Monday, February 27, 2006

World of Blog

TAKE A LOOK at life in Australia through the webpage of Melissa, which can be viewed here. Reading through Mel's profile, she's a woman who definately enjoys the high life - at such a young age too! It's not too shabby living in Sydney, working for Chanel and have a social life too... some may say jealousy and damn, you're right.

ICONS OF ENGLAND

I'm just wondering if you are aware of the ICONS website, dedicated to the icons of England... well, I ask as I'm pretty chuffed at present as I nominated the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle Railway as an Icon last week, I'm pleased to say the moderators have included the Railway on the site and my page can be viewed here!

I do hope you will all visit the Icons page and vote for the Railway, I would very much like the Railway to have the recognition it deserves.

And Finally...

Animal Rights . . . ?

On Tuesday, thirty-one animal rights activists launched a vicious attack on the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Hunt. The attack left one hunt follower in a serious condition in hospital, and several others injured.
This had nothing to do with protest or sabotage. It was a vicious and unprovoked assault by a group of mindless thugs. No more, no less. Sussex constabulary have arrested five people from London and Hertfordshire in connection with the incident.
The animal rights movement is dwindling in numbers, but is becoming increasingly extreme. Whether harassing businesses connected to the development of laboratories, threatening farmers and their families or attacking hunts, their tactics are becoming more vindictive and violent.
There is little separating thugs like these from the so-called legitimate animal rights movement. Their shared goals concentrate on hatred of people far more than any concern for animals.
We wish the young farmer who was hospitalised well and have every confidence that the police will bring his attackers to justice
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The above was a statement from Simon Hart, of the Countryside Alliance. The statement shows the so-called 'animal rights' groups are decending into chaos, largely brought on themselves, following the folly of the 'Hunting Act 2004', a legislation they pushed so hard for, only for the politicians to create a total nonsense of a law which is absolutely unworkable and a law for which even the Police have no interest in upholding. Couple this with the demonstration in favour of an animal testing laboratory in Oxford at the weekend and I think we see what kind of people these 'animal lovers' really are.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

A Good Day

Saturday 18 February 2006 turned out to be a really good day - First off, Manchester United got dumped out of the FA Cup by Liverpool - I'm not a fan of the Premiership teams so it is always good to see the likes of Arsenal and Man U win absolutely nothing at the end of the season ;D

Carlisle United recorded another high score of the season when they beat Rushden & Diamonds FC by five goals to nil to return to the top of League Two (on goal difference) .
Carlisle have a busy couple of days ahead of them - Monday sees the United Youth team travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool in the Quarter Final of the FA Youth Cup, whilst back at Brunton Park on Tuesday night the Area Final first leg of the LDV Trophy sees Carlisle take on Macclesfield Town (7:45pm Kick Off) - Hoping Karl Hawley extend his goal scoring feats of this super season!

Finally, Happy Birthday to my friend in Oslo, Miss Stine Slettemark, who celebrated her Twenty-first Birthday on Saturday. Stine has an MSN Space online, to which I have placed a link here. Go take a look! :)

Have a great week!

Sunday, February 12, 2006

One of those moments...

As I was returning home on the train Wednesday evening (8 February) after a long day in Carlisle, I offered the seat next to mine to a gentleman looking for somewhere to sit in a carriage quickly filling up. As he sat down, we exchanged pleasantries, spoke of many subjects, moving on to football.

The gentleman's name is Peter Thompson - Almost 40 years ago, Peter played professional football for Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and England! Peter remembered the time he was part of the England team who played Brazil at the Maracana Stadium, when Jimmy Greaves scored first - England lost 4-1.

I have found a profile of Peter during his time with Liverpool, which can be viewed by clicking here. When I saw Peter's picture on the profile, I recognised him instantly. A truly memorable moment.

For those who may be interested, Peter was born in Carlisle, he has family in the city and he now lives in Harrogate, where he runs a hotel called The Delaine, a link to the website of which is here.

Have a pleasant week!

Sunday, February 5, 2006

Immortality...

I would imagine anything posted on the internet may be there for eternity, so in recognition of Carlisle United's achievement of reaching the top of the League Two table this weekend, click here and print your own record of the team's achievement, topped off with a 5-0 victory this weekend.

If you are looking for those infamous Danish cartoons, click here. One thought about the events since: No one made such a fuss when the Monty Python team filmed 'The Life Of Brian' all those years ago, did they, so why all the fuss now?

Finally, click here for something to make you smile. Please note none of the above are connected to each other.

Have a good week!