Women

Went to a fortieth birthday party last night (the lady in green) wife said would I rather go there than stay at home with her. Copying a couple of Jon Anderson albums onto CD for a mate listening to Olias of Sunhillow 1976.

Some covers

last nights meal cost me 580$. Just buy albums for the covers sometimes.

huddersfield

some pictures in huddersfield. Listening to Beatles good album cover will photograph in a min and blog. Large building entrance to railway staion.

Feeding the 5000

Off out for meal tonight been invited to a 40 birthday tomorrow by a woman at work if I go will take my camera. Just copying a David Gilmour vinyl onto CD.

More than the last supper

taking 16 or 18 people out for a meal tomorrow night (exact amount not confirmed yet) as part of my being 60. Thought everyone was supposed to treat me. Should cost about 500$ but I got about 700$ for 15 years service (less tax of course) so its swings and roundabout.




Listening to Alabama 3.

Mississippi swampland

couple of pics in Bolton.
just listening to some Drive By Truckers.


Went to see Tony Joe White last night what an awesome guy. It was red hot and humid in the club just like Mississippi

Bolton

OK went to Bolton town last Saturday took a load of pictures so will blog them over the next few days. NOTHING SPECIAL. The tall building is the town hall could not get a good shot because there was a French market day on and the stalls blocked the view. Then a cul de sac and the old turkish baths and two of our foreign cousins.

booked a gig

Booked to go see Tony Joe White on 24 july unfortunately by the time I found out he was touring in England every venue close to where I live was sold out so I have to travel to near Birmingham (not Alabama ) a round trip of 200 miles to see him. Like I have mentioned before in England anything over 50 miles away is a long way LOL.

older now

had lots of birthday cards and a about $100 voucher for PC World which should come in handy,I,m expecting a dvd camcorder any day now so I can get blank discs with the voucher. went for a meal a lunch time with some girls from work got in trouble of the wife for that and went for a meal in the evening with the wife before the trouble started. At the blood donor place there was a one and a half hour wait and in the heat people were fainting all over the place,not me of course I,m a man. Taking 17 of my closest friends out for a meal on the 28 july (only time I could get them all together)

Nearly there

60 tomorrow still feel young inside think about sex and music and things profound still got my own teeth can still run hope they are not planning anything at work I hate being suprised.I can be an official cynical old bastard tomorrow. 60 years only been seriously ill once with pneumonia when I was 12 never broken anything

Old friend sad

Saw an old friend at weekend while I was out on my bike she is sleeping rough in bus shelters. Most of her family have disowned her and she can not get any housing. She has mental problems. She can have a room in a hostel but she won,t sign the papers to commit herself so she is living on the streets not a good thing for a woman where we live. Offered her some money so she could have a couple of nights in a bed and breakfast but she refused it . I heard today that some of her family are trying to have her committed shame really but she becomes so aggressive and is impossible to live with but she doesn,t think there is anything wrong with her. don,t feel like a picture today

Give me some blood

being a blood donor I have had a letter for my next appointment and they have phoned me to ask me not to forget (in England you do it for free) and its on Wednesday my 60 birthday. So Wednesday night on my 60 birthday I could be lied on a table somewhere having blood drained out of me. Bodybuilders do it till it hurts. Concrete workers stay hard forever. Give the beat boys and free my soul I want to get lost in your rock and roll..That's what I,m listening too as I type this blog. I love music its in my head all the time and my lost lover LOL.

fairbottom bobs

this is a picture of one of the earliest steam engines ever built it was located about half a mile from my home and was used to pump water out of a mine. There is a small part of the chimney remaining. The engine was bought by Henry Ford and is in the Dearborn museum in mitchigan.

I,ll be back a tale about a boomerang

By Darkstar,
South Australian News.
New light has been thrown on the origins of the Australian national anthem.
During the excavation of an ancient aboriginal burial ground an unusual boomerang was discovered. The boomerang was slightly larger than normal boomerangs and was covered with holes of different and sizes with some bored all the way through.
At first it was thought that this was done to reduce the weight of the boomerang so that it would be easier to carry several of them and also it could be thrown further.
Just recently however during tests carried out at the Boomerang Salt Flats near Alice Springs an amazing discovery was made. When thrown at just the right angle (28 degrees to be exact) it was found that the boomerang played a tune. The effect similar to someone playing panpipes and the tune was Waltzing Matilda.
It was also discovered that if the boomerang was thrown at the correct speed ( 2 revolutions per second and at 28 degrees) and from exactly 100 yards away from a kangaroo, the kangaroo would get to hear all the first verse of Waltzing Matilda before being whacked on the side of the head.
It was also noted during tests that on hearing the first few notes the kangaroos would stop and start tapping there feet in time to the music, some of them were even recorded humming along unaware of there impending doom.
It is now thought that the ancient aborigine's may have had an assortment of musical boomerangs rather like people of today carry Walkmans so they could listen to music while they hunted.
On the television program Beyond 2000 (which explores modern inventions ) the young aboriginal inventor 20 stone Billy (no neck) Braithewaite demonstrated his latest boomerang. This boomerang made of almost unbreakable clear plastic is totally invisible during flight. It also has stealth characteristics.
The kangaroo does not know what,s hit it, unfortunately if the boomerang misses the kangaroo the person who threw it can not see it coming back. Several test throwers have been seriously injured during trials.
Billy is still working on the problem.
The End (for now)

Bit of metal

One of the old German Lieca cameras from 1936 I had in my collection...One of my old motorbikes and an old triumph spitfire with a large bra size.

Town hall

old public house now derelict and what used to be our town hall. In England some buildings are listed and graded depending on how old they are and listed buildings can not usually be demolished. Sometimes they are bought and then left to fall down then the land can be used.

Monday again

Glad to be back work for someone to talk to

drove through an asian area to take some pictures not a good idea for a snowflake.

Took loads of pictures today and created a hugh blog took me nearly an hour and when I tryed to post it it failed so pissed off just sticking a few pics on.. click on any to enlarge.

bit of rough

shops with steel shutters about a mile from where i live. enlarged pic of one of those naughty shops.