My band are playing in Leeds on Sunday

For those readers in the Yorkshire region (specifically in/around Leeds), you may be interested to know that the band I play in (Barnsley Co-Operative Concert Band) are playing in East End Park, Leeds from about 2:00 or 2:30 on Sunday Afternoon this weekend.

Feel free to come along and listen to us play a selection of light music and music from the stage and screen.

Clarification of previous rant & Weekend news

To follow-up my previous post, while I'm indifferent about the actual
game of football, it's all the hype in the media that I absolutle
loathe! If they reported the facts of a match once it was over, that
would be OK, but reporting on all the build-up hype, the various
'what-if' scenarios, predications of various things and following a
select bunch of 'fans' as they travel round Germany/Europe in their
camper-van is all far too much! on BBC breakfast this morning, they
even had a reporter in a vineyard trying some of the local wines at
8:00am! STOP IT!

On a lighter note, we spent most of the weekend sorting out our sorry
little garden. It's only 6m x 6m and we struggle to keep it from
looking awful, and the grass tends to get treated to a cut about every
2-3 weeks! We managed to spend £80+ in the garden centre on Saturday
afternoon (lovely and quiet - wonder why?) on what we hope will be
low-maintenance plants and shrubs. We'll just have to see how they
take in our North-facing, damp, shaded garden.

Can I fast Forward in time please

Can someone please hurry up and design a time-machine that can take me into the future? I would like to fast-forward to Monday 10th July 2006.

Hopefully by then, an England team of over-paid ponces will have returned home weeks ago without a trophy, messers Rooney, Beckham, Crouch et al will have "broken" more metatarsels and all the talk of bloomin' football will have finished!

I wonder what odds Ladbrokes will offer me for the BBC 10 O'Clock, or 6 O'Clock news not containing any world-cup related stories before then? I reckon I'm on to a winner there!

Summer has Arrived!

It's official, (in my eyes anyway!) Summer has now arrived.

We ate dinner sat out on the balcony last night, and very nice it was too, until the wind got up and blew across my back. :-( Pudding was had inside.