Urgent important message for Ollie!!

Hi Ollie

I think you need to see this...!

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/guest/Hdz6u1VdpCBupak1HSIaHQ

Santa Steam Train Special

Today we went on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Santa Steam Special train!  It was great, Scrooge came through the carriage first and was roundly booed pantomine style followed by Santa who got cheered to the rafters lol.  Mince pies and sherry for the adults and presents and badges for the kids.  Then a lovely trundling trip through a snowy Worth Valley behind two hard working steam trains.

Wow, two steam trains!

This is great Dad

Two engines working hard

Signal is go for the Worth Valley

I'm so excited!

I'm on the footplate

What did you think of today Ollie.....?



Snow watch...

Nothing yet..but were ready when it does!  *update, snowed overnight last night, a blanket of snow over Baildon exists!

Ollie's Fab Super fast Sledge

Infact, he likes his new sledge so much he watches tv in it!

nice chocolate milkshake Ollie?

Thought for the Day

82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot

Bless this little boy..

EYES RIGHT is a command usually reserved to show respect for government officials and high ranking heads of state or political persons. For that commander to show such regard for that little boy is a wonderful thing

End of an era..

Hot of the press..

My friend just sent me this view from her house...Ark Royal making her final bow (see what i did there..) from Tynemouth..the Coalition government should hang their heads in shame. 

Rule Britannia!

My new Motor...

Golf SE FSI

* SE Special Edition,  FSI Fuel Stratified Injection

...it sounds like a GOLF!

Football Special!

How's this for a set of season tickets. I actually have a consecutive run of over 15 seasons but was even going before I could afford a season ticket...

...and there are some memories here, the tilt at the Champions League..tickets from games against Europes finest, AC Milan, Barcelona, Lazio and Real Madrid home and away...

..and we all need the accessories..

We are Leeds

Jack is coming..

If you listen carefully you can hear the whispers...

"Jack is coming, Jack is coming"
Scurry scurry goes the squirrel and his mate
Working, running, gathering nuts till late

"Jack is coming, Jack is coming"
Hawk the crowing of the crow
Time to leave before the coming of the snow

"Jack is coming, Jack is coming..."

The tired leaves begin to fall
At the beckoning of Winters call
The Summer sun has lost it's glow
Fox and vixen down tunnels will go

"Jack is coming, Jack is coming"

Bark the dogs, as the farmer chops his logs
The word is passed from cat to mouse and toad to frog

"Jack is coming, Jack is coming"

Robin is here in his finest red jumper
Watching the woodsman chopping his lumber
The mouse has moved house, he's under the floor
As little monsters with smiles trick and treat at your door

"Jack is coming..."

With dead icy ground, it's announced with a sneer
The icicles formed, it's the first of the year
The little boy through the window peers
Then rushes to tell his mother........ "Jack is here"

Adrian

Those were the days...

British Bulldogs, Striker, Red Telephone boxes, Reverse charges, Nimble bread adverts, The New Seekers, Meccano sets, Chopper bikes, Bob-a-job week, School milk, Segs in the heels of shoes, The Tomorrows people, White dog poo, Mojos and Blackjacks, Imps (liquorice sweet), 'Caps' for toy guns, Radio Luxemburg, Pea shooters, Spud guns, Pegging smartie tops to the spokes of your bike, Party severns, Power cuts, Marbles, Tonka toys, Candy cigarettes, the testcard, 5 button waisters with hip pockets, Click clacks (clackers), Curly wurleys, Janet and John books, Play Away, Magpie, Blue Peter, Black Beauty, National health black rimmed glasses, ticket collectors on buses, Penny for the guy, Sale of the century, Slade, Mud, Bay City Rollers, Man Utd being crap, Tizer, Football in the park jumpers for goalposts, Mum wetting her hanky and wiping dirt of your face, Police 5, Scrumping, Kick the can and hop it, Gobstoppers, Milk bottles, Esso, Subbuteo, Playing conkers, Action Man, Corgi cars, Sherbert dip with a stick of liquorice, ladybird books, School sports day, Watneys pale ale, FA Cup it's a knockout, the pop man, the Clangers, Hectors House, Trumpton, Lucky bags, silk football scarves, floodlights at football grounds, Spirograph, Shoot magazine with league tables, Viewmaster, Clapperboard, Here come the Double Deckers, Dixon of Dock Green, Dandelion and Burdock, Kaleidoscope, Pooh sticks, Sticker albums, Penny sweets, Bazooka Joes, Colditz boardgame, Dinky toys, Etch-a-sketch, theWombles, Animal magic with Johnny Morris, 'Charlie says' educational adverts, Instant whip, Music centres, Pink Panther cartoon series, Toffos, Grandstand, Rag and bone man, Woolworths, Foreign pen pals, I- Spy books, Vinyl records.....why not leave some of yours in the comments section

Why?

Vase found in house clearance fetches £43m

The Qianlong-period vase dating from about 1740 sold at 40 times its estimate

A Chinese vase, found by a brother and sister in a clearout of their recently deceased parents’ house in Pinner, north-west London, has sold for a record £43m at an auction in London.

The 18th Century Qianlong piece, standing at 16 inches, sky blue and yellow in colour with intricate paintings of fish and dragons on its surface, was estimated to sell for £1.2m by auction house Bainbridges.
However, after half an hour of intense bidding, the vase eventually went to a private buyer – believed to be from Beijing – for £43m, far surpassing expectations.


43 Million pounds..say it slowly..40-3-million-pounds....for a vase.  It's not even THAT old!  Does this not show how mad the world has become?  Hope they drop it :)

Thought for the day
I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates - disprove me?

Lest we forget...

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee No 412 squadron, RCAF Killed 11 December 1941

A tribute to one of the best movies EVER....the ITALIAN JOB

Places I'd rather be...

Florida!

Land of the free, sunshine, steaks and great burgers! 


the view from the poolside at the villa



surfing off Cocoa beach with my nephew Matt

Tomorrow ...Space Shuttle Discovery launches on her final mission, Godspeed to her.  If NASA need a replacement pilot then I'll throw my hat into the ring.  This is me on a Shuttle landing simulator at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre..



Making the final approach...lining up with the center line







landed...straight down the center line, wings earned!