Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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As I am prone to blather on about the wonderful fun I have here & there, & the same names keep appearing, I thought I'd try & put some pictures to the faces I see from time to time.

I was at Luton tonight, & here are a few of the regulars.

To start off, here's "celtic", something of a legend in Luton.

He appears to have developed Ear-ets in this picture, sorry.

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This is Chompy. I'm not entirely sure why he has a rizla stuck to his moustache.

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Here's "Dick" Richard Lynch, who Finals about every other Comp. Proper little Mickey Wernick.

The Toilet is in the background, in case you never noticed.

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Here's "Dick" Richard Lynch, who Finals about every other Comp. Proper little Mickey Wernick.

The Toilet is in the background, in case you never noticed.

Yeh with the most powerful hand dryers in the world. Cant remember if it was Kin or AndrewT that developed more than a light fetish to them!

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Here's "Evil" Edna. Star of Late Night Poker (Series 1?), one time British Angling Record-Holder for the largest Carp (36lbs, 13 ounces) ever caught by a  Female, and something of a whizz at Ten-Pin Bowling, too. Also known as Never-Pass-Edna, & Limpet Edna, as she's a bugger to get a move past. 

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Edna again, on the right as we look is "Expressman" (Ian Needleman) who's an Estate Agent I think, another who runs well at Luton. The other Gentleman is a nice man.

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This is Stephen "Captain" Kirk, a giant of a man, who describes himself as a "Magnate". Not far wrong, either. Owns or runs about 14 Forums, including ones specialising in Birds, Railways, Shipping, Photography, Fishing, Cooking, etc. He's a bit cute with google page Ranking too, & always gets his Forums up near the top of google Pages. He does not usually wear such extravagant ear-rings.

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Here's Ambro, who's a Sicilian. He's been on a diet recently. That's Dingdell working her way towards the moobs area.

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A gentleman who I've never heard raise his voice, Brian Sadler. He organises the Annual Luton Golf Day, & he has a Son who often plays Luton, too.

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Dingdell, of course.

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A most intriguing story in today's Times reports that there were severe power cuts across Britain on Tuesday, particularly in Cleveland, Chesire, Lincolnshire, & London.

The National Grid were forced to issue a "Demand Control Imminent" warning, & asked suppliers to lower voltage in order to meet demand.

The cause was due to a most odd thing. Two power stations suddenly shut down within minutes of each other at midday, nine generating units across the UK were shut, & 4 other Power Stations suffered failures during the day.

Wholesale electricity prices soared 35% to £95 per megawatt hour in the aftermath.

Sizewell B was one of those shutdown, the first time it's done so in over 3 years.

Neither British Energy or EON would reveal the reason for the closures, claiming that to do so would affect wholesale electricity market prices.

What a very strange thing. There is something they are not telling us here.

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Vodafone announced record full-year net profits of £9 billion yesterday. For an industry that never existed a few decades ago, what a phenomenon moble 'phones have been, they are a "must-have" these days.

My little experiment to try & do without my moby from time to time is going OK, though the messages & missed calls do pile up. I intend to persevere with weaning myself off my moby. It's a luxury that became a necessity in record time.

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There are also a few words that I have come across which seem indigenous to the Nottingham area.

Nesh; one who feels the cold.

Tabs; ears.

Mardy, or mahdi; in a bad mood.

It was in Nottingham that I first heard the expression "jitty", meaning "path", "Cut-Through", or "back alley". In London, it's just an "alley".

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Standard issue Mobile-Phone in the 1980's.

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Can you get a photo of Hinge and Bracket you so fondly talk about