame, and it would be cool to be contacted by them on the grounds of them having found a message of mine in France.
This evening, I was added by a traceur called Mattias Odh from Skövde (betwen Stockholm and Gothenburg) in Sweden. He told me he found my message on the Dame, I thought he meant he'd found the message that Danny and Paul had left for me but it turns out he'd found the one that I'd left myself. Check it out:
It's turning into quite a quest, this whole Lisses / Secret Message / Google thing we've got going on! I'm loving it.
Mattias said he put the message back for someone else to find so maybe this is not the end of the quest...
Oh and here's a crazy video of Mattias and his friend Hugo:
A couple of photos that were taken on Danny's camera that I didn't have when I published my Lisses Trip post:
This evening, I was added by a traceur called Mattias Odh from Skövde (betwen Stockholm and Gothenburg) in Sweden. He told me he found my message on the Dame, I thought he meant he'd found the message that Danny and Paul had left for me but it turns out he'd found the one that I'd left myself. Check it out:
It's turning into quite a quest, this whole Lisses / Secret Message / Google thing we've got going on! I'm loving it.
Mattias said he put the message back for someone else to find so maybe this is not the end of the quest...
Oh and here's a crazy video of Mattias and his friend Hugo:
A couple of photos that were taken on Danny's camera that I didn't have when I published my Lisses Trip post:
Labels: Featured, Google, Internet, Lisses, Parkour
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 21:51
Monday, 3 September 2007
Trip to Lisses 2007
For those of you who don't know, Lisses is a suburb of Paris and it is where Parkour began. David Belle, the founder of the French discipline, lived there and began to develop the art of movement from his background in gymnastics, athletics and martial arts.
La Dame Du Lac
Me, Danny and Scott met up in Sheffield bus station and got the coach to London, where we met up with Sam and Kai and got the Eurostar to Paris, where we got a couple of trains (which were double decker, might I add!) to Evry Courcouronnes and tried to find our way to the hotel in Lisses. After an hour or so of walking through the Parisian suburbs in the dark, I was starting to get a little concerned, we went on...and on...and on...until suddenly Danny shouted out in ecstacy "it's there - the Dame Du Lac!" which I took me be a good sign immediately, seeing as we'd been told that the hotel was a short walk from the Dame. (Note: the Dame Du Lac (Lady of the Lake) is a man-made architectural climbing structure in the Park Du Lac (Park of the Lake), which is commonly used to practise parkour on)
La Dame Du Lac
We eventually found the hotel and sorted our rooms out, showered and went out in search for food, the venture lasted hours and we found nowhere open (this was a Sunday evening) so we went back to the hotel, depressed and starved, and treated ourselves to one of Sam's cereal bars each. Not a great start. Our first day of training started with going to the Dame Du Lac and seeing it in daylight in all its magnificent glory for the very first time. There was something bothering me all day; I wasn't in the mood for training, I felt tired, aggravated and my ankle wasn't comfortable with me doing much else than walking. The first day passed and I was surprisingly depressed to say I was in Lisses.
Ville De Lisses
The second day came and after a warm up and a jog round the town I felt fresh and rearing to go! After doing a few cat pass precisions I'd seen the day before I was feeling incredible, exactly the way I knew I should have felt. The whole day's training was great. The next few days went by and we hit all the spots around the town we were aware of and we were all simply in awe at how perfect the place was, it's like it was meant to be that parkour was created and practised there - everything about Lisses and its surrounding areas is perfect for practising parkour movements and performing natural training; the architecture of the flats, the streets, the rocks and trees that were positioned as though they were meant to be used for this purpose, the forest which has about a dozen different man-made training resources placed around the course of the path - pull-up bars, monkey bars, balance beams, stepping-stone tree-stumps - like a £40-a-month gym membership all made from wood and free for anyone to use anytime day or night!
Lisses flats
After a few days of being undecided whether I'd make it to the top of the Dame, I conquered my fear and went for it, I was shaking like mad when I got to the platform at the top and Sam and Scott met me up there, I felt awesome for having made it but had an anxious scared feeling of being up there and having to come down, as I knew it would be even harder to get down than come up. Both up and down are a huge mental challenge. I'd even go as far to say doing it was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, purely on the mental block factor. Oh and it was bloody windy up there! Anyway I took it carefully and slowly and obviously since I'm sat here telling you about it I made it down no problem. I went back up again the next day, which was much easier, as was coming down, although I still had to be cautious and take it easy. The day after I went up twice more, each time felt more comfortable. I only went up the left hand side, so next year I think the challenge will be to try out one or two of the alternative routes.
Half way through the week we went into Evry and saw that the spots there were next to the station we walked to the hotel from on the first night (it took us about 30 minutes this time, the more direct route!), and we found the University spot next to the Cathedral (which is the weirdest looking Cathedral I've ever seen! See picture below). Anyway, Evry has the sickest spots! Just two massive areas next to each other with a whole range of jumps, vaults and combinations to try out! I managed to do the famous cat pass precision with the three walls where you clear the middle wall, and I also made a sizey level cat pass precision next to it.
Evry Cathedral
One night we decided to go and check out the forest, and did some light conditioning on the man-made structures, we did cat crawls, balances, precisions, runs across the tree stumps, and literally "hung out" on the monkey bars. We returned the following afternoon to see what it was like by daylight and had great fun on the exercise equipment, and even joined on the back of a French running group's workout session!
One day when we started at the Dame, as I was walking along the side of the lake I spotted a dead fish floating at the side of the water, and decided I wanted to "fish" it out, so I reached in with sticks and things to try and lure it closer to the edge for me to pick up out, and after a good fuve minutes' hard work trying to get it close enough to get hold of it, I managed to get it in my hand, then I decided to take it with me up to the top of the Dame. I put it in a carrier bag, put it in my pocket and set off for the top! I left it up there for someone else to find it amazed shock and confusion, and the next evening I was talking to the Portuguese guys from the hotel about how I hate Urban Freeflow and it turned out 3 of them were part of UF, which sounds like it could have been awkward but they understood my reasoning, and anyway, one of them mentioned they'd been to the Dame that afternoon, so I asked if he'd been to the top and he said he couldn't go to the Dame without going to the top, and I asked if there was anything up there and he said in exclamation "Yeh! There was a FISH up there!" and I laughed and said I put it there. He said he thought a bird had flown it there or something. Adventures with me with the fish are featured in the video. I have to say I think I'm the first person to have taken a fish up to the top of the Dame Du Lac.
Me with a fish on top of the Dame Du Lac
On our last day of training, the Saturday, we trained in Lisses in the morning and I managed to pull off a laché-type manoeuvre that I saw Dave do in the Northern Parkour Lisses Trip 2006 video, which you'll see in the video at 01:50. Then we headed into Evry and bumped into some local traceurs we'd trained with earlier in the week, then saw a couple of guys who train in Evry with the Yamakasi. I was telling one of them about the guy who Danny and Paul met last year who claimed to be Yann Hnautra (co-founder of the Yamakasi, as seen in their films) and that they met him again this year, and he said that they were aware of the fake, and just then, a bulked up guy came round the corner and he said "oh, here's Yann". It was the real Yann. His wife came along with their 2 year-old son and I asked him if his son does parkour and he said he does a bit. Yann played with his son and then got his guitar out and started performing like a busker.
During a bit of training with the guys we'd met earlier, Danny had done a cat pass precision and the guy we were with liked it and tried it a few times before making it, and Danny turned to us all with a smug look on his face and said "I'm better than the Yamakasi" and we all burst out laughing and explained that this guy wasn't part of the Yamakasi, he just trains with them, he's been training just a few years like us as opposed to the 20 years the Yamakasi have been practising!
I tried to find the secret message at the Dame, featured in the post before this one, and discovered that it had been replaced by the guy who found it with his own message, so I took it home as a keepsake and replaced it with my own message. Cool, eh?
Me on the school roof in Lisses - note the customary Blogger t-shirt
We were gutted to have to leave on the Sunday, but it had been such a rewarding trip - we'd all learned so much, achieved so much and experienced so much, it was everything we hoped it would be and more. The only disappointment for me was that we didn't meet and train with many other people. We briefly trained with the local French guys, the Portuguese UF guys, one Polish guy and the Yamakasi followers, but no-one else, not even from the UK. I was expecting the place to be flooded with traceurs from all over Europe. I was hoping that David Belle would come home from the Airwaves Parkour Event in Berlin and be out training in Lisses, but we heard from the guy in Evry that he was visiting his sister in Iceland after the thing in Berlin :(. Maybe next year I'll get to meet him...
We had to head off early on Sunday morning to give us plenty of time to get to Paris to get the Eurostar back to London, so we didn't get chance to train in Lisses before departing. We were lucky with the trains and got to Paris with 3 hours to spare so we did some buildering and skimmed rocks on the river until it was time to go. We then had a couple of hours spare in London before our coach so we trained around imax and South Bank which made me realise how much I'd love to go to train in London, it truly is a great place for parkour. We got so carried away with training that the time flew and when I checked the time we only had half an hour before our coach left, so we had to run for a taxi...or get the Underground...or anything to get there as soon as we could, and after 15 minutes of trying to work out the quickest way, and then realising there was a huge queue for taxis, we ran through and bought Underground tickets, sprinted to get on a tube, it was only a few stops (Piccadilly to Victoria) but included a changeover, and what didn't help was that there was a closure on the stop we needed to get to, so we had to go an extra stop before changing, and then when we finally got to Victoria, a couple of minutes after the coach departure time, I saw the coach to Sheffield down the road, sprinted to catch up with it at the traffic lights and asked if we could get on, but they'd filled it up, I guess they sold our seats off. We went into the station to see if we could get on another coach and we could get another one an hour later but we had to pay £15 each for the tickets, which was more than we'd paid online for the return journey! We managed to get home on that next coach no problem.
La Dame Du Lac at Night
Enjoy the video:
If anyone would like any advice about a trip to Lisses, such as where and how to get the train from Paris to Lisses,or info on the hotel or whatever, please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Edit: I've posted the best of my photos from the trip to my Flikr Account. Check them out: flickr.com/bennuttall
La Dame Du Lac
Me, Danny and Scott met up in Sheffield bus station and got the coach to London, where we met up with Sam and Kai and got the Eurostar to Paris, where we got a couple of trains (which were double decker, might I add!) to Evry Courcouronnes and tried to find our way to the hotel in Lisses. After an hour or so of walking through the Parisian suburbs in the dark, I was starting to get a little concerned, we went on...and on...and on...until suddenly Danny shouted out in ecstacy "it's there - the Dame Du Lac!" which I took me be a good sign immediately, seeing as we'd been told that the hotel was a short walk from the Dame. (Note: the Dame Du Lac (Lady of the Lake) is a man-made architectural climbing structure in the Park Du Lac (Park of the Lake), which is commonly used to practise parkour on)
La Dame Du Lac
We eventually found the hotel and sorted our rooms out, showered and went out in search for food, the venture lasted hours and we found nowhere open (this was a Sunday evening) so we went back to the hotel, depressed and starved, and treated ourselves to one of Sam's cereal bars each. Not a great start. Our first day of training started with going to the Dame Du Lac and seeing it in daylight in all its magnificent glory for the very first time. There was something bothering me all day; I wasn't in the mood for training, I felt tired, aggravated and my ankle wasn't comfortable with me doing much else than walking. The first day passed and I was surprisingly depressed to say I was in Lisses.
Ville De Lisses
The second day came and after a warm up and a jog round the town I felt fresh and rearing to go! After doing a few cat pass precisions I'd seen the day before I was feeling incredible, exactly the way I knew I should have felt. The whole day's training was great. The next few days went by and we hit all the spots around the town we were aware of and we were all simply in awe at how perfect the place was, it's like it was meant to be that parkour was created and practised there - everything about Lisses and its surrounding areas is perfect for practising parkour movements and performing natural training; the architecture of the flats, the streets, the rocks and trees that were positioned as though they were meant to be used for this purpose, the forest which has about a dozen different man-made training resources placed around the course of the path - pull-up bars, monkey bars, balance beams, stepping-stone tree-stumps - like a £40-a-month gym membership all made from wood and free for anyone to use anytime day or night!
Lisses flats
After a few days of being undecided whether I'd make it to the top of the Dame, I conquered my fear and went for it, I was shaking like mad when I got to the platform at the top and Sam and Scott met me up there, I felt awesome for having made it but had an anxious scared feeling of being up there and having to come down, as I knew it would be even harder to get down than come up. Both up and down are a huge mental challenge. I'd even go as far to say doing it was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, purely on the mental block factor. Oh and it was bloody windy up there! Anyway I took it carefully and slowly and obviously since I'm sat here telling you about it I made it down no problem. I went back up again the next day, which was much easier, as was coming down, although I still had to be cautious and take it easy. The day after I went up twice more, each time felt more comfortable. I only went up the left hand side, so next year I think the challenge will be to try out one or two of the alternative routes.
Half way through the week we went into Evry and saw that the spots there were next to the station we walked to the hotel from on the first night (it took us about 30 minutes this time, the more direct route!), and we found the University spot next to the Cathedral (which is the weirdest looking Cathedral I've ever seen! See picture below). Anyway, Evry has the sickest spots! Just two massive areas next to each other with a whole range of jumps, vaults and combinations to try out! I managed to do the famous cat pass precision with the three walls where you clear the middle wall, and I also made a sizey level cat pass precision next to it.
Evry Cathedral
One night we decided to go and check out the forest, and did some light conditioning on the man-made structures, we did cat crawls, balances, precisions, runs across the tree stumps, and literally "hung out" on the monkey bars. We returned the following afternoon to see what it was like by daylight and had great fun on the exercise equipment, and even joined on the back of a French running group's workout session!
One day when we started at the Dame, as I was walking along the side of the lake I spotted a dead fish floating at the side of the water, and decided I wanted to "fish" it out, so I reached in with sticks and things to try and lure it closer to the edge for me to pick up out, and after a good fuve minutes' hard work trying to get it close enough to get hold of it, I managed to get it in my hand, then I decided to take it with me up to the top of the Dame. I put it in a carrier bag, put it in my pocket and set off for the top! I left it up there for someone else to find it amazed shock and confusion, and the next evening I was talking to the Portuguese guys from the hotel about how I hate Urban Freeflow and it turned out 3 of them were part of UF, which sounds like it could have been awkward but they understood my reasoning, and anyway, one of them mentioned they'd been to the Dame that afternoon, so I asked if he'd been to the top and he said he couldn't go to the Dame without going to the top, and I asked if there was anything up there and he said in exclamation "Yeh! There was a FISH up there!" and I laughed and said I put it there. He said he thought a bird had flown it there or something. Adventures with me with the fish are featured in the video. I have to say I think I'm the first person to have taken a fish up to the top of the Dame Du Lac.
Me with a fish on top of the Dame Du Lac
On our last day of training, the Saturday, we trained in Lisses in the morning and I managed to pull off a laché-type manoeuvre that I saw Dave do in the Northern Parkour Lisses Trip 2006 video, which you'll see in the video at 01:50. Then we headed into Evry and bumped into some local traceurs we'd trained with earlier in the week, then saw a couple of guys who train in Evry with the Yamakasi. I was telling one of them about the guy who Danny and Paul met last year who claimed to be Yann Hnautra (co-founder of the Yamakasi, as seen in their films) and that they met him again this year, and he said that they were aware of the fake, and just then, a bulked up guy came round the corner and he said "oh, here's Yann". It was the real Yann. His wife came along with their 2 year-old son and I asked him if his son does parkour and he said he does a bit. Yann played with his son and then got his guitar out and started performing like a busker.
During a bit of training with the guys we'd met earlier, Danny had done a cat pass precision and the guy we were with liked it and tried it a few times before making it, and Danny turned to us all with a smug look on his face and said "I'm better than the Yamakasi" and we all burst out laughing and explained that this guy wasn't part of the Yamakasi, he just trains with them, he's been training just a few years like us as opposed to the 20 years the Yamakasi have been practising!
I tried to find the secret message at the Dame, featured in the post before this one, and discovered that it had been replaced by the guy who found it with his own message, so I took it home as a keepsake and replaced it with my own message. Cool, eh?
Me on the school roof in Lisses - note the customary Blogger t-shirt
We were gutted to have to leave on the Sunday, but it had been such a rewarding trip - we'd all learned so much, achieved so much and experienced so much, it was everything we hoped it would be and more. The only disappointment for me was that we didn't meet and train with many other people. We briefly trained with the local French guys, the Portuguese UF guys, one Polish guy and the Yamakasi followers, but no-one else, not even from the UK. I was expecting the place to be flooded with traceurs from all over Europe. I was hoping that David Belle would come home from the Airwaves Parkour Event in Berlin and be out training in Lisses, but we heard from the guy in Evry that he was visiting his sister in Iceland after the thing in Berlin :(. Maybe next year I'll get to meet him...
We had to head off early on Sunday morning to give us plenty of time to get to Paris to get the Eurostar back to London, so we didn't get chance to train in Lisses before departing. We were lucky with the trains and got to Paris with 3 hours to spare so we did some buildering and skimmed rocks on the river until it was time to go. We then had a couple of hours spare in London before our coach so we trained around imax and South Bank which made me realise how much I'd love to go to train in London, it truly is a great place for parkour. We got so carried away with training that the time flew and when I checked the time we only had half an hour before our coach left, so we had to run for a taxi...or get the Underground...or anything to get there as soon as we could, and after 15 minutes of trying to work out the quickest way, and then realising there was a huge queue for taxis, we ran through and bought Underground tickets, sprinted to get on a tube, it was only a few stops (Piccadilly to Victoria) but included a changeover, and what didn't help was that there was a closure on the stop we needed to get to, so we had to go an extra stop before changing, and then when we finally got to Victoria, a couple of minutes after the coach departure time, I saw the coach to Sheffield down the road, sprinted to catch up with it at the traffic lights and asked if we could get on, but they'd filled it up, I guess they sold our seats off. We went into the station to see if we could get on another coach and we could get another one an hour later but we had to pay £15 each for the tickets, which was more than we'd paid online for the return journey! We managed to get home on that next coach no problem.
La Dame Du Lac at Night
Enjoy the video:
If anyone would like any advice about a trip to Lisses, such as where and how to get the train from Paris to Lisses,or info on the hotel or whatever, please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Edit: I've posted the best of my photos from the trip to my Flikr Account. Check them out: flickr.com/bennuttall
Labels: Featured, Lisses, Parkour, Travels
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 15:11
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Secret Message from Lisses...
Danny and Paul went on their Lisses (France) trip last week and had promised to leave me a sign of some sort that I would see or find when I go next week. Danny told me that he had left something written on paper in the tunnel part on the Dame Du Lac, and that I would have to know where it was to come across it.
This evening someone added me on msn, and I thought it would be the usual "I like parkour - how do I get started" that I get a lot of, but the guy said "hey - u must be the guy lol - 1 sec.... found something on the dame du lac..." (at which point I immediately guessed what he was referring to, and was shocked!) and then sent me this photo he had taken just a few days ago:
Hello Ben Nuttall. You've found your secret message. Have a good trip. :)
That is all that was written on the paper so the guy decided to Google my name in search for me, and he came across this site which contains my msn address.
I explained that Danny had arranged to leave something for me and he said that he put it back where it was hidden after having removed it for the photo. He said that it would have been nearly impossible to find unless you knew where it was hidden, and that it was just a coincidence that he came across it as he was leaning over to pass something to a mate.
I thought it was great of this guy to seek me out to send me the picture. It was weird for me to have been added by a random guy who just happened to have found the piece of paper I was planning to go looking for next week.
A picture of David Belle from Paul's Lisses trip blog post
We go on Sunday morning. We're all really looking forward to it! Me, Scotty, Little Danny, Sam and Kai.
This evening someone added me on msn, and I thought it would be the usual "I like parkour - how do I get started" that I get a lot of, but the guy said "hey - u must be the guy lol - 1 sec.... found something on the dame du lac..." (at which point I immediately guessed what he was referring to, and was shocked!) and then sent me this photo he had taken just a few days ago:
Hello Ben Nuttall. You've found your secret message. Have a good trip. :)
That is all that was written on the paper so the guy decided to Google my name in search for me, and he came across this site which contains my msn address.
I explained that Danny had arranged to leave something for me and he said that he put it back where it was hidden after having removed it for the photo. He said that it would have been nearly impossible to find unless you knew where it was hidden, and that it was just a coincidence that he came across it as he was leaning over to pass something to a mate.
I thought it was great of this guy to seek me out to send me the picture. It was weird for me to have been added by a random guy who just happened to have found the piece of paper I was planning to go looking for next week.
A picture of David Belle from Paul's Lisses trip blog post
We go on Sunday morning. We're all really looking forward to it! Me, Scotty, Little Danny, Sam and Kai.
Labels: Featured, Google, Internet, Lisses, Parkour
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 02:29
Sunday, 3 June 2007
Lisses, Facebook & Blog Neglect
I've been neglecting my blog for quite some time, mainly because I'm in the middle of exams at the moment and have been building up to them for some time. I did my Duke of Edinburgh Gold Expedition in the North York Moors in the Easter break, and I've yet to post the photos from the venture, but it's currently in my Drafts folder in Blogger so it should be here in a couple of weeks when I get my exams out of the way. Oh and did you see the updates to my contact box in the sidebar? >>>
I'd intended on going to Lisses this Summer, as I couldn't go last year, and I am hoping to get a trip sorted soon. Last week, Paul, whom I had planned to go with, announced the date of when he's going, and he's not back for Results Day, so I've decided to form my own group and go half a week earlier than them so that our trips overlap and I still manage to get back for Results. I wouldn't mind missing Results Day so much, but it's the last chance I get to see everyone together. Anyway, if you're interested in coming to Lisses with my group (and I know you!) then give me a shout and we'll see if we can come to an arrangement. I desperately want to go, I'd be gutted to miss out again.
I'd intended on going to Lisses this Summer, as I couldn't go last year, and I am hoping to get a trip sorted soon. Last week, Paul, whom I had planned to go with, announced the date of when he's going, and he's not back for Results Day, so I've decided to form my own group and go half a week earlier than them so that our trips overlap and I still manage to get back for Results. I wouldn't mind missing Results Day so much, but it's the last chance I get to see everyone together. Anyway, if you're interested in coming to Lisses with my group (and I know you!) then give me a shout and we'll see if we can come to an arrangement. I desperately want to go, I'd be gutted to miss out again.
The other thing is that I was persuaded to sign up to MySpace, to everyone's surprise, as I've been going on about how much it sucks for over a year now, but yeh I got the wrong impression and it seems that the people I'm associated with on there don't use it like emos, it's just another fun way of keeping in touch, keeping upto date with friends, sharing photos and stuff, so yeh it's alright.
- Add me: myspace.com/bennuttallwvu
- Add me: myspace.com/bennuttallwvu
Someone else persuaded me to sign up to Facebook, which I was rather confused about at first, but I've got used to the concept now, and as of yesterday, my opinion is that it's way better than MySpace, it's more mature and sophisticated (mostly) and is aimed at keeping in touch with people you knew from various events, schools and organisations throughout your life. It's not customisable like MySpace is, but in a way it's a really good thing as it maintains a standard interface and stylesheet throughout the whole site. You can add applications and join (or start your own) groups, and that will sound "typical social networking" to anybody who, like me, judged this sort of thing before I got to know about it, but yeh it's all pretty cool, it's useful, fun and a great way of keeping your friends right where you want them (if they want you to...).
- Add me: facebook.com/profile.php?id=500961862
- Add me: facebook.com/profile.php?id=500961862
Labels: Internet, Lisses, Parkour
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 15:39
