lil dave's lil life

[sovietsong]

I miss the old poker days so bad too mate.

Think maths killed everything really.

it always does mate, it always does.

[SuuPRlim]

Blonde!

Been a while, had myself some very crazy times.

Moved to London went fiiiine, me and laura had a few disagreements over which items we should/should not keep, it's no-one's business who won and I am certainly not sat here typing this in my "office" surrounded by piles of things I suggested we should have thrown out, thats absolutely not where I am. After these disagreements were settled democratically and peacefully, and I'd conceded my points entirely, the flat, albeit 60% of the size and 140% of the price of our place in Leeds is now really nice and homely, we have things on the walls, matching cutlery and plates, the odd stylishly placed rug and even a bowl to put my keys in! It's all very grown up and peaceful, I don't want to take undue credit for my role in the home-making but fuck it none of you were there so yep it was all me.

Gotta say I am really enjoying living in London, it's a different way of life to leeds, as opposed to a few things being bang on your doorstep, and then some more cool things being reachable, now nothing is really on the doorstep, but just beyond the doorstep is pretty much anything you could realistically want, it takes about 6-7 mins to walk to the tube and from there i'm 10-25 minutes away from pretty much everything you could think off. Getting to be quite a pro on the tube too, had a few insane blowups where i've been on the wrong line or wrong platform going in the wrong direction etc, the biggest drama I had was chancery lane to st. pauls which is just a simple 3-4 stops on the central line, had a complete meltdown no idea still what happened but station-station took me over 50 minutes, northerners gonna northern and all.

I did have a look at jobs, but jobs (working for one person in exchange for a set amount of income) just doesn't ring my bell, it's incredibly sensible and if my parents could click their fingers and control my life I'm sure that's what i'd be doing, but I've been running things myself for too long now, and I just don't want to change. I got offered a few pretty interesting things, but I came to London to live the dream not concede it, so i'm going to do things the lil dave way, the drunken, disorganised, way that puts all extruding body parts at risk of being severed, but god dam it it's MY WAY and when i reach the final curtain, i'll wanna state my case, of which i'm certain - and have lived a life that's full, and travelled each and every highway, but more...much more than that, I'll have done it myyyyyy way.

Look forward to being your UBER driver, or taking your coat at the casino next time I see you all in London



I've actually been pretty inundated with work offers, spent a lot of the first month networking, going to every event, dinner, trade show etc and getting my face out there and lead to lots of leads, I've also started to take a much bigger role in the running of the betting site with my turkish partner and have to spend a fair bit of time out in malta. Doing a bit of sales work for a gin company from Yorkshire;

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Its not an easy gig but very challenging, not much time consuming and I like it, not best money ever but gotta have some stuff that gets you excited, fits nicely with my general business life too. Between betting site, the gin, lots of independent work offers and a really cool sports betting project I'm working on I'm pretty crazy busy and nicking a few quid.

Laura's job has turned into an actual paid job, where after working for the day...she gets paid, actual money, that you are then able to spend on rent, food, drugs, whatever you fancy. A novel concept, anyone else ever heard of this??? She's finding the workload a bit gruelling but seems to be enjoying it, it's not exactly what she wanted, working for a lingerie concession in self-ridges on oxford street but its 100% the right direction for her career wise, making some good contacts and ploughing on, proud of her .

Been seeing a lot more of friends that I've missed over the past few years, and even managed a trip back to Leeds to see Middy, who is doing just absolutely fine in my absence. My return trip to Leeds was a bit of a calamity, me and mid drank a bottle of gin and 2 bottles of wine, I threw up over his new floor and missed half my meetings next day, I guess we can't be grown up all the time. As Rob put it anything >100% attendance from meetings you specifically travelled 200 miles for is not really good enough. Perhaps Middy better off with me at the other side on the country

Trying to be nice a social, going for dinner & drinks at least once a week like a real person, still yet to convince Laura to come to the Stanley Arms which is just 150 yrds from our front door...

Darts weeeeeeeeeeeeeekend.

Any questions? Lets get this thread going and #saveblonde

[MANTIS01]

Nice update.

I formed a partnership with local gin distillers Silent Pool. Created a new signature gin and tonic priced at £10, launched last Friday. Everybody said I was bananas to charge an Ayrton for a g&t in fancy glass.

Sold 103 on first night.

But.....

37 glasses nicked.

FML why the feck do people do that?

[Doobs]

Tty walking between chancery lane and st pauls, or taking the bus.  It isn't far, maybe a mile, but you'll start to learn your way around and there is so much to see in London if you look around.

[SuuPRlim]

Nice update.

I formed a partnership with local gin distillers Silent Pool. Created a new signature gin and tonic priced at £10, launched last Friday. Everybody said I was bananas to charge an Ayrton for a g&t in fancy glass.

Sold 103 on first night.

But.....

37 glasses nicked.

FML why the feck do people do that?

Sick! How you serve it?? How much £ would you usually do wet on a night? Gin is a literally un-crashable bandwagon at the moment! Its kind of fascinating actually how hard its crushing right now.

Yeah, people are ridiculous, at the restaurant we get about £300s worth of salt and pepper shakers nicked each year as well, bought this cool fish shaped wall thing for the ladies bathroom, cost 80p fro ma charity shop looked nice, only thing in there not nailed to the wall and stolen within a week.

[SuuPRlim]

Tty walking between chancery lane and st pauls, or taking the bus.  It isn't far, maybe a mile, but you'll start to learn your way around and there is so much to see in London if you look around.

Yeah. Got cocky thinking I was the big mr london, weather is picking up nicely and walking is becoming very pleasant, it's nice to walk around in London.

[tikay]

Tty walking between chancery lane and st pauls, or taking the bus.  It isn't far, maybe a mile, but you'll start to learn your way around and there is so much to see in London if you look around.

Yeah. Got cocky thinking I was the big mr london, weather is picking up nicely and walking is becoming very pleasant, it's nice to walk around in London.

The London Tube is a thing of wonder.

Take a few hours off blonde & digest this. Your life will change for ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

[MANTIS01]

Nice update.

I formed a partnership with local gin distillers Silent Pool. Created a new signature gin and tonic priced at £10, launched last Friday. Everybody said I was bananas to charge an Ayrton for a g&t in fancy glass.

Sold 103 on first night.

But.....

37 glasses nicked.

FML why the feck do people do that?

Sick! How you serve it?? How much £ would you usually do wet on a night? Gin is a literally un-crashable bandwagon at the moment! Its kind of fascinating actually how hard its crushing right now.

Yeah, people are ridiculous, at the restaurant we get about £300s worth of salt and pepper shakers nicked each year as well, bought this cool fish shaped wall thing for the ladies bathroom, cost 80p fro ma charity shop looked nice, only thing in there not nailed to the wall and stolen within a week.

The special comes...Gin, fever tree indian tonic, twist of orange peel and sprig of pine garnish (we're in a pine forest so see what I did there)

And that's the thing....you can put an old toothbrush and a lump of coal in a gin and people go wow that's neat!!

Salt/pepper the worst, I bought some new marble jobbies for the same night, literally half the restaurant was rinsed before we closed.

Gin made up half of our wet sales that night!!

[SuuPRlim]

sounds like you're gonna need to shift a 100 gins a night to pay for everything getting lifted

[SuuPRlim]

Tty walking between chancery lane and st pauls, or taking the bus.  It isn't far, maybe a mile, but you'll start to learn your way around and there is so much to see in London if you look around.

Yeah. Got cocky thinking I was the big mr london, weather is picking up nicely and walking is becoming very pleasant, it's nice to walk around in London.

The London Tube is a thing of wonder.

Take a few hours off blonde & digest this. Your life will change for ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

Spot on Tikay, I got the map on my phone, was a serious game changer, now I just find out where I am...then find the station I wanna go to and follow the lines. Brilliant.

[celtic]

Hi wee dave, glad London is working out for you.

Next time you're in Malta, gimme a shout. There isn't a Nando's but I'm sure I can find somewhere for you to take me to dinner x 😁

[SuuPRlim]

Hi wee dave, glad London is working out for you.

Next time you're in Malta, gimme a shout. There isn't a Nando's but I'm sure I can find somewhere for you to take me to dinner x 😁

Next week mate, i'll hit you up, you want me to bring a few bottles of sauce over?

[celtic]

Hi wee dave, glad London is working out for you.

Next time you're in Malta, gimme a shout. There isn't a Nando's but I'm sure I can find somewhere for you to take me to dinner x 😁

Next week mate, i'll hit you up, you want me to bring a few bottles of sauce over?

Cool, plenty Nando's sauce in Malta. Just no restaurant to eat it in

[Karabiner]

Tty walking between chancery lane and st pauls, or taking the bus.  It isn't far, maybe a mile, but you'll start to learn your way around and there is so much to see in London if you look around.

Yeah. Got cocky thinking I was the big mr london, weather is picking up nicely and walking is becoming very pleasant, it's nice to walk around in London.

The London Tube is a thing of wonder.

Take a few hours off blonde & digest this. Your life will change for ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

Spot on Tikay, I got the map on my phone, was a serious game changer, now I just find out where I am...then find the station I wanna go to and follow the lines. Brilliant.

There's a London Underground app which works out routes for you too - might come in handy.

[POWWWWWWWW]

There's also an app that tells you what carriage of the train to get on so you're closest to the exit when you get off.