SOME ANIMAL/BIRD PICS.

DOGGIE PORN

DOG PARTY.

RANDOM WEEKEND PICTURES

yes a lego car!

LOW CLOUD.

www.forest.org

CONFERENCE SNIPPETS.

Well I suppose it could be described as 'The House Coat' Conference as I had the dubious pleasure of seeing first, Cherie Blair, followed by a far too short one on Ken Livingstone and the best one Tessa Jowell all wearing one! Travelling up and down in the lift from the sauna/spa/swimming pool.

 

Most interesting question of the week - Were you born an arsehole or did you just become one? From one of our journalist friends to Mainman. A journalist with friends, now there's a novelty! Needless to say Mainman had to ask Grambo for an accurate answer!  

 

May be of interest for you to know that Mainman actually watched the Speech of the Week on Tuesday afternoon (Tony's "final, final" speech to conference) in the hairdressing concession in the Radisson hotel foyer as the only steward left out of 12 on duty in the hotel with the only innuit that to my knowledge I have ever met! I still prefer eskimo! she was 4 foot six, and I would have said Asian  Canadian until she said she was vaguely from northern Canada - who didn't fully understand British politics, a very rotund, ever so camp gay duty manager, a lesbian plain clothed police officer from Greater Manchester Police, a Hungarian concierge called Marian and a hulk of an armed policeman on loan from Lancashire constabulary who only grunted but didn't speak.- THE GRUESOME HALF DOZEN!

John Prescott at Manchester on Manchester

Conference, hasn’t Manchester shown it’s a great conference city?

And can I add a personal thank you? To the people of Manchester, the police.
our Party staff and stewards. And last but not least, Manchester’s Labour Council for their great hospitality…but also for keeping this City a Tory-free zone!

A JOKE OR 2

Brendan had spent a week visiting his family in Kentucky. His sister-in-law and seven-year-old nephew went with him when he returned to the airport. After verifying his seat number with the counter attendant, Brendan walked back to his relatives and stated that he'd have to wait an additional three hours in the airport.

"How come?," his nephew asked.

"My plane has been grounded," Brendan explained.

"Grounded?" the little boy said. "I didn't know planes had parents."

 

 

 

A woman was shopping in a fairly nice dress store. Trying on a dress and liking it, she asked the salesman the price. When he told her, she launched into a tirade about prices these days, covering just about everything from housing to auto tires.

After ten minutes or so, the salesman had obviously had enough and said, "My dear lady. If the cost of living is so high and obviously so offensive to you, why do you bother?"

 

 

A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.

"You'll get your chance in court," said the Desk Sergeant.

"No, no, no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I've been trying to do that for years!"

"I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE......"

All you need is ubuntu

You and me, me and you, lots and lots, for us to do.

By Sean Coughlan BBC News Magazine Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh?
Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu."
But what is it? Left-leaning sudoku? U2's latest album? Fish-friendly sushi?
No, it's a word describing an African worldview, which translates as "I am because you are," and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled.
The former president, husky-voiced and down-home with the delegates, gave it a folksy flavour, describing it in terms of needing to be around others to enjoy being ourselves.
ubuntu, noun. Humanity or fellow feeling; kindness [Nguni].
Collins English Dictionary"If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most wealthy, the most powerful person - and then found all of a sudden that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans," said Mr Clinton.
The word comes from the Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa - and is related to a Zulu concept - "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" - which means that a person is only a person through their relationship to others.
And it's entered the political lexicon through the political changes in South Africa.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his book No Future Without Forgiveness, says: "Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'"
Decline
In his definition, it means that there is a common bond between people - and when one person's circumstances improve, everyone gains and if one person is tortured or oppressed, everyone is diminished.

Ubuntu chic - thong name-checking Ubuntu open-source software
Mr Tutu's identification with ubuntu has given rise to the idea of "ubuntu theology" - where ethical responsibility comes with a shared identity. If someone is hungry, the ubuntu response is that we're all collectively responsible.
There is a spiritual as well as practical dimension to this - with ubuntu reflecting the idea that we're part of a long chain of human experience, connecting us to previous and future generations.
Ubuntu has also entered the language of development and fair trade - with campaigners using the word in aid projects for Africa in ways that suggest this will be an African solution for African problems.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
"In my conversations with partner organisations and the communities they work with, and among older people, there's a deep sense of loss of ubuntu," says Mr Cunningham. "To me, it means sitting down in a Zulu hut in KwaZulu-Natal sharing scarce food and a brew and a few stories."
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
Expect to hear more from ubuntu in the future.

A quick blog from Rainy City UK where it has not rained since Sunday!

Solar panels everywhere in the city that the sun very rarely shines except on the Labour Party!

Higher than God's hat on one of my posts at conference, well not his hat maybe but definitely than the town hall clock! RAFMAN can verify that seeings as he's the only one that I sent proof!

Soap Suds

A Labour of Love...

Romance in Romania gives the fans what they’ve wanted for years - Lisa Maxwell (DS Sam Nixon) and Scott Maslen (DS Phil Hunter) had a great laugh delivering it.
Scott enthused: “It felt quite like The Bill’s live episode in many ways. It was lots of fun and much more lavish.”
Lisa worried about the reality of the sex trafficking storyline: “I liked the storyline but was shocked trafficking is going on in ‘suburbia’. One of the great things about The Bill is to be able to tell stories like this week in and week out.”
Being the only girl on set, Lisa was determined not to be a wet lettuce. “I really went for it. Poor Scott was thrown off his dialogue with my driving, because at one stage, I really did take off! Everyone was really shocked and I got a few: ‘She can’t do that, she’s a bird’ jokes!”
Their characters’ relationship took off too! “Obviously, Sam and Phil go through so much together in Romania and out of a bad situation, there’s an opportunity to get close and they take it. The important thing is that they really did ‘spark,” explained Scott.
Lisa describes the motives that lead her character to have sex with Phil: “I think Sam wanted to get close to Phil – she definitely fancies him, was curious and probably thought: ‘You know what, I nearly snuffed it – why not?’”
They’ve never shared a kiss – this is what they felt about potentially embarrassing love scenes: “It was nice – a good day in the office,” joked Scott.
Lisa: “Once the kiss was out of the way though, we did muck about - in the following scene, we were both struggling to get our clothes on. But I got the worse fit of giggles after I saw rather more of Scott than I’d bargained for!”

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

To celebrate her nomination for 'Best Soap Actress' in Glamour magazine we here in WILKO NEWS offices have chosen Frankie Baldwin from Coronation Street alias DEBRA STEPHENSON because we can and because she is gorgeous!

INTRODUCING 'SKYRUNNER KID'

Joseph and the amazing technicolour parachute!

A QUESTION OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.......

HOW COME A PERFECTLY YELLOW BANANA WHEN PLACED ON THE TOP OF A BAG WITH NOTHING TOUCHING IT OR COMING IN TO CONTACT WITH IT IN ANY WAY WILL BE BROWN, BRUISED AND BATTERED WHEN YOU COME TO EAT IT?

TWO DAYS IN SEPTEMBER

So Mainman has been on his travels! 24 hours travelling to spend 24 hours with Devonish Entertainer in believe it or not Devon!
As soon as Mainman arrived Devonish immediately changed his name to SKYRUNNING KID for obvious reasons! Rumour that he only wanted his ‘Powerisers’ with him to prevent Blondie been the tallest of the team are purely exaggerated even if non the less true.

It has to be said though that since he’s been in Devon he has gone a bit Loopy, which as coincidence would have it also is the name of the rabbit/camp mascot. A rabbit needless to say that really looks more like a mouse.
Maybe though that’s only because he’s been living in a box! Or is it a caravan?
Catch the name of this pub! Clever play on words I thought!

TV BITS

IS IT JUST ME THAT FINDS THIS STORY ABOUT CSI REMARKABLY FUNNY?

"CSI": Another Day, Another Dead Body
Sep 18, 2006, 10:35 AM PT

Either the TV gods are playing a very sick joke on CBS and the makers of its mega-popular TV franchise--or its just a bizarre coincidence--but for the second time in a week, a real corpse has turned up near the set of a CSI series.
A network rep confirmed that the body of an unidentified man washed ashore close to a helicopter landing area in Miami's Biscayne Bay at Bicentennial Park, where a second unit crew for CSI: Miami was shooting pickups and aerial shots early Friday morning. No cast members were on set at the time
A spokesman for the Miami Police Department said that a homeless man had discovered the remains and contacted an off-duty cop who was working as a security guard on the set. The body showed no evidence of trauma and investigators did not consider the death suspicious. An autopsy is pending.
"Unfortunately, it's not unusual during certain times of the year that people who have fallen in the bay, either homeless or people who were asleep or in some cases boaters who had a mishap, fall into the bay and turn up days later," Detective Delrish Moss told the Associated Press.
Friday's find came just five days after a building engineer stumbled upon a mummified body in a Los Angeles building where CSI: New York was filming scenes for an upcoming episode. The preserved corpse belonged to a tenant who was determined to have died of natural causes some weeks before.
The latter discovery followed work on an episode in which star Gary Sinise and his crack crime squad had to use their forensics know-how to solve the mystery of a mummified body.
Meanwhile, the Friday's body beaching in Florida was announced just in time for CSI: Miami's season premiere tonight, prompting a few online conspiracy theorists to wonder in show message boards whether the discovery was a network publicity stunt--a notion shot down by Miami cops.
Not that the show needs any help.
According to the Los Angeles Times, CSI: Miami is now the top-rated U.S. television program in the world. A global audience estimated at 50 million, including more than 18.1 million Americans, tuned in to watch Lieutenant Horatio Cane (David Caruso) and his Miami-Dade forensics team solve seemingly unsolvable cases last season.
While CSI: Miami is the ninth-highest rated show in the U.S., worldwide it ranks ahead of such hit series as Lost, Desperate Housewives and the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in terms of viewership. In fact, the spinoff has gained such an international following that producers decided to set tonight's fifth-season opener in Rio de Janeiro.


ALSO STARK REALITY ABOUT TV.

TV presenter critical after crash

The presenter is being treated at Leeds General InfirmaryTop Gear presenter Richard Hammond is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme.
The presenter, 36, was taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary which has a special neurological unit.
A North Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokesman said he was unconscious when they got to the scene and a hospital spokesman described him as "critical".
The BBC confirmed the presenter had been injured during a Top Gear shoot.
Inspector Mike Thompson, of North Yorkshire Police, said officers were dealing with the incident at Elvington airfield, a former RAF base, in North Yorkshire.
He said: "At 5.45pm this evening we received a report via the fire service of a male person trapped in what was described as an overturned jet car which had been driven on the airfield.
"The male occupant has received serious injuries and has been airlifted to hospital at Leeds."
The presenter was born in Birmingham, educated in Yorkshire and lives near Cheltenham.
In addition to presenting Top Gear for the BBC, he also fronted Brainiac on Sky One until recently.

DOUBLE POSITIVE

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive.

"In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.

"However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

A JOKE......I THINK!

 

A mid-level executive was so frustrated at being passed over for promotion year after year, that, in frustration, he went to a brain-transplant center in the hope of raising his I.Q. 20 points.

After a battery of physical and psychological tests, he was told by the center's director that he was an acceptable candidate.

"That's great!" the executive said. "But I understand that this procedure can be really expensive."

"Yes, sir, it can," the director replied. "An ounce of accountant's brain for example, costs one thousand dollars; an ounce of an economist's brain costs two thousand; an ounce of a corporate president's is forty-five thousand. An ounce of a politician's brain is seventy-five thousand dollars."

"Seventy-five thousand dollars for an ounce of a politician's brain? Why on earth is that?"

"Do you have any idea," the director asked, "how many politicians we would have to kill?"

LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 06

Hey did you know that apart from the big question mark, over the water, they've caged our lions and built an obstacle course football pitch all in the name of art? Honest!
.....and it doesn't officially start until today.
Don't worry though it's on for 10 weeks!
Various venues throughout the city.

LOOK UP.......GO ON I DARE YOU!

PHOTOS WITH A MORAL!

FROM TIME TO TIME JUST LOOK UP!

ONE THING VERY FEW OF US DO IS TO LOOK UP, JUST SEE A BIT OF WHAT WE ARE ALL MISSING!

GOD THE PARENT

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to God's kids.

After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was: "Don't."

"Don't what?" Adam asked.

"Don't eat the Forbidden Fruit." God replied.

"Forbidden fruit? We got Forbidden Fruit? Hey, Eve..we got Forbidden Fruit!"

"No way!"

"Where?"

"Don't eat that fruit!" said God.

"Why?"

"Because I am your Creator and I said so!" said God, wondering why he hadn't stopped after making the elephants.

A few minutes later God saw the kids having an apple break and was angry.

"Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?" the 'First Parent' asked.

"Uh huh," Adam replied.

"Then why did you?"

"I dunno," Eve answered.

"She started it!" Adam said.

"Did not!"

"DID so!"

"DID NOT!"

Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own...thus the pattern was set, and it has never changed.

What is it?

Ok so it's Cammell Lairds with a huge question Mark.....
.....but is it art?

FIND OUT
http://wirralculture.blogspot.com

Can't resist these two, can you?

The ANIMAL bit

CASINO ROYALE IN CHESTER

Treat for Bond fans as new 007's birthplace to host regional premiereregional premiere.


CHESTER will be hosting the regional premiere of Casino Royale, the new James Bond film starring the city-born and Wirral-raised Daniel Craig.
A specially-invited audience will be the first in the region to see the new 007 in action at the Odeon in Chester on Wednesday, November 15.
North West Vision, the film, TV and digital media agency for the North West, has confirmed the regional premiere will take place in the birth place of Daniel Craig.
Alice Morrison, chief executive of North West Vision, said: "Our Cheshire and Warrington Film Office is presently experiencing a boom.
"Hosting the regional Bond premiere in Chester will only help to reinforce the region's potential as the only film-making destination."
Cllr Ann Farrell, Chester City Council's culture portfolio holder, said: "We are all absolutely thrilled that the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, will be given a regional screening at the Odeon cinema in Chester.
"It's a double celebration for Chester as our Odeon has its 70th birthday in 2006 and the movie stars the city's own Daniel Craig as British secret agent 007."
Kam Kandola, regional programmer at Bafta, said: "In partnership with North West Vision, Bafta is thrilled to be hosting a screening of Casino Royale at the beautifully preserved Grade 2 listed Odeon Cinema, in Chester, in celebration of its 70th birthday this year.
"Daniel Craig was born in Chester, and it is a particular treat to have a preview screening of his first outing as James Bond there."

Well here she is......THE CREAM OF MANCHESTER

Melanie Sykes was born on the 7th August 1970 in Mossley, the Cream Of Manchester. She first came to public attention as the bikini-clad girl in the Boddingtons beer adverts with the broad Northern accent. She has appeared in many adverts including Berlei and now fronts the new Matalan adverts.
She was born of an Anglo Indian mum and an Italian father and is generally accepted as one of the best looking British TV presenters/actresses around in her age bracket.
Although maybe better known for her TV roles especially Today with Des and Mel and The Vault she has done a good deal of radio work and presents a weekly show The A List which is a national radio chart show based on total sales, produced at the studios of Heart 106.2 in London

9-11

ABOVE MY PICTURE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE, TAKEN JAN 3 1990
BELOW POSSIBLY ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE
THAT I'VE SEEN ON THE WEB AND BOTTOM THE WAY THE DAY WAS REMEMBERED
IN IRAQ IN 2004

 

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

DON'T ARGUE WITH THE PUSS!

 

5 FROM AESOP!

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
 

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
 

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
 

Adventure is worthwhile.
 

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
 

 

 

LET SLEEPING DUCKS LIE