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OCEAN COLOUR SCENE CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION 4 DEC 2007

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The Circle

PIGEON DETECTIVES CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE MAY 2008

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You Better Not Look My Way

Take Her Back

Don't Know How To Say Goodbye

I Found Out

Cabo da roca! Made it to the end

2007-08-26T14:16:00.001+01:00

Espana! Made it to San Sebastien

2007-08-25T12:46:00.001+01:00

Our new car!

2007-08-24T10:54:00.001+01:00

In roeun. Car had to be scrapped. Hire car being sought

2007-08-24T08:52:00.001+01:00

Final farewell to General Weee
remorquez-nous à Lisbonne s'il vous plaît

At Rouen, head gasket pretty much blown

2007-08-24T07:44:00.001+01:00

Friday 24 Aug. Offical start line

Parked at the start line

Arrival on Thursday night

10 miles from Calais. Overheated again. Another push start

2007-08-23T17:12:00.001+01:00

Just about made Dover. Head Gasket on way out

2007-08-23T16:02:00.001+01:00

Waiting to get on ferry
Stalled, Had to push start.
Outside Folkestone having overheated.

Leaving Cambridge 23 August 2007

2007-08-23T11:24:00.002+01:00

Sucata car part 4

2007-08-20T08:47:00.000+01:00

Sucata Car in action!

2007-08-02T09:01:00.000+01:00

Sucata car part 3

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Sucata Rally 2007. Car pictures Part 2

2007-07-20T09:28:00.001+01:00

Sucata Rally 2007. Car pictures part 1

2007-07-05T13:47:00.000+01:00

Western Canada June 2007.

2007-07-02T11:13:00.000+01:00

Lake Agnes
Emerald Lake
Takakkaw Falls
Lake Minnewanka
Stewart Canyon at Lake Minnewanka

Stag
Banff from Sulphur Mountain
Johnston Canyon
Lake Louise
Mirror Lake (above Lake Louise)

Icefield Glacier
Grizzly bear

Lake Peyto
More Grizzly bear

Patricia Lake (North of Jasper)
Valley of the Five lakes
Valley of the five lakes (lake 1)
Athabasca falls
Mountain goat

Dawson Falls
Helmcken Falls
Maligne Canyon. Jasper National Park
Miette Hot Springs trail
Jasper

Shannon Falls
Brandywine Falls
Snow at Whistler - Blackcomb mountain
View up Blackcomb mountain
Groundhog

Vancouver

Whales
Flying Whales
Vancouver

Cambridge Avery 5 May 2007

2007-05-21T09:29:00.001+01:00

Where's Wally
Lunge
Tounges
Still not standing straight

Action
Don't spill it

Hat Signing
Glued to the bar

Train journey takes toll on DH
And GW
Still not standing straight
Bettsy shows us what he does at work

There we have it - 15 pints, a few shots later, He stands straight for a photo.

Newmarket 5 May 2007

2007-05-21T09:21:00.001+01:00

Cream

Don't make Sim mad. You wont like him when he's angry

Newmarket Races Stan James 2000 Guineas Festival 2007

2007-05-21T09:01:00.000+01:00

Laurel and Hardy leave Newmarket

I can get my picture taken with his Missus.
Hmm, if I can lose Nick...

Long range stealth picture
Who invited Grandad?
Leanne wins big (money not Dockers)
Excuse me mate, don't think you've paid enough 'ere
Can I get 5 ones for a five pound note please?

Classic group shot part 1
part 2. Spot Del's hands...
2 pint Betts

Ah, yonder horizon I spy thee horses

No sudden movement Gem, you have a ladies head stuck on your shoulder
Sim knows how to attract the ladies...
Action shot of the racing
Dockers wins big
Fisher loses bet on how much Dockers will win

Pre match laps
Can Nick stand up straight for a photo?
Nearly
Nope
John Arne Riise spotted at Newmarket

Arsenal v Chelsea 6 May 2007

2007-05-08T11:13:00.000+01:00

Arsenal 1 : Chelsea 1

Where's Ashley?
Prat

Don't bother marking number 9. Action shot - top marks for effort go to Gallas

Squirrel

2007-05-08T11:08:00.000+01:00

Q: Why do squirells swim on there back?

A: to keep their nuts dry.

Kenya; Masai Mara 25-27 July 2006

2006-08-10T15:06:00.000+01:00

Members Day 2006: EMIRATES STADIUM

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Del's Stag weekend

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John Ableet Final 2006 pt 2

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John Ablett Cup final

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Panini Stickers v Panini Cards:

2006-04-25T10:08:00.000+01:00

The 2 albums together, Cards on the left, stickers on the right;

Inside the card album;

Inside the sticker album;

Arsenal 1 Tottenham Hotspurs 1

2006-04-24T13:49:00.000+01:00

The last North London derby at Highbury ended all square, in a tough fought battle. The draw was a fair result as Spurs were pretty good in the first half. Aaron Lennon was very threatening, and was probably the most dangerous threat I've seen to our defence all season. Flamini, who has kept Beckham, Juve and C Ronaldo at bay couldn't cope with him in the first half which is pretty good testament to the spurs nob.
Second half saw a controversial goal from the lillyshites. Now this is a weird one, coz if it had been the other way round I would have been shouting at our players to carry on, which Spurs did. The problem I have is that the ref paused and checked the players were ok, which in itself isn't a problem, but it gave the impression to everyone that he was going to blow his whistle, which from watching the highlights you can see a couple of Arsenal players slowing down, most importantly Flamini and Djourou, which resulted in Robbie Keane being free in the box to score. I know everyone will say you have to play to the whistle but it's just annoying.
TH14 got a deserved equaliser, and if we had a few more minutes I believe we would have got a winner. Main problem was Wenger got the team wrong and should have started TH14 today. We needed a goal today, at present we don't need a goal Tuesday night in Spain. Well it's easy to be the manager from the terraces isn't it...

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2006-04-20T10:34:00.000+01:00

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Arsenal 1 Villarreal 0

2006-04-20T10:31:00.000+01:00

A pretty tame semi final was won comfortbaly by Arsenal by just one goal. Villarreal rarely threatened, though had a good shout for a penalty turned down. TH14 had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside. Toure scored just before half time after neat work by TH14 and Hleb. The second was dominated by Spanish time wasting though the Austrian ref tried his best to cut this down.

The highlight of the game was the grey squirrel that made a 10 minute appearance infront of us in the North Bank. The little one kept Forlan quiet, but ran off when Mad Jens walked over to it, fearing for its life.

Next up Spurs on Saturday lunchtime. Hopefully 3 points, look out for how many sitters Adebayor will miss...

Arsenal 3 WBA 1

2006-04-19T09:06:00.000+01:00

The match theme was Bergkamp Day, and loads of free orange t-shirts were handed out before the game. You might be able to buy one from ebay as some sad people are selling them, even worse some people are buying them! The ground looked strange with a good proportion in orange. This may have had an adverse effect on the team as Arsenal played below par until WBA equalised in the 73rd ish minute. Bergkamp and Pires came on as subs just before the WBA goal. The last ten minutes were unsuprisingly down to Bergkamp, and he showed us all what he has done in the past 10 years for the club: Skill, fight and class but only in short bursts.

Can't be bothered to put anymore about the game. Martin Keown was on the pitch at half time. He gave some medals to what appeared to be the ladies under 16's. This age was confirmed after pervy discussion with Space Cadet.

More supersition seemed to be in force during the game. This seemed to involve my "brown zip up cardigan". Whilst wearing this in the first half, Arsenal were winning. I took it off in second half to expose my orangeness, only for WBA to score. Straight after I refitted the lucky brown garment and we scored twice. Bad news is that it is in the wash for tonights game v Villarreal...I have my excuses all ready

Arsenal 2 Juventus 0

2006-03-29T09:23:00.000+01:00

Arsenal carved Juventus apart last night, and made the Italian Champions look like a poor West Brom. The form Arsenal have shown since playing in Madrid continued last night, and if this lasts the season 4th place and the Euro cup could become a real possibility.
Vieira got a good reception before the game. This was always going to be the case. This didn't last long though as his first challenge was a dodgy one on Fabregas which could have earn't a booking. It was strange seeing him in non Arsenal colours, but in the past 5-6 weeks we have eventually got over his departure.
The crowd was pretty loud last night. The 4 drunk guys infront of us tried their best to get them going, didn't really work in the first half. Towards the end one of them was showing how good he must be at football by calling TH14 a fcuking cnut for not having scored 3 times and being a bit fancy. Some fans will never be happy.
Villa at home on Saturday. I wont be there this time, I have a woman to please.....

Arsenal 3 Charlton 0

2006-03-20T09:19:00.000Z

On a sunny, blustery and freezing cold day at highbury, Arsenal eased to a simple victory. Charlton were crap. Pires put Arsenal infront in the 13th minute after some lovely play by Hleb, Adebayor and TH14. Arsenal should have already scored twice but 2 easy chances were wasted by the new striker Adebayor. However he got the 2nd goal after a classic show of crapness by Hreidarsson. Despite wasting chances he has shown a lot of potential, and woks hard for the team, and can win headers which hasn't been seen at Highbury since Alan Smith retired his boots. 2-0 Half Time.

Hleb got a deserved goal at the start of the second half, following a powerful surge forward by the Belarusian. Charlton failed to show up for this game and got their tactics completely wrong. Most teams know that if you try to attack Arsenal at highbury you will get fcuked 90% of the time. Curbishley for England, I hope not.

Special mention to Fabregas with his man of the match performance. Also Eboue playing at right back could spell the end of Lauren being first choice.

Next up, Pompey away. Hopefully our run will continue.

Neighbours

2006-03-17T14:46:00.000Z

Being a 24 year old man in a full time job I unlike many others of my generation find it embarrsingly easy to watch Neighbours at work. Which is what i have been doing this week. And I tell you this i have lucked out, i turned on Monday to find Sir Harold "bash the" Bishop strangling one legged love god Paul Robinson. He escaped with Paul seemingly dead. But Paul is not dead he is the opposite of my limp penis and very much alive. Yet he does not know that Harold tried to kill him and nobody suspects the saggy necked psycho. If you think it all seems out of character for Harold then of course you would be right, but the man who was resurrected lazarus like from the dead, returning from the sea like some kind of bible bashing swamp thing is being driven by demons, demons as far as i can understand created by the death of his son in an incident caused by Paul in some way, and if thats not enough he is being forced by some kind of internal monlogue to keep on with these acts of evil. its things like this that have kept Neighbours at the top of the comedy tree for over 20 years now. And i'm glad i have taken the time out of my schedule to start watching again. For those wondering why Paul only has one leg, i think he was pushed off a cliff. And the scriptwriters ignoring the normal outcome from this event of death decided to remove his leg, which like Mark Fowlers HIV or Ethels Willy would only comes out when the plot is wearing thin.

And in other news, Steph, who as far as i used to remember didn't used to have a face like a fanny mangled in a blender, is pregnant but also has cancer of the tit.

D Freear 17 Mar 2006

Film & Video Preservation Unit oirish vote

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We have returned an office vote of Corrs 7 - Bewitched 4.

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St. Paddys question

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St. Patrick's day theme.
The Corrs (female) or Bewitched?

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Pic from my holiday with my mate Ant slightly out of control!

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Have you seen the Pepsi exclusive?

2006-03-16T14:28:00.000Z

Check out the as always poor man's Nike advert that is Pepsi's new commercial.

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Product Review:

2006-03-16T08:58:00.000Z

Exciting news World Cup Fans.

I have acquired my Panini Fifa World Cup Licensed Cards Collectors Binder.

I found it in HMV and bought it at the price of £2.99 and 5 packs of cards at 35p each.

Unfortunately the collection is in card and not sticker form. But i can assure you that my excitement was not damaged one Iota.

Each pack contains Six Cards, the cards contain vital information. Such as Name/Nationality/Height/Weight/birthdate (Yank Style)/National Flag/Number of time nation has appeared in World Cup/Position and number if any of World Cup wins for the Nation.

All this info packed onto a card with an action shot of the player makes for a pretty neato package i can assure you. but it gets better. Not only are the cards glossed and slightly embossed (enough to impress any girl) but they can also double up as a top trumps style game. Each player is given a defensive and attacking rating outof six. You can then build a team of your best players and 'play' against a friend. Pant Wettingly exciting i can assure you.

All in there are 150 Cards - The bias is towards the bigger teams with most of them featuring 12 players. sadly this includes the USA. Fans of football will be pleased to know there is no room for Gary Neville as unlikely to start "injured in the head" Sol Campbell is in.

So if you were super lucky with your cards you could essentially spend just over £10 pounds and get the album and all the cards.

Unfortunately i haven't been so lucky. I currently have an extra TOMAS GALASEK & DAMARCUS BEASELY. Anyone who wants a swapsy contact me at the normal address. Micheala Strachan Enterprises. P.O Box 69.

Yours

Daniel James Freear

P.S England Players get a headshot and are called Superstars - I assume this is for English Players, unless Jermain Defoe is the best player in the pack.

Do you need to be talented or dedicated to make it good in any di scipline?

2006-03-15T15:08:00.000Z

As penned by Mark Betts:
I think people can be born with natural sporting talent but this can only give you a good start in sport, one of the reasons you often hear of professionals excelling in a number of sports when young. Training methods will then take you to a top professional level.

But once at this stage i think psychological aspects play a huge role.

Oh and there's always the theory that footballers are born with an eye deficiency giving slightly wider vision allowing them to see more of their surroundings???

Do you need to be talented or dedicated to make it good in any di scipline?

2006-03-15T15:03:00.000Z

As penned by Daniel Freear:
Undoubtedly i am once of the most natural talents in any sport but without the careful nuturing my personality needed i became just another of those where are they now stories you read before every world cup, olympics or national bowls tournaments.

If you don't practice at a sport a lot it doesn't matter how good you are you either won't get better or won't be able to compete with the best.

Snooker being the perfect example.
Ronnie is a natural talent and can possibly get away with maybe an hour or two less training a day then maybe Ken Doherty but then the overall difference in class in relative terms isn't that huge.

The very best sportsmen in their field. Schumacher, Woods, Hendry, Carlton Palmer all had natural talent and drive which makes them so dominant..and boring

Talent at the Abbey Stadium

2006-03-15T12:32:00.000Z

Friday 26th May and Saturday 27th May. This is when Abbey Aid takes place to raise money for Cambridge United. Acts playing on Friday are Kings of Queen, Journey south and Chico. On Saturday Liberty X and Lee Ryan are playing. Now my opinion is that this should be a big one day event. Get all the acts on the same day. The kids will come for Chico so they wont want to be out late on a Friday night. Get them to come on Saturday afternoon with the parents. A weekend ticket costs £40, so two parents and 2 children would be making a packet.
As some of my allies will confirm, I have been a keen admirer of Mr Ryan since going solo. He was the best member of Blue, able to hit the high notes. Army of Lovers is a nice song. He looks nice and will attract the ladies

Liberty X are the other band playing on Saturday night. Jessica Taylor, left, is a good reason to get a ticket, and to arrive early so you can get to the front. A few years ago I remeber Liberty X playing on Midsummer Common on bonfire night, I think Chesney Hawkes may have played the same night and he fell off the stage. Despite it being a cold night, Liberty X definately made things hot!

Tickets are available from ticketmaster from Friday March 17th.

Starting Up

2006-03-15T11:41:00.000Z

Welcome to the first post on England Slackers. A site dedicated to the great country we live in. If you have managed to successfully find your way here, you too must be enjoying your working day. Hopefully there will soon be lots of pictures, and lots of interesting discussion taking place, courtesy of a few Cambridge bred men.