Please no more ice cream

Last weekend I spent the Sunday in a park with FREE ice cream!
Not just any ice-cream but Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
It was the first Ben & Jerry's festival in Manchester. For all of £17 this included great bands, a mini farm, games, activities and all you can eat ice cream!
I had 20 Ben & Jerry's flavours to choose from from, I sadly couldn't do all of them, i wanted to but just couldn't. Strawberry cheese cake, cookie dough and chunky monkey were a few of my favourites.



The bands playing were a couple of small bands to start with, then Steve Craddock. Plus we also saw on the acoustic stage a great female singer called "she makes war" definitely one to watch out for.

Next on was Ash who just happen to be my all time favourite band since way back in 1994. Hit singles "girl from mars", "Kung Fu and "Angel Interceptor" really started it off for them in 1996 and they're still going strong now as they showed by their performance on the day playing a variation of mainly classics with a few new songs thrown in.




Fun lovin' Criminals were next on. A band who I've once seen playing in Oldham town centre on a Sunday afternoon, yes Oldham town centre.
They always play a great set and with the hot sun out you almost felt you were in the states watching them.

The headline act was Ocean Colour Scene, who like Ash have been around for a good few years. Yet again another great band. A nice end to the evening with the sun going down listening to some great anthems.





I just hope they do it again next year, I'll stay off food a few days before then try and eat all 20 flavours next time.

Plus I got sun burnt, even in Manchester you can get sun burnt!


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It's Nearly here

I finally picked up my season ticket for Oldham yesterday from Boundary Park (the home of football) Finally feels like the football season is just around the corner now. Pre-season friendlies have begun, a couple of players signed. The word "Excited" comes to mind. You seem to forgot about last seasons woes, its like a fresh start. however the team pissed you off or annoyed you, its forgotten about now but yet you still always seem to hold some things against certain players : like the striker who can't score or the keeper who can't hold the ball and causes the defence to panic and certainly isn't a brilliant keeper.

The fun of the message boards, rumours about who your team is signing or selling keeps you on your toes till the season begins. Also the new kit release is always fun, clubs are always looking for a new way of getting it noticed. Like this season Man City are using the lesser of the Gallagher brothers to help promote it in a very over the top video.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2015077/Liam-Gallagher-launches-Manchester-City-kit.html
Oldham even used former Page 3 model and local girl Michelle Marsh to help with the kit launch back in 2004. The new kit worn by Michelle Marsh was beamed onto Oldham the town centres main building. Which got more than a thumbs up from most Oldham fans.

So with just a few weeks to go before the season begins, for non football fans this means its the start of Hell. Arguments will begin at this point with the Wife or Girlfriend over the football. The same words about "why you watching this, you don't even support them"  will be heard through out the land. Some kind of Football game will be on TV nearly every day come the start of August right through to May. I think this is why Sky Sports brought it out on mobile TV, so you can always resort to watching it on your phone when you can't get near the TV.  At least football has a break, TV soaps are on nearly every day and all year round. Best idea is to find a women who hates TV soaps & loves watching football.....problem solved.

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Is it me or is nearly every advert these days spoke over by a welsh person? Joanna Page from Gavin and Stacey seems to be the one who's the main culprit. This could be that apart from Gavin and Stacey she's a very limited acctress. She seems to be riding on the success of the Gavin and Stacey series. Already she has done voice overs for Kingsmill Bread, Carphone Warehouse and various others.

Two of  my favourite old shows made me love the Welsh accent were Will Cwac Cwac and Ivor the Engine.

Will Cwac Cwac

Ivor the Engine

Will Cwac Cwac was on from 1984 to 1986 and was a story of  a welsh duck living with his parents in a little farm house where he would go out and have lots of adventures. Ivor the Engine  was a story  about a train who likes to whistle and has a mind of his own.

There's nothing wrong with the Welsh accent but there is no need for it to be everywhere on every advert, Leave it to kids TV programmes. This is where the Welsh accent is perfect for. Story telling by a Welsh accent is nice and relaxing especially when you are a kid. 

I'm not having a go at the Welsh People unlike this guy who asked " Why are some Welsh people dark?" and the answer he was given was "something to do with the coal" see link: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080426045526AArDHyY

If i had my own way, the Women who did the voice over for the M&S adverts who be doing the voice over for every advert.

She even makes me want to eat Lincolnshire red cabbage and i HATE cabbage!

Barcode madness

The barcode craze seems to just getting started but what's all the fuss all about?

Right lets get the technical stuff out the way. A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally, barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines. Later they evolved into rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns in 2D.

Barcodes years ago were only scanned using handheld barcode readers. Not anymore, In the last couple of years due to the popularity of  smart phones, you can pick up your phone and scan a barcode to check the price and even watch a new film trailer or website just by scanning a barcode. Its come along way since the first barcode scanning of  a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974.

Are people now going to get a tattoo of a barcode on their body, so people can scan them. It will start off a new craze of walking advertising. 

So before i get my Blog link Tattooed on my head i thought i would try it on here: 

Using your phone scanning  app, scan the barcode below on your computers screen or on a separate phone & it should give you a link so you'll be able to view my blog on your phone. Also a good way of sharing the blog address.

Just hope they don't bring back the the Barcode Battler handheld gaming console! it was released way back in 1991 when i was a kid.

The console was supplied with a number of cards, each of which had a barcode. Upon starting the game, the player must swipe a barcode representing a player. The game uses barcodes to create a character for the player to use.  Some barcodes activated enemies or powerups. As well as the barcodes provided with the game itself you could find and scan barcodes from everyday products like food and cleaning products with would give you monsters and power ups.

Once the game itself is started, the characters "battle" against each other. The characters' statistics were applied to a random number generator to determine the outcome of each round in the fight.

it wasn't much popular at my school, i think only one person had one.

So lets sod ID cards and just tattoo everyone who's commited a serious crime with thier own Barcode ID on their neck. Which list all the crimes committed by the person!