Category Archives: uk

Comedians like Sheffield

By 6000 | 6000 | June 10, 2011

And they’re not being funny, either. Who could forget Alexander Armstrong’s kind words about my hometown last year? And those were followed up by Michael Legge last month, which were emailed to me by regular reader, Darthfarter. I would probably have got to this sooner, but I only found it by chance in my deleted [...]

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“Alice Bucket List” – How you can really help

By 6000 | 6000 | June 9, 2011

Lots of action on twitter regarding Alice Pyne, a 15 year old terminally ill cancer patient from the UK, and her apparent “bucket list” of things she wants to do before the inevitable sadly happens. But if you bother to have a look, “I want to trend on twitter” isn’t there, despite what you may [...]

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Winter sea

By 6000 | 6000 | June 5, 2011

Not here. It’s actually been a beautiful day in Cape Town today. This quota photo was taken at Tynemouth at the end of November last year. I’ve seen much wilder seas, but I don’t think I’ve known cold like it. At least -15°C with the wind chill. It even made that day at Portishead seem [...]

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FA Youth Cup Final tonight

By 6000 | 6000 | May 23, 2011

Sheffield United’s much-vaunted Academy side goes to Old Trafford tonight in the second leg of the FA Youth Cup Final. Now that might not sound like a big deal to anyone else, but the first leg at Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane last Tuesday attracted a crowd of 29,977. For a Youth game. Put that in [...]

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Notes on attending an 80s charity disco at the False Bay Rugby Club

By 6000 | 6000 | May 14, 2011

Catchy title, hey? But it does exactly what it says on the tin. The evening in question was aimed at those of us who grew up in the 80s and wanted to relive that “school disco” experience, while raising some much-needed money for the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. It was a good plan and it [...]

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