So Boro have finally signed Robert Huth as well as Jonathon Woodgate. With the season’s performance’s so far we really looked like we would miss Gareth Southgate in the heart of the defence and I’m sure the new man in charge has been trying to find a replacement for himself since he took over. The [...]

The National Archive have made all those 1970s Public Information Films available on their website. If you are of a similar age to me you will remember Charley, Joe & Petunia and the Green Cross Man.
For those a bit younger there are some from the Eighties as well.

Spent a large proportion of the weekend playing cricket with mixed outcomes. Saturday saw me playing for the seconds against Stillington. Skipper won the toss and we put them in. After a very slow start we let them get away in the last overs and they eventually finished on 181 for 9. Though it should [...]

I’ve just had a week in Cumbria and The Lake District with my Mum, my brother and his family. We stayed in a caravan on a site in Flookburgh near Grange-over-Sands. I travelled up through the Yorkshire Dales last Saturday arriving in the mid afternoon. Had a fairly leisurely weekend with a visit to Grange [...]