Jaffa Cakes that once you open a box and only intend on eating one or two then half an hour later the whole box is gone…
How about a new slogan for them: Once you start you seriously cannot stop?
Archive for January, 2009
92 Football Grounds in 92 hours!
Wow, got wind of this crazy scheme via Facebook. A bunch of Peterborough United fans are attempting to go round the country visit each and every Premiership and Football League ground in aid of a Children’s Charity…Not sure it’s actually possible but they seem pretty certain that it is.
Free Kicks : 92 Grounds in 92 Hours
Check out their site and perhaps sponsor them or join their Facebook Group…and sponsor them. Seems like a worthy cause.
Best of luck lads.
The world waits for Obama
Stuck in work so will be glued to the BBC for live feeds and live text updates and Twitter for the Obama inagauration. Such an historic moment, it really does feel like a new beginning.
A lot of potential for greatness and a lot of potential for great disappointment.
Oops! How NOT to plan an art exhibition
This made me chortle.
Painter finds fakes at his art show
SH Raza, an Indian artist has discovered that an exhibition of his work he was due to open is actually full of fakes. That really is very poor.
A leading Indian artist has said he was “stupefied and outraged” to find that many of his paintings at a show he was inaugurating were fakes.
SH Raza was inaugurating the exhibition at an art gallery in Delhi.
The Dhoomimal Art Gallery closed its show as soon as Mr Raza pointed out the fakes but said it had sourced them from the painter’s family.
There is a flourishing market for fakes of most leading painters in India, art gallery owners and experts say.
That really is pretty poor planning by the gallery.
Nerdy bit of kit of the day
For those of us who use Twitter in earnest it’s worth taking a look at BrightKit…it allows you to fully manage your twitter account, in-built Tiny URLs, get click reports, schedule Tweets for later on and keep multiple accounts.
Loving it.
Glad I have some good news as I spent yesterday afternoon lurching from computer crash to computer crash…after a raft of reinstalls and network tinkering I think I traced it a poorly FireFox….so now I’ve got it un-installed and totally stripped down and an currently hoping it’s not just going to freeze on me again (again).
Job of the day : Lego sculptor
How good is this guy. He’s basically a Lego artist…and apparently he charges shedloads for his services.
The 35-year-old New Yorker makes a six-figure living as a Lego artist, creating large-scale works of art using tens of thousands of the plastic pieces. Among his recent projects are a 10-foot-tall replica of the new Trump Tower being constructed in Dubai for Donald Trump, and a four-foot-tall bumblebee commissioned by Fall Out Boy bass guitarist Pete Wentz as a gift for his new bride, pop star Ashlee Simpson. He says he receives hundreds of commission inquiries every month.
How much fun must that be.
Now this is what the internet is brilliant for :
The 1911 uk census has gone online today allowing web users to track their families back to the beginning of the last century. This will make for especially poigniant research for many because so many of the people listed were soon to die in World War One.
This time extra measure have been taken to ensure the website is up to the job. Last time a census was made available like this the site ground to a halt almost immediately such was the interest.
Preachings from the Pulpit….A Weekend Sports review
Well Arsenal won….just. It’s quite lucky that our January shouldn’t be that taxing so we can make the additions to our squad before the deadline and hopefully not lose too much ground.
Chelsea could of played on until next Tuesday and still not scored. They REALLY need a striker.
Think Wenger boobed when he didn’t sign Palacios and Valencia when they were on trial and then he recommended them to Wigan.
Although I am looking forward to Spurs fans sending me postcards from the Championship, if only West Ham could join them…..
David Warner….Sehwagologist in disguise. England take note….brilliant knock, never would someone like Warner be able to do that for England.
Didn’t watch the Darts, by all accounts was very dramatic.
My Hero: Graeme Smith
I first fell in love with Graeme Smith when he caused Nasser Hussain to resign the England test captaincy in 2003. I don’t have anything against Mr Hussain, I think he’s a great cricket commentator and taught Ian Bell how to run people out.
But it was my first experience of “The Smith Factor”. The factor continued throughout that tour, the double centuries at Edgbaston and Lords were remarkable, and I found myself full of lust for the South African, and his voice.
He was Kevin Pietersen before Kevin Pietersen was Kevin Pietersen, only without the wacky hair and outrageous shots. He was cocky and loud in those early years of international captaincy, pissing off just about everyone he played against.
And then he grew up, he matured, possibly even mellowed. He learned his trade in the view of the public and the press, who were and probably still are expecting something they could run with over a couple of days in the papers. He didn’t air his dirty laundry in public *looks towards the man mentioned three times in the last paragraph* and he soon began to gain respect from the peers who had previously criticised him for his methods.
His 154* at Edgbaston last summer showed this, it was an exceptional piece of batting, a true match winning performance, which he also helped to do at the WACA just before Christmas. He’s also managed draw a test match series in India, a place most teams expect to go and lose, and broken a few world records for batting partnerships.
His changing has made him my hero. The Australians hated him when South African last hit their shores in 2005/06, on the final day of the Sydney test match just played he got a standing ovation when he went out to bat at number 11 with a broken hand and dicky (technical term) elbow. He scored three runs and got out with 10 balls left in the day, but that doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
He proved how dedicated to the game he is, he proved how mature he has become in the five and a half years he’s been South African captain for, and he’s shown that he’ll do anything for his team, the team he puts all his faith in every time he leads them out on the field.
Graeme Smith really epitomises the term “the spirit of cricket”, and I didn’t expect to be saying that five years ago.
Book Recomendation : My Father and other working class heroes by Gary Imlach
My Father and other working class heroes by Gary Imlach
Gary Imlach is the guy who used to do the American Football on Channel4 back in the day when it was super-popular. His dad was Stewart Imlach who won the cup with Nottingham Forest in the 50s. If you look at the antics of modern footy players and despare then this book is a telling snapshot of how bad players had it back in the days of the maximum wages when the club basically owned the players.
It’s a brilliant, heartfelt, poigniant tribute to Stewart and the players of his generation by his son. It’s definitely my favourate sports book.
