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When I said to the guys at the tyre garage to throw the new wheel in the boot and the missus can change it over when I get back, they thought I was joking. However, true to my word tenbellies was out in the rain 10 minutes later learning a new skill and changing a spare. Good effort, though she just need to build those muscles up as lifting the spare out was a slight problem, none of them space saver pieces of crap in my car.

sorting through my pics of late i found some great snaps from the classic car show in Napa last summer. with flights all booked and august racing towards us i cant wait to get out there again with our ever growing family.

it’s funny how time fly’s, with the year we are having things just keep motoring on with new additions and a wedding in sight it feels that the year is going so fast and the little things get forgotten.
yesterday and today we celebrate Victory in Europe day, the surrender of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s third Reich, with the recent elimination of Osama bin bag it’s a good feeling that our armed forces and allies still strive to keep us safe and free.

This is a great day, one for the history books. may he rot at the bottom of the ocean (personally id have thrown him to the dogs). i hope this gives closure to those in need.

a week ago i had my first go at urban exploring, a few friends and i darted out early morning and headed to a disused hospital in denbigh. The north wales Hospital closed in 1995 and has become run down and derelict since, the hospital is huge way bigger than i thought but such beautiful buildings that stands out and dominates the hill side. Amongst locals for many years the old Gothic institution has been referred to simply as 'Denbigh Mental'. A small stripped chapel lies to the back of the site behind the maintenance shops and boiler house which was added to the site in 1862. Various interesting and experimental treatments were tested and developed at Denbigh over the course of its history.
Time hasn’t been kind to the buildings and arson attack has pretty much sealed its fate as its way past repair and in today’s climate way too expensive to do anything with other than tear it down, it will be sad to see it go as its seems they have already started to take some parts down. it was great fun just walking around this huge empty building and taking a few snaps, now i just need to find my next little adventure.

This weekend Thud and i planted the first of the potatoes and turned over our rather large patch, as you can see from the pics it was back breaking stuff but the weather was great and no better way to spend the weekend than outside. Yep the seedlings are coming on strong and the toms and sweetcorn are potted and in the greenhouse. we ended the day with a nice cool beer and a bommie which sort of completed what felt like a long weekend. I love being outside especially when england produces great weather in the awome country side.

i haven’t wrote about politics lately as it always seems to go with me ranting about the left and i end up swearing and going mad. it’s been something that i wanted to move away from but unfortunately it will always be there and there will always be something that will make me swear and go mad. When David Cameron and his rabble got in i hoped that they would start to fix some of the damage that our friends of the left created, i knew it would be tough and i knew that we would all have to pay. after all we had it good but it was all on borrowed money and like we all know when you use your credit card you got to pay it back, some people do it over time some all at once but somewhere you will need to give up your luxuries. so we have cuts and big cuts they seem to be, they will hurt some where other won’t even notice but as much as this is the case i feel ok about it, i love my country and if this fixes it then we should all take one for the team as they say.
this is the part where i get pissed off......now we are all aware that in the news we may have to pay in to helping Portugal get through their hard times something im not happy about but think its blown up a little in the media. No, its the 650 million we are giving to Pakistan for their education bill, 650 million that we don’t have, that we could use on our own education, or community, public services or more importantly our armed services. when we have been spending 12 million a day helping the likes of Libya, a place i couldn’t give a shit about we then go and give 650 million to Pakistan without the slightest raised eyebrow in the media. And for this David Cameron you can kiss my ass, and kiss it good but only if you can pull it down from the chief curry muncher's dirty backside.

Now can someone tell me why?

the picture above (supplied by this blog) is the view from the roundabout in my home town looking up towards the busy market high street. the roundabout marks the centre of leek where all the major roads come in and it is iconic with the locals and regular visitors as a meeting point and as it stands in front of the Nicholson War memorial it pays a major part in the remembrance day parades. this part of the town has a lot of memories for me as it was where we would meet up hang about and buy our under aged booze from the offy across the road. anyway it seems that now that our little market town has gone up market and is in the middle of a large development funded by bloody Sainsbury’s the roundabout has to go for some bloody traffic lights. Not to worry though if this mottle crew has anything to do with it, i just hope it gets to stay as a lot of my little town is starting to disappear.

this week saw the launch of ipad2. (that word has just made millions of fan boys piss themselves in an instant) anyway, conversations with my students this week seems to show that even this new release doesn’t have our regular young folk excited. what’s the real point of this piece of technology? what is its real need apart from making a skip full of cash for the tragic Steve jobs. i have always believed and taught that good design is something that has real function with the least complication, and this in many eyes fails this criteria. the new one has a camera! wow. it is thinner and lighter! wow. it has a fancy cover that also acts as a stand! wow, actually wow that is pretty good i like the simplicity of the stand. but more to the point where was this a couple of years ago? so as you all run out this weekend to order or collect your ipad make sure you drop by the pharmacy to pick up some ky jelly.