ITS TIME! WE'RE ALMOST THERE! ONE LAST FINAL PUSH!

Wise words for the day: "Better to be someone for a day than no one for a lifetime"
Do you know what wise and all knowing philosopher said that..........Danny Dyer in The Business.

Helllloooooo my wonderful blog followers, now i know its been a long long time but its been just work, work, work. I really can't believe what a season I've had, just brilliant is all i can say but these aching ageing bones are starting to feel the stress and strain, saying that, i can still beat Husain Bolt in a sprint to the supermarket.

Over the course of this season so many people have come in and said "We're so glad to see you back, we missed you last year" or "We don't care why you weren't here last year we're just glad your back". Its such a nice feeling to know your a big part of peoples holidays even though its just a plain and simple bar.

So what do i have for you this exciting update.

Lets start with Kevlar's Crumpet Creations. I was having a discussion with Ian & Lisa, you remember them, my guard picture on my display cabinet, about mushrooms in food and what they should and shouldn't be used for. On their next visit to the island they brought me a tin of Bachelors Creamy Mushrooms. Never seen them before so i thought, cool, a new food experience.
After opening the tin and cooking them off i can see why the makers are called "Bachelors" cause if your going to eat tinned food such as this you deserve to be a bachelor, i hear its Cliff Richards favorite food (I am still allowed to mention him aren't I?). Its the only food i know which is grey in color and actually tastes grey. What type of evil food genius would make something that tastes of grey? And not only that once i had cooked it in the non stick pan it wouldn't leave the non stick pan. It was like mushrooms in grey sealant silicon. My tap water would take the skin off a crocodile its that hot, didn't touch it. I boiled the kettle and poured it over the pan, the water didn't even go cloudy. It just wouldn't budge. In the end it took a spachelor first, then a wire pad, then boiling water. If anyone wants to come up with a solution for pot holes in the roads just fill them with Bachelors creamy mushrooms.

This updates crumpet creation is Crumpet with 3 bean chilli topped with grey.

Its cabinet time. As i stated before, the dust is building up lovely on the shelves and its all YOUR fault. If they were empty i could just run a cloth over them but no, you had to buy tat for it just to make my life a misery.
So here is the full view to start so you can see the positioning of all the fine items i have been given.

Firstly a very fine in fact quite pretty piece of tat that was given to me by Elliot and Bethany. Its another turtle, Yay! can never have to many turtle heads to polish

As you can see from this second view it is quite detailed so not any ordinary piece of tat, its a work of art piece of tat.

Here in honor of my kids (the ducks) the Roberts clan bought me again a fine piece of porcelain, maybe not. I was told its the very rare sperm back duck.

From this view you can see why its called Sperm Back Duck. How impressive is that.

Now there is a criteria for anything displayed in the cabinet, it has to be from a local tourist shop on the island so you spread the wealth but just out of the shear awfulness of "Why would someone buy that?" Kevin and Joyce brought me this from the UK. This will be the only UK item displayed on my cabinet, no more from the UK will go on it but then again i doubt it could be topped by anything anyway.

The slogan says "CARLISLE, Travel there in rail comfort", TERRIBLE PUN!

Now this wasn't a gift for my display cabinet but it was such a generous gift from Gill & Les. You all know i like my pig outs, well they decided to thank me for my hospitality during their holiday by buying me a mixed grill from Puzzle restaurant next door to Oceanic. It consist of a whole farm on a plate or in this case a 12" pizza box, due to the fact i want to stay healthy i told them to forget the salad, why spoil it. It was a wonderful gesture and a lovely surprise, so thank you both once again.

Meat list: Chicken, lamb chops, pork chops, meatballs, village sausage, mini racks of ribs, steak and onion rings. Yes i did eat it all in one sitting, can feel my heart clogging as i look at this again.

You may have remembered quite a few updates back that Porthcawl in South Wales has the biggest Elvis convention in Europe and guess what, its this weekend. So i was looking at the website for it and came across this picture. Is this the least looking Elvis you've ever seen? He looks like when you see in a horror film a plane crashed years ago in a tree and they find the pilot dead in the cockpit, well, he looks like that pilot.

Obviously didn't try on the shirt when he bought it.

And finally.........Just thought i would end with a funny sign i saw on the platform of Queen Street train station in Cardiff  "Trains Stop Here". This is printed on the floor in the very center of the platform, of course bloody trains stop here, its a train station.

So until the end of season update my wonderful people........

Serve All, Love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!

Its competition time!

Now do we all remember Where's Wally? or if American Waldo? (Why the change of name? its almost identical)

Well every week before my major update i will be posting a Where's Wally type feature blog post.
It will be a different pic each week where you have to spot something in amongst other things.

So let us start off with tricky picture.

Which t-shirt is the odd one out? Take your time and study the picture.

WHAT HAVE I DONE? OH MY GOD!

I so wish i could go back in time and take the picture and post off about my new house and leave the display cabinet out. It has now almost become a competition to see who can give me the best but worst trinket of an ornament to adorn it's shelves.

What have i done to deserve such riches? You will see me in 10 years time either with a tourist gift shop where Oceanic used to stand or sat next to David Dickinson on Dickinson's Real Deals trying to barter with an antique dealer to get 50p out of them.

So here is the updated picture of my wonderful monster display cabinet and the positions the ornaments hold.

So here we have actually quite a good gift. It is made of pure gold and weighs quite a bit. This little owl was given to me by Gavin and Alex. Please focus on the owl and not the dust on the shelf. See, now if the ornaments weren't there i could just run a cloth over the shelves and "Hey Presto" clean but now i have to move them all off which really i can't be arsed doing. So i am going to leave them till hopefully the dust is that thick you won't see any of the artifacts, which by that time they will be artifacts discovered by some future explorer. He will deduce from his findings a sad lonely git lived here who had friends who actually hated him due to the gifts he was given, ONLY JOKING, i think their grrrrrrrrreat!

This is a lovely selfie of Lisa and Ian baring their teeth. In dogs this means to back off or an act of aggression (Lisa and Ian are not dogs and are wonderful people but they have no connection with any canine variety) Taking this into consideration you can see from the full cabinet view they are situated closest to the front door. This is a prime position for any burglars breaking in, they will see the picture of pure aggression and run for the hills leaving all my antiques on the cabinet intact.

The next 2 items have a very sad story that my world watched actor/teacher (yes your kids may have been taught by him) told me.

The first item is a picture of a girl turtle. You may think what an innocent pose. You'd be wrong. This pose was for a turtles lad mag which her boyfriend didn't know anything about. Shocking i know.

The second item is the boyfriend. As you can see, on finding out about this secret photo shoot he tried to choke himself but due to turtles having flippers and no opposable thumbs all he was doing was wiping his neck so gave up and joined the foreign legion. He is now happy and Captain of the aquatic division. They have been put on opposite sides of the cabinet and behind glass doors so they don't fight.

So there we have it for the cabinet update, look out for me on Antiques Roadshow this winter.

A few weeks ago i had to go back home to Swansea for 24 hours. On return i had to fly from Manchester and because i just had a small rucksack with me i could just walk straight through and for the first time in my history of traveling i was the first passenger in departures, WOOHOO! Now even though this experience made me laugh (simple things please my simple mind) nowhere was open so it quickly turned into disappointment, Never again shall i rush to be first.

And i took a picture of the walk way from the train station to the airport as it reminded me of the film "Tron". The bikes that i saw in the original Tron from 1982 is what made me want to ride motorbikes. I would so love one of those bikes. Don't tell me their not real as they are, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA NOT LISTENING!

I came across this picture of Oceanic on the world wide web or the net. WOW! how much it has changed. I can't believe i used to put a speaker on the roof. I would put it on and take it off the roof every day. And yes, those are still the same chairs and sofa's that i have now. As Brucey would say "Haven't they lasted well". Changed so much over the 10 years. My little baby is all grown up.

Now i know i have lots of twinkly lights going on in the bar but i think the electric board may have estimated my bill just a little high. Yes, you are reading it right 3,506€. I think either I'm powering the whole of the old road or something is seriously wrong in the estimation department of the electricity board here. Time to lay siege on the office of Delta Epsilon Eta. They shall lower thy bill or i shall become their slave, "I'm Spartacus".

Now this poster for someone famous...............?????????????? who was doing a gig on the island has to be the best advertising poster i have ever seen. I mean, crystal white teeth, full white outfit, jazz hands and the slogan "I AM WHAT I AM, the comeback!" Why is "the comeback" in small letters i don't know, shout it "THE COMEBACK!!!!!!!!!" but this got me thinking.

Could this be the love child of............

Duncan Norvelle, 1980's happy go lucky comedian who used to appear on every variety show shown at that time including Bullseye and 3-2-1 with Dusty Bin. His catchphrase was "Chase me".

 or could it be............

Liberace, flamboyant pianist with that razzle dazzle factor always enjoyed a good jazz hands after he had finished tinkling the ivories.

Or maybe its..........
YES, you guessed it, one of our favourites here on the Oceanic blog, Derek Acorah. We all know Derek for his spooky goin on's but did you know.................

..................he is also a trained expert at jazz hands and here is the proof....

You decide who it may be, but i think we'll never know.

So that's it for this long awaited updated. Its now just to hot for me to do anything as saving all my energy for the bar. Roll on Sept when it gets cooler. The bar is still doing well and mcuh more new first time customers this year than regulars but all are welcome and welcomed with the same warm "Hi guys!". I will be honest this season is taking a toll on my short legs but we keep going, we keeping fighting the good fight with the motto "To Death or Glory", bit theatrical i know but it does sound good you know LOL.

Oh and Kalamaki has been renamed "Plastic Cup Town" you've already seen or will see when you get here what i mean.

Serve All, Love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!

"Feeling HOT, HOT, HOT" and bothered. Its half way time, WOOHOO!

Well howdy doody folks. Now i will answer a very simple question for all first of all "You must be used to this heat?", NO I'M BLOODY NOT! It seems to get worse every year. Just like at home, if your waking up to rain everyday (especially the people of Wales) then its the same to waking up to stifling heat, blue sky and sun everyday, it becomes a pain in the back side. Now 1 days rain every week would be nice just to break up the groundhog day effect, roll on Sept when it starts to cool.

Its at the half way stage of the season and as you know from the past 9 years on this blog July and August are never really that good months for me, my good months are always the other 4 but its steady and can't complain.
People ask me why do i put a chain across the entrance at midnight? Well its due to my first 2 seasons i found that if anyone is coming in to the bar after midnight who have never been in before they haven't just woke up and come out to start drinking. Main drinking times I've found over the 10 years are between 9pm and 11.30pm  after that its not busy with drinks at all. So after midnight its like a V.I.P. Oceanic customers only lock in but have still been there till 3am most mornings.
I hope that now explains why the chain is there.

I now have a theory around my lovely present from Demi and Tasos of the carousel.
As i said in previous post it really is a creepy thing but there is a very, VERY, dark hidden message behind the gift.
There are four horses on the carousel, four horses are a evil sign, THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE!
DEATH, FAMINE, WAR AND CONQUEST, AGGGGGggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
No wonder i'm having trouble sleeping at night. Along with being the bringers of destruction they play a plinky plonky song that no one knows. The end of the world will start on my display cabinet with a terrible tune , GEE THANKS GUYS!

My horses on the carousel look exactly like these, very worrying indeed.

Oh, by the way, there will be a display cabinet feature article on my next blog update as i now have even more tat, sorry, lovely gifts to show you that have been donated by my wonderful customers.

As you all know i am a crumpet fiend. Any type of crumpet and i'm scoffing them down and lets not forget Kevlar's Kitchen Cooking Classes with Crumpet Creations.
Well, i was brought a lovely food parcel from Scotland of black pudding, white pudding, haggis slices and, wait for it, ROLLING CRUMPETS. Never seen them before. I have to say they were very nice. They are quite sweet in taste but there is one problem, because i like a crunch on my crumpet they didn't really roll but if you cook them for less time than i do then they do in fact roll, great for your hot dogs to go in to i reckon.

And for your delight, here is a crumpet creation.
Mums and Dads, do you have a problem getting your children to eat Haggis? Yes! Well here's the solution. Make them look like David Bowie's eyes. A rolling crumpet, place Haggis on top then finish off with 2 different colored sauces. Your kids will be wolfing them down without a thought that they're eating sheep's heart, liver and lungs, Mm, Mm, Mm.

David Bowie Eyes Crumpet Creations.

Yes i know his eyes are blue and brown but you try finding a blue condiment.

As i was traveling back home from buying my stock one morning along the main road between Kalamaki and Laganas i saw a crashed quad at the side of the road which was in a right 2 and 8 with the keys still in the ignition. I thought it would be my duty to call the rental hire shop and let them know. On calling them they thanked me but they already knew of the bike being there and it had been crashed in the early hours of that morning by a drunk brit boy from Laganas, his words not mine.
Now when they first started hiring out quads they didn't have headlights so could only be used in daytime, should they go back to only renting these  type of quads out? After a few drinks it seems like a great fun idea to ride a quad at night drunk but look what can happen. Something has to change i think just to keep the people who hire them and the passing public safe at night.

This season i have come up with so many new designs for t-shirts i'm losing track of what i actually got now. So here are another 3 which aren't in the catalogue yet. Pete of Despina and Pete did ask when am i doing a Cilla Black design................NEVER!

Well, my drink is drunk and now have to go and order some t-shirts from my good friend Spiro.
If your ever in town go visit him at his shop on Alexander Roma, its called Printmaniac near Eye Site shop.

So until the next full blown display cabinet update..................

Serve All, Love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!

P.S. Gary Hetherington, if your reading this please leave your e-mail address on the comment section below, only i will see it. I accidentally threw it away on the back of my stock list, SORRY!

A musical interlude for season 2016.

As you all know Oceanic prides itself on its playlist (ok there are some dodgy ones) but all have been hand picked by myself to have the right combination for music lovers of all ages. Its not just thrown together or played via Spotify or such like, how can i, NO WIFI!

So the songs for me of this season are the following:-

"Sound of Silence" by The Disturbed

Whenever this comes on someone always asks me "Who's singing this?" i say "The Disturbed" they respond with "The Who?" and i reply "No not The Who, The Disturbed", well it makes me laugh anyway. I was first put on to listening to this in Nov 2015. I do have 3 albums by them already but this song is i think better than the original, not many covers are better than the original. Johnny Cash version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" is also better than the original. So for those of you that haven't heard it just click on the video. I thought i would show you the live version as this is what "real" music is all about. Even just watching that video as i write this the hairs on my arms are standing up with goosebumps. Listen to it all as the music a vocals build up throughout the whole song to an amazing ending.

"I'm so sorry" by Imagine Dragons

Next up we have a fairly new band who i went to see in concert at the Cardiff  Motorpoint Arena, much prefered it when it was called the C.I.A.. You could say "I'm going to the CIA" sounded very important then. I'm getting side tracked. Anywhoo, this song when they played it made my rib cage feel like it was being punched by a wall of sound from the bass, that's a good feeling when your watching a concert, it was also made better by having V.I.P. seats with a private bar. Here is Imagine Dragons with "I'm so sorry" again the live version.

And finally.............

"Take me home" by Jess Glynne

Now i'm not all about the rock/punk/indie music. I have a very wide spectrum of taste when it comes to music. This song is just a real great vocal, lyrics and melody. Even though its a very gentle song its also very powerful at the same time.

So those are my top 3 songs for my season 2016, all completely different but all give me a that little boost when i'm starting to flag, well i am 48 this year you know but still got a couple of years in me yet to run about so don't worry about that.

So until my next proper update........

Serve All, Love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!

I'VE CREATED A MONSTER!!

 Good morning from my mid morning coffee break coming at you live from Drunk Corner.

I still haven't had any adventures at all, its just way to hot. I try to get out on my bike by 8am but by time i finished my chores and running around for bar its midday and riding in that heat is draining.
I so want to get out and about, also having a lovely home i just want to sit indoors in the cool and enjoy my display cabinet.

Yes i have created a monster. After posting a picture on here with my gift from the Taggs in the beautiful display cabinet my landlord left for me one night while in work my friends/customers/now enemies have been adding to my collection.
It wasn't a plea for help to fill it. I am more than capable of filling the display cabinet with tat, sorry, expensive ornaments myself. I have a fine collection of minions, i have a rare collection of blunt knives from the Chinese shop here and lets not forget my unique collection of toenail clippings in the shape of aquatic sea life.
Here for your viewing pleasure is my display cabinet  in all its glory full to the brim and no more objects are needed now, my duster is constantly coming out of the cupboard to clean them all. In fact there are now so many items it has taken over most of my day.

So to start here is the little trinket that started the craze which has become bigger than Pokemon Go.
Its the Taggs (Lee and Emma) glazed turtle. Its shell detaches so you can store inside a single pea, maybe a 1 cent coin or even 3 sesame seeds, the space inside is that vast. Obviously the thought behind this gift is to remind me of the turtles that come to this island which i have never seen in 16 years.

After the shell is detached if you don't enjoy viewing the turtle anymore you can say its Dachshund who has been in a vicious fight and lost its ears. 2 gifts in one, OH JOY!

Next we have an aged piece. The Greek boat with a picture depicting Santorini even though it was bought on Zakynthos, so very rare indeed. This was lovingly supplied by Jeanette and Nigel who have taken great thought as they know i am looking to buy my own boat. In fact 8 years I've been looking to buy a boat. This one unfortunately is to big for me to man alone so it shall stay on the display cabinet.

Now then (only said it once, two or three times is just wrong) we all know that the wonderful people up north are hard working honest folk and whats more honest and hard working than a donkey given to me with great pleasure by Dawn and Paul. They have taken great care to find a donkey that i would like to own and call "Jebus". Yes i now have that donkey I've written about and yearned for all these years through my blog. ALL HAIL JEBUS!

And last but definitely not least over to my dear dear once friends Demi and Tasos. I was given this in a presentation gift bag and had to be filmed unwrapping it. Joy danced across my face as i opened the bag, excitement took over as the wrapping was pealed from around it, dread and fear took hold once i worked out exactly what it was. Its a musical carousel. Now if anything is going to freak me out its a toy that you'd see in a Stephen King movie or read about in a Dean Koontz book. I sit and stare at it for hours, not because its a wondrous looking item, NO, its because i'm expecting it to start turning around and playing its tune at any moment without me winding it up.

Here is the wonderful creepy little ditty it plays. Haven't a clue what the song is but i'm sure in summons up demons and ghouls.

If anyone else is thinking of supplying a ornament for my hugely popular display cabinet, please DON'T, i hate polishing and there is definitely no space left even though it looks like it has.

"Food, glorious food", "Who ate all the pies, who ate the pies" and other food related songs.
Look at what i have found. It was like an Aladdins cave of puff and shortcrust pastry delights. For me this is my downfall. I can hardly ever go past a bakery in the UK or here without resisting a purchase, even if i don't want it, i just got to have it. So now i can buy them and cook them at home its become a nightmare for me. My kitchen looks like the window of Greggs by the time I've bought them. Because i'm so indecisive  of what to eat first i just cook them all. OH, OH, stodge overload. I'm like the tubby little German (no not Angela Merkel), the boy from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (love both those films) who can't stop drinking the chocolate river, well i can't stop eating my pastries. I better get the doorways widened in the house and a rag on a stick ready for wash times.

Now you all know about my kids, the ducks, well i got 7 of them together for a family pic. Yes i do know the difference in them as all their beaks have different markings. Here we have Webley, Lucy, Webster, Pandora, Fois, Quince and Amelia. Jemima is very shy so she was under a tree and Duck has social issues and a bit of a loner. Will have to talk to him at some point.

And finally, a tomato shaped like a....well....a tomato. My landlord is always leaving me veg from the garden, a week ago it was cucumbers, this week tomatoes. All fresh and home grown and taste so good. The only problem is at this rate i will have all the ingredients to make a salad by the end of the season. Why can't they just grow at the same time. Chicken eggs being supplied shortly, please Mr. Landlord no duck eggs.

So that's about it for this thrilling roller coaster of an update, another update next week, that's if the demon carousel hasn't killed me first.

Serve All, love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!

Why, why, why Taggs?

At last i can sit down and give you a first real blog update. I am now sat in "34" cafe with my frappe, laptop and all is now settled and sorted.

Not done any adventures as yet around the island but that will begin this Sunday with my first full proper day off (bar open as normal in night)

So, how are all my lovely blog followers doing this July? You all good? I know, I know, the weathers shocking in the UK but what do you expect, its summer time.

So its the 10th Anniversary of Oceanic and who would have believed it, from a grotty little shack that used to be a greasy Joes cafe called "Isis" of all names that Oceanic would still be going strong 10 years later. I was only thinking the other day i have spent a 3rd of my life on this island (16 years, you work out the math for my age). This island i have traveled around over and over again, there isn't much of this island that i haven't seen or road i haven't ridden down. I have seen Kalamaki change over the 10 years, seen businesses come and go but still my little plain and simple no frills bar with no tv's or wifi still keeps up with the big boys. But that isn't down to me, that's down to you, the customer. As I've always said Its just a normal bar nothing special or great, its you that make this bar. So many people have met new friends and chatted with new people over the years its great to see the art of socializing is still alive and kicking without the trappings of modern society. So its a huge, massive, big, BIG thank you to all who have visited Oceanic over those 10 years.

Oceanic when i first took it on.

Well May and June are in the past and what a good past its been, every customer who has visited the bar this season has returned for at least another night which is great to see also this season 70% of custom are new customers and 30% are regulars which is amazing after being closed for all of last season. Would never have expected that. 

So as you all know i have a new home, its the first place in my 16 years on the island that has actually felt like a real home but there is a down side, the dreaded display wall unit. Now i hate clutter and i don't really like ornaments as you have to polish them and around them, they may look nice but what a pain in the ass. My dear mum has a glass display cabinet with drinking glasses inside which never get drunk out of, Why? Glasses are for using why just have them on display? If she's happy with it then that's fine by me but i don't get it. If you got a collection of crystal, antique bone china tea sets or odd shaped vegetables i understand completely you want to show them off.

In saying this my friends (maybe enemies now) the Taggs (Emma & Lee) have started a very bad thing, VERY BAD! They have bought me my first ornament, why guys, WHY? It is going to drive me crazy having to polish that bloody unit now cause of one ornament and no i won't just close it away in the draw, you bought it for me as a present and i shall display it but god its going to annoy me.

Turtle spotting at Kev's house, can you spot it?

Also update on my Ducks, I now have 9 white Ducks, Webley, Quince, Lucy, Pandora, Fois, Amelia, Webster, Jemima and Duck. I'm now buying shares in corn.

So i had my first full pool day last week at what i think is one of the best pools and hotels i have been to, the Ilaria Hotel. Why isn't there a major tour company in this hotel? It knocks spots off most hotels i've visited on the island and i'm afraid to say this beats almost all in Kalamaki apart from maybe 1 or 2 which i also use. I may treat myself to a week here for my birthday, why the hell not, i deserve it.

Huge pool, huge pool side area, pool bar and just 20 sunbeds and 3 people, including me.

While i was homeless and living in a travel tavern i had to use a laundrette (just the once) as i was fed up of washing all my clothes by hand but after using it i remembered why i hadn't used one since the last time 12 years ago. I gave them a bag of washing with 5 pairs of socks in which i had put in to pairs. I collected my washing and went home to sort it out. My t shirts which were all new were shrunk and faded and they had lost 2 socks, REALLY? HOW? How the hell do you lose 2 socks out of 5 pairs? It wasn't even a large bag of washing and what temp was the washer on to fade my t-shirts. OH MY GOD, what the ****, A chimp could have done a better job with a wash board and olive soap. This laundrette was in Zakynthos town by the way on a back street and it cost me 15€.
Also how does a sock fit from size 6-11? Have you seen the difference in those sizes? A size 11 sock would be like a flipper on me so how god damn it does one sock fit all, just look at the pic, the black lost normal sock is a size 6-7 and the grey lost trainer sock is a size 6-11, LOOK AT IT, the trainer sock is the size of the whole normal sock, RIDICULOUS!

I want to protest, NO MORE ONE SIZE FITS ALL SOCKS!

Now time for the weird world of Zakynthos.
Parking. If all parking spaces are taken why not just double park. Its not as if anyone needs their car, they can walk home. How are these poor people who may have just parked up for a coffee meant to get out? Its not as if they can find the owners of the double parked cars. This stretched the whole length of the street.

Now i love Star Wars as you know but what the hell are these? Now i get it that they are based on Lego Star Wars figures but blimey, the X wing at the back is wilting, the Stormtroopers look like they have mop buckets for helmets and Darth Vader has piled on the pounds, must be all the Gyros, "May the fork be with you!" Get it? Please yourselves.

On the Saturday when we had a major major monsoon storm this fell on to my bar floor. Is it a huge hail stone? Is it a piece of ice from a plane? Who knows, just a good job no one was sitting outside when it come down as it was raining.

AAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH! Greggs are here, Greggs are here! I was browsing around the frozen section of a certain supermarket in town looking for some fish and there in front of me was a beacon of delight, the whole iceland range of Greggs pastries. I couldn't believe it. These were 3.17€ but the others were quite expensive all over 5€ just for 2 items, here we have 4 sausage rolls. Now i've been real good all season so far eating healthy and lots of bran (parp) but this i just couldn't resist.

And here are those beauties all cooked and ready to eat, which i did, all 4 after i finished work, they were sooooooooo good.
Oceanic in the daytime will now be Greggs with steak slices at 5€ a piece.

We have some more additions to the Oceanic t-shirt collection with a couple of cheeky ones thrown in.

They are basically the "Anti" keep calm t-shirt. I have seen so many Keep Calm t-shirts, bags and hats being worn by tourists this season, Keep Calm and Tan, Keep Calm and Drink, Keep Calm and Jog?????? So i come up with the opposite. They are a sarcastic swipe at the Keep Calm saying.

And finally, like they do with the news, a funny item.
Here is a cat that constantly looks surprised, his expression never changes, bit like Barry Manilow.
Can you guess its name? Yep, its Kevin. At first i found the cat hilarious until i found out its name, who in their right mind calls a cat Kevin. Tiddles, Tom, Puss in Boots, Tigger, YES but never, NEVER Kevin.

So that's it for this fine longer update, so until next time.......

Serve All, Love All, Peace All, Kevlar Out!