Tuesday, May 29, 2007

CrAzY CaPtIoN CoNtEsT #1

I was bored!
My mind boggled up!
Why not try something new.
Why not start something new.
Something called CrAzY CaPtIoN CoNtEsT #1
Here's the picture made my (using paint)


You have to do is write a caption on it like "Justice Computer"

If the caption satisfies me... i'll review your blog

plus

give you a free link to spider man 3 movie.





Now the rules strict rules:

1.Review my blog on your blog/site to participate
2.Mail me back @ shivanagri@gmail.com with your blog address
3.Then you can submit your captions and stick to the format

" Caption: xxx
Name: xxx
Email: xxx
Blog: xxx"

!So plz participate!

Galicia

Detail of stone carving on the entrance to the church in Noia

So we went, not like the medieval pilgrims who tramped footsore across Europe, mile after mile to get to Christianity's third most holy city - the alleged resting place of the apostle St James - Santiago in Spanish. Instead we flew for an hour and forty minutes from Liverpool. I noticed something about the huge cathedral - how algae and moss and small green plants had established themselves on its high stone pinnacles and windows - rather like a sea cliff. I liked that - the sense of nature threatening to reclaim it.

Our "cool" Peugeot Mover ice cream hire van.

After Santiago de Compostela, we drove to the coast near Riveira. There we stayed in a four star hotel overlooking the bay. How lovely it was to wake up to the sunshine of Sunday morning and see fishermen hauling in lobster pots or casting their lines from small rowing boats. Further round the coast, in our rented white Peugeot Mover, we walked on a wild Atlantic beach untouched by development - just wooden walkways weaving through the dune vegetation to rocky outcrops where broken shells and driftwood had gathered in heaps - as if purposefully installed by modern artists.


View from our coastal hotel room.

I fell asleep on the lonesome beach near our hotel, my mind drifting to forgotten memories and speculations, all swirling together with images from Will Self's 480 page "Book of Dave" - now finished. Don't you just love that sunny summery feeling - like beach fever - time suspended - your mind wandering in a relaxed haze? I wanted more afternoons like that but to have just one was quite lovely.
On the plane on the way home, we met a man of seventy who had walked the Camina Frances - six hundred miles. He began on May 2nd - walking over twenty miles a day to get to Santiago. He talked all of the hour and forty minutes home but you know - we didn't mind. He wasn't boasting - just telling the fragmented human story of his incredible journey along such a well-trodden path.

We only tasted Galicia. There was so much more to take in. Three days is nothing.

Beer


As some of you know, having aquired a taste while visiting Boston a good few years back, I love Sam Adams Boston Beer but being stuck in the UK have problems getting hold of the stuff. I like it so much I even bought shares in the company!

My local Waitrose and Sainsbury supermarkets used to stock it until around Christmas 06 but for whatever reason don't anymore. So my quest began to find anywhere else that stocked Sam. So far no good.

However while visiting Tesco's recently I discovered they now carry Brooklyn Lager- another gem of a beer I have had the good fortune to sample. I cleared the shelves in the Wokingham store last week.

I would invite all beer lovers to give these two wonderful products a try; you never know you might enjoy them.

And if anyone has any suggestions where I might get hold of Sam Adams beer here in the UK, please let me know.

Here's the official web sites:

http://www.samueladams.com

http://www.brooklynbrewery.com/



31 May 07 Dawney says: Have you tried http://www.surf4wine.co.uk/1354-BB07-Sam_Adams_Boston_Lager?

Monday, May 28, 2007

Spider Man 3: Review

How sad is spiderman after reading this review?
The greatest fight lies between Spiderman and the viewers when the theater is crowded with the fans of spider man.
Last Sunday i was also the part of that crowd with high expectations.
But the movie didnt reached my expectations, dont blame me.
The first one was best
The second good
The third...ok
The peter spidey parker strats with his bullshit introduction (which doesnt mostly happen in hollywood series but bollywood series)
There are scenes to sleep(Mary Jane singing!)
scenes to stare(the 3 kisses)
scenes to hoot(the super duper action sequences)
It seems to look like not a superhero buzz but a damn crappy love triangle.
Seems to me like Sam is getting inspired from old bollywood.
Love,proposing for marriage,not getting oppurtunity,jealousy and all that bull shit stuff that poured over the water on the standard of Spiderman.
One thing that will surely attract you is the action in the movie which is really fabulous.
After all Mr.Sam Riami has spent money like water for these.
If Harry Osborn wasnt enough to handle Spidey two new monsters were born The Sandman and the other one was The Venom.
One side of me wanted to hoot,clap and whistle on the action sequences
and the other side of me wanted to show the middle fingers for the left over crap.

O.k O.k the movie was good and I have a purpose of saying it.



Saturday, May 26, 2007

Bloggerz sick stuff

There are some sick secrets, I and you may undergo when writing down your post on
Blogger.
You may get irritated like me or you'll simply ignore them and you'll have to because there is any coding that lets you escape from them.(i am talking about compose)
If you notice whenever you upload any photo,
when it gets uploaded, automatically the number of spaces between each line increases...
causing you to press back spaces...Irritating.

And if you bold and enlarge somewords and try to take them up by pressing backspace it works as delete.A bullshit key conversion.Even delete doesnt help you.
You are at a mercy of drag n' drop.

One goody thing though is...that it can be used to convert .ico files to.jpeg
i.e icon files to picture files(if you are sick of paint)
Just upload the icon, right click and save it.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Travel

Next stop Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, North West Spain. We are flying there tomorrow afternoon from Liverpool. We will only be there for three nights - actually two of those will be at Santa Uxia on the coast. Why go? Perhaps I would have been wiser, financially, to bank this money instead of jetting off for another mini-adventure but I am sorry, for me travel is like coming up for air when you feel like you are almost drowning. Travel excites me, gives me memories, reminds me that it is great to be alive. This time I am off with Shirley and two friends who accompanied us to the Czech Republic in 2005. We have booked a hire car to take us to the coast and we intend to discover what all the fuss has been about over Santiago ( St James) - the destination of pilgrims from across Europe for centuries. Steve and I also wish to swim in the coastal hotel's swimming pool and in the Atlantic Ocean. We'll be back on Tuesday afternoon. See ya!

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Technorati twists!




You have to change according to the environment and web also has to change,websites are changing and Technorati too brought up a change... a major change in its designning.
When i yesterday visited the site i was amazed to see this page.



I thought it was some sort of server shit.
But today when i visited it... i was surprised to see the new cool look.


Espescially the top black bar looks cool with the yellow tags moving.
But still in case of search and finding stuff easily the older one wins.
You have advanced search here although which you will have to use mostly for searching blogs.
Actually Technorati has diverted from its the only blog search to other searches too

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Ordinariness

I seem to have got out of the habit of trying to convey something of the ordinary detail of my life. Some bloggers are brilliant at this. Humorous and self-deprecating, they find stories in the mundanity of everyday living. I like that. Me? Just recently I have been drawn to newsworthy matters well outside myself – Madeleine, Darfur, Kentucky Fried Chicken v The Tan Hill Inn etc.. It’s time, I think, to get back to the ordinary stuff.

Well last night Mick the warehouseman and I were up at “The Prince of Wales” tackling the Monday night quiz. Our other buddy – Mike - was notable because of his absence. He might have known the fifth club that Alan Ball played for – it was of course Bristol Rovers! Suffice to say we didn’t win but the new landlady who keeps touching my arm and calling me “flower” said she’d give a prize for the best team name. For the second week running, we won! Last week it was “Rebecca’s Wreckers” after the new landlady herself and this week it was “The Ember Members” because “The Prince” is now part of the Ember Inn chain. The prize was some Argentinian red wine.

Google Image Search - "Ordinariness"

Our garden is looking good. I tamed it at the weekend, hairdressing two hundred feet of privet hedge with my lethal JCB hedge trimmer. Then it was pruning and sweeping up, cutting the bottom lawn, making a bonfire. I love that knackered feeling after hours of physical work. So different from the tiredness that overwhelms you after days of working with adolescent “scholars” (ha!) - many from deprived council estates and broken homes. And oh lovely – I learnt at 5pm today that the dreaded OFSTED inspectors will be coming to call on my department in mid-June. The slime-balls with their travel claim forms, hotel receipts and superior attitudes – if you’re so goddam clever why don’t you get in that classroom and show us how it’s done! But of course they don’t.

Physically, I have always been outrageously fit and healthy. I have never missed a day off work for illness in thirty years. Can you believe it? Thirty bloody years and not one solitary “sickie”. I have soldiered on even when my body has screamed “Stay home you stupid git!” But just lately time has threatened to catch up on me. I have longterm toothache in spite of the expensive interventions of three useless dentists. Somehow I have damaged my knee – unless it’s just wear and tear. The other week I was limping like a twat and I can still feel the bugger now. As a consequence, I have stopped bounding up three stairs at a time like a twelve year old. And then there’s the cold sore at the corner of my mouth that refuses to heal and oh, my eyesight – I refuse to wear glasses but sometimes the words on the page blur as if they are under water. Fortunately the gout in my left big toe has disappeared but for how long? I am starting to feel like a Ford Mondeo that’s done 150,000 miles and is ready for an engine change. Thank God the two most important parts of my anatomy are still working fine.

I am reading “The Book of Dave” by Will Self at the moment. Just getting towards the end. It is a very challenging read as it moves between the here and now of London taxi driver Dave Rudman and a far off future where people have a new god called Dave whose taxi driver philosophy guides their lives. It is very weird indeed. Well that was that. I hope this post has been ordinary enough for you… zzzzzzz!

Blog Review: John Chow


Who doesnt know mighty John Chow,a dot com Mogul.

If you are a blogger and you visit blogs must have gone through his blog at least once.

His blog is helps you to make money online and earn money online himself
(i.e through nice placement of ads)

He sometimes rambles around with posts about his car( there aretwo cars at the top of his blog to attract visitors),different foods which refresh you apart from the regular money making schedule.

His categories include:-AGLOCO,Cars,Fine Dining,Investing,Make Money Online,Ramblings,Review My Blog,ReviewMe Reviews,Technology,The Net,Videos,Wordpress.


All right enough!
Now the real reason why I am reviewing his blog:-
He sends a ton of traffic for free, but in exchange of reviewing his blog.
And who doesnt want to revie his blog as his blog has page rank of 6.
Want to review his blog and earn traffic.
Click "here"



"The inner feeelings:
All right All right I confess, that I reviewed your copied competitor firsta nd this is my greed to get some backlinks .But may be this is your greed also to get high authority to get high,highest rank in Technorati."

Blog Review: Search Engine Marketing

Who has got the guts of copying John Chow?
Here he is Darin Carter who writes on something known as Search Engine Marketing on his blog http://www.darin.cc/ .


And to remain in the buzz he has created/copied an innovative way of building backlinks.
Actually Mr. Carter is trying to offer us a Free Nintendo Wii,in turn we review his blog.
Quite a nice placement of ads!Keep it Up!
Well if we look at his categories he has written posts about
Advertising, Alexa,Blog,Google,How to,Marketing,MSN,Pay Per Click,Personal, Press Releases,Review My Blog, Reviews, Search Engines,SEM, SEO, Technology, Text LinkAds,Video, Yahoo
A hot yellow car is fixed at the top to attract users.
All right dont except more from me!

Blog Reviewed!

"The inner feeelings:

All right All right I confess this is my greed to get some backlinks and a nice looking console called Nintendo Wii although if it was PS3 it could me much better, may be i could have written a novel from your blog.

But may be this is your greed also to get high authority to get high rank in Technorati.

I think i have made the double century you wanted"

Blogger's adding something new

Ya its true blogger ads something new.
Somewhich i liked and some which i hated.
Not hated but not liked.
Google ads one Auto save feature.This one's good! You are safe.
The others one is all right! others are safe.
The reason is that they have introduced Word Verification.(The same old stuff for signing up)
is to reduce spam blogs.

I have created my template!

Hey! do you u know bout 3 columned blogger templates.
Well they ad to the beauty,space,money of your blog.
Wanna try one,which is created by me
http://shivanagri.googlepages.com/565-3col-template.xml
How to install:
Click the above link.
Click save as
Then edit your bloggers template.Just upload
You work is done (and mine too)

Wanna get an example
To see this post you saw the blog ehich was an example

Monday, May 21, 2007

Darfur

See this little girl. She's dying from malnutrition in Darfur, Sudan. We don't know her name but it is not Madeleine McCann. No one wears yellow wristbands for her. No video films of her plight are screened at huge sporting events like the F.A. Cup Final. She was brought to the Doctors Without Borders feeding clinic in al-Junaynah, Western Darfur. David Beckham has not made a TV appeal for her and no one has pledged thousands of pounds to assist her cause. She is like the unknown warriors for whom flames burn around the world. She is just as important as Madeleine McCann and there are thousands of other little girls and boys like her around the world - anonymous children who die of starvation or diarrhoea, warfare or abuse. Her father is not a cardiologist and her mother is not a general practitioner. This little girl's story will never really be told - never filling columns in crappy tabloid newspapers. I salute Oxfam and all the other charities that are working hard for the good of these forgotten children. I hope that when the £3million reward for Madeleine is not claimed that those who pledged it will instead donate it to Oxfam or another charity working to heal the terrors of Darfur. Sure we all want Madeleine to get home safe but let's not forget these other kids. As I say, they are just as important.

iPhone iCons

Apple may suck for Mac's but they do rock for the iPOD's which was relaesed almost half a decade ago and is still making the world dance to its tunes.

Continuing the 'i'series the latest product of Apple to hit the shelves this june in US and next year in Asia is the

iphone

Click here to know much more about this great gadget.
All right i am not Steve Jobs promoting my product.
I am just doing what he may call ill-eagle.
I cant give you the iPhone but i can give you its icons
for free click the link to grab em' up





Sunday, May 20, 2007

Once more:Crazy site

There are two identical pictures that will appear on the screen. Almost 8000 people were tested to see if they could find the 3 differences and only 19 got it.
See how observant you are and if you find all 3 differences,
you are one of the most elite people in the world!
Click on this link.............http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf

Friday, May 18, 2007

Analytics modified

Some things do change
And analytics is the new name in them
Recently Google changed the interface of Analytics.
Its still under beta but you can say that it is BIG and Better than the previous interface.

"*What is new?* In the new version, your reports have beenredesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics,and ease of use.
Here are just a few of the features you'llnotice:
- Email and export reports
- Custom Dashboard
- Trend and Over-time Graph
- Contextual help tips
The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more.

In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigaterelated information and explore your data."As google says...
But one weak point is that the older one is more vibrant and the newer one little dull.
But in case of speed issues it is much better.
You can still use the older version.
Its always up to you!

Wanna be a Superhero

Didnt you dreamt of being a superhero.
You can be!
really!
But in a picture.
Wont you want yourself to be seen as a superhero.
Click *here* to Get your hands on this crazy utility by Disney.
It has 5 hairstyles,weapons,torso,belts,masks,gloves for both male and female superheroes.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Nothingness

Rabbiting on and on… that’s what human beings do. It never seems to end. If you’re not rabbiting with others, you’re rabbiting in your own head. An internal monologue – as if, as if your body has been invaded by some kind of tinitus alien – rattling on and on – nagging at you, speculating, remembering, fantasising, working out. And people pass with mobile phones – rabbiting away, texting, interacting – or they sit as I am doing at computer screens tapping out messages, comments, emails, blogposts. It’s never ending babble – a gabbling, jabbering word pie world. Give me some peace and quiet and stillness. Floating on a wave of unctuous sea water or motionless beneath it. Hanging like a paper lantern in a still night sky. Listening to the sound of blood pulsing through my veins. In such a void, time would be irrelevant. No voices nattering, squawking, tormenting. Just perfect peace stretching out for miles, quiet and empty… pure nothingness. Like a soul medicine.

Go kid to fetch up goodies

Want to have some goodies for free.(They reachyou before reaching 20$ for a beginner)
You have to just play a few games and win prizes (Guaranteed)

Though kiddish stuff,but dont kids exist and why not be a kid if you get some stuff of it.
And amazingly anything i have recieved yet from the internet is these goodies,not once,not twice,but thrice.
So i assure you, at first the delivery of goods must be late but later on it will be normal.
(Enough!Now the sites plz)

1.Diptrix
>> A promotion site for its cookies.You have to earn cookies to win goodies.
(Cheap goodies,more time taken to earn them your net bill might be more than you get)

The bestgame here to earn easy cookies is "Toss the Cookies".
You have to do is just toss the cookies in a glass.
tip:- Just set up the right aim and right speed and continue clicking...17 cookies guaranteed.

Goodies:- pens,notepads,caps,shirts,bookmarks,new music system (mostly out of stock)
Goodies i Have:-notepads,bookmarks.pens etc.
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Another one is

2.My CandyMan Club
>>Another promoting site for candies,this one is much better in case of goodies.
O.K it has candies but the points arent called as candies,they are simply called as points.
You get points to join too, some to play also.
It has 10-20 games but the best thing about it is whether you win or lose you will get 10 points.

Then best one for earning points is "Para Gliding"
Tip:- Hold LMB,submit,play
Goodies:- bags,vouchers,sippers,mini basket ball,tents etc.
Goodies i have:-sipper,mini basket ball,vouchers

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Battlestar Geek


Gonna sound really sad now.

Having lost access to Sky a while back, I haven't been able to get my fix of season 3 of Battlestar Galactica.

So I've bought the Mini-Series plus seasons 1 and 2 cheaply on DVD with the intention of watching each and every episode in order. I'm halfway through season 1 and had forgotted just how good it is and what compelling drama it is.

Can't wait til season 3 drops through my letter box.

Alternatives for Adsense

Alternatives for Adsense

Mr. Money Maker.All right Adsense may be the big A from the big G alright is a better way to earn money.
But their are others who are good.
and as said (by me) Better + Good= Best
So why not try these:-
1.Yahoo Publisher Network
2.Clicksor
3.Adsonar
4.Adbrite
5.LinksShare
7.Commision Junction
8.Amazon Associates
9.Sharesale
10.Bravenet
11.ClickBank
12.TextLinkAds
13.FeedBurner
14.Pheedo
15.Cafe Press
16.Lulu
17.Ebooks
18.Clickbooth
19.The Blog Resource
20.Blogger Jobs
21.Bloggers for Hire
22.Blogortunity

All these ones were related to blogs in one or the other way...either contextual,display,affliate ads,product sales etc.
But now I would like to share some stuff thats not related to your blog in any way,but may bring you cash.

1.Xpango
Want to have a PS2,PS3,PsP,iPod,cell phones and other freakin' gadgets for FREE.
All you have to do is register here by simply clicking here and register.Works on referral system, this one's turning out to be a big prank as all its registered users including me say that
no credits are earned yet.
But as it is free.Hell Yeah!

2.Surveys Pays U
Actually it is a survey based site.It just gives out the links and is free to register.
Plus you get free 500 just for registering.

3.Slash My Search
Well this one is the first site to give you money for searching and making this as homepage.Must try.

4.MyLot
Make friends and earn money.This social networking sites pays you for creating communities,inviting people.

5.Shvoong
Pays you to write abstracts.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Madeleine

Poor little Madeleine McCann should have been with her family celebrating her fourth birthday on Saturday. If you don't know - this little British girl was abducted from a holiday complex in southern Portugal some ten days ago while her parents apparently ate tapas in a restaurant about fifty yards away.
It may be politically incorrect to say it but I have been appalled by some of the hype that has surrounded the child's disappearance with "The Sun" newspaper pumping up the hysteria. At Saturday's Glasgow Celtic home match, hundreds of "Find Maddy" posters were distributed and the players all wore yellow wristbands. Why? Glasgow is a long way from The Algarve. And then David Beckham made a TV appeal and bigwigs like Richard Branson and J.K.Rowling set up a £2.5 million reward fund. It wasn't like this when little working class Ben Needham from Sheffield disappeared from the island of Kos fifteen years ago. It took a good while for the media to show much interest at all outside of his home city.

Ben is still missing. However, I hope with all my heart that wee Madeleine is found safe and well - though as the days drag on that hope is in danger of shrinking. There are too many bad, mad, greedy people in this world. Right thinking people across the globe will want Maddy back home with her family but hey, at the risk of sounding unfeeling, let's not go crazy about it! See below:-
The shrine to Madeleine in Rothley, Leicestershire.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Alty Symbols


You can get these symbols too...
Just Alt + number/numbers (Num Lock On)



Sunday, May 13, 2007

Eurovision

Of course, I shouldn't care one jot about the stupid Eurovision song contest which came this year from Helsinki, Finland. But in spite of myself I do. The songs were - as usual - almost universally trite and instantly forgettable. Eurovision seems to have developed a song style all of its own which is totally out of synch with any current musical fashions.

Great Britain's entry was absolutely awful. A bunch of has-beens called Scooch performed their ridiculous jokey but slightly jingoistic number "Flying the Flag". It was embarrassing and didn't deserve many marks at all but it was , amazingly, somewhat better than half the other entries.

It was the voting that really riled me. It was clearer than ever that in most countries people weren't voting for songs but for old alliances and international bonds based on ethnicity, religion or geographical proximity. Hence it was no surprise that Cyprus gave its twelve point reward to Greece or that Sweden gave its twelve points to Finland. As Shirley and I watched the scoring unfold I was nearly always correctly predicting where each country's highest points would end up. Western Europe did very badly indeed and the top places were dominated by former Russian-aligned countries including Moldova, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine.

The winner was Serbia's Marija Serifovic (See picture top right) with her rendition of "Moltiva" - and what a load of bollocks this song was. The upshot is that the Eurovision circus must descend on Belgrade next May and in my view not enough healing time has occurred since the Serbian atrocities of the Bosnian war and the troubles in Kosovo. Serbia doesn't deserve an historical seal of approval courtesy of the Eurovision media bandwagon - not yet anyway.

If you visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio you will see and hear how incredibly influential the United Kingdom has been in the world of popular music since 1960. However, in Eurovision we persist in putting forward useless acts like Scooch (see picture bottom left) singing meaningless songs. What I'd like to see is a genuine British songsmith up there representing our country, singing a song that has guts and lyrical integrity with a tune that resonates through your head, sung in a way that says - "I don't give a damn about the biased Eurovision voting. This is a real song. Take it or leave it." James Morrison, Elton John, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Keane, Travis, The Manic Street Preachers... we have so many talented people to choose from.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Copyright

Read the tale of how American "food" giant KFC have legally challenged a North Yorkshire pub's use of the term "family feast" to describe its Christmas menu. Apparently KFC have copyrighted this phrase. On two counts, how can they? Firstly, KFC "food" is rubbish. Personally, I would never consume anything from their horrid menu - not even if it was a mistakenly fried baby rat! So to describe anything they produce as being a "family feast" is in my view blatant and hideous misuse of the English language. A pile of crap cannot be a family feast can it?

Secondly, the English language is there for us all to use. Okay I accept you can copyright "The New York Times" or "Love Heart" sweeties, "Ford Mustang" or even "KFC" but "family feast"? Come on! If that is acceptable then I hereby claim copyright over these four words - "Exit", "Entrance", "Push" and "Pull". However, I also hereby give permission for anybody in the world to freely use these words apart from the KFC corporation. These words must be removed from all KFC doorways. Failure to follow this instruction will invite strong legal action! Sometimes David bites back Goliath!

Tan Hill Inn - England's highest pub. Click on it to see their website.

FRIDAY UPDATE. Given the growing ridicule, KFC have done the "decent" thing and knocked this issue on the head now. More likely they saw how their image was being tarnished by reports of their heavy-handed behaviour and wished to save face. Here's the ITN news report "...a spokeswoman for KFC GB Ltd has now stated that no further action will be taken against the pub.
She said: "KFC has to protect its trademarks against those who seek to trade off its brand. KFC has spoken to Ms Daly at the Tan Hill Inn and confirmed that it will not take this case any further.
The spokeswoman added: "This means that Ms Daly can continue to use the phrase 'Family Feast' on the pub's Christmas menu. It's an unusual situation that has been blown out of all proportion."
Ms Daly said: "They have very kindly said we can continue using the name. Common sense has prevailed. I'm very relieved and ecstatic."
VERY KINDLY!? Hey get real landlady! They're finger-lickin thugs!

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Whimper

LEFT: City manager Phil Brown spots a seagull during today's disappointing home game with Plymouth.
The last game of the season. Plymouth Argyle at one o' clock on a Sunday lunchtime. There were me and Shirley and our Ian and my friend Tony and his wife Fiona and 20,000 other Hull City fans and around three hundred bravehearts from Plymouth. When did they set off? Must have been five in the morning.

It was a damp squib of a match. Neither team had anything to play for. Our goalkeeper Boaz Myhill brilliantly saved a first half penalty but then they scored anyway just before half time. In the second half we realised that the ugly and balding linesman on our side of the pitch must have been born and bred in Plymouth and was clearly a lifelong supporter of the Argyle because his flag kept going up when Tigers forwards were clearly onside and bearing down on goal. Although Stuart Elliott hammered home a deserved consolation goal for City, we lost 2-1.

On three or four occasions during the match the chant went up from both Hull and Plymouth fans - "We all hate Leeds! We all hate Leeds! Scum! We all hate Leeds! We all hate Leeds!" Rather poetic don't you think - especially in the light of their blatant and cyncal abuse of Football Association rules in order to ensure they are not docked points next season. They were already down for Chrissake so why dock ten points just now? Typical of Leeds! Bad losers and cheats!
So that was the end of the 2006-2007 season. We survived! I saw some great games and some awful ones too. It is clear as crystal that we have to change our squad and bring in two or three significant players who can make a difference if we are to hold our own next season and move away from the relegation lottery zone. Apologies to any readers who are not remotely interested in English football and the struggles of Hull City AFC. I feel exactly the same way about astro physics and Orkney island knitting patterns!

Friday, May 4, 2007

Entry for May 04, 2007

Have received something of a knock-back today.

Heard that my mum's liver has not responded to the treatment and although no worse is certainly not any better. Life is shit at times.

Just how I feel.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Fred

In the tap room of my local pub there's a corner that we call "Old Fartz Corner". It is where the old regulars have traditionally plonked themselves. The name is even carved on the edge of the television shelf above this part of the pub.
In the eighteen years that I have been a regular, I have seen some of the old farts disappear but one of them seemed to be going on forever. His name was and is Fred. He lived in a cottage at Bent's Green - about a mile away - and every single night for over forty years he made his way by bus to our pub. He always caught the 11.20pm bus home and he always sat in exactly the same place in the pub and he always drank three pints of Tetley's bitter - every night for forty years. By my calculations that's 43,800 pints of beer!

Fred is seventy eight years old now - a simple man without partner or family. By all accounts his cottage is very basic indeed - without central heating or proper cooking facilities. For many years he has lived the frugal bachelor life, his main pleasure being his nightly trips down to the pub. I have lost count of the number of times I said "Night Fred!" to him.

Fred used to look very healthy - a ruddy complexion and a shock of jet black hair - as fit as a fiddle - the kind of man who would never bother with doctors and dentists and hospitals and social workers and home helps. He was independent, a former steel worker, living the golden days of his retirement.

Then earlier this year Fred started to change. He looked unkempt - sometimes forgetting to shave. His bottom jaw sagged lower than before and his clothes started to look really tatty and dirty. Under his top shirt you could see a white vest that was turning grey. Then he started to smell.

It was very unpleasant. Not human excrement or stale urine but still bodily and pungent. It turned your stomach and even hardened regulars made sure they sat well away from Fred. The landlady was none too pleased and in the end had to tell Fred he was no longer welcome unless he cleaned himself up. It was shortly after this that Fred had a fall and went into hospital where they discovered ulcerous, leaking ruptures on his legs. Fred had just about reached the end of the line.

Rumour has it that he will never be back in our pub - he'll have to go into residential care. Another rumour says that he had another fall actually in hospital and smashed his hip up pretty bad. One or two customers have been to see him in hospital. I ought to go myself but I haven't got round to it. He's not someone I would call a friend - he's just the old guy who was in that pub night after night like the furniture. He reminds you that nothing lasts forever. Sometimes things, people, associations can seem as if they will always be there but it all goes in the end... just like Fred.
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