Burma 2

Up in the morning after a fairly good night sleep. The electric kept going but the heat was not too bad that we had to have a fan going.

Breakfast of Toast, boiled egg and coffee (this was included in the price of the room) We have seen a total of 1 Japanese bloke in our hostel and 2 Japanese girls in the other hostel up the road (Where we ate food, called Seesar)

Have decided to jump on the "mini bus" that takes you most of the way up the mountain. We got to the area where we wait and waited and waited and waited. All the kids keep coming up to us and just shout HELLO and run and then come back and shout HELLO and then run and then, you get the idea :-) We handed out some pencils to some of the kids. Had to wait about 2 hours but had fun watching the babies and toddlers being passed around to what I guess were family members. If the baby\toddler started to cry or want to go back to whoever was holding them they got a pinch. Yep you read that correctly they got a pinch to give them a reason for crying ! I now know what my Mum was doing when I was little and got smacked for crying. I was being given something to cry about and it must come from being burmese :-)

We had to wait for 2 hours for the truck to fill up and off we went, Obviously filled up does not mean full it means CRAMMED ! the truck had about 4 blanks of wood made into bench seats where everyone tried sitting down with their bags, babies and rats ! The truck starts to move up and the hill just forces you to fall back. Everyone takes great delight in Mrs PF and I struggling to stay on the seat. I had my arms wrapped around the bench seat in front and was hanging on so I never fell into the poor young woman behind me. We had an old man chatting away to us both using his hands and we think we got the message you must be mad to go up the hill !

We got dropped off at a midway point after about 20 mins of driving up the hill. Nice to get out of truck and stretch. WHAT A VIEW ! but sod that I'm just looking up to the heavens and a vast steep hill to get up, did I mention it was steep well just to say it again IT'S STEEP. Out of breath rather sweaty we finally make it up the mountain. mountain or hill who knows.

We register with the government people at the top, you have to register a few times as you go around Burma with your name and passport and pay our $6 to enter. Still a bit more of trek to get there but in 5 minutes we are there.

Its incredible to see, a huge bolder with a pagoda on top just hanging there and it should be falling and held with nothing but, according to beliefs, A lock of Buddha's hair. It has been covered in 22 caret gold leaf and you can only touch or place gold on it if you are man ! I never managed to get to touch the rock though.



We stayed and just chilled getting engulfed by the clouds and they came up it was very tranquil just sitting.

Headed back down and I decided to walk down for a bit so that I could get a couple of photos if the waterfalls on way down


luckily we were picked up after a while and paid a guy some money to take us all the way back to the base camp.


That evening we went to the Seesar and discovered that a bottle of Rum at 1000k is cheaper then a large beer 1300k the night got better and better after that :-) and get this we even watch the English football ! Managed to watch Wolves get thrashed by Chelsea 5-0. We got some good luck from the owners and had a great night.

Baby news - Now in week 18 and the chosen one is really starting to show. Keep getting asked about names but we are not going to tell anyone our names at the moment.

Footie news - Loyality is not a word that Kevin Phillips knows about. I would be gutted to be a Saints fan and have someone that you been paying his wages say he never wanted to be there

Todays Fact - The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001

Let you know tomorrow how many I do. Elbow is still playing up though :-)

On this day - 1936
Publication of Margaret Mitchell's novel: Gone With The Wind.

Frankly my dear I dont give a damn :-)

Todays Joke - Kevin Phillips

Burma

First off, yesterday I posted that I collected the 2 sets of keys back from the estate agents. Well today like an idiot I forgot the door keys for the first ever time and we had no spare sets as they were all in the house. DOH, Had to give the door a slight kick to get in and have spent the day ensuring that a kick will not get it through so easy next time ! At least the dead lock will stop it being so easy.

Bumped into a mate from work today in Mothercare :-0 At least I was playing with the buggies and not at the "cute" clothes, he also was looking at the buggies :-). Hope that we never have to talk about this at work when I am back on Monday.

Thought I would post a bit about my travels from last year so here goes:
This is from Mid September 2003, right at the start and we had gone from Bangkok to Burma. My Mum and her family are from Burma so it had an extra special meaning to go there.

We flew into Burma 17/9 and stayed in Yangoon for a couple of days before heading to the Golden Rock and this will be my first "story" of Burma.
We headed out at 06.30 and changed some money up ($US 40 got us 36,000 Kyat) We had our pockets full of the stuff !!! Get this though I used a monk to change the money. Headed to the Bus station and it was the maddest most dusty and busiest place we had seen and this is after going through Bangkok.

We were hustled and bustled around. Amazing the amount of attention 2 westeners get. Managed to get a bus for 4,000 to take us. The bus was mullered it was 2 each side and then they fold out seats in the middle to make another seat. We left the station at 09.00 and preceded at an unknown rate of knots but it was fast. The driver played a song on his horn that just involved leaving his hand in the middle of the steering wheel. We somehow made it to Kyaiktiyo high street where we had to make a change to a mini bus for the trip to Kinpon Base Camp. We managed to locate the right "mini bus" over here we call them pick up's. It had a plank of wood on each side and another one in the middle. When we left I counted at least 15 people plus all their shopping and of course our huge backpacks. The locals all paid 50K for the ride and we paid 100K, not that we were moaning, what was good though was one of the ladies on the ride had a right go at the guy who was collecting the money because we paid twice the amount. Works out to about 10 cents that we paid so about 6p !!

We found somewhere to stay (think it was about $10) We went to the only restaurant in town and had Soup, Curry, Rice with various side dishes for 500K also managed to get a couple of ice cold large beers. This was about 4PM There was no way that we were going to get up to the Golden Rock on this day as the bus has stopped running and the walk would take over 8 hours up and back according to the locals. Not going to attempt that !

Getting tired now, so tomorrow: Getting to the rock.
Sneak preview of the rock, For size look at the monk in the bottom right corner !



Baby news - Mrs PF got some maternity jeans today. We tried getting more but the main shops (Next and Mama and Papas in Watford) that we wanted to go to were closed due to floods !

Going there tomorrow and hope that they might have some cheap stuff there with slight water damage

Footie news - AJ still here, fingers crossed.

Todays Fact - On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Yer that will stop you now GET IT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, Do pencils count?

On this day - 1620
After denouncing smoking as a health hazard, King James I of England bans the growing of tobacco in Britain.

:-0

Todays Joke - Did you hear the one about the doctor, engineer, and programmer who were debating what the world's oldest profession was (other than the obvious one)?

The doctor said that medicine was the oldest because the Lord performed surgery in the removal of Adam's rib. The engineer countered that before that act, the Lord had performed feats of engineering by creating the earth and heavens from nothing.

The doctor conceded that the engineer was right and that engineering was indeed the oldest profession. But then the programmer interjected that programming was even older. He was chided by both the doctor and the engineer saying that engineering had to be the oldest, because before the Lord engineered the earth and heavens, there was nothing, only the Great Void, only Chaos!

The programmer simply smiled and said:

"Where do you think the Chaos came from?"

I'm Back

Warning LONG POST:
How you all doing? Hope you have been OK without my blog. So where was I? Well Mrs PF and I loaded up the car and went off round the South West for a spot of camping. Was meant to be gone for 2 weeks but we are back early. More about that soon. SO why didn't I tell everyone I was going? To be honest do I know you just coz your reading this blog and are you dodgy? I could get my full home address from just using the clues on the site, personally I can also get it by looking at my front door but you get the idea. You then know that I am off. What you don't know is my alarm code though !

Quite lucky really coz our joke of estate agents KFH left the back door OPEN !!!! Not just unlocked but I mean ajar, Been like that since last Wednesday. We have now taken the house off the market, after 3 more viewings today \ tomorrow as they were booked while we were away. Have collected the keys though from both agents. We was going to do that anyway because with Mrs PF getting further down the baby drop date we really want to focus on making sure that we don't have to change hospitals etc. Plus next year I hope that buying a house without the need of an estate agent picks up. I hate the fact I have to pay these clowns 1.75%

We went off from smoggy London and headed off to our first stop Avebury and then Stonehenge BIG MISTAKE !! We left on the Monday 20th This happens to the day before the longest day so the area was full of Hippies and Druids we managed to have a quick look at Avebury and then skipped Stonehenge. Wont bore you all with the full tour but headed to Corfe Castle and that was good
According to the Lonely Planet this is the most photographed pub.

I can see why !

This is a bit "Arty"


Eden Project was good


So why did we head back? Well my elbow swelled up, This photo is after taking a couple of tablets to bring the swelling down.

Very strange, it might be to do with the fact that I scrapped my elbow last weekend and after seeing a really nice chemist in Lyme Regis I was sent up to the doctors for a course of tablets. These have brought the swelling down but have made my arms come up in Eczema. For those that don't know me I sometimes suffer from Eczema and have yet to find the real reason for this. So we headed back to London so I can see my doctor but can I see him NOPE have to keep calling back to try and get an appointment.

Weather was great upto Thursday night \ Friday Morning when the heavens opened and it rained all night. Woke up to the clap of thunder and being blinded by lighting. It was mental. A little scary too but I'm not going to admit that hey ! sent a Text to my mate who was in Glastenbury to see if he had the bad weather as well but never had anything back but found out why when driving off listening to the news after we packed up the tent to our next stop, the mobile masts had been hit by lighting.

We did spoil ourselves that Friday night and stayed HERE !! Yes the sauna, steam room, jucuzzi, swimming pool and a rather good meal. Was very very good. Mrs PF just had a long hot bath rather then a sauna as you can not do that with Chosen One.

Had 1 night in St Ives before cutting it short and going on to Bristol to see our mate that gave birth to a son last week and Bro in law at his new pad. Very flash flat and then back to home to North London.

Heard a bloke on the mobile phone and it made me smile. "hello.. hello.. I cant hear you.. Can you hear me..hello can you hear me, i guess not" hangs up. Did he really expect to hear an answer back if he cant hear a thing !

Also managed to get shat on by a Seagull, prob make all Brighton fans laugh. What is lucky about getting shat on by a great big bird. Just as a warning to all partners out there. It is not funny to do what Mrs PF wanted to do and thats grab the camera and take a photo and stick it on the blog. So sorry everyone no photo !!

Baby news -
Going to have to sell the car now and get a larger one. Anyone interested in a Pug 206 GTI let me know. I will be putting details up soon. Any ideas for a car? Has to be at least 4 doors cost about 4K and be easy to throw around London. Not too nice as it will only get scratched in London.

We have got some dates through for Antenatal classes and will have to go twice a week for the whole of September. We have decided to pay for the classes as the class will be smaller etc. Is this snobby? Its also so we don't have to go and sit with little 16 year old kids !!! Might also mean that we meet people a bit more like us i.e. a bit older.

Footie news - Fixture list is out now so I have but them all in my calendar and published it so if you have an apple mac and want the Palace fixture list let me know and I will give you the URL to it.

Luton home to kick off the season and Chosen one is due between Luton away and Millwall Home

Todays Fact - Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

What about a boy who is given an unusual girls name? MMMmmmm could be fun

On this day - 1838
Queen Victoria is crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey in London at the age of 19.

Gawd bless er

Todays Joke - A lady approaches a priest and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. I have two female talking parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."

"What do they say?" the priest inquired.

"They only know how to say, 'Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?", she replied.

"That's terrible!" the priest exclaims, "but I have a solution to your problem. Bring your two female parrots to my house and I will put them with my two male talking parrots who I taught to pray and read the bible." "My parrots will teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase and will learn to praise and worship."

"Thank you!" the woman responded.

The next day, the lady brings her female parrots to the priest's house. His two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage. The lady puts her female parrots in with the male parrots and the female parrots say, "Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?"

One male parrot looks at the other male parrot and exclaims, "Put the beads away, our prayers have been answered.

Yummy

Bit big for just us 2 but yummy. My burgers, Veg sausages for Mrs PF, Sweet potato sliced, chilies and veg kabab. Only bad thing with Gas BBQ is that we have to do our jacket potatoes in oven.

HOT HOT HOT

How nice is this weekend? bloody great it is. Spent the day yesterday relaxing and drinking lots of beer on a boat turned into a pub by Embankment on the Thames with a couple of mates. Saw some of my relatives, was walking out of the tube and saw my cousin and she was going off to meet some of my other cousins and aunt for my Sisters hen doo. Small world hey !

London was packed out yesterday. The tube was smelly. Come on people have a shower. The driver on the tube said a message over the tanoy system asking people to stop playing with the doors. At that point everyone looks at me standing by the door, it was the same all along i.e. anyone by the door was getting stared at and like fools we start shaking our heads and shruging as to say not me.

While on the subject of tubes. It is worth pointing out to everyone that getting on the tube from Leicester Square to Convent Garden takes more effort changing and walking to the platforms then it does actullay walking there ! Check the overground map and you will be shocked how close tube stations are. Look here

Feel sorry for you all in this heat but good luck to all those doing the London Brighton bike ride. Hope your OK Dan and Lucy !!!

Real Life is going to be keeping me busy for the next 2 weeks so next post will be around 3rd July. Try to keep it together without me.

Right now I'm sitting in the garden with a wireless laptop :-) Next job is to get BBQ out I think and chill some beers.

Baby news - Mrs PF went out for my sisters hen doo yesterday in town. Chosen One was getting patted a lot. Not sure Mrs PF liked her belly being patted but that wont stop my Sister and her friends. Heard that Mum is saying that she has 3 grandchildren. She has 2 that are walking this land, the 3rd is the chosen one. The Chosen One is getting bigger.

Footie news - Bye bye AJ I Must leave

Is it really about his England chances or that he can get lots more money. Lets be honest he is behind Owen, Rooney, Defoe maybe even Smith and a fit Heskey who has got back in the frame. He would have better luck scoring the goals in the fizzy pop league to get us to the top of the league then he would in the prem league for the following reasons. The defenders in the Prem league learnt to deal with him and the refs were not giving him anything for falling over.

Is it his agent? his agent will not get fee if he can not get AJ a move. I really hate agents. Jordan is saying that he will not sell him. Fair play but lets get some money for him. I dont think he is England class and have been saying that all season. I knew this would happen as soon as he got a call up to the England team.

Yep goodbye Mr I'm no big time Charlie and will stay to get Palace back up.

Todays Fact - Babies start dreaming even before they're born.

What about?

On this day - Rosenbergs executed

On June 19, 1953, despite international pleas for clemency, U.S. civilians Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair in Ossining, New York. Known for their communist leanings, they were convicted of assisting a Los Alamos spy pass atomic secrets to the Soviets. Occurring at the height of red menace hysteria in the United States in the 1950s, evidence suggests that the government was not certain whether the Rosenbergs were guilty. In one of her last letters before being executed, Ethel Rosenberg wrote, my husband and I must be vindicated by history; we are the first victims of American Fascism.

Todays Joke - I like these ones:
GREAT MOMENTS IN COURT
These are from a book called Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments
in Courtroom History, and are things people actually said in Court, word for
word, taken down and now published by Court reporters who had the torment of
staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th
Q: What year?
A: Every year.

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've
forgotten?

Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that
morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.

Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the
occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.

Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?

Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes
Q: And what were you doing at the time?

Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?

Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?

Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice
which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, okay?
Q: What school did you go to?
A: Oral.

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 pm.
Q: And Mr Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law
somewhere.

Porn :-0

Back from Hull and Mrs PF is back from Brussels. I got a nice present of some different hoegaarden Beers
Never got Mrs PF anything as never went out in Hull but will be there again soon so was thinking of a lottery ticket as all the winners seem to be from up there north !

Hotel is the normal one that I spend my time in when I am up there and its good but when I went to sleep all I could hear from the next room was the gentle moaning of SEX !! Well I am guessing that it was the porn channel at least I hope so but there is nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear OOOOoooooo OOOOWWWwww AR ar ar blah blah blah :-)

Baby news - Got a horrible feeling that my belly is growing bigger then Mrs PF at the moment. Dont know why because I dont think I am eating anymore. Going to start exercising.

Footie news - What is it with these footy players? There is something wrong with a lot players and I'm not saying that Van Persie is guilty BUT yet again a high profile footballer is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Todays Fact - Another baby one !! On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.

We were quite a bit quicker then that !

On this day - FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE:

On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.

Todays Joke - Little Johnny was passing his parents' bedroom in the middle of the night, in search of a glass of water. Hearing a lot of moaning and thumping, he peeked in and caught his folks in The Act.

Before his dad could even react, Little Johnny exclaimed, "Oh, boy! Horsie ride! Daddy, can I ride on your back?" Relieved that Johnny was not asking more uncomfortable questions, and seeing the opportunity not to break his stride, Daddy agreed.

Johnny hopped on and Daddy started going to town. Pretty soon Mommy started moaning and gasping.

Johnny cried out, "Hang on tight, Daddy! This is the part where me and the milkman usually get bucked off!"

How many people have seen this?

I have now put 2 counters on the blog because I think 1 is counting site visits and with this one you have to page refresh or at least go to a new page to register a hit and the other I think is doing just page visits. Going to keep them both going for a while to get an idea. The site meter site though gives a lot more information. I'm guessing that the page visit is a better idea of people going to the site.

On another blog that I read Slothblog, Jane was talking about the pain of hitting the next blog button at the top and getting a corporate blog. I tend to agree and thats why I will be using links on this site soon. I also tend to go off from links on sites that I enjoy. Although I will still keep the bar across the top because what winds me up more is when it is removed and you have to halt your browsing to go back and press the next blog again.

Hopefully my blog links will be there by the end of the day.

I am up in Hull tomorrow for work so may not get a chance to update

Baby news - Mrs PF has flown off again, this time to Brussels. Back tomorrow though but I'm off to Hull :-( at least I can get my links on the blog updated :-)

Footie news - Not a lot of news just a good luck to Mr Nice Lineker

Todays Fact - A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.

Just the one for us. We are both under 35 though.

On this day - 13th June 232BC: Alexander the Great dies

Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon at the age of 33. The son of King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander received a classical education from famed philosopher Aristotle. At the age of 16, he led his first troops into battle. In 336 B.C., Alexander ascended to the throne upon his father's assassination and two years later set off to conquer the world. In all his great campaigns, he never lost a single battle. Within his empire, he founded lasting cities, such as Alexandria in Egypt, and brought about sweeping changes based on Greek models. During the return from an eastern campaign, he fell sick with a fever and died. He had not selected a successor, and his giant empire rapidly broke apart.

At 16 I worrying about the GCSE's I had to study for ! An interesting personal fact is that I was the first year to take the GCSE. Now work out how old I am :-)

Todays Joke - One Smart Puppy

A local business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window stating the following: "Help wanted. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer, and must be bilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer."

A short time afterward, a dog trotted up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined.

Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised to say the least. However, the dog looked determined, so he lead him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on the chair and stared at the manager.

The manager said, "I can't hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type." The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter, and proceeded to type out a perfect letter. He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back on the chair. The manager was stunned but then told the dog, "The sign says you have to be good with a computer."

The dog jumped down and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to enter and execute a perfect program that worked flawlessly the first time. By this time, the manager was totally dumbfounded.

He looked at the dog and said, "I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I still can't give you the job."

The dog jumped down and went to a copy of the sign and put his paw on the sentence about being an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The manager said, "Yes, but the sign also says that you have to be bilingual." The dog looked at the manager calmly and said, "Meow!"

BBQ's

Well have had a good weekend. Not done a lot, yesterday went out to the baby stores at the Watford retail parks :-0 We went to get an idea on the kit out there and what we need. Had to pay a quid for a brochure from Mammas and Pappas. Quite funny when you go in because all the woman start moving to the right of the shop where the clothes are and all the blokes go to the left and start pushing buttons and levers on the pushchairs, well I call them pushchairs but they are these giant transformer style things that turn into about 3 different things. They are huge and now I know why they are going for the 4x4's.

Had my sister, her hubby to be, niece and my Dad up today for a BBQ. Went out a couple of weeks ago and treated ourselves to a new BBQ (we have been using a tiny £5 one and before that a large rusty bin) got a very good 3 burner gas one, my mate gets a very good discount from a rather large DIY store so took him along. GAS I hear you tutting. Well yep after using them quite a bit round Oz there was only one way to go when we bought our next one. Today I prepared all the food got the BBQ out of the shed and turned it on and in 5 mins we were away and cooking right next to the back door because it was not that hot most people stayed in the kitchen. Now the old one I would of had to go out prior to sorting out the food. Get dirty loading the coals in and sorting out the best places for the firelighters. Finger in the air for the wind direction and speed of said wind, light the match, get another match and try again and again and again. Go in and get the lighter fluid. Light match, WHOOSH and RUN, let the flames die down and move BBQ away from the tree and the house to the back of the garden and wait 30 mins for the coals to burn down while stinking of an arsonist. Then go and prepare the food with my new lighter fluid hands for extra taste.

Yep tut tut a gas BBQ.

Baby news - Mrs PF thinks that last night she felt a flutter in the belly. She thinks that it was the baby and not the madras so Euston (For the Americans this is very similar place to Houston, well sounds a bit like it) we have lift off. Will be a long time before I'm able to feel the baby.


Footie news - AJ to Everton is the latest rumour. Can not wait to 31/8 and the transfer window is closed.

Todays Fact - The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

If you include the births from North London Indians it would also include the population of New Zealand :-)

On this day - 12th June 1839

Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing the game of baseball by drawing up the official rules in Cooperstown, New York - now the site of the United States National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

The World Series, have to keep reminding our friends over the pond that there is a world outside of the states.

Todays Joke - The Italian Virgin

Maria had just got married and being a traditional Italian, she was still a virgin. So, on her wedding night, staying at her mother's house, she was nervous.

But her mother reassured her. "Don't worry, Maria. Tony's a good man. Go upstairs and he'll take care of you."

So up she went. When she got upstairs, Tony took off his shirt and exposed his hairy chest. Maria ran downstairs to her mother and says, "Mama, Mama, Tony's got a big hairy chest."

"Don't worry, Maria," says the mother," all good men have hairy chests. Go upstairs. He'll take good care of you."

So, up she went again. When she got up in the bedroom, Tony took off his pants exposing his hairylegs. Again, Maria ran downstairs to her mother. "Mama, Mama, Tony took off his pants and he's got hairy legs!"

"Don't worry. All good men have hairy legs. Tony's a good man. Go upstairs and he'll take good care of you."

So up she went again. When she got up there, Tony took off his socks and on his left foot he was missing three toes. When Maria saw this, she ran downstairs. "Mama, Mama, Tony's got a foot and a half!"

"Stay here and stir the pasta," says the mother. "This is a job for Mama."

Had my day off work today. What did I do..well sad as it seems but I spent 3 hours trying to get me apple mac to connect to the work network over the internet. Turned out to be a "silly" mistake for those techy people out there.....It was a DNS error as we have just changed network provider at work and after lots of investigating I remembered changing the host file on the mac during testing. Not as easy as changing the mac file as it is on a windoze PC.

Baby news - Got it wrong it's 7 years but she was pleased that I got date right. I have to remember the day we met, day we got engaged, day we selected the ring to get engaged, Day we married, Mrs PF's birthday and now I am going to have to remember a baby birthday. Thanks to recurring diary appointments I should be OK :-0


Footie news - Palace have released their new kit. Very nice.

Spurs will not complain to the Premier League about Chelsea's approach for sporting director Frank Arnesen if they receive "significant compensation" Well thats really going to stop Chelsea when they are being bankrolled by one of the richest guys in the world !!! Is it all about money these days. YEP I GUESS IT IS.

Todays Fact - The strongest human bite force ever recorded: 350 pounds. The strongest shark bite force ever recorded: 132 pounds! - yep shark fin soup is a piece of cake to eat.......but fishy

On this day - 10th June 1793
In Paris, the opening of the world's first public zoo - the Jardin des Plantes.

I do like zoos but the conditions have to be good. We went to great zoo in Singapore and also saw Steve Irwin The crocodile hunter there and also popped into his zoo while in OZ last year when traveling.

Todays Joke - How many Field Service Engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

Well the diagnostics don't show a problem, it must be a hardware problem.


How long does it take?

That depends on how many spare bulbs they brought with them.


What if you have two dead bulbs?

They replace your fusebox.

IF ANYONE CAN GET TELL ME A DECENT JOKE SITE THAT WILL BE GREAT ;-)

Nee Nar

At the weekend I am def going to try and sort my links out to other blogs. I want to try and get them down the other side so that should be fun. Just out of interest if you have to scroll down the page to get to the latest post let me know what browser and Operating System you are using. It's because from work on NT and IE6 my details are correct but you have scroll down to get to the blogs.

Today's moan at driving is the idiot in a Polo that thinks just because the London ambulance crew is allowed to pass you, it does not mean that can follow it. Yeah I know I do it with the tractors on a country lane but I'm not passing waiting traffic going the same way AND this was down the A1 through the red lights !

Off work tomorrow (Friday) I have just started a thing at work that I get a Friday off now every 2 weeks. I have to work longer hours each day to make the hours up. Should really help with the baby. I used to do flexi but will give this a try. Great company really because they gave me a year off work to travel the world last year. Not lucky enough to of been paid but came back to my job waiting and meant that we could use the credit card at the end knowing we would be able to clear them.

Baby news - Mrs PF went to see the hospital today to see the midwife and lots of blood tests. Got lots of reading stuff to go through and have a date for the 20 week scan. 14th July, also happens to be the day that we first started going out together 6 years ago (Hope it's 6 years, seems about right but Mrs PF will tell me tomorrow when she reads this) She will be shocked that I remembered the date.


Footie news - AJ Is going nowhere according to the Chairman Simon Jordan. Prob best start saying our goodbyes :-(

Todays Fact - Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers. or Nappies for us this side of the pond

On this day - 9th June 0068

Roman Emperor Claudius Nero commits suicide aged 31 after the Roman Senate declares him to be a public enemy. I would of grown a beard and gone into hiding.

Todays Joke - Todays joke was "Stolen" yesterday from here
A couple in their nineties are both having problems remembering things. They decide to go to the doctor for a check-up. The doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember Later that night while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair.

His wife asks, "Where are you going?"

"To the kitchen" he replies.

"Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?"

"Sure."

"Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?" she asks.

"No, I can remember it."

"Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too. You'd better write it down because you know you'll forget it."

He says, "I can remember that! You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries."

"I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, so you'd better write it down!" she retorts.

Irritated, he says, "I don't need to write it down, I can remember it! Leave me alone! You want ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - - I got it, for goodness sake!"

Then he grumbles off into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes the old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.

She stares at the plate for a moment and says "Where's my toast?

Chelsea Tractors

What is the point of these 4x4's? This is one i saw earlier I am thinking that anyone that does not own a farm or at least goes off road and I'm not talking about mounting the kerb outside the local school should have to pay more road tax to drive them. Well lets face it they take up half the bloody road. Reason for the moan; well since everyone has got the system of a national banks computer system in their BMW X5's they all can navigate themselves off the M25 jams and use my "secret" way to work. I use the country lanes to navigate myself to work and now they are turning into jams as well :-( The only bonus is that I get my little 206 behind them and know that they dont give way so all cars coming the other way end up in the hedges and I sneak along behind them. Thinking of selling spray on mud so they can at least look the part.

Window has been mended and managed to get a new windscreen as well due to a stone being kicked up along the M1 that hit it. The rear window though still needs to be sorted because autoglass never had the correct rivets to hold it in place. Seeing that the 206 is one of the most popular cars on the road I was surprised and now I have to go to a pug dealer.

Baby news - Will everything fit in a 206? Doubt it so may have to start looking for a Chelsea tractor :-0


Footie news - The women blew it in the last few minutes, what is it with England teams?

Lets also hope that Chelski get done for their tapping up of football as a general. I like Spurs, hell I like most footy teams bar a couple but Chelsea are really starting to act like the manure (Man Utd) team of the 90's i.e. well above everyone else.


Todays Fact - While humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes! now that is going to be some strange orgy... Are you all ok, yer but theres not mush room in here :-)

On this day - 8th June 1960
English singer Mick Hucknall was born. Wonder if he was born with a stupid jewel in his tooth, was it a ruby?

Todays Joke - not that great BUT - Austrailian Grasshoppers

A Texan lands in Sydney, and is picked up by a taxi. After requesting a tour of the city, he starts into a tirade about the small town airport and how in Texas they have larger runways on their ranches...

They are soon crossing the Sydney Harbor bridge, and the man is further unimpressed - "I have a duck pond bigger than that harbor, and an ornamental bridge to span it that makes this look like a toy".

The Sydney-Newcastle expressway also gets his scorn "Is this a road, or a track?"

So when a kangaroo jumped out in front of the cab, causing the sudden and severe application of the brakes, the driver couldn't help himself - "Stupid grass hoppers!"

Thieving Bast*rds

Yep some, I guess, Kids smashed my rear window and tried to steal stuff from our car, It failed. Why? Well a few reasons but the main are:
a) They didnt realise that the doors have a dead bolt so even though they could lift the locks they would not unlock the door.
b) There was NOTHING in the bloody car
c) They were too fat to get in the back window, there was a CD multi changer in the boot that they could see (they pulled the back seats forward)

Now my car is a 206 and 6 years old so not the greatest, yes it is a sports model but come on why pick on an old car :-( Oh well, I have had to leave the car locked up in secure parking at work and get the train because I can not get the window fixed until tomorrow. It's insured but going to cost me 50 notes for the excess not an expense I need. Best start a help Palace Fan paypal fund :-)

Baby news - Mrs Palace Fan is back from her trip to Switzerland. Sounds glamourous all this travelling but it takes it's toll even before being preggy. She's tired but happy because the chosen one is beginning to show abit more. I got chocs so my belly is showing a bit more as well !!!


Footie news - News is that we have gone for the Ipswich midfielder Tommy Miller, would be a great signing but Sunderland, Leeds and of course Ipswich have all offered contracts. If I'm honest with the head and not the heart then Sunderland will get him.

Also after another forward, bit of a strange one but hopefully they mean a wide player because we have lots of good strikers now. Prob too many so lets hope that AJ is going to be there come start of the season.

Todays Fact - Eagles mate while airborne. For any non footy readers Eagles happen to be Palace's nickname

On this day - 7th June 1942
Publication of the first Superman comic

Todays Joke - A man goes to a psychiatrist. To start things off, the psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first picture and asks the man what he sees.

"A man and a woman making love in a park," the man replies.

The psychiatrist holds up the second picture and asks the man what he sees.

"A man and a woman making love in a boat."

He holds up the third picture.

"A man and a woman making love at the beach."

This goes on for the rest of the set of pictures; the man says he sees a man and a woman making love in every one of the pictures. At the end of the test, the psychiatrist looks over his notes and says, "It looks like you have a preoccupation with sex."

And the man replies, "Well, you're the one with the dirty pictures."

MORE TOMORROW

Sorry

Going to have to be a quick one because tonight I have been to a mates and had a great play on his new iMac and guitar (Les Paul!!!) lots of drink and will moan tomorrow night about having my car broken into to. Yep a real pisser but nothing missing.

Thanks for comments over the the weekend.

Baby news - Mrs Palace Fan has gone on a plane but baby has flown well.


Footie news - Woman footie was good and I enjoyed the game :-0 Yep shock horror but I thought it was good and that there was a quite a few good players. The left back was good and Kelly Smith looked well good and she has been out of the game for bit.

Todays Fact - The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. Quite a bit younger then Mr and Mrs Palace Fan

On this day - Not the niceest so sorry....
This Day In History | Crime

June 6

1997 A teenage mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom

Eighteen-year-old Melissa Drexler gives birth to a baby boy in the bathroom stall at the Aberdeen Township banquet hall in New Jersey during her high school prom. Maintenance workers called to clean up blood found in the stall discover a bag in the garbage with her dead baby inside. An autopsy later revealed that the baby had been born alive but had been suffocated to death.

Todays Joke - A mushroom walks into a bar one evening, sits down, and orders a drink.
The bartender then informs him that they do not serve mushrooms.
"Why not?" asks the mushroom, "I'm a fungi!"

MORE TOMORROW

Previews

Been over at Wyndham The Triffid again and he has good review of the latest Batman film.

Not sure that taking your phones is going to save the industry from the pirates.

I have *cough* seen a couple of "previews" recently and I'm sure the film people have started to stand up in the middle of films to catch the camcorders out :-)

Forgot to mention yesterday that my Mum has been on a cruise and she brought me back a T-Shirt with a logo that I had not seen. Well thanks to the internet it looks like I have solved it and I think it is a Miami Hurricanes (Their Uni)

Baby news -Has made Mrs Palace Fan very tired and she keeps getting headaches. I'm getting tired too All the cooking and all the washing is making me sleepy. Not that I mind though. :-)

Footie news - Will be watching the England V Finland Euro 2005 game tonight. Yep the women are playing. Can not believe though that all the games are up there North. I'm sure if they played 1 or 2 in London / South they would of got people going there. Must be a reason I guess. Let me know if you do. Wonder if they are going to swap shirts at the end?

Young Ashley Cole has been in the news, he is a bit upset because he is on 25 grand a week and wants more even though he signed a contract for 25K and has 2 years to go. Now what he needs to remember is yes some players at the gooners are on lots more but they have also been around a bit longer. Should he get injured he still gets his money. Me, I would sell him and get him out of the door. They are mentioning 20 million for him. That will do some to sorting out the new ground :-) He can always come back to Palace on loan again like he did before. Did you know that Palace tried to buy him while he was on loan but the gooners said no. Can you imagine that ! Have heard that Palace are after Ryan Smith from there on loan for this season. Lets hope he is as good as when Ashley was at Palace.

Talking of their new ground I get to witness about 3 times a week a great big section of their new stand going past my house at about 7pm every week. Will try to run upstairs and get a picture this week

Todays Fact - Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

On this day - June 5, 1963, British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute. At the time of the affair, Keeler was also involved with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, a Soviet naval attach who some suspected was a spy. Although Profumo assured the government that he had not compromised national security in any way, the scandal threatened to topple Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.

Todays Joke - How many IBM types does it take to change a light bulb?

100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001, Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally left blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form "A ...... consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks".

Baby Tape

Back to my roots today and went down to see my Mum and her Husband. Had to show them both how to work a camcorder and a digital camera. Tonight they have gone to see my niece in a show armed with their toys and I hope to get an email with a digital photo attached !

They gave us a tape of a program from a while ago all about how a baby grows. See Baby News !!!!

What is with the M25? Took hours to get down there and about 45 mins to get back home.

Baby news - Not learnt a lot today because THE TAPE WAS BLANK

Footie news - West Ham friendly confirmed, 20 notes for the Inter Milan and West Ham game. Will def go to the WHU game as that is a Saturday and will think about the Inter game because it is midweek

Todays Fact - Leonardo DiCaprio got his first onscreen kiss from a man!

On this day - June 4 On this day in 1967, Bill Cosby wins the Emmy for Best Actor, for his series I Spy. Cosby, the first black actor to star in a regular dramatic series, also won an Emmy for the show in 1966.

Todays Joke - A preacher is buying a parrot.

"Are you sure it doesn't scream, yell, or swear?" asked the preacher.

"Oh absolutely. It's a religious parrot," the storekeeper assures him.

"Do you see those strings on his legs? When you pull the right one, he recites the lord's prayer, and when you pull on the left he recites the 23rd Psalm."

"Wonderful!" says the preacher, "but what happens if you pull both strings?"

"I fall off my perch, you stupid fool!" screeched the parrot.

Comments !!!

Hooray, I got my first comment today from Wyndham The Triffid You are right, I got quite a buzz when I saw that someone had made a comment. All I can say is if you see a newbie blogger make their day and tell him or her you found the site also where you "came" from. Go check out Wyndhams bloggs, he is a West Ham fan so will probably need cheering up when the season starts :-). Joking aside well done to the Hammers always nice to see that another London club has gone up. If you leave him a comment say I sent you.

If you can suggest anything that would be better on this blog let me know, also give me a tip how to sort it !!

Mrs Palace Fan had a strange chat with our Estate Agent, I have to say that I had the same chat about 3 weeks ago, in a cut down version. He was saying that our house is on the market for too much money. Well Mr Estate Agent who told us how much it was worth in the first place !

Baby news - Babies need to have lots and lots of things to sort and we have to get them.

Footie news - Looks like young Wayne is off to Spurs. Yes that's right the exciting club that has never been in the top 6 or bottom 6 of the league since the Premier started. YAWN !!!

Best news though is Bob saying that Sir AJ is going no where, really looking forward to going up this season.

Todays Fact - Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.

On this day - June 3, 1937. In France, the duke of Windsor--formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland--marries Wallis Warfield, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne in December 1936. Been bit of a royal thing going on

Todays Joke - Bloke goes in shop and asks for Irish Sausages".

The Assistant looked at him and asked "Are you Irish?"

"If I asked you for Italian Sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian?
Or, if I asked for German Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?
Or if I asked you for a Kosher Hot Dog, would you ask me if I Was
Jewish?
Or, if I asked you for a Taco, would you ask me if I was Mexican? Would
ya,
ay? Would Ya?"

The assistant says, "Well no".

And if I asked you for some Bourbon Whiskey, would you ask me if I was
American? What about Danish Bacon, would you ask me if I was Danish?"

Well, I probably wouldn't,"

With self-indignation, the man says, "Well, all right then, why did you
ask
me if I'm Irish just because I asked for Irish Sausages?"

The Assistant replies, "Because you're at Homebase."

Blogtastic

Well,

What can I say....This blogging bollocks could be about the most addictive thing I have found on the web. I CANT STOP LOOKING !!! I find a cool site check their links, go to another and on and on. Its so intrusive sometimes it's like spying !!

I will check with the other sites and with a bit of luck they will allow me to link to them for browsers to this site.

Baby news - Mrs Palace Fan is still growing, I'm told I have to stop barking at the tummy because it will be able to hear and I might get the "chosen one" confused. I'm sure that baby knows nothing about dogs yet.

Footie news - Palace have made another signing Jon Macken from Man City, have to say I think it is a great signing and really shows that we are planning to go straight back up. Looking forward to him and AJ up front.

Todays Fact - An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years

On this day - June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom

Todays Joke - Charlton

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