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

Picture 095, originally uploaded by BagRat.

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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Picture 015, originally uploaded by BagRat.

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.

So I’ve just found a nifty piece of software to allow me to twitter alot more freely and discretely, its called twitterdeck and I’m liking it alot, infact I’m probably twittering more since I installed it then ever.
You should check it out, it works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux machine’s, so just about anyone can install it and start using it straight away.

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

This is something I’ve always wondered about, but never really investigated, but thanks to the wonder of the internet and a few clicks of my mouse I found this

Surname: Elgey

Recorded in several spellings as shown below, this unusual and interesting surname is English and of pre 7th century origins. It is one of the variant forms of the surname created from the Middle English personal name “Alger”. This name is a result of the “falling together” of several names of different origins, including Old English, Anglo-Saxon and laterafter the conquest of 1066, Norman-French. The final element of all of them is “gar or ger”, both meaning a spear, while the first element is usually “alb”, meaning elf or “adal”, noble, or “ald”, old, resulting in such names as “Aelfgar” (elf-spear), “Aethelgar” (nobel-spear) and “Ealdgar” (old-spear). The modern surname spellings include Algar, Algore, Algy, Elgar, Elgy, Elgey, Elgee and others. Early examples of recordings taken from surviving church registers of the city of London include John Elgee who was christened at St James Clerkenwell in 1667 and William Elgy christened at All Souls Marylebone, on June 27th 1852. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Elger. This was dated 1271, in the “Ancient Deeds of Norfolk”, during the reign of King Henry 111, known as “The Frenchman”, 1216 – 1272. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

till we can shed the shackles of the working week for instead a week of relaxation in Cornwall, with no one but me, Mel and Blue for company.

I’m so looking forward to this holiday, never been to Cornwall before and just getting excited about exploring the area’s around where we will be staying, so far we’ve decided on visiting the Eden Project and a local seal sanctuary, would’nt mind checking out Tintagnel as well, this is supposedly where King Arthur held court during his reign as King of England, also hoping to get to Penzance and visit a friend Liz, she’s been in Cornwall for a quite a while now, so she can probably recommend some places to check out while were there.

So all I’ve got to do till then is survive the next 10 days, 6 of which are work days, so hoping that nothing major happens at work before then, hoping that JS does’nt have any dickyfits about anything either, anyway gonna have to dash now as lunch times over

For alot of former residents Giant Bradley Day is like some sort of inbreed signal that turns itself on in the weeks leading up to it, its like the spawning signal in young salmon, you sort of get an urge to get on the motorway and point your car North East, the urge getting stronger the nearer the great day gets.

Last night I met some of my fellow Salmon from around the UK, who like me had been drawn home for the great day, no doubt more will follow over the coming days and there will be some faces I haven’t seen in a long long time, i now Headey’s heading back from Leeds on Sunday, so that’s one I can shoot the breeze with for a couple of hours.

So what events have the got planned for th big day you say and what should make me want to visit Market Weighton, well for a start they have both of the UK’s tallest men here, those being :

Neil Fingleton : 7ft 7.5ins
Chris Greener : 7ft 6.1/4ins

Then there’s always the 4 arena’s of entertainment the have lined up, there’s the Yorkshire Pudding Throwing world record attempt, there’s donkey rides, the craft show, a climbing wall, there’s the crowning of the Bradley Day King and Queen, there’s a display of Polo by the Vale of York Polo Club, there will no doubt be the usual group of teenage bands playing in the music arena, but the thing I’m looking forward to is the Pet Show as were intending of entering our dog Blue in and hoping she wins some sort of rosette.

So roll on Sunday and heres to another weekend of madness that is Giant Bradley Day 2008

Giant Bradley : 7ft 9ins