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So it’s been another little break here on w1ggy.co.uk as I’ve not really had much time to sit and update all thats gone on, and feeling really tired has meant I’ve not been in the mood for blogging.

The other day I was asked into the gaffers office, and having heard him mention something to someone else, I had an inkling about what it was about.  Turned out he had wanted me to leave my house about 11pm that night, and head down to Folkestone, where he was booking me on the 3.30am tunnel crossing over into France, and for me to head just South of Rotterdam!! I was very cautious accepting at first, even with the offer of cash, given I’d never driven abroad and the thought of being on the “wrong” side of the road had worried me a little, that plus the fact Newcastle were on telly that night, and I’d wanted to watch them which meant I wouldn’t be getting any sleep from 7am Wed morning till atleast when I got back on Thursday afternoon/evening sometime.  Was always nice to see the Toon overcome a potential bananaskin, and I tried to nod off for an hour but it was not happening, as I found my mind switched on in fear of missing the alarm.

The journey

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So the Premier League season has kicked off, and I’d say now that the transfer window has shut I’m pretty impressed with the signings Newcastle have made, altho Perch appears a little out of his depth, hopefully he’ll get over any nerves that have possessed him in his first few games, and he’ss prove to be a decent signing.  On top of the Dan Gosling signing, and cpaturing Sol Campbell it should be enough atleast to get us into a decent position around Christmas when the league tends to normally take shape.  The one signing I’m really looking forward to is Hatem Ben Arfa.  Chatting on the TTBAWA thread on a website I go on, we were looking forward to his signing a frew weeks before he finally put pen to paper, as Marseille were playing hard to get or something.  He looks a class player who may provide the creative spark we as a team had been missing since players like Laurent Robert left the team. 4 points from the opening 3 games is not too bad a return, given one of them was Man Utd @ Old Trafford, and it’s nice to see us with a +3 goal difference having spanked Villa 6-0 (But I’m not allowed to mention that to my neighbour Chris who’s a Villa fan )

Hatem Ben Arfa signs on Loan - Image from www.nufc.co.uk

So football team supporting wise, it’s been a very mixed bag of a weekend for the White-Burrows relationship.  First off we see that Newcastle have destroyed Aston Villa 6-0 at St James’ Park taking our unbeaten home run to 20 games!!! (I’m gonna faint soon ) and then we watched a Liverpool side quite devoid of any real ideas and stuck in a 4-4-2 going down 3-0 to Man City and their Billions.

Hopefully it’ll be a different story on thursday when Mansfield Town Ladies kick off their season away at Long Eaton United Ladies.  Hoping for a good game and start to the season, and I’m sure if the girls play like they did in some of the pre-season friendlies I’ve watched then they’ll have a decent chance at 3 points

Good morning Blogosphere.  I take it everyone is well. Been a decent enough weekend.  Great news regarding Kierans (CarolAnnes son) Who at 7 has become the captain of his Under 10′s team! Way to go Kieran.  Also scored a few goals from what I’ve heard and he seems to thrive playing football against the bigger boys   Also gongrats to Mansfield Town Ladies who beat their rivals Market Warsow Warsop in a friendly (Called a friendly despite some of the facebook status updates I’d read on the Sunday morning haha!   Was a good performance and they were back to playing some nice fluid football and if they had someone with the confidence to take a strike once they’ve cut their way to the edge of the box they may have won by more.  The goal of the game was a long hit and hope by the Market Warsop defender from near the half way line, that as soon as she struck it you knew it was going over the Stags keepers head, it was just a case of would it just drop under or over the bar.  As it was it was the former.  There tends to be quite a few lobs in the ladies game which I love seeing

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So at this time in the morning I’ve feeling as horrid as I come.  This is due to being sent a new bank card, and this having an adverse effect on my mortgage payment, as I opted for this method due to my wages being paid in monthly instead of Weekly, and the fact that Northern Rock would only originaly let me have a Direct Debit for the 1st of the month, which was no good to me.  Anyway I’ve had to ring them and their office was in Sunderland the Village of the Un-washed so I’m not liking that experience! Hopefully the person on the other end of the phone only WORKS in that office and actually lives outside the Unwashed zone   Top that off with the fact I had to handle (and pay for) a LIVERPOOL shirt yesterday I’m feeling that I need to cleanse my body, mind and soul very very soon.

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So that was a fun, and very long ass weekend just gone there.  Saturday was basically a long trip up to Lake Windermere which seemed to take forever to get there.  When we got near Bolton it absolutely threw it down for 5 minutes, and that had both me and Claire looking at each other fearing we’d be 2 drowned rats in the van for the drive home.  Took a little bit of buggering around to find the Great Towers Scout Camp, as the Sat Nav took us to some houses just before the turn in we needed to take DOH!!  It took us roughly 3 hours or so to take the marquees down, and throughout this whole time we had no mobile phone signal, and I was in a personal HELL.  Surrounded by hundreds / thousands of Scouts from all ages from round the world, as it was an International Event:

Red Rose 2010 will be an action packed International Camp held in the stunning Lake District National Park.  It will be a complete international experience filled with adventure, high energy, challenge, fun and most importantly a chance to build new and lasting international friendships.  It’s quite simply an international camp for the Scouts and Guides of the 21st Century.

We got 1 free cup of coffee/tea out of it so it wasn’t all bad    The drive back was more tedious than on the way, and I found myself checking how long was left on the journey both time and distance wise on the Sat Nav.  A few days earlier I’d got a message on Facebook from my Friend Nic saying she was organising a surprise BBQ for Lee’s impending 30th birthday, so even tho the pair of us were on our last legs once we walked through the front door, we we’re soon showered and on our way.  By the time we’d gotten there John & Caz, Will & Nic, Wills Mum and Dad, Meaty Meaty Meatball and Nics sister Emma were all there and laughing.  Was great to just sit and chill out with them lot, even tho we were waiting for the fireworks from the Ashfield Show to find that they’d gone off about 8pm (when it was still light as hell)

Updated Map, with Pink showing Personal Trips and Blue = Hire jobs

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Woohoo I have finally decided to request my first ever payout from cmfads.  And I know have $12 sat in my paypal account.  I really need to start getting back into the swing of my blogging and trying to sort a few bits and peices out.  Shame my google adsense account was frozen due to having one or two other ad based widgets on my blog, but never mind

I’ve been having a bit of trouble lately with my right wrist.  I think I may have slightly pulled it whilst out on a hire job a few weeks ago,and then thought nothing of it, but this last week it’s started to get sorer and sorer.  Lets see how I fair when I’m up near Lake Windermere taking down 11 of our marquees with Claire on Saturday.  If it’s still sore on Monday morning I feel I’m gonna have to head to the doctors and get it checked out, as there is a lighist coloured bruise around the wrist bone   Tomorrow is gonna be a long ass day, as I’ve told Claire if we can we’ll stop off in Liverpool so we can get her the new Liverpool home shirt printed and everything (It’s only fair as I’ll be getting a new Newcastle one in October when we’re up there for one of her football mates birthdays) hehe

The month of August is going incredibly slowly due to the fact that on the 24th August I am able to upgrade my phone.  My Samsuing Pixon decided to die about a month ago, and so I’ve had to revert back to my Samsung G600 with the battery held in by blue electricians tape! It looks so sexy I can tell you

I can’t shake this song out of my head at the minute, and I think it’s fricking AWESOME

The summer of great films just seems to be giving at the minute.  There is Toy Story 3 that both me and Claire wanna go watch, but this is the film I’ve been looking forward to all year (Well since Smash read about it on IMDB)  Seems Stallone has gotten together most of the biggest action movie stars of the past 10 years or so, and some other big nasty looking fellas, and created a film with them all in! The trailer is below.  The Expendables looks like one hell of a testostrone ride

Also I’m a massive fan of films like Step Up, Step Up 2 et al and so I would love to go watch this new Step Up 3D!

Newcastle have won their 2nd peice of silverware in 4 months And It a trophy that as soon as I clapped my eyes on it, I knew that it’d look out of place in our trophy cabinet hahaha! Just look at the bloody size of this thing…

The Teresa Herrera Trophy

Pretty decent size I’m sure you’ll agree.  Wasn’t the best game attacking wise for us, with our inability to play the ball along the floor being highlighted with needless chips up to Andy Carroll and Leon Best, but on the other hand the defence looked good and were not afraid to pass it about (sometimes a little too much) and Perch looked a decent prospect, Given all the Forest fans “He can’t even make the first team when everyones fit” Maybe it’s their way of getting over losing a decent player by belittling him who knows.

"How we gonna get this home then lads?"

If ever there is a decent time to play Man Utd @ home I reckon it’ll be the first game of the season, ala last time we were in the top flight and we managed to get a 1-1 draw.  As long as it’s not 3/4/5-0 I’ll take that as we look to push on from there

Saw a link to these two videos on a forum I frequent, and thought I’d post his videos up on here!!