We started our usual trip in a new unusual manner on our couple of times a year holiday in macedonia.

Waking up at 5.45 in the morning (nor entirely unusual now we are new parents), our friend Becky was super nice enough to take us and our 100 tonnes of luggage to Heathrow in her 4×4 which made getting to the airport easy, there is no way we could have done it without a car, big thanks to Becky.

putting our luggage where it needed to go in the airport was also quick and straightforward, then the happy bit started, the security check, this with a baby strapped to the front of my 110kg body, 3 bags for handluggage, a folded pushchair, far more complicated than the usual laptop in a rucksack.

Of course the scanner beeped as I walked through with theo sleeping in the baby bjorn so I had to take him off then we got frisked by some bloke who was nice and chatty so not too bad….

Of course some Bitch with a tent wrapped around her head singled us out and took everything out of the changing bag (lots of baby stuff) and went through it bit by bit… Seriously what a Fuckin bitch, of course some essentials that were slightly over the ridiculous 100ml allowance were taken, so we could by them again in the shop that was 3 metres away, thank you very much osama.

I was sweating like he’ll as we prepared to get all our stuff on the plane (last) after quickly scoffing our coffees. The staff on the b.a. Flight to Sofia were really helpful, got to put the pushchair up the back of the cabin and the guy who was in our isle seat moved to the window.

I was expecting 3 hours of crying now but only got 2 minutes of it… Pretty much all of the flight Theo slept.. I squeezed my elbows together as if I were disabled so I could eat as much of the greasy slop that b.a. Had provided for breakfast, the rest was pretty much plain sailing ..

Got changed as soon as we got off the plane, fixed up the buggy and off we went to collect the suitcases, not the normal “are they ever going to come” wait, by then the conveyor had stopped and they were waiting for us.

Now we are in the taxi for our 3 hour drive across bulgaria and up the ear popping mountain border to macedonia to natasas parents who have no idea we are bringing their new grandson to see them :)

Our usual taxi driver stops off half way and treats us to some grilled chicken, salad, and tasty beer and now the booze is flowing it’s the start of enjoying some fine east european drink, macedonian red wine is definitely in need of getting around more and increasing awareness so more people can enjoy such varieties as “tia za jug”.

The taxi ride was a couple of hours until the circus routine at the border between bulgaria and macedonia where our taxi driver must suck up to some “officials” who act in a rather dopey manner. To our surprise as three passengers with british passports this time we have to get “examined” by a doctor at this mountain border.

This turns our to be a bloke seeing if we have a fever etc and puzzles me for a minute until I work out this has something to do with keeping swine flu out of the country then the penny drops and I understand the need.

We then cruise down the macedonia side to the town to surprise the socks off natasas parents which we certainly did.

If you had 100+ examples of someone being an idiot over several months, and then someone else told you that the person wasn’t an idiot – would that change your opinion to no longer think of them as an idiot?

No, I didn’t think so either.

An idiot is an idiot.

Congrats to the democrats, America gets a funkier president who all the news channels insist on pointing out is black (take a look at his late grandmother to see how wrong they are). Apparently he got a phone call from Great Wanker Bush which was no doubt to reassure him that Dubyah had done a good job and taking over from him would be nice and easy.

So today there’s a much needed feeling of hope for change in the world, couple of wars less than there are now and no more rediculously high fat cat bailouts at the expense of the taxpayer.

Let’s see how much change can be bought about in 2009!

Today is the day that hopefully the world gets a little lighter and the evil that is George Bush as the presidential funny man of America with his evil sidekick no longer casts a shadow on how the world is run, I could tell from just looking at his eyes as he was sworn in first time round that bad times were ahead, today those times are over.

So good luck Obama, yes you have a pretty strange name, and Americans will probably feel weird for a while having a black man as president, I hope all the voting machines behave this time round and everyone who said they would vote for you does.

Barack Obama seems like a decent bloke and has a lot more life in him than blinking McCain with this hair updo wacky sidekick, for fucks sake we have had enough of some funny faced mofo with an evil fuck next to them dictating over the world in the name of freedom.

It’s time for a change, 8 years of darkness over ‘n lets move forward.

This morning we changed our GP (for those who are not in the UK, this is your local doctor who you go to for general things without having to go to the hospital “General Practice” ), our GP for the last 4 years has been about as useless as a chocolate teapot.

So if you feel like your GP is just someone who is just churning through the local population at fixed intervals offering incomplete advice to maintain their funding and not living up to their responsibilities then CHANGE. You are entitled to swap to an alternative in your area as long as you are in their “catchment area” which can be quite fiddly but it’s almost certain that especially if you live in a built up area you have a degree of choice.

Our new GP can’t even be compared to the other one, very professional, modern, pleasant spacious, free parking, got exactly what we expected from a service that costs a fucking arm and a leg from our automatic deductions from monthly salary… remember that shit isn’t really free unless you are some scrounging wankstain council tennant that sits on your arse all day soaking up state resources, those people are what needs fixing with this country.