I dont believe it!

This man Garcia contiues his fairytale replacement of Donovan McNabb, with a christmas day victory, best christmas ever...

Christmas ends at 4.59pm

Apologies to Deadspin for pinching a quote from their excellent site, but the biggest story here is that at 5pm Philadelphia take on Dallas live on MY tv, for MY entertainment so that I dont have to watch National lampoons christmas vaccation for a third time....

Blogging instead of cooking

In case you were wondering, and I Know some of you are, we are having the tofurkey again with a medley of seasonal vegetables and herbs, oh and some sparkling wine!
We have cream, chocolate , liquor chocolates, a chocolate orange, and baileys for dessert (around about midnight).
Whilst my other half was talking to the family back in Ireland with a excellent video link over the computer, I went for a run! About a mile and a half, it is christmas.
Peaceful times to all those back in England, Ireland, Hungary , Northern Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, and those travelling between them!

Dancing in PJ`s

It is traditional at this time of year, well in a week or so, to pledge to get fitter in the new year .
This year I have the jump on the usual pre christmas binging, and have already started( several months ago) to turn the clock back -it`s a form of time travel!
Back in Leeds a friend and I made regular trips to the gym , where we lifted very heavy weights and did virtually no cardio. As a result my bench press rose to a one time record of 98Kg. Since comming to Canada that dropped off , perhaps due to having to convert it to pounds, its about 218lbs I think. Well THIS Year will be different, I am going to finally take up a martial art.
I always fancied Kendo, you know with the ornate face mask and huge bamboo sword, I don`t know what that says about me; karate especially the Bruce Lee Wing chung style was something I grew up watching; I have done some Tai chi!
Down the street is a Ninja school, every new member gets a suit belt AND a full HOOD (scared the life out of me even in a window display).
Above is Ju jitsu, I have been told that this is a broad style which may even have some practical uses, I have the opportunity to join a convenient club ( experience tells me convenience is the way to go) so after today we have christmas day then a few days before a decision eary in January, merry christmas one and all, or as they say here happy holidays...........

Baiji

" Functionally extinct", a six week trawl of the Yangtze river by a team of 30 scientists, has turned up not one of these river dolphins.
They agree that it is possible that one or two may have been out, or at the shops, during the extensive sonar search, however a population of 20-25 would be needed to have a chance of survival.
Back in 1997 they found 13, today none....

Embarrassing facts of life

Yonge street December 2005. It was very cold, very windy, and and as a new arrival fresh from the old country absolutely Great.

All the traffic was forcibly slowed and the citizens walked the streets with smiles on their faces ( may have been grimaces).

Last night as I rode my bicycle to work, a small spaceship was doing donuts on a local tennis court.

At second glance it was a Zamboni ice cleaning vehicle creating an ice rink,

they must plug them in or something as it was a balmy plus 6C.

I sighted several more rinks around town during the shift and it looked great fun, although I only know it as painful!

Toronto has no snow, and its warm, the numbers are in for the UK and it`s going to be another record year for temperatures, Lapland has no snow!

In an article in the Independent newspaper today a father talks of his son`s visit to Santa`s Hood, only to get mired in slush, "I had to have a little talk with him about global warming!"

Transport Services published a small paper and added it to the junk mail in our letterbox. The main priority is to keep main roads and expressways clear for emergency and transit vehicles.

" If 5cm of snow has already fallen and it is continuing to snow, ploughs are sent out to these roads. If 5-8cm of snow has fallen, ploughs are also sent out to collector roads, bus routes or residential streets with hills."

It goes on to advise waiting for 24 hours after snow has stopped falling, before ringing them to moan about your street, and if you live downtown with it`s narrow twisted boulevards, you can forget it!

My snow shovel is on standby.......

Mr Benn is at it again

I wanted this bigger, must be a way of doing that.

Anyway its Mr Benn, walking, probably down Festive road, perhaps he`s going for a pint, or a cup of tea or something....

not fluffed up!

Just had to put this photo up to illustrate that when we get a dog next summer we will be getting a BIG one, or at least a very scary medium sized one with the ability to "fluff up" a bit when alarmed.
It looks heavy that`s a sizeable bin it has removed the security rock from. I watched it climb our tree with ease. Unlike our neighbours we have no first floor balcony outside the bedroom, ther is a reason for that...

We have movement!

So I am reading an article on how there may be water on Mars, and it states that water may have flowed in the last seven years!
Now naturally we look for the typographic error , only to find that there isn`t one!
A comparison of photographs taken recently and in 1999, appear to show drainage patterns down a slope.
The argument about whether this is a dry dust movement or liquid will rage, but I am backing Professor Pillinger on this one, because he is mad enough to be right!
http://citizen146.blogspot.com/2006/08/brits-are-comming.html

tony & george search for an exit strategy

The UK has four of these, we only need four because they are crammed to the gunwales with TRIDENT nuclear missiles.
I know gunwales does does not apply to submarines, I just like the sound.
I thought I had misread the paper were tony blair has just decided to state that the UK needs a NEW nuclear missile program independent of the US.
This seems like madness on so many levels. The old ones have never been used and are probably fine. New ones will cost hundreds of billions and also will not be used. The nuclear non proliferation treaty still exists.
By far the worst is the possibility that our "special relationship'" with george will be ruined!
Suggesting that we wont play with him anymore , will leave us looking for a new best friend country.
The French are out for obvious reason that they hate us, ditto the Germans, the Irish are not reknowned for the military might, anyway they hate us, perhaps Norway, Spain?
Looks like tony may have to appologise to the Australians for sending them out there, and hope that aeroplane technology reduces International travel times by" a lot".
tony wants not to be thought of as that moron whom bullied his cabinet over weapons of mass destruction and followed george to Iraq, george and his new defence minister wants out of the same. Tony has bullied the cabinet again, THEY have to be held responsible THIS TIME!
Both men are headed to the golf course for the next thirty years.
speechless......

season saved, da dah!

So here it is , an interception in the end zone ( its like the defender clearing off the line for those in blighty) in the dying seconds, clinches victory and leaves a season of 6 wins and 6 losses with 4 games to go. To guarantee a place in the play offs we have to win them all, un morceau de gateau as they say in Leeds...

The great Pyramid at Giza

Built by Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) in BC2575, visited by me in AD2002.
We have also visited Newgrange
in Country Meath, Ireland, which is older than this AND Stonehenge.
Anyway it snowed last night as I was cycling home. The Army/Navy football game is on tv, and I need to get a haircut. The centre for advanced sarcasm http://centerforadvancedsarcasm.blogspot.com/ has a good video clip under title "white people, what is up with us?" Found Top Gear and the nun in a monster truck video clip http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/videos/15/broadband.html