It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

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

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Did’nt really post to much over the weekend as I spent quite alot of it in bed, due to being called out to an alarm call at my workplace, was there from midnight Friday till 5:30am Saturday morning, so spent quite a while in bed recovering.

So seeing as most of Saturday was spent in bed thought we#d better do something on Sunday, was’nt sure what to do or where to go, but in the end we decided on Chelford Car boot.

Got there for about 12:30 and spent a good hour or so just wondering round looking for bargain’s but think we missed most of them, so just ended up buying lots of quaility cheeses instead, more about those in another post.

After leaving we thought we’d best take Blue for a walk and on the way back we chanced upon Styal Estate a rather good dog walking place, we’d heard about it before but never actually bothered to go look for it, really wish we had cause its definatly a dog friendly walk, lost of paths and fields for Blue to galavant in, I’ll stick some photo & videos up this weekend so you can see for yourselfs.

Anyway its close to 8:00am and I’d better start making my way to work, cyas laters
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Well I’ve lived in Manchester for over 10yrs now and in all that time I’d never heard of this before, but it seems theres a Farmers Market held the 2nd and 4th weekend of every month.

Think me and Mel will be checking this out tomorrow to see if we can pick up any nice food without having to pay a supermarkets running costs at the same time, I’m hoping they have lots of cheese’s, mmmmm cheese.

Will attempt to post from twitter while were there tomorrow and twitpic some photo’s of the place.

Its situated near the  fountain and the statue of Queen Victoria at Piccadilly Gardens, in Manchester city centre, so if you see some guy texting on his mobile while trying to control a rather large  dog and at the same time being harrased by a woman, that’ll be me, so come say Hi and maybe buy me some cheese

P.s. must thank the twitter/blogger  Manchesteriace for pointing this out to me as otherwise I’d have never come across it thank you

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Went and checked out Davyhulmes Millenium Nature Reserve at the weekend with Blue our Cane Corso, the whole site covers about 8 hectares of land along side about 3/4 mile of the west bank of Manchesters Ship Canal , the reserve is a mixed landscape of wetland, woods, water features & open land.

You can do everything from bird watching, walking, cycling there as well as having a traditional picnic on one of the benchs provided.

The site is owned and maintained by United Utilities and part of it is a designated Site of Biological Importance.

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So we’re back from the soul night at Orlando’s which was a very enjoyable evening indeed, big up to Tony the DJ and his delectable co-hort Katie, but a bigger up to Rupert for a superb evening indeed

Just some photo’s I took at Chorlton Water Park last weekend, nothing special, just me clicking with the camera

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Just uploaded a few pictures to flickr of our Cane Corso Blue, not the best pictures in the word, slightly blurred to be honest, but I think they certainly capture some of who she is and why we love her so much

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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.

Market Weighton was on TV last night and I missed it

Only found out this morning when one of my colleagues came up to me and asked me where I was from again, so I said Market Weighton and he then told me that there’d been some footage of Market Weighton Fair on “The Way We Were”, a programme that uses archive footage to show how life was in previous decades, they had one of my old school friends dad’s on last night talking about his farm apparently, just a shame I missed it, will have to see if I can download a copy from somewhere, as it would be nice to see if I can recognise anyone from it.

From what my colleague was saying it was a very good snapshot of what he expected country life was like around then and he really enjoyed watching it.

So if anyone has a copy of this they want to burn to disc for me, I’d be grateful

Creeday and Mrs Black
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Well tonight it was Purple Radio night North and gotta say was a little nervous before we got there and was a little bit unsure how to get chatting to everyone, but eventually got into the swing of it.

Nikki, Andy, John, Steve and Me and Mel went to enjoy the sounds of Creedy and the rest of them, got to meet Boo, Hoods, Sketchy, Home Farm Girl, Viviene, Mr and Mrs Black, Marky and a few other forumites for the first time and gotta say all of them real real nice people and look forward to the next time they do a night and it better be soon or else.

Thxs Purple Radio for a good night