Lets celebrate eh

When I woke up this morning I wasn't expecting to be celebrating by this evening.  But why not? It's not every day that you become a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Yup, today I have become the winner of the Nobel Peace prize, great eh!

And so have the rest of the 500 million inhabitants of Europe.  Today the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to the 'European Union' , all it's member states which includes all it's citizens.

How strange?  Still, as young Mr Grace used to say, we'll done everybody lol.

Short films

In the early days of this blog I used to link you to short films, some amusing some thought provoking.  I'm resurecting this item again with two reccomendations ...

The first is called 'Last man on earth' about who man who takes some drastic action

click on this link to view  http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00pf28k


This second one is a short comedy film called "A Warm Welcome" based on a very old joke!

click on this link to view  http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004qk37

Both films are courtesy of the BBC Film Network


Enjoy!

France - Mum

Hi all

This is my 2nd full day here in France so i thought I'd drop a note to let you know how it's going.

The journey here was better than anticpated.  The drive down to Folkestone was uneventful and took 5 hours.  I stopped at the Holiday Inn Express which is 4 minutes from the Channel Tunnel and was really useful access wise.  I managed to get on a train an hour earlier than booked.  The terminal didn't look that busy and I expect most trains are running well under capacity at the moment.

Once in France it was straightforward on to the roads south.  I managed to cling to an audible 5-Live on the Radio until just through Rouen.  Luckily I had no navigation issues and the only issues was rain around Rouen, then a pea souper of a fog between Alicon and Le Mans.  Just after Le Mans there was a dog roaming across the two lane motorway which required quick braking and careful steering.  However, as anyone who travels these roads knows, there is little traffic at all and so was not an issue. I arrived at Mum and Dads around 6 hours after leaving Calais which is as expected.

Unfortunately neither Mum or Dad were at home as Mum had to stay in hospital overnight as further tests and observation were needed folowing this third round of Chemo.  So, after Dad returned home for night clothes etc for mum we had a quick tea then I drove us both to the hospital in the Golf.

Mum in her private room at the hospital in Poitiers

Both tired but for different reasons...but Mum is not looking too bad to say she is having the Chemo treatment...(it is being drip fed into her via the tube at her left shoulder)

 

We all had a good day yesterday (Thursday) and Mum was even able to chat to Val, Lynne and Oliver and she was in good form managing to do some sweeping up and keep herself busy in the kitchen.  However today she is not well at all and unfortunately remains in bed at 3pm.  Hopefully she may get up for a bit later but at the moment she needs rest as she had a bad night feeling sick and in some pain.

 

Mum and Dads car is in for it's MOT as I speak so fingers crossed it will pass without too much grief.  The French Airforce has just had one it's fighter jets fly exceedingly low overhead and looked quite impressive sweeping down the valley..I'm going to resist the "where were they in 45 jokes"  ;)

 

Anyway, keep an eye out for updates on here..Au Revoir!

Leeds Rhino's - Champions AGAIN!

Well, another Grand Final and the World of Super League watch and wait for the inevitable, another Rhinos title.  Just to put it into context, that's two titles on the bounce, five titles in the last six years, six titles in the last nine years and the last two coming from 5th place in the league table.  The Rhinos are truly THE big game team of the modern era.

So it was that yesterday, around 3pm Des and myself set off on the annual jolly boys trip to Scumchester (all vaccinations duly taken) to watch yet more lambs to the slaughter.  The difference being that for our last five titles we had spanked St Helens, imagine being a Saints fan, five finals against Leeds and lost them all - ahh those loveable scousers.  So after the Saints dismal record against us they decided to throw Warrington at us as they had beaten us on three occasions this season, they couldn't put Wigan against us as we had already dumped them out the previous week - ahh those loveable pie eaters.  This would be Warringtons first ever Grand Final and their fans had bought all the flags, all the t-shirts, were singing their victory songs before the game -bless em eh.  Then the Leeds machine kicked in, and at 7:45pm it was business as usual as Sir Kevin Sinfield stepped up to lift the cup as the Wire fans sulked off home with the beginning of hangovers and shock of meeting the Rhinos annual steamrolling of all comers in the one match that means all.  And as they trudged of into a dark chilly Salford night they would have heard the strains of 'Marching on Together' reverberating around the sty known as Old Trafford..On on on

A few pre match wet ones in the lancashire County Cricket Club pavilion..."Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire!"

Des's turn this year..

There was even a woman floating around the ground under a balloon - hope sh'd finished all the washing up first!

Not a bad view..

The lads celebrating with the cup....CHAMPIONS!

Click on the video above for scenes of celebration

Another vid

Expect the usual post about this time next year!