Life.......

The quote that goes with this pic seems very apt at the moment.......

LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES,
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOURE GONNA GET!

A Kick In The Teeth!

.......For Anti Terrorism!

How can the Scottish Government FREE a Convicted Terrorist?

This man, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrah, KILLED nearly 300 people, and they just set him free. Free to return to Lybia to a HEROES WELCOME.

HOW CAN THIS BE?

So what that he has terminal cancer !!! They wouldnt release Ronny Biggs, and he only robbed a train.

It just makes you wonder what the world is coming to!

Anyone......

recognise this place?

What film was it in?

Just thinking.......

...about getting one of these.....

.....Its a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.

I saw a couple last weekend whilst I was at the CLA Game Fair at Belvoir Castle, Grantham.

They are a HPR (Hunting, Pointing, Retrieving) breed of dog, so Ill have to work hard to train in, and believe me, it will be a fantastic working dog.

30th July 1966 - World Cup

Host-nation England beat Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup final at Wembley Stadium. In extra-time, Geoff Hurst scored his third of three goals to win the game, handing England the Jules Rimet Trophy for the first time in the World Cup’s 36-year history. Hurst’s second goal later stirred considerable controversy when film footage suggested that it failed to cross the goal line after bouncing off the crossbar.

Supersonic!

THIS....

....is what supersonic LOOKS like!

1st July 1987 - Myra Hindley

Following a visit by Myra Hindley with police to Saddleworth Moor a body is found in a shallow grave on the moor believed to have been one of Moors murderers victims from 1966.

Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 for the murder of Edward Evans, 17, Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, and 12-year-old John Kilbride, but had never confessed to any additional murders until now. The body is later confirmed as missing Pauline Reade.

Sunshine!!!!!

Its been ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS all week,

(Durham from Prebends Bridge)

...so much so that I have been going to work on my motorbike.

AND it looks like its going to contiue!

FANTASTIC!!!!!

17th June 1980 - Greenham Common

Secretary of State for Defence Francis Pym has announced 160 US nuclear cruise missiles will be located at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, and the disused RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire.

In 1981 following the decision a women's peace camp was set up at Greenham Common which remained there to protest the basing of American nuclear weapons in the UK.

In 1991 following the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States the weapons were removed.

Always remember........

What goes around, comes around!

Just one thing to say.......

29th May 1953 - Everest Conquered!!

Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal plant four flags at the peak of Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet above sea level, and become the first explorers to scale Everest. As early as the 1920s, attempts were made to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. However, no climbers succeeded until Hillary and Norgay on 29 May 1953. The two, part of a British expedition, made their final assault on the summit after spending a fitful night at 27,900 feet. News of their achievement broke around the world on 2 June, the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and many called it a good omen of things to come. The Queen knighted Edmund Hillary later that year.

22nd May 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Born on this day, in 1859, in Edinburgh, to an English father of Irish descent, Charles Altamont, and Irish mother, nee Mary Foley.

8th May 1945 - VE Day

After five years, eight months and five days of massive devastation, the end of the European phase of the Second World War is celebrated on 8 May 1945. Victory in Europe was commemorated with celebrations all around the world in recognition of the unconditional surrender of all German forces signed in Reims, France, the day before. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told war-weary Londoners, this is your victory, while U.S. President Harry Truman reminded Americans that until Japan's defeat, victory is but half-won. Following the announcement huge crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, gathered outside Buckingham Palace in London and were cheered as the King, Queen and two Princesses came out onto the balcony.

Friendship.

1st May 1982 - Falkland Islands

British Warships and Fighter Bombers bombed Argentinean positions at Port Stanley on the Islands as war broke out over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands after Argentina invaded the Islands .

1st May 1994 - Senna.

The Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna has been killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

RIP Ayrton.

Be Prepared.

SWINE FLU......

Dont forget.....

ENGLISH PRIDE.

My English Pride,

I will not hide.

The English race,

I wont disgrace.

My English blood,

Flows hot and true.

And English people,

Ill stand by you.

Through thick and thin,

Until I die,

My ENGLISH PRIDE,

Stands so high.

28th April 1986 - Chernobyl

Two days after monitoring stations in Sweden, Finland and Norway began reporting sudden high discharges of radioactivity in the atmosphere. The Soviet Union via the official news agency, Tass, said there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

28th April 1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty.

Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master's mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small, open boat, and the Bounty set course for Tubuai south of Tahiti.

APRIL 23RD - St George's Day!

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY!

Hypochondria.....

I stumbled across these earlier, and they made me laugh quite hard. They reminded me of someone I used to know......

.....Well come on then hurry up and pick one thats gonna do the job well and truely....

LMAO!

20th April 1968 - Enoch Powell

The Conservative right winger, Enoch Powell, (MP for Wolverhampton South West) makes a hard-hitting speech saying Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year and calling for an immediate reduction in immigration attacking the government's immigration policy at a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham.

Enoch Powell's so-called "Rivers of Blood" speech led to him being sacked from the shadow cabinet, but made him very popular with tabloids and thousands of workers who staged strikes and marches in support of his views and touched a nerve ending for many who thought the current Immigration laws should be tightened up.

Happy Birthday to a self confessed nerd!

David Hewlett.

Born in Redhill, Surrey in 1968, who moved to Canada with his family at an early age.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS!

17th April 1964 - Ford Mustang unveiled

The Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World's Fair. The Mustang was championed by Ford Division general manager Lee Iacocca, with a suggested retail price of $2,368. The car was a great success and sold over one million cars in its first 18 months.

15th April 1945 - Belsen

British troops liberate the German Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp finding thousands of dead and rotting corpses and many more thousands of sick and starving prisoners kept in severely overcrowded and dirty compounds. The prisoners were suffering from acute typhus, typhoid and tuberculosis due to no running water in the camp . Over 30,000 had died in the previous months many from typhus but even more from starvation.

15th April 1989 - Hillsborough Disaster

The FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, turned to tragedy when at least 200 people were injured and 96 crushed to death, many of them teenagers and children. The problems were caused by too many Liverpool fans being allowed in to the back of an already full stand at the Leppings Lane end of the ground, as more fans were allowed in those already there were pushed forward and crushed against the high, wired-topped safety fences.

15th April 1912 - Titanic

On this day, the luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic sinks just two hours after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic. When it first left port at Southampton, England the Titanic barely escaped a collision with the steamer New York. The regal ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, was considered the most luxurious ever built and unsinkable. However, just before midnight on 14th April 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg about 400 miles from the coast of Newfoundland. Slightly over two hours later, in the early hours of 15th April, the ship sank. The ship was woefully unprepared for such an emergency, with more than 1,500 people dieing aboard the ship as it went down, or freezing to death in the icy North Atlantic waters. Most of the 700 survivors were women and children.

8th April 1984 - Kurt Cobain

Rock musician Kurt Cobain commits suicide he was found with a single gunshot wound to the head. A gun and suicide note were found nearby.

8th April 1977 - The Clash

The Clash release their first album named "The Clash"

They had their first gig supporting The Sex Pistols in 1976

Easter Break.

I finish work this afternoon for 6 days.

Im looking forward to a really long easter weekend which I will be spending here......

No thinking about work until next Wednesday......

Wooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today.....

...is the birthday of some really great people...

First and foremost, my Dad, he is 68 years old today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

Other people who share his birthday are:

Eddy Murphy

Alec Baldwin

Doris Day

Marlon Brando (RIP)

Andy Robinson