Bubbles

Anyone care to guess what my favourite tipple is at the moment?

No place else to go

New Words for 2007

* TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
* GOING FOR A McSHIT. Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog.(Loo) If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
* MILLENNIUM DOMES. The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.
* MYSTERY BUS. The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the Toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
* MYSTERY TAXI. The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.
* BEER COAT. The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise At 3:00am.
* BEER COMPASS. The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.
* PICASSO BUM. A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's Got 4 buttocks

Common as muck

We've always had these little chaps in the garden and I was always lead to believe they were sand lizards, but now I'm not so sure as they could be common lizards. Anyway I found this one in the shed at the bottom of the garden.

Bridlington

A day out at the seaside.

Weird and wonderful

Just my opinion, but the sheep is a bit weird, the bull is a wonderful specimin and the men, well they're either from Butlins or a bunch of hunts (men)

Apologies for the lack of posts this week, it's been somewhat busy. On Wednesday we all went to the Great Yorkshire Show and yesterday afternoon it was Katies first sports day. Hopefully I will post a few photos over the weekend.

Penguins at Sewerby

A short video from our day out yesterday. Watch out for wifey getting what she deserved.

Ticket Touts

4.30pm on a Sunday afternoon and the city's traffic wardens are merilly dishing out tickets in the 'Avenues', where it happens to be 'Open Gardens', but they weren't aware of that were they? and it's not about making money, it's about traffic safety, isn't it?

View from Queen's Gardens

I took this picture on my way to work this morning, It shows the fountains in Queen's Gardens, William Wilberforce's statue and in the background, Hull College.

Sloth

There seems to be a general slothness in blogland at the moment, and I'm no exception. I guess other things have been taking priority (like the floods). It looks like the flooding has wiped out our potato crop, but the gooseberry bush yielded 2 pounds of goosegogs and has now become 3 jars of jam courtesy of wifey.

Macro

For those of you who are interested the new camera is an Olympus SP-510. This is an example of it's macro mode. Anybody care to hazard a guess what this will be when it grows up?

Jack Penate - Torn From The Platform

Nice song, bit of a nick from the Housemartins though.

Finish the sentence meme

Maybe I should…… Drink less
I love…... Wifey, the kids, my mum.
People would say that I’m…...Arrogant & aloof
I don’t understand….. French people
When I wake up in the morning….. I’m usually up and at ‘em
I lost….... Some brain cells today
Life is full of…........Things that happen
My past is…... In the past
I get annoyed when…....Cats shit in my garden
Parties are….. Hiding in a corner and drinking lots
I wish…... For good health for me and mine
Dogs …...... Go woof
Cats…. Shit on my garden
Tomorrow….. Is the day I do most jobs (ask Wifey)
I have a low tolerance…....Of most people
If I had a million dollars….. I’d change it into Sterling

The above meme was originally found at Catch's blog (see sidebar)

My first time

It's the new camera! Top picture is the garden early this afternoon after it had dried out a bit. The second picture is taken from the same place but with 12 x zoom, now that I like.

Not just 'Ull

Don sent me this, taken today in York.

More Rain

These are 2 pictures I borrowed from the local rag, both are less than a quarter of a mile from our house. Our garden was flooded as you've already seen, but our house was ok, for that we are very grateful!. It has now stopped raining, time to start clearing up.

Wet, Wet, Wet

We had a bit of rain today!

Yahaay!

I have finally managed to wear wifey down and she has agreed to let me have a new camera. Yesterday I went to Jessops to purchase the camera, which they had on special offer. Unfortunately they didn't have any in stock, lots of posters on the wall advertising the offer, but no actual camera. So I asked if they could ring their other store to see if they had one in stock. Yes they did hooray! but it's £20 more boo! I ask why it is £20 more, "because it's silver" comes the reply, I refrain from asking how much a pink one would be, and decline their offer to save me one. When I returned home I rang the Beverley store (8 miles away) to be told they didn't have any either, but the man very helpfully informed me that they had 7 in stock at their York store (35 miles away). I eventually ordered it on line, so like me you will all have to wait a while for new improved photos to appear on this blog. Oh, and if you ever need anything related to photography, don't go to Jessops!. Mind you Currys were no better but that's another story.

I is what I is

Or as Dame Shirley would put it "I am what I am". I've just had the pleasure of watching Dame Shirley performing at this year's Glastonbury, absolutely fantastic.