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Robert Green…. Take some comfort in the fact your error against the USA in the World Cup dosen’t seem as bad as this little howler from Piplica in a German game

and also… we love nothing more than watching comical own goals (so long as our teams are never involved) so here’s one from Ireland…

So it’s been a busy weekend in a way this weekend.  First off it was Jackie’s birthday (Claire’s mum) Friday ~ Happy Birthday for then ~ and with the odd bit of shopping thrown in    Friday night some of Calires family and I went for a meal at a place in Ravenshead called the Hutt.  It used to be quite expensive but last time I went in the prices didn’t seem too bad for what you actually got, so Claire had sorted for some of us to go there to celebrate.  Via a few strings pulled, we got a reserved table complete with Balloons (which kept Jamie her nephew busy for a few minutes)  The only problem with sitting down for a meal at 8pm is when there is 10 of you (inc 2 kids)  This means that when they are trying to dish everyones dinner up together the kids patience gets tested to the maximum.  Shortly after 9 and the food came out and once again I was quietly impressed with what I got.

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Now the regular readers of this blog will know that I love reading bout random news and stories, and this one has made me chuckle alot this morning….

The villages of Glees and Wassenach, in western Germany, have had a long-running spat over which is better – at everything from ploughing the straightest lines to making the biggest sausages.

Now the dispute has moved into the relatively obscure field of downhill wheelie bin racing – in which competitors speed down a hill clinging to the back of their council-provided waste receptacles.

But officials have discovered that some contestants have already been resorting to nefarious means to gain an advantage.

‘They are supposed to be exactly as the council provided them, but we have found one or two trying to improve their chances with unapproved adaptations like skateboard wheels,’ commented one official.

Impressively, the results of the race will be screened nationwide on a cable and satellite channel.

LINK to the story on metro.co.uk

I wonder if it’ll be available on any websites! Fingers crossed it’ll appear on youtube for us all to see

It’s amazing how better a nights sleep can be when it rains.  For some reason it was too warm/humid the last few nights for me to get any proper sleep, and I’ve been dragging my ass through the days this past week or so.  Anyway last night was a little cooler, and with it raining it seemed to clear the air and I slept so much better last night. Result in a way

OMG How I can’t wait for November to come round.  I’ll admit to losing a bit of love for the last Call of Duty once the 2nd new map pack came out, but I’m lookingm forward to getting my hands on the new one!!  Gonna have to sort out my XBOX Live too, wqhich I just let run-down after the 3 months and is currently offline

I’m loving the song below at the minute. Becoming one of the most played songs on my IPOD hehe

Going through my really old emails and I found this which I thought I’d post

School 1977 vs. School 2007
Many a true word is spoken in jest but…….

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

1977 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.

2007 – Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t sit still in class, disrupts other students.

1977 – Jeffrey is sent to the principal’s office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2007 – Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour’s car and his Dad gives him the slipper.

1977 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang.  Psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.

Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school .

1977 – Mark shares a smoke with the school principal out on the smoking area.

2007 – Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.

1977 – Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college.

2007 – Mohammed’s cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.

1977 – Ants die.

2007 –  MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with  perpertrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny’s dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.

1977 – Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.

2007 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in  prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy. Becomes gay.

So you leave school over in the UK aged 16, (no idea if that age has risen or what) and never really expect to see your teachers again, apart from when you nip in and pick up your GCSE results or something.  Thats ok, but you don’t expect to see them at a family function 14 YEARS after you last saw them, and when you chat to them you really don’t wanna hear how him and some of the other teachers, one in particular who Mr Kirk and me don’t really see eye to eye with,  have become best friends and go for meals every Thursday night    more on this later.

It’s been quite a deflating time to be an England fan this World Cup.  Only a victory over “the smallest nation in the competition” the only real thing worth noting.  It was a dismal defeat to the Germans yesterday, and all the talk over here is now on goal-line technology.  Not that it’ll help Robert Green when he spills the ball over the line again, and according to stats on Sky Sports straight after the game we’re the country with the most shots on goal.  not like we’d have troubled the goal-line technology much apart from Frank Lampard’s “GOAL”.  I’m not gonna rant about it because we were poor and I realised it once the Germans went 3-1 up.  I was kinda expecting it, but i would have hoped that we had gone down with a bit of fight and belief! Not lie down and let an experienced, but far more technical German team help lay the Ghosts of 1966 and also the famous 5-1 in Munich.  Too many players just took it for granted and didn’t perform.  Only Wayne Rooney will know why he had such a poor tournament.

Had a nice long weekend away in Primroe Valley near Filey in north Yorkshire the other week.  Went up with Claires Mum and Step-Dad Andy, and her Sister Michelle and her family including her nephew Jamie.  Was great to just chill out, altho getting itchy eyes on the Saturday from swimming and not getting too much sleep due to being sleeping in the living room, meaning no sleep till everyone else had gone to bed, and Jamie and Gaby being awake from half 6 every morning Ahh well Kids will be kids I know and static caravans = very little sleep when kids are present.  Anyway called into York on the way back and had quite a nice day out in the sun on the Monday before heading back home to work.

Back to the opening paragraph.  It was my Great Aunty Barbara’s Daughters Wedding (Sue) and so I’d had the day off work booked as soon as I became aware.  It was held in Retford near where they live and I have to say it was a great day, and the hotel was lovely.  The weather held out and it was red hot, and I have no complaints regarding the meal afterwards.  There was a disco and BBQ reception which it seems went down a treat.  It’s always great to see families gathering together, and it was even better to see Barbara’s son John, who has a very serious job which I won’t really go into, but it means being abroad more often than not. I’ll try and get some photos of the wedding once they’ve been posted up, becasue like a muppet I didn’t really take any   Once I find some sneaking their way onto facebook then I’ll copy a few over onto here.  One thing that didn’t go down too well was the constant “You’re next I’ll bet” comments being fired my way.  Grrrrrrrr

Sue and Richard Kaye

As I quickly write this the score at Wimbledon between  Mahut of France and Isner of the US is currently tied at 2 sets each, and 67-66 in the final set! They’ve been playing for something daft like 11 hours now. It just seems to be going with serve at the minute, as it has done pretty much all set as I understand it

Crazy Tennis Score!!!

Thanks to my mate Ol @ Dijitul Media I’ve managed to have a bit of a tidy up of the blog, and managed to get the latest version of WordPress uploaded and sorted.  Liking this new theme as I can change the background picture, and when I can be bothered I can upload one or two of my own I reckon.  Also we’ve got rid of the holding page that used to be on w1ggy.co.uk and directed you to either my Blog or Gallery and have created a link to the Gallery from here and had w1ggy.co.uk the main domain for the Blog.

When we need the whole Nation (well the English mainly) to get behind the lads over in South Africa for what is a MASSIVE make-or-break game.  Let’s do it in the memory of Sir Bobby Robson.

Do it for Sir Bobby

Yeah thought it a decent time to add a new and updated version of the “Wiggy UK TOUR” map.  Mostly places I’ve been sent to for Hire jobs.  The most noteable ones being Cambridge and St Helens.

Wiggys UK Tour map

Was quite amusing when me and Grant got to the Cambridge one, as it had been raining through the week for the Cereal Show and basically wet fields + Tractors can’t be a good thing for the ground.  It was an absolute slurry, and 2 or 3 times we thought the poor old Renault Traffic van of ours was gonna get stuck in mud that had been churned up by a few days of tractor usage.  It was horrible and the van was caked in mud by the time we had left.  Tractors were being used to tow massive HVG’s that were needed on individual stands to help break them down, and I’m so glad our marquees are as easy to take down as they are, or it’d have been even worse

Example of a stuck lorry

Wonder what the racecourse Groundsmen call that ground!?!

The pigs would be very happy

Lovely Jubbly

Few examples of just how bad the mud was at the showground.  Would have been loads more fun in the L200 we have at work haha