28 July 2009

Pooh Goes Apeshit

A.A. Milne

Everything was rather quiet in the hundred acre wood. The trees whispered to each other as the wind rustled their leaves. Under a large oak tree, there lived Pooh bear. From inside Pooh's house, there came a steady bang...bang... bang!, that was making his honey jars rattle on the sideboard. The light came through the window, and in the evening sun Pooh raised the axe once more and brought it down on the tattered remains of Christopher Robin.

"Why...won't... he...fit..." puffed Pooh to himself as the axe came down once more.

There was a small pile of earth, and a hole next to it, which Pooh had hidden with his favourite rug. Christopher Robin, selfish prat that he was, didn't quite fit in the hole Pooh had dug, so instead of making it wider he had decided to hack Christopher Robin's legs off.

"A far more sensible idea", thought Pooh, and hummed a little song to himself as he cut the last tendon and rammed the rest of the body in the hole, finally covering it up with the rug.

"Always too bossy", thought Pooh, "Always too bossy, always grabbing me by the paw and saying 'Come on Pooh lets have an adventure' or 'Pooh you are silly!' in that affected cutesy spoilt brat voice, and his stupid little shorts - bastard!"

Pooh had waited all afternoon for Christopher Robin to come round, humming a little tuneless song to himself whilst gazing blankly into the fire and fondling the oaken handle of the axe. When C.R. had finally turned up, squeaking in his child-actor voice "Come on Pooh! Open Up!", Pooh had answered the door normal as anything, talked about the weather, and then went to the cupboard and fetched the axe. While C.R. had sat there, prattling on about what a silly bear Pooh was and how he had very little brain (which wound Pooh up no end) Pooh had raised the axe high and brought it down with a satisfying thud on Christopher Robin's skull, cleaving it virtually in two, with just some muscle fibre in place to keep the pieces upright, and freezing C.R's eyes wide in horror that Pooh, lovable Pooh, could do such a thing! Pooh giggled a little and wiped some saliva from his mouth with a shaky paw. Then Pooh, calm as anything, had mopped up the blood, washed the axe and begun to dig the hole.

Piglet had wondered why Pooh had not called for him that morning, to have his tea and biscuits, and so he decided to visit Pooh instead. He admired the evening sun, blood red, and listened to the birds singing. Pooh watched him get nearer and nearer, and plugged in the drill.

Piglet had no time to realise what had happened - the drill pierced his skull, sending a beautiful fountain of blood all over Pooh's orange hide. He rubbed the blood in and all over himself, licking, licking, always licking. Then he pulled Piglet inside and put him in the cupboard. The syringe lay on the sideboard, and Pooh picked it up, paws shaking and sweating, and filled it full of solution of the funny white powder that had been given to him by a strangely spaced-out Rabbit. It was a strange effect at first, and Pooh thought he had seen many strange things, but then experienced a euphoric feeling of power. It made him irritable, and C.R. and Piglet had everything that was coming to them, no doubt at all. When night had fully fallen, Pooh dragged the bodies out and buried them in a makeshift grave.

"Adios, dear 'friends'", Pooh giggled, "Things are going to change around the 100-acre wood now I'm in charge" he laughed hysterically and went indoors.

The next day Tigger and Roo made their way happily to Pooh's house, to see if he knew where C.R. and Piglet were, as no-one had seen them since yesterday. They were sure Pooh would know, as he had had tea with Piglet yesterday and was meant to be playing Pooh-sticks with C.R. in the morning.

When they reached Pooh's house the door was wide open and Pooh was nowhere to be seen. Tigger and Roo looked inside Pooh's house and noticed a large hole in Pooh's floor and a notice was stuck on the wall with a large blob of congealing honey "OWT CHAGIG THE DRAGGN" (spelling had never been one of Pooh's strong points).

"That's odd", though Tigger, "there are no dragons in the 100-acre wood only heffalumps. What is that silly bear up to now?"

Not even Tigger would have imagined what Pooh was up to at that moment. That morning Pooh had woken with a splitting headache and a rather snotty nose. So he had taken a large dose of the white powder and a little while later had a brilliant idea! He left the house with a container marked insecticide in big red letters. He took the container and went to Eeyore's favourite patch of thistles.

"This will serve that manic depressive donkey right" laughed Pooh aloud, "always cheating at Pooh-sticks, cheats never prosper", Pooh said to himself.

Then he hid behind a tree to watch the unsuspecting Eeyore eat himself to death - sheer poetic justice thought Pooh as he dumped the nearly dead body of Eeyore in the same grave as C.R. and Piglet.

"Shouldn't cheat should you?", shouted Pooh as Eeyore's eyes stared with disbelief. "You're lucky I didn't chop you up into little bits and feed you to Tigger!", laughed Pooh manically, before he covered the makeshift grave over.

Pooh didn't return to the house until dinner time as he was totally spaced out all morning. So when he returned to his house he was in an awful mood and all he needed to make him absolutely mad was the sight of Tigger and Roo bouncing up and down outside his house singing "bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, the wonderful....".

"'Wonderful'?", thought Pooh aloud, "My foot, you'd think the writer of this shitty story could think up better lyrics for a song than that, and to think, they released the sound-track album on cassette and CD; a lot of people are going to get ripped off." This lightened Pooh's mood somewhat, but the respite was brief.

"What was that you said?", asked Roo.

"God does he never stop asking pathetic questions?", Pooh thought furiously. "I'm going to have to deal with these prats as well. Is there no-one in this place with intelligence apart from me?" Pooh asked despairingly."

Pooh felt himself extremely lucky as Roo had to go home for his afternoon sleep and that left Tigger at his mercy. Even better, Tigger suggested that himself and Pooh go and play Pooh-sticks; Pooh had smiled slyly as an idea formed in his overactive brain, and agreed.

"What an opportunity", Pooh whispered to himself as he followed the innocent Tigger to the bridge.

Once on the bridge, and the rather pointless game of Pooh-sticks was under way, Pooh thought he'd much rather push his stick up Tigger's arse, rather than throwing it into the stream. Tigger was leaning over the side of the bridge looking for his stick. So he did not see Pooh's wide horrific grin as he outstretched his arms and moved toward Tigger with the intent of pushing the stupid cat into the stream.

"Cats hate water, tee hee, he'll drown."

There was a loud splash as Tigger hit the water and started to struggle as his head was covered by water, he gulped and choked. Pooh was holding on to the rail of the bridge and jumping up and down with excitement and was joyously shouting at the drowning Tigger.

"Why?", spluttered Tigger as he slowly started to turn blue with the cold, which Pooh found hysterical, after all a blue Tigger? How absolutely silly.

"I'll tell you why you bastard", screamed Pooh, "It serves you right, hiding behind doors and jumping out, and scaring the shit out of people." Tigger did not hear Pooh's answer as he was already floating downstream face down in the water, dead. "Good riddance", laughed Pooh, and looked at his watch. "Still time to get that little dick-head Roo before he wakes up."

Pooh sneaked to the sleeping form of Roo's mum and saw Roo's ear poking out of her pouch.

"Now I've got you, you little git", Pooh thought, smiling, as he threaded a needle with extra strong cotton. He was jolly grateful for Piglet's sewing lessons now, because he would be able to sew up Roo nice and tightly, so he would not be able to get out and his mum would not be able to rescue him. So very slowly and carefully Pooh began to sew Roo into his pouch and thereby suffocating the annoying idiotic twit. After the deed was done Pooh made his way back to his house wondering how Roo's mum would take the death of Roo. Badly, hoped Pooh, as he began to cough uncontrollably and felt general nausea overcome him.

By the time Pooh got home he had puked up several times and was very desperate for some more of the white solution. He trembled as he picked up the syringe and gave himself the remaining amount. An awfully large amount, one might say, for a small little bear like Pooh. In fact too much, Pooh died of an overdose, but he died with a smile on his face: he was dreaming that he was the only teddy bear made with a willy and dreamed how he surprised Eeyore one day - but that's a story for another day.

26 July 2009


What a weekend, a gig with Wingit on Friday, up at 5am to drive to Wales and an attempt to reach the top of Pen Y Fan, sadly with driving rain and a very low cloud base we had to go for an alternative walk, still very invigotating, and Young Finch coped very well and seemed to enjoy himself!
Dinner today as Pork and Beans followed by Rhubarb and Custard, a lethal combination, and so it proved on the journey back to London!

The old knee seems to have given up, I have no trouble wlaking on it, but bending when sat down is proving harder, I fear the ligament injury of 18 months ago has returned....

22 July 2009

Well as you can see from the photos Chillax was a giggle, we had a clock malfunction on Saturday morning, after going to bed at 3.30 am, then being woken up by a 16 year old who wanted to make as much noise as possible, we were awoken my Mr Blackett asking me what the time was, barely awake I said 6.30 so up 3 of us got put the kettle on and started thinking about cooking breakfast, it was a this point that Mr Sweenet noticed that my reading of the time was somewhat inaccurate, it was in fact 5.30 am, so after 2 hours sleep we were up and away, sadly for us Mr Sweeney spent the rest of the weekend abusing us! Saturday went well depsite the heat in the kitchen when cooking breakfastsmall kitchen two large men cooking = hot sweaty and horrid, in the evening we did a BBQ for 60 hungry bods, very hard work, then settled down to the Karaoke where the 3 of us let rip with Sweet Transvestite from the Rocky Horror Show, not sure what our charges made of it!
Sunday night at home was a tad quiet, and early night loomed.

School Summer holidays have arrived and this means that Young Finch is about the house, I have given him instructions that he must go outside and tear himself away from the computer, but luckily there is a female on the scene, so its nice and quiet.....

20 July 2009

17 July 2009


Well the 2nd Ashes Test started yesterday, Cook and Strauss got England off to a flier and dominated the poor Aussi bowling from the word go. Mitchell Johnson who came here with a big reputation could not bowl a hoop down a hill (cue Fred Trueman chuntering on) he was a shocker, apparently he is a confidence bowler, well his confidence is shot to pieces. At one stage England were 196-0 and finished the day at 364-6, Bopara, Pietersen, Collingwood, Prior or Flintoff had the opportunity to build a good score and put England firmly in the driving seat, but they all failed, and its left to Strauss and Stuart Broad to try and get England over the 400 mark, when clearly 500+ was on the cards, what is it with our middle order? we needed just one of them to knuckle down and get a big score with Strauss, Bopara looks very nervous, and it just seems to show how awful the West Indies were, Pietersen did his level best to chuck his wicket away before tea. Someone needs to tell them we need to bat for two days on this wicket, and then we are totally in control. Hopefully Broad, Strauss and Swann will add a few more runs today.
Kiwi is ok after her break in, they got in at 4am stole her car keys and made off with the car, the Police came took prints and dont seem to be that confident in catching the buggers.

I see Alan Pardew has been appointed Southampton Manager, well thats them shagged! and I can only imagine the level of abuse that will be aimed at him when he brings the Saints to the Valley, the last time I heard the Charlton fans slaughter someone was when Darren Pitcher (then a Palace player) came back to do a half time draw, the level of abuse was stunning! Pardew will get all he deserves, the fat headed twat.

Off away this weekend with 50 Scouts, following a rather severe hair cut I appear to be almost bald....

15 July 2009

Bad news this morning, The Kiwi was broken into last night she heard a noise at 4am, and woke up to find someone had broken in through the front door and stole her car keys, and now her car is gone! thieving bastards...

13 July 2009

Morning all! Had a brilliant weekend, nice and quiet Friday evening, then a BBQ for a friends little girl on Saturday, which was a good giggle, then off to my nephews on Sunday, Young Finch had a beer Saturday and another Sunday and on this basis has announced that bottled beer is better then canned! 2 beers and he is an expert.....
Wathced the end of the Ashes 1st Test, then roared at Ricky Ponting slamming England for time wasting and celebrating a draw, case of double standards here, I recall Old Trafford 2005 when the Aussies scraped a draw with the last pair hanging on for dear life then celebrating like they had won the damn game! Always though Ricky Ponting was a pratt, now I know and the accuse us of whinging.....

8 July 2009

Mock the week was the funniest 3 hours of my life last night, it was non stop, our sides ached after, on a few occaisions I was in tears of laughter, Michael Jackson featured heavily, how the hell they will get a show out of that filth I will never know

6 July 2009


Off to see Mock the Week being recorded tomorrow, should be a giggle, Young Finch is fuming as its strictly for over 16s only, it is his favourite show! Poor lad. Last time I was in a TV studio I was in front of the cameras, I am told my appearance will be on in the Autumn! Have a look and guess which of us had demolished a vast amount of red wine, there were 3 main culprits, one was a certain Mr Hound the other two should be easy to guess...

Been to a scout meeting this evening, we are having a camp in a few weeks, for our explorer scouts, guess who is doing the cooking all wekend for 50 Explorers plus leaders! The menu is done and we are going on a recce of Makro this week to work out what we need for budget. Talking of cooking instead of going to a BBQ last Saturday a quiet night in was order of the day, a DVD, forgot what it was but it had Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton and was quite clearly a girlie film, and to top it all I cooked a vegetarian bolognese using Quorn.... not the best I have done, but went down well.

Got a letter from Young Finch's school about Swine Flu, I am still not convinced that it is as bad as they say, the stats say nearly 5000 people die every year from various flu strains, this has killed less than 5 and they all had underlying health issues, hyped up old toot as far as I am concerned. According to the letter we have to phone NHS Direct if we have any of the symptoms....waste of a bleeing phone call if you ask my opinion, the symptoms on examinng them seem very similar to man flu....

4 July 2009

Got some bad news yesterday during the day, so what is in a fearful mood when I got home, thenkfully Dan is away! By the time I went out in the evening I was in a better mood, which improved even more after our meal in the noodle bar, not the best idea for my poor knackered old stomach, but was very tasty, after which we retired to a friends place and spent the evening in their pool with some chilled wine! very relaxing. A nice easy day today we had a late breakfast of bacon eggs and now have bugger all planned! marvellous.

Sunday we have a meeting to plan our trip to Switzerland in 2010, a party of 25 explorer scouts and leaders will head off to Switzerland on Boxing Day for a weeks ski-ing and snow boarding, we will all be fundraising to pay for this trip, at about £700 each we believe we can raise the majority of the cash that way, as a side event 2 of us have had long standing ambitions to ride a 4 man bobsleigh and close to where we are staying is one of the best tracks in the world, and we will be having a go, although not driving ourselves we will however be passengers! Young Finch is coming and is looking forward to the trip, what I think he wants to see is the old man make an arse of himself on skis, I would find it hard to dissapoint the little sod! A fellow scout leader with experience of the slopes reckons the more mature members should avoid snowboarding as its a young uns game, and we will find it very difficult, sounds like a challenge to me! The lodge we will stay at is stunning, with stunning views over the Alps, and a great chance for me to get back inot some extreme ironing! Our Explorers have just worked out that you can drink beer in Switzerland aged 16... god help the Swiss, sadly they will be too young to enjoy the delights of the Schnapps, more for me!

3 July 2009

Its amazing what you read on these blogs! especially when people read things totally wrong, I would lke to just say here and now I am not pineing for anyone or hoping anyone will fall in my arms.......
Glad we sorted that, It stops here.