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Pub quiz fact for you. Crazy Horse was named Curly in his younger days.

Went ice skating with some mates yesterday at one of those temporary rinks they set up at Christmas, just getting over my own personal cold so still a bit bunged up like you all seem to be. Now I am sure that ice skates used to have a small serrated bit at the front of the blade, but the ones they have given me the last few times don't seem to have it and I struggle to get going properly until about 15 minutes in, or maybe it's just age. I managed 40 minutes upright with people falling over in front of me and occasionally behind me, which is when you speed up so they don't grab you and pull you down. My mate's daughter was having a bit of trouble so asked to hold my hand which was okay as long as I kept telling her to keep her nose over the ice or go over backwards, she'd already fallen over twice up till that point. When they called every body off we were about 3 yards from the exit gate when she went over whilst still attached to me and that pulled me over as well. Of course, break a hip at my age and it's curtains innit. Worst bit was I now had a soaking wet arse for the rest of the day, I looked like I'd pissed myself from behind!

Its also where Stonehenge is.

I've been watching a brilliant youtube channel where this American bloke either blows up his Harleys, drops them, loses his panniers down the road, drops it half way up a ramp into a truck etc. Once he rode straight over some Trieff kerbing onto a roundabout because the sun was in his eyes and then couldn't get the bike back over the high kerb to get out. Even better than that, he has a group of friends on various garishly painted Harley tourers who all do the same. Did I mention all the bikes look like Huggy Bear used to own and personally decorate them? Do they not have a bike test where they live or did they all only decide to buy motorbikes for the first time ever in the last year?

Never, I am a delight.

Eat sprouts the day before hand so you are primed and ready!

I found a small type written envelope in an old cardboard box, I thought it was a reference from my first job, but it turned out to be my school reference. Reading it now, they definitely had me sussed, if I didn't think it was interesting I didn't bother, hence the U grade in Chemistry O Level when I just filled in my name and two joke answers. The man signing it, Ken Drury, my headmaster in the final years, was at school with my Mum, she hated him, told me he was a knob. She reckoned he failed his 11 plus, but he seems to have caught up at some point by the look of his qualifications. He died a few years ago according to the local paper.

Heineken don't build sandcastles, but if they did.....

And now GET THAT WASP OFF MY SANDWICH

This in memory of Cookie, a professional northerner (If Blackburn is properly northern) who was a big Saw Doctors fan and would walk around the office with his t-shirt inscribed with the words GET THAT WASP OFF MY SANDWICH. First song is live and hard to hear but worth straining your ears for the lyrics. Second song is the subject of the first song.

Shout that out loud as you try to wrestle a bloke to the floor in a bar and I guarantee he will run away.

Seeing as he's sadly just popped his clogs, two vids

I did an image search of Gnats and Hawks and the only easily visible difference to my old eyes is the rear tail plane is lower than the main wings on a Gnat, and higher then the main wings on a Hawk. Gnat Hawk

A gnat?

You know when you order online for a home delivery and misunderstand the quantities and end up with a multipack of something by accident?

Absolutely cracking.

I had to look up Argan oil. It mentioned the traditional way of extracting it!!! A tradition in some areas of Morocco allows goats to climb argan trees to feed freely on the fruits. The kernels are then later retrieved from the goat droppings, considerably reducing the labour involved in extraction at the expense of some potential gustatory aversion.

This picture makes me dizzy and I am not sure why.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn

If a man speaks in a forest but there is no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

So it was already a warmed up engine, weird, you would think it would love bump starting, it's being contrary, it needs a good kicking with heavy boots on or a Basiling with a large tree branch.

As it's cold have you got the choke on and using second gear rather than first?

I didn't even know Darby and Jones clubs were a thing there?

Is it a kick/electric start model or just electric start? Is it carbed or FI?

Taken this morning. They had to drag me to school when I was little as well.