Chips!

When I was little, chips were made from real potatoes and deep fried in a big pan of oil....which turned into real potatoes deep fried in a deep fat fryer.... which turned into frozen chips cooked in a deep fat fryer, which turned into frozen chips cooked in the oven, which turned into, "Chips!...Oh God, you can't have chips, they're bad for you."

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Picture of the Day

Me...having a bath, after eating  a lot of chips!

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Fun Fact of the Day

Did you know that analysis of the oldest reported trace of human poo has shown that Neanderthals ate vegetables? (Maybe they had chips!)
The poo which was found at a dig in Spain seems to show chemical traces of both meat and vegetable digestion. (Maybe they had steak and chips!)

                                                                                          Tracey

Bite Me!

Luis Suarez is a footballer. That's his job. Whilst at work the other day he bit another player...and the disciplinary action taken was? He was given a four month holiday....sorry, I mean ban. Were his wages stopped? No. He was however, fined 100,000 swiss francs which at todays exchange rate is £65,751.21, which in turn is a measly portion of the approximately 3.3 MILLION British pounds he will be paid while he is on his holiday....sorry, I mean ban. Apparently, according to Claudio Sulser (the former Switzerland striker who chairs Fifa's disciplinary committee.) "Such behaviour cannot be tolerated on any football pitch, and in particular not at a Fifa World Cup when the eyes of millions of people are on the stars on the field."
Oh, and did I mention, this is the third...yes, you heard me, the third time that Luis Suarez has been banned for the same offence! Now, let's imagine that 'Joe Bloggs' or even Luis Suarez for that matter, is at work at Tesco and he bites another player....sorry, I mean worker.... what do you suppose the disciplinary action would be? He would be sacked of course and he'd be jolly lucky if he wasn't prosecuted.

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Pictures of the Day

Surely this must be the best way to watch the World Cup if you can't actually go. This football stadium in Berlin has been turned into a huge outdoor living room! Fans have brought in settees and there will be side tables and lamps. The 700 inch TV is surrounded by cheesey wallpaper to complete the ambience.
Even I would watch a few matches here.

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Football Funnies!

Football is a game in which a handful of men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions who could really do with the exercise.

What's the difference between the England team and a tea bag? A tea bag stays in the cup longer.

They say that pessimists see the cup as half empty and optimists see the cup as half full. England haven't even seen the cup since 1966.

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                                                                                                                          Tracey

New Balls Please!

One of the joys of Wimbledon is the commentary of John McEnroe. He's come a long way from the petulant young man who used to rant and rave his way through tennis tournaments, and who looked like a skinny scarecrow.

       

He even smiles a lot these days and seems to have matured into a good looking bloke who knows his stuff.

       

So, with these two sides of McEnroe's character in mind, I can't decide whether I was or wasn't surprised to hear of his five-step plan to improve tennis. (Or even if.... he can or cannot be serious!)

Mac's thinking is that you can look at tennis in two ways. One is that tennis has been brilliant over the last ten years or so with some of the best ever players, or two, that the same four men keep winning over and over again and it's getting a bit dull. The four men he alludes to are, of course, Federer, Djokovic, Nadal and Murray. His plan is to make tennis more exciting and edgier by....

1. Having no umpires and no linespeople. 

2. No warm ups.

3. No towels.

4. No 25 second rule for slow servers.

5. No high fives.

I have to say that the most sensible one of these is number five. McEnroe is referring to double matches where to quote the man himself, "I'm so sick and tired of everyone high-fiving no matter what happens. It should only be allowed when something good happens. But that's just my opinion."

I can't say I could see number one working, matches would descend into chaos. I think Mac just wants to get rid of umpires for his own reasons! As for numbers two and three....surely that's just cruel. And were the 25 second rule is concerned....Nadal for one would probably explode if he couldn't do his little routine at the start of every serve! During Rafa's match today with Lukas Rosol the rule was blatantly broken several times by Nadal with no censure, causing Rosol to ask if there was a different rule for Rafa!

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Mini Moan

Dear Miss Sharapova

Stop it

Thanks

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Fun Fact of the Day


Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear trousers!
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Picture of the Day

                 

The world's cutest guinea pig?


                                                                                        Tracey 

  

Keep Off The Grass!

It's that time of year again, the sun is out, the grass is riz, but if you don't like sport, you're a bit buggered were watching telly is concerned. I'm quite a sporty person, I watch a lot of it from my armchair and I've slept through many a cracking good tennis match.  I particularly love Wimbledon, which started today and I've already slept through most of Murray's first match....smashing! Seriously, why does tennis send me to sleep?
The main question this year though... can Murray do it again? I'm sure Novak Djokovic, amongst others, will be trying very hard stop him in his tracks if they make it far enough to play each other. Speaking of Novak, he's just about to play his first match so I'd better go and get ready for another nap!

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I'm not really a football fan, I've only been to one real football match in my life, to see Blackburn Rovers play Sheffield something-or-other. It was bloody freezing and we lost, so my interest in the World Cup is fairly limited. I have noticed however that a lot of blokes who normally play for English teams, are naturally, playing for their own countries. Watching England playing Uruguay was a bit like watching Liverpool beat Liverpool!

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Fun Fact Of The Day

Meet Rufus. He has protected the courts of Wimbledon from pigeons since 2000. The groundskeepers no longer have to shoo away the birds, as Rufus keeps his Hawk eye on proceedings.

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Picture of the Day

This poor Owl is having a bad feather day.... perhaps he should join the cast of Angry Birds!

                                                                                   Tracey