Barnsley man meets Huddersfield Man

Pictured On the right ~ Andrew [with tie]meeting Andy Richie, the new manager of Huddersfield Town when the club presented Andrew with a signed shirt [No 60] to celebrate his imminent birthday and for his loyal support over many years.

Better still Huddersfield won!!!

Paul Newman becomes Oldman

Movie star Paul Newman quits acting

Paul Newman says he has given up acting.

"I'm not able to work any more as an actor at the level I would want to," Newman, 82, told ABC's Good Morning America.

"You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."

Newman, star of films such as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, added: "I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough."

He has other plates spinning. Newman plans to focus on the Dressing Room, his organic restaurant in Westport, Connecticut, and his Hole in the Wall Gang camps for critically ill children.

His Newman's Own brand of salad dressings, pasta sauces, popcorn and salsa has raised more than 200 million dollars (£100 million) for charities.

Newman, who won an Oscar for his leading role in 1986's The Color of Money, was last seen - or heard, rather - as the voice of Doc Hudson in the 2006 animated feature Cars.

Madeleine McCann

Parents 'can't consider' UK return

The family of Madeleine McCann have said they "can't even consider" leaving Portugal as they lead an international effort to recover their abducted daughter.
Eleven days after their child was snatched from her bed in an apartment complex in the village of Praia da Luz, Gerry and Kate McCann said they continued to believe that the four-year-old is "safe and being looked after".
The couple are co-ordinating a new drive, backed by a growing fighting fund, from an apartment in the complex on the Algarve, metres away from where the abduction happened.
Speaking about their plans for the first time, the couple thanked friends, family and members of the public for their efforts to get their daughter - who turned four on Saturday - back. "As far as we are concerned, until there is concrete evidence to the contrary, we believe that Madeleine is safe and being looked after and that's how we can continue in our efforts," Mr McCann said.
Indicating plans to stay in Portugal for the foreseeable future, Mrs McCann said: "I can't even consider going home at the moment, absolutely can't even let it enter my head."
The couple have hired lawyers with expertise in child abduction to help them assess options to take the hunt further.
Looking more relaxed than in recent days, they also thanked the media and those promoting the campaign at home and abroad for giving the case international exposure. "We have taken tremendous strength from the warmth and the spiritual outpouring that we have received here and from all around the world," Mr McCann said. "That has given us great encouragement and hope that we will bring back Madeleine safely."
He said there had been "multiple offers" of help, including many financial pledges for their efforts. He said the couple welcomed the offers but they had created a problem in knowing where best to channel the resources.
Behind closed doors, the police have formally interviewed around 100 people but spoken to hundreds more informally. They appear to have ruled out lines of inquiry focusing on various CCTV images featuring a blonde woman and a couple staying in the next village.
Police are now looking at two or three main theories but have not spoken publicly about what they are.

Old enemies ~ New friends!

Today, the new Stormont executive in N.I. is sworn in.

This agreement between the unionists & republican factions to share power is a truly remarkable precedent which creates the potential for Northern Ireland to move from the "darkness" of decades into a new dawn.

Today the old enemies will sit down side by side and begin the difficult task of working together for the common good of all the people in the province.And there are some major difficulties ahead:

1. 
   The omens are fair but the question remains as to whether it will all work in practice.
2. 
   Despite the bonhomie, will the executive turn out to be a battle a day once the divisive issues arise?
3. Can republicanism and unionism start to build on what unites them, rather than focus on what divides them?
4. 
   Will newly sworn-in ministers be up to the job of running their departments?

That said, the positive images which will go round the world today should act as a spur for investment in the province. The war is over, as both the IRA and the UVF have testified, and the creation of partnership government should provide a new climate of peace and prosperity.

The political landscape has changed, but this transformation has not taken place overnight.

It has taken long years of patient diplomacy by many people and as Messrs Paisley and McGuinness enjoy the limelight , nobody should forget the contribution made by David Trimble and Seamus Mallon in the first executive.As everyone at Stormont recognises, political agreement is just another step on Northern Ireland's journey from darkness to light.

Not until sectarian divisions are erased and all the peacelines dismantled will the new Northern Ireland be able to reach its full potential.

This is a long path to follow with many potential pitfalls.

Winner

Sarkozy wins

Sarkozy moves ahead in polls

In spite of recent heated attacks by Royal, Sarkozy's performance buttressed his lead in the polls and a TNS Sofres survey published on Friday showed him at 54.5 percent, compared to 45.5 percent for the Socialist.

The last polls of the campaign, one by BVA and one by IPSOS, both put him even further ahead on 55 percent to Royal's 45.

"It is hard to imagine the trend being reversed," TNS Sofres deputy head Brice Teinturier told a news conference.

Bookmaker William Hill said bets on the election had been pouring in, with big money going on Sarkozy; one man had put 18,900 pounds ($37,660) on him winning the presidency.

JAMES IN DENT

I THINK BABY JAMES LIKES CAMPING

DINNER TIME

DENT

THE PRINCE IS BACK

SORRY FOR NOT POSTING FOR A WHILE BEEN A LITTLE BUSY.

SO LETS GET ON WITH IT.

THE DILEMA IS THIS

SHALL WE GO TO TO DENT OR NOT

FOR DENT.

1. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE .

2. SAFE NO SCROATS.

3. GREAT LIFESTYLE OPPORTUNITY

4. POTENTIALLY FAB COUNTRY HOTEL TO RUN

5. NICE PEOPLE WHO SAY HELLO AND SPEAK TO YOU WHEN THEY PASS YOU IN THE STREET.

6. GOOD SCHOOLS FOR BABY JAMES

7. GOOD MONEY TO RUN AFORE MENTIONED HOTEL.

8. QUIET

9. INCOME FROM RENTING OUT THE HOUSE IN BARNSLEY.

10. GETTING OUT OF BARNSLEY

11. COBBLED STREETS

12. REALLY DARK AT NIGHT WITH STARS

13. JUST A NICE PLACE

AGAINST DENT

1. LEAVING BARNSLEY AND EVERYTHING AND ONE WE KNOW

2. LEAVING NAN BY HERSELF

3. LEAVING GRAMPS BY HIMSELF

4. LEAVING CATHERINES FAMILY

5. SHEEP

6. SHEEP

7. SHEEP

8. SHEEP

9. SHEEP AND LIVING IN THE ARSE END OF NOWHERE

10 COULD BE A LITTLE TOO QUIET AND DESOLATE IN WINTER

11. NO TV YET

12. NO MOBILE PHONES YET

13 HOTEL NEEDS MAJOR WORK TO GET IT PROFITABLE

NOTHING IS CONFIRMED AS YET BUT THE HOTEL IS COMING OVER TO US TO SORT OUT AND WE DONT THINK THE NEW MANAGER IS UP TO THE JOB AND MAYBE WONT EVEN BE STARTING THE JOB AFTER A FEW THINGS HE HAS DONE BEFORE EVEN STARTING AND MY BOSSES ARE GETTING WORRIED THAT THEY ARE MAKING A BIG MISTAKE BY TAKING HIM ON. SO IT LEAVES ME CURRENTLY WITH TWO OPTIONS LEAVE SIMON UP THERE AND HELP HIM SORT IT ALL OUT (I THINK HE WILL GET FED UP TOO QUICKLY) OR WE GO AND STAY PERMANENTLY TO SORT IT OUT AND RUN IT. BRILLIANT FOR CATHERINE TO WORK WITH THE STAFF AND GET THE JOB DONE. NOT SO GOOD FOR ME TO START WITH AS I WILL HAVE TO TRY AND SET UP ANOTHER DEPOT FROM SCRATCH WORKING WITH DENT BREWERY AND AND MICRO BREWERIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO BUILD A NEW LITTLE BUSINESS.

TELL US WHAT YOU ALL THINK WE REALLY NEED HELP ON THIS ONE ITS A HUGE MOVE INTO THE UNKNOWN FOR US AND THE FIRST TIME CATHERINE WILL HAVE LEFT BARNSLEY IM OLD HAT NOW AND THAT BIT DOESNT REALLY BOTHER ME

It's Thusday in UK

And you know what's happening all over UK today.

Your chance ~ if you live there ~ to get out & vote. If you don't do it how can you complain when someone else votes in the wrong crowd.....did I mean crook?

So up you get & off you go ~ do some good for the sake of the country & your neighbours. ............................................AND.................yourself.


VOTE!

Are you voting?

"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1796. FE 7:56

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:209, Papers 1:134

Lets hope that the voters in England Wales & Scotland bear this in mind when they vote shortly.

Give them a bloody nose ~ Get them out!
Bring back some values & principles.
Get this lot of lying B88***** out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Patrick

Patrick lunching at Les Voyagers 1st May 2007