Thanks for all the recipes yesterday everybody.
I think I’m going to go for Mrs Weasley’s Brownies.
And I will try the chilli one in , erm, chilli.
We’ve had a mad day as my niece Miss J turned one. She is the cutest baby and such a smiler, and as my mum and I take care of her a couple of days a week, we’re really close.
She did the usual thing small kids do at birthday parties and played with the paper that everything came in but not really any of the presents.
Luckily Misses E and M, and J’s big sis, ME, stepped up to the breech and played with everything for her.
Aren’t they kind?
And what an amazing weekend for England.
I don’t really watch sports, but I do like it if we win things, as, to be honest it’s a bit of a rarity isn’t it?
The England Rugby team beat France 14-9
I found the above picture here
And we beat Estonia 3-0 in the footy (shock result!!)
But our finest hour was when train driver Ady Hurrell (of Englandshire) took just 2 shots to smash French representative, John Ingram’s conker into tiny little pieces of loserville, to win the Conker World Cup 2007.
More than 350 people took part in the 43rd World Championships and it must have been a glorious arena of talent…
(This lovely pic is from the 42ndWorld Championship last year.)
Yet nobody thought to televise it.
I am astounded.
I’d have watched it. (Hee hee.)
Quite possibly the funniest part of the article, apart from the fact that grown men and women flocked to Ashton in Northants to dangle large nuts off bits of string and swing them angrily at each other, was the fact that loser, John Ingram, a Dordogne antiques dealer, later admitted…
he actually came from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, but had a lot of business in France.
Does anyone else find that hilarious or is it just me??
October 14th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
You guys have the best funny city names over there.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Why thank you my dear.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
You Brits are just funny in general. I should know. I live across the street from one of you. She cracks me up all the time.
So glad you finally won at something. ;o)
October 14th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
It wasn’t until I saw something about this on TV the other day that I even knew what a ‘conker’ was LOL
Watch out or it will be getting sponsored by a fast food giant soon and then it will be televised.
Oh and we are not talking about the rugby over here..thanks very much
October 14th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Avery, thanks…I think.
MGL, ahh every kid should get to play conkers.
Grown ups though, I think it would get too violent.
I bet that’s why it’s sponsored by the Health and Safety Experts.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Sooo… the French conker rep was actually English? Really clever way for us to make sure we win! Infiltrate the other team – excellent! Hoorah for England!:-D
October 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hee hee. Hoorah.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Yay, another rugby / football fan
)) So much fun shouldn’t be allowed and personally I think hand the World Conkers Championship been televised it would have taken me over the edge. I could barely cope with the excitement as it was. Had it been another day … different story … maybe we should start a campagne for minority sports like conkers? We could have Tiddlywinks and Pooh Sticks and goodness, lots!
October 15th, 2007 at 12:35 am
ooh forgot to say, Snap! on the photo ;o)
October 15th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Yay England!!! Woohooo!
October 15th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Belle I would love televised Pooh Sticks.
Fabulous idea, hee hee.
Brillig, thank you sweetie.
It doesn’t happen often so we have to relish it.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Urgh Wayne Rooney is an ugly thug! Yukee.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Nuts on strings? Um…okay. That’s not an Olympic sport is it?
October 17th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Despina, I agree, he is a bit of a minger isn’t he?
But it was all I could find at the time. Big sighhhhhh.
RC, playing conkers is fun I promise. Don’t think it could be an Olympic sport though. What with health and safety and a that…