A League Of Their Own Show Two

The second episode of son Paul's show "A League Of Their Own" is on Sky1 and Sky1HD tonight at 9pm. The guest stars in this second episode are Gavin & Stacey actress (and James Corden's co-writer)Ruth Jones and journalist and ex Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell. This is a great line up and the show promises plenty of laughs once again. Last week's first episode was an hour long introduction but today is only half an hour (just over twenty minutes without the adverts). Don't miss it (but if you do don't forget to check it out on Sky Anytime or on one of the re-runs).



Whilst on the subject of sport, I was disappointed to read Albert Riera's comments on Liverpool reported this morning. The gist of Albert's comments were that Liverpool are in a mess, nobody likes Rafa Benitez and Albert wants out. It doesn't take a genius to realise that Liverpool are in a mess.A 4-1 win against Portsmouth on Monday might have looked encouraging but had it not been for a terrible blunder by the Pompey keeper that completely unsettled them for ten minutes I think that things might have been different and anyone who saw that win as a new dawn might think again after tonight when we are in a league of our own against Lille in the Europa League. 1-0 down it will be a brave fan who bets on Liverpool to go through.I am going with my friend Dave Haworth again. Last time I upset him by referring to him on the blog as my old friend but, as you can see below, he does not look old at all. (memo to self, don't use Microsft paint again for red eye correction - Peter Raymond would have a fit.)





We went to see "I Love You Philip Morris" last night. I saw it described on a film blog as ""Brokeback Mountain" meets "Catch Me If You Can"" which is a pretty accurate description. It's an enjoyable film based on the true story of a gay conman. I struggled a bit with the bloke from the Orange Wednesday adverts taking a serious role but I loved Jim Carrey's character's excuse for becoming a conman "Being gay is just so expensive!" A few people at our screening walked out after one of the gay sex scenes which just goes to show that prejudice is alive and well and living in Southport. I mentioned the blogger's comparison of the film with Brokeback Mountain and Catch Me if you Can, I also saw a brilliant description of Avatar on a blog the other day "Dances With Smurfs" - priceless.



We've just run all the very final tests on the new CT and WM range circuits and everything is running perfectly so we should be in full production next week. This has to be the best water boiler on the market today and a big thank you goes out to our electronics designer John Walkinshaw of KLH Electroncics PLC without whom it would not have been possible.

As today's blog has been quite a sporty one, I'll close with the Swedish ladies' curling team. Thanks to The Guardian for picking this video out for me.

Where's The Blog Been?

I got a phone call on Friday morning from Duncan (above)to tell me that at about 8.30 daughter Sarah (also above) had been involved in a car accident. Duncan started the conversation by telling me not to worry and that Sarah was fine but he then went on to say that her car had skidded on ice and ended up upside down on a country lane. Now I know that the fact that Sarah was fine should have been enough to put me and Marion at ease but the thought of her being in such a serious incident (the car is a write off) had a pretty worrying and traumatic effect on us both. We love our daughter dearly and the thought of the fright that she went through and our being two hundred and forty miles away was terribly unsettling. Anyway we are glad to say that Sarah says that she is feeling better and will soon be back at school but we're still going to St Andrews on Saturday just to see for ourselves.



Orange Wednesday today so we are off to see I Love You Phillip Morris. This is Jim Carrey's new film and it's about a gay romance. We were going to see Shutter Island but the critics seemed to think it was a bit too long so we might save that until next week when we are feeling a bit more upbeat. Last week we went to see The Crazies and really enjoyed it - a tremendous B Movie.




At least we managed to see our mums on Mothers' Day. Here they both are with my mum Ann left and Marion's mum Flo right. Both are approaching their mid eighties now but as you can see they are still a picture of health and we look forward to many Mothers' Days to come. PS Mum you left your cake and I'm sorry to say that we ate it.



Yesterday our friendly (and excellent) photographer Peter Raymond visited in an attempt to teach a complete amateur (me) the art of getting colour balance right in his photos. So Peter, after you left I had a go at that Avatar movie where James Cameron obviously had his colour balance set up wrong. What do you think of the results?





We had a visit from one of the Instanta babies the other day. Here is our machine tester Andy Fyles' daughter Bethany with wannabee grandma Marion. The Instanta babies are really the Instanta toddlers now and Bethany has discovered her voice. And very loud it is too. But she's got a great vocabulary for her age and she speaks really well.

Operations Director Dave Wilson's son Jack is mad about Lego. Here's an example of what you can do with Lego nowadays. When I was a kid you could build a house.