Tonight....

I know its not Guy Fawkes night until tomorrow, but Im taking my nieces to the firework display at the local rugby club tonight. Should be really good fun.

Im also going to the display tomorrow night at the Police Headquarters in Durham.

4th November 1942

The German army goes into full retreat after suffering a comprehensive defeat by the British at the battle of El Alamein in Egypt.

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3rd November 1957

The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space, a dog named Laika, aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. Electrodes attached to her body provided scientists on the ground with important information about the biological effects of space travel. She died after the batteries of her life-support system ran down. At least a dozen more Russian dogs were launched into space in preparation for the first manned Soviet space mission, and at least five of these dogs died in flight. On 12th April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. He orbited the Earth once before landing safely in the USSR.

Happy Halloween!

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......we could do with this happening to a few other people too......

Beware.......

.... all manner of BEASTS and ghoul that will be roaming the streets tonight, steer clear of them all.....

JUST IN CASE!!!!

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Todays song....

This conversation....

...had me in kinks last night.

Todays song....

COLD!!!!!!

Its starting to get really cold now.....
My car has been like this every morning this week before going to work....

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30th October 1938

Radio dramatist Orson Welles and members of his company, caused mass hysteria and frightened tens of thousands of listeners causing people to flee from their homes and praying for salvation when the adaptation of H.G. Wells play, War of the Worlds was aired on CBS Radio. The dramatization was so good people mistook the play for newscasts which caused the panic. Its realism convinced many listeners that beings from another planet have landed on earth.

30th October 1887.

English painter Lawrence Stephen Lowry born in Manchester.

Trains at Manchester College of Art and the Salford School of Art while working as a clerk.

Paints many pictures of Lancashire's industrial landscape which include large factories with many deliberately thin 'matchstick' men and women. Dies in 1976.

Many of his works are now exhibited at the Lowry Gallery in Salford.

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Todays song....

Joke time........

Two nuns, Sister Catherine and Sister Helen, are travelling through Europe in their car.
They get to Transylvania and are stopped at a traffic light.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a tiny little Dracula jumps onto the hood ofthe car and hisses through the windshield.
"Quick, quick!" shouts Sister Catherine. "What shall we do?"
"Turn the windshield wipers on. That will get rid of the abomination," says Sister Helen.
Sister Catherine switches them on, knocking Dracula about,but he clings on and continues hissing at the nuns.
"What shall I do now?" she shouts.
"Switch on the windshield washer. I filled it up with Holy Water at the Vatican," says Sister Helen.
Sister Catherine turns on the windshield washer. Dracula screams as the waterburns his skin, but he clings on and continues hissing at the nuns.
"Now what?"shouts Sister Catherine.
"Show him your cross," says Sister Helen.
"Now you're talking," says Sister Catherine.
She opens the window and shouts, "Fuck off!"

27th October 1914

Author and poet Dylan Thomas is born in Swansea, Wales on 27th October 1914. Thomas established himself in 1934 with Eighteen Poems, a collection of emotionally and sexually charged pieces. His writing was celebrated for its forceful sound and rhythm, and the poet was acclaimed for readings of his own work. In 1953, he was on a reading tour of the United States when he died of an alcohol overdose in New York City. His most famous work, Under Milk Wood, which evokes the lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside town, was published posthumously.