Spacebar Breakers

Spacebar the longest key, apart from being used to provide spaces in a word processor, or in ur blog is also targetted by the game makers, and especially gamers.
Though my space bar key, is not broken yet... but i like seeing other people's broken keyboards.
Well not really.
After the arrow keys, w,s,a,d and enter "space bar" is used...
and i am going to mention some games... that require extreme pressing of your space bar key, that may even lead to its breaking.

1.Gully Cricket:
This is an online version of reformed cricket that is often seen in the streets of india( mostly on sundays and curfews).
You can play it just below

even this game, has a point when, you will have to continuosly press the space bar, and keep it hitting...if you keep it hitting you survive and if you dont, your game is over... its just like a local street panga.

see the screen shot:-

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2.GTA San Andreas

Another one in my list of spacebar breakers is GTA San Andreas.

Though the whole game wont break your space bars , but workkout in the gym surely needs pissing off on your space bar keys.

It gives a very little experience of lifting those bloody dumbbells.

Checkout its screenshot below:-

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3. Shrek 2

Though this one is not as popular as GTA but this is more tougher, freakier and tenser...

I am not talking about the whole game Shrek 2, at first sight you'll think it as game of kids...

But later when you reach the "Puss in Boots" level, you will rightly feel the pain.

Satisfy yourself by viewing the screenshot below:-

Beware along with space bar many other keys are at a risk.

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And last but not the least

4. Panja Fight( Arm Wrestling)

This one is something that can kill your arm and spacebar.

This game has real visuals whi will arm wrestle with you.

This one is a must-play game if you want to break your spacebar.

Click the screenshot below to experience the game.

Goa

Under a jackfruit tree and slender palms heavy with coconuts, past the old well and a sleeping light brown dog where unfamiliar birdsong begins the afternoon's soundtrack. Along that sandy path there's a flash of green wings as a chipmunk scurries into verdant undergrowth. The air is like warm honey and the sand so hot your feet don't linger. Up through the last little bushes of the dunes and in front of you there's the rippling Arabian Sea bursting rhythmically on a wide arc of golden beach that stretches from the Portugese fort at Sinquerim northwards to Baga.

To the left there's the tumbledown "Baywatch" beach shack and to the right there's "Blue Waves" - all bamboo and coconut palm matting and "Kingfisher" advertising boards with a few knocked up wooden beach loungers. Our sound track continues with melodious surf on sand. We turn right greeting Mustaffa and order lime sodas followed by simple Goan fish curry and rice with chapatis and aloo gobi. It emerges twenty minutes later from the mysterious rear of the unpromising shack but is food you might die for costing little more than three pounds.

I enjoy the laziness of hot beaches. You slow right down, turning pages of a book, watching a crow cawing on the bamboo canopy, wondering idly if yesterday's dolphin will resurface. When your temperature rises and the mood takes you, you search coolness by plunging into the sea. It is almost tepid. You could stay there all day. When you emerge you don't even bother with a towel. You enjoy the cooling sensation of salty water droplets evaporating from your skin. You order a "Kingfisher" beer - the advertising has worked. You're beach crazy.

We loved Goa and wished we could have stayed longer on the massive peninsula that is India. We loved the chaos and the niceness of the people. We liked the birds and the buffalo, the curries and the tuk-tuks, the lush tropical greenery, the intricate wood carving and the market traders, the bird watching expedition we took in a hollowed out mango wood canoe with our guide - Ulay and of course the healing warmth of the sun. In Goa, Portugese Christianity meets the more ancient pathways of Hinduism as the Mandovi River meets the sea.

India has always been special in the recesses of my imagination because it was there - in Delhi - that my parents were married at the end of World War II. They came back to England with jewellery boxes, miniature ivory elephants, gemstones, stories of walks in the Himalayas, hammered brass tables and a pair of wooden bookends that told an ancient Hindu tale. They were both in the Royal Air Force and for anyone stationed in India it had been a different kind of war because the Japanese enemy never arrived. Mum and Dad returned by boat round Cape of Good Hope to begin a new life together. We came back by Monarch Airlines with a handsome rosewood elephant called Jumbo who will sit nicely on the hearth in our back room - reminding us of our dreamlike holiday and of the special land that remains India. I dedicate this post to Mum and Dad - wishing they were still here so that I could tell them new tales of their beloved land.

In The (British) Summertime When The Weather's High

(Thanks to Mungo Jerry, just in case you didn't know)

Yep there it is, we've put our clocks forward an hour and have officially put Winter behind us. We'll see if the weather systems have got that message LOL.

The hospital are continuing to make mum as comfortable as possible. They are steadily increasing the pain relief to try and bring it under control. Her consultant visited Friday- he feels the bone strengthening treatment is now having very little benefit and has suggested it should be stopped. Instead he recommends concentrating on pain control.

Examination Ends!!!

Finally, the day which i wanted is here!!!

Examination is finally clear!!!

But the scars of pain... of the unpredictable, challenging, disastrous examination war are still here

So checkout this voilently new cartoon that i have to share:-

On this ocassion i would like to share my quote on examination:-

" In an Examination, There is no winner, no loser. There is only depression and destruction"

Palliative Care

The doctors have been struggling to bring mum's pain under control in recent weeks. She had a meeting yesterday with a specialist at the Palliative Care clinic in Wokingham.

We heard last night they have made a place available for her at a specialist care hospital in Reading. She's going in today for up to a week, maybe longer to try and find the right combination of drugs.

Mum's due to see her Oncologist next week for a review and hopefully assess how the radiotherapy went but the specialist yesterday did say they were beginning to run out of options.

Secret

This blog will be unsupervised for the next nine days as Mr & Mrs Y. Pudding venture abroad to a secret destination - not Benidorm or Aya Napa. All will be revealed upon our return - assuming of course that they let us back through security. Have a Happy Easter everyone!

Good Friday

Despite my upbringing in first the Methodist and then Baptist church, I'm not at all sure whether it is the form to wish people "Happy Easter" today or on Easter Sunday...


I guess without Good Friday we wouldn't have Easter Sunday so I've kind of made my own mind up. Today marks the day when a man called Jesus was put to death by the Romans. The Bible teaches that he gave his life willingly and that three days later he came back from the dead.

Happy Easter everyone. Don't eat too many chocolate eggs in one go.

(I've been enjoying the BBC's The Passion, telling the Easter Story. It's a co-production with HBO, so the "transatlantically challenged" might get a chance to see it. Well worth it.)

Season Four

The unofficial Doctor Who News page (http://www.gallifreyone.com/news) is reporting that the BBC has set Saturday 5 April as the launch date for the next series of Doctor Who.

Might explain why the schedules for series two of (spin-off) Torchwood have been bumped up a bit, with two new episodes this week. No news yet on any of the official BBC sites as far as I can see.

Can't wait to get back on board the TARDIS.

Happy Holi!!!

Now i finally remember that it has finally been a year to Crazyblog!!!
With holi, you get great opportunities to showcase your talent on people...by

1. Stylist
Today is the day when you can become a stylist for hair, face or whatever you wanna style (destroy).
You have got the hands, colours... you just need a bakra or moreon that sto be decorated

2.Thrower
You can enhance your throwing skills.(Indian team requires to play holi for that)
You just need is water, balloon, the water filled in a balloon and your concentration.
Focus on special organs...

3. Contract Killer
warning: Dont try this at your home ( only at other people's homes)
All you need is accuracy, patience, skill of Thrower and running ability.

What you really need is freezer for freezing water balloons.

Now its up to you whose head you want to bash up.

4.Extra Extra

For this you need innovative voilence thoughts... as your weapons are colours, pichkaris, balloons and so on...

Whether you try it or not...

to all The Crazyblog scrollers, starers and readers

Blonde

A ventriloquist touring workingmen's clubs finds himself at Woodseats in Sheffield.

He's going through his usual run of stupid blonde jokes, when a big blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and says:"I've heard just about enough of your denigrating blonde jokes you arsehole! What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does a person's physical attributes have to do with their worth as a human being? It's peoples like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in my community, of reaching my full potential as a person... because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes but women in general... all in the name of humour."

Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to apologise, when the blonde says: "And you can stay out of this mister, I'm talking to that little bastard sat on your knee!"

The Internet is filled with discriminatory blonde jokes like the above. Blondes are the new Irish. A few regular readers of this blog are blondes - including Jennyta @ Demob Hippy Teacher and none of her entries confirm the joke blonde stereotype - well not many of them. Do you know any good blonde jokes we can all share with Jennyta?

Vellum Blue Dolomite

Have just uploaded images to Webshots of my latest college work. Please take a wander over there and have a look.

Work in Progress

I'll be posting images of the finished pots I brought home from college shortly. In the meantime I thought I would share pictures of my current work in progress. These are two pots I threw on the wheel last week and left in the wet room to dry a little, to leather hard.

Last night's work was non too taxing: turning away excess clay from the bases to form decorative foot rings and then, as I think I mentioned last week, distorting the pieces away from the regular round form. Hopefully you'll agree they look quite good.

Here's the end results...

















These are now back in the wet room to dry out more, before firing. College is now closed for an extended break firstly thanks to Easter and then due to the faux-Easter break in April, so I won't see these baby's again for a good few weeks.

Arthur C Clarke, 1917- 2008.

Tugged

I have been tugged by Jennyta from “Demob Happy Creature”:-
4 movies I'd watch again: Well, I tend to only watch a “movie” once – but if I was locked in a cinema and told I couldn’t leave until I had seen four films over again, I think I would pick “Woodstock”, “Schindler’s List”, “Once Upon a Time in America” and “Carry on Doctor”
4 places I've lived: ( I am starting to think I have accepted the same tag before!) Rotuma Island in Fiji, Novelty in Ohio USA, Leven in East Yorkshire, Stirling in Scotland..

4 TV shows I watch: “Eastenders” (definitely NOT glum or morbid as arsey reviewers who don’t watch it will often retort), “Sky Sports” (Is this a show?), “BBC News 24” (Is this a show?) “Road Wars” – I love this but how come TV stations can so easily access confidential traffic police video footage?

4 people I email: Brother Paul in Ireland, Daughter Frances in Birmingham, Mate Tony near Hull, Work colleagues (Are they people or cardboard cutouts?)
4 things I eat:Bread, potatoes, meat, vegetables (Exciting and unusual diet huh?)

4 places I'd rather be:I’d “rather” be? That implies I am not happy in the here and now which usually I am – anyway… let’s try upstairs in bed with the wife, at Wembley watching Hull City win the Championship play-off final, swimming in the warm summer seas of the Cyclades islands in Greece, having a beer with my old Yankee chum Chris on the decking of his house near to Canfield, Ohio watching fireflies in the bushes.
…So as you can see I have been well and truly tugged by Jennyta. I am not usually into tugging other bloggers but what the hell… I hereby tug Arctic Fox, Sam at Golden Hill, David in NZ and the delectable Alkelda in faraway Seattle where she is often sleepless.

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Not Quite a Winning Streak

I don't suppose two wins in a row counts as a run, perhaps a mini-streak..?

Yesterday Reading FC went down 2-1 away against one of the current top form sides, Liverpool.

A valiant effort from The Royals.

Boasting

Have you ever seen the film, "Monty Python and The Holy Grail"? Well I was in it! I guess the Monty Python team invaded Scotland in the summer of 1974 when I was an undergraduate at Stirling University. A couple of posters had gone up around the students' union advertising for film extras though we had no idea what the film would be or anything. All I knew is that I would get paid over the weekend and enjoy some free nosh. It was a lovely warm summery weekend up on the moors above Stirling.

Wikipedia says -"In the closing battle scene, shots facing "Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh" were filmed at Castle Stalker but the shots looking the other way towards the huge army were filmed later on Sheriffmuir near Stirling once they had managed to get enough people - one of them being author Iain Banks, then a student, as he recounts in his non-fiction work Raw Spirit."

We were up on Sheriffmuir throughout Saturday and most of Sunday in our medieval costumes. I was a French soldier and I came over the hill with the rest of the French army. I was also very briefly filmed sharpening a spear - but you only see my hands. And I recall meeting John Cleese down by the catering caravan. He seemed rather off-hand - perhaps he was knackered - or maybe he simply didn't realise he was talking to the great Yorkshire Pudding.

After this film debut, I waited by my phone for years - expecting Hollywood to ring - though they never did. I saw my name in lights - "Yorkshire Pudding and The Temple of Doom", "Confessions of a Yorkshire Pudding", "Carry On Yorkshire Pudding" - in which I would chase Barbara Windsor into a lush shubbery from where her cheeky laughter would emerge - "Ooo! Mr Pudding you are naughty!"

By the way, the later-to-become-author Iain Banks was a rather dull cerebral young fellow. He was in a couple of my seminar groups and occasionally I would stuff him intellectually - though with hindsight I perhaps should have got more pally with the little wimp - I could have been his literary chauffeur!

Harry and Terry

Recently Warner Bros confirmed that the final Harry Potter film- The Deathly Hallows will be split in two parts and released something like 4-6 months apart. Good move in my view. It's a big book with a lot going on and many sub-plots to be tied together but also it is the big event of the entire range (obviously). So there'll be even more antisipation over the concluding half of the tale.


Elsewhere yesterday, top selling Disc World author Terry Pratchett announced his intention to donate £500,000 ($1m) to Alzheimer's charity for research. Having been recently diagnosed himself, Pratchett used an event at the Alzheimer's Research Trust annual conference to highlight the poor state of funding for treatment and research.


The author was diagnosed late last year with early-onset dementia. There are 15,000 people in the UK with this form, which strikes the under 65's. Stangely the NHS has said that at 59 Pratchett is too young to receive the drug Aricept free of charge, so he must fund his own treatment. In total, an estimated 700,000 people in the UK have Alzheimer's. Although this figure could well be higher- in an earlier radio interview the author had said that often people just describe "having a Senior Moment."

At the conference he is reported as saying "I've given up my driving licence because I didn't feel confident driving. And if I've got something inside out, it's a little bit puzzling getting it the right way round again." Later saying "The curious thing is that writing goes on, although the typing doesn't."

Pratchett said in his speech (that was widely reported on UK TV and radio) that "It is a shock to find out that funding for Alzheimer's research is just 3% of that to find cancer cures." The Alzheimer's Research Trust says that just £11 per patient is spent annually on research into the disease, compared with £289 for each cancer patient.

Makes you stop and think doesn't it?

Read the full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7291315.stm

Ceramics Night Out

Thought I would post some pictures from last night's Ceramics Guild meeting. We meet around 6 times a year for an evening of discussion with a professional potter, who has kindly given their time to visit us. About twice a year we also have a "Potter's Day" where as the name suggests, a Potter spends a day with us. Everyone contributes food and a good time is had messing with clay.




Yesterday's guest was London based Katie Adams (http://www.katieadamsceramics.com/) who spoke about her personal history and influences, ably supported by a range of images of her work over the years. The second half of the evening was devoted to a demonstration of her techniques.

Here can be seen some stages involved in the production of a jug: (top) centering and opening out, (above right) lifting or pulling up and (below) adding decorative effect with a scalpel. So as not to bore everyone, I've not included forming the spout, turning the footring or pulling the handle!

Obviously a small amount of "cheating" was required for the purposes of the demo: Katie brought a leather hard piece with her- so she could add the pulled handle and decorate- plus a range of her finished work.

Here's One I Made Earlier

OK I guess you probably had to have been brought on that great British institution known as Blue Peter to get that...

Returned home early from college last night Pot-less and with a bad headache. Why do I get so many on a Tuesday? I can confirm however I have glazed work in the kiln, so all being well I'll be posting images- no matter how good or bad- next week. Also managed to throw a couple of new pots before giving up. Once these are leather hard I'll turn the bases and then I might try distorting them in some manner. See what effects we get. Maybe more on that next week.

So there I was last night feeling sorry for myself sitting on my bed with a glass of soluable Solpadeine in one hand (maybe wine would sound better? LOL) when on tv came the first episode of the new Bionic Woman. I'm afraid I'm old enough to remember the original. For some reason as polished as this one is, it somehow lacked a certain charm and playfullness that maybe my befundled memory has conned me into thinking was present in the earlier version. Maybe the remaining 7 episodes scheduled on ITV2 will show a marked improvement? Mind you I hear audience figures in the US dropped away before the writer's strike and that it is unlikely to be recommisioned for another series.

On a similar note, the BBC has confirmed April will see the return of Doctor Who to our screens. Yea- can't wait! Sontarans, Agatha Christie, Pompeii, Billy Piper and maybe Davros, creator of the Daleks..? My money's on series 4 starting during the (late) Easter school holiday.

Update

Mum's been in a lot of discomfort over the weekend, following her radiotherapy on Friday, so Dad gave the hospital a call yesterday.

Apparently there's two ways to administer the dose she received. Either 5 low power treatments or one big one. Can you guess which she got? Mind you, no one bothered to mention this at the time. Dad was worried about the level of pain she now had but also didn't have a clue when they were due back for more.

Seems the pain and sickness is perfectly normal given the level of treatment. Nice to be told.

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Will you love to love with me?
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If I reached for ur hand , will u hold it ?
If My arms hold U, Will u hug me ?
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Winner

Drum roll like a heartbeat, long dramatic pause, go to the commercial break, return, more drum rolling, contestants standing nervously on the stage as the limerick competition results are announced in reverse order.

In fifth place.... Arctic Fox (Try harder next time!

In fourth place.... Friday's Web (Weird last line!)

In third place.... Occupied Country (Too clever!)

In second place... Alkelda the Gleeful (Unfair advantage given your literary skills!)

AND THE WINNER IS! Du dum, du dum (More Pause)... ANONYMOUS!

See the 1907 limerick with its winning last line:-

There was a young lady of Ryde
Whose locks were consider'bly dyed.
The hue of her hair
Made everyone stare...

Making her want to run off and hide

So Mr or Ms A. Nonymous wins this attractive picture of the Ornamental Lake in Ryde, Isle of Wight - photographed in 1912:-

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Egg cookie cutter should be traced on the color construction paper or glazed paper and make a free hand shape drawn cookie cutter will not be required. Now You can put a coating of glue on the construction paper egg. Put some pieces of egg shells on the glazed paper, keeping the colored side up & let it dry. Take the colored construction paper and cut a piece of it twice the normal width of egg but slightly bigger than the egg. Now you have to Fold up the paper in half & paste the mosaic egg on front of it. You can write some lovely messages and quotes, like "Happy Easter". Now it is the time to present this card to your friend, mom, uncle, aunt, grand parents, or your school teacher.


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Crap

It was back in 2003, that the City of Kingston-upon-Hull was listed by a posh lad with a book deal as the crappest town in Britain. It is a label the city didn't need or deserve. I was back there last night in that city of quarter of a million souls. Out on a limb. Wide boulevards. Wide vista over the wide Humber estuary. Of course, I had been to see another Tigers victory over desperate Scunthorpe United. Who knows - one day we may not be able to boast that Hull is the most heavily populated city in Europe never to have had a top flight team!

In the evening, we went to Hull's old town. Once these two square miles were surrounded by a moat and city walls. They protected one of England's most ancient and most important ports. Later the city was to become the world's number one fishing port in terms of tons landed.

In the old town there are some fantastic old pubs, such as you will not find in more modern places like Leeds, Sheffield or Manchester. These pubs have echoes of a long ago past imbued in the very beams that hold them together. They have emerged organically into the twenty first century, creating ambiences that no designer could ever replicate.

We went to the oldest pub in Hull - "Ye Olde White Harte" then on to the Manchester Arms and my favourite one of them all - "Ye Olde Black Boy". Quite an odd name for a public house and nobody seems quite sure how it got that name. The most popular suggestion is that in the eighteenth century, African slaves were traded in the pub before being shipped out to the Americas. Historical evidence to support this claim is very shaky.

After the old town pub crawl, we jumped into a couple of taxis and headed for the nearby town of Beverley to visit the best pub in the world in my humble estimation. It is just near St Mary's church and it is officially called "The White Horse" but everybody in the Beverley area knows it simply as "Nelly's" after a former landlady now long dead. If you are ever in Beverley and you like pubs then make sure you visit - preferably on a cold winter's evening with the fires burning snugly in the several antique fireplaces and Victorian gas lamps hissing in the various murky rooms. It's beautiful and it is unique.

Oh and who were "we"? It was my mate Tony and the all-male entourage celebrating his fiftieth birthday. Naturally it all finished with a slap-up curry in the Akash just off Wednesday Market.

Not a Good Day to Come From Manchester

Today's footie results.

Manchester United 0 - 1 Portsmouth

But perhaps more importantly:

Reading 2 - 0 Manchester City.


Puts The Royals up to 13th out of 20 teams in the Premier League. That's better- well done!

Mum

Mum has returned from hospital, where she received her first new treatment on her spine. She's currently feeling very sore and washed out; hopefully that will pass quickly.

She's due to visit her consultant again on Monday 31 March, where they will map out her on-going treatment plan.

It's Friday!

Seems like it's been a long week somehow. Let's hear it for the Weekend!

Looks like the weather's going to be great. Maybe.







Just a thought: has anyone else been enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles?

Limerick

Right: Limerick coat of arms

If you have an inquisitive mind, questions will often float to the surface and irritate you until you find the answers. Now I have visited the city of Limerick in western Ireland several times. Visually it is an unappealing, flat city. It spawned the BBC media personality Sir Terry Wogan and it figured largely in that marvellously humane novel, "Angela's Ashes". But what has often puzzled me is why certain funny five line ditties should also be called "limericks". What's the connection?

This is what "Wikipedia" has to say on the subject:-

The origin of the actual name limerick for this type of poem is obscure. Its usage was first documented in England in 1898 (New English Dictionary) and in America in 1902. It is generally taken to be a reference to the County of Limerick in Ireland (particularly the

Maigue Poets), and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game which traditionally included a refrain that ended "Come all the way up to Limerick?" (referring to Limerick, Ireland).

Ah well, I suppose that is an answer. But it's not really the gob-smacking solution I was hoping for, so leaving that research behind, here's a limerick:-

There was a young man from Darjeeling,

Who got on a bus bound for Ealing;

It said at the door:

'Do not spit on the floor.'

So he leant back and spat on the ceiling.

It seems that in 1907, Britain was gripped by limerick fever with several newspapers and periodicals inviting last lines. This was one such unfinished limerick and, to win a special prize, I invite modern day visitors to this blog to compose their own fifth lines:-

There was a young lady of Ryde

Whose locks were consider'bly dyed.

The hue of her hair

Made everyone stare...

Above: Groom's party at a Limerick wedding.

Examination Everest!!!

I was supposed to study these days... but my fingers go crazy if they dont type and have a waltz with my optical mouse!!!

Well let them go crazy

you see the result of their craze...

a cool crazy cartoon called Examination Everest

If you dont posess cerebrum and cerebellum i may tell you that this cartoon depicts the struggle of the students and the cleverness of the cheaters to reach the peak of exaMination eVerest.

Hump Day

Mum had a consultation this morning. She's returned home with four tattooed target marks on her back! She starts her new course of radiotherapy this Friday afternoon. Not sure at this stage how many or how frequently.

I got to help out at Little Lad's Preschool this morning. What fun! Making Teas and Coffees for the staff and cold drinks for around 20 kids. Oh yeah and model making with Play Dough, building Train tracks, painting and helping with dressing up. Afterwards the two of us went swimming and then lunch. The afternoon was a little quieter with some quality sitting still and a visit to look at the animals at a local Garden Centre.

Masts

I don't possess a mobile phone and I don't plan to have one in the future. When I see other drivers babbling away into their mobiles (cell phones to Americans), my blood boils with rage because to me it is like junping into a car when your veins are coursing with alcohol after a session in the pub. It is just as irresponsible and there have been many cases of fatal or near-fatal road accidents caused directly by thoughtless mobile phone use.

But this isn't what I really wished to gripe about in this post. What I want to rant about is mobile phone masts. They seem to be mushrooming all over the place - great big ugly poles that are an ugly blight on our cityscapes and countryside. And because we live in a competitive, enterprising society it seems that different mobile phone companies have to throw up their own masts - thereby massively increasing the number of masts that assault our vision and uglify our surroundings.

I hate them and I wonder, just in aesthetic terms, why they can't start incorporating phone masts into new buildings or running them up the side of existing tall buildings like lightning conductors.

This is to ignore another latent and worrying issue with mobile phone masts - namely,what are they doing to our long term health? I sometimes walk by masts and hear electronic humming emerging from the associated and equally ugly control boxes. Why? What is that humming doing to passers by? Do profit making companies like T-Mobile, Orange and O2 give a damn about the nation's long term health? Ithink not. All they are after is filthy lucre and they'll twist and turn like the operators of the Sellafield Visitors' Centre to deny that there are any health issues with mobile phone masts. Profit is everything to these people.

I am thinking of visiting Osam bin Laden's mates in northern Pakistan to get some lessons in terrorism so that I can form an underground rebel group whose mission will be to fell as many mobile phone masts as we can. We'll be called The PML (Phone Mast Lumberjacks), bringing back a more peaceful, private world to provide sanctuary from the endless cell phone babble and prevent brain cancers.

Come On The Royals!

No, nothing what so ever to do with a certain Prince doing his duty for his Grandma and Country...

Today marked the end of a run of eight straight defeats for Reading Football Club, The Royals. They beat Middlesborough away 0-1 with an injury time goal from James Harper. Nice.

Reading are still in the danger zone and could still face the drop at the end of the season but this might just be the turning point. Finger's crossed this is the start of a change of fortune. Well done boys!