Well Alton towers have got back to me about my t shirt printing idea and they are thinking of starting this summer season.

They are buying direct from the t shirt manufacturers such as Gildan and Fruit of the Loom. They are looking at charging a low price per unit, and doing all the t shirt printing within the booths that do the printed photos. They are only offering T shirts for the time been and if the campaign is successful then they will expand in to other printed items.

They are saying that it will be around a 15 minute wait from your photo bee picked to it been ready to wear on your day out.

I can’t wait to see what the t shirts will look like, hopefully they’ll be really fancy and graphical like only Alton Towers could do.

Well I got an email from my dad yesterday saying that he’d received his box of rolling papers a few days ago, he was over moon as I’d sent him two boxes and not just the one like I’d told him about. They should hopefully last him a while unless he sells the second box on to a friend to make a little bit of cash.

I’ve kind of dropped off watching the Olympics, I was right into watching it but I just haven’t had time this week, and now I can’t get back into it I’ve seen bits of curling but not like I would of been watching.

The weekend should hopefully be quite, but it never really turns out how its planed so I don’t know why I am thinking it’s going to be quite.

I’d like to go to Alton Towers again but in the summer when it’s a little warmer, I know though that I’d be trading in the nicer weather for longer queues though. Maybe I go with my idea of t shirt printing on some of their merchandise.
Actually it’s probably better to email them when I think about it.

I’m just looking through my window at work now and its starting to snow, I’m so glad it’s been raining beforehand so the snow won’t lay.

So I’m stuck in the bus station and all there is to hand to pass the time while the driver of the 117 nips off to the toilet or buy a pastie or whatever is the ’style’ section of The Sunday Times.

Apparently, it’s London Fashion Week and my eyes were fair boggled by the ’styles’ on offer. Weird angular chicks wearing weird angular clothes with too-prominent cheekbones and zany eye makeup. I can’t say all that appeals to me.

The men weren’t much better, decked out in clobber that no self-respecting man North of, say, Hemel Hemstead would be seen dead in. You see the occasional fashion victim down in town wearing an indoor scarf and drainpipe jeans.

I sometimes think that my dad had the right idea: his traditional Asian robes literally never dated as they’ve  been much the same for centuries I imagine. 

In other news, the £100 ghd straighteners I blogged about a few weeks ago? Well it transpires that my wife doesn’t much care for them after all. Perhaps it’s just because the first time she tried them she managed to burn her ear, but pretty much they’ve sat unloved and mostly unused ever since. At that kind of outlay I wonder if a new wife might be a cheaper bet.

(If you’re reading this babes… love you!)

I had the weekend all to myself as my wife was at a massage parlour in Manchester as part of a hen party and the kids were at their grandparents. So as I don’t get a lot of chance to watch what I want on the TV I decided to chill out and watch Everton v Manchester United. Not a great game, but Everton did manage to win 3-1 blowing the title race open once more.

After the match a couple of my friends came round and we had a few beers whilst playing Fifa 10 on the Xbox, I won of course as my friends are PES players and don’t normally play Fifa. I couldn’t be bothered to cook so ordered a pizza from my local takeaway and watched some random TV on Saturday night till I went to bed.

Sunday was much the same, watched the football and some documentaries until my wife came home. She had a great time at the massage parlour and we had a bite to eat before picking up the kids from my parents.

My kids enjoyed getting spoilt by the grandparents so all in all a great weekend.

I can’t believe that we are half way through this week all ready. My dad’s asked me to send him over some rolling papers as his friend over in India has been using Rizla and they pay a high premium to get it, so it work out cheaper for me to send him some.

I’ve just bought 2 new games for the xbox 360, Grand Theft Auto 4 / IV and Need for Speed Pro Street. I’ve done a few missions on Grand Theft Auto 4 and I’m pretty impressed so far, it’s one of those games that i can see me getting hooked on easily.

I bought Need for Speed Pro Street last night for £9.99. This game again impressed me but the driving style isn’t very realistic the cars are very twitchy but I do like the game playing style of different types of racing from drift to drag.

I did buy Far Cry a few weeks back but it’s a bit difficult for me, i only bought it because i’d played the demo on the PC and really enjoyed it.

I was round a friend’s house on Friday night having a few beers and a general catch up, and he was saying how he has started playing a bit of online poker. He says he made about £20 last week over the £15 he put in his account. He was trying to get me to sign up to play online poker so that we can play against each other when we’re both online.

Alton Towers was great till rained slightly during the morning, but we soon dried out as they have these drying units similar to posh swimming pools. We paid around £2 to use them but they dried you off really quickly. The afternoon was better still as it was slightly warmer and the sun was out so the weather was perfect.

The queues weren’t that bad either, Nem was around 20 minutes and so was Air, Oblivion was around 10 as we went at lunch time.
Lunch wasn’t all that expensive and probably only cost me around £15 which was less than I thought. We probably spent around 7 hours there and even managed to get on some rides twice.

I’m taking my nephews to Alton Towers tomorrow A: because it’s cheap and B: Because I love it their it’s the best our country has to offer.

I think that the Alton Towers merchandise range is really good and well marketed in the themed shops, When I was younger I when and got a oblivion key ring and the middle spun how cool. I know that they take photos of you when you’re on the ride but I’m not sure if the Alton Towers do any t shirt printing, I think it would be cool if you could have your ride photos put on a t shirt. My Kids would love an oblivion t shirt with their funny faces on.

Check my mock up below

Its a while since I’ve been and Alton towers may offer this type of merchandise but if they don’t they should, I mean £9.99 for printed t shirt would be great. I’m sure they could do it for most of their big rides like Air, Hex, Rita.

I’m hoping it should only take me around 1hr ½ to get to Alton Towers. What will be expensive is food, I’m sure that the likes of McDonald’s will add a small premium to all of their meals so getting lunch is likely to cost as much as getting in.

I’m planning on going on wet rides first so we hopefully dry out. I know the kids will only moan at the queue times if there over 20 minutes, I know that the log flume seems to have a short queue but because there’s nothing to look at it seems to take ages to get on to the ride.

I had bit of a win at the weekend on the horses, so I booked the other half in to get her hair done. She came back and she had some highlights done and bit of a chop, anyway I gave her £100 thinking this would be enough, well it would of been but she fell in to the age old trap of buying some saloon shampoos which are really expensive at around £20 a bottle. So she managed to buy two bottles, shampoo and then a conditioner so that’s £40 leaving only £60 for her hair so she ended up going about £10 over the £100 I gave her which she paid for herself.

The good news is that has received his tobacco tin and blunts that i sent him a few days ago.

I won about £500 on the horses the other day so i still have a little bit left for myself well £400 actually, I’m not 100% sure what I’m going to do with the rest yet but I’m sure I’ll be to spend it somehow.

We lost our pool game last night my doubles game was well played by the opposition, as both only I and my partner only got 1 visit to the table. My singles games was ok but it was bit of a lucky game for my opponent.

I sent my dad’s birthday present on Friday I sent it via royal mail. Hopefully it should be there within a few days, I’ve already rung him and said it might be a tad late.

I decided to buy him a pack of blunts as well which gives him another option for smoking. I’ve got him some flavoured blunts from the original blunt wrap company, i got him rum, whiskey and mojito flavours. They should keep him going for a few months well that’s if he doesn’t smoke them all over his birthday.

To behonest I bought a pack for myself as I got a deal on them.

Last week rushed by for me, I was busy at work sorting everything out, and home was even worse car needed M.O.T’ing which it got an advisory on; also I had to buy brakes first so that was £250.

Hopefully this week will be slightly cheaper and less stressful, but we all know how quickly things can change.

Hopefully I’ll be able to update you on the Blunts that I bought later in the week if I get chance to have a smoke

My wife has just bought a new Dualit hand mixer and decided to write a review about it for my blog. It is her first post so be nice:

I’ve just used my new Dualit hand mixer for the first time and I have to say I am very impressed the robust design which makes it very good to use. I decided to buy a Dualit hand mixer because I have previously bought other kitchen gadgets in the same range and I found them to be very durable also I like the retro look that Dualit offer so this mixer matches my other gadgets well.

Although it is on the higher end of the scale price wise you do get so much more for your money than other cheaper hand mixers, it comes with two multipurpose oversize flat beaters, two dough hooks and one balloon whisk ideal for a range of cooking and baking needs. It also has five different speeds, manual retractable power cord for easy storage and a convenient beater ejector lever for easy release. Also during use the beater is not too noisy compared to cheaper mixers I have had in the past, I also found the handle easy to grip and use and it was not too heavy ideal if you have a lot to mix over a long period of time.

I used my mixer to make meringues, not the easiest of things to make however I found that I managed to get plenty of air into my egg whites when using the balloon whisk attachment, something I have found hard to do in the past by hand. It didn’t take long for soft peaks to form when using the mixer and when they came out of the oven they were perfect, all in all my first use of my mixer has been very successful.