Roger, founder member of one of the best rock bands there has ever been, was born 69 years ago today.
Happy Birthday Roger.
With such a huge catalogue of music it is difficult to choose a representative piece to celebrate with. I am sure you have your own favourites, here is “one” of mine.
Judge Peter Bowers has given the victims of burglars across the country a huge slap in the face with his comments, made during the trial of Richard Rochford.
Judge Bowers told him
It takes a huge amount of courage as far as I can see for someone to burgle somebody’s house. I wouldn’t have the nerve.
How out of touch is this idiot.
Just ask anyone who has returned home or awoken to find their home has been the target of a burglar. Ask them about their feelings. I am sure they will tell you about violation and desecration of their homes. I am pretty sure you will not find anyone to praise the courage of the burglar.
The judge’s job is to oversee and administer the law, to ensure that justice is done. What the victims of crime want is to see that justice is done.
Praising the criminals for their courage does not show justice at work.
Here is what the victims and their families think of Rochford and Judge Bowers
Rochford stole a wallet containing £500 of life savings when he raided the home of retired shipyard worker John Hopper, 73, and wife Vera, 71.
Daughter Sharon Hopper, 40, said: ‘I can’t believe what the judge said. What really took courage was my parents having to continue living in their house after he had invaded their privacy.
Rochford ransacked the home of Mark Clayton, 47, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Mr Clayton said the judge made a ‘grave misjudgment’. He added: ‘Picking dead bodies up after they’ve been blown up, to go into that takes courage. Walking into someone’s house on an opportunistic whim and basically devastating someone’s life by taking things that man has worked so hard for all his life, and taking it away without a thought, isn’t courage.’
In May, he criticised sentencing guidelines that let first-time burglars escape with a ‘slap across the wrist’.But weeks later, he allowed a man with almost 80 crimes on his record to walk free for a burglary committed four days after his release from prison, telling the court: ‘I must be getting soft in my old age.’
This post strikes so many chords. Finger on the pulse blogging.
I love this and I hope you don’t mind me stealing this as a further tribute to Neil Armstrong
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the sad news about the passing of Neil Armstrong. As a small tribute I’ve made a short comic.
If you’ve read this blog before you’ll probably know I’m super into space and Neil helped spark that. See when I was growing I honestly didn’t know any other Neils and I grew to almost dislike my name until my mum told me about Neil Armstrong the astronaut. Then I suddenly thought Neils were awesome and learning about the other Neil sparked my interest in all things spacey which has stayed with me to this day.
Rest in peace other Neil.
Also, there’s some new wee bits and bobs in my shop if you have a minute for a look.
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The world lost yet another talent following the death of Michael Clarke Duncan yesterday morning.
Probably known best for his role as John Coffey in The Green Mile Duncan was never far from our screens, having appeared in many films and TV series. Duncan was nominated for both Academy and Golden Globe awards.
For my part I am currently enjoying his performances on the “Bones” spin-off “The Finder”, starring alongside Geoff Stults, Mercedes Masohn and Maddie Hasson.
He will be missed.
One Week In and 17 Gold Medals, 24 Silver & 15 Bronze. A total of 56 at the time of writing.
Team GB are doing us proud. Yes there has been some heartache but overall so far the Paralympics have been fabulous.
The competitors are the true gold in these events, they show such heart, such spirit.
We witnessed today what for Formula 1 must have been one of the most terrifying crashes of the sport.
Todays chaos was, seemingly initiated by GrosJean who cut across the circuit at the start of the race. This action resulted in him squeezing then colliding with Hamilton who had nowhere to go. From that point on Grosjean’s Lotus became air borne, took off and crashed across Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari. Sergio Perez in a Sauber was also taken out in the carnage. We have to be thankful that all came out of this with perhaps just some serious bruises. A tribute to the safety that is built into these cars.
I have no doubt that Grosjean is solely responsible for an avoidable incident that not only spoilt the race aspirations of Hamilton and Alonso but also caused unnecessary risk to life and limb in what is already a dangerous sport. I believe that he should receive some kind of censure from the race officials and the FIA.
You can view the incident at the following link:
BBC Sport – Formula 1 – Spectacular crash causes chaos at Belgian GP.
Prolific song writer Hal David has died, aged 91.
Oscar and Grammy winner David,along with Burt Bacharach wrote such hits as “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “Walk on By” along with many other songs that have become standards such as “What’s It All About?”, “What’s New, Pussycat?”, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and “What Do You Get When You Fall in Love?”. In all Hal David was credited with writing the lyrics of some 700 songs.
The world has lost a great talent.
Yes, I wanna tell you a story, about a great entertainer who has sadly passed away.
Max Bygraves has sadly passed at the age of 89.
One of Britain’s best all round variety entertainer. He wrote a string of comic songs and released a number of albums with his Singalongamax series probably being the most well-known. Max appeared in a number of films, notably Charley Moon in 1956, as well as several TV shows. He also performed on stage with contemporaries Spike Milligan, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe and Frankie Howerd and in later years he often appeared at the London Palladium.
For me, probably the fondest memory will be Max singing “Out of Town”. I hope that, wherever Max is, he is enjoying the sentiment of that song.
Say what you will,
The countryside is still
The only place where I could settle down
Troubles there are so much rarer
Out of town
Max Bygraves is most definitely “Out Of Town”
I’ve said it many times. I am constantly amazed by the sheer grit and determination of the athletes participating in both the Olympics and the Paralympics.
None more so than that shown by Houssein Omar Hassan during the 1,500 metres, earlier today in the 2012 Paralympic Games. He finished last in his heat, recording a time of 11:23.50, which was nearly three times that of the time of the winner. Although the rest of the competitors had finished he continued to the end with enormous support from the spectators.
Hassan who was competing in the T46 category, is the first representative from Djibouti to compete at the Paralympic and it should be noted that he is the only athlete from Djibouti in 2012.
This man showed the true olympic / paralympic spirit.
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