Teesside Tintin - he swears a lot but is very funny.

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On Saturday night I went to the Band Room in beautiful Farndale to see Iain Archer (ex-Snow Patrol inter alia). He was supported by Jacob Golden and Josefina Sanner. It was a night of acoustic loveliness in an idyllic Yorkshire setting.

The venue was built in the 20s and is a corrugated iron clad hall in [...]

Last night I went to Fibbers to see The Thrills (or Trills as they introduced themselves in their broad Irish accents). They were fantastic and Fibbers was jumping. They were plugging their new album which is due out next month but only played a couple of tracks from that. The rest of the set comprised [...]

Despite the deluge of rain we had at the back end of last week our Division 6 fixture in Y&DSCL went ahead on Saturday. The pitch was a little moist but behaved pretty well and the rain held off most of the day.
We won the toss (for a change) and put our opponents in. The soggy [...]

Yesterday I went to see the Chris Atkins film Taking Liberties. It details the gradual erosion in our civil liberties over the last 10 years by Tony Blair and this Governement. The film is both entertaining and thoroughly depressing.

The film brought together a number of issues that I was aware of, like the spectre of [...]

Seemingly I’m 45.77%.

…just pee on you t-shirt and wrap it around your head. This is one of Bear Grylls’ techniques from his exploits in the Moab desert in the States.
He is like Ray Mears on speed. Charging through the desert, mountains or jungle tucking in to freshly caught fish or even freshly killed zebra - it was killed by lions! [...]

Well, it would appear that Mark Viduka is on his way to the Barcodes. I’m very disappointed. I thought he was going to be off - if he was going to stay at Boro I think it would have all been sorted out before the end of the season. I guess I wish him well [...]

Saturday was way to Sessay. One of the top teams in the Division. They always have a strong bating line up and the probably the best batting track around. Not that a good pitch is a thing we can make any use of seemingly. A slow but steady start saw off the first 10 overs [...]