Last weekend I presented karaoke for over 24 hours. I thought when I first started to “do” karaoke I’d have an easier life but it was a dream world. I ran a shop with Viv for 11 years and thought that was hectic but how wrong was I. Presenting karaoke certainly has its benefits, like being able to listen and watch everyone having lots of fun but I pay for it. I work harder now presenting and organising karaoke than I’ve ever worked before. On top of my karaoke work I’ve beed busy building websites of late and I must say web building can be a welcome change.

I did say in the last update that I tell you some odd or funny things that’s happened to me during all the stuff I’ve done in my life.

Well here goes.

I said in the past that we used to do a bit of sailing. We used to own a 20ft yacht and we had it moored in Conway harbour. The only damage I ever did to myself (other that embarrassment) was to break several ribs when someone came to “help” me launch the bloody thing. They say when you own a boat it’s a bit like owning a hole in the water that you need to keep throwing money into. We did have lots of fun in it though.

Our first encounter with sailing meant getting very wet when we tried out sailing in a small dingy on the shore at Llandudno. We were coming home from our shop at the end of the day and we decided to stop to go for a walk on the beach when we were approached by the guy with a true sailors hairy face. He just shouted “two more volunteers here and before we knew it we were in the water trying to get back in the dingy that had just thrown us out so it could throw us out again, stupid really but it wet our appetite (forgive the pun). We then learned to sail off the south coast of England with a sailing school and loved it. I never thought that 20 years later I’d be a landlubber. We were going to sail around the world and leave the rat race behind. I could never imagine doing that now I run karaoke. Nothing compares with that.