Lightning strikes

A few weeks ago after a hot period I shot this video on a phone. It looks pretty close. Click Link below to see.
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But not as close as this that someone shot in America.

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Trials & tribs.

Hooray! I can now get online without being cut off all the time. amazing. well done Talk Talk for taking over from Tiscali which was my old provider. As this is the first time I!ve posted this year I!ll use this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year - if its still possible to have one in these economically strait jacketed times. A lot"s happened already this year such as the big freeze which was fun at first but annoying after a while as it was too cold & slippery to go out. Pavements turned in to lumpy sheets of ice so you couldn't walk safely without a stick. The birds (the feathered variety) didn't like it and the river forty foot froze up. There were also ice flows in the river Witham (see pictures) Was also my birthday earlier this month & even though it was snowing quite hard that day (the 8th) I went to the I.Q. and got lathered - during the day as well The landlord even bought me a pint. I went to a women friend"s 21st B/day at the I.Q. a week later and there was a fancy dress. Trouble was, I just went as myself as I only found out about the party the night before and I got chased down the stairs by the "Incredible Hulk" or maybe someone with green slime smeared all over them. Anyway, I didn't know them from Adam but Derek the landlord told them to leave me alone as he thinks people pick on me because of my handicap but I think it was just fun. Since then I haven't been out much because I caught a dreadful cough & cold - just hope its not swine flu.

Rage against the machine"s Killing in the name wins the race to No 1

After a hugely popular facebook campaign, Rage against the machine"s Killing in the name wins the much coveted Christmas UK No 1 slot. Over half a million people downloaded the song which is not available as a CD single, making it the first ever Christmas No 1 to be achieved on download only. X Factor winner Joe McElderry was only 9.000 copies behind until a download frenzy in the last few hours before the weekly deadline (12am Saturday night) put Killing in the name 50.000 copies in front.
The campaign wasn"t a stand against Joe McElderry personally but against ITV and Simon Cowel dominating the No 1 slot year after year. The band Rage against the machine has promised to donate their royalties to the UK charity "Shelter" and play a gig in the UK nest year if the campaign is successful.

Met my soul mate

I"ts been a long time since I last posted. Reason: I broke my laptop so I tried to get online with our desktop PC but failed. It just wouldn"t stay online or even connect at all. Naturally I thought my machine was at fault but I checked with the neighbours and they were having exactly the same problems. Anyway, the Internet provider"s call centre is based in India & won"t send an engineer out unless they know exactly when we"re cut off - in fact I was cut off while in the process of writing this but managed to save it. What the hell is happening? I"ve also made a very special friend from the Philippines called Pam. She is lovely but haven"t been able to send messages much because of this fault but the good news is that I just could have met my soul mate. This is like a dream come true - As the old saying goes: Dreams DO come true

Trials & tribulations - update

Wow! it"s been so long since I last posted on here. I have been busy selling on EBay which went well at first when I started in July (about the same time I wrote my last post) but has gone a bit quite of late so I"m back here.
First Creepy Cool has been going well. We actually applied for a competition ages ago called LincX Factor - nothing to do with the Simon Cowel one -. Over 80 singers & bands applied, 20 made it to the heats and guess what Creepy Cool was one of them. We didn"t know we were in until our name appeared in the Target paper. Anyway, the first of two heats was yesterday (Wed \night) which we were on. Out of 10 acts only 2 could go through so it was nothing like the real X Factor. After several evenings of intense band practise, we were as ready as we ever could be. (Brian, after a period of absence from the band came back in on bass guitar.) and got to the rugby club in the princess Anne sport complex. The sound check was starting at 6.30pm instead of 7pm the original planned time Luckily, it wasn"t too difficult to find as it was still light when we got there but Brian was nowhere to be seen - he had all our equipment in his wife"s car. His mobile was turned off so we assumed they were lost. They finally rolled in at 7pm - the original time - unpacked the car but near disaster struck, he"d forgot his bass guitar. So we went in the venue and managed to stall our sound check while Brian went all the way back to Swineshead to pick it up and got back just in time. We played one song straight after the break so we could set up the equipment. The song we played seemed to go down realy well - the audience clapped and cheered. All of the other performers sang to a backing karaoke track although the standard was pretty high. We were the only band there. In the end though, we didn"t get through. We were later told that there was only one band in each heat because of the time needed to set up. The second heat is on Fri night. All in all though it was well worth entering and the hosts treated us well - even filming the video for us which will appear on YouTube & Moko mobi soon.

Trials & Tribulations

Last Monday (or was it Tuesday) a friend was on holiday for the week & rang to see if I wanted to go down the pub. I thought why not? I don"t drink much these days but it was a sunny day & I needed to get out the house ( I do most of my work from home now) so thought why not? We went to Weatherpersons first which is always good as drinks are so cheap.
Then I suggested going to the Axe. Hadn"t been there for a while. I only go in there now if some women friends of mine come down from Sutton Bridge usually to see a band. Anyway, we were having a conversation with matey behind the bar about music & I inadvertently said that some of the newer bands such as Kasabian were better than the stuff that they played in the Axe. With that Del the landlord (who I"m usually OK with) overheard us talking & told me to leave. He said if you dont like the bands why come in here? Fair point but I only go there in the daytime these days so no-one would be playing then. Then this tw*t joined in "yeh get out!" Who the F*** was he? No-one"s seen him before but earlier on he said he was a builder who was in charge of 30 people - what a joke. Who in their right mind would work for him. He didn"t even look like a builder.
I went straight to the I.Q. after that. My friend later told me that he (the builder) tried to cause trouble with him & our other mate who came in a bit later. As I said when I first started this blog. "What"s happening to this world" Nuff said.

News update

I saw the news today and was shocked to read that scientists have found a way to make sperm artificially from the DNA in skin cells. If this were to come about would women need men anymore? (they don"t seem to need them where I live anyway) What are the implications for mankind if this came about? I could imagine a scenario where men would be the fairer sex and women would be the dominant power.(perish the thought ha ha!) This may already be happening with girls doing better at exams at school. But at least in the most popular sports men are still the main contenders. Tennis is a good example. Lower seeded women players played their matches on centre court as long as they looked good on TV - the organisers actually admitted this. The men's game still garners the most interest though. The Federer Roddick final was an epic battle of the will to win and lasted over four hours, whereas the women"s final was far less tough even between the Williams sisters and was over in little over an hour. We just have to hope that this development doesn"t become mainstream as it would mean that a woman could be both mother and father to a child. I just hope and pray that we as a society will not let it happen.