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That Will Teach Me……………….
My car went in for some electrical repairs today, and the garage kindly offered me a Nissan Micra for the day."Have you not got anything else?" I enquired desperately"Yes, we have a BMW you can use"Phew! I am not a big BMW fan but anything had to be better than being spotted in Noddy's car..........didn't it???Well no actually, it bloody didn't. The mechanic took me out passed an array of gleaming Mercs and BMW's to this thing!A gorgeous 1988 ...
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 ...