Miley Cyrus why!

I rarely write about non-entities they are so far off my wavelength I could give a sh*t but I was up this morning a 4:14am after a few hours’ sleep and pi*sed off.

Miley Cyrus why! This child, because that is what she is even at the age of 22-years-old is about as interesting has the turd I just flushed down the toilet. She was some child actor who was beloved by the Disney generation who slipped off the rails when she reached her latter teens with a shock and ore campaign that has seen her becoming a bit of a sideshow joke.

She gets a few more non-entities the likes of Kim Kardashian and Rita Ore to 'Say marijuana!' while taking a group selfie. Something an immature child would say to shock Mummy and Daddy and look cool with your immature friends on some drunken night out. The papers (online) are full of her after she hosted the VMA awards with most full of pictures of what she is wearing or the lack of it.

She must be surrounded with people who like to say yes a lot but what she needs are people who can say no you can’t say that or wear this it makes you look immature. She doesn’t have much of a dress sense judging by what she was wearing at the VMAs.

She as some kind of need to show flesh particular her breasts normally with pasties covering her nipples, that must be an American use of the word, because if she wore a couple of British pasties that would be funny.

After Kanye West announced he was going to run for President (joke I believe) the host for the night proclaimed to the world,

'Now we know what Kanye is like on weed!'

‘Kanye and I have something else in common – we both love Kim Kardashian,' going on to say. 'Man, have you guys seen those nipples? I envy that baby in her stomach!’

I no she as recently come out as bisexual and has a girlfriend but that was pretty sick thing to say. On the same show, we had her male counterpart from the same Disney kiddy factory Justin Bieber who recently announced he had seen the light promising to change his brat ways. He cried on stage and there was no bodyguards rushing on to brush his tears away. Maybe he has changed.

Has for the awards who gives a sh*t! It’s not my kind of music

Pussy Galore a lesbian

It was enough for this man to cry over my toast this morning at news that Pussy Galore, yes Pussy Galore is a lesbian, heart breaking for mankind.

Pussy was the top totty in Goldfinger - played by Honor Blackman but in the new Bond thriller book written by Anthony Horowitz she only as eyes for another woman. Her character is one of the most remembered of the ‘Bond Girls’ and not just for the name but the voluptuous body of Honor Blackman.

Below is possibility one of the best film dialogue's ever in a film,

James Bond: Who are you?

Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.

James Bond: I must be dreaming.

Come to think about it Pussy had ‘I am a lesbian’ written all over her. In the film, she is the leader of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, a group of women aviator’s staff by beautiful model types. Bond being Bond, it is not long before he is trying to get into her knickers only to have his advances repels with the words: 'You can turn off the charm, I'm immune.'

However, not to be put off he persists with his overtures towards her and gets to first base with a bit of rough and tumble in the barn. At the end of the film, they make out under a parachute. Did he get anywhere near third base we don’t see the normal ending to these early films with Bond sitting back looking smug afterwards shot.

In the book, she was a lesbian. In this new one, which picks up the Bond story two weeks after Fleming's Goldfinger left off she is a lesbian. In the new book, Bond is given a female instructor to help him become a racing driver. True to form, he tries to seduce her, but they are interrupted by the need to rescue Pussy Galore – at which point the women run off together.

Must see TV this week

I love the beginning of September it brings a lot of new drama and other shows to our TV screen so there is plenty to look forward to and here are some in my schedule for this week.

There is ‘Danny and the Human Zoo’ about the life of Lenny Henry which he is at pains to point out is loosely based on fact. It’s a one off drama but well worth a watch. It clashes with ‘An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse on BBC2 so the iPlayer for that.
Danny and the Human Zoo Bank Holiday Monday 9pm BBC1

I have a crush on Alex Polizzi and I just her show The Hotel Inspector some of the people on this show are nuts for not listening to Alex. Well the Hotel Inspector Returns so we get to see what happen and if they stick to Alex’s advice or not.
The Hotel Inspector Returns Tuesday 10pm Channel 5

Another person reliving is teens is Danny Baker in an eight-part series based on his 2013 memoir. Peter Kay stars as Danny’s dad Spud and I don’t have to say much more.
Cradle to Grave Thursday 9pm BBC2

Just after Danny Baker is something else I have been looking forward to watching. Boy meets Girl with a twist. The girl in question was once a man and played by Rebecca Root who was also born a man.
Boy meets Girl Thursday 9:30pm BBC2

Out goes Tequila -CBB

How the hell the researchers on Big Brother could miss the Tila Tequila Hitler controversy is beyond me. On hearing the rumours about her going in the house, I found the story in seconds of my own research.

It was even mentioned in the press in the build up to the show and all over social media soon has her name is mentioned. The people at Big Brother must have buried their heads in the ground. No sooner had she entered the house a campaign begun to get her kicked out which looked to have succeeded.

Her removal from the house was due to controversial remarks she made about Nazi-ism on social media back in 2013, when she shared an essay on her website, titled ‘Why I Sympathise With Hitler: Part I. She also posted a photo of herself dressed in Nazi-inspired garb, standing in front of a setting that resembled the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Channel 5 issued a statement on Friday, which read: “Unfortunately, Channel 5 and Endemol did not know about the views and attitudes Tila had expressed in social media postings prior to her involvement in ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.

"When they were brought to our attention, she was called to the Diary Room for a discussion with producers and was subsequently removed from the house.

"The views Tila had expressed, and permitted to remain uncorrected, are totally unacceptable and, accordingly, her continued involvement in the programme was untenable."

The show makers saying they needing the issue to be ‘brought to their attention’ shock many people. There is a suggesting they knew and always plan to kick her out if there was an outcry. She made this statement about in 2013 during a personal testing time and in a statement she said,

“Back in 2013 I made a statement about Hitler not being a bad person, and immediately realised soon after that I had made a terrible mistake that would ultimately come back to haunt me.

“During that time I had been suffering from severe depression and drug addiction for many years prior to that. I also attempted to commit suicide in 2012, and overdosed on prescription pills. I wanted to die. I felt worthless and unloved as that pain continued to grow causing me to further spiral out of control. Losing touch of myself, and reality.

"I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible, reckless, and selfish actions and I hope that everyone can forgive me for the pain that I may have caused. I want to be a good role model for my daughter because I don't want her to go through what I have had to endure."

Housemates are normally removed from the house due to their unacceptable behaviour in the house and after at least getting a warning or straight removal for violence. Last series Katie Hopkins was in the house and she before entry had said plenty of unsavoury and controversial comments and plenty of people wanted her out on social media but she stayed.

I personally believe she should have been left in the house maybe she was in a bad place at the time who knows but if she would have made the same statement in the house that would be a different matter.

Better thinks to do with my Saturday night

With the Sh*t Factor hitting your TV screens tomorrow the mouth that is Simon Cowell is happy to tell the world the Factor is back at its best with a new judging line-up and better acts. In between heaping praise on his show, he is quite happy to take pot shots at the BBC Saturday night flag show Strictly Come Dancing, joking about the BBC’s lack of a star-studded line-up.

Once again, Cowell misses the point. It is about the journey not about a star- studded line-up most of the British public knows everyone in this show. While with Cowell you get a bunch of wannabes each with a sob story lined up to try and win the sympathy vote.

With Factor, starting tomorrow and Strictly next weekend Cowell and ITV are not happy that Strictly doesn’t end until 20 minutes into Factor. With the Government on the back of the BBC over ratings, they are suggesting is that they are playing games by deliberately targeting the ITV show in a ratings battle. It would same Cowell and is ITV cronies would prefer the BBC to move there show to accommodate them as 8pm on a Saturday night belongs to them.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they demanded the BBC shut down or show the test card during the broadcast of the Simon Cowell money pit show. After watching the audience for Strictly grow over the past few years until last year when it over took Factor in the ratings Cowell as thrown everything into this year’s show starting with two new judges and tweaked the show.

You can bet I wouldn't be watching I would rather watch the test card than this kind of rubbish.

CBB and I'm not hooked

Celebrity Big Brother last night so I gave the ‘Launch Night’ a viewing mainly to see who was in because some of the rumours leading to last night intrigued me.

One of the rumours that excited me was that a one-time wrestling favourite the formidable Chyna (born Joan Marie Laurer) who was built like a WW2 battleship was going into the celebrity house. It was about the only reasons for watching so her non-appearance really upset me but still I found a few good reasons to watch.

This year it’s a show that never stops giving when you look at Team USA. The theme of this year’s show UK v USA, them and us and the Americans are always better entertainment. They just don’t know what they have signed up for other than a paycheque.

Team USA gives us the lovely Jenna Jameson an American actress of the porn profession, former profession if you disregard cam work. She made the cross over from porn to more mainstream entertainment and over the years ran a number of business ventures. She announced her arrival in London on Twitter meaning there was a strong possibility she would be in the house.

She was dubbed the queen of porn in her heyday helping to push the sales of VHS video tapes during her reign at the top of the porn tree and she was winner of many a porn Oscar. Time may have caught up with her looks wise but she still looked ok and she wasn’t overly booed on her entrance into the house but for a bit of heckling.

It seems Team USA is stacked with porn stars former or still active for the right offer. Farrah Abraham as from reality television appearing in 16 and Pregnant and spin-off series Teen Mom and wrote a book along with other TV appearances. She secured herself worldwide notoriety with a ‘sex tape’ with pornstar James Deen called ‘Farrah Superstar Backdoor Teen Mom’ and the sequel ‘Farrah 2: Backdoor and More’.

After her VT, it looked like she would be roundly boo but her dress, UK/ USA hybrid flag dress, the best of the night seemed to do the trick and got the crowd cheering.

Another member of Team USA who has dipped her toe in to the porn industry, housemate Tila Tequila appeared in a sex tape 2011, which she claimed was released without her consent. The TV personality and glam model fronted her own bisexual dating show, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, her bio states she is bisexual. Like most, she is savvy with reality TV so it will be interesting to see how the British public take to her. Very brash in her VT didn’t go down well with the crowd outside the house but she knew how to work the crowd and they were soon lapping it up.

Team UK they are the normal boring bunch and I have little or no interest in any of them but one of them will win just because they are British. I hope that’s not the case and the best housemate wins. Only 12 housemate seemed low but two more are going in tonight Janice Dickinson and Bobby Davro who will slug it out to be President or Prime Minister of the house.

By time I when to bed there was friction between Farrah and Natasha Hamilton she of the girl pop band Atomic Kitten, which looks to be going to run for a while. The rest of the housemates look to be getting along but it has only been a few hours into the show.

I have no interest in any of the males who have entered the BB house and why would I.

Leave my pastie alone

Why mess with a classic! The cornbeef pastie or the meat and potato besides being simply the perfect snack is a firm favourite with the British public but not safe from tinkering. There is always a boffin cook in some laboratory kitchen attached to some manufacture or supermarket coming up with some crazy food related idea.

Only today, I read on Facebook about a fish and chip shop in Cardiff selling a deep-fried Wagon Wheel the same place was selling deep-fried cream eggs at Easter. Some food is sacrosanct. It messing with things that don’t need messing with.

Even the pastie are not safe from the laboratory chefs having come up with a Scotch egg pasties recipe. Tesco are promoting the recipe on their website and from the accompany picture I don’t fancy one. I suppose that one day they will be available on the shelf.

Recipe

Welsh Cup kicks off

Last weekend it was the Road to Wembley and yesterday it was the turn of the Welsh Cup the lesser-known route to a Cup Final. Like last week, I have picked a team I intend to follow from a far all the way to the Final.

After perusing the starting line-up after the draw, I picked out Brecon Corries and I have no reason why. I would normally choose the team closest to my house in the lovely city of Cardiff that would have been Canton Liberals. Maybe I have some kind of fantasy about visiting Brecon.

So Brecon were playing Penrhiwfer in this opening round and I had no idea who or where was Penrhiwfer, so to google. Checked Wikipedia and it said, “There is one shop, one church, and one community centre”, sounds about right for one of the valley communities.

Brecon won the game 3-0 and will now progress in to the next round along with Cardiff teams AFC Butetown and Cardiff Corries neither will set the Welsh Cup alight in the latter stages of the cup. The last time a Cardiff team won the cup was back in 1999 when Inter CableTel won via penalties. It is also nice to see the competition now has a sponsor JD Sports.

Results

Leave me alone

Goonies house under wraps

Would you like to live in some iconic property, a house made famous in a film or TV show living with fans constantly turning up at your door

Astoria! My reaction was what/where until the film ‘The Goonies’ was mentioned and most people would have that eureka moment. Straight away, I have a picture of the white house where Mikey and his family lived. Although there have been a few other movies filmed in Astoria, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy and Short Circuit it’s the Goonies the is the big draw for film tourists and every day visitors to the town.

The owner of the house as finally snapped with the steady stream that has turned into thousands of visitors almost every day in the summer and overwhelming the neighbourhood. Homeowner of that house Sandi Preston has in the past let fans — within reason — approach, photograph, gawk at, and geek out on her property and on rare occasions opened up her house to them but now her neighbours and herself are experiencing fan fatigue.

Preston recently asked the local council to do whatever they can to limit public access to her home and has put up blue tarpaulin around the front and side of the house. The local council has urged fans to view the house from a distance but it’s a mega tourist attraction for the City of Astoria. I have to admit, if I were in Astoria - I would probably pop along to the Goonies house for a look and a stare.

Film locations can generate cash for a local community. My home of Cardiff has grown over the recent years with the likes of Dr Who and others filmed in and around Cardiff. Like Ms Preston, I would hate to be on some film trail like the lady in Barry who lives in the Gavin and Stacey house who complain about fans turning up in their droves.

Poo spread food for the spaceman

Space Station Bog

All of a sudden, my interest in deep space travel as disappeared in seconds when I read an article that NASA awarded a $200,000 (£127,000+) a year grant to a research project aimed at turning astronaut poo into food.

NASA are looking into the challenges of feeding astronauts in missions that could last months or even years and with future plans to colonise Mars. They are aiming at creating a 'closed loop' system on a spacecraft - one that could use astronauts' waste into food, fertiliser, supplements, or other useful materials for a long space flight.

Having a poo in zero gravity is not easy according to my research. It involves a fancy vacuum and collection chambers. For a No. 2, you sit on the seat, held in by a bar across your lap and straps across your feet, while a fancy, multimillion-dollar vacuum cleaner sucks your poo into a collection chamber. Ever tried to do No. 2 without doing No. 1 when you really have to go. It’s tough, and if you can’t handle it, you may want to reconsider a career as an astronaut. Astronauts have to hold in one or the other of their waste products and use a different method of disposal for each.

To dispose of urine, they must use a separate system, which involves a kind of funnel attached to a hose, which is also attached to an insanely expensive liquid-sucking vacuum cleaner. Ultimately, the solid waste ends up in a collection chamber and is disposed of back here on Earth, while the liquid waste floats around in space.

They are always looking to upgrade their equipment they are weight conscious so using bodily fluids could always be the next step. If is good enough for space, how long before it would be on sale in your local shop.

My vote - Yvette Cooper

My dream team 

I am waiting on my voting form or e-mail for the Labour leadership and I know who I will be voting for with total commitment looking to the future of a Labour government in 2020. It won’t be for Jeremy Corbyn because I am looking to the future not the past.

My first preference will be Yvette Cooper than Liz Kendall followed by Andy Burnham and I will not give a tick to Corbyn on my voting slip. I think it is time for a woman to lead the party, and with that in mind in the deputy leader vote I will go with Caroline Flint. Yes, I want to see an all-woman leadership of the party and I think a Cooper/Flint partnership covers most of the bases in terms of policies in the party and will attract a larger voting demographic.

I want the Labour party to have a good chance of Government come 2020 and if it is stuck in the past in some time warp of ideological self-indulgence claptrap the likelihood will be more years in opposition. Corbyn the likely winner is still battling battles from the 1970s, history. The left got some idea about Scotland and the SNP have shown some way to the promised land of socialism and pointing to the lefts gains in Europe mostly because of protest voting.

The SNP think they landed some socialism killer blow to the Labour party when there were many reasons for their stunning election victory. Many Labour supporters would not have voted SNP if Alex Salmond lead them into the election he was roundly hated by my Labour voting pals in Scotland who voted SNP in the end. We British love a protest but rarely when it comes to our vote. We can protest locally, but nationally, it’s not that easy which could be down to the first passed the post system.

People in the party go on about connecting with the core support when we should be looking at all the electorate and from what I have heard from Yvette Cooper, she has the policies. The next battlefield will be the National Assembly for Wales 2016, and the Scottish Parliament. In Wales, Labour may be the biggest party and in government but they need a working majority. It is all square in the Assembly with the opposition level with 50 seats each.

The biggest battle will be in Scotland that socialist heaven many Corbyn supporters look towards and want to bring to England and Wales forgetting that someone is sitting on that plot of land up north. We have to go to battle to regain Scotland and cloning the SNP will not readily work, as we need to have our own distinctive policies. Labour in Scotland only the other day voted in a new Scottish party leader Kezia Dugdale who after the massacre at the last general election north of the border will have an uphill battle to keep the seats they already got. Maybe that is why the SNP have been surprisingly quiet about the Labour leadership because their worst nightmare is a Corbyn victory.

Still I just hope the 600,000+ who can vote will see past this Corbyn love-in and see the aftermark of a 2020 election and see a Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Theresa May or George Osborne standing outside No. 10 Downing Street. If you are not scared enough, just think about to future of the Labour party. If you don’t I would like to thank you for another 5 years of misery.

Road to Wembley in my Armchair

The FA Cup got under away yesterday, well the Extra Preliminary Round a long way from the Final so it was time to check on Quorn FC he team that will start my route from my armchair.

So I decided I would start by following Quorn FC who were at home against Oadby Town FC who play in the Chroma Sport & Trophies United Counties League » Premier Division in deepest Leicestershire.

Quorn FC were put to the sword by Oadby eventually going down to a 3-1 defeat. The winner have to travel to Harborough Town in the next round.

Extra Preliminary Qualifying Round - Quorn FC 1 - 3 Oadby Town FC

Quorn FC my FA Cup starting point

Armchair football today

It is going to be a busy day of armchair football today. Now I am watching Southampton v Everton on TV after that it will be the score show and then my team, Cardiff City, play QPR again on the TV. Later I have the highlight shows to watch, the Football League Tonight followed by Match of the Day, – and yes I am an armchair football fan.

Many moons ago my Saturday would still involve football and Cardiff City but the differences would be instead of watching the game on TV I would be travelling to QPR. Be it on the Supporters coach, the train, car, or van I would be on route to the Capital (London) with the best bunch of mates you could ever wish for, great times.

Back in the 70’s/80’s it could be a bit naughty and dangerous, still hoping for a victory and you would be at the right end of the League Table, but it was not always the case. As you got closer to the ground there would be many beady eyes watching you. Most were just curious while others were plotting and planning.

If you got to the ground early enough there was a pub to find, a friendly one, happy to see you and be happy in your company with no hint of fisticuffs. It never always worked out like that but that went with being a Cardiff City fan.

The reason for travelling to some English outpost was always the game. For me was just as important as the trip there is nothing better than winning away from home and if we lose, there was always another day. The to-and-fro of the chanting always seems to step up an optic when you are a visiting fan and then the pie. I would never feel right without standing on the terrace scoffing one. Hot please! However, that didn’t always happen.

Homeward bound was made by the result of the game, win or get a point happy times, lose and the way home dragged. However, something that can really put a downer on the day win, lose, or draw and that is if some little shit caves the window in on the supporters coach.

Make me a millionaire .... NO

A cracking idea or a rip-off on a grand scale to help some stranger to become a millionaire. Someone has come up with the idea to raise the funds via crowdfunding on the site Kickstarter.

There are and have been a good few projects help by Kickstarter for instants films, books or even publishing comics/magazines and much more. Some of the crazier offerings was a man asking for $8 to buy a chicken burrito but received a staggering $1,050 worth of backing. There are some stupid people out there maybe I should see if I could get some funding to buy a Clarks Pie.

I am afraid I won’t be parting with any cash to help whomever to becoming a millionaire but that will not stop some as so far over $14,000 have been reached. However, it’s unlikely to reach the goal of a million dollars. The anonymous crowd funder aims to raise a million dollars in just 90 days (started 28 July) - as a "social experiment". What experiment! Whomever maybe just party the money way on a celebrate lifestyle.

The only clue as to their identity is a video alongside the wemadeamillionaire.com website where he (or possibly she?) asks for either a ‘gold ($9.99)’, ‘silver ($4.99)’ or ‘bronze ($1.29)’ donation.

Highlights ... What highlights

A new era for highlights of the football League with Channel 5 the new owner of the rights in a three-year agreement, interesting.

Soon as the titles hit the screen, I thought to myself we are going to have a problem here. Than the presenters made their appearance and the fans started to clap, and for a second or two I thought I was watching a game show. First why a studio audience? It was a terrible idea and wasn’t anyone at Channel 5 watching the Wimbledon highlights and seen how they screwed up and this was going down that way. I have seen this kind of thing on Sky Sports trying to be all flashy when fans just want to see football and decent after match expert discussion.

The show looked like it had a budget of a Pound Shop and there was too much talking and not enough football. They messed around with the normal format jumping around different divisions meaning you had no continuity. Call me old fashioned but I like to sit back and watch the Championship highlights followed by Division 1, and Division 2.

A point in fact was they opened with the Championship game between Sheffield Wednesday’s win against Bristol City and then jump to Sheffield United’s defeat to Gillingham in League One, puzzled, then I was.

Some Twitter comments

The league tables display what a joke. Maybe they thought it would be retro but it came over all naff. Couldn’t they afford some graphics or a cheap computer monitor? Come on! It look liked the three divisions had been slapped on three pole dancing poles. Maybe presenter Kelly Cates would be presenting them in a new kind of way later it was past the watershed anyway, she did not.

The presenters were iffy to say the least along with any audience participation. Kelly for me was about the only positives while her partner in crime George Riley was so, so and the poor guy doing a bit of analysing looked like he was out of his depth. They dragged out Barnet manager Martin Allen who looked like he wanted to be anywhere but in that studio.

Than there are the adverts to rile me up and they don’t help was the show with my passion on hate them?

It was very poor compared to the now former BBC's Football League show with the only thing going for it was the 9pm timeslot. It was on at the ridiculous time of 11:50pm when it was on the BBC. It’s the first show so I will give it some time to develop and it will be interesting to see if any changes will be made off the back of all the negativity.

How the former presenters reacted

COMING SOON FOR CHRISTMAS 2015

Channel Benefit

I think Channel 5 should be rename Channel Benefits because they seem to have a fascination with people on benefits. A week don’t go by without them plastering our screen with benefit lowlife screwing the system somehow. If it’s not benefits then people living on council estates anything at the bottom end of society.

Last night’s offering was ‘Undercover Benefits Cheat’ where investigative journalists exposed the brazen and shocking ways fraudsters are cheating the system to claim benefits. You could buy forged doctors’ notes and bank statements has well as tutorials on how to make false sickness benefits claims.

One woman was faking being incontinent and she would open a bottle of water in her pocket in the doctors, squeeze it and it would looked like she had pi**ed her pants. Her partner is also making the most of an illness to claim his slice of benefit money. Another person selling knock-off stuff from the back of his car was on sickness benefits because he hurt his finger in work.

Later in the show, the investigative team confronted the fixers, they became unsurprisingly aggressive, and one can only hope they all received a recall to the benefits office for a chat.

While I was watching the show I wondered when we would see, Channel 5 come up with a show about ‘Tax Dodgers’. These people doling out this advice in the pub or nando’s could well have their counter parts sitting in some office somewhere telling the rich end how to dodge taxes. I personally see no differences between the two tribes of fiddlers but I suppose it is easier to infiltrate the bottom of the gene pool.

Read a few comments on this TV show you could easy see people despise the benefit cheat then the tax dodger. Either end of this question ‘cheat or dodging are breaking the law and should both be punished with the full force of the law.

TV that made me

I was watching some TV show on BBC 1 earlier call ‘The TV that made me’ and it got me thinking what made my TV growing up until the mid-1970s. Therefore, I delved into my memories.

My first TV memory was ‘Watch with Mother’, back in the 1960s in particular Andy Pandy and although Andy was ok, it was Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men that were my highlight. In today’s TV, where violence is attributed to TV shows and video games is that why I was a naughty boy? Was it down to Bill and Ben? There was also the Woodentops, another favourite and the Picture Show.

I would say my next TV milestone was the classic Doctor Who a Saturday night tradition. My Doctor was Jon Pertwee (The third Doctor) and one of his companions was possibly my first crush the wide-eyed Jo Grant (Katy Manning) and then the thinking man’s crumpet journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen). Yes like a lot of watchers back then I watched some of the scenes from behind my hands clasped tight to my face with just enough of an opening to watch. Having not seen many monsters back then it was pretty scary stuff from the classic Daleks to the Sea Devils. I enjoyed the fact the ‘Doctor’ was involved with the British Army UNIT and their leader, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

I regard ‘The World at War’ a TV landmark in my life that was how important I hold this TV series. It was really the first time I understood what war meant and putting playing Germans and British into a completely different context. It also hammered home the Holocaust probably the first time I really saw a programme on the subject. That haunted picture of the face screaming out at me in the programme titles I have never forgotten. It was also the programme at began my love affair with factual documentaries.

Recently I spent a week re-watching the four series of ‘When the Boat Comes In’, thanks to my friend YouTube and it was an excellent way to while away some time. James Bolam, he from the ‘Likely Lads’ was in the lead role as Jack Ford, brilliantly acted. Making is way from a demobbed sergeant to a London playboy and his interaction with the Seaton family who he rather adopted. Jack was to marry the Seaton’s daughter Jessie but got is ‘morrow’ mate sister pregnant so married her instead.

His life continued to be intertwined with the Seaton’s has he rose up the social ladder from a fitter, union official and wealthy businessman. The series ended with Jack killed while running guns to the socialists during the Spanish Civil War after been blackmailed by Jessie and her brother Billy Seaton. He died a signed up member of the Fitters Union stating it was the only way he could live with himself.

Match of the Day was and still is an important part of my life but in my childhood and early teens it was a Saturday night me and dad thing. Our team rarely featured on the programme unless it was a FA Cup Match of the Day special but we both loved our football. Everyone would be in bed and Dad would come home from the club sometimes with a bag of chips and a bit tipsy and would tell me stories about the family and his childhood.

Survivors (1975) a BBC post-apocalyptic drama which concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accident released virus that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet. We find scattered survivors of every age, race banding together in small communities, learning to become self-sufficient with some nastier than others.

New Season and I can't wait

We have played a few good teams in pre-season with the likes of Watford and Bournemouth standing out both Premier League teams and two victories for the Bluebirds. Now it is the reality of a season long campaign kicking off next weekend, excited, well I bloody am.

The opening fixtures will be a good test for Cardiff City manager Russell Slade with a home kick-off next Saturday against Fulham followed but two tough away games at QPR and Blackburn. There has been a lot of comment between fans about have we strengthened enough after last season having seen a lot of the squad depart with a few more to go. The only players to have arrived at the club are Semi Ajayi and Sammy Ameobi but the rumour mill is still rumbling on with a few more possibilities.

You don’t win games without scoring goals – and it looks like Slade will look to Joe Mason and he didn’t bring Ameobi to the Cardiff City Stadium on a season loan to sit on the bench. While there is reported interest in Kenwyne Jones the Cardiff manager is on record as saying, he is a 'big part' in his plans.

The biggest weakness for next season could well come off the field – the fans. Last season was pretty woeful although it did pick up some towards the end of the season. There was a lot of negativity on the terraces about the manager or the style of play to the boardroom. Good performances, even if we lose should be supported take the negativity to the pub or home. Total support of our team is essential along with getting the atmosphere back into the stadium and the player’s job is to light the terraces up has their part in creating the noise.

Expectations for this season are simple and like most fans play-offs and above but thinking of my blood pressure automatic promotion would be ideal.

Who will win the Championship? Favourites must be one of the relegated teams from the Premier League or there could be another dark horse like Bournemouth last season. This league (the championship) is no pushover in some ways it is more competitive than the Premiership leading to interesting times.