TRACKING SANTA

You can track Santa live now, follow this link and see where the old bugger is!!!
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm

Went to see Charlton play Hull City yesterday, what a waste of an afternoon, they were awful, kept losing the ball, lacked drive and only had a good go at it once they were 1-0 down, absolutely shocking, sod promotion we will struggle to get into the play offs playing like this. The Ref had an absolute shocker, Bates was his name, obviously a master at officiating! Danny Mills does like to get amongst the opposition, and was red carded in the second half, for foul and abusive language, had the ref bothered to dish out the correct punishments for a tackle from behind and a blatant kick at him then maybe things would have been different, these two offences i was led to believe were red cards, but no not Master Bates, he dished out yellow cards, then Mills was fouled and the next thing we saw was Mills getting the red card, Hull had set out too wind him up, it was blatantly obvious, he should not have used foul and abusive language, but if the myopic twat had done his job properly this would not have happened. It does not alter the fact that Charlton were crap and some new faces will be needed in January if we are to move on, although what positions is anyones guess, we were crap all over the park....

Merry Christmas

Have taken to watching Nigella Lawson on UK Food lately, now she seems to be my perfect woman.... she cooks, licks food of her fingers and man alive what a figure.........

Young Finch (on the left in the pic) has had his X Ray results and it appears he has not broken his foot so cannot be called Rooney anymore, but I am told that he has damaged ligaments! so he now answers to John Terry. As a result Xmas has arrived and I am now off til early Jan, these injuries do have fringe benefits for muggings, the only downside is that junior Finch will be at home as well. We will see the Dr tomorrow to find out what we have to do to get our budding test cricketer back in action, he was due to be having some coaching sessions for a week in the new year but I suspect that will be off now, shame I was looking forward to the peace and quiet.

The Finch kitchen will resembling a sweet factory this weekend, as Dan and I are going to be making sweets for xmas, coconut ice, turkish delight and peppermint creams amongst others being planned, expect icing sugar to be everywhere.

Just seen Fabio Cappello on Sky, apparently he does not speak english very well, methinks the man is pulling a fast one, as the questions were being asked he was reacting to the english qustions then answering only after the translator had done his work, his reactions gave a lot away he fully understood the english questions, I suspect that overpaid bunch of show ponies are in for a tough time from Mr Cappello, the man has no fear of big ego's and rules with a rod of iron, I think he will be good for our game and if I was one of those show ponies I would be worried.

Watched Charlton at the weekend on Sky as they lost 4-2 to WBA, we desperateley need to sign a few new defenders, and its sad to say but I think Chris Powell has gone over that hill just a bit too far and should be shuffled off to the reserves, its a shame as he is a smashing fella and was a good player in his day, but sadly that day has gone. Luke Varney looks good, loves to try things and with Iwelumo out I suspect he will get a good run in the side, I am looking forward to seeing Chris Dickson play, he is on loan at Gillingham and banging the goals in, hopefully we will see him in action at the Valley soon.

The young Finch has been in the wars, last week he tripped over in the living room, I understand he was chasing a ball, so there was little sympathy forthcoming! it has got better but the poor little blighter is still limping, so last night he was dragged to the Dr's, poor woman had to handle Dan's feet!! not for the faint hearted I can tell you. Well she suspects he has broken his 4th Metatarsal on his right foot, we have had the x ray this morning and await the results next week, in the meantime the poor lad is answering to the name Rooney and is as I speak watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, on our new JBL Surround sound system (an xmas pressie from Julz) by god its loud, the room next door is shaking, the sub woofer is huge.

Last weekend in Wales with New Romney Mountain Rescue was great fun, a good time was had by all, the weather was shocking, it rained constantly but did not stop the lads walking to the waterfalls, and climbing, the climbing was at in indoor centre at Llangorse, a good place to visit in the wet. I was Chef for the weekend, so we enjoyed a lasagne and on Saturday evening a full Christmas dinner. As usual the alcohol flowed throughout and the Karaoke was good and our new game IPod trumps wetn down a storm in the wee small hours of Sunday morning.
We are planning another trip ther in the summer and will be taking wives, girlfriends and ankle biters.... god help us! The accomdation is superb and the hosts who own the farm were great, if you are looking for somewhere to stay in the Brecons here is the link http://www.bunkhouse-south-wales.co.uk/

Yours in recovery

ITS THE WEEKEND!!!

At last the long awaited New Romney Mountain Rescue weekend is upon us! I am not saying the Welsh are scared but the buggers have closed the Severn Bridge!!!
We will be joined this evening by Dr from Dr and the Medics, he was due last night but a gig has got in the way, so karaoke night in South Wales has been brought forward to this evening.
The whole team has assembled including our member from France who flew in last night and is making unreasonable catering demands......

The only concern I have about the weekend is that we are meeting in the local pub, which kind of sets the tone for the whole weekend!

So if you live in the Brecon Beacons I would suggest giving Ystradfellte a wide birth til Sunday evening.

Am also very annoyed, I lent a mate a canoe 5 years ago and he still has not returned it.........

What a rotten week, my back is still sore and now my knee is a mess, I am having trouble with stairs, walking and even sitting down is difficult, now two things worry me about this, firstly Cricket practice starts in Jan, the way the knee and back are I doubt very much if I will be there, but more immediate is next weekend in Wales, it looks like any hopes of me walking in the hills may be slim, so i will be forced to stay behind and drink.,.....

Charlton seem to be doing their best to not get promoted, 2 home games this week and two 3-1 defeats, they were not very good Tuesday night, and I am told that yesterday they were equally as bad, poor Dan has been to both games, strting to think he may be a jinx.

Well what a busy weekend, went to Greenwich yesterday with some Kiwi, man alive why do I do it? what was supposed to be a two hour trip dragged on forever I left home at 10 and returned shortly after 3, thank god she is going to NZ soon.
Whilst in Greenwich I had a massage, which was awesome, did me the world of good.

~More shopping this morning, Dan has his shopping allowance and we headed off, it took him 30 minutes to spend his monthly £50, and good buys they were too, just shows what you can do without a female in tow!

The England Manager shambles runs on, everyone blames the players and the coach, but I think the press should take some of the blame, their feeding frenzy over many years now is a critical part of our failure, they slaughter players and coaches on a regular basis with a high level of ferocity, the majority of who have never played the game in their lives, the way they behave has obviously introduced a fear factor to the players which shows in their performances, its high time these pampered scribes got behind the team and coaches rather than spout their posion. I have seen how these so called writers behave at close hand, I was at Euro 2000 for the Italy v Romania Quarter Final as a guest of Sony, and witnessed one well known writer who shall remain nameless acting like a spoit brat as he had lost his ticket, quite rightly the officials refused him entry, he went spare, if that had been a regular supporter they would have been arrested, I am happy to say he never got in! the other press boys were in the same lounge area as us and many of the better known English press were steaming drunk and paying no attention to the game. So before these know it all twats spout their vitriolic bollocks, they should pause and think hard about their role in Englands failures over the past 20 or so years.
Yours not mentioning Rob Shepherds name..........

Candidates for the England job

What a terrible night for England, Steve MacLaren has to go and somebody new must come in, we can do well in the short term with someone like Jose, Gus, or any other top name coach but things in the long term look bleak. Take a look at England's forward line for the game last night, yes Rooney and Owen were injured but the 3 players involved last night were Crouch ( who was the best England player) Defoe and Crouch, these 3 all have one thing in common, none of them is a regular starter for their club sides, Crouch has Torres ahead of him, Defoe and Bent have Berbatov and Keane in front of them, we may have the best league in the world but that is to the detriment of the England national side, look at Arsenal, Theo Walcott is the only English player in the team, and Chelsea have Cole, Lampard, Terry and Wright Phillips, Man Utd, Liverpool have Steve Gerrard, its a bit obvious isnt it? there are way too many non english players playing for english clubs, as long as this continues the national side will struggle to qualify, we need to place a limit on non english players, put the emphasis on home grown players, when I say home grown I don't mean the French and Spanish kids that Arsene Wenger seems to love to get his hands on, I mean English born players, its time to put England first, but that will never happen because the Premier League is awash with obscene amounts of cash, clubs are desperate to stay in the premier league and will pay top dollar for average foriegn players, the top clubs need the Champions League cash to stay afloat, look at what happened to Leeds, its not a healthy environment for our top clubs, but it will not change. Premier League Clubs have academies, but we need to start from the bottom, kids football is a joke, I have seen 7 year olds being taught how to block players, how to win free kicks, and there is precious little work on ball skills, even at kids football level its win at all costs, I have been to games to watch my son play and seen the opposition spend the entire game kicking lumps ot of Dans team, and in one particular game the parents were an absolute disgrace, the atmosphere was poisonous, thank god my son does not play anymore, and he is playing cricket. Until we sort all these problems and forget the notion that we deserve to be at these tournaments we will continue as we are, second rate......
Golden Generation? My arse.

Well everything is now sorted for the weekend to Wales, bunkhouse is booked as is the mini bus, the drinks fountain is on order and all sorts of dodgy plans are being made, if any one is planning a quiet weekend near the Waterfalls in the beacons, i would give the weekend of 7th December a miss!

The back is giving me some serious problems, not sure it is a muscular injury at the moment saw the quack today and its a specialist for me.

The boy Finch came home from his mothers Sunday night with the biggest gob stopper I have ever seen, now I always thought gobstoppers were supposed to keep the buggers quiet, well he has had this one since the weekend and its still going and he still has not shut up!!!

Big day Thursday, Sky are coming to install my Virgin Radio prize, a free Sky Plus box with all the bells and whistles free for a year, the current box in the living room is being moved to my bedroom to make way for the new system, its a hard life!

Yours in Digital

Long time no pots I am very sorry! been a bit busy with studying and visiting Bristol, which was good fun, my nephew and I are convinced there was a Jo Brand convention on, saw loads of Jo Brands in Bristol!

Age may be catching up with this Finch, done something nasty to my neck which resulted in me having to visit a chiropractor, she was a petite blonde, loked gorgeuos, was just thinking about what I could get up to with a lass like that when wham! this little demon got to work on my lower neck and upper back, sheer agony, all sorts of clicking noises and me wondering how such a pettite blonde can be so powerful and nasty!
Yours in traction

Question

Why dont NHS bosses start hiring obsessive compulsives as nurses? Their attention to hygiene and constant hand washing would see an end to MRSA outbreaks in no time.

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python--Part 13

My god am I tired, watched the rugby with a friend last night, drunk champagne and cooked a lovely curry, shame about the result, I was doing my nut when the try was not given, man alive if I could have got my hands on the TV ref he would have been in all sorts of problems. Still they did very well to get to the final, further than the Welsh, Jock, Aussies and our NZ friends, so 4 more years of bragging over that wretched lot!

Studies going well, putting a good few hours a week into it, feeling absolutley drained at the moment. A week off looms, and we are off to Bristol to see the relatives which should be good, and if you live in the Brecons, be warned the New Romney Mountain Rescue Team are coming to the hills again on Dec 7th, with a full team in attendance, and our special guest, a certain Dr from Dr and the Medics, I predict a Karaoke night and the good Dr being forced into Spirit in the Sky before he gets slaughtered by the team, we also have out Xmas Karaoke Cd so stand by for Feed the Welsh.......... apparently my big brother is threatening to turn up on the Saturday, oh dear..... not sure he knows what he has let himself in for.

Jonny Wilkinson Drop Goal's England to RWC victory

To get you in the mood for next week

My employer is considering new play areas for our residents, as a professional health and safety person, I have to look carefully and go through any possible scenarios that could lead to an injury, I discovered this on the internet whilst doing some research, I cannot see anything risky with this slide at all, so I shall recommned it.

A bit late but who cares

Well last week i wrote blogged about my course tutor, it appears that complaining does work, the tutor has been replaced on our course, and we were also treated to lunch today! great news.

The new boss is in and as I htought is a whirlwind, boy did she have a baptism of fire, cannot record details due to confidentality, but we had the worse case scenario fairly quickly on her first day.
Watched the Grand Prix Sunday, my nephew and my brother joined me for the race and bacon sandwich's, we decided to make comments about the race using song titles, i quite enjoyed when Lewis Hamilton's tyre exposed the canvas under the rubber as it enabled me to announce that Lewis was touching cloth but sadly we could not find a song title to fit!
Whilst on the subject of Lewis Hamilton, I find him to be far too perfect, always says the right thing always looks immaculate, just too perfect, hopefully we will dicover that he downloads shed loads of porn whilst at his teams HQ! Kimi Raikonnen is probably the most dull subject to interview I would suspect, god that man is so dull, and as for James Allen, well rearrange tosser complete for my thoughts on him

Well what a week! Monday my new boss came for a one day visit before she starts next Monday, like a whirlwind she was, this woman means business, she has already ordered a redec of the office, new uplights and desk lamps, and most impressive she bought me lunch, think I am going to learn a lot from her!
Which brings me to my studies, I am currently up to my eyes in my NEBOSH H&S Diploma, was going well until the last few weeks we have a tutor who cannot stay on subject, he wanders off in tangents talking about his caving activities, now we have a very short time to learn some extremely difficult an d technical stuff, and we are now behind two weeks, and seriously worried as we have him next week, we are all paying £7000 for this and are seriolsy worried so a deputation is plannned, we had a lengthy discussion with our tutor today about this but he was very defensive, so we are going higher up!

Am amused to see John Terry in a full Phantom of the Opera mask this evening training for Chelski!

As i have said before I am not apolitical animal but the Prime Ministers announcement about troop withdrawal from Iraq does appear to be timed to take the press away from the Tory party conference, firstly if they are being that cynical then they should be thrown out of power, and i suspect they are, and also this sort of announcement should be made in Parliament, or is the House of Commons not worth the effort anymore?

Yours in Ben Elton mode

Reply To Miss W!

Well I had to reply to Miss W's comments about Ken Livingstone and Boris, I would at this juncture like it to be know that I am not a member of any political party and never have been.
Now my problem is with Ken's arrogance, and sheer waste of resources, he will not listen to others opinions on anything, and anyone who disagrees with him is a right wing racist! also what was all this about setting up some deal in Venezuela at our expense? He is the Mayor of London and should confine himself to London rather than jetting off to South America, and his support over the years for various terrorist groups is a fact, and is highly distasteful in my book, the man has had a good go, and now its time for someone else to try, I think Boris would be a breath of fresh air, and do try and ignore the media image of the man, he is a very shrewd and intelligent man.

Enough of the politics! Been a busy week, up to my eyes in studies, had my best friend round last night for dinner (home made lasagne) and we set up my study diary for now until my first exam in Jan, think I get Xmas day off. Was up at 4.30am today to watch the Japanese Grand Prix, my green pen writing nephew arrived from some dodgy club at around 5.00am, it seems he was a tad tired and emotional after a heavy nights libation, and promptly fell asleep for the whole race and only awoke for bacon butties...

Off to a birthday bash for my mate Steve's little terror Chris, the child is trouble with a capital T, the most mischievous little rascal I have ever come across........ Happy Birthday Chris!

Yours in Red Wine

Well anything is better than King Newt

Jose Mourinho - The real reason for his sacking

Come on you reds!!! Popped along to the Valley last night to see Charlton take on Norwich City, the first 20 minutes were the best footie I had seen Charlton play in a long time, Alex Varney looked very good, making some good runs, and with some match fitness he will be a major threat, was impressed with Jose Semedo, Andy Reid, and Lloyd Sam go better as the game progressed, Charlton looked much better for most of the game and should have had the game sewn up by midway in the second half, but we had to wait for Andy Reids penalty brace in the last 5 minutes. For much of the second half it looked that despite the domination we would only get a point, McKleod came on for the tiring Varney and immediately troubled the Norwich defence with is pace, so much that they conceded both penalties trying to deal with his pace.
Danny Mills was his usual self, he got Darren Huckerby going in his own special way, in the closing moments Dion Dublin playing at the back was for some reason in the vicinity of Danny Mills and lost his rag a tad and received his marching orders for allowing himself to get wound up by Mills. I cannot wait to see Danny Mills on the right and Ben Thatcher on the left squaring up to any unfortunate winger who goes near them, should be a few cards flying around with those two in the team.
On the way home tonight I spotted Andy Reid in a South London Street entering his newly aquired house, managed to have a brief chat with the soon to be legend..nice fella with a cracking left foot, and a rarity one of the few players to live in the Borough his club plays in, unlike the majority of Charlton players who seem to settle in the Wilmington area.

Been a busy week, had Uni today, come home with loads of assignments to be done by next Tuesday, apparently this is the shape of things to come... New Romney Mountain Rescue have a weekend away at the end of Nov to the Brecons, luckily we are staying in a nice warm bunkhouse with a cracking waterfall just 200 or so yards away, perfect.
Also off to Bristol at the end of Oct with Tom and Dan to visit my Aunt and Uncle, looking forward to my Aunts cooking and the view over the Severn Channel.
Looking forward to the radio show on BRFM this weekend, will be good to play some good music, I miss it a fair amount but with the travel and my studies it would be impossible to do it every week.
So tune in on www.brfm.net this Saturday 2-6pm

You may recall that a few weeks ago I mentioned some of the girls at work were rather keen to take me shopping for some new shirts, well it turns out this was a vehicle being used to get me hooked up with one particular female, I of course being a bloke did not see this coming in any way, being the shy wall flower that I am I ignored all the signs! Now the lady in question is around my age and has been keen on me for some time, I had no idea, but its seems the whole place is aware that she has the hots, let me tell you there is nothing more frightening than a gaggle of women hunting down their prey.... it all came to a head this week when the female in question egged on by her mates convincing her that I was game decided to make her move on me, she cornered me alone in the post room and practically threw herself at me..... sadly for her I do not find her in any way attractive and very politely threw her back!! she was distraught and reported back to her friends that I have rejected her advances, the other girls have decided that I am now a nasty man simply for not wanting to go out with this female, even had one coming up to me and telling me I was rotten for not taking this other woman out, all very unfair as I never encouraged this in anyway, and the fact that I really do not fancy this woman in any way, in fact I would go as far as to say out of all the women at work she is the last I would go anywhere with!!! so now I am nasty Pete, the man who rejected Olive Oils little sister.........
Now had it been the tall leggy blonde from our commercial department...............

Yours in the Dog House

Listen out on the 22nd September I will be back on BRFM for one week only on the Sports Show, Dave is not there so muggings will be in, stand by for the usual rubbish on www.brfm.net 2-6pm

Despite rumours to the contrary I do have a small amount of time to write my blog! Yesterday saw me back in study mode, for the first time in about 7 years, as if thats not enough I have an exam in January and two in July, apparently I have to do 175 hours of private study. We picked up our reading material yesterday, just for Unit A you understand, and already I have decided my man bag is not big enough.... the amount of books and paperwork is unbelievable. Hopefully this time next year i will have letters after my name. I expect my blogs will be less frequent for this reason.

Yours in a book

Sorry for the lag of blog, been a tad busy catching up with some stuff I left to gather dust for a bit too long....
Been a very strange 24 hours, spent all day today helping Julz put up a fence, trouble was we had to remove the concrete posts form the old fence... man alive I ache.
Last night was not too good, got a call from my cricket team skipper, Nicky Venn one of my team mates was stabbed and killed in the early hours of Monday morning, his partner has been arrested. Nick was a really nice bloke, fairly quiet, but would do anything for the team, he helped me sort my run out early in the season and always had words of encouragement for team mates, and he was brilliant with Dan, its very sad he was only 34, too young.....

Charlie Chuck on James Whale

Pure Genius

I have always had a golden rule, try not to volunteer for anything, I spent 20 odd years as a Scout Leader and the last 10 away from it swearing blind I would never go back, until I was lulled into a false sense of security last night, my mate Matt is a District Commisioner and managed to get a few beers inside me and somehow I have woken up today as the Scouts H&S advisor, god I must be mad, what have I done??
Yours in Shorts

"In retrospect, of course I regret calling them morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate."... Simon Jordans quote about Charlton fans, such a nice man, so it is with great pleasure that Charlton have achieved their first away win of the season at Selhurst Park against Mr Perma Tans pathetic Palace! what a wonderful day to be an imbecile......

I am feeling a tad victimized, several members of the female species at work have taken to comparing one or two of my expensive shirts to tablecloths and a quilt, of course I am mortified, especially when you consider I spent good money on these shirts, there is a gang of 4 that seem to be leading on this, they have now introduced 'shirt watch' amongst themselves and have taken to emailing each other when they discover which shirt I am wearing, and they copy me into these emails, today we reached a nadir....the 4 have offered to take me shopping and help me select new shirts, now I have been shopping with women before, particularly a certain kiwi (who is possibly the most difficult woman I have ever come across with regard to shopping) and the thought of going with 4 of them at once is too terrifying to consider (shopping that is), so I have politely declined the offer. They are now threatening to kidnap me and force me, and they have come up with the wheeze of a shirt designing contest, with the top design being worn by me at our end of year party, it ain't happening, trust me!

Also had a diversity questionaire to complete yesterday, I wont mention who sent it to me because to single out my local fire brigade would frankly be wrong..... now the questions were a scream, had us in stitches at work, one of the best questions was how many of our staff are LGBT? apparently LBGT means Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transperson, now I have come across one or two lesbians (i was her experiment) bisexual (see previous answer) and gay (I seemed to attract them in my younger days I am told)members of society but I was confused by Transpersons..... it turns out that is the new name for transexuals.... firstly i blamed Mayor Ken, but then I thought, hang on there is a government department that collects statistics, The Office of National Statistics, so its their fault I wasted half a day collating this info, how do I know about the Office of National Statistics? My big brother works for them, so therefore it his fault.......

Yours in Astonishment
PS Isn't Friends Reunited great? :)
PPS I would also like to point out that I have never been propositioned by a transperson, as far as I am aware.....now where is my green pen?

Get in there!!!!!
Its win win all the way today as far as I am concerned! Charlton came back from 2-0 at half time to win 3-2 at the Valley this afternoon! I was providing live match updates to BRFM, my broadcast assistant and I (haha behave Ms White!) were coming up with dodgy cliches for my reports, I think the phrase 'Charlton are going at it like a rabid dog on heat' was by far the best! Next weeks it Crystal Palarse at Sellout Park, another great chance to annoy Perma Tan Man Simon Jordan, The Charlton fans were warming up very nicely for that one!
Right I am off bath and an evening of celebrating in the best possible way!
Yours in Anticipation

I went to the Museum of Childhood this afternoon, was hoping to see lots of stuff I recall, but came away disappointed, cant help thinking the layout is wrong, it would be great if it was spit into era's, rather than the way it has been done, the coffee was good, thats always important for me, but the place was full of kids!!! noisy little sods.

Sorry its been a bit quiet on here, have been busy but not posting on here those movements!!!
I have a friend, a very good friend, female and I am not romantically involved with her (thought it best to get that bit out of the way) she does something very strange, you see every time we chat she seems to be in the bath, the other night she was in a marvelously echo filled bathroom in one of Londons best hotels, does anybody else have this habit of making calls from the bath? i did call Julz once on my mobile in the loo, she was not impressed!

Aliens are abducting men with large sex organs. You should be safe. I'm just writing this post to say goodbye.

I have noticed that as I have hit middle age, I do enjoy a good moan, in fact I seem to be actively seeking shoddy service to complain about, take last Friday on the way to Wales, our second stop was at Leigh Delamare on the M4, now we had 4 thirsty kids and two tea seeking missiles (myself and Stephen) so we purchased 4 fizzy drink and two cups of tea, £15.55!!!! I looked at the poor hapless guy on the checkout and then began to berate him about what a rip off it was and that in my younger days it was never that expensive. Of course I duly handed over the cash and shuffled on mumbling to myself.
I have been sitting at home looking forward to my son starting at his new school, not because I think he will develop into a well rounded citizen, oh not me, I am already at an advanced stage of planning for moaning at the head teacher, who I have seen at the open evening and was already sizeing him up for a future clash!! as for his head of year, am going to have some fun with him!!

I am also getting annoyed with Kevin Wheatley or whatever his name is, you remember Sgt Lewis form Morse? well he seems to be on every radio advert going at the moment, and his voice for some reason gets me annoyed, as soon as the git comes on the radio I turn over, the man is as dull as that other halfwit Nasser Hussain. As for James Allen, death would be a release for him!!!!

I must be getting old, the weekend and yesterday ripping out a fireplace have caught up with me and I have been sleeping all afternoon, young Dan has been at home instead of training with Kent, it was rained off, they sent me a text at 7am to tell me! so I have had Dan around all day, which was great when I woke up from a snooze as he made me a nice cup of tea.

Been sifting through photos of the weekend, 180 of em!!! there are some very good ones in there.

A flurry of emails has passed between myself and the ex of many years ago.... all very disconcerting for an old bugger like me. I did see her about 4 years ago when I worked at the museum, should have said hello but I am a coward!

Well we have just got back from a cracking weekend in Wales with a 4 kids!! was awesome fun, did you anyone see the big hold up on the M25 Friday? well we sat there for 6 hours!!! took nearly 11 hours to get there.

Had another message from the ex of 23 years ago.....gawd

Ok well it has taken 12 hours or so but I have finally opened the message..... your correspondent is now in a state of confusion....oh dear.... she just wanted to say hello and catch up, thats 23 years of catching up you realise, jesus wept that sounds an awful long time. So now I have to compose a reply......

Sorry for not posting in a while! been a tad busy...
We all remember our first real love, I am not talking about the poor lass you held hands a kissed in the school playground, no I mean the one that you fell for hook line and sinker, the one who made your heart skip a beat when you saw them, the one you loved so much it put you off your food, and the one that broke your heart into tiny pieces, do you get the picture? well i had my big first was when I was 21 ish and by god did i fall..... she shall remain nameless, well I have not spoken to her since 1984!!!! thats 23 years with no contact, so I get home from cricket practice and there in my inbox is a message from friends reunited, and its from her!!!! as yet I have been very cowardly and not opened it..... I am 44 for gods sake! why dont I just open it... answers on a postcard please!!!

We are off to the Brecons in the morning, for a weekend of walking relaxing and maybe the odd drink here or there, cannot wait, and I have a whole week off work....bliss

Right it has been all quiet on the radio front lately, but this morning I have had an offer to present a Friday night show.....the travel is not bad, oooh very tempting.....

Went to the Royal Albert Hall last night for the Proms, saw the Countess of Wessex....I would if he won't!!! It was very good, as we were in a box I stocked up on Gin and Tonic whilst my companions got stuck into a bottle of white, I would like to praise the bar staff, but sadly I cannot, our barman was a shocker, a rude ignoramous of the first order! anyway a good time was had by all and I am back tonight for an evening of brass.
Cricket tomorrow with the Old Finch playing, the weather report gets better as each hour passes so hopefully we will get a game if not the Stars profits will rise, as Lover Boy (Dan) is staying at his mums until Monday, so Dad is off the leash... the poor boy is in love! his new beau telephoned the other day and called me Mr Finch! very polite this girl... Dad approves.

Waterloo and Sex

Found an interesting way to enjoy coffee with a friend on Waterloo Station, when not looking at the screen showing a gay rugby scrum!!!!, we convinced ourselves that everyone who was walking through the station hand in hand or together had just come from a secret location somewhere at the station, which is a swingers place, and these couples had just picked out each others keys and they were off for a shag fest at a local hotel.... sad I know but great fun, oh and I have been asked to point out we talked about sex for a whole hour!!!!

Two Finch's on the pitch!!!

Well this Sunday see's a very rare event, The Star CC take on Old Dartfordians, at Avery Hill, and for the first time in The Star Cricket Clubs history, two Finch's will take to the field, Myself being the one, the other will not be Kent's finest, Daniel, but my slightly older and plumper brother Bill. Dan cannot play for a Club as low as us due to the fact he is know property of Kent!!!! well thats his story and he is sticking to it.

Tis the season for footie rumours!!!
I see in certain papers Charlton are chasing Danny Murphy, now I have a sneaking suspicion that some Charlton fans may not want him back, but I think they should remember that Murphy was one of many players that the 'not so' great Curbs clashed with , I refer you to Smertin, Konchesky and many others, all to the detriment of the team, had Murphy not clashed with Curbs in the first place he would have stayed and provided the class we needed to stay up, but Curbs does not tolerate players disagreeing with him, the way Konchesky was allowed to leave was a disgrace, when you have a choice between ageing Chris Powell and young Paul Konchesky does it not make sense to go with youth? obviously not, I for one feel the state of the team Dowie inherited was shocking, and that is down to Curbs.

Kent swoop for youngster

It appears young Dan is rather talented, he has been asked to attend coaching with Kent County Cricket Club, must have inherited his fathers abilities.........

The Joy of Facebook

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The Fabulous Spongmonkeys

I must be mad, I am off in August with Dan, my mate Stephen and his 3 boys, we are having a weekend in the Brecon Beacons, and taking the boys to show them the Waterfalls that we have spent so many years exploring. We will be camping on a farm in Ystradfellte, about 10 mins walk from the New Inn (very handy) which has been run for the 25 years I have been going by Selwyn, now I have noticed that the licensing laws are an oddity to Selwyn and they are there to be abused! We are also close to Porth Yr Ogorf caves which are awesome we will take the boys to the cave entrance but not inside, its one of the most dangerous caves in the country. Should be a good weekend and there will be plenty of photos taken. There is a rumour coming from Bridgend that my big brother may join us for the weekend.

I think West Ham may be in deep trouble over Tevez, they claimed at there hearing last season that they had torn up the agreement with the dodgy Iranian who 'owns' him, now when it comes to him signing for Man Utd suddenly the dodgy Iranian wants the cash from the transfer? West Ham may have torn up the agreement but it sounds like a one sided affair to me, this all hinges on who gets any fee, if West Ham get the fee, well everything is ok, but if it is paid to the agent then West Ham as far as I can see still had the same arrangement in place that cost them a £5 million + fine and should then receive a points deduction, and that points deduction should come off of last season, therefore relegating them immediately, and Sheffield United should be back in the Premier League.... Ho hum we are still down but I think West Ham have lied and lied time and time again over this and should be seriously punished.
Charlton started their campaign last night with a 2-0 win at Welling, goals from Luke Varney and Chris Dickson, I look the look of the players Pards is signing, looks like its going to be a good season, Palace have failed to sign hardly anyone of note, and with any luck will struggle, cant wait to hear the reception the Charlton faithful give Simon 'Perma Tan' Jordan, after all the man is a complete pratt

God I am so pissed off.

I have been told by my technician that I should go on an anger management course, cannot think why I need to do that, I am convinced my lack of niocotine has nothing to do with this at all.............

Vive Le France!!! We have just walked 5 mins down the road and watched the Tour De France hammer past, blink and you miss these buggers, they are very very quick, had some fun with a jobsworth PC who once the race had passed refused to let me cross the road to get home, so we had a discussion where i told him i was about to cross a public highway he told me i would get arrested, and i might get hit by a passing bike, now bearing in mind they had all past with there support vehicles some 10 minutes earlier it was quite obvious to anyone with half a brain that the road was clear, but not PC NoBrain, oh no you shall not cross was his attitude... so after pointing out he would have a lot of trouble getting a charge to stick I crossed the road into an animated roasting from PC No Brain number 2, who I chose to ignore!!!! I blame the bloody French!!!! Please note this outburst is in no way related to the fact I have given up smoking....
Yours in a Rage

As of Tuesday night at around 7pm the Finch household became a smoke free zone, not a fag has passed my lips... i visited the Dr to day to do some tests and in two days the CO2 levels in my body have dropped already, my sense of taste is improving, which is more than can be said for my sense of humour, my technician stupidly decided today was the day to take the piss out of me.... wrong move, said technician left the office sharpish after a severe tongue lashing, I can confirm that my lack of nicotine had absolutely nothing to do with the tongue lashing...

Go on you know you want to, it would be fun!!

Greetings
Today could be what is classed as a red letter day in the Finch household, I have spent the last month putting together our companies Smoking Policy, and organising our no smoking signage for 1000s of blocks of flats, briefing staff who run care homes and generally being the Trusts Smoke Free Tsar, all very well I hear you say, but as a man who has banned smoking across the trust in certain areas I have come under some pressure to cut down and stop, so today whilst at the Dr's sorting out my insides following the weekends camping in the lav, I mentioned to my Dr I would like to give up smoking (true) i also mentioned I had tried patches, gum, hypnotherapy and also was given beta blockers by my previous Dr to help me with my raging moods when i have tried before, so my Dr (who is the best I have ever had) suggested these pills, I take them for 8 -14 days and set a date to stop, then continue to take them for another month, they kill the craving and the mood swings, so 5th July is the day I stop, and every day I will put the cash aside that I would have spent on the evil weed and save up for my new MP3 player and some most excellent headphones, then we shall save for a 6 foot blonde with blue eyes and breasts to die for.....well you have to dream
Yours temporarily out of breath

Long time no blog! to be honest been a bit busy at work. Took Daniel up to town yesterday we went to the National Gallery then headed to Leicester Square to see West End Live, we went up by boat from Greenwich Pier to Westminster, arriving at lunchtime we stopped off in a place I know for lunch, which was nice but the after effects were pretty awful..... About 10.30 last night I felt a little bit sick which moved on to me throwing up until 4am this morning.... it was without doubt the longest night of my life...... so today has been very quiet, spent the day on the sofa flicking through Sky and worked out there is bugger all on tv on a Sunday..... normally when I feel like this I would take tomorrow off, but I am going to have go in regardless of how i feel, I have 1000's of No Smoking signs to send out in time for July 1st, so think of me tomorrow in between trips to the loo I will be counting out these bloody signs......
Yours in green

Wow what a busy weekend, Shopping for a futon mattress proved to be frustrating, but somehow whilst looking for the mattress I managed to purchase a new cricket bag and some new towels, not quite sure how I managed that! Saturday evening was spent at The Last Boys Scouts 30th (looks 40) birthday bash, which was a giggle, and had 95% of New Romney Mountain Rescue in attendance so the conversation turned filthy very quickly!
Sunday I was back on the cricket pitch where the my team (the Star) thrashed the living daylights out of The Priory CC, they beat us 3 weeks ago so we returned the favour with extras! After the game it was back to the Star for food and beer, I collapsed in a wretched heap when I got home last night, and woke up for work feeling very old..... Am on a course all week so plenty of time for sleep!
Yours in Dreamland

Greetings from Plumsteadshire, my bank have been very good and seemed to have agreed that I was not in Oxford Street ona spending spree and was in fact in Denmark! all sorted methinks.

The anti biotics finish today, so this weekend I am off the leash and loose amongst the alcohol again! which is perfect timing as I am at a birthday bash this weekend at Charlton FC, along with other members of the New Romney Mountain Rescue Team, so it promises to be a lively night.

Several people have wondered why New Romney, being marshland needs a Mountain Rescue Team, a very good question, well one reason is Dungeness Lighthouse (pictured) is very tall, and we are ready and on call if some poor member of the public needs rescueing. And there are some large mounds of sheep dung around the marsh which can ben tricky! add in the steam railway and global warming and the need is definitely there! I can expand on the reasons but you will need to ring me after 10pm Saturday night once I have a had a few sherberts to fully explain.

New Blog!

The New Romney Mountain Rescue Team has set up a Blog, have a look at http://newromneymountainrescueteam.blogspot.com/. The adventures of this crack world famous rescue team will be posted on their blog.

I think I may be getting old, the reason is Greenwich Council are holding some sort of event on the green at the back of my humble abode, which is fine with me, except they have some git playing music, now i like music but frankly the crap they are playing is doing my head in, Ricky bloody Martin has been blaring, and the DJ reminds me of a certain DJ on a recent radio station I was on, the twat has just played Bob the feckin Builder for gods sake..... I may resort to going out there and doing something illegal with the speaker wires, why have I had no warning of this? I was looking forward to a QUIET day at home......bastards

I had a busy weekend planned, out tonight with my Nephew (Blue Oyster Bar I presumed, as he writes with a green pen) and then out again tomorrow evening with rest planned in between, which would have involved me drinking alcohol which frankly speaking I can handle! but I had a an abcess come up and as a result am on anti biotics and not allowed to drink!!! so anyone any ideas as to what I can get up to this weekend?

Proud to be an addick is now available from Charlton Athletic Club shop, and all proceeds go to Demelza House Childrens Hospice, this is a pic of Dan and I in the studio doing our bit, with us is Jon Mc's son David, was a good giggle and the song sounds great! So get out and buy it!!!

I have fallen victim to a Card scam, apparently last Saturday I went on a shopping spree in Central London! sounds great, love to have seen what I purchased, problem is I was in Denmark! so some bugger has got my card details and had some fun with my cash! spoke to the bank last night, and they have cancelled my card, and extended the overdraft and are promising to pay the money back, so thats ok... would love to get my hands on the thieving gits, it annoys me, I earn my money through hard working, and then some thieving arsehole who has probably never had a job comes along and steals it, because they cannot be bothered to work, and think the world owes them a living. Its high time these people were caught and put away, they are serial offenders and 3 strikes and your out would go a long way to stopping this type of low life, and I dont care what the tree hugging human rights think, commit 3 crimes and thats your lot for a very long time, these bastards should get what they deserve.....

Went to a quiz night last night with some mates, its amazing the crap you store in your brain! although we thought that if we did not know the answer to a literature question JR Hartley was a good answer, we were hopeful that the question would come up who wrote the fly fishing book in the yellow pages ad, shame it never came up. We did not disgrace ourselves, well not on the quiz sheets, but our conversation topics become even more disgusting as the evening wore on, and we have discovered that one member would not take one for the team! most upsetting and a big let down for the New Romney Mountain Rescue Team.... we also would dearly love to see a DVD that was mentioned last night!

The New Romney Mountain Rescue Team will be assembling soon for their annual training trip, and I have it on good authority that they will be going 'home' for the weekend, a trip to New Romney is being planned which will include mountain rescue techniques, kart handling and beer swilling! I think we are going to give extreme ironing a miss this time round, been there done that on Cader Idris, so a new extreme sport is called for, any suggestions let me know!
AT the top is a couple of pics of the New Romney Mountain Rescue Team training hard, young Andy Bitch had mad himself a glass skirt out of smirnoff ice bottles!
Yours in strawberry jam

Well we have arrived home from out weekend in Denmark, the pic is of Aarhus where we stay, the canal runs through the centre of town, and in this pic you can see my favourite watering holes! a few cold ones and some nice food...perfect. We had an eventful weekend, we arrived at Aarhus airport early Friday morning to discover that Dans luggage had not, the suitcase arrived at midnight and was collected by a rather "tired and emotional" me, I had purchased a rather fine whisky in London and taken it out with me, unfortunately Anton and Stinne our hosts had thrown several bottles of fine red wine, brandy and whisky down my neck before we went and collected the case. Saturday was a bit of shopping in town and Saturday evening was a repeat of Friday night, only more wine, Brandy and huge amounts of whisky, I am told i crawled into bed at aroud 4 am! Sunday for some reason was very quiet, I cooked them a full english breakfast then retired to the sofa fpr several hours of eye resting! In the afternoon i tried out the Nintendo Wii which is awesome, spent 2 hours playing tennis against all comers and retired undefeated, more alcohol Sunday and a man flu at 6am this moring for the flight home, which ended with the scariest landing of my life!

Look at that handsome lad in the black, almost as good looking as his old man!!!

We are off to Denmark tomorrow, having to get up at 3am!!! so no posts until Monday night at the least.

Here's some advice for you:Dr. Neil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all
the
things you have started.
So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't
finished;
and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of
Merlot, a bottle of Cardonay , a bole of Baileys, a butle of Kehuha, a
pockage of Tim Toms , tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins,
the
res of the Chesescke, some saltins an a bax a cholates.

Yu haf no idr who gud I fel.
*Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece

Afternoon, just got back from the Valley watching Dan walk out as a mascot for a charity match, boy is he full of it now he has put the ball in the back of the net on the hallowed turf! Well the Charity Single is on sale at the ground tonight and should be online soonish, all proceeds go to Demelza House Childrens Hospice, the total count raised so far for this worthy cause is £13000+ and there are two ways to donate 1. buy the single at www.charltonlife.com 2. you can donate at http://www.justgiving.com/charltonlife and you can hear a preview of the song at http://www.charltonlife.com/blog/?p=125 even i f you are not a Charlton fan please make a donation at the justgiving site, these kids deserve to enjoy what time they have.
Yours in Wogan mode

Well the aches have now spread to the shoulders, hardly surprising considering I bowled!
Heard one of the funniest exchanges on a sports field yesterday, we were toiling away in the field trying to remove two stubborn batsmen, Nicky one of our bowlers bowled a ball that was going down the off side in the corridor of uncertainty, the batsmen a less than mobile gent played and missed it by a mile, our Skipper standing a silly point (very technical jargon this) leapt out shouting howzat!!! cue two batsmen two umpires and 10 fielders staring at disbelief at our skipper "i heard a nick" he said, to whcih the batsmen replied "yes you did the ball hit my wooden leg" cue the team in giggles

Oh sweet jesus, I am in a mess, I forgot what its like to play a days cricket, bowling 10 overs and making a stunning diving catch!!! my knees are stuffed, my back, shoulder, arms, legs ache..... but who cares, the weather was good, and the game was fun, and the beer and food after was excellent, of course we all went through our best moments of the game, although I did keep rather quiet about my first over which went for 12 runs....... and we lost by the way, but who cares?

The big day has arrived, its my first game for The Star, somewhere in darkest Wandsworth! have spent most of the morning looking for some essential kit, knee bandage, without which I am stuffed and my box! bearing in mind my recent medical disaster regarding the christmas crackers I think the box is fairly important, I really dont fancy being carted off on a stretcher clutching the crown jewels again! alhtough the morphine once in A&E was marvellous I dont fancy the surgery again and walking around like a crab...... I fancy myself for a few wickets today and maybe a boundary before I spoon a catch to mid wicket!!!

The last show went well yesterday, we had a good laugh, some twat called George emailed in to ask for more music less football, as it was my last show I let him know on air it was a sports show! I think I was fair with him, there were a few risque gags, Simon nearly wet himself when I played fat bottomed girls with a juicy commment. Jon Mac came on to plug Proud to be an Addick, its very catchy I played it to Simon once in the car and he picked up the chorus in no time! It will be available to download soon on www.charltonlife.com, will let you know more details as soon as I have them, all proceeds go to Demelza House Kids Hospice, so even if your a not a fan dig deep and get a copy!!!

So now I have Saturday afternoons free again, which is great, looking forward to the new radio venture coming soon!

Finale

Well its finally here, the last show on BRFM for me, although we may do the odd late night show as cover, I need to say thanks to a few people, Dave Williams my co presenter who will be taking over, Dave has taken all the stick thrown at him very well and done a cracking job, Simon Emmett, Si another co presenter who has driven me down and come up with some cracking stuff, and was on air with me when we taught the island Mandarin Chinese, John the Leg End Pitts, Sittingbourne's man on the spot, his reporting was always spot on, and he took the grief we gave him well, will miss his banetr, cheers John, Mark Rogers from Sheppey Sunday League, despite being a West Ham fan he was on the blower the night Charlton went down, top man, and Bertie and Sue who have come in and helped out form time to time, and finally my son Dan, bless him he has had to put up with travelling every other Saturday but has helped out on the show, and even got himself on air, thanks to you all!!!
Listen this afternoon we have Mark Rogers live at Wembley, 3 Blokes from F Block and the Herberts with their new charity single, Simon and Dave will be there so dont miss it!
www.brfm.net

Oh dear, a word of warning, if you are ever hosting a radio show, don't
let Simon Emmett anywhere near the playlist!!!
He has come up with this mad idea for the last show to play as many
Cup Final songs as possible, so it seems we will be stuck listening to some Argie singing "in de cup for tottingam"....gawd

Ok I have applied for UAE and have a meeting next week...fingers crossed!!!!
Now my much traveled friend Ginny has told me where I can drink and that the cost of living is low, so thats good advice.

World Premier Saturday

We have spent the evening in a studio recording our latest classic!
Its called Proud to be and addick, and hurls abuse at Crystal Palarse, which is good news in my book, its catchy little tune, and we will have the first play of the song on the show Saturday, which of course is my last show on BRFM, the song will be used to raise money for Delemelza, and John Mc and Mike Westergaard have written and produced it, Mike does this for a living, watch the credits for ITV's The Bill and you will see Mikes name alongside the theme tune, and has done loads of stuff over the years, so its no two bob operation. Simon will join Dave and I in the studio this week, we will be keeping one eye on the Cup Final and playing snippets of crap cup final songs, so join us 4-7pm this Saturday www.brfm.net.
Cheers me dears