Stone Gods and Airbourne

Last night I went to the Astoria with a quite a few mates and saw Airbourne. It was my first time of seeing them live but after recommendations from said friends that had seen them live I got the album "Runnin' Wild" and was hooked. They are very AC/DC and also happen to be from Oz.

Loud is all I can say ! I don't know if I am getting old or not but it seemed to be one of the loudest concerts I have been to. It was brilliant. Hot, sweaty, got soaked in beer and stayed in the mosh pit all night. Couple of arsholes trying to punch people but all in all it was quite civilised.

The band was ace and before them was a band called Stone Gods and they to had the sound of very heavy rock and got the crowd going. Surprise of the night for me was after the concert, ears ringing, knee killing me (too much bouncing etc.) my mate said that they have been born out of the Darkness.

I'm off to rest that knee....

New Watch - Ollech & Weis

My new watch turned up today, it is an O&W diver model ID 3077.

It's rather lovely to be honest. I have been thinking about a new watch for a while and thought of a "name" watch second hand like Omega or Tag but after spending time looking into the actual movements, faces etc. I discovered this little Swiss company after going to a few websites and have bought a quality watch for less than a second hand "name"

This is the description:
25 Jewel Automatic wind Eta 2824-2, with quick set date and hack seconds.
43mm (Including Crown) All steel case with screw on back. Rotating ratchet bezel. Screw Down crown. Sapphire Crystal. 200m Water Resistant.
Black calendar dial.
Solid link steel bracelet with screwed links.

It was bought from Roy at this site: http://www.rltwatches.co.uk

He makes some quality watches himself so have a look.

Lets hope history does repeat itself

Fact.

When Robbie Keane left Wolves they got relegated.

When Robbie Keane left Coventry they got relegated.

When Robbie Keane left Leeds they got relegated.

When Robbie Keane left Tottenham?

Should of stayed Bostock.

AC/DC

Well I have pre ordered the album, got the t-shirt on the way BUT can I get a ticket for the concert..... Can I bollocks.

How can they sell out within 5 minutes of going on sale on Ticketmaster? It's a joke and then they turn up on eBay. Winds me up.

I'm still going to try and get a ticket.

Off to see a band called Airbourne in a few weeks time at the Astoria, they are actually a bit like AC/DC, will be one of the last times I see the place as the goverment have bought it to make way for a new station :-( Holds memories of some great concerts. The Foos at the Astoria will always be with me. What a great venue. Will be replaced by some plastic venue no doubt.

Smart Crossblade

What a mad car. Saw one on the road today with "biggles" driving. As he went past the school kids I think every one looked, pointed or waved. Not too many cars can get that reaction.

I want one !

Little shit !

I can not believe the story on the BBC site today.

Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile
Camera footage of the boy at the zoo in Australia
The boy was caught on security camera at the reptile centre

A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.

Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.

During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.

Zoo officials described the boy's actions as "unbelievable".

They are considering suing the parents as the boy is too young to be prosecuted.

'Difficult to replace'

The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.

Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure.

At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to "Terry", the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile.

A turtle, four Western blue-tongued lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and the zoo's 20-year-old goanna were among those killed.

Zoo director Rex Neindorf said many of the animals were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.

"The fact a seven-year-old can wreak so much havoc in such a short time, it's unbelievable," he told Reuters news agency.

Mr Neindorf said the boy had "clammed up" when questioned by police.

As children under the age of 10 cannot be held accountable for their actions in the Northern Territory, the zoo would be seeking to take action against the parents.

"We'll be looking at suing the parents, who were supposedly in control of him at the time," he said.

We went there when we had our year travelling. This photo was taken there:


Gutted.

Back again

Been over the water in that Europe and ended up in the South of France. Had 2 great weeks there. Drove the car all the way, 2000 miles in all, Petrol was not cheap though although everything was expensive ! I couldnt believe how much it all cost out there.

Here is a tip though, make sure you lock the roof box before tearing up the motorway at 100mph or Kmh if your the French police reading ;-). Yep like a forgetful idiot I forgot to lock the box and it came open as I went pass a lorry. I looked in the mirror and saw the sleeping bags bouncing across the road. Pulled straight over and Faye legged it to collect the bits that flew out. We was so lucky that we never caused a major accident. Lost some items Faye saw pants in the road and some beach toys plus oil had "vanished" If it was England and on the roads here it would of because of how busy the roads but luckily in France the roads are clear so no harm was caused. Dont think it really sank in how lucky we was and also how damn right stupid I was for not locking it and also Faye for running across the motorway. Oh well, wont do that again.

Really rated Eurocamp and France was really good so will look at doing that again. The thing that saved us from falling out during the 2000 miles.... Tom Tom, what a great gadget.

AI

Simple one today:

I watched AI.... It made me cry :-0

Is it because I now have children? I don't normally cry at films !

Come on in Watson

from cpfc.co.uk

Went to football on Saturday, bit poor to be honest and the midfield never turned up.

For once a Daily Mail reporter summed it up here

This is the interesting bit and the exact thing I said before the game. Although I used the word Will rather then is and how,

Neil Warnock's stubbornness in refusing to use unsettled midfielder Ben Watson is backfiring on Crystal Palace. While Watson has refused to sign a new contract, Warnock is leaving him out.

But how Palace missed his pinpoint passing, clever free-kicks and long-range shots which got them out of many holes last season and into the play-offs in this goalless draw. Why not put him in the shop window and aid Palace, long on youth and short on experience?

Says it all really, Come on in the Ginger Zidane.

Mini Diggers for hire

Drove past our local hire shop and they had a sign for Mini Diggers to hire. I need to to sort my driveway so thought I would pop in.

Imagine my shock when I saw this out back.....

Mini Diggers

Credit to Flickr user jojobear99 for the photo,

Mamm,Mamma,MAX

I dont think I have any chance of getting Skye Lilly to say Dada as her first words. Faye and Max just say MamaMamaMax to her all the time. Only found out this morning when I was saying Dada to Skye when Max went "NO we say mammamammamax to Skye"

I was going to lock Max up but found this picture of him from last week while he was went a great show (and Free!) called Jump Up, it's run by Nick Jr so he met all his fav stars, Peppa Pig, Dora, Diego etc. I couldn't go though as I had to cook lunch for my family. Somehow I managed to arrange my family coming for lunch on the same day.
Max Locked up on Thomas

Pete's Game

Saw this and looked interesting.

WARNING TAKES A WHILE TO COPY AND PASTE

1. type your answer to each question below into Flickr Search
2. using only the first page of results, pick an image
3. copy and paste each URL into fd’s mosaic maker
4. blog it!

1. Q&A: What is your first name? James - Cool car
2. What is your favorite food? Faggots :-0 bit of a risky search, this made me smile
3. What high school did you go to? I changed this to secondary, Ash Manor - how did a dog make the first page
4. What is your favorite color? blue - Drop
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Drew Barrymore - Grrrr
6. What is your favorite drink? lager - mmmm beer
7. Dream vacation? Austrailia - Upside down
8. Favorite dessert? banoffee pie - You know you want it
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? alive - bit weird
10. What do you love most in life? Family and Palace - of course it is just family but I wanted a more interesting search .... strange
11. One word to describe you? Procrastinator - took a spell checker.., Laptop
12. Your flickr name? james1972 - all about me, my Fave shot

Yep that a while !!

I Like it though:

Bow for Prince Max

Max last year

Max told us today that he was Prince Max and we had to bow down when we spoke to him.

We went to Cassiobury Park in Watford for a picnic and had a great time there, never realised we had such a good park close to us. Max went on the mini train, bouncy castle, had a paddle in the paddling pools and had a great walk. Shattered is how we all feel !

Pre-season is almost over

Well, I fancied a break from this blogging malarkey but I guess I best get back to it.

What have I been up since the last post, well I have seen the Foo Fighters and Terrorvision, had a few beers and thats about it so not really anything to blog about.

Still a bit upset about Bostock but hey I have said all along that Moses is going to be the star. I do hope that Bostock does OK as that will help Palace get more money. I'm not as bitter and dare I say twisted as lot of other Palace fans who actually wish him harm and do be a failure.

Skye is doing really well and is pretty much sitting on her own already. Max is now interacting with her all the time and seems to be the only one to make her giggle.

Skye 5 months

Bostock's dad says it's not about the money!

Thanks for nothing

John Bostock's move to Tottenham Hotspur from Crystal Palace has nothing to do with money - according to his dad.

Michael Brown believes the Eagles' 16-year-old wonderkid is signing for Spurs because that is where he can develop best.

Chelsea and Barcelona had been chasing Bostock and Brown insists he could have gone to either club if the family wanted the cash.

"If John was leaving Crystal Palace for money, he would’ve gone to the biggest and richest club in the world, which he could have done," Brown told the South London Press.

"You can name a big club in England rumoured to be interested in him and it’s a fact. There was great interest from Barcelona but from a family point of view it was never an option because John wasn’t going to leave London.

"But John turned down the richest club in the world and he chose instead to go to the club where he believes he will develop best.

"He’s had a fantastic time at Palace. He’s been at the club since the age of seven and has got a lot of great memories. He’s got to thank everybody there for what’s happened because if it wasn’t for Palace he wouldn’t be where he is today."

Errr Yeah thanks Bostock family for repaying that 7 years by walking out when when we was about to help you help us.

Watch out John Terry...

Damn it

In a good game of footy, apart from the Chelsea players giving it big and moaning at the ref way too much, Man United won on penalty's in a game that drained the players BUT they get paid enough and will no doubt be having the full treatment today.

Men Rule - I'm Gay

Windass - Local boy done good, not gay that I know of...

Nope I have not suddenly realised that I like men. I saw it on the back of a car and it made me laugh. Whereas you normally see, Clean me I'm dirty OR the old classic Also available in White. A VW Passett had MEN RULE I'M GAY scrawled across the back.

Less said about football the better.... Well apart from good luck to Hull though as I have lots of mates from up there north.

Come on you Eagles

Been a while again...
First off my thoughts are with the people of Burma, for those that do not know my mother is Burmese and although we dont have family, as such, in the country it is still heart breaking to see the Junta refuse help. Faye and I travelled round Burma during our year out and it is a great place with the nicest people you could meet.

Footy News
Well after not receiving my ticket for Saturdays game against Bristol City there was bit of a mad panic to pick up my tickets pre match although saying that I just walked up to the window that had my Surname detailed, not sure why 100's queued up behind A-E unless they are are all in that range, personally I guess they love the English way of queuing.

Is bit of a story behind my ticket though as I laughed at my Dad because Faye had said that my ticket had arrived so after laughing at him getting stressed I go home for a BBQ (Details to follow) and sat down to a nice beer and some food when he calls to say he is ringing the PO sorting office up at 6am to see if the ticket was there before box office at 7.45 to get the ticket ready for a pick up, I grab my tickets saying they are in my hand when it occurred to me to check and they had only sent my guest tickets and not my season ticket one. Oh how he laughed...

Dont know why they could not just "credit" the season ticket as it is a smart card.

We played quite poor on Saturday after a good game last week when we beat Burnley 5-0 but I still think we will do it tonight.

Bostock is meant to be off but I will post more on my views of that later in the week.

BBQ News
What a nightmare, first off I never cleaned the BBQ properly so it was a mess and the gas was empty so tearing round to many gas places I discover there is a huge shortage for 5KG patio gas so I could not get one BUT then had a result as the boy in the petrol station sold me a 13KG one and took the 5KG in exchange saved some dosh there as I should of paid for an upgrade as well as the gas.

Kids Club
Max is getting so grown up and last night he went to bed with no nappy on. He has been dry throughout the night for a while but last night was his first with no nappy.

Skye is trying to pull herself up all the time now and is very cute. Still not easy to make her smile like Max was but it is more rewarding when she does.

I will post a picture up very soon but I'm at work for this post.

Sure there was lots of other things to blog about so will try harder to get some time, enjoy the sun.

Wii Fit and Mario Kart

Wii Fit

We pre-ordered the Wii Fit a while ago from Tesco Direct and it turned up on Monday. Since then I have spent a bit on it BUT Faye has been on it loads. It's quite good from the quick go I had but Faye is unlocking all sorts of games and is loving it !

I also picked up Mario Kart for the Wii on Monday from Comet, after trying over the weekend to get the game my friend emailed and said that Comet have them in stock ! Didnt even realise that we would, that will teach me not to check the company I work for ! The game itself is a classic made better and I'm looking forward to playing him online tomorrow. Just wish I could get Faye off the Wii so I can practice.

Both are great games and I give them a Simmo thumbs up rather then the finger.

Wish I didnt say that !

Today has been a good day, although Palace can not get automatic promotion we had a very good win at Watford today and many of the other results also went our well. Nice to see that Charlton are not going to make the play offs this year and 3 points "should" be enough for us. Lets hope Wolves lose on Tuesday V Cardiff. Ref was really poor today and the guy next to me said he was ref for the FA Cup final :-0

Who would of thought it when Warnock took over and couldn't get a win !

Before the game we went into town, picture this, we went to a shop in Berkhamsted and the young shop assistants are chatting to Max as Faye paid for a few items and amazed at his talking skills for such a young boy when he starts touching the china items so I say "Max what do we say... looky looky NO Touchy touchy" in a slight Thai accent and he starts saying it. The girls did laugh it has to be said. As I walked up the road thinking about it I suddenly turn to Faye and said that I might of sounded a bit like a perv. She agreed....... Wish I didn't say that !