27 June 2006
The Automatic's 'MONSTER' in Lego
I saw this today and just laughed my head off. Someone's go much too much time on thier hands, but what a good way to spend it!
24 June 2006
Joke d'jour
In an interview about his failed marriage, Paul Mcartney was asked if he'd go down on one knee again? He said 'I'd rather you called her Heather'!
23 June 2006
My famous breakfast cafe.
As Andy Warhol said "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes". That has come true for El Rincon Quiteno on the Holloway road. On Thursday 22 June the Independant published an article about the cafe and the staff who are all from Ecuador. Although this is football related due to England and Ecuador meeting for a game this Sunday afternoon, the staff and other patron are such a good group of people I think this worthy of a mention.The little corner of London that's forever Ecuador.
17 June 2006
Chapeau!
Saw this on uk.rec.cycling and thought it worthy of a mention.
"Paralysed climber in record bid"
"Mr Goddard arrived in Tanzania on 6 June and has spent the past eight days "climbing" Africa's highest mountain.Using a special arm-powered hand-bike, he hopes to reach the summit on Friday. "
and a link to Jimmy Goddard's site. And I thought the last hill on the Eastway circuit was the stuff of nightmare.
Cap dutifully doffed.
"Paralysed climber in record bid"
"Mr Goddard arrived in Tanzania on 6 June and has spent the past eight days "climbing" Africa's highest mountain.Using a special arm-powered hand-bike, he hopes to reach the summit on Friday. "
and a link to Jimmy Goddard's site. And I thought the last hill on the Eastway circuit was the stuff of nightmare.
Cap dutifully doffed.
Minet Park Festival Criteriums
Today was the Minet Park Festival Criteriums in Hillingdon. Note to self - check your diary at the beginning of the week to see if there is anything to prepare for during the next weekend!This of cause was not the case this week and it was only while looking through Cycling Weekly listing during my lunch break on Friday did I see that there was a disability race at Hillingdon.
Anyway, went along and meet Marc Poolman, who had traveled from South Wales the night before.
As there were just the two of us handcyclists, we decided to ride around together with one pulling on the front while the other shelters behind. Good for Marc as I act as a great windbreak. We where doing really well for 45 minutes and then I ‘bonked out’ (lost all energy) I thought I’d take it easy for a moment or two to recover while climbing one of the hills. I thought I could recover and catch Marc back on the decent, but when I came to putting the power down to catch up, there was nothing in the tank and so I just eased off the pace we were doing and then it became a fight for survival to the finish line, which was another 15 minutes away.
All in all a good race and as Marc came first and me second the prize money was in the bag.
16 June 2006
And the Country went wild!
Well some of them as I suspect that those people living in England who aren't following the World Cup (for Football), the Scots, the Welsh and those in Northern Ireland, like me don't care and probably object to the Nations television stations feeding us a constant diet of football morning, noon and night with analysis of Wayne Rooneys foot/ lay-off and the height of Peter Crouch with added comparisons to 1966 and all that.In my personal attempt to escape planet football last night I took to my handcycle for a light ride only to find that the 2-0 result followed me onto the streets of North London and up to Cheshunt and back as ‘hoons’ cheered the imaginatively titled chant of “ENG-ER-LAND� while leaning out of their cars and waiving the flag of St George and in some cases the Union flag, what a Faux-pas and possible insult to the rest of the United Kingdom.
I’ve had enough and shall be writing to my MP about all this Nationalistic bullshit.
