My spolit dog loves pink.

If you are like me and have a taste for the finer things in life then you are probably either 1. Loaded or 2. Act loaded but are not really loaded, unfortunately I am the latter.

Unfortunately I am also generous and don’t always spend this false economy on myself, I also spend it on my friends and above all my dog. My dog is the most spoilt dog in the country, I swear it. I have one of the only dogs in the UK that actually has its own custom made wardrobe. I had it made by someone that makes bespoke furniture and although they thought I was completely made, they didn’t refuse the work when I was prepared to pay for it.

Inside this wardrobe there is a countless amount of dog clothes that she wears. At the moment I am clearing out here Winter wardrobe ready for this seasons new range of clothes, my baby looks great in Puchi (at least I think she does) and most of her wardrobe is in pink as I think she looks cute in this colour. There are lots of places out there that sell dog clothes but be warned, there is a lot of cheap rubbish out there aswell, so be a little selective about where you buy from. My advice would be to stick with the well known high street brands such as Puchi and Doggy Things as this stuff tends to be of better quality then the pet shop stuff. If you can buy from somewhere that you can take your dog to try on samples. This way it saves you going backwards and forwards for different sizes.

My generosity with my dog doesn’t just stop there I’m afraid. My dog also has the dog bed of its dreams :)

There are literally hundreds of dog beds out there to buy, but just like clothes there is a lot of rubbish about so tread carefully. If you want to get a high quality, expensive bed then you are best to look online as there is a lot more choice out there as opposed to on the high street, unless you are willing to pay the prices Harrods charge.
Personally I love a bit of luxury pet furniture. I love a bit of traditional decor and this is why I treaded my monkey to a wooden framed leather dog bed. There are some beautiful examples out there and in the end I plumped for a Wallace and Jones bed. They look stunning in your living room or kitchen and most importantly they are comfortable for your dog. Whatever you do, think about your own decor before buying a dog bed. It is so tempting to buy a cute pink number with all the bows and whistles but this is no good if you have a nicely decorated living room in traditional colours. Buy what you want for your dog but buy a bed that suits the house.
Next week I am going to treat my baby to a new collar and lead. I am not too sure what to go but at the moment I am swaying towards a Hunter leather dog collar and lead. These are a nice mixture of quality leather and bling and they are a bit specialist so usually you have to wait for a while until they are in stock. You guessed it, I am having one in pink :)

Resources.
Dog Beds website that have a massive range of designer dog stuff. There are lots of different websites like this on the internet so spend plenty of time shopping around.

What was your favourite vintage computer?

If like me, you have loved computers from a young age, then you may have fond memories of the old hardware that we all used back in the day, I was born in 1977 so by the time I was walking the video game industry was booming, just before it went into a depression. But just what is your favourite computer? What was your first memory of using a computer and indeed what was your first game you ever played? I bet most of you could remember, especially if you were a geek like me.

When I was 5 I asked for my first computer, understandably my parents got the cheapest thing they could get my hands on and my sister worked in curry’s, so I ended up with a commodore 16 from the bargain basement for about £30.00

I was amazed by this machine, it was rubbish, even back then, but I still loved it and loved typing away gibberish just because I could see it appearing onscreen. Another thing I loved was sitting there waiting for a game to load, the games all came on tapes and you had to wait an hour for a game to load up and most of the time they didn’t lead up anyway, but you still sat there waiting to play the game you were dying to play for the last 3 hours.

Which brings me to the next question, what was the first game you played? I can remember mine because it was on the commodore 16. It was called “punch”. You played punch trying to save Judy from a crocodile (I cannot remember the crocs name) you did this by running and jumping over obstacles and hitting enemies over the head with a club until you saved Judy. I wish I could say that my first game was a better known, glamorous game from the 80’s but unfortunately this wasn’t the case.

There were many other consoles and computers around at the time, I work for an IT support company based in central London and we often sit around chatting about the good old days of videogames. For some people their first console was an Atari 2600, for others it was a NES, some people even played on the old Atari “woody” console from the 70’s while some of the younger staff played on a master system or a Mega drive for the first time.

So just what was your first system? Think long and hard and I bet you will remember!!

As for games, this was a more tricky subject, I thought people would remember but they didn’t to be honest, the most obvious answer from a lot of people was “space Invaders” but I think a lot of the time it was because that was the first game they thought of.

I intend to produce quite a lot of blog entries about this subject as it is close to my heart, please give me some feedback on the games you remember playing so I can use these as examples in further posts.

BACK TO PLAYING PACMAN NOW!!

Resources;

IT Support Central London based company where I work (suppose to work) many a long conversastion is had about our past and the games we used to play :)