Todays Observer has a Prince DVD with it, Prince i ask you. If i had actually gone to the shop to get my own paper this morning i would have bought something else. I feel embarrassed to have this DVD in my house, what if somebody sees it, my reputation will be in tatters.
Best go and frisbee it down the street, after dark of course just in case anybody sees it me and returns it.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Its all my fault i tell you
Funny how things turn out.
About 6 months ago i was mooching around one of them cheap bookshops, the ones that sell £1 dvd's, 99p novels and paint by numbers books when i stumbled across The Sven Goran Eriksson Classical Collection available for £1
It is a double CD with a booklet by Brian Granville on the World Cup and the music includes Elgar's Nimrod, Profokiev's Dance of the Knights, but the most under interesting is Svendsen's Under the Sky and Larssons God in Disguise.
Did my random purchase of this £1 CD have a bearing on Sven joining City.
About 6 months ago i was mooching around one of them cheap bookshops, the ones that sell £1 dvd's, 99p novels and paint by numbers books when i stumbled across The Sven Goran Eriksson Classical Collection available for £1
It is a double CD with a booklet by Brian Granville on the World Cup and the music includes Elgar's Nimrod, Profokiev's Dance of the Knights, but the most under interesting is Svendsen's Under the Sky and Larssons God in Disguise.
Did my random purchase of this £1 CD have a bearing on Sven joining City.
Friday, September 28, 2007
The Land of The Free ...........if you are wealthy
A young black kid aged 12 dies of toothache yes toothache because his family did not have the money or the health insurance to get him treated, an abcess under his tooth spread to his brain and killed him.
The US senate overwhelmingly passes a bill to give more healthcare aid for poor families and Bush is going to veto it as it is against the principles of private healthcare.
How can a land be truly free when basic health requirements depend on ones income.
At times like this i just thank to high heaven we have the much maligned but free to all NHS.
The US senate overwhelmingly passes a bill to give more healthcare aid for poor families and Bush is going to veto it as it is against the principles of private healthcare.
How can a land be truly free when basic health requirements depend on ones income.
At times like this i just thank to high heaven we have the much maligned but free to all NHS.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The full English breakfast and e flirting
The internet is a suprising place with many nuances, for me one of the more surreal and enlightning is the wonderful world of MSN messenger.
Only this morning i recieved an e-mail from a friend who i have never met but hold dear to my heart asking me what were the staples of the traditional English and how is it prepared. Please bear in mind my friend is a fair dinkum Aussie lady who apparently looks suprisingly good in shorts.
On reciept of the mail, I quickly logged onto MSN and there was Mystee, hello's were exchanged and a long chat ensued which started about the English breakfast but quickly descended into a protracted bout of e flirting, apparently she would love to fiddle behind me as I cooked in my apron. Now im not one for the fiddle myself, i prefer the ukelele being a big George Formby fan but i digress, how quickly can a decent conversation reduce its self to base level on the mere mention of me in apron.
Now much is lost in translation between written English and written Aussie, sausages are snags, black pudding can only be found in the POM only sections of supermarkets (POM only sections yes) and I assume hotplates are the rings we have on our cooker's not actually plates cooked in the oven.
Now I was asked to provide a full menu and how we English go about our peculiar tradition of having a full English. So here goes for you Mystee my darling .....flirting on a blog already.
To serve 1 lavishly hungry extremely hungover Englishman you need
Ingredients
4 Cumberland sausages
2 Eggs (not for me im eggophobic)
4 large rashers Wiltshire smoked best bacon
1 Tin Heinz curried beans
4 Toast, preferably Warbies premium with butter
2 Fried bread
3 Hash browns
1 Large slice Black Pudding
Mushrooms and Tomato's are optional
1 Pint mug of tea
Condiments must include Daddies brown sauce, Pepper, Salt, Tomato sauce and for me the option of Tabasco to add to the Beans.
All this must be served upon the toast (not the tea obviously) on the largest plate available to man.
As the full English is usually a Sunday morning experience, the sport section of a quality newspaper is a welcome addition to the breakfast table.
Im hungry now.
Only this morning i recieved an e-mail from a friend who i have never met but hold dear to my heart asking me what were the staples of the traditional English and how is it prepared. Please bear in mind my friend is a fair dinkum Aussie lady who apparently looks suprisingly good in shorts.
On reciept of the mail, I quickly logged onto MSN and there was Mystee, hello's were exchanged and a long chat ensued which started about the English breakfast but quickly descended into a protracted bout of e flirting, apparently she would love to fiddle behind me as I cooked in my apron. Now im not one for the fiddle myself, i prefer the ukelele being a big George Formby fan but i digress, how quickly can a decent conversation reduce its self to base level on the mere mention of me in apron.
Now much is lost in translation between written English and written Aussie, sausages are snags, black pudding can only be found in the POM only sections of supermarkets (POM only sections yes) and I assume hotplates are the rings we have on our cooker's not actually plates cooked in the oven.
Now I was asked to provide a full menu and how we English go about our peculiar tradition of having a full English. So here goes for you Mystee my darling .....flirting on a blog already.
To serve 1 lavishly hungry extremely hungover Englishman you need
Ingredients
4 Cumberland sausages
2 Eggs (not for me im eggophobic)
4 large rashers Wiltshire smoked best bacon
1 Tin Heinz curried beans
4 Toast, preferably Warbies premium with butter
2 Fried bread
3 Hash browns
1 Large slice Black Pudding
Mushrooms and Tomato's are optional
1 Pint mug of tea
Condiments must include Daddies brown sauce, Pepper, Salt, Tomato sauce and for me the option of Tabasco to add to the Beans.
All this must be served upon the toast (not the tea obviously) on the largest plate available to man.
As the full English is usually a Sunday morning experience, the sport section of a quality newspaper is a welcome addition to the breakfast table.
Im hungry now.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
New to all this and already my limitations are being exposed
So I would like to give Simon a heartfelt thanks for his help and advice this evening.
It does help to have friends in high places and the lake district is much higher up the map than Manchester.
Thank you my friend
It does help to have friends in high places and the lake district is much higher up the map than Manchester.
Thank you my friend
Plane Spotting
Today I spent 3 1/2 hours at the Manchester Airport viewing park. I had a flask of tea, The Independent and my binoculars for company. When i was young i was a plane spotter, I live 3 miles from the airport directly under the flight path and all my mates were spotters. We used to spend many joyous days at the airport taking the registration numbers and noting the airline and type. As i grew older the hobby fell to oneside and i "grew" out of it.
Strangely now in my early 40s I am getting drawn back into this hobby, I no longer take the numbers, but there is something fascinating about those huge metal things. Which brings me onto the point of today. I am now a spotter of plane spotter's. I actually enjoy watching them go about thier business. Plane spotting is a very singular hobby, today I witnessed many men (no women) of all ages silently go about their hobby and came up the photokit of a true plane spotter.
He is on average around 50 years old, he will have a beard, his jacket will have plane badges on it, hats are de riguer and airline caps are considered high fashion, he will have a bag, in the bag will be binoculars, a notepad, a pen, a range of aviation reference material, a camera, a flask, crisps, sandwiches and it appears they all eat those high energy fibre bars. In the back pocket of his trousers will be an aviation scanner with an earpiece attached as they listen to the control tower.
An approaching plane brings out something almost balletic in the group. Almost in situ the binoculars raise up, the plane is followed to the ground, the binoculars fall, the notebook appears, the number is noted and as the plane turns they all bend for their cameras. Up they all come, the snaps are taken, the camera is returned to the bag and out comes an energy bar. At manchester this is repeated every few minutes.
Forget watching Antelopes roam the serengeti, get to your local aviation viewing park and watch this strange ritual. It can become hypnotic.
Strangely now in my early 40s I am getting drawn back into this hobby, I no longer take the numbers, but there is something fascinating about those huge metal things. Which brings me onto the point of today. I am now a spotter of plane spotter's. I actually enjoy watching them go about thier business. Plane spotting is a very singular hobby, today I witnessed many men (no women) of all ages silently go about their hobby and came up the photokit of a true plane spotter.
He is on average around 50 years old, he will have a beard, his jacket will have plane badges on it, hats are de riguer and airline caps are considered high fashion, he will have a bag, in the bag will be binoculars, a notepad, a pen, a range of aviation reference material, a camera, a flask, crisps, sandwiches and it appears they all eat those high energy fibre bars. In the back pocket of his trousers will be an aviation scanner with an earpiece attached as they listen to the control tower.
An approaching plane brings out something almost balletic in the group. Almost in situ the binoculars raise up, the plane is followed to the ground, the binoculars fall, the notebook appears, the number is noted and as the plane turns they all bend for their cameras. Up they all come, the snaps are taken, the camera is returned to the bag and out comes an energy bar. At manchester this is repeated every few minutes.
Forget watching Antelopes roam the serengeti, get to your local aviation viewing park and watch this strange ritual. It can become hypnotic.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sky sports soccer special
I have the option of listening to tonights City v Norwich game on the radio, but i prefer the daft blokeiness of sky sports soccer special. The ooos and aaahs in the background are tormenting.
It reminds me of my youth, listening to Piccadilly 1152 and half way through a song you would hear "its a goal" then just played out the song and you had to wait in nervous anticipation of who had scored.
It reminds me of my youth, listening to Piccadilly 1152 and half way through a song you would hear "its a goal" then just played out the song and you had to wait in nervous anticipation of who had scored.
Strange
I have thousands of posts on forums and i am never short of something to post, yet here i have been staring wildly at the screen with some sort of writers block.
Is it the thought that in this world of creating my own little piece of the internet that nobody will ever read what i write or am i addicted to the ego fuelled pursuit of being a high post forum wannabe who wants people to hang on my every word.
Maybe just maybe this question will one day be answered.
Is it the thought that in this world of creating my own little piece of the internet that nobody will ever read what i write or am i addicted to the ego fuelled pursuit of being a high post forum wannabe who wants people to hang on my every word.
Maybe just maybe this question will one day be answered.
Monday, September 24, 2007
20/20 Cricket
Never really been a fan of the 50 over game, I have always been a Test Match addict, quite prepared for the rigours of watching a game that lasts 5 days and can often end as a draw.
However i have found the 20/20 thrilling, the setting in South Africa was superb, the razzmatazz brilliant, but more importantly for me, it was proper cricket, a real test of teams ability. As bumble (David Lloyd for uniniated) said, every ball is an event.
Could 20/20 crack the states?
However i have found the 20/20 thrilling, the setting in South Africa was superb, the razzmatazz brilliant, but more importantly for me, it was proper cricket, a real test of teams ability. As bumble (David Lloyd for uniniated) said, every ball is an event.
Could 20/20 crack the states?
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