This Is My Kind Of Halloween Call Me A Sexist Pig

Kendra Wikinson

For centuries, Halloween has been tagged the scariest day on the calendar with fun in mind, throwing egg and flour back in my time and a touch of trick or treat and swede not pumpkins before becoming Americanised. So how in the world then, did Halloween also become one of the sexiest holidays of the year?

See the accompanying pictures it has grown because of celebrity partying and I think the growth of Playboy and the infamous Hugh Hefner parties at his mansion. When I thing of Halloween what comes to mind is, swedes, bats, ghosts, ghouls, witches, and vampires pop into your head. Now a certain age you are likely to notice beautiful, glamorous and yes, also very sexy costume looks.

Perhaps some adults want to dress up in a look that represents one their innermost fantasies. Others may want to take advantage of an opportunity to live outside of the box a little and dress up as something far removed from their everyday life.

Anyone's

wife/girlfriend

To take the sexy costume trend a step further, have you noticed how many costumes now have a sexier version of what was usually non-sexy character? For example, costumes such as sexy vampires, sexy pirates, sexy sharks, and dozens of sexy witches not only exist but also are extremely popular every Halloween.

The truth the metamorphosis of Halloween costumes proves finally that Halloween is mostly about having fun. Halloween does not have to be scary to accomplish this, and with a vast number of revellers each year the gruesome and gory gear will be tossed aside in favour of costumes that are substantially less scary and a lot racier! Casting a spell on Halloween has indeed taken on a completely new meaning.

Trick or Treat Hell

I f***ing hate Halloween I always have and even more so these days. I didn’t mind part-taking of a bit of egg and flour throwing in my younger years but that was the extent of my enjoyment. I am and always have been a Bonfire Night person.

It has become to Americanised now, kids looking for handouts as if you are some kind of sweet shop. After having a look about the internet, I found I had to blame the Scots for this yearly blot on my life. Typical of the Scots it was not about knocking happily on the door looking for a treat but it was called ‘Guising’, making demands with menaces.

One year I decided to join in the ‘so called fun’ and it just proved why I hate the bloody night with a vengeance. First, you are a marked target, every trick a treater you supply with treats tells their ruddy mates so you have a constant knocking on your door. They have a nerve to hit your house twice and as their parents are standing at your gate, you feel the need to hand out more stuff. Then you have the older teenagers who knock your door mob handed with more than sweets in mind.

Even when you plan not to partake of the unwanted excuse of a celebration, you are not safe. I was once trick or treated in my local shop has I was in the queue. What can you do? I was standing next to the penny sweets so I had nowhere to hide so I stumped up like a good sucker.

If the law allowed me, I would mine the pathway to my front door and throw in some barbwire just in case they get through. I will have my fingers crossed for heavy rain with strong winds to put off the trick or treaters and keep them tucked up indoors. However, the weather for today suggests there is no expected rain but cold really cold … Bugger.

We will be running silent and in the dark tonight, hoping it will be enough to keep them off our door and any shopping needed will be completed before nightfall.

My TV Licence As Arrived

My TV licence dropped through my letterbox not something I look forward but more than willing to pay because I love the BBC. People continue to knock the corporation and the cost of the licence while they are splashing out hundreds and hundreds of pounds on subscription packages for the likes of Sky, Virgin, and BT.

Does anyone not watch or listen to the BBC?

People say they do but I find it hard to believe most of my friends who begrudge paying the licence have the standard reasons. Ask them how to pay for the BBC. Commercials is the normal retort fired back at you, but no one likes commercials. Another copout is they don’t watch the BBC but a friend who happily tells me he doesn’t watch was happy to praise Blue Planet for someone who never watches Aunty (BBC).

The current cost of an annual colour TV licence is £147, that is just £2.80+ a week and if you have a black and white TV just £48 a year. If you have a black and white TV, kudos to you that’s a statement if you had one just to not pay for the colour licence.

Who decides what most of these overpaid presenters is paid. Well everyone now because the BBC have to tell us. The for mention friend just messaged me to say he likes watching certain BBC shows but he isn’t paying for it not because he can’t afford it but because ‘They’ tell me I have to pay and all tied up with the threat of prison. Says the man with the full Sky TV package. But he must be paying it because he isn’t been to prison.

The BBC could never catch a break. The right say it is biased to the left and vice versa with the left saying biased to the right raped up by the loons on social media. Social media from the left saw BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg need a bodyguard at the Labour party conference and earns in the range £200,000 – £249,999. It is not right.

I don’t think the BBC is biased.

Just do your duty a buy your licence or take the option of a holiday in prison.

Lewis F kick out of the BB house for a slip of the tongue.

My mum loved watching Big Brother we would talk about the shenanigans of the house and because I had the internet, she could not wait for the show and would ask me for spoilers. I miss our chats and I miss her so much. I still dip in and out of the show as a bit of a tribute to her, Dad and I had our special time discussing/watching football.

With this being the last Big Brother, I have been watching more than usual even with some of the biggest dick heads ever to enter the house and annoying housemates. Lewis G luckily the second housemate shown the door, he was so annoying and extremely stupid the thickest housemate ever. And the ‘King’ Hussain who came into the house late and lasted a week or so as he strutted around like the big I am, what a joke the guy was embarrassing.

There was some eye candy in the house. Isabella who came in the same time as ‘The King’ and Brooke who bats on the other side she is a lesbian with a strong character. Sîan is another who at the beginning I like but over the series, she slowly began to get on my nerves but she is fit.

I am truly glad the show is ending and with any luck, no other UK TV station will pick it up. Why such a strong stanch! Simply the treatment of Lewis F if what I am reading is true. He was removed from the house following the use of inappropriate language not a rarity in the show normally it is for racism. I was annoyed with the show in a statement they will not be showing the incident, why surely we could process the information those of us interested.

The reason for his exit from the house is rumoured comment where the word ‘Auschwitz’ was used in a conversation between Cameron and himself. Taking yesterday via his Instagram account the 27-year-old praised his new fan base for their support while admitting he felt 'stupid' after the 'slip of the tongue' remark.

The former contestant was reportedly sent home after he mistakenly said 'Auschwitz' instead of 'outfits' during a conversation with housemate Cameron. He told him: 'When we get out of here, we'll sort you out with some Auschwitz'. He said he was supposed to say 'outfits'. Now unlike the numbskulls at the production team at Big Brother it is obvious what he meant to say … outfits.

The word Auschwitz doesn’t even fit the sentence why kick him out? The show has been killed off with Lewis gone from the house, which was proven last night. But for some crying over letters from home there was little on show but a little backstabbing. I don’t understand why they won’t show what Lewis said. They’ve always shown what housemates have said in the past. It makes me highly suspicious! Social media is very supportive of Lewis and demanding to see the vid of the incident.

Lewis F who was one of the favourites to win as been robbed of a possible £100.000 in prize money. Cameron to win and goodbye Big Brother won't be watching again more.

The Sunday Sport is still at it - Sex with a Pumpkin!!!!

Oh, The Sunday Sport what a shit Sunday newspaper but if you like unblieveable stories and pages of smut this is the Sunday read for you. It hit the newsstand in the mid-eighties and out of curiosity I bought a few copies when it was first published but the last time I parted with cash to buy a copy must be over 20 years ago that was until this morning.

Why call it Sport? Because its back pages are pretty poor and by time, you reach them, it is consigned to the bin. Sunday Sport Classifieds ads are full of escorts, phone lines who pays 35p a minute to chat to some bird who probably sitting there looking nothing like her advertised picture while Live Sex Cams cost more for the reason you see what you are paying for.

It was after the front page caught my eye triggered memories of others front page pictures of a World War II Bomber on the Moon, or a statue of Elvis Presley on Mars you had to take the paper with a pinch of salt, I have to stop calling it a newspaper. The papers has its defenders saying the Sunday Sport was never intended to be taken seriously like I didn’t know London Bus ran a service to the Antarctic until the paper discovered a bus at the Antarctic. Its content includes a high quota of softcore female nudity and the for mentioned advertising for sexual services.

As I said it has been a while but as I collected my morning paper I just had the urge to buy it maybe it is changed. I doubt it I earlier watched BBC Breakfast paper review and it was not mention. So I am reviewing some of its content today.

Its Defenders of the publication (there are some) have said the Sport was never intended to be taken seriously: it has featured such stories as a World War II Bomber on the Moon, or a statue of Elvis Presley on Mars. Its content also includes a high quota of softcore female nudity and advertising for sexual services.

I had to part with 99p to purchase this paper and I hoped it was worth the money. Not really, it is the same old paper I remembered why I just never liked it. With gagging orders all over the media of course, the Sunday Sport would find a story it you could believe it … the headline is “Dog Poo Parkie wins gag Order”. According to the paper, a grumpy park keeper accused of hurling poo at the public has gained a high court injunction against the paper from naming him. Does anyone care if the story is true or not. I did not even find it funny unlike the next piece of journalism gave me a chuckle.

What about a survey of pumpkins with Halloween days away a survey with a difference right in the fantasy world of the Sport and their screwed up journalists. The best pumpkin to have sex with from the major UK supermarket. Yes what a crazy story but we are talking about the Sport.

According to the Sunday sport consumer champion Rod Collins, of course I googled him and it turns out to be the invisible man. It is claimed that Roddy had sex with five pumpkins and rated them. The act of having sex with a fruit or vegetable even as a name, ‘Pricycle’ a slang term I found via the internet.

In the contest were Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrison, and Waitrose with the crown given to Morrisons as the best for sex. Roddy was more than happy with the pumpkin giving it a top rating of 5/5 but not all are so highly rated with Waitrose only scoring 1/5, and is the most expensive. Will Morrison’s be advertising them as the best for sex, try our pumpkins?

Roddy’s description of his encounter.

There are, as the jingle states, “more reasons to shop at Morrison”. And one of these has to be the high sexual quality of the store’s pumpkins.

The skin was soft and giving. The interior was wetly inviting and shy yielding like a Norwegian virgin. The phrases “superb” and “second to none” are well used in the field of pumpkin sex but they are apt. Completion come, perhaps too soon. This pumpkin was a delight.

Being slightly older we British before the pumpkin hit the scene it was a Turnip or a Swede we carved an evil face and light it up ward off evil spirits. I would like to see Roddy try and shag these come to think about it, he probably has.

Beware Liverpool Cardiff are coming for your unbeaten record

Cardiff City march towards Anfield for today’s 3pm kick-off. Where they will face unbeaten Liverpool so what are the chances of the Bluebirds winning their second Premier League game well read the comments made by Cardiff boss Neil Warnock.

Warnock has been impressed with Liverpool's progress under Jurgen Klopp calling him "an exceptional manager". "It is virtually impossible for any team in the current game of beating Liverpool," he said. "Their front three is probably the best front three in the world.” They were having a bit of a bromance at their pre-match press interviews has they prepare for their first meeting later.

Meanwhile, at the Cardiff City Stadium last weekend, Cardiff got their first win of the season against Fulham and Warnock admits it will be a tough ask for his players to repeat that result at Anfield. However, I will stick my head out there … My heart tells me like all the pundits everywhere a Liverpool win but my staunch belief in Cardiff City still goes a Liverpool win.

The Bluebirds are just one position above the relegation zone, edging out Fulham on goal difference with only five points from the opening nine fixtures. A win today will see Liverpool top the Premier League.

But at yesterday’s press conference, Klopp laughed off Warnock’s claims that beating Liverpool Is ''Virtually Impossible''. They come into the game after a mid-week Champions League fixture home to Red Star Belgrade and won 4-0, hopefully for Cardiff they are knackered – cream crackered and go into thinking they didn’t have to turn up to win. The Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can’t wait and is excited to meet 'character' Neil Warnock.

The big question is can the mighty Bluebird’s get more than a football lesson out of the game later today.

The last time we played Liverpool was in our previous visit to the Premier League and we were spanked has they did the double over us luckless Welshman. In the corresponding game in 2013/14, the score line was 3-1 while nine goals hit the net at the Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff losing 6-3. Before the 60’s Liverpool were our bitch, we regularly beat them home and away if only today.

There is some doubt over Cardiff pair Harry Arter and Josh Murphy both are nursing injuries and will be assessed possibility right up to kick-off. Gary Madine could make a return to the squad following a virus but Joe Ralls must complete a two-match suspension. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (knee), Lee Peltier (shoulder), and Danny Ward (knee) remain sidelined.

During Klopp’s pre-Cardiff press conference, the manager seemed to suggest that some of his lesser-seen players could get an opportunity on Saturday and I say go on and try it … show us some respect or we will come a bite your ass Kloppy.

Must see TV - Week beginning Sat 27 October 2018

New TV is scarce this upcoming week but looking forward your viewing box will look better in the next few weeks. Something to look out for next week, a Sci-fi drama about the first manned mission to Mars, on topic with Mars being the next space race! Who will be first to put their flag on the planet. Christmas TV schedule news is beginning to leak out not long to go to December 1st when this blog turns Christmassy.

Sunday – BBC1 – The Little Drummer Girl 9pm (New Series)

The first episode is reported at times achingly languid, but that’s no bad thing in a slow-burning story of loyalty, conflict, and terrorism. Will the BBC have another drama hit on their hands?

Spy drama set in the 1970s, following the aftermath of a bombing in East Germany. An Israeli intelligence operative investigates, and discovers a connection to a series of assassination attempts against prominent Jewish figures around the world. In London, a struggling actress accepts the offer of a holiday in Greece, leading her to a whirlwind romance that draws her into the agent's operation.

Tuesday – Sky One – The Reluctant Landlord 9pm (New Series)

Semi-autobiographical comedy written by starring Romesh Ranganathan about a man forced by his mum into taking over the running of the family pub after his dad dies. Romesh clashes with pub bully Dirty Harry, while the landlord's wife Natasha draws his best mate Lemon into her new juicing diet, and barmaid Julie tries to add cocktails to the pub menu.

Sian Gibson is great as Romesh’s social media-obsessed, food-faddy wife, but the main draws are Romesh’s sardonic wit and wisdom – whether arguing with his son about Spider-Man’s superpowers or declaring “Eating badly is a long, enjoyable suicide”.

Tuesday – Fox – People of Earth 10:30pm (New Series)

Reporter Ozzie Graham travels to Beacon, New York to write a story on StarCrossed, joining an alien abduction support group. Abductions are considered `experiences', and each member has had an experience.

Wednesday – Flim4 – Crow’s Blood 10:55pm (New Series)

A former soldier returns to the US after serving in the Middle East, and decides to put his fighting skills to use as a vigilante. As he battles his way through the underworld, murdering criminals and corrupt officials who protect them from the law, a former comrade in arms is given the task of bringing him to justice. Action thriller, starring Steven Seagal and Craig Sheffer.

Thursday – Channel4 – The First 9pm (New Series)

Sci-fi drama about the first manned mission to Mars, orchestrated by a visionary aerospace tycoon. Five astronauts are selected for the operation, which has the ultimate goal of establishing a permanent human settlement on the red planet. Vista CEO Laz Ingram and the Providence crew count down for the mission, while a former mission commander watches the launch of their spacecraft from home. Following a disastrous setback for the project, he receives an unexpected visitor and an intriguing opportunity - the chance to join the crew.

Thursday – Discovery Channel – Outback Truckers 9pm (New Series)

Truck drivers with a difference they travel the dusty roads of Australia and are the lifeline to those living in the remote outback delivering essentials. The vastness of the country makes the drivers the backbone of the Australian transport system. Husband and wife Nick and Jo risk one last supply to a remote settlement as the wet season looms. Meanwhile, Craig and his son deliver hay to drought-hit stations.

Friday – Netflix – House of Cards (New Series)

Kevin Spacey’s removal from the show following sexual harassment allegations might have shrouded House Of Cards’ final season but it was not cancelled we have a new President. Frank out of the picture, Claire Underwood steps fully into her own as the first woman president, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.

Hobson's Choice (1954) - Film Review - Classic Film

Wednesday is a dire day for me as wifey has a seven hour take out with her carer Therese and I get easily bored. Yesterday I was about to watch a British classic film Hobsons Choice and a fantastic film it is. It should be required viewing at any opportunity.

So I saved it for this afternoon instead of the normal Christmas film I just needed to refresh my brain. It is a truly perfect family movie well-acted, amusing, and you'd be mad to miss this next time you see it in your TV schedule.

Set in Ye Oldie England, filmmaker David Lean ("Doctor Zhivago"/"Ryan's Daughter"/"Brief Encounter "), this is one of his early works, does a marvellous job making this slight comedy a pure joy; he's greatly helped by a taut script from Norman Spencer and Wynyard Browne and the superb performances of the entire cast. especially the endearing performances of the blustery blowhard Charles Laughton, the domineering oldest daughter Brenda De Banziem and the meek bootmaker John Mills. It depicts an obstinate 1890s shopkeeper's dysfunctional family that undergoes some severe changes, where he learns the hard way that his oldest daughter has outsmarted him.

The crusty tyrannical old sod of a drunk (Charles Laughton), pretends to be a Temperance man for business purposes, while propping up the bar of the Moonrakers inn.

The starting point of Hobson's Choice is a typically memorable comedy performance from Charles Laughton. Every film he is in is at risk of turning into The Charles Laughton show rather a mixed blessing because he tends to overshadow everything else. His exuberant performance is offset by strong turns from lead players John Mills and Brenda De Banzie. Mills was in his mid-40s by this point, but with his fresh face and innocent manner, he was still just about believable as the archetypal young lad.

Henry Hobson is a prosperous owner of a boot shop and a widower with three single daughters, the youngest Vicky (Prunella Scales), the middle daughter Alice (Daphne Anderson) and the 30-year-old plain looking spinster but most reliable one named Maggie (Brenda De Banzie). De Banzie was a stage actress who was unfortunately rare on the big screen. Mills and De Banzie make such likable characters their performances that hold your attention, as much as Laughton's.

The greedy bullying grouch pays them no wages and rules them with an iron hand, and when the two youngest request marriage he refuses to pay the customary dowry settlement and thereby their chances for marriage are put on hold. The shock comes when Maggie defies her oafish father's authority and marries his illiterate, beaten down and ambition-less master bootmaker, Willie Mossop (John Mills), the best bootmaker in Lancashire, in the north of England, and opens a rival shop that after a year takes away most of Hobson's business.

The shrewd daughter is also able to cunningly free her two sisters from their father's selfish clutches and allow them to take husbands of their own choosing. Maggie is the business brain and Willy is the talented bootmaker, who evolves from being a backward cluck to gaining confidence and moving up the social ladder as a shop owner.

Willie helps his wife serve the boastful and cruel patriarch a further comeuppance when his health fails because of his drinking problem and he has to take Willie in as a partner to save his declining business, while he's reduced to being just the silent partner.

He wasn't known for his comedy direction, but Lean's sense of rhythm, particularly in the opening sequences and later in the famous scene in which Laughton drunkenly chases the moon's reflection in a puddle, is perfectly in step with Laughton's comic timing. The romantic scenes between Mills and De Banzie are directed with as much tenderness as any other love story Lean made, although he brilliantly punctures the sentimentality with a joke whenever there is a danger of them slipping into mawkishness.

Hobson's Choice is undoubtedly the happiest picture Lean ever made and, in keeping with the sweet tone, he has a real aesthetic approach to shot composition, with some pretty landscape shots in the park, and a focusing on facial close-ups. There is a real sense of harmony to many of the images, for example a recurring motif with leaves (and leaflets) blowing across the street, confetti at the wedding, and snow falling over the town.

When all's said and done though, it's the charming story and witty dialogue that makes Hobson's Choice a winner. Lean clearly knew by this point that the job of a director is to serve the screenplay and, avoiding the occasionally distracting expressionism of his earlier films, presents a story full of human warmth and gentle humour.

My Film Rating

FA Cup and Welsh Cup draws

Just a quick short post it was the draw for the FA Cup and the Welsh Cup and the never ending journey continues to May and the Finals.

I am jockey-in Slough Town in the draw for the FA Cup live on BBC2 with 80 teams in the draw and the winners will pocket £36,000 in prize money more than the winners of the Welsh Cup receive I believe has I can’t find any information.

Vanarama National League Sutton United have the pleasure of a visit from Slough Town and I guess both wish to be playing the likes of Sunderland or Portsmouth. Slough will be going into the game as underdogs if only on league position anyway, but over 90 minutes of a cup game does it count.

There were two Welsh teams in the draw. Wrexham have to overcome Harrogate Town in a replay for the right to face Weston Super Mare, just over the Bristol Channel from Cardiff. Newport were in the draw and gave me the laugh of the night when they drew a trip to the Met Police in the old days would have a team full of plod, but that is no longer the case.

In the Welsh Cup, my team Monmouth Town have a home game against Ynysddu Welfare. The draw was held via Facebook with the game still being regionalised north, and south on cost grounds. The visitors in this Second Round fixture play in the Gwent County League, fifth tier of the Welsh pyramid system. They went into the last round as underdogs beating the struggling Welsh Division 1 team Taff’s Wells FC.

Monmouth play in the Welsh League 2, are in the top 10 of the league, and will be favourites to win the game and make the Third round. In the Third round, the Welsh Premier League teams enter the competition and the last chance for a Cardiff based team to progress to the Final when Cardiff Met are in the hat.

Doctor Who – Rosa – TV Review.

Vinette Robinson as Rosa Parks 

Appropriate for UK's Black History Month, Doctor Who time travels to the USA Montgomery in 1955 days before the famous Rosa Parks incident where she refused to give up her seat on the bus meant for white passengers, which kick starts the American civil rights movement.

Viewers praised the show as the Doctor takes her new companions Yas, Ryan, and Graham back to 1950s Alabama, it also features briefly Martin Luther King, and Fred Gray the meeting with them inspires Ryan as we have a brief look at American history.

Thankfully, the Doctor and her team arrive just in time to witness the incredible moment that would completely shift the future, however they were forced to foil a plot that would prevent the incident from ever happening, and save the struggle of the civil rights movement.

Shortly after arriving in 1955, the Doctor scanned traces of alien technology and investigates later Ryan is slapped in the face by a white man, after touching the man's white wife and trying to return her scarf. There was a shock when Graham defending Ryan without thinking announced he was is grandson.

Krasko confronting Rosa

Someone from the future is hell bent on stopping the historical event-taking place. The episode’s villain, Krasko (Josh Bowman), a mass murderer from the far future who is now physically unable to harm others due to a chip in his head having been released from “Stormcage” prison (neurally restrained). He is no Time Lord just some guy from the future who as laid hands on some equipment.

Due to this, he travels back in time to undo the civil rights movement by indirect means. Emanating the same discriminatory hatred from modern hate groups, Krasko is a dire admission that racism will never completely die out, but is always something to be fought.

In a confrontation with Ryan, Krasko uses, “Your People” at Ryan but it is never explained why.

In fact, due to the meddling of Josh Bowman's villain Krasko, the Doctor's gang are forced to take up extra seats on that infamous bus and become part of the problem so she would protest by sitting in a white only seat. "We have to not help her," the Doctor insists. This was all Rosa.

Yaz, Graham, the Doctor and Ryan

Her arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycott, in which black people refused to use the service – until the capitulation of the bus company to their demand (to be able to sit wherever they wanted) around one year later.

The emotional ending to Doctor Who had viewers in tears as Andra Day's "Rise up" played over the scene of Rosa Parks arrest while the Doctor and her companions were forced to watch on.

Ironically, this episode aired on the same day as footage was released of a Ryanair passenger refusing to sit next to an elderly black woman.

Sunday Crush – Sophia Loren - Dangerous Curves.

An exotic beauty, Sophia Loren could hold anyone's attention with her alluring eyes and a stacked body she had dangerous curves. She was a busy actress in high demand and not just for her looks, I consider her a fine actress. She worked in the Italian film industry and Hollywood.

I suppose she really came to my attention in the blockbuster El Cid but there are so many films I could site but if there is one film that I would favour over many of her other films, Two Woman. It was heart breaking as she battle to save her daughter from many dangers surrounding them.

Film Synopsis

Cesira (Loren) is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where Cesira believes they will be safer. There, they are happy even as food dwindles. They endure an awful rape by Moroccans soldiers on the trip back to Rome after she feels it is safe to return.

Sophia Loren is one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, official. Her exotic looks are all natural and she was happy to share them with the world. An exotic import to Hollywood she had many leading men looking to date her and she had an affair with married Cary Grant. Sophia has a larger than life persona that she flaunted to maximum effect.

But what I love her for is her class mixed with sex appeal, able to play one off the other. Even when lampooning her own public image, Sophia did it with grace. So stunning! How she could turn a corny glamor shoot into art I’ll never know. But even dressed down and wind-swept she was beautiful!

I love this picture with Jane Mansfield maybe a touch of envy

Road to Wembley and Road to the Welsh Cup Final

Both the FA Cup and Welsh Cup play this weekend. With a team in each, plenty to keep me interested and I had to keep an eye on my team Cardiff City as well. This is not about Cardiff but they beat Fulham 4-2, yes first win of the season.

In the FA Cup Slough Town are my team at this moment and had a trip to Eastbourne. Both teams play in the Vanarama National League South and Eastbourne have already suffered a heavy defeat to Slough (4-2) as well as have league position over the home team. Favourites to procced into the next round Slough maybe but this is the cup.

In the hat for Monday, which sees Division 2 and 3 of the Football League entering the draw, will be Slough Town after beating Eastbourne 2-1. Slough will now be hoping to face one of the bigger League clubs, the like of Portsmouth, Barnsley, or Sunderland.

Route to Wembley (Bold my Team)

Fourth Round Qualifying Eastbourne FC 1-2 Slough Town FC Att 802

Third Round Qualifying (Replay) Bristol Manor Farm FC 0 – 4 FC Slough Town FC Att 541

Third Round Qualifying Slough Town FC 2 – 2 Bristol Manor Farm FC Att 486

Second Round Qualifying (Replay) – Sholing FC 0 - 3 Slough Town FC Att 327

Second Round Qualifying - Slough Town FC 2 – 2 Sholing FC Att 465

First Round Qualifying (Replay) - Hamworthy United FC 0 - 1 Sholing FC Att 149

First Round Qualifying – Sholing FC 0 - 0 Hamworthy United FC Att 230

Preliminary Round - United Services Portsmouth FC 1 - 3 Sholing FC Att 131

The Extra Preliminary Round - United Services Portsmouth FC 5 – 2 Andover Town FC Att -

In the first round of the Welsh Cup Monmouth are my horse in the ride to the final in May until they lose that is. Monmouth visited Undy Athletic ground The Causeway, Magor, Newport in played in the Welsh League Division 1 while Monmouth are in Division Two giving the home team the edge on paper. The score was 4-3 a fairly close game at halftime the visitors had a 2-1 lead but Undy kept the game lively. So Monmouth will be in the draw mid-day on Monday.

The only two Cardiff based teams left in the competition both lost today but there is other chance later - the third round when Cardiff Met and the rest of the Welsh Premier teams enter in that round.

Route to Final (Bold my Team)

First Round – Undy Athletic 3 - 4 Monmouth Town

Second Round Qualifying - Monmouth Town FC 4 - 2 Wattsville

First Round Qualifying - Treharris Western Athletic FC 8 - 1 Aberystwyth Exiles

On the iPlayer, the BBC camera was at Dunston UTS today and they face Gateshead some 90+ ahead in league position. It was a local derby six odd miles separating to clubs, which generated a bumper attendance 2520 for the game. The winners of this fourth qualifying round clash meaning that there will be at least one North East non-league representative will be in the first round proper draw on Monday (BBC 2 7pm).

Dunston UTS from the Northern League Division One fell on the sword losing as National League Gateshead has you would expect they were just too good. This was Dunston’s sixth game in the FA Cup.

Loading the Jukebox 14 - Friday Night, Saturday Morning - The Specials

What a cool tune and one of my favourites, I just love it. The mellow voice of lead singer Terry Hall is hypnotizing and the lyrics are sublime written my Hall himself. It was released on the B-side of the smash hit single "Ghost Town" and also on the B-side was “Why”. I remember buying both the 7” single and the 12” single.

“Ghost Town” the theme of the song was urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities.

“Why” was a plea for racial tolerance and was written by guitarist Lynval Golding in response to a violent racist attack he had suffered in July 1980 outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London, which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs.

Lead singer Terry Hall wrote “Friday Night, Saturday Morning”. The song described a mundane night out in Coventry he could be describing a Friday Night of me staggering home on a Saturday morning in Cardiff.

I would put all three in any jukebox of mine

Fulham comes to Cardiif

Another game that must be won because we are yet to win a game so far this season and coming off the back of manager Neil Warnock saying he would not bet on Cardiff staying up. Nice to see some confidence there Mr Warnock hopefully one of your press conference jokes.

Fulham were the big spenders from the three clubs promoted last season, over 100million a figure any team in the Premier League would be happy to have in their bank. But money does not buy success Fulham may have spent but they are only three points above Cardiff (bottom of the league) just outside a relegation spot having only picked up five points from their first eight games.

Last season in the Championship Cardiff drew 1-1 at Fulham and on Boxing Day at Cardiff City Stadium lost 4-2 to the Londoners.

One player not in the squad for the visit of Fulham will be Joe Ralls after the club failed to overturn his red card against Tottenham and begins a three-game ban. Ralls could have missed the next three games anyway with a chipped bone in his knee, and could be out for more than three games.

Others on their sickbed is Danny Ward with a reported knee injury, while fellow striker Gary Madine is doubtful with an illness. Warnock is concerns about the lack of choice in the striker department and he admitted they are low on numbers in an attacking sense ahead of another crucial home game.

“Madine has got a virus, which is really killing him, so he is struggling. On top of Ward, it means we are a little bit short in the strikers’ area.”

However, on the plus side, Aron Gunnarsson could be in the squad against the Londoners and Alex Smithies could also be available for Fulham.

A surprise the bookies and pundits are in most cases are predicting a point in the game even Robbie Savage predicting they will be held in a 2-2 draw with fellow new boys Fulham. It could be worth a punt both teams to score!

Must see TV - Week beginning Sat 20 October 2018

Another quiet week coming up but on the upside I am looking forward to the return of ‘Alaska: The Last Frontier’ I am fascinated with shows about people living off grid. The only disappointment with the show they were not really living off grid living within easy access of the modern world. Something else I am looking forward to the commercial fishermen of ‘Wicked Tuna: North and South’ who work the Outer Banks and another returning favourite on Thursday.

Saturday – BBC4 - 54 Hours: The Gladback Hostage Crisis 9pm (New Series)

On a swelteringly hot day in August 1988, armed masked robbers take two hostages at the Gladbeck branch of the Deutsche Bank. It starts of a chain of events that goes on to transfix Germany. Throwing up big questions, about the role of the press in reporting unfolding crimes.

This two-part dramatization is tremendous and taut with anguish (you’ll be swept up in every one of the first episode’s 90 minutes) as police, who are hopelessly out of their depth, try their hardest to keep the hostages from harm while reporters crowd the crime scene.

But the captors become increasingly panicky and unstable, and the ripples of what starts as a botched bank robbery in a small town become waves that spread across the country. The fear and horror escalate as police do little but flounder in incompetence.

Sunday – Discovery Channel - Alaska: The Last Frontier 9pm (New Series)

The return of the reality show following the lives of Alaskan family the Kilchers. After a long winter, cabin fever is setting in. Eivin and Atz are caught overnight in the backcountry, and Otto helps an orphan calf connect with its mother. Otto and his son Eivin bond over a hunt for ptarmigan that nearly ends in disaster. Atz Lee and Jane travel to remote Adak Island in search of caribou.

Sunday – Discovery Channel - Last Outpost 10pm (New Series)

Builders Clint Greathouse and Todd Anderson create one-of-a-kind builds, using nothing but recycled parts, creativity and determination. The series kicks off with a build using an old military aircraft tug-vehicle. The duo builds a monster tow truck that can go anywhere, haul anything, conquer the unforgiving terrain for the owner of an outback search, and rescue tow service.

Throughout the season, Greathouse and Anderson’s other custom builds include an all-terrain wheelchair, a sawmill built from a school bus, a mining sluice rigged to an ATV, and a swamp and hunting boat created from an old military transport.

Monday – BBC2 – Only Connect 8pm (New Series)

Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the quiz in which teams must use patience, lateral thinking, and sheer inspiration to make connections between four things that may appear at first not to be linked. In the first match, the Hotpots take on the Poptimists, with one set of clues consisting of Beethoven's 7th, Centre of gravity, 3rd of November, and Very beginning

Monday – ITV2 – Family Guy 9pm (New Series) First showing on terrestrial TV

The opening episode of season seventeen, titled Married With Cancer, is part one of a special two-part story in which Brian meets and quickly falls in love with a woman named Jess (guest voice Casey Wilson), who reveals she has cancer. After she receives devastating news regarding her diagnosis, Brian proposes marriage to her. Brian is a dog.

Monday - ITV2 – American Dad! 9:30pm (New Series) First showing on terrestrial TV

Stan is crushed when he realises his loved ones have forgotten about Father's Day, so he gives them a chance to make it up to him by celebrating belatedly. When he is less than thrilled with the results, he uses the CIA's Memory-Neutraliser to Groundhog Day the family, erasing their memories of the last 24 hours and forcing them to relive the holiday until it is perfect.

Monday – W- Emma Willis: Delivering Babies 10pm (New Series)

Emma Willis is best known as the glamorous presenter of Big Brother which is coming to a end after this present series and The Voice UK, but for her new six-part series, Emma Willis swaps the glitz of television for long 12-hour shifts working as a Maternity Care Assistant on a busy maternity ward.

She’ll be working day and night at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Essex, cleaning delivery rooms, making beds and assisting the midwives as they deliver babies!

Wednesday – Sky Witness – Grey’s Anatomy 9pm (New Series)

The fifteenth season of Grey’s Anatomy will receive its UK premiere on Sky Witness on Wednesday. In the opening episode of the show’s fifteenth season, titled With a Wonder and a Wild Desire, the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial vie for a new position. Meredith is seemingly distracted and struggles to stay focused, and Maggie finds herself the keeper of a big secret while Amelia and Owen try to figure out their relationship. Meanwhile, Jo and Alex’s honeymoon doesn’t go exactly as planned.

Wednesday – Universal TV – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 9pm (New Series)

The Special Victims Unit, are specially trained squad of detectives in the NYPD, investigate sexually related crimes. Fin crosses international borders to catch a fugitive rapist, and this causes a political tug-of-war, which derails Barba's case. Meanwhile, shocking allegations against Benson lead to the return of an old friend.

Thursday – More4 – Berlin Station 9pm (New Series)

Espionage drama about the staff of the CIA station in Berlin. Daniel Miller is a newly appointed case officer who has arrived at the CIA foreign station in Berlin on a clandestine mission to uncover the source of a leak.

Working alongside his old friend Hector DeJean - a jaded CIA case officer with secrets of his own - he soon realises he has much to learn about the rough-and-tumble world of the field agent with all of its deception, danger and moral compromises. Richard Armitage and Rhys Ifans star.

Thursday – National Geographic – Wicked Tuna: North and South (New Series)

New England's best Bluefin tuna fishermen enter treacherous fishing grounds, the Outer Banks, where they battle the local fleet for the ocean's most lucrative prize. A new season begins in the Outer Banks of North Carolina with an all-time low quota, leading to fierce competition between Northern and Southern crews. There is little love between the different boat and the low quote will not help. The pressure will be on the captains to put food on the table for their crews.

Friday – Channel4 – Stand up to Cancer Night 7pm (New)

Adam Hills, Alan Carr, and Maya Jama host a star-studded night of fundraising. Joining them are a raft of famous faces, all coming together to raise funds for vital cancer research. Celebrity Gogglebox returns, Michael Buble and James Corden star in Carpool Karaoke for SU2C. There are other one off shows from Channel 4 like Bake Off as well as sketches, appearances and performances.

Some of the celebrities taking part are the likes of John Legend, Liam Gallagher, Louis Tomlinson, Little Mix, Gareth Southgate, The Muppets, Stephen Merchant, Gary Lineker, Rita Ora, Sharon Horgan, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Hamm, Davina McCall, David Mitchell, Kate Beckinsale, Chris O'Dowd, Jamie Oliver, Tom Walker, Backstreet Boys and many more.

Loading the Jukebox 13 - Silly Game Janet Kay

Its been a while since I added a tune to my blog Jukebox and here is number 13, Janet Kay. Lovers Rock at its finest and about the most beautiful Lovers record ever made (that I’ve heard anyway) and the biggest hit the genre produced, getting to No. 2 in the charts.

It is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. The roots of lover’s rock lies in rocksteady it became a classic end of the dance smoochy number back in the day. The sound was homemade coming out of London and soon was popular countrywide. I remember getting my first listen of the tune on the radio, remembering it got a lot of airtime and was soon on the must watch music show Top of the Pops.

The tune was a slow burner but after her first appearance of TOTPs, her single began to climb the charts that was how powerful the show was to artists and bands. I was hook as this fall right into my music tastes with reggae, rocksteady, ska, and Two Tone. That opening to the song was electric and add her voice you were listen to a piece of heaven. The beat of the music was captivating and her voice was sublime. I just deify on the feel the beat and feel the need to dance.

I reckon there will be no deal

I voted to remain in Europe much to my shock and anyone who knew me when talking politics I always emphasised I hated the European Union and always said if we had a vote, I would vote out. To this day, I have no idea why I voted as I did what I do remember was looking at my voting slip and making my mark.

I was not excited about what I did and even when I think about the result being a lapsed leaver I knew the leavers would win maybe that was why I voted as I did, a sympathy vote. I was happy to be leaving and would have been happy to stay a situation I find strange. But the losers were not happy from day one demanding another vote and basically calling leavers racists and my favourite deniers.

 The leavers still pipe on about the remainers not knowing what they were voting for but yes they did to get out of Europe and I can tell you now no politician made me vote remain, it was all my decision.

However, over the months my annoyance with the sulking remainers as just grown and talk of a “Peoples Vote” as push me over the wall. First ‘Peoples Vote’ what a joke it would be better named ‘Politicians Vote if you are a remainer’ I am one of those people and I am NOT calling for a second vote. Maybe the remainers should crowd fund to pay for the cost of another vote and maybe raid the European Union piggybank.

If there were such a vote, I would be a leaver this time without a doubt and for the reason just look to the politicians and officials of the organisation who have no idea of democracy after the people of this country voted out.

Take the Irish they vote no to the Treaty of Nice, 2001 but another vote was held and would have been held repeatedly until they got a yes vote but on the second vote, they voted yes. Again, they voted no for the Treaty of Lisbon but after amendments, they voted yes on a second poll. We are leaving and they don’t like that we want a trade deal and they don’t like that, so they have been piling up the pressure on the British Government to cave in to their demands.

They have to play tough because others would like to walk away from the club given the chance like Italy for one. I say the club on paper it includes the UK of 28 but it has always be a club of two, Germany and France calling the shots. I am old fashion enough to think most of Europe owe us something for standing firm during the Second World War as if we didn’t Europe would be full of German sausage eating Nazis.

Joking aside May will come back with nothing after her latest talks about leaving Europe and we will be leaving with no deal. In that case, all the energy of the government should be on making the switch over work. Drop the backup and tell them no divorce bill we paid in full during WW2 and since. I can’t understand why it’s ok for a plane and train to land and arrive on the day before we leave the next day maybe they can’t.

The Irish border seems to be the obstacle with the EU calling for a hard border with customs and all that means even splitting Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. If they want a border let them build it, it does not mean we have to except it just cannot see any British Government breaking up the union because the EU wants it, maybe the Labour Party. No deal will mean the Scots looking for another attempt at a referendum on Scottish independence giving up one union to join another bigger union where they will have little influence on policy.