Tiger Woods Nike Parody Add. It's Just Not Enough Babe

Hilarious parody of the new Nike advert featuring Tiger Woods.

First Ride On My New Trek Madone

Finally picked up all the gear i needed from the bike store yesterday in readiness for a week of good weather as forecast by the BBC, and sure enough this morning dawned bright and sunny. After some initial messing around i finally got underway at 11.00 and rode out towards the sun !! What a revelation a road bike is after being used to riding a mountain bike, those smooth tyres make all the difference and i was soon racing ahead like the wind. The Trek Madone felt like a Porsche, fast, taught, great handling and comfortable as well, so much so that i couldn't believe the pace that i could keep up, especially on the flat. I had chosen a route which i felt wouldn't be too difficult for my first ride with a nice mixture of flat runs and hills. Before i knew it, at the turn of the hour i was well over half way round and feeling good, another thirty minutes saw me back home making a welcome capuchinno and pondering how i had managed to cover nearly 25 miles in an hour and a half, this is certainly something i never managed on a mountain bike. The route i had chosen was a lot of fun although a couple of the hills were a bit tougher than i thought they might be, but hey first time out what did i expect ? Pretty sure tomorrow will bring a few aches and pains however i hope to be back in the saddle on Thursday, weather permitting. I am sure that all the top makes of bikes at this level perform really well but it has to be said that i am very impressed with the Trek Madone, for the odd moment or two you can imagine that you are Lance Armstrong on the Tour De France, ok perhaps not !! 


Below is a map of the route i covered on a website called Map my Ride, which is a pretty cool place if your into cycling or running.

Will it Blend

Here he goes, blending the ipad ! bit of a waste really but hey what a blender.

More messing with HDR

Here are a couple more HDR images. The first one is an apartment building on Aytoun Street in Manchester and the second is the view from the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago, looking West.

For kids of the 50s

When...........................

You couldn't put your Famous Five book down.
Hornby Trains, Potato Men, Muffin the Mule.
Making a den, going tracking.
The park had real rides that you might fall off & they were fun.
Leap frog, Simon Says.

Torchy the Battery Boy was on TV. Swearing wasn’t.
TV came in black and white with one channel until ITV was launched.
With ITV came the first TV adverts and how excited we were to watch them!
The first episode of Coronation Street, Compact, Emergency Ward 10!

Elvis was the King, Bill Haley was rocking around the clock, Bing Crosby found True Love & Perry Como was just going to Catch A Falling Star.

Steam trains.
Cobbled streets, The White Man, grandma donkey-stoning the steps.
Co-op divi, milk delivered to your doorstep in glass bottles, the Rag & Bone man.

Dandelion & Burdock, Cream Soda, Sarsparilla.
Money back when you returned the glass bottles to the shop.

Rows of desks in school, pump bags, muffs, gaberdines, gymslips & satchels.
Woollen balaclavas. Socks that only stayed if you turned the tops over wide elastic bands.
The cane, the strap, the pump.
Nitty Nora.
Passing & failing, winning & losing. Times tables.
Squeaky blackboards, standing in the corner with your face to the wall.

Whit walks, Maypoles, liquorice water.

Jack Frost on the inside of the windows, seeing your breath in the bedroom, being tucked in with your hot water bottle.

Dad banking up the fire or taking out the ashes. Cleaning the brasses with Duraglit.


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A story from the quirky state of California

A story from the quirky state of California..............

A couple who tried to save water and money by 

removing their lawn are being taken to court by

 the city of Orange. Quan and Angelina Ha, 

who now have a scheduled court date, decided to

replace the grass on their front lawn with 

wood chips in 2008. The Ha’
said they'd just had a 

baby and began to think about her future 

and the effect of what is

happening to their environment.

Thus they made a decision to replace
their water thirsty grass with the

far more environmentally 

friendly chippings. At a time when

  Southern California cities fine

people for overwatering 

their thirsty lawns, the Ha’s said they've 

saved hundreds of thousands

of gallons of water and 

drastically lowered their water bill.

But the city cited them for violating a law 

that requires ‘live landscaping’

to cover 40 percent 

of the yard. The couple planted drought-tolerant 

plants last year but the

city said it wasn't enough.

The city said it wants them to come up with a 

compliance plan.

Ah yes, this is the land of the free!

Last HDR

Just finished my last HDR image of my first foray into the technique. It's the statue of Constantine the Great outside York Minster.