22 years ago, 96 football fans never came home from a F.A Cup Semi Final match in Sheffield. They were the innocent victims of a botched police operation headed by an inexperienced senior officer.
The people responsible for the Hillsborough disaster have never been brought to book in a criminal case. They should. They should come out of their hiding places and, at the very least, defend their actions on that day. Their silence speaks volumes. Their gutlessness is appalling.
Justice For The 96. Don't Buy The S*n. Never, EVER forget!
I regularly take Bella for walks up on Fazakerley Sidings, the disused and overgrown railway yard closed by British Rail back in 1987. This now-nature reserve backs onto Aintree Racecourse, and the week before the races, I got some shots of the fences. I don't know too much about the course, but I think this is Becher's Brook?
I don't like horse racing. I think it's cruel to run horses solely for the benefit of profit. The inhuman way the jockey rode Ballabriggs to victory in this year's National was a disgrace, and I think the lad got off lightly with a five-day ban. And two dead horses does the event no good at all either.
Maybe next year we can have all the jockeys whipped by the horses to within an inch of their lives. Then there WILL be an outcry. Our general attitude towards animals is sickening.
We have a pond in the back garden. or we did. The thing with it was it was leaking into the soil all the time, and we were constantly refilling the pond on an almost daily basis.
It wasn't fair on the fish, so we got an aquarium to put the smaller goldfish in, which now sits proudly in our front room. The larger fish were taken by Ian from work, up to his daughter's pond in Bolton. Of the thirty fish we started with, only two died. I found a dead one in the pond after I started work dismantling the thing, and he other I sadly murdered because it was swimming at an odd angle and obviously had something wrong with it anyway. Not nice to kill a fish in any event. I will rot in hell.
So below is the work we've done over the last two days. I will call this process "landscaping", others will call it "wanton destruction on an unforgiveable scale". You decide.
On the second day, we got three tonnes of soil dropped off to fill our now empty pond. Guess who moved it all?
And the finished product. It needs to settle because I tried to walk over it and just sunk! I put a load of hardcore (bricks, not porn!) in the bottom to make a base, and hopefully that'll work.
We're planting an apple tree as a centre piece here, and we've bought lots of other interesting plants to hopefully make it look as good as we can make it. Stay tuned for more pics and info!
Nice simple victory against Manchester City the other night.
We were fantastic, but I have to wonder about City? Are they always this awful? Or just over-rated? Big game at the weekend against your neighbours perhaps?
Andy Carroll proved he's going to take some stopping as time progresses. I've likened him to a young Duncan Ferguson, but I think that's being a little disingenuous to the lad. Andy looks interested, whereas with Dunc and Disorderly it rather depended what side of bed he got out of.
Special mention to a couple of the young lads in the team the other night. Jay Spearing, kind of deputising for Gerrard, is making a lot of the right moves out on the park - ably assisted by player of the season so far Lucas. He could become a damned good all-round midfielder - he can pass, tackle like a tiger and motor all day. The only thing letting him down - in fact the whole midfield for that matter - is a lack of goals. But surely it's only time.
Young John Flanagan got a surprise call up to the first team, and settled well at right-back. Whilst you can't judge a player based solely on one game, he looked solid enough, but not as dynamic as the injured Martin Kelly. But these kids should grasp at every game they can get.
This season is over, and even a European place is in serious doubt. So let's just enjoy what we have left, and play without the pressure which can be so overwhelming at times.
I haven't been feeling particularly bloggy in recent weeks. I just couldn't be arsed with it, that's the best / worst excuse I have to offer. But me is determined to try and make up for it now. I think it had something to do with the phone call I got from Mum last night when she said that our Jay was quite taken and amused by an early Terry Gilliam animation I found on YouTube called "Christmas Cards". This ground-breaking piece of work wasn't for Monty Python, but the earlier "Do Not Adjust Your Set" in which Gilliam joined forces with Jones, Palin and Idle for the first time. So it's worth showing again......
It's been a busy couple of weeks, that I'll show in words and pictures.
Last weekend was Jayne's folks, Ged and Carol's 40th Wedding Anniversary. We all went, including Mum, and it was a good night. The thing for me was it was a kind of precursor to our wedding reception in that this is the venue we'd be using. And it looked a lot better at night all done up than the morning after....
Sorry for putting that little video up. This is to show the world that I have two left feet and no semblance of sanity whatsoever. But as long as Aaron enjoyed himself.
Handing out the cake proved too much for our little Bethany
Here's a shot of Aaron, Bethany and their half-sister, Melanie, who all met up for the first time earlier on this week.
The circumstances and background of this meeting, which included Melanie's mum Jane, is beyond the remit of the blog. But let's just say that a lot of a goodwill and harmony has been created because of it .
Melanie and Jane are a couple of exiled Scousers currently living in Yorkshire. Their return would not only be beneficial to me, Jayne, Aaron and Bethany, but more so for them. Asap!
....born in Liverpool, 1970. Determined to see some system of social justice in place across the world before he dies. Yearns for the end of capitalism. And wants Power Pop to enthuse the entire population.
