carlosfandango

Her bones are now healed and she is now allowed out to run again 🙂

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? – Magazine – The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/4575/

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DARREN GAVIGAN!! with a manly 62 points. Well done Estuary boy.

1	Estuary England	Darren Gavigan	62
2	DK Willy	DK	60
3=	On the ball city	Simon Barnes	59
3=	Peter Reid’s Love Child	Andrew Hartland	59
3=	Magic Sponge	David Crook	59
6=	Terry’s Tackle	Andy Young	57
6=	Hand of Dog	Tim Donnelly Smith	57
8=	anybody but england	Gordon “Scotland was robbed” Crawford	53
8=	Dylan’s Cosmic Sister	Kate Williamson	53
10=	The Andrews Family	Ethan and Finn Andrews	52
10=	Lorem Ipsum	Jon D	52
12=	it is now	jim chambers	50
12=	TwoHalves	Tom Laidlaw	50
12=	Golden ‘Berry’ Balls	Berry	50
15	hand of job	david hickson	49
16=	Scotland’s Revenge	Andrew Robb	48
16=	Danish Bacon	Nik Goodman	48
18	The Italian Stallion	Eddie Vassallo	47
19=	El Pringle	Keith Pringle	45
19=	Roger Milla	Matthew Woodeson	45
21	Rooney Who?	Chris Boulter	44
22	Twoshedz	Twoshedz	43
23=	Totalfootball	Nick T	42
23=	Guinness Original	Martin Borrett	42
25=	SoccerBowl XIX	Paul Revy	41
25=	It’s been a long road	Paul Conroy	41
27	carlosfandango	Carl Mesner Lyons	40
28	roar times three	Rory	39
29	Outlaw	Alex	36
30	The Wizard of Dribble	Stephen “Stan” Matthews	34
31	Jules ‘Rimmer’	Dan McGrath	32
32	World Cup Widow	Sally Mesner Lyons	31
ahem	keegan’s fro	Deana	28

I caught up with Darren earlier today and presented him with the 2010 Prediction Game trophy

A late surge from the boy Dazza pipped long term leader DK who was said to be gutted. He couldn’t be here in person, but sent this photo

Thanks for playing. Hope you enjoyed it.

Final, final predictions and discussion http://notepad.cc/worldcupfinal

taken with a better camera this time

The final results of the prediction game will be revealed before the match tomorrow.

We’ll have a media frenzy this weekend about Raoul Moat being a ‘monster’. It’s comforting to reduce complex situations to a pantomime, but it’s more decent to have compassion than hate.

The murders are truly dreadful and will blight lives for decades. Yet it needn’t detract from solemnly respecting those tragedies to at least consider that this is an sad story in every direction.

This snippet from the BBC report gives a glimpse into the background. He ended up a scary, murderous man, yet you can hear the long-damaged little boy inside:

A guest-house owner, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: “He actually said, the one thing that sticks in my mind, ‘I haven’t got a  dad’… and he also said that, ‘nobody cares about me.'”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/uk/10583839.stm

All the lovely Sally’s work

Ceremonial dumping of tea in symbolic Boston Harbour

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I saw this first time round and I have never been as excited about a movie since. The ten year old me ran out of the Huddersfield ABC jabbing and ducking. Looks a bit cheesey now, but only because it was so iconic that it’s been parodied heavily. 

Brilliantly edited

Thanks for tip Jim

+ + + BONUS FEATURE + + +

“Firstly, it’s important to have a clean space. I lock myself in the shed with a bottle of sherry, some matches dipped in wax and the Beano annual, 1976. I pin up a world cup wallchart next to a picture of Terry Butcher and then close my eyes. Chanting the words of Robert De Niro’s waiting, I throw part-sucked Werther’s Originals at the fixtures. When they land on a team, I mark a cross in my special book.”

1. I hope Argentina win
If England don’t do it, I’d love for the South Americans to lift the
trophy – in particular Diego Maradona. Most other managers seem to
have a clinical, corporate, scientific approach, so it has been
refreshing to see a maverick talent flourish. I love the team spirit
he has created and applaud his loco training tactics. If only sport
had more like him.

2. Don’t show me the money
It is vulgar and thoughtless to keep bringing it back to money. “At x
million a week they should try harder”, or “I spent thousands coming
down here”. Do we really have to take everything back to a crass
economic level? As it happens, money does not motivate in itself and
who cares what you have spent? You’re not the centre of the universe
and you have no particular right to be entertained, whatever you have
spent. The world cup is a wonderful spectacle in itself. Enjoy it.

3. England’s ugly imperialism
Unlike the commentators, I despair when I see stadia bedecked in flags
saying “West Ham”, “Crewe” etc. Where other nations seem there to have
fun (dancing with wigs) or display happiness (“Feel it, Ghana is
here”), we seem stuck in a timewarp, wishing to scare the locals with
peurile tribalism. Wit has always been a feature of banners and songs
at club matches and it could be for England.