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P1050982, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Over the Easter Bank holiday myself, Blue, Steve and Liam headed over to Bleaklow Moor just above Glossop to do a bit of exploring, as Steve had told us about a USAF Boeing Superfortress that had crashed there, it was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, Strategic Air Command, the Superfortress was on a routine 25-minute flight from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire to the USAF base at Burtonwood.
The crash happened on the 3rd November 1948 in heavy cloud cover and sadly the crew comprising of 13 souls died in the crash.
Even over 60yrs later there is still quite a debris field across the top of the hill where it hit.

It was quite erie stood up there amongst the remaining wreckage, people still pay there respects as can been seen by the remeberance cross’s that have been placed beside one of the Superfortress’s 4 engines.

Such a sad end to so many lives in what was then and is still is a very windswept desolate place, will probably go back there in the summer when the weathers a bit better and explore the site a bit more.

kennys party 071, originally uploaded by BagRat.

Kenny reached the grand old age of 50 last week along with Andy reaching the 40 mark, so they had a joint party to celebrate and used the oppurtunity to get everyone back togeather again.

It was good to see all the faces from the partys togeather again having a laugh and just generally getting on, party kicked off at of all places Stretford Cricket Club, then moved onto Lisa’s flat, where drinks flowed and people talked bollox (mainly due to what they’d had).

We left fairly early on in the morning 5:00am so maybe not so early, but the party carried on after we left, ending only when John, Ben and a few others decided to place most of Lisa food stuffs in the freezer . . . oh and after Ben had emptied a full bag of flour over the sleeping Lisa’s head (not nice Ben).

Gotta say Kenny was looking good for an old man and no doubt has many years left in him, all the best Kenny and Andy

And its the weekend, so why am I up so early, well we’ve planned a day out at Delemere Forest, were taking Blue for a bit of a walk, never been to Delemere Forest before so thought it might be a nice day out for all of us, lots of fresh air and lots of  trails and woods for Blue to explore.

Looking outside at the moment it seems it might just be a really nice day and if it’s a nice day in Manchester, its bound to be a gorgeous day every where else, will have a go at sending some mobile posts to flick, so keep your eyes peeled on my flick account for some wonderful tree filled pictures

Just got back from attending a call out at work a water mains has burst in the pumping station next to the canal on the corner of Chester Road and Christie Road, Stretford, follow this link to see where it is.

Apparently when the Police arrived there it was shooting about 20ft in the air, by the time I got there it had reduced to about 4-5ft, that was ay 6:30am, I’ve now left there at 9:30pm and its still spurting water out, United Utilities have turned up and its still churning water out, most of its being drained into the canal, which will either be good for the fish (clean water) or bad for the fish (chlorinated water).

According to the United Utilities guys theres going to be a few house/areas with either very low pressure water today or no water at all, so quite a few unhappy people I’m guessing.

Anyway there’s not much more I can do at work, we’ve sand bagged any doors it might effect and now just got to wait for the water to be turned off and see if there’s any damage, all you need really on a Sunday morning after a heavy Saturday night on the tiles.

Got some footage of it anyway so will be sticking that up on YouTube shortly, so pop back in a while and it should be on here

Paul from Bristol came to visit at the weekend and we all went to Blackpool to soak up the fresh sea air and view all the TAT that was for sale, ooh and was there TAT, for fans fo TAT Blackpool has got to be the home of TAT, so go visit.

While we were there we went up the Blackpool tower and walked on the “Walk of Faith” which is a large glass panel with nothing beneath it except air, well actually on this occasion it had scaffolding beneath it, which sort of lessened the impact of this “Walk of Faith”, checked out the Dino ride there as well which was absolute bollox tbh. And that was my weekend, oh except we now have our new radiators installed, just waiting on the boiler now and then I can truely say we have central heating . .

19/10/03 – 21:04pm
Well got back from a visit to my mothers to repair her printer (read previous entry) late last night.
As for today didn’t really do anything of interest, got out of bed about 1:30pm, reckon the drive back must have really tired me out, either that or it was a delayed hangover from the previous night who knows. Cleaned the rats out and let them have the run of the front room for an hour or 2, there totally mental the pair of them, found they’d figure out how to get into the air vent on the back wall, trying to escape no doubt, managed to recapture the pair of them and made sure the vents was secured to stop future attempts (next they’ll be digging tunnels).

Picked Mel up from work, popped into see her mother and then have just chilled out till now, but gotta burn some cd’s for someone at work otherwise they’ll be on my case in the morning no doubt, the things I promise people, I’ve really got to learn to manage my time more efficiently. Anyway off for a bath now and then have a game of Counterstrike for a few hr’s then bed.