Archive | June 2010
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An Important Message
Please click this link and leave this blog immediately, it contains some important information http://allthatcomeswithit.com/archives/2523 , really, I mean it. In a few days time 60 bloggers from all over the world will set off on a six day hike across Hadrians Wall, then next weekend I and eight others will ride our bikes across the [...]
A bizarre gym lesson
It was by far the most bizarre gym exercise I have ever experienced, then or since, the ingenious method of “gate rolling” as demonstrated on that cold Friday morning in 1968 by Sinbad Simpson. We were a class of 11 year olds, brand new conscripts to Leeds Modern Grammar School at the end of our [...]
RIP Frank Sidebottom
Boy have we got something to teach you citizens of other countries when you start arriving here this week for the Hadrians Walk – starting with humour – if you don’t “get” the recently deceased Frank Sidebottom then maybe you’ve come to the wrong country.
Video Saturday – The Flaming Lips
I likes this band, I don’t know why, why they should strike a resonance with me, maybe its because the lead singer Wayne Coyne is completely barmy, lives in a house where his yard is decorated with all of the crazy props that they use on stage, prefers to walk across the heads of his [...]
Where have all the psychics gone ?
There was a time, just a few years ago, when you could not turn on your TV set of an afternoon without encountering a TV Psychic show, the likes of John Edwards and Colin Fry seemed to be never off the TV and indeed why should they not be for if you believed every word [...]
Every bald head should have one…
There is simply no excuse but to go straight to http://www.justgiving.com/hadriansmerchandise and order one of the extremely stylish, trendsetting and just fab baby Hadrians Walk Buffs. What the hell is a buff I hear you cry Well, this article in the cosmopolitan and first-with-the-fashion-news Huddersfield Examiner tells you everything you need to know, this bit [...]
Hadrians Bike Ride
A public information post for the participants – http://onemorehill.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/c2c-day-one-hour-one/ For full information and details on where to donate money to the cause please see here http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/time-to-get-this-show-on-the-road/
A fashion icon for a week
Well actually, thats not strictly true, the Budgie jacket wasn’t the last time that fashion and I were on nodding acquaintance, it happened again in 1981. The early 1980s, those halcyon days of fashion, not, found me wandering in an oasis of bell bottom Wrangler jeans, demin shirts with pearl press studs instead of buttons [...]
