New Team Member

We have a new team member here at Johnny kashmirs random blog and he goes by the name of David Green he will be the new movie reviewer with also occasional reviews of video games some of you may have read his previous work on the site before.

I look forward to reading is work on a regular basis

Disappointment (a year in games by Dave Green)

Disappointment


For me this year games have been really disappointing with no real motivation to play the xbox at all. LA Noire had no really chemistry for me to be inspired to play.
Where as everyone is fighting for Xmas no.1
Here is the list of games to which I am looking forward to:

Gears of War 3 (20 sept)
Skyrim (11 nov)
Batman Arkham City ( 20 oct)
Bioshock : infinite (31 dec)
Assassin Creed (31 dec)
Modern Warfare 3 (8 nov) 

To me modern warfare will be last as I have no investment in that franchise , but the other games are 6 – 60 hours worth of play so why has no one released there game and tried to get one of these out in summer and have a great hit instead of competing for the same audience.

I am truly glad that Mass Effect 3 was pushed back to march for that exact reason. Bioware look after there customers I do believe. And if the previous Mass Effect games are anything to go by its going to be a huge game.

What games are you looking forward to this coming holiday period , leave a comment and let us know

Garden ! I Hate You

When we moved into our council flat the garden was in a absolute state , 4/5ft grass , weeds , a bramble bush that took over about half the actual garden space , in short it was a bloody nightmare to even contemplate getting out there .

After a few months I made the executive decision to give it ago with a lot of help from my mate Dave we started to make some in road in to it 

after the first day of clearing 

it kind of stayed in that state for about a year before i go round to clearing away the bramble bush , that was a whole day in it self .

Next we decided to tidy up the path to get to the actual garden , we turned over all the soil , laid weed control fabric and then put down a load of pea shingle.

the shingled pathway 

we then moved on to turning over all the soil in the actual garden , so with two weeks booked of work i set about it , with help from my wife , brother in law and again Dave we got it all turned and laid more weed control and tarpaulins to try and combat the weeds and grass returning .

Half way there 

almost all turned and covered now 

The next step was to get stones to cover it , we thought 2 Tons would be enough to do it all 

2 Tons down 

How wrong we were 2 tons only covered little over half of it so 2 more tons were ordered along with 20 paving slabs to make a patio area 

4 tons down 

the view from the kitchen window 

so now the main part of it is done and down I'm very pleased with my self for the what has been achieved , all that is left to do now is create another flower bed like the one at the bottom of the garden and finish off the patio .

once its all done i will of course update you all on how it looks

Twitter's #FF

For those of you not on twitter every Friday there is a hashtag event called Follow Friday or #FF for short the idea of this is for you to use the #ff to tell your followers of people they should follow .

I'm not entirely sure of it's effectiveness as it never seems to get me any new followers i tend to pick them up randomly during the week but it may work for others , anyway if you are on Twitter follow me @RossBell1984 and check out my Follow Fridays every week for this week they are:

convictdave , keridel , wetalkgames ,iLewis87 , m16robinson ,dasharpshooters , Thomkirwin , nodqdotcom , TheSquareBall & Kitcho14

D.I.Y

Now I've never been very good at diy hey that's what dads are for right ! but ever since Ive moved in to the flat with my wife I've been trying to do more of it my self . I'm getting pretty good although i do think that i should invest in a actual spirit level rather than using the iPhone app spirit level which I'm sure is not calibrated properly as a just today i helped my friend Dave out by putting up some shelves which to the human eye look a little shall we say wonky but according to my iPhone it was level as long as things don't fall off them i suppose they serve there purpose though.

But i shall continue to plug away at it I'm sure ill get to the dad level one day , Heres hoping anyway