Eurovision Aftermath!

Well we did'nt win, well in fact we did'nt do too well at all really! The scooch's song was'nt that bad. Here's a few pics of our Eurovision Aftershow Party here in sunny saltaire!

Congratulations goes to Amanda who had the winning country Serbia. She won a snail gnome

Congratulations also goes to Valeen who won the best dressed competition as a french maid. She won a delightful rubber chicken.!!

Anyway here's some pics to start you off!!!!

Eurovision Party Update!

All is progressing nicely with the party on saturday night. We've now got about 25 coming (so much for no more parties in 2007!) So far we've got people dressing up a frenchmen, gondoliers, german fraus, airline pilots, air stewardess, terry wogan, katie boyly and someone in lederhosen!! The cheesy music has been burnt, the fancy lights have been delivered and the euro flags have arrived on mass from party packs... Watch out for the pictures next week!

Saltaire Back Passage Update

We had a weird called today, a national magazine is doing a feature on urban gardens (in other words poxy backyards with plants!) and they are possibly going to do a feature on our front and back garden in sunny saltaire..... a bit surreal really!

Anyway the garden is coming along nicely for the competition in July. The buddha's are in place and the flowers are starting to bloom!

York Barbican Centre aka Barbican't Centre

Grrr it still gets me down about barbican you know. It brought it all back when i was walking past a few weeks back and had a nosey in and look what i found still above the door! I haven't worked there for three and a half years now!

Hopefully now after our Lib Dem friends got a beating in York over their C**k ups we maybe able to get this venue reopened / refurbished.

I've got a lot of happy memories there and its just a shame whats become of the place :0(

Euro Vision Party - Saltaire Douze Point!

Oh yes this years party will be bigger and better (or is that cheesier??) than last year. To celebrate the UKs cheesy pop entry by scooch we will be going europoptastic and also having an aftershow party.

Considering we were'nt having another big party this year we're not doing bad with about 20 on the "guest list"

Everyone has to dress as a european country and bring some food / drink from a european country. It's also like the united nation with our guests with friends from slovakia, austria, netherlands, ireland, croatia and not forgetting the UK.

One friend has'nt quite understood the costume idea as she's wearing a vera wang dress she's just bought. Not very euro is it, say that neither is israel....

Watch out for the pictures.....

Saltaire douze point!!!

Saltaire Best Back Passage Update!

here's a few pics of the progress for the back yard competition...

Edinburgh Trip

Our friend Rich invited me and steve upto Edinburgh for the weekend as his ex has an apartment up there and it's just been refurbed and he wanted us to test run it. The train only cost us £22 and free accomodation - i'd be rude not to!

Sadly no touristy shots really, unless you wanted interior shots of H&M, Zara, Jenners and john Lewis??? no thought not. The weather was fab i even caught a bit of a tan??!

Me and Rich went to see the old queens yacht britannia, steve's could'nt be arsed so went shopping! The thing that suprised me was that the interior was very simply decorated particularly the old queens bedroom, the living room looked a bit like south fork though.

We also went to the botanical gardens where steve had "plant issues" and photograph almost every single plant in the palm houses - getting ideas for the back garden comp and his artwork!