The thrill of a Goose Fair

Well times has caught up and its the end of Goose Fair for Tavistock for yet another year. With that being said, this year has been a good one. Lets start off.

So after a weekend of misery with releasing a gorgeous goddess in my year in Tavi College who i had feelings for or had a cruish on is now pregnant. its just a fucking shame but then again times are heading that way at the moment with various things and the high rate of pregnancy and the media embracing this "Broody" type fucking feelings. I was excited but also nervous on what was going to happen.

But on the sunday, i decided to go for a bike ride to plymouth. Nothing much happened but heres some of the pics of what happened along the way.

This was my lunch on the Sunday, A Burger and chips along with a j20 for only £3.99 in Union Rooms 

Now the Tuesday was a nice day. For the day i decided to head off to my grandmother's for some lunch and to spend some time with them. It was alright for the most part. Having various chats, teaching my grandad about various things and cleaning up his Documents folder on his laptop. My lunch on that day was my usual Sausages, beans, ketchup but instead of chips it was potatos that tasted the same :)

Then on the evening, after playing some Tokyo Jungle, which acutally is a pretty amazing game and concept and very cute too. Like one of the costumes i outfitted on my alley cat below:

My alley cat pimped out in Tokyo Jungle

I decided to head out to the fair. Now i wasn't planning on doing a vlog however when i recently bought a new phone (an Sony Erricson Xperia Tipo) it had the blogtv broadcaster app running pretty amazingly on it, so i did a quick vlog of the night which features some mates of mine...i think ?

Below is some of the pics of that night of the rides in action :)

Well then the acutal day happend, its Wednesday the 10th of October. I was awake the usual time of about 9:20am or so and after having a shower, getting chnaged and freshened up as they say, i headed out down to  the town at about 10:50am. Then walking around the stalls on my way down to the square, while popping in to see my mum at her work along the way. Then the vlog was started and that was pretty much the rest of the morning. Here it is below:

Then it was about 1pm. I got home and started video editing all of the footage of the daytime vlog which arrived out at justr over 43 minutes long. The vlog ended up at 39 minutes so alot of trimming was involved, along with cropping. Before i editied the vlog though, i bought my lunch from one of the burger vans nearer Drake's Statue. Along with adding some of my own extras to it such as ham, chocolate biscuits and ketchuip. It cost me 7.00 for the 1/2lb burger and the chips, which is a bit steep but it was tasty :)

After that, it was about 6pm and i headed out down to the fair for the evening. The traders were still going strong and it was much busier than it was during the day. I did take a few more pics of the ride at various times of the evening, you can see them below:

Then while looking for noodles to buy for my tea, i bumped into two girls i met on a Bank Holiday night out, in Plymouth once. Charlotte and Claudia :), so i stuck with them for the most part of the night, including showing them the jacket potato food van and tubs of sweets for £1 along with slush puppies/squishes for £1, which Myself and Char had one. Hers was a red bull. Mine however was a overfill of raspberry and strawberry as seen below, it was very tasty and lasted me an hour or so :)

But during parts of hangig out with them along with before, the vlog for the night fills the gap as they say. it includes the slush puppy and you see my tounge go blue. Along with me buying 10 packets of various flavour incenses :) See the vlog below if you haven't already:



Well that was that, i got home about 9:57 and had a bath and then was watching some South Park on Viva while eating my tea i bought earlier that night, a portion of crispy seaweed for only £2.80. Oh and the 10 boxes of incense for £10 is shown below too :)

This was the seaweed that cost me £2.80

This was the incense i bought. The top 6 cost me £5 and the bottom 4 cost me £5

Now the Thursday and Friday, it was just two busy days at work and also rying to get the vlogs uploaded and editied, well as in upload the daytime vlog which was about 6 hours and while that was happeneing, i was editing the night vlog, i think i got to sleep about 2am on Friday morning when the vlog was finally uploaded and processed. For saturday morning, the night vlog was up at about 0:30am. But it was quite we during the thursday and to dry my soaked socks up. i found a clever way as shown below :D

Using a heatgun to dry my socks up :)

Now the Satuirday. It was quite a byusy day in work, especially with me and my colleague taking care of the whole shop for Friday AND Saturday, but it was quiet at some points. My lunch for that day was quite later than usual and cost me £0.93, and an hour before i left work to get home, my jeans ripped. that makes it two pairs in less than 6 months :(

My lunch from Ellises Bakery costing me £0.93

The second pair of jeans i've ripped in the past 6 months, it was on the same leg as well :(

Now for the evening. It was quite clear for some of it, i had a bath about 6:30 and headed out at 7:45 but before i went down, i borrowed my dad's DLSR camera to take some long disance views of the fair from a popular viewpoint of Tavi i run past sometimes, you can see some of the shots below, they are not the best since my hands were shakey :(

Well after i put the camera back and copied the photos and a short video clip (which i'll use for "Check out other vlogs below" clips at the end of some videos) i headed off down to the fair. Below is coverage of what mostly happened that night:

Then while i headed out to a mates house, i chatted for a bit, while the other chap was smoking some weed. I also tasted some Niknaks which were Scampi and Lemon flavour which tasted quite nice but wasn't a strong flavour. After this i headed off home and made myself a sandwich while watching TV, this was about 11:30pm mind you and there wasn't much good content on TV either :(

















Well that was this past week summed up. Now next week will be quieter but i have two presents to buy, one for a late birthday presant and one for a just in time birthday presant and some shoutouts to make.

If you want a shoutout, if you like one of my Facebook posts or RT one of my tweets saying "Llike for a shoutout" or PM me on FB or DM me on Twitter for one and i will add you to a list. If you want me to say anything spefific, let me know in a PM or DM so i can added it to your name.


Apart from that, ill see you for the next blog post which maybe a month or so or later. Depends on anything i need to talk about.

See you later
Mattie :)

The Quicker ride to Plymouth, only to be mocked

So today (Wednesday 19th September) i decided to cycle to Plymouth again, especially after the news that the tunnel side of the trail is FINALLY OPEN a couple of weeks ago. So with that, i decided to cycle to Plymouth. 

I started out from my house about 10:20am. it was quite a fresh morning with a cloudy outlook but looked like sun was peeking through.  So i started to head off. Below is a video of the journey from the entrance of the trail from the redrow estates to the end of the trail which is at the end of "The Old Station" in Horrabridge.

 Below is some of the pics i took along the way :) 

So this was passing Yelverton and listening to some pretty decent music

At the Plympton Mcdonalds to pass through to get to town

on the bridge after pelting it on the embankment road

Well when i got into town about 12:20. parking my bike here and surprisingly it looked again

Well basically for about an hour or so i was walking in various shops and looking for phones. Then it was about 1:40 or so and i read some tweets that were hinting a Fast food chain is offering free food and some merchandise and also some condoms. So i headed off to a tent where there was a large queue of students and people wanting this promotion Dominoes Pizza were offering. At the time it was quite a large queue and i was just randomly waiting with no idea if it was moving or not. But they were offering a bag with a menu, strap and a pen.

Some of the stuff i got, included two menus and a bag with a pen and wrist strap, Also some student uni rep gave me that newspaper, i felt like a fresher lol

After about 10 minutes, i decided to have lunch and i went to a burger bar nearby. Its called Hang Ten and they have been known to have HUGE burgers which i would love to have a date there so i can fill whoever i was dating up. But the value is ok, the wait though, was about 20 minutes or longer, ok there was only the chef and a student working there but it felt awkward waiting. In the end, i bought a bacon burger meal deal which is the burger, chips and a drink, all for £5.50, which is ok. But its fresh fattening food, which is better for you when eating junk ;).

A bacon 1/4lb buger, can of 7up and homemade chips for £5.50. Not too bad

After that. i decide to get a condom from the Dominoes stand. Now HERE is where it gets funny/sarcastic/pisstaking/awkward. I was waiting in the queue and they shouted "pizza hut sucks" and "who wants pizza for £1" with none of the crowd even responding to it. But then i walked out of the crowd and down to the tent. Where a nice looking black haired girl with some cute curves (i must admit) shouted "anyone want a FREE slice of pizza" and handed some out, then to me which i asked if they had the condoms and then they laughed and then one of the guys at the tent acted like "it might not fit you, since you have an xtra large one". Of course that isn't on at all and i didn't find that funny what so ever. So i was direct and said "its not that big" and admitted the measurement i had done years ago, which is the closest i remember and they were silent (but trying not to laugh) and i asked if they had any, they said no. 

Then i was direct with them again and asked if they are sure and then one of the guys made a sarcastic remark saying "is it for today", then i explained it was for Saturday, i can't remember the reaction to that. After that they handed me the condom and then nicknamed me Condom boy/guy. So dealing with them just to get a condom was irritating. 

After that, i was killing time and looking in more phone shops and asking around to find a phone running android 2.3, 640x480 screen resolution and under £150 on PAY as you go. Since i explained that I've never used 400 texts in a month, the most I've used is about 200 and I've only ever gone over my data limit of 100mb per month and that was back in June/July when i went on holiday. I went into Virgin media and this blonde temp served me and got someone else to help me which he did but didn't know the resolution of my phones i was after. it was the same in one of the Orange shops, except they were slightly more helpful and understood me more. Although it was some guy with a slightly noticeable feminine accent that served me and got confused and asked some of the other members who then understood what i was after. 

After that it was about 3:15 and i decided to head off home. But before i did, i picked up another condom, the girl that served said "oh look, condom boy is back" and then the guy in the cowboy outfit said "Oh used your other one up have we ?" i said no, and asked for another one, then started my Journey home. Enjoy some pic of the way back. :) 

This is on the Plym Valley Cycle Path near Bickleigh, 3/4 of the section between clearbrook and plympton

This is after walking up a steep hill which is at the end of the  off road section from Plympton to Clearbrook

The Gem Bridge entrance of the Grenofen Tunnel

The Tavistock Entrance of the Grenofen Tunnel

The tunnel side of Ashmill Bridge

The gates of the entrance to the trail from the Redrow Estates

Well that was about it. I arrived home about 5:40 and it was a nice evening, slightly cold mind you, but its close to Autumn and October which means Goose Fair :D. But its been a good week in general so far, Emma facetimed me on Monday night when she wanted help setting up her SNES (yep, i was surprised too lol) on her sisters 3D TV, and we chatted and my heart fell in aww and made me realise that I've fallen in love with the right person, its just to find the opportunity to get the chance to be with her :). That and this weekend there might be a night out vlog and blog post, but you'll find out. 

Until next time. 

omracer