Archive for the 'Celebrations' Category

Lies, damned lies and Jetpack statistics

Posted by on January 1st 2012 in A bit of a rant, Celebrations
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The email from WordPress contains hype such as:

"Your Annual Report from WordPress.com"... "Your 2011 in blogging"... "Our stats helper monkeys have been busy putting together a personalized report detailing how your blog did in 2011!"

I'm guessing that everybody who's using Jetpack will have received such an email.

Indeed, a quick Google shows that several folk are including details from their reports in their blogs.

Hopefully those folk will have checked the supplied facts and figures - I'd find it hard to believe that I'm the only user to discover that his report is a crock of 5h1t.

Here's a clickable edited copy of the report prepared for me:

FWIW, my editing is based on the same data that was (and still is) available to those WordPress/Jetpack monkeys.

Happy New Year!

It’s that time again

Posted by on December 21st 2011 in Celebrations

Time to wish each and every reader a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Whatever you do and wherever you go...

stay safe!

Fire in the hole!

Posted by on November 10th 2011 in Celebrations, In the garden

Saturday night's bonfire party here was the best yet. Over 40 guests, one magnificent "Bob" (one of Guy's relations, according to his makers), hundreds of fireworks, lashings of food and drink, and enough wood to keep the fire blazing well into the small hours and smouldering for a couple of days after. This time I had a few breaks from ignition-duties and managed to wield the camera a bit:

 

Bob and his Minders.

Tarp-tent.

Combustibles.

Bob's throne and dais.

The guests start to arrive.

The incineration begins.

Ablaze.

Swirls.

Shaky yet colourful guests.

Sparkly things.

Sparks and flames.

Purple and blue.

Red and green.

Red and gold.

Red, white and blue.

White and gold.

You give them food, drink, shelter, seats, warmth and entertainment, and this is how they repay you.

Who wants to be a Fireman when he grows up?

 

Aglow.

The girls have been baking again…

Posted by on July 18th 2011 in Celebrations

62 things to do eat before I'm 50:

 

 

 

49 Not Out, just in case you were wondering.

Zorbed

Posted by on June 4th 2011 in Celebrations, Great Escapes
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As promised, some pics from Ella's birthday zorbing session at SphereMania's BirminghamNorth site (which is nowhere near North Birmingham).

12 pics, click this one to get started:

 

We're guessing that Ella enjoyed her pressie

Not everybody gets a ride in a roller as a birthday pressie

Posted by on June 3rd 2011 in Celebrations, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Ella turns 16 on Sunday, as part of the celebrations we thought we'd wake her up early this morning with this:

 

 

Cruel harsh parents, that's us 😈

Expect a few stills in a while.