Friday, July 28

Mega Mega Megapixel



So what type of digicam you using...? 3 Megapixel, 4, 5, or even 8? Happy with the results you're getting? Well click the picture above to be taken to a site with a picture from a PROPER camera, all 720 Megapixels of it...!! Make sure you play with the zoom controls at the bottom to see what difference this actually makes.

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Thursday, July 27

Aliens landing in Blyth...


UFO
Originally uploaded by Beebop Alula.


(...but would anyone actually notice?!)
It seems like there's a bbq every weekend at the minute as long as the weather stays decent, and last Sunday Sy decided to have one.
It ended up costing a fortune because he literally didn't have anything leading up to it, - including the bbq itself (an impressive £50 job from Argos).
As usual Lee took charge of the food, from selecting and buying it through to cooking it. He seems to have some sort of obsession with 'accessorising'; When it's a shirt and tie occasion he has to have the most outrageous tie, and this time he's decided he had have the chef's gear. Cue a trip to the local fancy dress shop...!
Anyway the food was spot (again!), and as the drink a flowed the daft games started. Sy had bought a kids golf set, bat and ball and a frisbee. Whilst playing with the frisbee, Lee decided to try and photograph it on his phone whilst chucking it and came up with the photo above! Because the sun had gone in, it ended up being a silhouette looking like a UFO. If you look closely you can just make Sy out in the background. It's amazing how entertaining the daftest things become when you're drunk!!


Tuesday, July 18

Got a strong stomach..??

Get a load of some of these delicacies. I'm sorry but they're just wrong!!
'Carp Bladders' are the worst ones in my opinion but I suspect you might think different.
(I couldn't bring myself to put a picture on this post as I didn't want to have to view it over the coming weeks until it dropped off the bottom of my blog!!)

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Living it Rough


Maff and Kelly recently picked up a bargain of a tent on eBay so of course a camping trip was soon on the cards. Along with Lee and Emma we all went to Bradford Kaims Caravan park at Bamburgh, (no-where near Bradford!).
It turned out to be a really good and certainly different weekend; We arrived late Friday afternoon and after setting the tents up, we had the ritual BBQ and Booze. Lee's a legend with a BBQ and everything he cooks is spot on. Turned into a really late night and we foolishly hit the Vodka too. I say 'foolishly' because when the sun comes up and your tent turns into a Microwave at 6.30am in the morning it's seriously uncomfortable with a hangover.
Spent Saturday in Seahouses doing touristy things such as sampling the sea food, messing round on the beach and eating the local speciality of fish n chips. It was then back to the site for another evening of bbq and booze, - again Lee excelled himself and along with Kelly, Jen and Emma they rattled up some mean Chicken Fajitas.
This was actually Bertha's (our Dog) first holiday with us and she was spoilt rotten from beginning to end. As you can see from the pictures she was wrecked by the end of the weekend.
Think we've all got the camping bug now, and will no doubt be going away again in the coming months....

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Sunday, July 9

Police Campaigns

Northumbria Police are running a campaign at the minute to warn people that if they get off their face drunk, they'll come down hard on them, i.e. to stop binge drinking etc. The photo ads are on billboards around the region and on backs of buses etc.
The girl pictured in this one is a work colleague of Jen's, (name not listed to protect the innocent). She reckons it was a nightmare trying to keep a straight face in the photo's whilst trying to appear p*ssed. Keep an eye out for her, and yes she's had all the jokes already about a face like the back end of a bus etc etc!!
Hmmm, I'm sure if they wanted volunteers to actually get drunk for the photo's Jen would have been straight in there!!

A guy was sticking these cards on the windscreens of cars in Blyth last week. The idea being that people put them on their dashboard when leaving their car parked. I have to say I have my doubts; I think if people are going to the effort of putting a sign on the dash saying there's nothing of value in the car, - then there more than likely IS stuff in the car.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like some sort of middle aged car theif here, but I just don't see this campaign working. Maybe it's just the way I think though...?!?

Tuesday, July 4

"There's only one Alan Shearer, one Alan Shearer..."

This is class - Shearer crooning whilst driving through Ponteland and all filmed on his daughter's phone!!
Apparentely it was in the papers yesterday so apologies if it's old news.

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G G's

Went to the John Smiths Northumberland Plate Race Festival at Newcastle Racecourse last Saturday. Had a cracking day and I've just Flickr'd the photos if you want a butchers...
It was a bit of a last minute decision to go, and even then we were being picky and only wanted tickets for the Premier enclosure, - Thanks for sorting us out with that extra ticket Ross.
The weather was absoloutely scorching and although everyone was suited and booted and therefore sweating like an eejit, it really does make for a much more enjoyable day when the weather's good.
I don't really know the first thing about horse racing but I tuned into the Morning Line on Channel 4 on Saturday morning and made a note of their tips. When it came to betting on the races Jen picked one at random that she liked the sound of, then I used the Morning Line tip for my choice. The system worked amazingly well (especially compared to last year!), and we ended up with 4 winners and 2 second places which wasn't bad for a days work!!
Later in the day, Jen and Kelly blagged their way into the Corporate tents where we ended up with a cracking view of the England v Portugal game. In fact it would have been the perfect end to a really good day if only the football result had gone our way :o(

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Beckham's Speech

At the start of the World Cup you'll no doubt have seen the 'WaG's drinks receipt which the News of the World managed to obtain and run as an exclusive.
Well here's the latest one of these exclusives doing the rounds.....