I’d Do Anything – Jessie or Jodie for Nancy?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the final of the BBC1 show the panel and producer seemed to hint that Jessie was their preferred favourite, for the new star to play Nancy in Oliver. However the public voted a different way.

Was this the right decision by the public? 

I agreed with the panel, but it’s the public that buy the tickets! 

For more information see http://www.bbc.co.uk/oliver and also

http://colouredlights.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/id-do-anything-the-final-the-winner/

Eurovision “song” contest?

Why do we in the UK continue to enter this “song contest” each year?

Over the last few years we have had some reasonably good entries, and this year was no exception. Yet our results continue to decline and become more and more embarrassing.

I think it has become clear now, as we had suspected for years, that the results have nothing to do with the merits or popularity of the song but are purely down to the politics of the voting countries. Therefore why do we then continue to enter it?

Surely it has now become a waste of taxpayers money, which Gordon Brown can ill afford to squander in these times of world recession.

Does it also show the real standing and popularity that we now have in “Europe”?

The winner of the 53rd contest from Belgrade was the Russian pop star Dima Bila.

Heathfield Agricultural show

Well, what a great day out this was!

The Weather was glories, sunny and very hot, despite the wind. This is a show we try to get to every year as it is local and very well organised. It’s takes place at Heathfield, East Sussex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The headline main attraction this year was:-

Jason Smythe’s adrenalin tour.

He is a world champion moto-cross rider and gave a really great display performing various stunts, jumps on his bike and quad bike. He did all this while also giving a running commentary of the stunts from the radio mike in his crash helmet, true multi-tasking!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On a more gentle note there was an interesting  parade of vintage tractors, which compared to some of the big new modern ones that were on display, showing just how far tractor development has come on in recent years.

  

There was a Harrier flight simulator which I thought was going to be brilliant, especially as it was badged Royal Navy and as was supposed to be a low level sortie; but it turned out be 4 minutes of disappointing quality scenery and a just lot of just bouncing rocking around in a box.

Now something that I have heard about but never seen before was the automatic garden lawn mower the Automower, made by Husqvarna. This cuts the grass while you get on with something else more important! You can leave out on your grass for most of the summer and it works it’s way around the garden automatically keeping the grass looking good. It even has a built in burglar alarm to keep it safe. It’s a must have for any gadget mad family.

There always seems to be a huge number of different breeds that their owners bring along to the show. We left our pack at home as we thought it would be too hot for them. The most “unusual breed of the day” award went to the Slovakian Rough Haired Pointer which was a breed that we had never heard of before.   

It was a throughly good day out and we left looking forward to next year’s event.

What is all this Twittering?

I have a confession to make.

I have just got into using Twitter. It’s a way of doing microblogs using just 140 characters for each posting; which is quite hard sometimes.

It seemed very odd at first but I have “met” a lot of very interesting, like minded “friends” through it so far and recommend giving it a go.

You can follow my “twitterings” at:- http://twitter.com/david2knight