Sunday, 31 July 2022
History makers , England Woman's Team beat Germany in Euros 2022 , 50 years of hurt no more
History makers , England Woman's Team beat Germany in Euros 2022 , 50 years of hurt no more
Friday, 29 July 2022
Neighbours
Neighbours
Far away in a distant Galaxy, a new type of show appeared on BBC One in the year of our lord 1986 in October, so a relationship was built with a group of television programmes from Australia, bringing us the viewer sun, family entertainment it was shown during the lunchtime and being the BBC it was repeated the following day.
It was Michael Grade BBC controller at this time whose daughter advised him t move the morning broadcast to a late afternoon slot due to the fact she and her friends missed the repeat in the morning due to being at school this happened in January of 1990 this what made it so popular, as millions of children around Britain would come back from school and sit down to watch the latest instalment.
Neighbours are about a group of residents that live on Ramsay Street which is a Cul -De -Sac and its neighbouring area, Lassiteres complex which had a bar, hotel, cafe, police station, and lawyers. Office and even a Park.
Neighbours began with three families created by Watson – the Ramsays, the Robinsons and the Clarke to show three families who are friends living in a small street. The Robinsons and the Ramsays had a long history and were involved in an ongoing rivalry which regularly features in the series.
The series features a real cul-de-sac called Pin Oak Court and the residents of the houses allowed the production crew to film external scenes and is part of popular tourist visits.
Neighbours Fact.
The street was named after the grandfather of the original character Max Ramsay.
In its heyday, it was watched by millions and created a lot of well-known musicians, and actors who went on to be famous.
Most Bizarre Episode
Hands down it has to be the one Where Bouncer a labrador had a dream of getting married to a fellow day, it remains a cult classic.
Most Famous Episode.
The wedding between the characters of Scott and Charlene was watched by over 20 million people and featured a future number one record, Suddenly by
Angry Anderson.
Moved Channel
The BBC stopped showing Neighbours and Channel five took it over as part of their daytime television programmes.
Why have I written about this show to lots of people it was a big part of their formative years of growing up it will be fondly remembered for the entertainment it gives, it is sad it will be the last ever episode an on Friday 29 July 2022 it the end of an era, I suspect somewhere that is the ever-growing streaming service it gets repeated, All my family, extended family until present day watched Neighbours as like many other an around Britain and the world I miss this slice of Australian Soap, they are only one way to finish this post.
(Neighbours everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding
you can find the perfect blend
Neighbours should be there for one another
That’s when good neighbours
become good friends)
Thursday, 28 July 2022
In memory of Terry Neill,a Arsenal legend
Neill was recruited by the Arsenal board to replace Bertie Mee on 9 July 1976 and at the age of 34 he became the youngest Arsenal manager to date. With new signings like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings, and a crop of talent in the side such as Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton, the club enjoyed their best form since the 1971 double, reaching a trio of FA Cup finals (1978, 1979 and 1980).
Arsenal lost the other two FA Cup finals that Neill guided the club to, but were victorious in the 1979 final, with the Gunners winning 3–2 against Manchester United in one of the most exhilarating endings to an FA Cup final in history. In the 86th minute, Arsenal were leading 2–0. United scored two late goals to equalise. With the game poised for extra time, Alan Sunderland scored a last-minute winner for Arsenal to end the match 3–2.[3]
In 1979, Neill came close, but was unsuccessful in his attempt to pull off a major transfer coup for Arsenal by signing Diego Maradona as a highly rated teenager from Argentinos Juniors.[4] Neill also wanted to sign midfielder Glenn Hoddle from Spurs, but Hoddle had reservations about moving across North London to join his team's arch rival. Hoddle later said: "I don't think my brother would have ever spoken to me again if I had joined Arsenal."[5]
Neill guided Arsenal to the 1980 final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In the semi-final against Juventus, Arsenal drew 1–1 in the first leg at Highbury, and were expected to have a formidable task in the second leg in Turin. But a late goal two minutes from time by Arsenal's teenage substitute Paul Vaessen gave Arsenal a 1–0 away victory and a 2–1 aggregate win. It was the first time Juventus had lost to a British team on home soil.[6] In the final, Arsenal lost on penalties to Valencia in front of 40,000 people at Heysel Stadium.[7]
Arsenal's success in cup competitions could not be matched in the league. The retirement of Malcolm Macdonald at the premature age of 29 due to a knee injury, and the departures of stars such as Brady and Stapleton, hampered Arsenal's league title ambitions.
In the 1980–81 season, Neill guided Arsenal to a third-place finish in the final table – the closest in 10 years that they had come to winning the league title.[8] In the 1981–82 season, Arsenal finished fifth in the league.
Neill's 1982 summer signing of striker Lee Chapman from Stoke City for £500,000 was not a success, with Chapman scoring just 4 goals in 23 appearances for Arsenal before being sold to Sunderland for £200,000. In the 1982–83 season, Arsenal reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup and the League Cup, but lost both semi-finals to Manchester United.
In June 1983, Neill signed striker Charlie Nicholas, from Celtic for £800,000. Liverpool and Manchester United had also been keen to buy Nicholas, who had scored an impressive total of 50 goals in all competitions for Celtic in the 1982–83 season. Nicholas reportedly became the highest paid footballer in Britain after his move to Arsenal, and later became a cult figure at the club.[9][10]
After being given an improved three-year contract at the start of the 1983–84 season, Neill was sacked by Arsenal on 16 December 1983. The dismissal was a decision which club chairman Peter Hill-Wood had reportedly agonised over.[11][12] Neill subsequently retired from football when only 41 years old.
In memory of Bernard Joseph Cribbins OBE
Bernard Joseph Cribbins OBE (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022)[a] was an English actor and singer whose career spanned seven decades.
During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records including "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" and appearances in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch (1960) and the Carry On series. His other screen roles include Albert Perks in The Railway Children (1970), barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and pretentious hotel guest Mr. Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975). On television, he was a regular and prolific reader for the BBC series Jackanory from 1966 to 1991, he narrated the children's programme The Wombles (1973–1975) and played the title role in the CBeebies series Old Jack's Boat (2013–2015).
In the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Cribbins portrayed Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who. Forty-one years later, he began appearing in the revival series of Doctor Who as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of regular companion Donna Noble and a temporary companion to the Tenth Doctor.
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
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Thursday, 21 July 2022
The Couch by Mark Antony Raines #Ghostman Horror
(Hay why does no one not even the prison guards go near that prisoner sitting near the wall banging his head repeatedly against it)
I replied
(It is because of the brutal way he let his wife die)
(May I ask how)
(It's no big secret, but I hope you have a good stomach for the last time I told someone they through up for a week)
(Ok)the fellow prisoner said nervously.
(When the local police were called to his block of flats due to a complaint of obsessive flies and an unbearable smell they got the shock of their lives when they saw that prisoner's wife melted into their couch covered in urine, liquid faeces, maggots and insect bites )
(Upon being asked how this had happened he said he would refuse to bring her meals as she refused to leave the couch complaining of being unwell and it was a woman s job to cook and clean and make her husband comfortable)
(He used to watch her urinate and defecate into the couch, it took the local police hours of careful peeling to remove his wife a body, and this and the couch were the reason way the room reeked and the floor under the couch was buckling )
With this, the prisoner listening to this tale run towards the toilets as if he was in a hundred meters race.
The prisoner banging his head against the wall can still hear the screaming, and pleading of his wife locked in his private version of Hell in his Brain.
I dedicate this story to a brave, beautiful soul who was taken away from this earth in a cruel horrible way that was involved in the true story this horror story is based on may her star shines bright in the sky, rest in peace.
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Rain by Mark Antony Raines
It began in the year of our lord 2022 when the country I lived in in England recorded its highest temperature ever at 40c, it was so hot it caused wildfires, airstrips to melt, and a first-ever Red Warning for Extreme heat.
I was sitting in my recliner just chilling watching something naff on Netflix wishing to myself with my last name Raines meant I could somehow conquer up clouds to form and rain to come down at my command, then out of the blue the sky began to darken and the rumble of thunder and lightning could be heard echoing, first the rain was like a tiny trickle it got slowly more heavy until it came down like a tremendous waterfall for at least ten minutes but this was just a coincidence.
But the art of trying to make rain is not a new science and ancient American Indians and a group called rainmakers would like to state their case for making the life force that we call rain.
Due to the fact clouds have different physical properties, you could use aeroplanes or rockets to sow the clouds with dry ice, silver iodide, and salt powder this can cloud a have more chances of an increase in rain.
Back in the United States of America during the dust bowl drought of 1930, travelling showmen would try to bring rain by using the power of prayer, and rain dances in the United States, rainmaking was attempted by travelling showmen using cloud seeding, forms of prayer and rain dances.
It is a fact that prayers are still used to induce rain and some clerics of the Eastern Orthodox Church believe to have the power to arrest rain and hail to farms of wayward souls when the rainy season falls short.
Throughout history, cloud seeding has been used but the most controversial was Operation Popeye which was during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall to slow down the Vietnamese military trucks' activity it is believed to still be affecting the amount of rainfall in this country to this date by some.
I wonder if rainmaking if went global and used by all the governments in the world would be climate engineering or Weather
Who Is Wilhelm Reich?
Wilhelm Reich a Psychoanalysis of Austrian -American birth designed a Cloudbuster.
Wilhelm claimed it could manipulate Orgone Energy a form of Primordial cosmic energy into the earth's atmosphere to induce rain by forcing clouds to form and disperse.
The Cloudbuster was a series of hollow metal pipes and cables inserted in water.
Reich argued created a stronger orgone energy field than was in the atmosphere, the water drawing the atmospheric orgone through the pipes. Reich called his research "Cosmic Orgone Engineering.
Side note the singer and songwriter Kate Bush wrote the song Cloudbusting based on Wilhelm Reich in the video of the song the actor Donald Sutherland plays Wilhelm Reich.
Finally, Rain dances to some of us in good old Blighty it would be called Cricket as usually when the cricket season begins it rains.
Native Indians used them extensively to encourage rain to fall on their crops.
Some European examples of similar ceremonies in the Balkans are known as Dodola and Caloian.
The ritual may differ but share a common bond of bringing rain through a spiritual means.
Rain Weird
In 2007 the then governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue lead a public prayer service for rain.
prayers for rain, seasonally, as a part of the morning, afternoon, and evening, daily Amidah prayer, from mid-autumn to mid-spring. During summer, this prayer is changed from the prayer for rain, to the prayer for dew.
Finally what does the future hold wars over water, someway to convert seawater into drinking water safely and cheaply, a better way to preserve water storage, or in my case just some to water my garden and cool me down
Monday, 18 July 2022
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Monday, 11 July 2022
Weather Warning Level 4 Heatwave
https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1546516044898078722?t=4cSI9EU2SCPLnhdir2d-eg&s=09
Mad dogs and Englishman don't go out in the midday sun as at moment will burn to a crisp.
Sunday, 10 July 2022
Tales of Horror by Ghostman
All of us were getting a bit bored in the summer camp, we had done all the adventures, swam in the lake now it's getting dark we are all in the cabin with midnight snacks and passion for trying to see who come up with the best horror story, the prize being a huge bag of goodies all to yourself.
Jon said he wanted to go first.
Jon (My tale of Horror is called Hot Summer Night)
It was a beautiful hot summer night a boy and girl are laughing and playing in the family pool.
As a dare they decided to strip off their clothes, the boy stands behind the girl with his arms wrapped around her.
He starts to kiss her as their gaze into the star-filled sky.
Suddenly they hear a strange noise coming from the distance, they ignore it at first as the girl turns to kiss the boy her lips touched nothing but thin air as the boy's head was missing when she looked into the pool she screamed at seeing the boy head at the bottom of the pool.
In a panic, she manages to get back inside her parent's house believing it was a haven, standing in the kitchen was her stepdad washing his bloody hands in the sink.
She just screamed and screamed until her head was cut off too.
Mark and Richard both clapped and said loved the tale but it was time for another.
Mark (It's my turn that sees if my story is a bit scarier)
(My tale is called Monster in the closet)
Once upon a time, a little boy was afraid of the dark but his most intense fear was his bedroom closet.
Every night he went to bed he asked his parents to check the closet and each time they're said that no monster living in his closet and was time he grew up.
So being angry that his parents did not believe him he decided to investigate the closet, as he got closer he heard terrible cries and screams then an eerie silence.
Cautiously the boy gingerly and slowly open the closet door, a hairy hand grabbed him and drags inside the closet.
The next morning his parents could not find him and both began to worry, so they too out of curiosity approach the closet door, they opened it to find a pile of mashed-up bones of a small boy, their son.
Richard(Well it's time for the last tale of the night, Called Woman in the Gap)
A college student decides to go visit her friends , when she gets to her friend's home he was under the covers of his covers.
They talked for a while, she was getting worried about her friend's very strange behaviour, as she was about to go he said in an urgent and deadly serious voice.
(You can't go)
(Why not) she replied.
(It won't let you) he said.
She looked around the room but see nothing and wondered about her friend's mental health.
(If you go it will follow and kill you)
She became instantly scared but noticed her friend's eyes looking towards the chest of drawers in the corner of the room, A chill runs down her spine , There in the shadows is a paper-thin creature clutching a pick axe staring back at her.
The police were completely baffled on entering the room after a phone call to find a boy and girl horribly killed by numerous blows of a pick axe.
Friday, 8 July 2022
Gary Smith -Www.garysmithauthor.com
From Romance to War, Collection of Stories Touches the Heart and Inspires Human Connection
San Francisco, CA, May 2, 2022 ― Known for his mystery and suspense novels, author and photographer Gary E. Smith pivots his creative vision to crafting a compilation of short stories that share universal truths about the human experience in his latest book, A Collection of Short Stories & Poems.
Smith employs a breezy, conversational voice as he covers topics that most folks can connect with. A Collection of Short Stories & Poems includes stories of profound loss. Stories of great friendships. Stories of growing old with a dog, of going to war, and of course, stories of deep, romantic love.
“I hope the stories encourage the reader to do some introspection on what it means to be human,” Smith said. “I believe the poems, like all art, will mean more to some than to others.”
The Independent Press Awards recently recognized A Collection of Short Stories & Poems as a Distinguished Favorite in the Short Stories category.
Author Gary E. Smith’s first romance thriller, The Willing, debuted with a 4.8 stars average rating by independent reviewers who asked for a sequel. He has since written five more novels, including Vengeance Can Be Deadly and Undomesticated: She Had No Remorse.
Smith balances life between business and a love of arts. He founded a small electrical contracting business and grew it into a multimillion-dollar national business. He is also an award-winning fine art photographer. Operating within both business and artistic communities introduces him to a wide array of characters and experiences, from which he draws for his writing. When he is not writing, he travels. Most often, he can be spotted in Italy, searching for more characters and experiences for his stories to come.
To learn more, please visit: www.garysmithauthor.com, or follow the author on Twitter (@g_smithauthor) or Facebook (The Willing by Gary Smith@GSmithAuthor).
A Collection of Short Stories & Poems
Publisher: Gatekeepers Press
ISBN-10: 1662919603
ISBN-13: 978-1662919602
Available from Amazon.com and BN.com
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