Are you a Manchester United fan ? Have you availed yourself of every last item of official club merchandise from the United Toothbrush to the United Eric Cantona blow up doll ? Are you looking for the perfect accessory to go with your Burberry cap, tracksuit bottoms and Rockport boots ? Look no further than the back page of this week's Sunday Mirror magazine.
"Twenty genuine diamonds...sterling silver....lavishly plated with 22-carat gold". "Officailly endorsed by the club". Only four payments of £24.75 and this breathtakingly beautiful piece of tat could be yours. £99.00 into the gaping maw of the world's richest football club. How much more dosh do they need ? Furthermore - how near to the floor would your knuckles have to be before you thought this jewel was 'class' ?
Took another bike ride this morning. I had an hour to kill before I could make the breakfast (traditional Sunday morning full English), so I figured out a route from home to City's new ground and back utilising countryside, country parks and the canal tow path. The route took me past many remnants of the North West's industrial heritage. Sites of old lime pits, evidence of a long since demolished calico printing works. Apparently there was a lot of that in this area. A cobbled lane that must date back two or three hundred years judging from the cobbling. Finally - the canal itself formed the backbone of the industrial revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. All of it now one big leisure area.
A good hour it took - I felt a lot better than I have done after my two previous expeditions so maybe it is doing me good. Took a few more pics as well. This one I like best of the bunch - think I'll call it 'sheep safely grazing'.
Just listening to Neil Young's 'Comes a Time' CD from way back in '78. I've not played it for years. It sounds really fresh and warm. No digital effects making the snare sound like rifle fire, drums taking their proper place in the mix. Think I'll dig out the the rest of the curmudgeonly old bugger's stuff in my collection. Only snag they could be anywhere in about four different places in the house. All this crap Nick Hornby writes about in 'High Fidelity' -blokes having some psychological need to file their music/video collections in some analy retentive order is just that. Crap ! Still it makes rifling through my CDs more fun because I keep coming across forgotten gems...like 'Comes a Time'.
Just checked my stats and somebody's been directed to my site whilst googling for war+iraq+buggeration !! Someone else is after pics of david+beckham's+naked+prick !
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