Campervan Update

Well the VW Campervan is coming on leaps and bounds. Fingers crossed it should be ready within the next few days. Spain here we come!!!!


The fancy numberplate has been fitted.
It still requires the rear bumper to be attached though.


View from the front. Needs a bit of a clean.... and a front bumper.... and some windscreen wipers.


The comfy rear seat. Also a lovely looking sink.


We even have a fridge!!

H-tonia 8 - 10 Young Guns

H'tonia suffered a narrow defeat to the hands of a youthful opposition. Despite having an extra man and the inclusion of a player on loan from Bath, the excesses of the previous day took their toll. Despite some good individual performances, a mixture of heat and hangovers cost H'tonia the match and ended their unbeaten run. Dave Cummings, team bus driver said, "The lack of sleep and age of the players showed against a team of youngsters. With a strict diet and training schedule we'll be ready for the next game.

Next week's match has been postponed due to players being called up for festival duty.

Sunderland 3 - 10 H-Ton

Sunderland suffered a heavy defeat to the hands of a rampant team from H-tonia. An early period of stalemate with teams at 4-a-side was broken by a scrambled goal from Mr Sprout. SWA soon joined the game playing for the Sunderland team. More players turned up and we had ourselves a game - 7-a-side - Sunderland vs H-ton.
Early dominance by H-ton meant at the half time mark the score was 5-1 in their favour. Soon the weather changed and in some wet conditions H-ton extended their to 9-1 despite the best efforts of wonder keeper Gofton.
Sunderland then rallied themselves for a Teen-Wolf style comeback. They turned up their game and scored 2 well worked goals. However this was to no avail. A scramble in the Sunderland goal mouth resulted in a weak goal being scored and H-ton won the match.

A rematch is being scheduled for either Saturday 27th or Sunday 28th May.

Radio One's Big Weekend 2006 - Dundee

Well its been a week since I was there so I think its about time I posted something about it.

Anyway, I managed to get a pair of tickets for the Radio One's Big Weekend for the Saturday.
We set off at 7.30am for the 4 hour trip to Dundee.

Here's a pointless picture of the Forth Bridge to show we crossed it


So we got there about 12 and dumped our stuff at a very nice B&B - Invermark


After an ill fated bus journey around Dundee (the driver lied about the bus route), we ended up getting a taxi from the local hospital (it was one of the stops, not that we ended up in hospital) to Camperdown Park


We got the beers in

... and settled in to watch all the acts.

Muse, Snow Patrol, Boy Kill Boy, Razorlight and Dirty Pretty things were all very good. Everyone else play good sets (even Gnarls Barkley).

So the gig ended and we went for more beer around Broughty Ferry - The Post Office and Jolly's



We think we had a good night....

The next morning we were up bright and early and headed down to the beach where we took these lovely photos



Then we set off home

On the way back we did call via Duns to see the castle as it's the venue for Dave's planned nuptials. Its very nice as you can see.

Double Troutmaster

Well, he's done it again.
Troutmaster again.
Come on Paul... give someone else a chance

Harton Hotshots

Just a quick note that I'm helping out on another bog site.
Its for a local junior football team - Harton Hotshots.

If you're interested, you can check it out at www.hartonhotshots.blogspot.com

It will also have its own permanent space in the links menu.

Gourmet Pancakes

Here is a video clip of the very delicious gourmet held by our wonderful hosts Law & Helen. Enjoy the skillful pancake fliping by Law and the not-so skillful flipping by resident ninja Wilson.

Paul Moore - Troutmaster

Congratulations to H-tonia's own Mr Paul Moore who has caught something with a Black Zonker. That's not some sort of nasty disease but in fact a fish lure of some sort.
Anyway, a big Woo Yay to him.
Click on the picture or here for full article

Edit: He also has reached the heady heights of the local newspaper... here's the proof

Another Football Video

Since I've no real ideas yet or haven't done anything of note to put on this site I'm just going to add another video. This one is of a game of crossbar challenge.
Anyway here it is

Edit: Update stream so this should play much better than before.

FALL OUT BOY - Sugar, We're Going Down

Found this and decided I had to add it to my blog, just cos it's Fall Out Boy.
I'm sure we'll kill this song soon

Easter Sunday

Well its Easter Sunday and I'm feeling remarkably okay considering it was after 1am when I left the Caroline this morning (see post below for directions).
Anyway I'm feeling far too energetic but rather than do any exercise I thought I'd upload a video of some fools playing a bit football.

Movie 1:
A game of "get the ball through the bit of fence whilst trying not to spill your beer"



You'll agree not the longest or greatest video, but I've uplaoded it because I can.

Second Attempt at Google Maps

It works.... at last
You should be able to investigate all the places of interest in the greater H-Tonia area.
Let me know via the comments button what points you would like adding to the map.

map loading...

Google Maps Test

Sorry again. This post is only to test out more stuff.
This time its putting a Google Map into a post.
Hopefully it will work.

I'm hoping to use this when I do my account of my road trip to the Benicàssim festival in Spain.

As you can see its a map of H-Tonia with 3 points listed. It should display a info bubble when you click on that marker but I'm haveing problems getting the info bubble to point to the correct marker
Anyway.... on with the testing


TEST REMOVED

A bit of a website test....

Sorry... just seeing what I can do on this site.
Need to find out what things work and what things fall flat on their arse.

I'll come up with something a bit better in the future if I can learn some html (or be bothered to)

So, as a tester, have the video for You're Not Supposed by Field Music, which has Swa, Sarah & Jaff in it. (This was easy to put in.... good old copy and paste)

My first blog ...... be gentle

Well I thought it was about time that I created a blog to pointlessly comment about stuff that most people (if not everyone) will not be interested in.

Anyway..... I may update this from time to time but I probably give it up as a bad job in 2 weeks when I forget to ever post anything again.

Feel free to comment and such

Mr Sprout