Happy birthday Max

Max is officially the worlds oldest dog. Here is a link to the story.

Bugjam 09

I promised to add some more pictures of our weekend at Bugjam. So here are some of the cars and vans that caught my eye.

Five seat T5 with a dance floor in the back

Fantacy paint job ( not mine but you get what I mean)

Now this is a T5 I woud pay good money for

Classy custom rag top. I like this a lot

Trimmed to perfection

I hope you like them as much as I do. Oh and click on the pictures to see them in full glory.

All together now.............

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Grow your own

This made me chuckle.

Freddie raving at Bugjam

I love this kid so much. You can't really tell but he was really going for it.

If at first you don't succeed fly fly again

Mick and I spent the day together a couple of Sundays ago flying in the park. It was a very windy day and I left my kite at home, so I just shared Mick's. That was a mistake I nearly had my arms ripped off.

In the videos Mick is using my my carve stick on the grass. This is not the done thing as it is meant for carving on concrete not grass. So props to him for getting it to work, believe me it is a lot harder than it looks.
On his usual board he is strapped in and he has off road wheels making the whole thing a lot easier. So it may have taken two attempts but I was surprised that he did it at all. Well done Superman.

I think we are going to go again this weekend, so more fun to be had on Sunday.

The video was taken on my phone so forgive the quality.

So you think you can skate #2

This gentleman has my uppermost respect.



And this is just cute.

Dear Mum and Dad

I just wonted to say thank you for sending us all to Bugjam. I am posting some family photos to show you how much fun we all had.

Thanks again, we love you.

More from the Isl Of Wight Festival

Only for those over 18.

This was taken at the Sand Stage on Sunday afternoon. Funny if a little twisted.

Tony is a Robot Cop. Not to be confused with a similarlrly named Robo Cop, for legal reasons

One of the highlights of the weekend for me and Mick was Goldie Looking Chain. I have loved them from the beginning with 2004's "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do".

They are not just funny and right on the money as far as their social commentary goes but I can tell you from personal experiences they know how to rock the fucking crowd. "You Fuckin Knows It".

From Wikipedia: Goldie Lookin Chain is a comedic rap music group based in Newport, South Wales. The group produces humorous, controversial and often explicit songs that satirise hip hop, today's consumer society, the chav culture and life in Newport and South Wales in general.

So please enjoy their little hat tip to me as well as a couple of other gems.

First an explanation.

You won't see Bart in any of the following photos.

Bart had a charity Korfball tournament on Thursday night, the games kicked off at around 6.30. I settled in at home with fish and chips for dinner. I was due to go over to cheer him on at around 7.30. But I got a call on my mobile at 7.15 it was Bart:

T: Hi.
B: Hi, I need you to come and get me.
T: Why?
B: I need to go to the hospital.

I dropped the phone and drove off like Batman out of his cave (I will let Bart explain in his blog what happened before and after that call). All I will say is that we left A&E at around 12.00am. No break but a very bad ankle sprain and a new set of crutches.

Bart made the decision that he would let my brother Mick have his ticket to the Isle Of Wight festival (we needed to leave in around seven hours and we hadn't even packed our bags). Bart didn't think that he would be able to cope with all the walking through excited drunken festival crowds. I know this was a hard decision for him to make but it was made.

So, no Bart in the following IOW posts I am sorry to say. I missed him each time something memorable happened and it happened a lot. So I am sorry that you missed out, babe, but you told me to have a great time, so I did. Thank you!!

PS there is always Bestival at the end of the summer.

For Iain and Charles - get practising

See you all next week

We are off to the Isle Of Wight Festival at the crack of dawn tomorrow. First we drive the 120 ish miles to Southampton then a 1 hour ferry ride over to the White island, check in to the hotel freshen up and hopefully have some lunch. Then off to the site to see The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, Pendulum and the Ting Tings. That is the lineup just for Friday night.

We don't come back till late on Monday afternoon so there should be news and pictures posted here on Tuesday. As long as I can get some housework done ready for Fiona, Charles and most important Iains arrival on Thursday. We haven't seen them for a couple of years and Iain was just a bump in a belly so we are just itching to meet him, and catch up with his fabulous mum and dad.

We have a very busy couple of weekends to come. Hopefully I will have the time to post some of the exciting things we will be getting up to. I think I am going to need a holiday in a week or two.

Thank you!

I have been collecting data on visitors to my blog for exactly a year today. So I want to take the opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone that has taken the time to visit.

The stats on my first birthday add up like this.

2210 visits by 718 individuals from 420 cities in 70 countries. Not bad for a man that has a hard time writing a birthday card.

I would like to extend a special thank you to the hard core among you that come back day after day, I know where you live, Lexington, London, MK, Melbourne, LA, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol. I don't know who you are but I appreciate your commitment.

Cassetteboy vs The Apprentice

Now I'm not a big Apprentice fan, but this Cassetteboy clip made me laugh till I cried (thanks to my good drag queen friend, Lulu De Smirnoff).

I then went and checked out his YouTube channel. I am now a complete fan. I really want to be able to do this myself.

I don't read much and I know that my writing suffers as a result. Writing really is an alien way for me to express myself, but I can see a real opportunity for talking directly to an audience in a smart and expressive way with this medium.

Please go and check out more of Cassetteboy's work, I promise you will not be disappointed. There really is something for everyone.

Happy 50th Birthday Morrissey

I have nothing else to say, except I still would.

Click the pic to see the BBC's angle.

ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD - STRAIGHT BOY

You got to love house music.



And if you like that check out their MySpace page. Faggetfairys Samo TI Remix is particularly good.

The Prodigy Kill One Big Weeknd

What a way to kick off the festival season. The Prodigy absolutely kicked ass last night and Chase and Status come in a close second.

Click on the photo to go to the video.

Just four weeks to go till the Isl of White Festival. I got me some butterflies already. Turn this up LOUD!

Spring is still springing

I took a couple of pictured of the dog's in the park today. I can't believe how nice the weather has been. Just look at all the daisy's in the grass. The forecast is for more sun and mild spring temperatures.





And Fiona we have real English Strawberries growing in the tubs at the front of the house. They should just about be ready for your arrival.

We got a new car today

This is nothing new in my world, I am lucky like that as I work for Mercedes Benz UK headquarters. I get a new car every 9 months so I have been lucky enough to have had at least 7 or 8 brand new Mercs and the same amount of Smart cars in various guises and at the moment I drive a brand new Jeep Patriot (for pulling the caravan).

This one is a bit different though we actually paid for this one. Bart and I are now the proud owners of a 1997 VW Golf GTI: The most exciting thing for me is that she has a tow bar. So we will be able to drag Mabel to BugJam this year and qualify for the much discounted tickets for being in a VW, joy of joys. I'm not sure what we are going to call her yet but I was thinking maybe Imelda as she is a bit of a symbol of 90's excess. She has gone a bit down market these days as she only cost us £800 but she is in great condition.

I am looking forward to using her to the full.