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

Happy Birthday!!

......Sir Jack Brabham.....

...an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966. He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.
Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948. His successes in midgets and Australian and New Zealand road racing events led to him going to the United Kingdom to further his racing career. There he became part of the Cooper Car Company's racing team, building as well as racing cars. He contributed to the design of the mid-engined cars that Cooper introduced to Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and won the Formula One world championship in 1959 and 1960. In 1962 he established his own Brabham marque with fellow Australian Ron Tauranac, which became the largest manufacturer of customer racing cars in the world in the 1960s. In 1966 Brabham became the only man to win the Formula One world championship driving one of his own cars.
Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages. As of 2008, he is the oldest surviving Formula One world champion.

2nd April 1977 - Red Rum

Red Rum the diminutive horse with the heart of a champion wins the English Grand National for a record third time after winning in 1973 and 1974. The Grand National is widely recognized as one of the testing races in the world with the majority of horses falling or refusing to continue. This year was no exception with 9 of the 42 starters completing the 4.5 mile (7.2 kilometre) course at Aintree in Liverpool.

2nd April 1982 - Argentina invades Falklands

The Falkland Islands, a British possession for 149 years, are invaded by Argentina on this day. The British have long claimed the Falklands, based on their discovery by British navigator John Davis in 1592, but they have also been claimed and occupied at various times by Spain, France and Argentina. For several decades, Argentina petitioned the United Nations for possession of the Falkland Islands but Britain refused to comply, leading Argentine dictator General Leopoldo Galtieri to order a full-scale invasion. After diplomatic efforts failed, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded with force and Britain's armed forces overwhelmed the Argentines within six weeks. During the Falklands War, Britain lost five ships and 256 lives before regaining the islands and Argentina lost its only cruiser and nearly 750 lives. In 1989, the approximately 2,000 residents of the Falkland Islands reaffirmed their allegiance to Britain by rejecting a pro-Argentina political party.

1st April 1918 - RAF

...the Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. At the outbreak of the First World War, Germany took the lead in air strategy and England suffered bombing raids and frustration in the skies against German flying aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron. However, by the war's end, the RAF had gained air superiority along the Western Front. Two decades later, the courage and effectiveness of the RAF would prove legendary during the Battle of Britain, thwarting Adolf Hitler's invasion plans for Britain despite being outnumbered by the German air force.