My mum is famous....in Wellington

Skittles success!

My mum is a famous skittler in our home town of Wellington, Somerset. This story is from the Wellington Weekly News, though I doubt the authenticity of the last sentence!

SUE RETAINS LEAGUE TITLE WITH SOMETHING TO SPARE
18:00 - 24 May 2006
With the biggest turnout for many years, the Wellington Ladies' Skittles League presentation evening last Friday was a great success.

With 17 out of the 20 teams playing for the highest average cup, no one disgraced themselves, with the scores ranging from 40 to 67.

Sue Grabham of the Water Babies pulled out all the stops and scored an impressive 67, which included spares of 13, 14 and 16 to take the cup for the second year running, beating her previous score by 11 pins.

Yearly trophies and perpetuals were presented by Alf Binding, the league's president.

Celebrations continued late into the evening.

Wirelessssssssss

I don't usually like to crosspost, but it's a busy old time in the wireless field at the moment - hop over to my Wireless Wibbles blog to find out more.

Priceless

Despite being a Man United fan, I was supporting Arsenal in last night's Champions League Final and was disappointed to see them lose. However, I couldn't help but chuckle at this picture that dropped into my Inbox this morning...

The mascot should have shorts

Football mascots are generally terrible. But there's something rather strange about Goleo, the lion mascot for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Perhaps it's that the Germans have picked an English symbol to represent this significant event. Perhaps it's the rather goofy face. It might be the stupid 'ball with a face'. But no, it's because he's not wearing shorts. This craziness might be bourne of the Donald Duck era, but there's something rather disconcerting about his triangle-shaped 'zone'. With Donald, you see, there's just nothing there. With Goleo though, it looks like there should be. And it hasn't gone down well, either; the chaps selling the mascot, Bavarian firm Nici, have gone bust. Not surprising, considering they paid 19 million pounds for the priviledge of selling this doofus. Still, we blame the designers - Jim Henson's company was paid 250,000 Euros for that...

Sad but cool

On Thursday 4th May 2006, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
am, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04.05.06

That won't happen again until 3006.

(Thanks to Vicky for this useless bit of information.)

Belated stag pics

Rather late perhaps, but take a look at last week's pictures from my soon to be second-cousin-in-law Mike's stag do. Paintballing, quad biking and shot drinking contributed to a very interesting night out in Bristol. More here.

Ronaldinho loves ThinkPads

Just in time for the World Cup, Brazil and Barcelona ace Big Ron has become what's called a 'brand Ambassador' for Lenovo. Corporate whore or geniune ThinkPad fan; you decide! However, it was pointed out to me that he doesn't seem to be smiling too much in this realistically-posed image. The tie-up certainly represents a smart move for the far East company - Lenovo seems to be working hard to cover up its lack of World Cup sponsorship by bigging up its contribution to the recent Winter Olympics. Funny old game, this corporate sponsorship...