By Jeffery Ethell andAlfred Price.
Essentially an overview of the Falklands War from the Air perspective. As you’d expect, it eulogises about the Harrier a lot but does mention the Vulcan Black Buck raids. It’s got a lot of technical information about aircraft types and and reasonable evaluation about the war. It does have a balanced view as there is a lot of interviews with Argentinian pilots. Not a bad read and I managed it in 5 days as it’s well written.
Walking has always been one of my favourite forms of exercise and over the past three days I’ve managed to rack up 12 miles. The walk over Cannock Chase was the best – 5 miles over the heart of the Chase with the weather not too bad, if a little cold. The route taken was straightforward enough and I’d like to go over with the bike as the tracks l00ked easy enough with no big climbs.
Walking is certainly good for you. I estimate that you burn off 100 calories per 20 minutes walking at 4 mph. Over the weekend I didn’t feel so good with a lingering virus but three days of pushing it means I feel a bit more alive and fired up today, if a little sore. As Duffer says. you can be fit, bit not walking fit.
My Uncle is also feeling the benefit losing a stone in two weeks of walking so it shows that with some determination what can be achieved.
This book, although not long, 416 pages, has taken me quite a long time to read as it’s very detailed and there is a lot to cross reference, me not being that well read in Tudor history.
The book definitely marks out Henry as a Tyrant in the same class as Adolf and Stalin. He hung people all over the place yet never seemed to have visited the Midlands much if at all. He did like waging war with the French and the Spanish which made me think whilst reading it that not much has changed in 500 years of English history. We still act much as we did back then, drank prodigious amounts of beer, slagged off religion and expected the very best from the people that ruled us.
The book deals lightly with his marriages, apart from Katherine of Aragon, but I had to keep a scoresheet for the number of burnings, be-headings and HDQ’s (Hung-drawn-Quatered). The brutality of the regime can only be gained by reading through the book. And he never spared women either.
He was clever man who used divide and rule to the maximum, not only to rule the kingdom but also to keep the foreigners off his back. He also loved money and treasure and was always sumptuously dressed in the finest clothes.
Overall, a very dangerous man whom you would not like to cross. Maybe Adolf and the Joseph took their cue from him?
The F A Cup Final is today starting at 1715 hrs rather than 1500 hrs. and or once I agree with Sir Alex Ferguson.
For 30 years and probably since Leicester City played Manchester City in 1969, I’ve always watched the final with my Dad and other members of my family and friends. But because of the time, it’s been impossible to arrange our usual Cup Final Saturday party where we sit around watching the match drinking beer and betting 10p on first scorer
The FA Cup is special. Its watched all around the world because of it’s traditions an what it stands for. Pandering to TV and ITV in particular to get an audience devalues the FA Cup to nothing more than a league game. It shows how far the FA will lower their standards of the game to keep the media happy.
This site is now 3.3.2 but it didn’t go as smoothly as usual so I may skip an update for the other blogs hosted here.
Tired this morning after The Principality decamped en masse to Codsall Village Hall to hear “Looking Back” which is Duffers ensemble raising funds for a trip to Okinawa.
I have to say that the Hall was perfect as it had a large stage and good job too as they filled all of it. How five blokes can accrue so much stuff is amazing. Anyway, they made a good and loud noise. It was interesting the different styles of music they played from jazz to Rock. Some of the audience even managed to dance.
Anyway, back to The Min for a nightcap ended up drinking until 2 am hence the tiredness this morning as we managed to down a few tins of Banks’s Bitter as well as a couple of Deuchers. Unusual for me these days as I’m cutting back.
All rather good really. Doubtless a night we’ll talk about for a few years especially the negotiations about Visa’s and what we should call Matt from Walsall – Lord Mellish was my idea as it had a Blackadder ring to it. Such silliness when you’ve had a few.
We all know it but at last the Leveson Enquiry is showing up how corrupt British Politics has become. We all think we like to play the game as we’d play cricket, but it shows how we have descended into the depths of depravity with the recent furore regarding Mr Hunt, the Culture secretary. How this man can have the gall to stay in his job is beyond me.
But then doesn’t this again show how bad our political systems is? These people like Hunt think they rule the country as medieval lords rather than manage it on our behalf and are subsequently accountable to us.
We have a new member of the family: Olivia Ann Clarke-Trevis born at 1503 hrs on Saturday.
Congratulations to Cousin and to Heather!
I wondered why I couldn’t remember much of the 2000′s – I think it’s because I spent a lot of it drinking with my mates and recovering later.
Greenpeace Gav & Mr Five Pints enjoy a Lamb's!
So it was that I was reminded of late nights in Amsterdam when my Mate Greenpeace Gav called to say he would be in the locality. So, gathering up Karen and Mr Five Pints, we went of to Victoria Harbour for a Chinese buffet and the back to The Min to meet up with the locals for a few beers. At midnight, we repaired back to our for coffee and a few rum’s. Which explains why I feel a bit fuzzy round the edges today – as I did for most of the 2000′s…..
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