Cartoon Opening Titles Triple
Have three opening titles to cartoons I remember fondly from the 1980s. Dungeons and Dragons Always associated myself mostly with Venger. Ulysses 31 Probably my most favourite cartoon series as a kid. Some dark, dark storylines. Battle of the Planets Based on my social media presence I’m obligated to include...
Against The Wall
You had one job to do. You had one little job to do. And you failed. Worse than that, you failed on purpose. Your comrades bravely suffered the abhorrence of the enemy as it crawled past them, but not you. You abandoned your posts in a time of great conflict. You allowed… Ugh! I can barely bring myself to say it! You allowed cars to drive freely. You failed to maintain the contraflow. You have been found guilty of desertion by a court of your peers. Firing squad, take aim. Google+: View post on...
Super Bowl Sunday
I'm one of those people. I'm a non-American who loves American Football. And today is the big day of the year for us fans of the sport closest to chess in padded armour there is (excluding actual chess in padded armour (which isn't half as exciting as it sounds)): it's Super Bowl Sunday! I took the time to introduce my wife to the sport when we first started dating and I'm pleased to say that she's a massive fan of the game now too. Subsequently, we've entered into a little tradition in our home where the pair of us book the Monday following the game off and spend the entire day subjecting our bodies to the best and worst that America can offer from the food and drink aisles of the local supermarket. Note: there are some non-American drinks in there too; we're not completely crazy. As for tonight's game, after some careful thought we have decided we dislike both teams and really don't mind who loses. But if we were pressed to support a team we might ever-so-slightly lean in the direction of Denver. As a Patriots fan I have no love for Peyton Manning but I do respect him and regard him as the greatest quarterback in the NFL. My wife is a Minnesota Vikings fan and so would quite like Seattle not to win so that they both remain in that select crowd of franchises who've never picked up the greatest prize in the sport. But so long as it's a good game we don't really mind who is ultimately victorious. #NFL #superbowl2014 #Nokia #nokialumia #lumia1020 #fhotoroom Google+: View post on...
The Bear Tree
Bears grow well in temperate climates but it's when you get greater than average rainfall – such as that currently otherwise blighting the south of England – that the crops really thrive. Over the past few months one of the largest sectors for employment growth has been for bear pickers as it's vitally important to make sure every last one is plucked from the bear tree branches at just the right time; the only drawback to bumper bear growths is that those that ripen and fall to the ground naturally often go on to terrorise neighbourhoods, savage locals, and – worst of all – steal pic-a-nic baskets. Google+: View post on...
The Fratton Road, Portsmouth Mini Pub Crawl
We had plans! Oh, the plans we had! Plans involving trains and travelling, a meal in a far-flung destination with friends, maybe a few drinks (to be sociable), and then return trips home in carriages of blazing blue! The thing about plans is that they have a fantastic ability to go horribly wrong terribly quickly. Take this plan, for instance. Step one of the plan involved getting to the train. This involved a half hour walk from our house to the station and for the first fifteen minutes of this half hour walk everything went according to the plan. And then the wind picked up. And the rain came down. And the rain turned to hailstones. And the wind surged to storm force. And by the time we arrived at the station we were drenched. But we knew that a half hour train journey would dry us out. We boarded the train and the train moved onto the next station. Fratton station. And there it remained for another hour while announcements informed us of downed trees and landslips and promises of buses and cancellations of buses and termination of the service and claims we could use our tickets on other lines with potential for buses despite Twitter announcements that bus services were being hampered by trees on roads too and… we had enough. We got off the train, we got our money back from the ticket office, and we decided to walk home. The plan was no more. Walking home involved walking up Fratton Road in Portsmouth and that also meant walking past a number of pubs we would never normally enter or that we hadn’t visited in probably close to two decades. We could always have a mini pub crawl up Fratton Road, we thought. And then we voiced those thoughts as telepathy between me and my wife is flaky at the best of times. We had a new plan! The John Jacques The John Jacques is a Wetherspoon’s pub which means one thing as far as I’m concerned: good, wide range of real ales. It didn’t disappoint in that area. I find that many Wetherspoon pubs are quiet (noise-wise rather than patronage) but this one bucked that trend in the form of some rather loud and obnoxious gits in one corner. A shame, as an otherwise decent pub. The Electric Arms The Electric Arms may well be an example of a pub with a spelling mistake as Eclectic Arms would work just as well. What’s the theme of the pub? Is it “Irish”? Well, yes, sort of. But also “Hollywood Stars”. And “Local Art”. And mostly “Let’s...
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