Long time no blog...

As mindless as ever, I neglected to mention my two-week holiday without Internet access, a welcome break that has sadly come to an end. 16 days in Northern Ireland might not sound like the holiday choice of many, but it was excellent -- even the notoriously bad weather (even in August) stayed away.

I did think of some of the old Jersey crew whilst there, as we visited the Giant's Causeway, a geological landmark of note and one studied (I'm sure) in Geography A level classes and at the Geology AO extra course I attended for a while. (I packed it in but others, such as Guy Webb and Andi Meades, stuck it out I think.)

Anyhoo, it's nearly September, the football season is back, the Christmas ephemera is in the shops, and a mind-boggling number of emails await.

Let's have some comments!! Anyone else go away this summer?

Ray

At Last - Photo of the Decade

I have overcome my uploading difficulties....

Here goes with that classic photo:

It's hard to know where to start, so I won't. This picture is worth way more than a thousand words...

And there's another!!

Had anyone else forgotten what a mover Roger obviously still is?

Thanks to Daz Smith for the materials... :-)

Guilty Music Pleasures

Check this out:

ELO are U.K.'s guiltiest musical pleasure

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1835159,00.html

I have to admit that, back in 1981 or about there, I bought the 12-inch of Hall & Oats's 'Maneater' because I really liked the bass line... so I have (had, I mean) at least one of the Top 10 guiltiest songs...

OVs website

For those of you, like me, who didn't know, there is an Old Victorians (OVs) website, updated by my old OV Juniors football team colleague Jon Giles -- or, as he is known in his capacity as OVA President, Jonathan Giles. See

http://www.take2theweb.com/pub/vcj/ov/a.html?1154372404

and check out how suave Jon still looks... :-)

Jon has also given this blog a plug in the 'Culture' section of the site - see

http://www.take2theweb.com/pub/vcj/ov/e.html?1154370954

Thanks Jon!

There's also a website for the School -- see
http://www.vcj.sch.je/
for those that give a hoot.

It's the weekend - time to open some Argentine Malbec, and then I'll try uploading the pics of Roger that Al McG is desperate to see.... :-)

Picture Problems

Annoyingly, I am now having problems uploading pictures from my computer into the Eblog publishing tool. I'll try again later.

It's worth the wait -- they say a picture is worth 1,000 words. Well, this one makes 'War and Peace' look like a novelette...