Spice Girl Post

Well the wife wanted to know why on earth I posted about the Spice Girls getting back together because I'm not a fan, she never got the reason for the post so now I have a feeling that maybe people are going to label me as a Spice Girl fan :-0

The reason for the post was a joke on the flag they were holding and Gerri's mini skirt from all those years ago.

Just for the record I'm not a spice girl fan !

Biube

We are looking at sorting out or should I say ripping out our kitchen and replacing it. The Ikea high gloss with Oak tops seem to be our fave at the moment. I am going to try and I mean try to use Google Sketch to get an idea of the look because the online planner does not work with the mac (or Vista ! so I can not boot into that !)

In preparation of that though we have to do a few things and one is to move the fish from the kitchen to a new home so we went the whole hog and bought them a new tank, stand etc. It is called the Biube and if it does what it says then it should make looking after them a lot easier.

In over a week the tank still looks very clear and the LED light is really good. So it looks good and the fish (2 Fancy, 3 Cat fish and 1 fantail) are all happy. The white fancy fish is Coppell after Steve Coppell as he used to be a more Copper colour and the other fancy fish is Damien because Faye liked the name and I wont call a son of mine that. Those 2 are about 6 years old now. The others have no name.

Who will have my Fowler?

Now that they have all left Eastenders it turns out that Robbie Fowler is the latest Fowler to struggle getting work.

I would have down at the Palace, Get the cheque book out Mr Jordan although I bet it's a lot of money for him and we need a fast pacy forward.
Story here: Click Me

Spice Girls are back

Yes there are more important things happening in England at the moment BUT

the spice girls are back.

Here they are courtesy of the BBC


Cant believe Geri still has her dress....

Blakey

I have had some blakeys fitted to a pair of my shoes and whilst they are dead loud and make me sound like a girl walking down the road they will hopefully save me having to keep getting the heel done.

It did get a couple of us thinking about the era of blakeys. Burgundy stay press trousers, White towelling socks or one pink and one green, karate slipper, highlights, dyeing just the front of your hair !, Choose Life T-Shirts, Parker and harrington coats.

Happy days

Eggs Banned

Can you believe it, an advertising watchdog has banned an egg advert (from the 50's) because it does not promote a balanced diet !! The amount of crap and junk food on the TV and they ban this.

Story is on the BBC site

Ban on rerun of eggs TV advert

Tony Hancock
Comedian Tony Hancock featured in the advertisement

The 1950s TV adverts
Reruns of a TV commercial from the 1950s which urged viewers to "go to work on an egg" have been banned.

An advertising watchdog said the slogan went against the principle of eating a varied diet.

The Egg Information Service had wanted to screen the advert, which featured comedian Tony Hancock, to celebrate its 50th birthday.

Author Fay Weldon, who headed the team which came up with the slogan, has described the decision as absurd.

"When you think of what can be run and what is being run, like low-cost airlines and cars - cars kill, eggs aren't actually likely to do so," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

She said she was proud of the adverts and remembered how Hancock was reluctant to take part.

"He hated doing them, he felt it was a great comedown, he didn't want to do them and did them as a kind of mockery.

"I sat in the studio listening to him moaning and complaining, so we just wrote what he wanted.

"One of them said 'I hate doing this advertisement' - we just thought the truth might work best."

'Accepted advice'

The Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre (BACC) defended its decision, insisting that the adverts did not suggest a varied diet.

BACC spokesman Kristoffer Hammer said: "Dietary considerations have been at the centre of the new rules for advertising and in consideration of this we felt that these adverts did not suggest a varied diet.

"The concept of eating eggs every day for breakfast goes against what is now the generally accepted advice of a varied diet and we therefore could not approve the ads for broadcast."

British Egg Information Service spokesperson Amanda Cryer said: "We have been shocked by this ruling as eggs are a healthy, natural food which are recommended by nutritionists."

"What's more, there are no restrictions on the number of eggs people can eat, which was recently confirmed by the Food Standards Agency, and between five and seven eggs a week would be totally acceptable for most people."

Ms Cryer added: "In addition, many other advertisers clearly promote their products to be eaten every day such as breakfast cereals so we are very surprised that eggs have been singled out in this way."

Facebook

I still dont really get it but have met a couple of mates through it all but if you would like to link or be my friend over in facebook here is my profile link http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=622101555

Palace 1 Dowie 0

Finally a judge in the land who understands something about contracts. Foot ball has always made me laugh by the fact that you can do such a bad job mnaging a team that you get sacked but then you get paid up your contract. Anyway this is aboout Dowie getting his just reward. I have nothing against Dowie but I am glad that we won the case.

I posted this last year ....

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 !!

Mr Dowie will get one back when he signs Borrowdale though. A good player but again greed has the better of him and he is leaving.

Ouch - Woman jailed for testicle attack

Men, get something to dry your eyes before reading on.....

From BBC

Woman jailed for testicle attack
A woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands has been sent to prison.

Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That's yours."

Monti admitted wounding and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.

'Pulled hard'

Sentencing Monti, Judge Charles James said it was "a very serious injury" and that Monti was not acting in self defence.

The court heard that Mr Jones had ended his long-term but "open relationship" with Monti towards the end of May last year.

The pair remained on good terms and on 30 May she picked him up from a party in Crosby and went back for drinks with friends at Mr Jones's house.

An argument ensued and Mr Jones said there was a struggle between them.

In his statement, Mr Jones said she grabbed his genitals and "pulled hard".

He added: "That caused my underpants to come off and I found I was completely naked and in excruciating pain."

The court heard that a friend saw Monti put Mr Jones's testicle into her mouth and try to swallow it.

She choked and spat it back into her hand before the friend grabbed it and gave it back to Mr Jones. Doctors were unable to re-attach the organ.

In a letter to the court, Monti said she was sorry for what she had done.

She said: "It was never my intention to cause harm to Geoff and the fact that I have caused him injury will live with me forever. I am in no way a violent person."

The letter added: "I have challenged myself to explain what has happened but still I just cannot remember. This has caused much anguish to me and will do for the rest of my life."

Ouch. I love her statement that she is not a violent person. Could you imagine what she would of done if she was :-0

Stats

I was reading a blog about stats so thought I would check mine out.

My mates are currently doing a round the world tour (see link on the right, Matt and Michelle)

At least I thought they were until I see that they have been on my blog for nearly 24 hours.....

Have a look at their blog there has been some good posts.

Micro Chips

We have all been in the Isle Of Wight the last 5 days. We had a great time but wish I was there over the weekend for the festival.

We left Friday and there was loads coming over on the ferry.

I had not been to the Isle Of Wight since I was little and really enjoyed it, we stayed in a caravan and I took my laptop. I wanted the laptop to try and get some wireless but only managed to get online once in Ryde centre.

When I never took the laptop I "hid" it in the grill section of the oven. Great idea I thought until we came home and just put Max's food in the oven and turned it on. After about 30 mins I realised that the laptop was above it in the grill !!! Luckily everything seems OK although it was very hot !

Here are a couple of photos from the trip.

Happy Blog Birthday

Today is the 2nd birthday of this blog and I have managed just, and I mean just, over 200 posts. It's still fun and something to keep my friends and family up to date with things happening in the world of the Simmonds'. Sometimes it feels like a chore rather then a pleasure and I wish I had a "thing" that made people come back to the blog but I do have repeat visitors so thank you if you are one of them. When I started I had various ideas i.e. fact and joke of the day plus what happened on this day BUT again it became a chore rather then something I enjoyed so I dropped it.

What do I wish I could do, well to be brutally honest I wish it was more "secret" i.e. I could never really talk about my work because I know some of my work colleagues read the blog, I know my family read the blog and you know sometimes I would like a good moan about them (very rarely of course !!)

I still love you all though......

Happy Birthday to Slothblog and Wyndham as well

MacBook Pro and Vista Ultimate

Oh my gawd I have joined the darkside... I have loaded on Vista Ultimate on to my Macbook.

I am working on a new project at work and it means working with Vista so I got a copy ordered and have installed it.

Shocking but my first impressions are good :-0, Will NEVER take the place of OSX though.

Will post more on Vista and how it compares with OSX. I am interested to hear how other people are finding Visa and how it runs older apps.

200th Post !! Joost in time

I'm hopefully going to get an invite to have a look at Joost thanks to Random Good Stuff.

I mean I have given him my 200th Post so it's only fair.

Please visit his website HERE

Sore Testicles

Faye is not feeling well and says she has swollen testicles, I think (and hope) she means tonsils !!!

Wonder what sort of google search traffic comes my way this week with the title as is.

Dizzy

Max has now started to just make himself dizzy by going round and round until he stops, giggles and then falls over. Quite a worry really but makes us laugh.

He is also pulling this rather funny face all the time:

The Agents did it...

Charlton are relegated

Last year I posted this:

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 :-)

Now it didn't quite happen as posted but it was OK because Agent Pardew (or Super Al as he is known to the Palace faithful after THAT semi V Liverpool) did actually take them down after taking over from Dowie.

Dirty cheating Leeds

Leeds have gone into receivership today and been deducted 10 points so therefore are relegated.

What gets me though is that if they had done this after Sunday OR had already been "mathematically" relegated then they would be deducted 10 points at the start of next season but what they have done is knowing that if they don't have a miracle on Sunday then are down. Hull need to lose by 5 goals and Leeds win by 5 goals !

What I think should happen is that they should play until they have accumulated 10 points starting from now. So should they happen to win on Sunday they would still start next season with minus 7 points.

Guess who bought the club straight off the receivers......Ken Bates the current chairman !
The story is on the BBC here

Lawn Bowls

Went to lunch today with a work colleague, Pete for those that know him, well we went and got a sarnie and strolled to the bowling green because they have seats and also the sun beats down.

Halfway through lunch a few people came out to play when Pete turns round and says "I remember that guy with the beard from last year. I always like to see that they made it through winter"

The picture is "borrowed" from Flickr, it was taken by a member called ukalipt and the original can be found here

Choo Choo

Footy News

Well we played really well today and for once all the fans were behind the players. Lots of singing and a great atmosphere. We beat Derby 2-0 and deserved the win, as mentioned though we put Sunderland and Birmingham up. Mixed feelings or what !

Car News

Mmmm not a cheap day Friday, my car has been misfiring, running lumpy, going like a dog with 3 legs I dont know what you call it but it was not right. It needed a service so I had it booked in anyway and asked the garage to check the misfire, nothing turned up on the computer so it meant that they would have to try and diagnose it the old fashioned way. They did work it out in the end, the rocker gaskets had gone and meant that oil had got into the spark plugs and everywhere else. It had also messed up the ignition leads and meant that under load it was misfiring. New leads £150 plus VAT !!! Could not believe it and non Audi ones would cost £100 BUT I managed to get a 2nd hand pair from them and had those fitted. Car flys now ! and my pockets are very very light !

Toddler News

Max is teething quite a bit now. He has not had many teeth i.e. he is 17 months and only has 4 on top and just 3 on the bottom but it looks like all the others are coming in one go !!

Heres Max on Friday.