I’ve recently taken up running, I haven’t run since school days see why by clicking below:-

Parkrun Run for your Health and General Well-being

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I’d been sleeping badly for a few months, often waking much too early, this has been making me tired in the day. This was probably due to anxiety caused by a few knock-backs I’d had in 2011. I’d also reluctantly reached the conclusion that it probably wasn’t my t-shirts that were shrinking. Then I read that trauma survivors ran to help get over their experiences. That was when I had my aha moment yes I too will start running/jogging. I started a tentative jog round the back of the sports center and to my surprise was able to graduate to a 5km Parkrun a few weeks later. Find more details of my experience and Parkrun by clicking below

Parkrun : A 5km Run in park near you every Saturday morning

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Lillee c Willey b Dilley is this the funniest ever sports statistic? This was from a cricket match in 1979. I’ve always been fascinated by the strange juxtapositions of surnames. I remember the Welsh Football captain was once Mike England.

There is also the disputed double-entendre supposedly spoken by legendary Cricket Commentator Brian Johnson was “The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey”.

So what are it’s equivalent from baseball or football or soccer, what tickled your fancy, please let me know, post a comment please.

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The British Prime Minister is the latest convert to Boycott Bingo this is the game where you have to mark up your “Bingo” card every time Geoff Boycott comes out with one of his stock phrases e.g. “My granny could have caught that in her pinny”. As there are many dull periods in cricket when tea is being taken or it’s raining or nothing very much is happening in the field the commentators have to learn to fill-in with banter, cricket history, tactic talk. Henry Calthorpe Blofeld AKA Blowers eccentrically talks about passing buses or pigeons or occasionally cranes.

Learn more about Boycott Bingo here

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Hi I was just watching a furniture advert for leather sofas and it occurred to me once again how miniature the people in the adverts are. Small people are used of course to make the product look bigger. I’m not quite sure how I can tell that the people are small as there is no external reference but they just look a bit dinky.

I guess there must be model agencies which specialize in small people for product launches, car adverts, food adverts etc, I know there are agencies just for feet, hands, legs, heads, hair etc which they use for the closeups in adverts and movies. Where do I sign up?

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There’s one on the TV now they used to be always on some old dull film from the 40′s and 50′s. The ones I disliked most were The Three Musketeers. Somebody said that a sword fight would take just as long if the hero was fighting one expert opponent or fifty hapless ones.

Up the stairs, down the stairs, swing on the chandelier, yawn, the baddie will be allowed to graze the hero’s silk shirt, tear and blood stain but that’s all.

Was anything duller than that slow moving plot, tacked on romance, roll on the credits.

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About 5000BC the island of Doggerland off the coast of Britain disappeared beneath the North Sea. It had once been as large as the UK today and joined the UK to the continent. Sea Levels had been as much as 120 metres lower than they are today after the Ice Age.

In 9000BC a gigantic Tsunami cause by the Storegga Slide in Norway would have devastated Doggerland the coasts of Mesolithic Britain and helped turn Britain into an island.

Research on Doggerland is quite recent and was triggered by the trawling up of a barbed antler point in the 1930s.

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I’ve stopped at a store while my wife rushes in to make a few purchases. A successful and good-looking man in a DJ leaves the store with some bottles of soft drink, at the same time a man in shorts with a rucksack and wearing a RED Anorak enters the store. The man in DJ is about to climb into his expensive German car when the Red-Anorak man rushes up to him. I assume that DJ man is some kind of celebrity and the other a fan, unashamedly I lower my car window to eavesdrop.

It turns out they know each other but haven’t seen each other since school days, red-anorak man does nearly all the talking he relates that he is now retired but lost Twenty Eight Million Pounds ($40 million dollars) in a bank crash which left him with a mere eight million which had dwindled down to two million trying to recover the lost £32 million. DJ Man said that £2 million was still a lot but red-anorak man said that it only gave him a yearly income of £80,000.

I ‘m pretty sure he was telling the truth!! I’ve had my own financial problems but losing £32 million would have driven me mad!

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In beer adverts apparently all we desire is endless free beer which we can drink while watching sport on television with our mates. We have beautiful girlfriends but they are ditzy and are always shopping.

In fact I don’t know why we have girlfriends because we’d rather be with our buddies! Oh yeah I remember now we need them to drive us home!

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Brighten up your Day with these Fun and Easy Polls. They seek to get your views on all sorts of unimportant matters, are you a dog or cat person, do you always undo your shoe laces, do you have a favorite color? want to find out then click Fun Polls

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