Great Rivers of the World Pt1

Not as well known as its main tributary the River Severn, but the River Six is a sight to behold - this lovely view was captured, as it wound its way through the less salubrious parts of Derbyshire just as dusk was setting, on a summers day in July.

Flaming June

Well the weather in June was very sticky at times, as was my Poker - especially the Cash games during the early part of the month. But I turned my attention to the STT's, Mind-Numbing Double or Nothing STT's and a few smaller MTT's.
Eventually turning in a nice $338 - which average of over $10 Profit, which at the Stakes I play I'm pretty happy about. Giving a ROI of around 29%.

Spirit of '66 and all that.

The England Under-21's made it through to the Final of the European U-21 Final yesterday in Malmo, unfortunately they where trounced by a more skillful German team (who else could it be !).
England have had an in and out campaign, qualifying from the Group Stages with a game to spare - then somehow squandering a 3-0 half time lead in the Semi-Finals, only to win the game by beating Sweden on penalties.

They didn't help their cause too much with a little indiscipline in the previous rounds, which meant they were without suspended forwards Aghonbalor and Campbell. They were also without regular keeper Joe Harte who's avoidable yellow card in the Semi-Final shootout meant the reserve keeper Scott Loach was drafted in between the posts.Loach had a bit of a nightmare game, at fault for the second goal.

But I had to smile at the write up given in today's Daily Express where it said something along these lines

"There where a couple of big mistakes made by stand-in keeper Scott Loach, that cost England two goals"

..... Its obvious what one of his 'Big Mistakes' was, just from the extract, he should have been divin' , not bloody stand-in

Who Killed Cock Sparrow.

We went to my parents house for the traditional Sunday Lunch today, and Mum was telling about the SparrowHawk they had seen on the lawn yesterday.

Now Mum, and Dad put loads of 'Fat Ball', 'Bird Feeders', fruit etc out on their garden to encourage the birds to visit. So the clever old 'SparrowHawk' realises that this is probably a good feeding ground for him also, as there's plenty of his type of food all in one place to feed on. Anyway, apparently, yesterday Mum had seen the 'SparrowHawk' on the lawn with a 'Sparrow' under its talons, frantically flapping in a vain effort to escape. I commented on what a privilege it must have been to see nature at its cruelest first hand in your back garden - to which Mum retorted in disgust, at the 'poor little sparrow' flapping around, and how the bloody 'SparrowHawk' had killed it.

I attempted to explain that the 'Sparrowhawk' was only doing what it needed to eat, and that it's not something it would have done just for pleasure. To which Mum instantly replied,
"Well I wish I'd had a gun, as I'd have shot that bloody Hawk myself !"

..... So Mother's logic works that it's not alright for a Bird to kill one of its own in an effort to survive, but that it's alright for her to kill one for no other reason than she doesn't agree with the laws of nature !!

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Played in the AOC Snowball last night,22 starters and £940 Prize Pool.

As you play the game more, the line between Donkeyius and Genius can blur into one, as when the Donkey Moves come off they look like acts of Genius, and when they fail they look like acts of Donkeyius.

Last night,after being card dead for most of the night on a (until then) passive table my button raise of 9Ts against 2 Limpers was looking good for the Genius category, until pushing All-In against a made straight on the Turn, when it unfortunately became categorized as an act of 'Donkeyius'

Jensen ... who ?

Now I'm not a big fan of Grand Prix racing, seeing a red flash zoom past my eyes every 5 secs isn't my idea of enjoyment, although I do hear that the experience of a Grand Prix is something that can only be truly appreciated Live.
However I do listen to the Regular News and regular Sport's news - mainly through the BBC. And is it just me or does anyone else notice a slight disregard for Jensen Buttons F1 achievements this year ? Take this morning for instance on the Radio 1 8:30 News Bulletin, Button got scant mention of his 6th Position in yesterdays British Grand Prix. Yet they had around 5 x 3 second comments from the 'British Public' on their thoughts on Lewis Hamilton finishing 16th !!
Prior to every Grand Prix you tend to get as much mention of Lewis Hamilton, and how he's such a good driver in a poor car - than you do of poor old Jensen, who has been pissing all over the opposition for most of the year (Although if he had physically been pissing all over the opposition, I'm sure his publicity would increase a hundred fold ).
If you just skip back 12 months when Hamilton was doing so well, Button never got a mention at all, even though he was back then 'The Good Driver -in a crap car'
If Jensen was of mixed race would he get more of a mention ?

You are the Weakest Link.... Goodbye

Flicking through the TV Channels this evening, and happened on the final Head-to-Head on 'The Weakest Link' - and this question was asked to the girl that had made the final 2.

"What is the TEAM Sport, introduced into the Olympics for Men in 1908, and for Women in 1980 - which was originally dominated by India, but now sees such countries as Netherlands, Germany and Australia being successful ?"

The girl thought for all of 2 seconds and came out with a great answer of "JAVELIN" !! .....

..... that's obviously the new TEAM version of the Javelin where one team member throws it and the other one attempts to catch it ?!?!

(The correct answer is of course Hockey)

Virgin gives great head for €3

Had 2 sessions 4 Tabling the STT's on Stars yesterday and had a 2nd, 3rd and 2 unplaced in my first batch of 4 - then 3 wins out of 4 on my second batch which i was well chuffed with.
Hopefully the last batch of 4 are the starting 4 for the 'Battle of the Planets Challenge' that they have weekly on Stars, as another batch of decent results should see me post a fair score.

Tonight I felt a bit tired so left the STT's, and came across a€3 Bounty Tourney that had been promoted via a Virgin Facebook promotion. Now I'm usually awful at headhunters so wasn't expecting much, and my concentration started to waiver after around 20 minutes,but managed to grab myself 2 Bounties at €20 each, which made me a bit more attentive, and then win the tourney as well for another €50. So things are going well after leaving the cash games alone for a few days.

(Sorry for the lurid heading, but I'm trying to get the hits up on the site, and hopefully the title will introduce a new strain of reader via 'Google search' ........ Lol )

'The Apprentice' - Sir Alans real thoughts

So Sir Alan Sugar finally chose his 'Apprentice' after 12 Weeks of tasks and Boardroom Bust-Ups. But the final decision shown on Sunday evening was in fact the second take. I have been passed a transcript of Sir Alans actual conversation leading up to his choice of 'Yasmina Siadatan' as his Apprentice 2009.

Cue, the voice over man ....... 'So after 12 Weeks, and 16 Candiates, Sir Alan has to chose between 'Yasmina' and 'Kate' .......

Sir Alan (In lovable East End drawl)- Well, its cam' darn to this, 'n its the 'ardest descision 'av had ta make, your the best two finalists wee've 'eva 'ad - an 'dats da truth.
Kate, you've proved you fantastic at presentin' an' a tr'ffic sales woman - You cud 'probablee take a Billion pawnds of shite an' sell it to an Arab. In fact if I don't take yoo on, Mike Ashley's bin on the 'dog n bone' askin' if you could do that very job.
But, on the downside, you've got a bleedin' Brummie accent -an' pretty bird that you are, if you'd only 'ad a more appealin 'Scouse' lilt or even better bin a Cockeneey like me, then me decsion wud 'ave bin a lot easier. Still I 'spose it could be worse - you could have bin bladdy Scottish, then i'd have need to hire a 'bleedin translator as well.

Yasmina, well you made a right royal cock up in week 4, but you've learned from your erro' an' dun very well over the 'uver tarsks'. But you've got a face like a slapped arse, an' mus' be one of the most miserable looking birds I've eva seen. ........ But I've cum to mi decision ..............



......... 'YASMINA' YOU'VE GOT FECKIN MASSIVE TITS , ...'YOUR HIRED'