@ 2008-08-26 – 12:30:27
Two years ago I posted this pic taken at Carnival 06, her posterior was very well received and i've been trying to take one to equal it ever since 
I don't think i've succeeded this time but I had a jolly good try 
You have to appreciate they come in all shapes and sizes 
Here you are then the best of legs t**s and bums from Leeds carnival 08
..the final one is for the ladies
@ 2008-08-25 – 20:10:10
I have had a very enjoyable afternoon in Chapeltown Leeds for today was the day of the Carnival. Who needs Notting Hill when when we've got Leeds carnival now in its 41st year.
I got the bus to Leeds and then another to Chapeltown it was funny to see the stragglers from the Leeds music festival in the bus station en route to home.
As one party finishes
another one begins.
I have taken absolutely loads of photos
As the parade started I positioned myself at the barrier and got chatting to a woman who had the same idea as me. She had a fancy camera though and I chatted to her about the pros and cons of carrying expensive equipment around. She tried to give me some tips on using my digital camera and suggested I try to take some face shots. This I did with gusto..in fact I got a little carried away ..here are a few pics I took this afternoon.
Bella is due here anytime so I can't stay on blog for long but those who have known me a while will know that there will be more pics tomorrow
Legs and bums next I think
@ 2008-08-24 – 19:31:29
There's really nothing new left to be said about Evita, it is now in it's 30th year!
It is 12 years since I took my mother on a rare visit to the cinema where we saw the film version with Antonio Banderas and Madonna starring. I had never seen the stage show but enjoyed the film so much that I vowed to go see the touring production if it ever came my way.
My chance came yesterday..I had been meaning to visit Whitby all week to enjoy the folk festival but the weather was so miserable that I didn't bother. I bagged a cheap ticket (full house when I got there) and took myself along to the Leeds Grand Theatre for the Saturday matinee of
Evita ..the musical
My fondness for the film remains intact as the show was a delight.
Firstly, the set keeps seamlessly changing with lighting and sound that is nigh on perfect, the show’s many moods were brought together beautifully. The performers were all well suited to their parts with fine singing and dancing all the way through.
Seamus Cullen, the curly-haired finalist of last year’s 'Any Dream Will Do' was billed as 'Che' but as is often the way with matinee shows we had the understudy for this performance and a good performance he put in too. Mark Heenehan played an understated Peron but it was Louise Dearman who outshone them all.
She was emotional and beautiful, when she sang 'Don’t Cry For Me Argentina' the audience were awe struck and apart from the old lady who couldn't stop coughing 
...nobody made a murmer.
So all in all yesterday was a good day and the sun shone too.
Earlier this week I had been reminded of last year's trip to Egypt and now I have been inadvertently transported to Buenos Aires
I have been seeking out some snapshots I took in Valladolid, Spain last September
"Why"? you may ask.
Because I came across some dancers performing the Argentine tango in the street there and I was quite pleased how the pics turned out.
I hope you like them.
P.S.
If the weather stays dry I am hoping to enjoy the Leeds West indian carnival procession tomorrow as I have done for the last two years 
@ 2008-08-21 – 13:57:10
The building site next door has had a huge amount of bricks and sand delivered.
They arrived in a huge builders supply wagon which had about ten gigantic wheels roaring down the lane and finally coming to rest on the grass verge which adjoins the tarmac pavement, yes the pavement that t'old man has so far successfully managed to keep wagons and skips from parking on.
Needless to say the wagon churned the turf up by about a foot deep and left tyre ridges for the whole length of the verge.
T'old man went ballistic as there is space in front of the neighbours house to offload deliveries where they could have quite easily parked.
He phoned up the council to try to take some preventative measures (i.e place cones in front of it) to minimise the risk of the whole pavement looking like a bomb has dropped on it but to no avail, the advice given was that we should wait until the next delivery and capture them red-handed by taking video footage of any destruction of the verges...err..I don't think so, it could be days 
Prior to this, in the course of the builders starting the 'Groundworks' for the extension they somehow managed to cause a blockage in the sewer which runs across the back gardens between the houses. It took them two days to sort it out and in the mean-time our man hole cover was off in order to moniter the toilet waste water level 
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Of course, all I could think about was that rats live in sewers and I imagined that there would be scores of them climbing out and invading the house 
all in all it has been a crap couple of days so I won't bore you any more ..instead I will leave you with a joke that was e-mailed to me today
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THE PRICE OF A BRAIN
In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill.
Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and sombre. 'I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news, ' he said as he surveyed the worried faces.
'The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky but it is the only hope.
Insurance will cover the procedure, but you will have to pay for the brain yourselves. '
The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, ' Well, how much does a brain cost? '
The doctor quickly responded, '£5,000 for a male brain, and £200 for a female brain. '
The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked.
A man unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask,
' Why is the male brain so much more? '
The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and explained to the entire group, ' It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've actually been used. '
SEND THIS TO A SMART WOMAN WHO NEEDS A LAUGH AND TO THE MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT!
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SORRY FELLAS, I know you use yer brains sometimes 
@ 2008-08-18 – 12:22:56
Last night I went out to a new Indian restaurant in town with my two favourite girls Bella and Lulu.
The food was excellent and the company was good.
My daughters don't see each other very often so as I had been working all day and was a little tired it was nice and easy for me simply to sit alongside them nodding wisely and throwing in a few choice sentences here and there. There was laughter, smiles and the talk was about jobs, partners, holidays etc.
At the end of the meal coffee was ordered then simultaneously the girls picked up their sachets of sugar and handed them to me.
"Here you are mum, we know you still collect them"
I laughed "What's this"
Bella replied "every time I go into a cafe and get given sugar I think to myself "Hmmm..pity mum's not here she'd want these" 
Is it just me?...It's not that I can't afford to buy a bag of sugar but I haven't bought any for the last twelve years...admittedly we don't use sugar at home, only for visitors and I always have a good supply of sachets.
I don't save them, I use them as and when needed, so as I placed these new sachets in the jar I was bemused to see that there are still two from Cairo, some from Portugal and loads from Spain nestled in there
my sugars
So please tell me i'm not alone in my compulsion never to leave a sachet of sugar on a cafe table where-ever I am.
@ 2008-08-13 – 22:49:16
How many hernia patients does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None, They shouldn't be stretching. ...
It's not funny really.....I told t'old man to take it easy after he'd had his illeostomy reversed.
He should have had it looked at before now but he would insist on waiting for his routine check-up. The hernia is on the site of his previous abdominal surgery (stoma site) where it was always going to be a potential weak spot.
So mid September it will be Key-hole surgery time.....it could be worse!
@ 2008-08-10 – 19:37:06
It was my Sunday to work in the bakery today which follows that last week was my Greeting shift. T'old man is still bemused that a company will employ some-one for six hours a week on a rolling rota involving two departments. t does seem a bit daft but from their perspective I think they would rather keep us "oldies" on the books with the idea that we might co-operate and work overtime in busy periods. I would have left the job years ago but they have been so accommodating with the contract that there has been no need to leave..I simply look at it as a way of meeting and having a chat with a few friends
Today there was a couple of new starters in the bakery..one is a young lad from Barnsley who is studying economics at Uni, he's a personable enough lad who has an old head on him, not at all like the young bakers who have the radio blasting away while they're baking..all very well until the volume levels have reached such heights that it is hard to converse with custumers at the bakery front
Of course when I ask them to turn the volume down i'm just an old fuddy duddy and a spoil sport..'til that is until I tell them what I was doing at their age........they're well impressed when I tell them I saw the Rolling stones '69 concert in Hyde Park and Bob Dylan in the same year at the IOW and how I was going to follow the overland Hippie trail but ran out of money in Malaga and had to be repatriated
Anyway as it happens we manage to manouvre our way through the shift quite nicely with no burnt bread and reasonably full shelves.
My daughter Lulu and hubby came into the store with some apples from her apple tree which I thought was a bit odd..bringing apples to the bakery 
but we had a hug and a chat, then she sidled in an odd request
Would I e-mail her about twenty of my favourite photos of anything I like
It can be places I have enjoyed, family photos from any decade, can be of me or other members of the family, they can even include random pics I have taken.
Now what is she up to
I will not probe too deeply as I am sure it is going to be a nice surprise and she is heavily into "Scrap-booking" at the moment...and I do have a big birthday coming up soon...I haven't mentioned that before have I?
So there we have it,I might not see my daughters for a week then I get to see both of them on the same day as Bella is arriving home a little later this evening, but it will be a case of a quick catch up on how her birthday trip to Madrid went then a cup of hot chocolate and to bed as she will be rising at 6.30am to drive back to Hull to go to work.
Since she started her new job in Hull last January it seems to be working out OK. She stays in Hull during the week, spends her weekends in Manchester with her boyfriend and visits us on Sundays.
There has already been one lot of redundancies in the company since she started working there but she survived it and hopes there won't be any more for quite a while
The builders next door had a day off today after completing the knocking down of the garage and surrounds yesterday morning, my shed and Sat. dish have managed to get through it unscathed and at close of play the builders were deeply immersed in groundworks. After just three days the novelty of seeing 'Builder's bum' has worn off and my war-cry from now on will be...."Is the job nearly finished " 
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Builder's fashion range ------------ Just filling in the cracks.
@ 2008-08-09 – 20:03:42
It's great to see Welshceltgirl and Pompadour blogging again after lengthy periods of absence.
all we need now is for Lonemum to come back and we will really have made the Hat-trick.... 
@ 2008-08-07 – 16:18:50
Following on from my earlier post.
Well, how far have we got today ?
I managed to prepare the onion, peppers, salad etc. for tea as i'm making a pasta dish. I put some washing in the machine then due to being engrossed in what the builders next door were doing I forgot to hang them out..done it now but i've missed a good drying day so I hope it doesn't rain for a few hours yet!
The skip has arrived and I nearly had palpitations as it seemed as if they were going to plonk it down on the recently tarmacced area outside our window, t'old man wouldn't have been pleased as it took him months of haranguing the council to repair the damage caused by the utility companies ..but no they have put it on the (what was once)a grassed verged area in front of next door.
They are making headway with the demolition; it looked a bit dodgy for a while but so far the sat dish and shed are still unscathed.
Half way there..the boss is having a breather.
If you want all the live action see here
How sad must I be taking pics of all this?
second thoughts..don't answer that!
@ 2008-08-07 – 12:54:43
They would have to choose today to demolish next doors garage..wouldn't they.
T'old man's got a long standing appointment at the hospital and the neighbours have conveniently disappeared out, so it's up to me to make sure the builders (one of whom looks like Andy Capp and the other like a new age traveller complete with earrings and tattoos) don't bring our satellite dish down or uproot the bushes at the back.
I've just been out and pruned the climbing roses at the back just in time as I can now hear the machinery at work..EEK..I daren't look.
This is what it looked like out there 20 mins ago....Front of next door neighbours, note our boundary wall and Satellite dish
This is the at the back of our house in a corner of the garden which is at the bottom end of their garage.
You see, the garage wall has been the boundary of the two properties ever since we moved in here 24 years ago, but now the neighbours are going to build a huge full height extension which will then become our new boundary 
Crikey there's some clattering and crashing going on outside my window,i'd better go take a look and maybe supervise
Back later..maybe with pics of the destruction!
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