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  1. Night Time, Day Time

    01/06/13 22:35:15 | 3 Comments

    Very, very funny animal video.


  2. Home Made Puppy Sling

    01/04/13 14:22:18 | 2 Comments

  3. Dumb Ways to Die

    11/18/12 14:22:26 | 0 Comments

    Very catchy tune with this fun video warning of being careful around trains.


    Set fire to your hair
    Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
    Eat medicine that's out of date
    Use your private parts as piranha bait

    Dumb ways to die
    So many dumb ways to die
    Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
    So many dumb ways to die

    Get your toast out with a fork
    Do your own...
  4. Re-enactors Doing a Reconstruction of The pre-1940 Dutch Army Bicycle Regimental Band

    07/05/12 10:00:48 | 3 Comments

    There is no original newsreel footage that seems to have survived, but this reconstruction is terrific to watch. You simply have to watch right to the end.


  5. Jess with Lord Bath

    05/29/12 20:43:41 | 4 Comments

    Our Jess with Lord Bath - 17th Marquess of Bath.

    We bumped into him when we stopped off for a break on our way home from seeing the Harry Potter studios the other week.

    Born in 1932, he is now getting on a bit and seemed genuinely pleased when Jess asked if he minded having his photo taken with her.

    His family seat is Longleat House which we actually visited last year.  A wonderful day out that was too.

  6. You Win Again - Bee Gees

    05/28/12 20:41:58 | 4 Comments

    This really is one of my most favourite of songs.

  7. The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls by Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas

    04/06/12 16:29:29 | 8 Comments

    Just finished reading this amazing book.  One has to read it with an open mind.   Funnily enough much of what it seems the Native Americans believe, is already, and has been for many years, my own beliefs.  Including my belief of how the first real humans were created on the earth.

    As you read it, you will become truly regretful at how ancient civilisations, such as the Maya, Aztecs, and Native Americans, were wiped out by Catholicism/Christianity.  How vast knowledge has been destroyed.   How they too...
  8. I Wish I Had a Safe

    03/21/12 11:40:03 | 9 Comments

    Do you ever think about what would happen to important papers or cash that you might have in the home if a fire swept through your house and you had to get out quickly or you were away at the time?

    We don't all have the luxury of a fire resistant safe, but we do all have a fire proof safe area that we can use to store passports, insurance policies, birth certificates, etc, and of course cash.

    With very rare exceptions we all own a fridge, freezer, or both.  Both of those will always survive a fire.  It doesn't take much...
  9. Tetra and Danio

    03/19/12 09:44:02 | 6 Comments

    This Mothering Sunday I went and bought a few more fish for my aquarium.  2 more Red Phantom Tetra and 5 Zebra Danios.

    Rich remarked how I should have given a narration on the last video, so this one has me yacking rubbish, lol.


  10. The Mayans and the Skull & Crossbones

    03/17/12 14:55:36 | 4 Comments

    Did you know that the Skull & Crossbones didn't originate from pirates or as we know it for now, to represent "poison"?

    It was/is actually a very old symbol of power and spirituality.

    The great unknown secret behind the Skull & Crossbones is not a symbol of death but of life.  It was used by ancient priests and priestesses world wide, from Mayans in Mesoamerica to the Etruscans in Europe:


  11. My Starter Fish

    03/12/12 11:39:12 | 9 Comments

    On Sunday all members of the family that happened to be hanging around at that time, which was 7 of us, all went to buy my first 3 starter fish.

    I allowed my Jess to pick the first fish after pointing out the ones she could choose from. She chose these sweet little Red Phantom Tetra.

  12. My Atlantis

    03/08/12 18:01:58 | 6 Comments

    After losing my Bayley nearly 2 weeks ago now, I found my home so deadly quiet and lonely without him that I was going crazy with sadness.  Never wanting another animal and having to go through the pain of losing them again, I decided that I would, for the very first time ever, have an aquarium.

    The sound of the bubbling and the attractiveness of the light and fish should go a way to add some atmosphere that is now sadly lacking.

    I first of all did a tremendous amount of reading up on the hobbie on the web, so that I knew...
  13. Victory!!!

    02/13/12 21:39:20 | 7 Comments

    We, the residents of this retirement complex along with other homes in the area have for the last few weeks been fighting against the local council building a mountain bike park track in the conservation area that runs at the bottom of the gardens of my flat.

    This is a beautiful wooded area that leads on down to the sea and up onto the hills and paths along the shore.  It's very...
  14. An Explanation

    01/24/12 12:46:41 | 7 Comments

    Some of you will have noticed that I haven't been around lately.  I am really sorry for this, and it's really hard to explain why.

    Call it a winter depression, mental exhaustion or whatever.  Either way I am not very good company at this time.  It's simply a time when I need to take a step back from everyone.  Be it from plain conversation, answering help questions and even playing here on Yuku.

    Every winter I do have to fight a mild form of S.A.D anyway, but for some reason this year it's hit me harder and it...
  15. Chrismas Dinner with the Mayor

    12/13/11 17:30:35 | 6 Comments

    Well, not really Christmas Dinner with the Mayor, but the Mayor was there at the head table, along with other dignitaries, such as the local Vicar, the Chairman of the association and a couple of committee members.

    Each year the Diners Club for our retirement complex lays on Christmas dinner and although I had been invited I wasn't going to go along and sit with a lot of people I didn't know, but Barry, one of the volunteers at the Samaritans shop and who moved into the block beside me a couple of months ago, said he would like to go if...
  16. Zan's News

    12/03/11 11:02:17 | 6 Comments

    This will be my last blog post regarding Yuku on this personal, active, blog.

    I have set up a spare profile for Zan's Yuku News, which will contain all my News, Views and Updates on Yuku.

    The idea of the page started because I found that I was posting more and more about Yuku in my personal blog. Some good, some bad. I have now decided that Yuku news needs a page and blog of it's own. In future all my posts regarding Yuku will be...
  17. Kudos Me

    11/29/11 10:57:38 | 5 Comments

    You will see that I now have a "Kudos Me" button on my profile. 



    I was chatting to Martha (Spherical) yesterday about what fun it would be to be able to give Kudos more than once to people.  We wracked our brains and searched the web for some sort of gadget but to no avail.  So after Martha had disappeared to bed, I decided to use a top site for this.

    If you want to join in only submit Yuku profiles, no boards or...
  18. Fluffy Knitted Teddy

    11/19/11 00:43:49 | 8 Comments



    Requirements 4 or 5 x 50g balls of a fluffy novelty yarn (such as eyelash)
    Knitting needles US6 (UK8, 4mm)
    Black yarn or buttons (not for young children) for eyes and nose
    Ribbon to tie around neck
    Instructions


    Start at the legs

    Cast on 16 stitches
    Knit 38 rows - this completes one leg
    Leaving this leg on the needle,...
  19. Harry Brown Staring Michael Caine

    11/02/11 10:47:42 | 13 Comments

    Made in 2009 I only got around to seeing this film this weekend.  Not only do I love our British thrillers but Michael Caine as far as I am concerned has never made a bad film.

    The film starts off pretty slow, but understandably so, as the scene really has to be set, especially for those that are not British and might not understand the seedy part of our inner cities.

    Harry Brown, an ex-marine, is now a very old man living on a typical run down maze of a council estate in a tatty neglected flat.  His wife, as the film...
  20. McDonalds Merthyr Tydfil (Wales)

    10/13/11 16:51:52 | 0 Comments

    As some of you know I have been spending the last 4 days across the border in Wales.

    Wales is the first UK country to be firm about charging for plastic carrier bags in order to cut down on the amount that are used, wasted, and destroying our countryside, along with harming our animals.  For this I admire them as I am a great believer in trying to get rid of as many of these bags as possible.

    Related post.

    However,...