The Week In Pictures~Click to Enlarge!

1---A base jumper falls backwards off the Menara Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia.
2---Sean Tucker flies his Oracle Challenger bi-plane inverted over US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller, flying F/A-18 Blue Angel #5, over San Francisco Bay.
3---A newly born pygmy hippopotamus walks around its enclosure as the mother feeds at the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam.
4---Schoolgirl Bhargavi, 7, arranges garlands made from marigold flowers at a roadside stall on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
5---A giant marionette is lifted to be placed into a boat during a street performance based on a fairy tale called The Giants by French by streets arts company Royal de Luxe.
6---A cone of moisture surrounds part of the Ares I-X rocket during lift off on a sub-orbital test flight from the Kennedy Space Centre's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Soaker or a Scrubber??

This just shows what sort of rubbish us Lads think and talk about when we get together in a group. You can sooo understand now when it’s said that Men never really grow up. The other night at football (Hey..nooo red card this week…was a good boy~aherm) after we’d played we were getting changed and some one said they were off home to get a shower and then some one commented that they were off for a soak in the bath. Now one lad who always seems a bit slow on the up take with everything was asked (and again just to embarrass him more than anything) if he washed his stinky arse. To which he said he just gets in the bath and lets it soak. LMAO! SOAK? I mean I’ve heard of dishes and pans being left in soak in a washing bowl but never your arse. Thus started a debate on if you wash your crack or leave it to soak? Look…I did warn you!! Lol!! So,…what are you…a soaker or a scrubber?

HAPPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Happy Christmas! Yes, it’s Christmas!! It must be! Since Mid October television has been flooded with adverts for Christmas related goods. "Order sofa’s now~ delivery guaranteed before Christmas"! Shops selling kids toys, shops selling cosmetics and they are all to a theme tune of “I wish it could be Christmas every day” or “Merry Christmas everybody”!! SCREAM! IT’S CHUFFIN’ OCTOBER!!! Phew…Deep breath! Lol! This Christmas I’m actually spending in a chapel. My mates and I have hired a place out for a week. Some of us can never win at Christmas with trying to get to see family and if like me your parents are split it embarrassingly becomes a tug of war of who is seeing who and where you will spend Christmas day. Throw into the mix my sister too who wants to see her big bro (I can understand that…aherm..cough) and you just end up being stretched. Some of my friends are in the same situation too so this year we decided that we’d hire a cottage out and do it this way. Thus if our families want to come and see us, they can do so. Anyway, this cottage has turned out to be an old chapel. See the picture above. Sleeps 10-12….so, we should get a good crowd in. I’m in charge of the Turkey for the big day~lol! Just going to get a Turkey crown and be done with it. The place we are staying at isn’t a million miles from Manchester Or Birmingham so we will have a few days/nights out there and we will leave it open ended so if some one wants to just come up for a night..then I’m sure we can squeeze them in. Quite looking forward to Christmas this year now…HOPE IT SNOWS! ;-)

Air Guitars out~ Kasabian~~Underdog!

A new song by Brit band Kasabian called Underdog. You might of heard this from an advert for Sony TV’s. Turn up ya sound and blast the neighbours away! Just love the intro to this. If I was a rock star and up on a stage with women throwing their underwear at me, this is the sort of thing I’d want me strings to wail. We all have songs that we would play air guitar to…WHATS YOURS?

Seing Red!

WELL, what a day yesterday and the saga of getting new footy boots and then playing in them. I had split my last pair the previous week. The sole was coming away and I split them over the bridge of the foot area. I decided that yesterday morning I’d get up and go up town early in the morning before work to get some new ones...only to find the place closed and the opening time was later than I thought. So, I had to go into work (late) and still with no new boots. Anyways, I got out of work early. I gets down into JJB Sports (it's a massive sports shop chain we have here). They were a bloody waste of time. Wanting around 50 quid for a pair of footy boots...and I go thru' them pretty quick so there was nooo way I was going to pay that for a pair. lol. Sooooo, I walked up town from there and into a couple of smaller sports shops. Ended up having to shelve out around £27 for the same pair that JJB had on sale for £50! wooo...resulllt! lol. So, rushed home, sorted me kit out....got me pads and new boots on,...and headed down to the sports hall to play my first match in them. Its just a 5-a-side league that’s run every Wednesday and we are current champions. WELLLLLL.....blush....Good news....we won 9-3...lol..wooooooo! Get in!! So, that’s a result of 10-4 last week and 9-3 this one. Ok...um..er..the bad news...um..welll....whispers....I got sent off....Cringe! lol. Foul and Abusive language. lol..blushh! The red mist descended. lol...I do have a little in my defence for doing it though...but I do feel embarrassed about it this morning. There was only like 3 minutes of the game left so it didn't make any difference. Ok..the story..lol There was a scrawny little tattooed nob-head that was playing for the other team and coz we were so good (yes, I think 9-3 result allows me to boast that) he resulted to trying to kick lumps out of us...and some of his mates thought it was a good idea too and were trying it on too. I got a elbow in the face in the first half of the game did wonders for my looks) and did get a free kick for it. Then in the second half I got a knee in the thigh and I’ve still got a bit of a dead leg from that even now. Then the final straw was (and remember he was doing this all game to the our younger lads too and we were not getting any protection from the ref) was when I had passed him with the ball and he took a swipe to take my legs from me. I just about manage to keep my balance and avoided crashing into the brick wall. Nothing...the ref gave nothing....said he was playing the advantage to which I asked "who too"? He said nothing...so I just said "well, if that’s the way we are playing it....fair enough". So, two minutes later I splatted this idiot against the wall, ball and him..the lot. He got a free kick...coz it was a foul but he got up and squared up to me, I did think he was going to take a swing so I got him by the collar and pushed him away....um..and that’s when the effing and jeffing came out. I cannot remember what I said...but there was a lot of "F" Words and some. I told him if he ever squared up to me again that "I’d rip his head off and shit in the hole" (I was told this after the game by the other lads~LAMO! The manager and ref got in between me and this lad and pulled me away. lol...that’s when he gave me a red card...said I’m sending you off for "foul and abusive language"! lol. So, early bath for me has the saying goes. Anyway, I had a word with the ref after the game and he told me that he was trying to play an advantage for the foul I got...to which I pointed out it's only an advantage if I’ve got the ball still. I did say sorry to the ref for my language but I would always defend myself either on the footy pitch or not. My team took the pee a little after the game too...calling me "killer"....lmao! Cheeky buggers! It's so not like me and I do fell soooo embarrassed about it now in the cold light of day. lol. Holds head in shame! Fat lot of good the new boots were!!

Squirrel's Nuts!

This little bugger is getting ready for winter. He scurries about digging holes in my bloody lawn and “plants” a verity of nuts and seeds that have a tendency to then sprout Spring time into little chestnut or oak trees! I watch the little sod from my conservatory window ploughing up my lawn. Lol I’ve not named him yet…any suggestions? BTW…in the picture above he is stealing some sunflower seeds from a old husk left over from the summer.

Mad Kayaking!!

Anyone fancy it? I'll get me Rubber ring and armbands out!

Women Drivers! HELP!

Been a very dangerous week for dear ole Beaky. Hanging out with friends and showing various vehicles owned by us. From the picture you can see that all demonstrations ended up in a crash or some sort of pile up. All I can say in MY defence is that each one had one thing in common. YES! Women drivers! Lol…Took me ages to Panel beat my arse back into shape. So, has you can see from the pictures above that men are better drivers. Discuss. ;-)) Thanks to Tam, Paige, Kiz and Xan (and Mark who took me to Hospital a few times).

Top Gear - Car-Boat Challenge

Thought it was about time to have a Top Gear Challenge on the pages again. This time the lads have to buy a road car (Or Van in Hamster case) turn it into an amphibianus vehicle. Simple?

Fluent in 2-year old!

Once a week at least I get to look after my little Niece “Yoda” (ok..so I call her Yoda just to annoy my sister~aherm). She is just over 18 months old and is heading fast to her 2nd birthday. Her favourite TV show is a show that’s a bit like Teletubies in style. It’s called ‘In the Midnight Garden’. See the picture above of the characters. Her favourite is Makka Pakka (the brown thing on the left~Yoda points and Calls him Ma’-Ma’-Marr) Who likes nothing more than collecting and washing little stones. He also enjoys washing and drying the faces of the other toys. It’s a horrible little show because the bleedin’ songs and “catch phrases” are so catchy. Times I’ve been working and I’ve caught myself whistling one of the character intro’s. I have now decided that I’m more fluent in 2-year old than English. Shaddap ya cheeky buggers!!