Well it’s been a busy sort of week in WILKONEWS land……..PIPPAGIRL and RAFMAN have been visiting the offices and doing all the touristy things including visiting HMS Liverpool, The Chinese Arch, The Big Church, Paddy’s Wigwam and the Liver Building.
The start of the visit of HMS Liverpool was witnessed and fotiografed on a grey, wet and miserable day by MAINMAN but it was so well worth it. To see a RN Commander who went to Halewood Comp negotiating a three point turn of his 450 foot long vessel right in front of the place on the river where she was launched was really quite something, while the helicopter from on board ‘jollied’ up and down the river.
Tuesday afternoon, MAINMAN was on another fotiografing assignment at Waterloo beach! Another Place altogether! The threat of removal had filled the beach with people in similar vein to MAINMAN, “Must take the foties now otherwise I won’t be able to!” coupled with the half term holiday did mean that there was a queue to take THE picture of some of the 100 Iron Men. Understandable really – well you don’t want somebody else’s missus or brats in your picture do you?! Day after the artwork is reprieved until at least March so MAINMAN will be able to take further pictures at Another Time!!
Saturday night, X Factor night…….A definite night to predict some strong acts but not to predict who was to go out! Big Band night. Ray was always going to sail through while almost everybody else were well out of their comfort zones.
Before we go any further I have to say that GRAMBO was absolutely right by saying Dionne, oh ugly one or Gappy as PIPPAGIRL calls her and Kerry, wheelchair woman(!) would go. Everybody got Dionne right but without exception and once again, we all wanted The MaccyD Boys to go, they probably performed better than they ever have but as far as we are all concerned they were as crap as ever. Sympathy vote again? Part of me sees this vote taking them all the way to the end, though with Kerry now having gone the sympathy vote factor may have a different angle.
Nikitta and Eton Road were probably very close to the bottom and I personally am seriously worried about Robert! The guy is an absolute nutter and I’m not sure he can sing. One last thing, and that is what part of big band music includes a guy playing and singing at a piano with no other instruments? Got your number Sharon – watch it! Ben is good but he shouldn’t be allowed to make a genre of music more comfortable!
As of right now The Devonish Entertainer that was becomes just ENTERTAINER, though personally WILKONEWS are going to call him IMPULSE KING until the impulse goes………