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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

Time to put away the bunting, yes the curtain has fallen on this years Giant Bradley Day…..

I arrived home early Saturday afternoon with Mel, Liam and Gemma, after we’d got Liam and Gemma settled in there little log cabin decided to take them for a quick scoot around York to do the touristy thing, though to be honest we did’nt have long there as it was at least 3pm when we got there, had a quick beer in the Roman Baths pub and then took them around the Shambles and such like.

Liam looking all Redneck

Arrived back in Weighton about 6:00pm and then met up with them both for a few drinks round Weighton, actually expected it to be a fairly busy day, but seems that most people were saving themselves for Sunday nights as the pubs were real empty, Bradley day itself was the usual stalls and street performers, was especially impressed by the guy doing the Falconary display, really entertaining and very enjoyable, did’nt see much of the Giant though.

Entered Blue in the Dog Show again this year though she was pipped at the post by a rescue Akita, in all she won 3 Rossetes:

1st Place for Most Looks Like Owner

2nd Place for Best Legs

2nd Place for Best in Show

But hey she cant be expected to win every year, got to give all the other dogs a chance, anyway after that we hung around for a few hours and then decided to head back to Manchester with Liam and Gemma and another Bradley Day was been and gone

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Well this is all that remains of Bernie’s caravan and her daughters boyfriend Johnny’s car after somebody decided to torch it in the early hours of Sunday morning.

No idea who’s done it and the Police don’t appear to be all that interested in the situation, they’ve just told her that it’s her responsibility to have the remains removed as there a health hazard due to all the toxin’s that were released when the caravan was alight, so as well as losing the caravan, Bernie’s then got to find £150 to get the thing removed, don’t know what Johnny’s going to do with his car as yet, guessing his insurrance company will come and take that away at some point, the only good thing to come out of the whole incident is that thankfully no one was hurt.

Seems someone else has died and left me money, god this is happening alot to me recently, this must be the 3rd email I’ve had this month telling me exactly the same thing, though this time it’s such a large sum of money that it would be hard to beleive it’s not true, I’ve been left $17,500,000.oo USD.

Heres a copy of the email informing me of my lucky windfall :

MANAGING PARTNER

P,FRANK & SOLICITORS

415 ROYAL LIVER BUILDING,

PIER HEAD, LIVERPOOL ,

ENGLAND.

Re: NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Reinhard Hermann, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter to you returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL.

I wish to notify you that Late Engr. Reinhard Hermann made you a Beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($17,500.000.00 USD) to you in the codicil and last testament to his WILL. This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were recommended to him by one of his numerous Friends abroad who wished you good.

Engr Reinhard Hermann until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers. He had a very good heart and was a philanthropist. His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time. I.e.UNO, WHO, & UNESCO.

Late Engr. Reinhard Hermann died on the 13th day of December, 2007. At the age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the needy in your society.

Please if I reach you this time as I am hoping, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.

Sincerely yours,

BARR.PETER FRANK(ESQ).

P.FRANK & SOLICITORS

MANAGING PARTNERS/SOLICITORS

TEL:44 702 405 7247

I’ve emailed him back and explained that as I’m a actually blind and  that I now conduct all my business and purchases via a barter system using  salt and pepper-corns as my currency and  unless he can converts the $17,500, 00o.00 USD into either one of these it’s of no interest to me.

I look forward to his reply and the thought of $17,500,000.00 USD’s worth of Salt and Pepper-corns

Well to start off we’ve been for our usual walk around Ivy Green with Blue, saw a few of the oterh regular dog walkers and there dogs, was especially nice to bump inot the lady from Irlam with her rottie Marley, Blue certainly seems to like him and the feelings reciprecated, plus Marley tires Blue out a fair bit with all the running and chasing.

Headed to Orlando’s afterwards for the Supreme Breakfast and Blues sausages, this is sort of becoming a pilgrimage every weekend now, can’t be helped though as there breakfasts are indeed very supreme, can’t recommned this place enough for breakfast.

The afternoons been spent catching up on a few TV series I’ve been downloading, these being Supernatural, The Fringe, The Sanctuary, My name is Earl and Stargate Atlantis, so had a bit of the square eyes after watching all those, probably now going to play 1/2 hr of Left 4 Dead (very addictive game).

The this evening it shall be a wander across to John and Sophies where hopefully Liam and Ben shall be and an evening of Merriment shall ensue no doubt . .  just have to wait and see

Got an email this morning giving me a heads up that Dreadzone are playing in Manchester on Friday night, so thought I’d share with you lot, not seen Dreadzone in a long long time, think the last time I saw them was at a free concert at Hull University many many moons ago anyway here’s the blurb, if your there I might see ya

CRASH @ The Attic (Manchester)

Date: Fri 11th April 2008 // 10pm-3am

Line-up:

DREADZONE SOUNDSYSTEM

(Virgin Records, Functional Breaks, Ruff Life) Dreadzone was formed by Greg Dread back in 1992 along with fellow founder Tim Bran. As the mainstay Greg steered Dreadzone through calm and troubled waters throughout their 15 year history through different line ups including constant members Leo Williams (ex BAD), legendary reggae vocalist Earl 16 (Leftfield) and MC Spee..

EARL 16

(Dreadzone, Leftfield)

Earl Sixteen was born Earl Daley in Kingston, Jamaica in 1958. His first hit came about when he sung the song ‘Malcom X’, written by his childhood friend Winston McAnuff and produced by Derrick Harriott. Later Dennis Brown covered the song to great success. Around this same period he hooked up with Lee Perry at his Black Ark Studio, and recorded two songs – ‘Cheating’ and ‘Freedom’, the latter a bonafide classic roots tune. Earl first started collaborating with Dreadzone back in 1995 and was first heard on the ‘Second Light’ album. He has contributed to every Dreadzone album since, and has been part of the Dreadzone Live band.

IRISH MASH

(Hot Milk)

From one of Manchester’s finest city centre Reggae / Dancehall / Bashment crews Irish Mash comes to support Dreadzone with an extra special 2 hour Hot Milk selection.

FIBRE (Kingdom Records, Drum Music)

UNBALANCED JACK (Broke Records, Sourpuss) NANNY (Fire Sessions, Assmatics) J-DON (The Remedy) The four residents will be tearing down the roof for the last hour and a half with a 4 deck Jungle mashup! Don’t forget your earplugs.

Hosted by: Earl 16 (Dreadzone, Leftfield)

Entry Price: £8 + BF Buy Tickets Here

DRINKS PROMOS BEFORE 12AM:

Bottle Kronenbourg £1.70

Bottle Fosters £1.50

House doubles & mixer (ex. red bull) £3.10