Happy St Davids Day!

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.....