For those of you that use the country holiday function in Google Calender... it's probably not worth it as it seems to be a little wrong! It told me that mothers day this year is today... it's not, it's actually next weekend. I had to find the answer on wikipedia which was.
France (except if it coincides with Pentecost day, in which case Mother's Day will be shifted to the first Sunday of June)
How crap is that? At least it means that the card that I sent over to my Mum who lives in France will now get there on time as it's not turned up yet.
Today, randomly at 4pm I decided to give blood for the first time. I wasn't some freak who at 4pm decided to give blood, but Mike in the office had an appointment to give blood. An appointment for giving blood? Anyway, the next hour was spent not working but more checking what I was getting myself into... and it seemed fine. I even managed to get my mate Darren in on the game too. So after work I headed down to Pompey football ground and signed up. After filling in a form with some very dodgy questions which basically means if you're gay you cannot give blood. There's then a test for iron in the blood, seems I have some, so onto the laying on the table and having a needle, which was huge, was jabbed into my arm and the letting began. 6 mins 17 seconds later (they have a fancy machine) and 470ml of blood had been removed from my body. It's true to say that I was fairly nervious about the whole thing up until the blood started to flow, then I was fine. 10 minutes of laying down (as it was my first time) and I was done. It was then onto the drinks and biscuits.
Go give blood, it's easy and it makes you feel good, though this might be due to the lower amount of blood I had in my system...
Read up about giving blood here http://www.blood.co.uk and read up on blood and what it does here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood
