It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

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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

this time they’ve been helping the members of a local Age Concern keep fit and healthy, heres a few pictures and the press release :

FIT WITH THE OLD FOLKS!

Members from a Manchester based Age Concern group turn to the Wii Fit to help keep active

Members from Out in the City, a local Age Concern group have struck upon a novel way of keeping fit.  Leisurely walks, bowls and swimming have been usurped in favour of a new hi-tech training tool – the Wii Fit.

Four members, aged in their late 50s, 60s and 70s, visited the new wireless lite Carphone Warehouse store at the Trafford Centre this week and were given a demonstration in the popular game.

After the demonstration, the store donated the Wii Fit console and game to Age Concern so that members will regularly be able to use the different Wii fitness games, helping to keep themselves active and agile.

Thanks to the games console, they will now be able to regularly participate in Tai Chi, fitness programmes and can even monitor their posture and BMI.  For those wanting something a little more strenuous, snowboarding, skiing and dance classes are the order of the day!

Jane Barcoe of Age Concern said, “The members love keeping active and doing something different!  This is a great gift from The Carphone Warehouse and I’m sure we’ll have no shortage of people who want to use the Wii Fit.  This is a really innovative way to help our members interact and keep fit!”

Neil Sears, Store Manger of  The Carphone Warehouse at the Trafford Centre, said, “Technology can be a great way to connect with other people and in this instance a perfect way to keep fit too.  The range of technology on the market is expanding, and age shouldn’t be a barrier so our aim is to breakdown the walls and make gadgets simple for everyone.”

The ‘wireless lite’ Carphone Warehouse at the Trafford Centre offers a wider range of mobile communications such as laptops and gaming products too.  The store is one of four to be trialled across England and offering a new format, with expert advice and counsel given on all manner of high-tech issues and gadgets.

It seems someone is hacking MSN Account using a phishing/scam. It asks  you put in your MSN/Hotmail/Live credentials in the spaces provided and supposedly it will tell you how many of your MSN Messenger contacts have blocked you.

The site looks something along the lines of this:

I’m very suspicious any sites that ask for your log on details especially when I receive the link to the website  from a Hotmail contact whom I’ve not spoeken to in months or even years.

The website may look legitimate because its got the MSN logo and other MSN icons but beleive me its not a legitimate site.

So if you get an email from some asking you to log into this site or a similar site and it asks for your MSN log on details just ignore it, here an example of the email I’ve been recieving

“hiyaaa!

How are you? was bored so planned to write you …
anyway here you go
im sure its gonna be fascinating for you…

It’s Easy, Secure and Free!

Try it Now, Click Here”

Don’t fall for the scammers

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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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Gotta say our day out dog-walking at Delemere Forest was really good, got there about 11:00am and spent well over 3hrs just walking and walking and walking, all of us including Blue was thoroughly knackered afterwards, definitely intending visiting again, the place is a dog-walkers paradise.

Met lots of nice people while we were walking around who all took a keen interest in Blue, wanting to know what breed she was, did all Cane Corso’s look as adorable and where they all as chilled out as she was, best part of the day was when Blue got set upon by a pack of dogs, well I say set upon, more like slightly irritated by a pack of the dogs, the dogs in question were about 7 miniature poodle’s, they just sort skipped around Blue barking alot and letting her know they were in charge, all Blue did was sort of look at them in a bemused manner and just walk through them, dead funny to watch, as we walked away one the more determined ones chased after Blue for one final bark, where upon Blue just turned round and still looked bemused, only wish I’d caught it all on camera.

We finished off the day at a very nice pub in Little Leigh, called of all things the Leigh Arms, cant recommend this place enough, really good service, absolutely gorgeous food, the Lamb Henry was to die for and best of all its dog friendly, will definitely be popping in there again on our next visit to Delemere

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Just uploaded a few photos that I took the other day while walking Blue round Longford Park, all of them were taken with the iphone using the standard camera and one of the iphone apps Molopix, can highly recommed that app, its good for taking action pics/mulitple pictures at one as you’ll see from the photos, if your after donwloading it just click on the itunes link below this post

Anyway just got in from work so need to get me some tea, I may be back later

MoloPix from the itunes store

Just had Martin the sparky round doing me a guvy job, he’s installed some Cat 5 cabling from the front room to the spare bedroom, so now we won’t be tripping over the 20ft of Cat 5 cabling trailing down the stairs anymore

Thats one less job in the house to do now

Heading into Chorton last night with Ash, John and Sophie for a night of merriment and met random strangers, said random strangers where however very decent folk and to top it all were actually Yorkshiremen, well 2 of them were anyways.
The Yorkshiremen in question were Paul originally from York and his dad Steve who’d come over to visit him, they’d come out with what I’m guessing were Pauls mates in Manchester and we just sort of sat next to them and then just instigated ourselves into the group, though by the end of the night it felt we’d known them for alot longer then a couple of hours.
I’ve added a few photo’s to the flickr account of the night, not many though as I was to pissed to take that many, it was a very enjoyable evening in the Nook and I most certainly think we’ll be going there for a drink again in the not to distant future

I’m going to end the post here as its still only 7:58am in the morning, I’m still hungover and have now got to find some mug who’ll drive me to Chorlton to pick up my car . . . wish me luck.

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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