Tired!
Been a really hectic few days, we had a great fun dinner party with Nick, Paula, Bryn and Sally last night amongst loads of other thing. I am so knackered I am going to let the pics do the talkingSinging "Take a Look at Yourself" By Broughtons finest Mavis Grind. Me on lead guitar, Nick on Piano. God knows what Paula is doing?Left to right: Di, Sally, Paula, Bryn, Nick"Its Happy Hour Again". Me and Nick do a poor impression of The Housemartins ...
Police on My Back
I stupidly picked up a phone call from my Dad whilst driving the other night, in doing so I clipped a curb. Right behind me police car......bugger, it's a fair cop, I was wrong 3 points and £60 fine on the way...........idiot!!I pulled over accepting my fate, and before I had even opened my door, this guy was all over me."HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING?""No""YOU WERE DRIVING LIKE YOU WERE DRUNK, HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING?""No nothing at all, sorry, I ...
World Cup 2010
My friend Nick Mabey and I have been having various boring discussions lately on who we think, realistically, will be the 11 starting the first game of the world cup in 2010. We are both agreed that the majority of places are filled, but right midfield, centre forward (partner for Rooney) and Goalkeeper remain debatable. I am going to stick my neck out and go for this starting 11. See Nick's views hereGK GreenRB JohnsonCB TerryCB FerdinandLB ...
The Specials
I went with Pete and a couple of other Basingstoke boys to watch The Specials last night, it was a cracking performance, they are a great band musically and lyrically I really enjoyed it even though I couldn't quite identify with parts of it, I think I know why.Something that really stood out about last night was the multi ethnic audience all dancing in harmony. Not anything odd about that in 2009, but The Specials achieved that in 1979, firstly ...
The South Submerged (Sort of)
Devastation: A car park submerged in well under a foot of water God I wish these News programmes concentrating on the devastating floods up North would spare a thought for us poor sods in The South.We may not have had 387mm of rain in 36 hours, and had our homes and businesses wrecked, but as the picture illustrates that we have had our problems as well. It was taken at Waitrose in Salisbury, Wilts and tells its own story of how I suffered a ...