This April 23rd could be the last that all of us will be in work because if the rumours are to believed, then as close as next year we could see St George’s day made a national bank holiday.
Thanks to petitions that have gathered huge public support, as well as the Scottish Governments decision to make St Andrew’s day a national bank holiday in 2006, more pressure has been put on our Government to follow suit.
I for one am in favour of this, and not just because it means another long weekend but because it will provide an opportunity to celebrate our culture and help restore our national pride, something that has diminished over recent years.
So come on fellow English people stand up and make your voice heard! Vote for this English holiday by visiting www.stgeorgesholiday.com
Emma
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Thanks Trent Fm
Picture courtesy of www.trentfm.co.uk
We would just like to say a big thank you to Trent FM for the ‘Live at the Local’ gig at the Trent FM Arena last night. We rocked our socks of to the sounds of the Hoosiers and had fab time!!
Thanks Trent FM!
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Recycle your bottles for 10p - we’d give it a go!!
I heard on the news this morning that there was talk of introducing a 10p deposit on plastic bottles to encourage consumers to recycle them rather than dump them in our already full landfill sites.
Ex-MP Neil Hamilton wasn’t convinced that it was fair to ‘tax’ consumers further with already stretched finances, I though, wholeheartedly agree with the idea. I know the theory is to get your own money back, but I see it as a lucrative way of earning my beer money on a Saturday night.
I recently took a walk along the River Trent from Radcliffe and the amount of debris littered along the banks was appalling. Most of it looked like it was the remains from the flooding last year rather than fly tipping I might add. I would be happy to pop down one weekend with a couple of sacks to fill with plastic bottles and make a few quid in the process...what’s not to like!?
There is the potential for a whole new business venture here, and it surely won’t just encourage recycling to save the landfills, it could also be a very clever way to tidy up the countryside again.
Ruth
Ex-MP Neil Hamilton wasn’t convinced that it was fair to ‘tax’ consumers further with already stretched finances, I though, wholeheartedly agree with the idea. I know the theory is to get your own money back, but I see it as a lucrative way of earning my beer money on a Saturday night.
I recently took a walk along the River Trent from Radcliffe and the amount of debris littered along the banks was appalling. Most of it looked like it was the remains from the flooding last year rather than fly tipping I might add. I would be happy to pop down one weekend with a couple of sacks to fill with plastic bottles and make a few quid in the process...what’s not to like!?
There is the potential for a whole new business venture here, and it surely won’t just encourage recycling to save the landfills, it could also be a very clever way to tidy up the countryside again.
Ruth
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Heart bring us brunch!
We'd like to thank Heart 106 for bringing us more food than we could ever eat yesterday.
They turned up with brunch for us and we're still munching our way through the many packets of sandwiches and naughty but very nice cakes!
We're also enjoying our free mugs and keyrings...
Thanks Heart!!
www.heart106.com
Friday, 4 April 2008
Run Away from the Bigger Boys Dwain!!
Regular readers will know one of my favourite topics to rant about is sport and negative coverage etc, so before I launch into my monologue of despair, I would like to commend the BBC and their coverage of the track cycling world championships at the weekend – and send my congratulations to all those British cyclists who took part!
But what has made my blood simmer this week is the news that Dwain Chambers has joined rugby league team Castleford Tigers. For those who are unsure – Rugby League is the 13 aside one that they play oop north and Cas are currently sitting at the bottom of the Superleague having won just one (flukey) game.
Anyway, I can’t help but think this is a pretty lame PR stunt by Cas, to recruit a shamed athlete to join their team, despite making no secret of the fact he knows NOTHING about the game, and has never even thrown a ball. I'm all for national coverage of the game, because I tend to miss the games at the moment because I don't have sky sports at home, but this isn't the coverage I had in mind!!
It makes a complete mockery of all the professionals who play the game and have done since they were knee high, and those youngsters striving to break through to the super league. It suggests that you have to be just big and fast to be a good player, disregarding any need for skills, tactics, strategy…I know a sports scientist for a top flight club who looks after the nutrition, psychology, match analysis and some fitness testing – he is one of a coaching team of seven!
His response echoed one that I read today in the Metro, England player Ben Worsley, “he’ll be killed”. Not actually killed but rugby is a very physical game which last for 80 minutes not 10 seconds, he’ll have to run extremely fast to avoid being tackled by a couple of 18 stoners…IT WILLL HURT!
I just can’t see how this can’t back fire for both Castleford and Chambers, allegedly the only reason he is considering playing the game is to earn some money to pay back the sports promoters he owes money to following his drugs ban from athletics. It is also worth noting that if he wasn’t ‘disgraced’ he would be preparing for the Olympics in August…as it happens he is making a mockery of the sport of Rugby League!
He’d better be careful - this time it’s a contact game, this time he is playing with the bigger boys, and they may be out to get him!
Ruth
But what has made my blood simmer this week is the news that Dwain Chambers has joined rugby league team Castleford Tigers. For those who are unsure – Rugby League is the 13 aside one that they play oop north and Cas are currently sitting at the bottom of the Superleague having won just one (flukey) game.
Anyway, I can’t help but think this is a pretty lame PR stunt by Cas, to recruit a shamed athlete to join their team, despite making no secret of the fact he knows NOTHING about the game, and has never even thrown a ball. I'm all for national coverage of the game, because I tend to miss the games at the moment because I don't have sky sports at home, but this isn't the coverage I had in mind!!
It makes a complete mockery of all the professionals who play the game and have done since they were knee high, and those youngsters striving to break through to the super league. It suggests that you have to be just big and fast to be a good player, disregarding any need for skills, tactics, strategy…I know a sports scientist for a top flight club who looks after the nutrition, psychology, match analysis and some fitness testing – he is one of a coaching team of seven!
His response echoed one that I read today in the Metro, England player Ben Worsley, “he’ll be killed”. Not actually killed but rugby is a very physical game which last for 80 minutes not 10 seconds, he’ll have to run extremely fast to avoid being tackled by a couple of 18 stoners…IT WILLL HURT!
I just can’t see how this can’t back fire for both Castleford and Chambers, allegedly the only reason he is considering playing the game is to earn some money to pay back the sports promoters he owes money to following his drugs ban from athletics. It is also worth noting that if he wasn’t ‘disgraced’ he would be preparing for the Olympics in August…as it happens he is making a mockery of the sport of Rugby League!
He’d better be careful - this time it’s a contact game, this time he is playing with the bigger boys, and they may be out to get him!
Ruth
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