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I may be some time . .

Yep thinking of braving the cold winter scene that is Manchester and heading to Chorlton to take the dog Blue for a walk round Ivy Green and along the Mersey to Jackson’s Boat for a nice warming bowl of soup . .

Anyone car to join me, hit me up on Twitter

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and what has it left us with . . . about 8″ of snow and an almighty hangover that’s what !

I can honestly say in the 12 years I’ve been living in Manchester I’ve never seen snow like it, this is what I’d call Yorkshire snow, the sort of snow that used to cut Market Weighton off from the outside world for days at a time.

So how did Manchester cope with the snow ?, not very well to be honest, in the 3 days since it fell I’ve not see one road gritter out and about, seen plenty of people struggling to get into work, myself included, but no gritters to help us on our way.

Where are all the gritters ? if you spot a gritter please let me know as I’m beginning to think there imaginary creatures.

Apart from the snow then, what else has been happening in and about Manchester, well there was Electrik Bars NYE party

Which I must say was a resounding night and only £5 to get into, cheap at 1/2 the price, I arrived there around 10:30pm and immediately got into the spirit of things or at least the spirit got into me, about 1/2 bottle of vodka and redbull to be trueful, along with a couple of Sambucas and some Vedett, which all went along to making me dance like a mad fucker.

Mel was going to join me after she’d had a meal with her sister and dad at Chez Nou in Sale, but sadly never made it due to her own spirits inbided NYE, but luckily I had managed to sort myself out some good company for the remainder of the evening in the shape of Sean and Lauren, 2 twitters I know and follow.

Electriks eventually kicked everyone out around 3-4:00am and I decided I’d best venture home and see where Mel had got to, though on the way stopped off at Bernies annual NYE Party which was in the middle of winding down by the look of it when I got there, did the usual hello’s and caught up with a few people while I was there, but to be honest I was starting to lag by this point and decided I’d best get home to my 2 favourite ladies Mel & Blue.

After flagging down a black cab and persuading him I was’nt going to be sick all over his cab or mug him I eventually got home to find both ladies snuggled up on the bed with the quilt, Blue woke up as I walked up the stairs which in turn woke Mel up, then spent about 1hr discussing our nights adventures and wishing ourselves a happy anniversary (10 years ago on NYE me and Mel started going seeing each other) and then just both sort of drifted off to sleep.

So that was my NYE 2010, hope yours was a good one

Well what can I say except that the Unabombers End of Year Riot at Electriks at Legends was a belter of a night . .  the venue the DJ’s, the music and most of all the people were fantastic, not had a night out as much fun as that in god knows how many years . . .  has definitely set me up for tonight’s NYE party at Electriks Bar.

I took a few picture of the night and am still in the process of uploading them to flickr, should hopefully have them all uploaded later on today, so keep checking back, didn’t get any video footage as it was way to dark in there to film.

Highlights of my night apart from the music and the people were the lovely Gemma who I know from going to Electriks Bar was recognizing me and asking where Blue was and some absolutely bolloxed up guy ambling across to me, grabbing me by the hand, shaking it profoundly and saying he was very upset that my Essential Mix on Radio 1 hadn’t been voted the top mix of the decade . . .  looking a little bemused I asked him who he thought I was . .  apparently according to him he thought I was Brandon Block . .  made me laugh . .

Anyway the night was a right good laugh, met some really nice people, who I shall hopefully bump into again at some point . ., guessing the same will happen tonight.

So before  go better wish you all a Happy New Year and hope to see you on the other side later

and yes and most of them contain Blue our Cane Corso . . heres a sampler

If you’d care to see the rest there on my YouTube page

Are you going ?

I managed to get hold of a set of tickets this afternoon, just starting to get myself ready for it, looking forward to this night as not been out in ages, line up looks exceptional as well

Should be heading across there round abouts 10-10:30pm and not coming out of the place until the early hours if all goes well

Will be taking the camera and videocam to catch the night and will no doubt post proof of the tom-foolery on here at some point, so check back or just look at my flickr/youtube pages.

This will be my first time at an Electric Chair night so should be fairly special me thinks . .

Highlights for me will be Kelvin Brown, the Unabombers, Greg Wilson, Jason Boardman . .  what the fcuk the whole lot of them will be highlights of my night . .

Anyway best be going and start prettying myself up and stick the talc in me back pocket  .

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As usual headed across to Weighton for Christmas day with my mum and my 2 sisters, though this time rather than Christmas dinner at my mum’s, we headed across to my sister Glynis’s new gaf, where she and her partner Dave put on a rather tasty dinner for me and my mum, also got a guided tour of the place, looks quite nice and she and Dave have put alot of work into making it a home.

Also popped in on Jackie my other sister and her family, dropped off a bottle of wine and picked up presents from her for me and mel, after seeing Jackie decided to head up to Londesborough to go see my oldest friend in Market Weighton Gary Duggleby, been a while since I’ve seen Gary so it was nice to catch up with him, also gave me the chance to take some photos in and around the place where the old hall stood at Londesborough, all that remains of the place above ground it the entrance door stairs and a few ornamental vases, Gary was telling me that the halls cellars are still intact underground and that he’d actually been down there once, looking at the size of the entrance stairs of the hall, it must have been a pretty grand place in its day.

After seeing a few more friends I helped my mum with a few computer issues she had and then decided to head back to Manchester where I’m sat now typing up this record of the Christmas events.

Anyway check the pictures out and feel free to leave a comment or two if you like them.

Now I’m just chilling waiting for tomorrow night to come so I head off into Manchester for Electrik Chairs End of Year Riot

I’ll be leaving the lovely city of Manchester and making my way across the Pennines to my old hometown of Market Weighton for a christmas day with my mum, then round to my sisters for lunch, just hoping the weather holds off until I get there.

Will post again when I arrive or sometime tomorrow . .  wish me luck

As regular readers of this blog will know I am proudly owned by a Cane Corso called Blue and as part of this ownership deal, Blue insists that I take her out with me where ever I go and film her exploits and introduce her to anyone and everyone, when Blue first decided she wanted to be owned by me I spent alot of time on the internet discovering more about her family(breed) and during these forays on google I discovered a place where other people owned by Cane Corso’s met . .  a place called The Friends of the Cane Corso or FOCC for short.

Well Blue being Blue she just had to share her videos and escapades with all those other Cane Corso friends and over the past 2 years shes regualrly posted her videos and met other Cane Corso’s and the people they own and those nice people this year decided to honour her work as Ambassador for the breed and this is what they had to say :

It’s my extrememly happy duty to inform you all that the FOCC and BCCS have created an annual award for ‘services to the Cane Corso and being a positive ambassador for the breed’.

This award is given to an FOCC Corso, who the BCCS committee feels has consitently through the year worked hard to show the breed in a positive light. In this instance it is awarded to someone who not only keeps her own blog, but meets as many other owners as she can, comes to Corso events, keeps the community updated with pictures and videos that lift the spirits, and never stops learning. Her owners are a joy to talk to, and make sure she’s always spreading the Corso love! So without further ado, on behalf of the British Cane Corso Society and Friends of Cane Corso: Cane Corso of the year 2009 goes to….. BLUE! Owned by Sunscream. Congratulations and keep up the good work in 2009!

For those who’ve not met Blue before allow me to introduce her by way of one of her first video’s

If you enjoyed this video of Blue and want to see more of her you can find a link to my YouTube and flickr accounts listed on the right of this page.

To all those who know Blue can expect her to carry on promoting the Cane Corso breed in a positive loving way . . .

went to Elliot Eastwicks Pub Quiz tonight at Electriks in Chorlton and scored a respectful 56 points, came 4 or 5, no prize though, had a good night saw Luke and Jerry in there and met a few new people, good night indeed, only been to 2 of the quiz nights so far, need to go more often I reckon, highly recommend it to anyone who’s not been, tonights specialist subject was the baby jesus.

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Heres some photo’s I took of Blue at Longford Park enjoying the fresh layer of snow that fell on Saturday in Manchester, as you can see from the picture I think she quite likes the snow . . .

Also just took some general photos of the Park in its winter blanket of snow, think I got a few good ones, including a couple of Mel

Afterwards we headed to Electriks in Chorlton for a much needed Mulled Wine and a sausage bagguette, also sorted out our tickets for New Years eve at Electriks end of year Riot, which should be a corker I reckon