Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Agent Dowie takes his seat

Agent Coppell moved from Palace to Brighton and took them down
Agent Tuttle played for Palace and took Millwall down
Agent Bruce went to Birmingham and it took a couple of seasons but finally did his job and took them back down, he also gave us Johnson and then gave us back Morrison so in total from that deal we made about 12 million and kept Morrison :-0. What an Agent.

AND NOW

Agent Dowie goes to Charlton or the Clowns as they are somtimes known, lets see what happens :-)

All change on the renting

Blimey will it ever be resolved !! After getting a place for 6 months we got a call from the estate agent that we are buying through, "the vendor has found a place and it is empty and they want to complete in about 5 weeks" MMmmm brilliant BUT Oh shit we have just taken on a 6 month rent. Well a call to the renting agent and they said no worries it happens and never took any money from us !! So if you ever rent / buy in Berkhamsted use an agent called Regency Estates.

We are now going to put all our stuff in storage and go to rent a place off a girl at work for 1 month or so. Quite a result as she is selling the house but not living there so we can move in and stay a few weeks or a bit longer, it's in Rickmansworth so where I work so quite happy.

Just trying to get the removal companies to get their costs down a bit at the moment. All looking good though for next Wednesday to move.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Why Dowie, why?

I'm glad that Jordan is serving Dowie a writ. BBC story here. At the end of the day he left Palace to be nearer his family so was mutually released from his contact at Palace and then he turns up at Charlton (Who for some reason think they are our rivals, your not). Not good and not right, on the Palace sites they are saying he is worse the Steve Bruce when he walked. At least Steve Bruce asked for permission to talk to Birmingham, not that he was allowed but thats another long story !

AJ has signed for Everton and I wish him all the best.

Never a dull moment being a Palace fan !!

Happy birthday Blog

Well this blog is 1 year old today. Does not seem that long ago that I set out to start a blog but I have enjoyed it. I did have to change the format/design a couple of times. In the end the simple view looked best ! I also have lost the baby news, footy news, fact of the day etc. and I do miss doing that BUT it really does take too much time.

I picked the following blog graph up from Slothblog (who's site's birthday is also coming up !) Jane has managed to get a lot more site vists but does write a great blog. As does another blogger that started just before me, Wyndham the triffid so happy blogday to you both

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Have a look here for more information on what the dots mean.

Monday, May 29, 2006

Photos

Couple of photos from today:
Max with a buterfly !
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Max and Faye
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The very photogeneic Jake
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Easy to park !
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Renting and the zoo

Well we have got a place to rent in Berkhamsted now and hope to move in 7th June and we complete on this one 9th June so it gives us the 8th to clean. We have signed up for 6 months but hopefully if our new house moves quicker then we can get it rented out so we dont lose out. Gone for a house like our current one ! 2 bed cottage with garden and it means that we can store our BBQ etc. in it so bit better then a flat BUT not as easy to re-rent.

Went to London Zoo today and had a really good day with our friends and their son. Managed to get a voucher off the web for 2 for 1 (http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/) think it ends soon and is linked to rail travel. We drove but I just showed them my oyster card and no worries. Talking of driving there, They charged £1.20 per hour outide the zoo BUT here is a tip, as it is a bank holiday a single yellow is OK to park on so if you drive just out of the park ring road you can park for free ! So I saved over £20 in total BUT managed to spend most of that on some snacks ! Price were really high i.e. Tuna roll was £3.50, a small pasta salad was almost 4 quid, Soup £4 etc. etc. best deal was my rollover hot dog and drink for £4.

Will post some photos later.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Bye bye Dowie bye bye AJ

Well I have to post about Mr Dowie going and to be honest SEE YER, I dont mind that he is off and if he is to be replaced by Souness then so be it I wont be upset. I think Souness will give a bit of back bone to the team and help displace Dowie's favs. Now why Bob Dowie is helping with the choice of new manager is another thing because he is going to be talking to Iain about the choice and that is a given. I really hope that Iain does not go to Charlton because after saying that he needs to be off because of the distance that he lives away from his family will be a joke if he joins one of our rivals.

AJ going will only help the team because in the games that he did not play we played better football because we was not looking at AJ using his pace each game. His wages might also cripple the team next year so I think Jordan has done a good deal to sell him at 8.5 million. cant complain when we got him for 0.5 million and his wages have not cost us more then that. good work as long as Sandor torgelle comes back.

We need to look to the future, so as long as it is sorted then the quicker the better.

Still hold out a hope that AJ might stay rather then go to Wigan or Bolton but I think Bolton will get him.

The Maxster now weighs in at 20lb 2 so he is still growing. he is 6 months old next week and I can not beleive that he so old already, it has gone so fast. He is starting to hold himself up now although not for long and he is so funny he is great.

We have exchanged now on our house and have to leave in about 2 weeks. We was going to live between our parents houses BUT I cant live without Faye and Max for more then a week so we have deceided to rent and take the hit on ending a 6 month contract early. I mean lets face it how could I even think that I wouldnt miss them and to be honest I dont care about losing money because I would rather see my family, I hope that the house we have bought in Berkhamsted does happen fast but I dont see it being fast enough for us to be apart for any amount of time. It must take at least 6 weeks and I dont want to be away from them for that long ! We would have to parted because of work and trying to find somewhere we could all stay.

We should know more tomorrow but hopefully if we have to leave the rented place due to getting our "NEW" house quicker we will be able to "re-rent" the place and not lose money.

The house that we have bought is great BUT the people living there have not yet found anywhere. We was lucky finding it and have had to offer the full asking price so that it is taken off the market. i still think that we have got a great deal.

We wont have broadband for a bit, unless I find wireless, so the postings may get even shorter.

James
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Never ending

This site is good mosaic

I found the link through digg.com

Friday, May 19, 2006

England Shirt is here

It arrived today :-)

Got it less then 24 hours after ordering it.

Ordered it just after posting and it was here by 10am !

We have also exchanged on our house today so we have 3 weeks to get somewhere to live. We also bought a house last week BUT it wont go through for a while so going to be a bit of a rush sorting things out.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

England Home Shirt for £10

Just in time for the world cup, here is a deal:
I just ordered mine ;-)

goto HERE

The shirts are £25 for adult sizes but then you can enter in this £15 voucher code ZQ603 and so the shirt is then a tenner! and they do free 48hr delivery

Heres our Palace Hero AJ in his:


Looks like AJ will be off and I hope it is to Arsenal rather then the other clubs mentioned, Arsenal always steal our best players: Kenny Samson and Ian Wright. We got our own back though and flogged them Eddie McGoldrick and we also took Clive Allen off their hands as part of the Kenny Samson deal.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Food

Today I thought I would post on the subject of food and give you a great breakfast idea.

We have started every now and then buying Sarah Lee Croissants, What you get is a tin with fresh dough inside for 6 croissants. Half the fun is preparing them and you have to rip the labels off and tear the can so you can pop it open allowing for the dough to ouse out. You then separate the pieces and bake. Yummy. You will find them in the fresh fridge section of your local supermarket.

Made homemade burgers yesterday that were very good. Heres the receipe to make 6 big burgers:
800 grams of scottish beef minced
2 chilli's chopped up
3 garlic gloves chopped up
bit of ginger grated in
teaspoon of garam masala
1 egg (I used double yolk)
salt and pepper
1 onion (minced)
2 "glugs" of olive oil

Just mix it all together and make some patties out of it, I used an egg ring to shape them. Stick it on the BBQ and away you go.

Wouldn't hurt to add some herbs in there but I never had any.

Double yolk eggs I hear you say, well I bought these from Waitrose the other day:

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Very tasty. My mate says that when he buys free range eggs from a "happy" farm, not a mental place but a real farm, he quite often gets double yolkers.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Eastenders look alike

While watching Eastenders, honest gov I just glanced over and it was on, I noticed that Ian Beales little nipper Peter.
Pictured here: Not the greatest photos coming up !


Only looks like Zammo from Grange Hill.



He looks more like Zammo in the program. I will get a more up to date shot from the TV program.

And whats with Ben a) no South African accent b) called Mitchell after she went when he was baby, no way would the name of stayed and c) Going for worse actor in a soap award.

England's Provisional squad

Shocking,

Walcott has been picked and has never played in the top flight.
This is his record:
The Championship - Southampton 13(8) 4
The League Cup - Southampton (1) 0
FA Cup - Southampton (1) 1

So he has played 13 games from the start for Southampton and 10 games from the bench scoring 5 goals. Oh dear !

He has picked 2 crocked player, a lanky bloke that can not score and a boy that has not played football since January (His move to Arsenal).

Im very Pleased for AJ and hope it is a boost for tomorrows game where we need a hat trick from him ! but leaving Bent out of the picture and Defoe for Walcott is a kick in the teeth to all players putside the top 4 teams !

No Shaun Wright-Phillips, not even on standby, well he can not say that if you have not been playing you dont get picked as Walcott is going. Hargreaves has picked again, another crap player. Maybe thay are staying at his house in Germany !

Thank F*ck Sven is off ! Nothing to do with Sweden I hope !

England's provisional squad:
Robinson (Tottenham), James (Manchester City), Green (Norwich), G Neville (Manchester United), R Ferdinand (Manchester United), Terry (Chelsea), A Cole (Arsenal), Campbell (Arsenal), Carragher (Liverpool), Bridge (Chelsea), Beckham (Real Madrid), Carrick (Tottenham), Lampard (Chelsea), Gerrard (Liverpool), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Jenas (Totenham), Downing (Middlesbrough), J Cole (Chelsea), Lennon (Tottenham), Rooney (Manchester United), Owen (Newcastle), Crouch (Liverpool), Walcott (Arsenal).

Standby: Scott Carson (Liverpool), Luke Young (Charlton), Nigel Reo-Coker (West Ham), Jermain Defoe (West Ham), Andy Johnson (Crystal Palace)

Sunday, May 07, 2006

MacBook - new iBook

According to a couple of websites Tuesday will see the announcement of the intel powered iBook.

Time to start saving those pennies again. Although IO am thinking of trying to repair my powerbook so if anyone has 2 hinges and a battery for a PowerBook give me a shout.

The article of on Think Secret can be seen Here


I have copied the text below:
Briefly: MacBook's day this coming Tuesday [Updated]
May 5, 2006 - Following up on our report earlier this week concerning the MacBook's May availability, sources have nailed down next Tuesday, May 9, as the introduction day for the Intel-based laptop.
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Meanwhile, shipments of Apple's new 17-inch MacBook Pro, the initial units of which were to arrive in customer hands this week, have been temporarily delayed. After encountering a minor quality control issue with production of the laptops recently that has since been remedied, sources report Apple executives decided to postpone initial shipments and retail store availability by several days to ensure adequate launch inventory.

All indications now point to delivery of the 17-inch laptops sometime next week, meaning the new MacBook Pro and MacBooks may in fact arrive in be available in tandem as sources alluded to in early April, although two weeks will have separated their announcements.

On a side note, a coding glitch with Apple's Web site has all but confirmed the MacBook moniker for the new consumer laptop. The error began cropping up late Thursday evening and was still present intermittently Friday morning and resulted in Apple's iPod homepage being replaced by an empty page sporting a navigation hierarchy reading "Home > Hardware > MacBook".



While hardware release dates are often subject to last-minute change, sources' reports of an announcement Tuesday suggest that the long-awaited 13.3-inch widescreen MacBook is finally ready to ship. The release was first slated for January, then March, then April or May.

Update - May 6, 2006

Additional sources have confirmed the MacBook's announcement this Tuesday. Further, sources report that the MacBook will be thinner than current iBooks, will be available in both black and white configurations, and will likely cost slightly more than previous iBook models—not unlike the price increase Apple's Mac mini saw with its transition to Intel processors.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Palace 0 Watford 3

Well that was not meant to happen. I have got back from the game and it was hard to watch. Played OK in the 1st half and had nearly all the chances but I just dont know what happened after the break, we fell apart.

Personally I am blaming it on the stupid chant that was sang for the team to come out to. It spoilt what should of been a full on roar for the team.

Ward and Hall were poor and why Kiraly keeps getting games is madness, he can not command the area and has cost us too many games.

Why Dowie keeps on playing Hall at rightback when he is a centre half (and not a great one at that, hoofed pass to the left is his main move) by leaving Butterfield on the bench who is a right back is beyond belief. The biggest problem with Dowie is he has his favorites and keeps them in the team when there is a player better suited on the bench.

Oh well, to be brutally honest we are not good enough to go up anyway. I will be cheering Watford on in the final if they can hold on. If they cant then what a classic game it will be.

Not looking good for Tuesday but never write Palace off because we are Palace and do some strange things. At least I might be able to get a ticket to the game now, I bet a few will want to sell their ticket.

Dowie to Boro - I would be glad if that happened and we can try and get Peter Taylor. AJ will no doubt be gone when I come to take my seat for the first game of next season.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Boris Johnson Tackles German issues

Just seen this on YouTube and made me laugh.

This is Boris showing that if any of our tough tackling England players cany make the world cup he is ready.

Must be time to stop work....

Well posting at 1 in the morning and can not sleep because a)it's hot but the main oone is b) got a load of fucking workmen ouside my window banging away trying to clear the mess up that they have been creating since 20.30

They are filling in the bus stop lay by, yep where the bus used to pull in it is being filled in with what looks like gravel so that in the future the bus will just stop and in the process stop all the traffic. Now I am sure that the reason is so that buses do not get slowed down when they try and pull put again into the traffic but what a waste of time and money ! I hear though it is down to London transport rather then the council. I wont be moaning when my travel to the tube station is alot quicker on Saturday for the football :-)

I would take a picture but my camera battery has just died on me ! Oh well I will get one tomorrow. Hopefully they will be finished outside our house but tomorrow night I feel sorry for the people on the other side who are having their stop filled in.

Wont be shocked if we have no water or something in the morning.

Oh well, just managed to get a picure (Not a great one) BUT I have a silly charger that I have to take the battery out and the charge will not charge long enough for me to import into iPhoto.

Night all,

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Want any food Max?

This is Max on Saturday 29/4/06. He is starting to like his food :-)

Click Here

Started using google video but it takes too long really for the upload to go live so going back to You Tube.

BT Tower

Had a good day today, I "HAD" to go to a conference that just happened to be held at the BT tower followed by lunch on the revolving floor 34 :-)

Just as a side note the conference was actually worth going to !

Lunch was very good. Food included oyster and other little fancy finger foods very good but the views are something else.

Got some good photos of Arsenals new ground Ashburton Grove

Normal View:
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And ZOOMED:
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There are also a couple of other photos on flickr.

So the tower then. Well we went up at full speed travelling at 7.5 meters a second to get me 158 meters up, The tower is 189 meters up. It closed it's doors to the public before I was born. On the 31/10/1971 a bomb went off on the 31st floor and it was closed. No one ever claimed responsability. The resturant was opened a few months later but that also closed in 1980. I was quite lucky today.

4/4/1961 building work started and and was opened for operation 8/10/1965 at a cost of £2.5 million ! To put that in perspective New Wembley is running at a cost £757 million.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Been a while again

Been a while again and I want to say congratulations to Dan and Lucy on the birth of their son Oliver.

Also congrats to Matt and Michelle on their new home, Congrats to us on selling our house, Congrats to all the people getting married that I know (Been invited to 5 this year), Congrats and good luck to Palace against Watford (Anyone got a spare ticket for the away leg? Sold out while I was trying to get through on the phone)

Hello to the Millwall fans that are stopping by. For some reason this blog comes up 8th when Millwall is searched and gawd knows where when Palace is. Palace Fan also does not get me anywhere.

Off to the BT Tower tomorrow so hopefully I will post a picture from the top for you.