No trade?
Posted on | March 9, 2010 | No Comments
Mmmm…Recent Trade Figures (according to beeb site) are, well, abysmal. They expect a Trade Gap but one of….
£7,990,000,000 (that’s £7.9 BILLION folks!) …is just…well…I knew it was bad down the Market, I mean, they want £13 a day stall-rent! …but this is just…
…and a quid now buys 1.10 euros.
Erm, back to Page One of ‘Pulling a Pound’ guys. Now, Profit means……
Country music?
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments
Some pics taken by a distant mate.
Awesome eh?
The pictures in the above ‘video’ were taken by ‘Bwana’ On Safari. The music is (roughly – very roughly! ) American Trilogy – it seems to go well with the waters of Victoria Falls and those elephants.
Comments? Yes, we’ve had a few at another website:
“This is brilliant Condor. The music fits perfectly!”. Lancs, England.
“I’m speechless Condor. Incredible. Simply incredible!”. Columbia, Canada.
“Words cannot express C. how beautiful this is!” (Mrs Bwana), South Africa.
“…the best tribute to my Safari that I could ever have dreamt of – I sat spellbound, watching…”. (Bwana) South Africa.
The STARS of the video are: JABU, large male elephant, and THEMBI and MORULA the smaller females. They were rescued by locals when herd was culled. 
They are wild elephants.
Bwana, the pictures are awesome; it’s the pic’s that make this just amazing! Thanks for making them available. Hopefully, perhaps, such inspiring scenes might tempt folk to ’shoot’ elephants with a CAMERA rather than a gun!
Viva JABU & Co.!
Open or Shut case?
Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments
They’ve been whingeing about the local Civic Halls for yonks – should they shut ‘em or keep ‘em open?
Honestly, meself, I’m not overly bothered either way. If they shut them will the rates go down? Not on your life! Saved cash will just go down another drain.
And, now and then, they DO actually put a show (or summat?) on at Radcliffe Civic!
Like the one postered on the left…
Yep, Chris Connor – rumoured to be, erm, quite something, in his own chosen…thing, that is!
Anyway, he’s on at Radcliffe, with Steve Preston, Friday, 14th May 2010. Show starts 8.00pm. Tickets £10.00 – (for me £8.00! )
Unless, of course….they’ve shut the place!
Benefit luxury?
Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments
I’m intrigued by the recent story of mp Mark Oaten accepting nearly £4,000 to appear on tv as if living on about £35 benefits per week. It’s not the £4,000 that interests me – it’s the £35.
The sad fact is that many folk got to do just that for real in these skint times. So it’s no big deal. In fact to some of us a regular £35 would seem luxurious!
What I’d like to see is ALL mp’s living without any income whatsoever. Or, more clearly perhaps, living solely on ‘what they make’ from week to week, or even from day to day.
Impossible? Ludicrous? No one does that!
Oh no?
My Fair Lady!
Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments
Mmmm….went to see Heywood Amateur Operatic & Dramatic doing one of the ‘biggest’ musical shows there is, last night.
Jo Weetman’s production did not disapoint! But ooooh! the seats are hard!
Excellent performances, both musical and dramatic, from the leads Jessica Moss and John Weetman ( a superb ‘Professor’) and a well sung ‘On the street where you live’ from Chris Pollard!
Professor and Colonel (Neil Sampson) scenes quite brilliant!
As ever a highlight was the ‘I’m getting married in the morning’ routine led by Rod Fitton.
Production and technical staff wowed the audience as the lights went up on the first Race Meet scene….the whole company, on stage, in Edwardian (?) costume in the blink of an eye!
As ever MD David Abendstern’s orchestra sounding very good through the big production numbers to the gentle solo’s like ‘I’ve grown accustomed to her face.’ (This superbly done here!)
Pictured above two members of the chorus – Rachel and….I’ll find out!
Oh, it’s so much nicer watching and listening to something LIVE!
BRAVO!
A good deal?
Posted on | March 6, 2010 | No Comments
According to beeb site Nick Clegg has thrown a little teaser/appeaser to the head-teachers…in the form of £2,500,000,000. In return the heads have to really sort things on the education front. (Yawn!)
Now in years and years of asking, and I’ve asked teachers, head-teachers, business – course lecturers, local councilors, school-governors, business owners and managers and, on one occasion, twenty or more 6th formers at a grammar school; I’ve never had an answer to this question:
What is the (algebraic) formula for Price?
And, of all things desirable to know in this world of selling, is just that!
Mind you, when you can chuck £2.5 billion of OPM about like confetti, I don’t suppose that matters!
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Apparently, because of expenses shut-off some labour mp’s are touting for a rise in actual pay – some lady mp’s going for maternity and child care costs too.
Hey, guys, why bother with the sheer HASSLE of it all – get yourselves a clerks job at the e.u.! One (lady!) such is on £300,000 + a year (plus pension & handshake in a few years) and she….didn’t even need to get elected!!!!!!!!
Boy, am I glad Dave don’t like waste!
Sorry ‘Sun Reader’! Silicone + Botox = Price …is good, but it’s not right.
My Fair Lady…
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
It’s on this week at Heywood Civic by Heywood AmDram and Op. This is a good show and so far it’s selling out nightly. (Yep!)
So if you want to see there are only two nights left – but check with Heywood Civic in case all tickets are now sold.
I think they should lose the ‘am’ in their title!
bbc probs…
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Ooooh! Quite a few ‘how-to-sort-bbc’ articles about today. Various patch-up remedies are spouted.
Why not just make the ‘licence-fee’ voluntary?
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Like the ‘Red Knights’ I too have reservations about debt levels at Newton Heath. It’s like building on sand…………
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‘non – dom’…………..way to (come and) go eh?
a pro among the ammy’s!
Egypt….latest…
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | No Comments
They’ve recently dug this up in Egypt. It’s a superbly crafted pink-granite (really hard stone!) head of Amenhotep III who was Akenaten’s daddy and possibly Tutenkamun’s granddaddy – although those lineage details are still a bit iffy.
The face on the head isn’t damaged – something unusual on big carvings. They’ve already got most of the rest of this statue and it is hoped that it can be re-assembled.
Note that they’ve laid the head carefully on those padded pillows…well, sleeping it off is good when you’re permanently stoned.
A real saving?
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | No Comments
A survey (bbc, Mail & others) suggests that councils may shed around 25,000 jobs as part of various cash-saving schemes.
These people will, of course, be able to ’sign-on’ and claim………
…and, don’t forget, to sort this they’ll (probably) have to start 30,000 ‘Redundancy Co-ordinators’.
Amateur stuff eh folks!