you would never guess

that in this country we have things like "this" in the urban districts.

I was walking the dog on Friday night and whilst crossing this

some small children playing on their bikes called me over, "Hey Mister there is a snake come and have a look!" they were all very excited and hyper and standing well clear of this snake, so I walked up to them, they had made a bike jump out of an old table,

and sure enough when I got there I saw it,was not the little grass snake I was expecting, but a bloody big Adder.

I am not prone to exaggeration but when I tell you it was about a meter long, it was big, as thick as the walking stick I now take with me.

(I don't need a stick to walk it is to keep the bloody stray dogs away)

fatter in the middle it had eaten you could tell,

I told the kids now just stay away from it they are poisonous and it is more frightened of you than you of it,

it can bite you and it will hurt you.

I carried on home and looked on the Internet to see if it was what I saw,

I was right a big male Adder

3 or 4 hundred yards from our home.

well bugger me I have never seen one also they are a protected species

walkies and other stuff

I have said before I quite often pass the Castle ruins with the dog , this is what it looked like this morning, quiet and peacefull.


and I know its the fashion for young people to have there pants down past their back sides nowadays but for gods sake.

you wouldn't want to mess with this guy would ya


I love these phone cameras always there just when you need them, what did we do before, well I used to carry a big 35mm film camera and no it wouldn't fit in the smallest pocket, and then wait days for the pictures, or untill you had finished the film.

wedding days

We have just spent a couple of days back in Yorkshire at my oldest daughters wedding, we have had a fabulous time the hotel was perfect absolutely without fault, I would recommend to anyone go there you will have a terrific stay the picture does not do it justice.

The venue (Ripley Castle) she choose was again without fault, the staff,food, and arrangements all went without fault, and is barely 100 yards from the hotel the Boars Head.

My former wife bride and groom and myself

Everybody had a terrific time,

there are far too many pictures for you all to see so here is a few of them

could I be happier

see if you spot "D" in this bunch of roses

apparentley

it was Sitemeter and internet explorer that was causing the problem, but it is sorted now anyway.
what a wasted day.

well

this isn't the Saturday I expected, I got up this morning expecting to do stuff and have been on this thing all day.

first of all we couldn't open certain web sites then started checking stuff like what the f**k is going on, we had a lightning strike hit a house a few doors away in the week, it set off the house alarm, knocked out the wireless modem blew up the big computer and completley f**ked the printer thingy,,,,,,,, the air was live with static energy.

Genius middle son fixed(replaced) the modem, and sorted out the alarm, but alas the big mother computer is gone we have to have a new one, luckily he will build it for us.

anyway I am rambling "D" had this good idea ,,,,try another web browser so we uploaded "opera" and bingo it worked, I don't like it much it's different, and doesn't seem as easy as explorer, but at least we can view page's.

we had to download adobe flash player ver 9 to get it to go but it seems OK.

the dog was ok about it all and he doesn't seem to be growing another head or anything.

apart from all that everything is ok and looking forward to the wedding next week at Ripley castle, although shock horror I have have not yet done my speech but don't worry kids if you read this I will be alright on the night, we didn't need any more expense before our holiday in the States but that is the way the cookie crumbles.

so enough grumbling for now

illegitimi non carborundum