He's mates with my uncle. I chatted to him a bit (mainly about Saints) and he seemed a down to earth guy, but who knows what he is like when working.
I remember that from about 40 years ago! We each had two pints then decided as it was a sunny day that it would be a good idea to go swimming in our normal clothes. The magic mushroom mention explains the behavior now I think!
A proper Essex girl just came in to talk about her phone not working. Fake tan, fake lips, fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake boobs and teeth. She asked why she couldn't connect to the net. I took a look and she hadn't clicked the mobile net on.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32116456 If you've got a couple of spare minutes, please give this a watch. Doing my bit, but looking to drum up support and donations to support The Amy May Trust and Sparks, as Phil prepares for the London Marathon. I appreciate there's a lot of people - especially this time of the year - asking for donations and your time, but I hope you can get involved. Phil explains more about the two causes he is supporting, here - where you can also donate: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fun...draiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=philbrown10
Old Father Time weather vane at Lords has blown down...apparently third time it has come a cropper. Not too damaged and will be back up soon.
Vic Reeves is just about to ride Barry Sheene's 1977 Suzuki RG500 on which Sheene won the GP World Championship for the first time. Epic programme on BBC2.
Not only do I make my own mayonnaise but I also make my own red wines. Now, no doubt that brings on a sinking feeling from anyone who remembers homebrews of the 70s but the new kits are simply astounding. Every single person who tries mine offers to buy it from me. I'd like to claim great skill but if I do possess any, it's great skill at following instructions. This kit is breathtaking. I made some in 2011 and it is by far the best red wine I have ever had the pleasure of drinking. http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk...lon_Chateau_Du_Roi_Wine_Kit.html#.VRmkLeE4pHA £70 for the kit, £15 on fresh bottles and some reusable equipment. Put all that together with some patience and you get fantastic wine for £3 a bottle. Don't worry, I don't expect anyone to take me seriously. Vin
Vin, I've had some pretty drinkable home brewed wines, both from kits and from fruit, so I'm sure your wine is good too, but you can never replicate old oaky tannins or those really subtle hints of flavour that can only develop properly in a traditionally crafted wine unless you happen to have some nice barrels lying around and plenty of time and patience, and although I do drink plenty of new world stuff, its nearly always French wine for me, especially with food. I have recently finished the last of my stock of a 2005 St Emilion that was just superb, and I think the 2012 will be worth gambling on a couple of cases to put away for a few years down the line.
I've got four kids, and have always taken great delight in fabricating some outrageous lies to tell them when they're young, and seeing how old they get before they suss me out. My favourites are that my son believed for over ten years that there are special sheep in Wiltshire that have either longer left legs, or longer right legs so they can walk on hillsides. I always brought it up as we passed westbury white horse on my way home after picking him up from his mother's, and used to justify it by saying that you will never see one turn round because they'd fall off the slope. I always drove fast enough so that he never really had time to check, and it stuck in his head. All my kids also believed for years that stinging nettles don't hurt you if you don't believe they can, and always blamed their lack of belief whenever they got stung. I suffered some nerve damage in my right hand which means that most of my palm, thumb and first two fingers are numb, so I used to demonstrate my theory by casually handling stinging nettles with no apparent Ill effects even though my hand would be stung to bits in reality. I'd say that got to late teens with at least two of them. It did involve feeling some of the stings and not reacting when they hit the non-numb parts but it was worth it. Anybody else got any good ones, or is it just me that thinks its funny when kids believe complete nonsense. I won't even get into the Cornish vanilla ice cream mines.
I had a sheep related one - I used to tell the kids I knew the name of every sheep we ever saw. "That one's Henry, there's Ethel, etc, etc". That lasted until they were about eight. Vin
My brother, who's 10 years older than me, always used to try and wind me up with a different version of the sheep one, only the sheep were replaced with haggises, who roam the Scottish Highlands but can only go one way around the mountains.
It's a repeat, but a goody. I'll probably watch it again on iPlayer. At the time of your post I was just about settling in to watch yesterday's Qatar MotoGP. The first of the season. What a barnstorming race that turned out to be. The lead changed over 20 times. And my hero of motorcycle heroes, Valentino Rossi won it. Also great to see such competitive bikes. Last season Honda were at the top of tree with the best bike/best rider by a canter. This season I can see 6 or more bikes dicing it out for the front spot. On ITV4's player there's a programme called The Unrideables, about the 500cc 2T bikes of the 1980-90s developing over 160bhp and weighing sod all. They had power bands that were all or nothing.
I never named sheep, perhaps I should have. I told the kids that cows don't have names because they don't realise they're separate creatures, and are just a part of the HERD in their minds, like an arm or leg is part of a human. That's why, I'd say, they all do everything together because otherwise they'd just fall over confused, and was proved by the fact that you never saw a cow in a field on its own. Bulls on the other hand knew they were only one creature and didn't like it one bit, which was why they were always on their own in a field, and always trying to become two creatures if it got into a field of cows
