Top 10 Blog Posts Of All Time Ever

I've been writing my blog for nearly 4 years now and as I hardly ever do anything for more than 5 years, I feel the time has come to do a list of my top 10 blogs.

In 10th position the song that I wrote after I dropped a blob of blue tac down the radiator, it was an emotional time when I could only express my deep feelings of loss through song.
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/stationary-purgatory.html

In 9th position is a work of fiction dedicated to Grace Snow.
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/urban-cheese-awards.html

In 8th position a letter I wrote to my boss about a toilet based incident. I wish I actually sent it.
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/letter-to-my-boss.html

In 7th position the story of our engagment:
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/engagement-official-story.html

In 6th position the prequel to the engagment story:
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/story-of-han-and-dan.html

In 5th position is my description of the time I exchaged my own nudity for soup:
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/my-nudity-soup-exchange.html

In 4th position the tragic but heart warming story of frank and the charity Jones for stones:
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/being-frank.html

In 3rd position a very topical blog post...a letter to Tony Blair. If he'd had read this when I wrote it in 2010 then we wouldn't be having the problems we're having in Gaza right now.
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/dear-tony-blair.html

In 2nd place the blog that I think had the most pages views, the one that I wrote right after I offended a lot of people.
http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/racism-disclaimer.html

and the winner....drum roll please...........is a rap song about an annoying computer program that I used to use when I worked at the bluecoat called patron base. If this was a problem that had a wider appeal I'm sure  it would have gone platinum.

http://thewonderingsofwibble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/patron-base-rap.html

There are lots of other good ones too and also some not so good ones. Which one is your favorite?

Kuwait trip!!

 Here are my grandparents Elspeth and Peter in 1953

This is them setting off for a very long drive to England from their home in kuwait. This is the route they took:
Kuwait- Iraq- Syria - Turkey - Greece - Macedonia -Kosovo - Montenegro - Croatia -Italy- Austria- Switzerland-  France - England.

For absolutely ever (and by this I mean approximately since 2008) Me and Dan have been talking about doing a similar trip also in a moris minor but in the other direction from England to Kuwait. One day a few years ago we got their travel diary and mapped it all out. The diary was written in quite a boring style with not much personality, but  here are 2 interesting bits I remember:
1) they only spent £40 on fuel for the whole trip!
2) My granny got touched up by a Turk.

We set a provisional date for our trip as Sept to Nov 2013 a while ago and then started looking into all the boring things you have to do before having fun these days. (I bet my grandparents didn't have to do any of this) Things like can you ship a car from Kuwait to England?  Can you sell give away or dump a car in Kuwait?  what visas do you need? How can you get around Syria/ Iraq? what insurance covers you everwhere in a 60 year old car? bla bla bla snore.

I found some answers to these questions but not really enough to make me feel confident about the trip. Much as I believe that as risk increases fun increases, I do also know that there is a point on the risk-fun graph where fun dramatically decreases and that is at the injury/death/ being totally stranded with no money point. If you look carefully at a map there really is no way to get to Kuwait from Europe without going through dangerous bits. Which is totally not fair because we thought of this idea before Syria had issues! Anyways to overcome a lot of the car related problems we have come up with this super duper new plan:

FOLDING BIKES
LYCRA
INTERAIL
HITCH HIKING
COUCH SURFING
CHEAP HOSTELS
MY DAD'S SAILING BOAT
SOME SHORT DISTANCE FLIGHTS THAT AVOID SYRIA

BOOM!

Sorry I got board with sentences there but you get the gist. Dan want's us to be able to comfortably cycle 60 miles a day, I'm not really motivated to exercise generally but if there's one thing I love it's bargainous transport (I have even been described  as a 'bargain Nazi'.) So that and sense of adventure is enough motivation for me to get into shape. I'm going to have to only take 3 or 4 outfits though and I can't even just think about which are my 3 or 4 top outfits, I'll have to think about practicalities : (  Boring! AND Dan says I'll have to wear padded crotch cycling shorts.

This is the route we will take: England- hopefully a sail boat to France- interail and bike all through europe to Turkey we haven't decided exact route yet- fly turkey to Lebanon (this is an unnecessary part of the trip but we both really want to go)- fly to Jordan (annoying that we have to fly but we can't go through Israel with an Lebanese stamp in out passports and we can't go through Syria)- go through a deserted areas of northern Saudi to reach our destination KUWAIT! and our new dates are 1st Aug - 30th Sept.

It's going to be epic!

p.s if anyone wants to live in our house rent free and just pay for bills for those dates let us know.

Dear EDF

I recently received a letter from my energy provider EDF this is a bit of what they had to say....

"Raising prices is one of the hardest decisions we have to make; especially when the economic conditions are difficult. since cutting our prices in February  we have seen a significant increase to many of the costs we incur to buy and supply energy. We have absorbed many of these for some time but an increase to residential electricity and gas prices has now become unavoidable."

Awww bless them...don't you just feel so sorry for them?! You can just imagine the CEO tossing and turning in his sleep as he thinks about all his poor but loyal customers. In case you can't tell this is sarcasm. Dan and I have a long running battle over whether sarcasm is a sin and I once tried to give up sarcasm I lasted 21 hours and many of them I was asleep or on my own. But anyway I'm not fasting sarcasm now, so I have decided to write a reply. which is best read in a soft voice over emotional music.

Dear EDF,
I was heart broken to read about the rise in energy prices, I know you must have been battling day and night over this decision. I had no idea you had been absorbing the costs in such a selfless way for so long. I fully comprehend why you must raise the prices- this burden is too big for you to carry alone. However this leaves me with the biggest dilemma of my life....should I stay with you my lovely provider, you've kept both my house and my heart warm since the beginning of my mortgage, or are these rises too much to bear? Can I trust that you will not do this again? If you are not my provider though, who will be? Is there any energy company that can be trusted? It's like a Shakespearean tragedy...for the modern age. Oh how I wish for the bountiful carefree years of the early 2000's, but alas...this tragedy is my destiny, and I will soldier on through the pain and turmoil to face this battle with or without you. (In short that means I'll probably go on one of the comparison website and if you're not in the top 3 I'll switch.)

Yours not that faithfully,
Hannah Jones.