... but first you have to sit through the events of Friday night ... after a hard week at the "Tower of Doom" .. it's time to relax. A barbie therefore was the choice of meal (although having seen the weather Friday lunch/afternoon it was looking a bit iffy !). Light up the two barbies (now our Michelle is "back home" it's a barbie requirement of 1 meatie and 1 non-meatie !) and prepare the food (OK extract most from the fridge, but the courgette was "tweaked with" !).
Now .. a small point from 168 hours ago - whilst camping in the Dales up Howgill way, we had a barbie up there. We looked for the cooking oil .. and found two containers, one with cooking oil and one with washing up liquid. A quick sniff ensured the right stuff went onto the barbie food. Now - onto last night - I'm twiddling with the barbies, getting the food and .. I am presented with the oil. All you carnivores know damn well that you don't need too much oil on lumps of dead animal, but it helps a bit on the veg ... roll on to all cooked time ... peeps start to eat .. and then our Michelle dashes over to check the cooking oil .... OK you can guess the rest ..... !!! Fortunately there was plenty more of the veg options ... and plenty of real live cooking oil as well .. so all was not lost (no probs with my kebabs and burgers mind !!!)
Saturday morning ... no-one dead, no-one foaming at the mouth - Michelle to Basingstoke to see mates, me and Mrs Smiffy chasing Chinese Pancakes down at Wing Fat (it's a school thing !), me then for haircut and then - after checking the website - it was off to Greenfield to see some cricket. Unfortunately Greenfield CC has no real ale (unlike Saddleworth CC) - but hey ... it's the cricket is it not ??!!??
If you've got this far, you deserve some pictures ....
http://mossleysmiffy.jalbum.net/GreenfieldFriarmere
(although (@ 2054) jalbum appears to be "on an outage" or summat !)
Left about 1815 and dropped into the "Railway" in Greenfield - only to bump into a former Simon Carves employee (aaaargh - trying to get my mind free of that damned place for 48 hours - FAIL !) and several of the "Stalybridge Buffet Bar Crew" - all of whom had been doing the "Trans-Pennine Ale Trail" (check out http://www.gringopeeg.com/rail.html - but it doesn't mention the "Railway" @ Greenfield .. and it should !).
1851 train home ... relax .. no fairy liquid in the tea (I hope not - but I've not had it yet !) .... tomorrow's plan - train to Huddersfield and walk back down the Huddersfield Canal to Mossley - if the weather is poo - or we get bored (!) - there are naturally stations (and pubs - tee hee !) at Slaithwaite, Marsden and Greenfield - fingers crossed for the weather ...
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Lazy Summer Thursday ....
.... sat outside on the patio (in the back yard if you like !) - isn't wireless wonderful !! Should be talking football what with all the FA Cup/FA Trophy "early round" draws out yesterday (see http://www.thefa.com for the full stuff). Mossley away @ Cammell Laird in the FA Cup Prelim on 29th August (played 'em there in the Trophy in November 2006 - got beat 2-1 ... try here ). Curzon have a nice draw if they beat Lancaster City at home ... they'll play Ashton United in the 1st Qualifying Round !
The FA Trophy sees Mossley at home to Bedworth United ("Beduff" if you like) with a tempting trip down to Spalding Town (and Rodney's hat !) in the 1st Qualifying. Curzon get Brigg in the Prelim with a home tie against Burscough (Kilheeney still there ?) on offer in 1st Qual - Ashton United come in at 1st Qual level with the "plum home draw" against FC United of Manchester (who incidentally have a PSF this Saturday against Maine Road !)
But if you're looking for an interesting early PSF - how about Sheffield FC v Ferencvaros of Hungary next Monday ??
Blue Square fixtures are out tomorrow as well .... it's coming - slowly but surely ....
Looking back locally though - I feel Mossley have scored a spectacular early season "own goal" with the cancellation of the Mossley Juniors Tournament on Sunday 23rd August - reason being "we've spent money on the pitch - we don't want to knacker it up".... having spent a good few months "wooing" the Juniors back into the fold and making it more inclusive ... then this happens. OK there are pros and cons both ways - had they wanted the tourney in the midst of winter - fair do's ... but a Sunday in August ??? It's a football pitch - to play football on for Frith's sake ! Hopefully this will not cause too many ructions in the "new found love affair" - but my sympathies at this moment in time would certainly be with the Juniors. No one can deny that they've had a rough deal from Mossley AFC in the past - it was to be hoped that the new set up would help to smooth things over ... let's hope it's just one of those "lover's tiffs" you get in any relationship ..
Work still poo by the way .... and the summer timetable is starting to "kick in" viz late trains/overcrowded trains ad nauseam ... we hope for more controversial train stuff (with pics of course !).
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The FA Trophy sees Mossley at home to Bedworth United ("Beduff" if you like) with a tempting trip down to Spalding Town (and Rodney's hat !) in the 1st Qualifying. Curzon get Brigg in the Prelim with a home tie against Burscough (Kilheeney still there ?) on offer in 1st Qual - Ashton United come in at 1st Qual level with the "plum home draw" against FC United of Manchester (who incidentally have a PSF this Saturday against Maine Road !)
But if you're looking for an interesting early PSF - how about Sheffield FC v Ferencvaros of Hungary next Monday ??
Blue Square fixtures are out tomorrow as well .... it's coming - slowly but surely ....
Looking back locally though - I feel Mossley have scored a spectacular early season "own goal" with the cancellation of the Mossley Juniors Tournament on Sunday 23rd August - reason being "we've spent money on the pitch - we don't want to knacker it up".... having spent a good few months "wooing" the Juniors back into the fold and making it more inclusive ... then this happens. OK there are pros and cons both ways - had they wanted the tourney in the midst of winter - fair do's ... but a Sunday in August ??? It's a football pitch - to play football on for Frith's sake ! Hopefully this will not cause too many ructions in the "new found love affair" - but my sympathies at this moment in time would certainly be with the Juniors. No one can deny that they've had a rough deal from Mossley AFC in the past - it was to be hoped that the new set up would help to smooth things over ... let's hope it's just one of those "lover's tiffs" you get in any relationship ..
Work still poo by the way .... and the summer timetable is starting to "kick in" viz late trains/overcrowded trains ad nauseam ... we hope for more controversial train stuff (with pics of course !).
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Weekend Walk Stuff
Times like this you want the "big lens" - a red kite ...
Just a signpost ...
Time for some new boots - I'm a "Meindl Man" !!
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Stuffed !
Yep .. got a Monday night "pass out" to watch the mighty Ingerlund take on Germany in the under 21s ....
The beer was good mind ("Railway" @ Greenfield was the choice of venue) ...
What can you expect playing one up front ?
We ended up playing games with names - German goals from Costa (Spanish ?), Orkil (Turkish) and two from Wagner (good German name .. first name Sandro ... aaargh !) ... hey that's entertainment ..
Grand weekend up Wharfedale way - an 11 miler on Saturday and a 5 miler on Sunday - and we had NO RAIN - pictures ... not really anything that jumps out ... can certainly recommend Howgill Lodge campsite though.
Pleas be aware that bloggy posts will be a little less regular over the summer due to lackof football/ideas/time.
Work still crazy as well so early starts/late finishes (especially while Johnny in China i.e. holiday). How can a failing company still contrive to employ so many "non-team players" - people who are only in it for their own ego/hourly rate etc - us "long serving lags" (loyal ? stupid ? I know where I stand) get really hacked off by the fly-by-nights... and I'm not talking about the obscene pay leaders either (given up on them) - just the "normal" workers who cannot understand the difference between "want" and "need", the definition of the word "priority", and the fact that most of them are desperately covering up for other people's f**k ups as well as their own. Look around the world ------ people get good pay-offs for failure (another cock-up on my part no doubt)... this just turned into not a ramble but a rant ... and at our place the lunatics have taken over the asylum ... going back to Beverley Hills Cop III now before I start to get REALLY personal ......
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The beer was good mind ("Railway" @ Greenfield was the choice of venue) ...
What can you expect playing one up front ?
We ended up playing games with names - German goals from Costa (Spanish ?), Orkil (Turkish) and two from Wagner (good German name .. first name Sandro ... aaargh !) ... hey that's entertainment ..
Grand weekend up Wharfedale way - an 11 miler on Saturday and a 5 miler on Sunday - and we had NO RAIN - pictures ... not really anything that jumps out ... can certainly recommend Howgill Lodge campsite though.
Pleas be aware that bloggy posts will be a little less regular over the summer due to lackof football/ideas/time.
Work still crazy as well so early starts/late finishes (especially while Johnny in China i.e. holiday). How can a failing company still contrive to employ so many "non-team players" - people who are only in it for their own ego/hourly rate etc - us "long serving lags" (loyal ? stupid ? I know where I stand) get really hacked off by the fly-by-nights... and I'm not talking about the obscene pay leaders either (given up on them) - just the "normal" workers who cannot understand the difference between "want" and "need", the definition of the word "priority", and the fact that most of them are desperately covering up for other people's f**k ups as well as their own. Look around the world ------ people get good pay-offs for failure (another cock-up on my part no doubt)... this just turned into not a ramble but a rant ... and at our place the lunatics have taken over the asylum ... going back to Beverley Hills Cop III now before I start to get REALLY personal ......
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Thursday "Stuff"
Check out the weather for Glastonbury - from Radio 4 no less ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8119664.stm
My "Licence to Snap" came through today - my Conference "accreditation" for the coming season - thanks to the efficient Keirina and the Football Conference admin crew down there in Birmingham.
Comforting to know that the "silly season" has started @ the non-league level with Fleetwood of the Blue Square North shelling out ... wait for it ... £17,000 for Barrow's Steve McNulty. Seventeen grand, viz four grand short of the total that could put Mossley into admin/liquid or some other "..ation" ... or the money earned for one morning's training session by Man City's Rocky Santa Claus ...
Seventeen Grand ? Looks a bit "porky" to me !!!
Another local club in trouble is Chadderton - left in the lurch by the so-called "moneybags" of Halliwell & Bhatti, they've been "helped out" by the council (who now own the lease on the ground - keep your eyes on this Mossley peeps - Seel Park could (if certain decisions are made) go back from the Mossley AFC Limited Company to Tameside Council - Seel Park Apartments would then return to the agenda .. just like in the "bad old days" of Lawlor & Fisher). Suffice to say, Chadderton are getting the usual help from the local populace - concrete fence panels demolished, stand seating wrecked - t*ssers ... they should really be playing chicken on Broadway - far more constructive - I'll get me car !!! Going back to the Newcastle Blue Star fiasco - that £61,000 debt is - according to Unibond League admin - nearer to £150,000 !!
Still waiting on the Hyde United situation - the "8 week extension" on their £200,000 "problem" will be up on 15th July (Hyde entertain Manchester City in a PSF on that very day !). And I have to be honest, still waiting for some info from Mossley - the £21,000 debt is out in the open - how it will be covered/go into administration/go into liquidation is still very much in the air ... although again this week Mossley get full back page honours in the local "freebie paper".
Noticed that what Smiffy snapped on Sunday (St John's Church with scaffolding), the "Manchester Evening News" get round to doing in this evening's edition ... slackers !!!
A weekend in the Yorkshire Dales awaits - with tent of course ... fingers crossed on weather ...
LATE 2330 EDIT ... has Michael Jackson died ?? Txts have flown in from my two eldest - the three of us went to see him at the Don Valley Stadium Sheffield back in 1997 ...we await an "official source" ...
0030 - Now sadly confirmed ...............................
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8119664.stm
My "Licence to Snap" came through today - my Conference "accreditation" for the coming season - thanks to the efficient Keirina and the Football Conference admin crew down there in Birmingham.
Comforting to know that the "silly season" has started @ the non-league level with Fleetwood of the Blue Square North shelling out ... wait for it ... £17,000 for Barrow's Steve McNulty. Seventeen grand, viz four grand short of the total that could put Mossley into admin/liquid or some other "..ation" ... or the money earned for one morning's training session by Man City's Rocky Santa Claus ...
Seventeen Grand ? Looks a bit "porky" to me !!!
Another local club in trouble is Chadderton - left in the lurch by the so-called "moneybags" of Halliwell & Bhatti, they've been "helped out" by the council (who now own the lease on the ground - keep your eyes on this Mossley peeps - Seel Park could (if certain decisions are made) go back from the Mossley AFC Limited Company to Tameside Council - Seel Park Apartments would then return to the agenda .. just like in the "bad old days" of Lawlor & Fisher). Suffice to say, Chadderton are getting the usual help from the local populace - concrete fence panels demolished, stand seating wrecked - t*ssers ... they should really be playing chicken on Broadway - far more constructive - I'll get me car !!! Going back to the Newcastle Blue Star fiasco - that £61,000 debt is - according to Unibond League admin - nearer to £150,000 !!
Still waiting on the Hyde United situation - the "8 week extension" on their £200,000 "problem" will be up on 15th July (Hyde entertain Manchester City in a PSF on that very day !). And I have to be honest, still waiting for some info from Mossley - the £21,000 debt is out in the open - how it will be covered/go into administration/go into liquidation is still very much in the air ... although again this week Mossley get full back page honours in the local "freebie paper".
Noticed that what Smiffy snapped on Sunday (St John's Church with scaffolding), the "Manchester Evening News" get round to doing in this evening's edition ... slackers !!!
A weekend in the Yorkshire Dales awaits - with tent of course ... fingers crossed on weather ...
LATE 2330 EDIT ... has Michael Jackson died ?? Txts have flown in from my two eldest - the three of us went to see him at the Don Valley Stadium Sheffield back in 1997 ...we await an "official source" ...
0030 - Now sadly confirmed ...............................
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
If I was a Curzon Ashton fan ....
... I'd be one of a select few !!
That's the joke out of the way - now to serious stuff - Newcastle Blue Star have officially "gone bump". Now ... Newcastle Blue Star beat Curzon Ashton in the Unibond 1 North Play-Off Final to claim a place in the Unibond Premier for 2009/10. Well done Newcastle Blue Star !!!
The debt that "takes them down" relates to £61,000 which the club received towards development of the Wheatsheaf Sports Ground. Yes - money received between 1999 and 2004 (a while ago !!) - to develop a ground that they moved out of in 2007 !!
I'm guessing therefore that they knew damn well they were in deep do-do before they had the cheek to enter into the play-off situation - not only denying Curzon Ashton a place in the Premier Division, but even taking the p*ss by allowing Colwyn Bay to travel up to Kingston Park on a Wednesday night (not cheap for Bay I'm sure) for the Play-Off Semi-Final .
Naturally this sort of situation usually reprieves a club in the higher division (Witton Albion ?) - rather than allowing the "defeated" finalists to go up. Unfortunately - with Curzon Ashton having a similar sized fan base to Newcastle Blue Star - I'm guessing the anger will be confined to the "two Harrys" - they've basically been cheated out of promotion - there's certainly "bog all" on the Curzon message board.
For many many years the Northern League teams - and Mike Amos - tried their damndest to keep out of the non-league pyramid claiming all sorts of excuses - which have been proved cr*p by teams such as Whitby Town and Durham City (plus we await the Whitley Bay revival following their FA Vase success - although I notice Paul "baldie" Brayson has moved to Durham City !) ...
Me - still reckon the non-league world would be a better place with a Northern Premier League, a Southern Premier League and a Midland Premier League (get rid of that Isthmian League anomaly probably the real reason that a North/Midland/South has never got off the ground) - and what with the "Gloucester City" fiasco, a Blue Square North, a Blue Square South and a Blue Square Middle Bit wouldn't be a bad option either ...
But now the Blue Square have lost Setanta ... cus you can guarantee the Sky/ESPN are only after the Premiership stuff - Paul Parker on the dole as well then (just like our Michelle !) ....
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That's the joke out of the way - now to serious stuff - Newcastle Blue Star have officially "gone bump". Now ... Newcastle Blue Star beat Curzon Ashton in the Unibond 1 North Play-Off Final to claim a place in the Unibond Premier for 2009/10. Well done Newcastle Blue Star !!!
The debt that "takes them down" relates to £61,000 which the club received towards development of the Wheatsheaf Sports Ground. Yes - money received between 1999 and 2004 (a while ago !!) - to develop a ground that they moved out of in 2007 !!
I'm guessing therefore that they knew damn well they were in deep do-do before they had the cheek to enter into the play-off situation - not only denying Curzon Ashton a place in the Premier Division, but even taking the p*ss by allowing Colwyn Bay to travel up to Kingston Park on a Wednesday night (not cheap for Bay I'm sure) for the Play-Off Semi-Final .
Naturally this sort of situation usually reprieves a club in the higher division (Witton Albion ?) - rather than allowing the "defeated" finalists to go up. Unfortunately - with Curzon Ashton having a similar sized fan base to Newcastle Blue Star - I'm guessing the anger will be confined to the "two Harrys" - they've basically been cheated out of promotion - there's certainly "bog all" on the Curzon message board.
For many many years the Northern League teams - and Mike Amos - tried their damndest to keep out of the non-league pyramid claiming all sorts of excuses - which have been proved cr*p by teams such as Whitby Town and Durham City (plus we await the Whitley Bay revival following their FA Vase success - although I notice Paul "baldie" Brayson has moved to Durham City !) ...
Me - still reckon the non-league world would be a better place with a Northern Premier League, a Southern Premier League and a Midland Premier League (get rid of that Isthmian League anomaly probably the real reason that a North/Midland/South has never got off the ground) - and what with the "Gloucester City" fiasco, a Blue Square North, a Blue Square South and a Blue Square Middle Bit wouldn't be a bad option either ...
But now the Blue Square have lost Setanta ... cus you can guarantee the Sky/ESPN are only after the Premiership stuff - Paul Parker on the dole as well then (just like our Michelle !) ....
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sad Sad News ...
...the fight against Fascism has claimed another victim ...yep Private Sponge (aka Colin Bean) has died in Wigan Infirmary aged 82.
And then there were four ... Clive Dunn (Jones), Ian Lavender ("Don't tell then Pike"), Bill Pertwee ("Put that light out" Hodges) and Frank Williams (Reverend Farthing).....
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