Just Not Cricket

Tomorrow I was supposed to be going down to Worcester to watch the 20Twenty cricket at New Road. I usually go every year with my old work mates, and my dad has always wanted to go and watch a cricket match. So I thought it would be a great idea to get a ticket for him for fathers day.

What could be better? Mid-summer, cricket in Worcester with the Cathedral in the background, strawberries, champagne, beer :-)

The pictures below give some clues as to why we wont be bothering...


























Managed to get tickets for the Waddington airshow this weekend. it should be really good. There will be fly pasts from a Hurricane, Tornado & a Spitfire. And thats just the weather forecast! Im sure the planes will be good to :-)

I'll take some pictures - I imagine that they wont be putting any classified black projects on display, so i assume I can post the images...

This Is The Week That Is

What an extraordinay week it is this week. If you listen to the media and sycophantic arse licking ex-politico's you would think that Tony Blair was some kind of saviour of man kind.

Just like the rubbish floating away in the gutters of Yorkshire, so too the flotsum and jetsum will be moving out of Downing street tomorrow.

Good riddance I say...

Just goes to show, even if you're an absolute repugnant ar$e hole, like Blair, with the right amount of spin, you to can be popular once every sheffield flood

Global Warming?

I don't know about anyone else, but I am utterly sick to death of hearing about global warming and the impending doom this planet is facing.

Im never one to trust any snivelling little bastard politician who tells me to do as he says, not as he does. Especially when he tells me that its going to cost more to drive my car or take a plane trip.

So I decided to have a look at global temperatures over the last few hundred years. As you can see from the graph below, it makes for interesting reading...











It would indeed seem to indicate that temperatures are rising (well at least in central England anyway)

On closer inspection, it seems that the 5 year mean temperature has shot up, but look at the fluctuations of the annual mean.

So, what caused the Little Ice Age? Imagine if that happened now...politicians would be screaming for us to burn more fossil fuels! And judging by this graph, the world has had heat waves before some cad built an internal combustion engine, or had even thought about a coal fired power station.

Why was it so cold after the industrial revolution, when you would imagine there would be much more pollution than there is today, which you would have expected to be in the atmosphere trapping all the heat inside (just like they reckon happens now)

I'll tell you what I think. The graph points out that the global warming scare started in the late 80's. Since this time, a hell of a lot of the rain forests had been cut down, which in turn reduced the worlds biggest CO2 sink. This in turn has lead to the atmosphere having to deal with more green house gasses, which has lead to a bit of a warming up.

However, the politicians see this has a fab opportunity to tax us even more for flights, cars etc. I wonder if Blair's final farewell tour around the world was 'carbon neutral'

Do as he says, people, not as he does....

Voices from the Past

When I was about 13 or maybe 14, at school we were learning about Hitlers rise to power and the subsequent world war that followed.

For my project I wrote about Hull in the blitz and how it affected the people who lived through it. As my Grandma lived on Hessle road at the time of the war, I reckoned she would give a pretty good eye witness account of the time, so I set about recording an interview with her about it.

Well, the tape has turned up again in some boxes at my mam and dads, so Im quite looking forward to listening to it after all this time! I just need to sort my tape player out...hadn't anybody heard of MP3 in 1983? Tsch...!

(By the way, any of the family who is interested in hearing it, let me know)

Dorset Naga-saki

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love chilli's. No, not the American restaurant chain, but the heat filled edible varieties. Unless of course, the sauce is smeared in my swimming shorts leaving my 'old chap' hot, and not in a sexy way (more about this story in another blog post one day!)

Anyway, enough of the painful memories...this year I am growing some scotch bonnet chilli's, and thanks to a colleague of mine (thanks for the title idea, Kev!) this year I am also growing some Dorset Naga (www.dorsetnaga.com) These evil things come in at around 1 million scoville units, which makes them the hottest chilli's in the world.

I am going to make some sort of dish with them once they mature, any idea's for what I should make?

Digger Pics

As promised here are some pictures of the digger weekend.
















This one was taken at the end of the first day

















Carol actually managed to tip the digger up! Her face was quite a picture when she knew it was going over!
















The whole of the dug out section is going to be graveled, and a shubbery planted by the grass. Just need to be able to afford it all now!