SEE YOU 1 Week On Monday

This could be my last post before my holiday since tommorow I will be real busy with stock takes and getting everything finished ready for my absence of one week.

Dolph is really slave driving me today so I wasnt even gonna post now but he has allowed me ten minutes or so to scoff down my sarnies and write a bit of my memoirs.

I feel good today, I done a lot of my packing last night and I just got to get the rest of my shopping tonight then ill be ready for Friday.

Of course I will do a full story of my holiday when I get back and will post it on to my sister site www.madmickstories.com and link it to here, it will be called "Enter The Dragon".

At work things are going good, Alf has had day off but no one has really noticed anything different except we dont have to lead him back to his desk when he has another of his Alzeimers episodes.

Dolph seems happy he is busy humming and singing in his office while he updates the training matrix and Father Bell is zooming around doing half a job here and there but leaving confusion in his wake.

At home Alan Titsmarsh (my brother), Wonderwood (my dad) and Battyeford Lill (my mum) all seem ok though it does resemble sometimes a lunatic asylum.

Yes life is ok and if I dont see you tommorow while I have my Fish and Chips I will see you one week on Monday... er bye then, will someone please turn off the light, right see you ... (sound of door closing and being locked... then silence)

Anadin Extra

Harry Potter keeps sending me these hillarious emails and this was from his latest batch of funny photos entitled "When adds tell the truth", of course its got to be one for the next Jungle Telegraph, not that Dolph is that bad really
So what have I got to moan about today, well the Ice Dragon is very much on my mind, you know in some ways I cant wait till Luke gets to sixteen, someone should of given me a major warning about the future, well maybe someone did but I chose not to listen.
No wonder I am in no hurry to repeat it all over again with some other lady, but I keep still seeing Veras at my AA meetings, she is a lovely girl but then my mind flashes forward to 16 years henceforth and there is this gigantic gob sproating profanities at me with breath filled with stale fags and alcohol fumes and I think well maybe Im ok as I am.
Tonight I will be packing ready for our holiday, we are going Friday night and I reckon I might arrive about 9pm and then we will be sleeping one night on my mates caravan floor before putting the tent up on Saturday which is when I have booked from.
Of course I will have to take Luke back on Sunday but I am going to try and persuade the Dragon to let him come back later than 6pm otherwise I will have to set off back about 330pm, for my next Holiday I will have to get agreement in writing I have been advised so well so be it.
If she rfuses to sign I will take her back to court and apply for Joint Custody like my friend Dwain Dibbly has with his son Mr Popple, though by the time something is decided Luke would be 14 so makes you wonder if its worth it.
Anyway I have no doubt it will all blow over, though I dont think Luke will foget his mums latest evil deed, its going to take something to top that one, when he gets older I doubt he will have much to do with her and I dont blame him.
As soon as Luke is 16 I will breath a huge sigh of relief that I dont need to have anything to do with her again.
So whats happening here at work, well I have just given my Questionaire to Dougie who is going to see Oswald at home over the weekend to give him a full haircut, that will of course be in the Issue No27 of the Jungle Telegraph but before that I have got my maga release "Enter The Dragon" all about our Holiday, which will of course be accompanied with a DVD.
I will be stocktaking a week early on Friday and so far this week I have come to work everyday on Sh*tehawk, we also had one of the lowest selling days yet, yesterday with just 14,236 but the day before had 90,488 and today looks like another 80-90000 seller so it was just probably a blip.
On the Selling League, our drivers hall of fame looks like this;
Mv Jun Position Name Quantity
▲ 5 1 Stumpy 71,480
▼ 1 2 Wurzel 56,952
> 3 3 Tito Santana 45,365
▲ 10 4 Ian Archers 38,080
>> NE 5 Trevor Archers 36,864
▼ 2 6 Harry Potter 35,021
>> NE 7 Wearry Willie 34,436
▲ 13 8 Piggys Friend 28,736
▼ 6 9 Bruce Forcythe 27,878
▲ 15 10 Dino Archers 27,648
▼ 7 11 Keith Chicken 19,612
▲ 40 12 John 484 19,612
▼ 8 13 Jason Rudge 19,612
▼ 4 14 Deuce Bigalow 19,333
>> NE 15 D&A 18,432
▲ 35 16 YJ56KGN 18,432
>> NE 17 X853JCS / Haze 10,848
>> NE 18 WT55AMT 10,848
>> NE 19 BV57EWR 10,396
>> NE 20 Maximum Moaner 10,396
Oh and finally it looks like Madonnas latest single "Give It 2 Me" will be at No6 this week, with that I will bid you all farewell until tommorow

Bowling Match No9

Heres the video footage from our Ninth match at Ravensknowle Park which I scored my personal highest score of the season so far, losing 19/21, I was actually 19 accross on the last end but lost a 2, its the closest Ive been to winning!
The Knight Rider lost for the first time this season and dropped from No1 to No2 with Magyar moving up into the pole position.
Of course I will miss this weeks match at Skemanthorpe, since I am on Holiday but will be back for our next match on 2nd August.
Last night I was chatting to my chronically depressed Schitzophrenic Brother called "Alan Titsmarsh", well I say chatting maybe that is rather over described adjective but well he said he "wouldnt mind" doing a bit of bowling so I have offered after the holiday to get him a set of bowls from ebay (I have just asked father bell our ebay director now as I speak) and take him to our Rabbits club on Thursday evening.
I am still angry at the Ice Dragon, but its only simmering now after speaking to my AA sponsor and my boss here at the lost world, Dolph Lungren, both of them encouraging me to see things from her side of the fence.
He pinched money - doesnt matter how much and whats more he lied about it, The Ice Dragon applied her punishment by taking away the one thing he was looking forward to, really hurting him, a painful and well remembered lesson indeed.
I dont see why he should be punished though in my time but the Ice Dragon doesnt take him anywhere so there is no way for her to punish him and making it hurt.
But the problem is going forward, I cant book an holiday because when I arrange it and she agrees she is still liable to use it has punishment meaning I am out of pocket again in paying for it.
Now I remain with one holiday left which I will get my solicitor to send a letter explaining the date and get her to confirm it, stupid really but its what you got to do when dealing with people like her who are vindictive
Anyway at AA I have finished my 4 week stint at Chairman Job, I enjoyed last night especially seeing my sponsor, I introduced him to Uncle Buck who he said looked much better than when he last saw him.
Well Ill see you all tommorow

Feel Like Crap

I am coming out in sympathy with Shadow today, feel like crap and could I hell as sleep last night, I did get to sleep just as the milkman was delivering our milk at 5:30 and the alarm woke me up again at 6:10.
This morning I arrived at work at 7am feeling just like I did when I used to drink, and now I could just fall asleep here at my desk, only tonight I have got my last week of chairing at our AA meeting, next week will be our Holiday.
Since the Ice Dragon would not let Luke come after all and this time I did pray for her in typical AA fashion but I just still could not believe she could be so mean and hard to her sons, The reason why he is being punished is because he spent £2 of her change when he went to shop for some milk for her and he failed to tell her he was on report for talking in his maths class.
She said when I dropped Luke off on Sunday that the money Luke took was taking away money from the rest of the family, she said this while guzzling on a can of lager and clearly to me the beer was doing the talking.
Anyway I walked away and I will bring Luke back on Sunday night of our Holiday, hes 13 1/2 now and is growing up fast, he also seems really down and forlorn, still its more important for the Ice Dragon to "win" her argument than her sons to have a holiday.
Yes I could push my court agreement, but whats the point, if I didnt work and was on benifits it would be free but while I go to work it would cost about £300 though my dad said he would gladly pay it, he added he could not understand why a mother would go to such lengths to stop a son from going on holiday.
But in AA style Im dropping it, no doubt Luke will resent his mum for her latest evil trick, one year back before I went to court, back in 2003 she didnt let me see him from Nov until January.
Yesterday in the field with the dogs I did pray for her but I know God knew I didnt mean it, really I feel sorry for her.
She called me evil, twisted and schemeing, with spit flying from her mouth...
I walked away.
Anyway its dinnertime here at the lost World now and I aint eaten anything yet.
I will see you all tommorow

So Long and thanks for all the silly names

I am afraid that Mad Mick has been taken away, clearly he wasnt very well, some say it was working at The Lost World for the last 3 years but as his psychiatrist I can confirm it was a number of contributing factors.
Going to University and becoming a social recluse started the ball rolling but it could have even been before that when his troubles began.
After Graduating with a lower second in Physics he got a job at his fathers works at Sellers and spent 9 years being institutionalised there, he also developed a big drinking habit which turned to alcoholism.
During that time he met the Ice Queen and had a son called Luke to her and this added further to his slow slide down the plughole.
Sellers got rid of him for writing silly newsletters about them but by some miracle he managed to get a job at a Brick Factory where his drinking reached epic preportions reaching a climax in 2004 when he was referred to AA by one of my colleagues.
One year later he was tranferred to the Lost World and had in the meantime managed to quit drinking, he started making up names for everyone he met, annoying his workmates, wagon drivers and friends with his crazy newsletters called The Jungle Telegraph and its sister The Bradley Telegraph.
Towards the end he was sat at his desk "colouring in" pictures of men in his fantasy world of magic pixies with his tongue out, dribbling everywhere, it was finally seen that the men in white coats should come and take him away.

Alf & Hyacinth

A picture of our Assistant Manager, Alf and his lovely wife Hyacinth when she came for Christmas dinner last christmas.
Alf aint here today hes away at the monthly accounts meeting so we may get to know something when he returns, Dolph our manager is on Holiday and of course Oswald Cobblepot is recovering from his hip operation so theres been just me Father Bell and Badger, Oswalds temporary replacement in the office today, well them two are rushing around so its just really been me in here.
I am still adding to my Madonna blog which you can see here, its a list of all her UK singles which I have spent ages collating into a 70+ page word document because I am a bit of a Madonna Fan.
Today we have been quite busy since there are 2 million bricks to be transferred out of our stocking yard because its full and taken down south to a place called Waingroves but at the rate we are putting on to stock that might give us 8-10 weeks of half unsold production.
Got bowling practise tonight and I have just finished a DVD of all the footage from our first 8 matches which I will give to some of the members tonight, I also got a AA meeting on Friday then it will be one week to our Holiday on Saturday and my last match for three weeks, I do hope I win.
Well I guess thats all there is to say and ill see you tommorow

Doom And Gloom

All this doom and gloom is starting to get to me now and my friend Shadow hasnt posted on my blog, you can imagine how many rumours are flying about with the recent announcements but I would of been naive to have thought with the credit crinch and housing market crash combined with the increase in the cost of fuel for the kilns that there wasnt going to be some repercusions.
Nothing has still been mentioned about The Lost World closing and the only news has been filtering through from wagon drivers who visit the affected sites.
Still if the inevitable happens and The Lost World does close it starts a new chapter in my life of finding another job and doing something different, and in typical AA fashion I am powerless over things that are outside of my control.
Its all in the hands of my Higher Power, he probably sees me sat here and feels I am getting into another comfort zone and needs a big kick to get doing something different.
Problem is I like it here at The Lost World, its like being part of one big happy family, everyone is happy and has a laugh and a joke.
I have started doing a brand new blog here at http://michael-madonna.blogspot.com/ when its finished its going to be a list of all Madonnas UK hit singles, well I better get back to my duties and enjoy what time Ive got left at The Lost World