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We went and saw Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds at Nottingham Arena last night. Apart from being so far up in the gods that I'm sure we discovered a new planet, it was really cool. Just how I remembered the music was. Take a look at the video - Richard Burton lives.

Back in the mists of time both of us had the stuffing scared out of us when our respective older brothers had the double vinyl LPs.

If you've never heard it then get a copy and check it out. We loved it.

Dear Sinterklaas

Can we have:



Love Su



Ta Andy

Wall of Death

We saw the Wall of Death.

We loved it!

NEC Show 2007 - Brum Brums in Brum

It's great when your wife is as interested in motorbikes as I am so I get to go to the NEC Motorcycle Show every year. Yey!!

This year we managed to get new helmets at bargain prices and although my head hasn't changed from the HOW BIG size of 63cm (XL) Su managed to get hers down to small. Must have had the wrong size Arai for a few years me thinks and I have lots of information to store in my head.

We went with Stephen, Su's bro. He's very tall and even on the pegs of BMW 1200GS I'm only just taller.

Make sure you keep an eye out for the butt ugly Victory Pointless 5000cc wheely bin.

Foos Noos

Last night and in the middle of the week on a work night, yey, we actually got out of the darkness that is the world that surrounds our house and went to the bright lights of Nottingham to the Arena to see the Foo Fighters, plus support.

Now most people have seen Spinal Tap, one of the versions of Willy Wonka films and maybe the episode of The Simpsons where Goose Gladwell rips off Bart.

Imagine the character in the Top hat (Wonka); then think about System of a Down (Metal) and into the mixing plot throw some Jewish music, a man who dances like Parker from Thunderbirds and a band dressed as pawl bearers. Nice.

And basically that's what Serj Tankian's set consisted of. A bit too hey nonny nonny for us both, but it made us laugh.

A huge set of classic Foos music followed. Su had to wait quite a while for her fav 'All My Life' but both of us were very happy with the whole thang. Apart from the rip roaring, rip snorting Rock with a capital RRRRRRRR, the band had a smaller accoustic stage down a runway which meant the folks in the back seats got a chance to see the band as well as hear them. Nice touch. 2 hours of crackin' stuff and then the obligatory encore.

Four tracks. Three good and one, 'what the?'.

But hey the thing was cool.

Peas please

These little felt fellas were sewn up by me for Su over one day during the infernally nasty, rainy days we had. The pod has wire round the rim to keep its shape.

Houten about in the Nederlands

Flying off to stay with our friends Yvonne and Onno was a fantastic holiday break that we really needed. From a 3.00am start to EMA, then Schiphol to Amsterdam (where we spent the day well away from the tourist areas/ coffee shops/ window shoppers), then back to Schiphol and Utrecht, then Utrecht to Houten. Thankfully Yvonne was waiting to pick us up, tired bunnies that we were. After a good night sleeping, we ended up going to Utrecht again. Great day, except for the centipede in the salad incident - least said about this the better!

Wednesday was spent going to (via Gouda, Den Haag and other places due to a bridge out) Leiden. Leiden was great and if you ever wondered if taxidermy was still happening then check out the Naturalis Museum. Loads of animals in normal poses, and fossils and stuff. I wondered what happened to all the old stockings/ tights in the worlds and now I know that the special animal stuffers use them in Leiden. The castle (Burcht) was pretty cool and inhabited by a lot of Goths/Emos who'd obviously been enjoying the delights of the local coffee shops and the varieties of dried stuff there within.

Something we did realise was how freaky we must have looked because we were walking everywhere, the Dutch however prefer to cycle and not just any bike. Oh no, it's a 1950's Oxford university/ shopping basket/ hello vicar/ pop to the local shop type. I think I only spotted 3 BMX bikes and maybe 3 mountain bikes (ok there's not that many mountains in the Nederlands).

We've also discovered the delights of licorice tea. Nice

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