I went to Stoke City v Colchester today, not the real game the screener at the Britannia Stadium. The game wasn't a classic but the atmosphere was mint.
They played a poem by a local chap,Pottermouth its been cleaned up and BBC Radio Stoke made a little video too. Here it is ...
Today was the abseiling day in aid of the "Start the clock" fund. A small charity to refurbish the clock on Tideswell's historic church, St john the Baptists'.
About 40 brave(Mad) souls volunteered and the abseiling began in the late morning. I arrived just before the 2.pm slot and was able to catch my first glimpse of someone else's abseiling experience. It looked harder than i thought it was going to be.
Gary Newton had drawn a big crowd, and his costume raised a few eyebrows too. Luckily Gaz was just before me so by the time I had managed to get myself up into the Bell room he was just about down.After climbing the very tight tower I was not only nervous, I was dizzy too , in fact I can honestly say that instinct was starting to get the better of me and I was wondering why I had agree to do this at all.
I had tried to film my ascent up the tower but my mobile phone was more scared than I was and the pictures were so poor and patchy they were unusable. When I finally got up onto the roof I could see just what I was in for.
The wind was blowing a good gale , and when some chap clipped me onto the line I knew there was no going back,. I quickly tried the mobile phone video thing again, but got total BRAIN FREEZE and accidentally deleted the video. I decided it wasn't to be and that I'd rely on getting footage from below or from the official Video Camera.
The Instructor asked me to step up to the plate and turn my back to the edge, that was bad, then he asked me to pup my feet on the carpet, which was draped over the edge of the parapet, THAT WAS WORSE. I was actually properly scared at that point. I knew I couldn't fall but my natural instinct kept getting the better of me.
After a bit of steadying and a bit of nerve calming instruction I leaned back and started my descent. Pete Roberts Shouted at me to "look at the Camera" and from that moment on I totally enjoyed it. Going past the windows was a bit hairy as the wind blew me towards them but I got a decent position and was quickly past them. In fact, the whole thing was over so quickly, really. I knew I was nearly there when the crowd started clapping.
When I got my feet back on the ground, adrenaline was surging through my body, I felt truly euphoric and glad to be alive. Abseiling from such a height was truly exciting, When can I do it again? I'd like to congratulate everyone who abseiled today. Well Done. Also I want to thank the organisers for giving me the chance to do something this cool and do it for a good cause too.
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Today, I was sitting at work when my colleague handed me some tasty snacks, these snacks weren't crisps or sweets, but a kind of nutty seed mix. Being no stranger to a few "Health food Products I started to chomp them down happily.
Then it occurred to me, If these things get more popular, and (They are damn tasty) what would happen to the birds? I mean come on, not only are we poisoning the earth with pesticide, there's no yummy bugs for them to eat, we're ripping up their habitat, left right and centre...now we are stealing their bloody seeds and nuts..OMG!!
This is random I know but, I kind of like the birds. Maybe they don't like seeds anymore, they don't eat the ones I put out in the garden, well, greedy bastard pigeon does, but I want the little birds like sparrows, blue tits and chaffinches.
Tideswell man is a former resident of Tideswell in Derbyshire. He works in Education I.T. Blogs about Family history, Tideswell and Technology. Makes 3d Models and Artwork..
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