Grand National

You all know how much of a huge fan of horse racing I am so I was sad to see the events unfold on Saturdays Grand National at Aintree, during the race two horses were killed and during another race at Aintree one of the jockeys were seriously injured. Unfortunately the Grand National has one of the worst records for fatalities of horses with around 30 dying in the past 11 years and the course is also notoriously bad.

There are now call for it to be changed, or made safer, the RSPCA is to take part in a review of the course, with the charity’s equine consultant, David Muir meeting with representative of the British Horse Racing Authority (BHA). Now I’m not really an expert on the course but do like the odd flutter on the Grand National and I always find it upsetting when some horses die, however I’m not sure how they can change the race without taking away the qualities that attract thousands of people every year to watch it. Plus I doubt they would actually go and ban it completely, but you never know.

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DIY t-shirt printing

In the past I have sung the praises of online t shirt printing, for my t shirt printing needs, for pool club, presents and for band t-shirts. So I thought that I may look into how you can do t-shirt printing at home, because it is a really easy way to customise clothing and make a statement. 

For the pieces I have needed in the past such as our pool t-shirts, I found Adlogo’s services to be excellent, however now I fancy having a mess around myself at home. I will probably stick with Adlogo for bulk orders as they provide the best value for money, but for other things I fancy I will do myself as I want to take up t-shirt printing as a hobby.

There are numerous methods available for at home t-shirt printing, so some research is required to find out what will be best for me, such as heat transfer, hand painting and if I’m confident even screen printing at home. The latter however is the hardest and the most expensive, so to start with I will look at the other two options.

I will let you know once I have decided on a method how it goes and how successful I am, or not, ha!

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Foul mouthed footballers cont…..

Further to my post the other day about Wayne Rooney’s outburst during the Man U, West Ham game I am glad to see he has been given a two-game ban by the FA for using offensive, insulting and/or abusing language. I do hope that this sets a precedent with other footballers too, not just an attack on Rooney in general, as I don’t think he is alone in using foul language on the pitch, whether it’s in celebration or not.

Next season the FA are launching an initiative to make footballers and managers respect the referees and lines men and hopeful stop the abuse that ensures most games against decisions that some may feel is unfair. I think for the amount footballers get paid now they should be able to have some self control and curtail the foul language and I know this is hard, after all in the heat of the moment etc but for a couple hundred thousand a week keeping on your best behaviour for your club and fans, who pay your wages is not too much to ask is it?

Anyway, this week I am looking forward to enjoying all the Champions League games that are on, should be an interesting ride, much more than the prem league!

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Foul mouthed footballers

I’m sick of seeing Wayne Rooney getting away with bad behaviour on the pitch, this week he swore directly at the camera and then trying to get away with it by releasing a statement  saying “sorry and I really regret it” after the match. I personally think they should make a show out of him and ban him for a few games and dock his wages, young kids idolise him so the last thing I want is my nephews shouting fuck off because Wayne Rooney can do it.

It’s not even the first time that he’s done it so they should throw the book at him. He claims to have done it in the heat of the moment, but really come on we aren’t stupid why would you should it when you’ve just scored, what a pleb, grow up. I also think it should be done to other footballers too, any deterrent to make them clean up the game should be welcomed, and then any money from fines can be redirected to school youth teams. You have a win, win then!

Any way after my short rant again about Man U, I’ve decided after much deliberation to treat myself to a new set of digital scales because mine are a few years old now and are looking pretty battered oh and cracked in one corner. Checking online I found  you can get a decent set for around £25 so it’s no major spend like most things I find now, when I want to buy something I have to check online for the best deal or for any special offers to save myself some money. Times of austerity and all!

Plus I’m looking forward Malaysia, there’s mentions again that it’s going to be four pit stops for the race, but they said that for Melbourne and a few cars got away with 2 stops and one a Sauber I think, only did one stop.

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Start of 2011 Formula 1 season

Well I was up early on Sunday morning to watch the 1st race of the new 2011 Formula 1 season. In honesty I was expecting slightly more from the DRS system combined with KER’s but the big names are now saying it might take more time to get it all right and working more efficiently.

I was really impressed by Vitaly Petrov, last year in his debut year season he was a bit lack lustre but impressed everyone with his impressive performance of the last race of the season managing to hold off Alonso.  It could be a one off where the car was suited to the Albert Park Circuit. Only time will tell as to whether Vitaly can keep on with the good performances.

It was an early start so I had my digital scales to hand as I knew I wouldn’t be very good at guessing the weight of my tobacco when I’m half asleep.

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Car Tyres & Pot Butter

Well i had a fairly quite week last week I didn’t manage to make it to the racing due to an unfortunate flat tyre on the car and that turned into a £200 bill as I needed another tyre as well.

You might have seen my page on how to make pot butter, if you haven’t check it out.

These aren’t the sort of things that I’d usually give out but I’m feeling generous today :)

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Band shirts

I think I may have become a bit addicted to designing t-shirts, after the fun I had designing the ones for our pool team and the ones I have designed for myself so I don’t have to follow the masses who have the same shirts. I have a few gigs coming up this year so again I will put t shirt printing to good use again and have some knocked up for the gigs.

This will save me some pennies as proper authentic tees are quite pricy and although I’m all for my favourite bands, sometimes after the price of tickets, drinks and food for the gig I aint left with a lot so I though it better to save money and make my own. As per usual I will be using the services of Adlogo and hope they can work their usual magic with my designs on t-shirts for me and sexy vest tops for the other half!

I am excited not only to see my final designs but parading them at the gigs this year, safe in the knowledge that no one else will be sporting them, I hope, now that would be weird.

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Apple sells out

Over the weekend Apple sold nearly a million iPad 2 tablets in the U.S which is more than the first iPad, with people queuing for hours on Friday to be the first to own one. Now personally I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I have a perfectly good Android phone, Laptop, home PC and an Xbox, I don’t think I would have anywhere to fit an iPad into my life. Well not until the laptop goes caput which shouldn’t be for a good while yet! Not that I am an anti Apple person I just wonder how much ‘useless’ technology we collect over our life time.

The iPad 2 will go on sale here in the UK on the 25th of March so no doubt there will be huge queues of people waiting to get their hands on the iPad. Although the iPad seems very popular it’s hard to understand the sudden fascination with it and all the other tablets out there, especially since everyone is supposed to be skint at the moment. Another thing I also noted is that there isn’t a huge difference between the new iPad and its predecessor, so it looks like Apple, just like their mobile phones will keep churning out iPads for the next few years without any major technical advancements or improvements for a long while.

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Racing time again

Well it’s the start of the Cheltenham festival today which is 4 days of racing which also includes the Gold Cup, which is run on Friday. Since my luck at the last race event that I went to I think I’ll be going on Friday to watch the gold cup.

Now given that there are only 3 horses that I would look at backing, unless I see or hear something different. There’s Imperial Commander that won last year but does he really have it in him to do it again as I felt he was given the win. Kauto Star and of course Denman are my bets and you can guarantee that they’ll have some good jockeys on, for such a big race.

I’ve already got a inkling that again Ruby Walsh will be riding Kauto Star, who has won it twice before.

Luckily after last week a generous friend came round with his volcano vaporizer and a few herbal blends after he managed to acquire a good handful of rolling paper from me. Anyway I’ve been using it most nights as its pretty good, and one of the best vapes that I’ve used. If they were slightly cheaper then I’d of bought one this week but since I’m going to the Gold Cup, then it will have to wait a for a month or so unless I have a good win on Friday.

I’m really impressed how easy the volcano vaporizer is to use, there’s 2 different versions the Volcano Digit Vaporizer and classic, but both have varying pros and cons to both.  There’s also a slight price difference between the easy and solid valves not that much that I’d be swayed to either version as its only about £30.

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Plain packets for fags

It seems every effort to stamp out smoking bar making it illegal is happening here in the UK and only here in the UK, surprise, surprise. News this week that tough new rules on tobacco means that a packaging on for fags must contain only a health warning, nothing more. So basically fag packets will now be plain, unbranded with no colour, logo’s or graphics of any kind.

Apparently these measures will help kick start the falling numbers of people quitting, however I personally think it won’t make a difference to long time hardcore smokers, me included who don’t give a rats arse what the packaging has on it. It could have fairies and kittens for all I care it would not make me stop.

After all the restrictions on smoking all that will be left will be to ban it after all if this won’t make people stop smoking what will, plus I doubt plain packaging will deter kids nowadays either so I ask what is the point, try sorting other things out first like hmmmm what oh yeah the countries debt!

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