Birthday Girl

Some more recent piccies:

We went to The Oxo Tower Restaurant for Sara's birthday. This really is a stunning restaurant and as it's situated on the fifth floor of the old Oxo Tower on the South Bank, it has fantastic views over the Thames, like this one for instance -

When the Northerners visited Snowdonia...

We finally sorted out a big digital camera problem at the weekend, so to prove it now works here's some sort-of-recent piccies of us on the Snowdon Horseshoe taken during our walking holiday in Wales last June.

You can see the peak of Snowdon itself to the left of Dave. This is unquestionably one of the best walks in Britain and best done on a clear, sunny day like the day we did it. But as it's North Wales we're talking about here, don't count on it even staying dry! By the way, this pic was taken near the beginning of the walk, before the really hard climbing began...

Here's Sara on the infamous Crib Goch ridge:

And here's from the top of Snowdon itself looking back at Crib Goch (the jagged pointy ridge in the upper left) - not a bad view eh!


Anyone who has ever done this walk will tell you there's only place to go afterwards - Pete's Eats, probably the best cafe in the world

Yep, we're all rubbish!

Final score:

Tranmere 0 Scunthorpe 2

Wirral Rubbish?

Here's a little competition. Using your skill and judgement, see if you can spot the worst team on the Wirral.

Tonight's episode of Mike Bassett:
"Two months into the season and Wirral are languishing at the foot of the table. It’s got so bad the team is chased away from the football ground by an angry mob of their own fans!"

Meanwhile over at Prenton Park:
"[Brian] Little is experiencing the first seriously difficult spell of his time in charge. A smaller, younger squad is struggling to adjust to the losses of a Ryan Taylor, Iain Hume and Paul Hall, the first two sold in big-money deals to Wigan and Leicester, the third a summer departure on a free transfer to Chesterfield.
A run of six games without a win has left Tranmere in 20th spot in the table - just one place better off than that lowly starting point for Little of two years ago."
(from the Liverpool Echo site)

Oh, it's depressing...Nobody, including a lot of opposition fans, can really understand why we're doing so badly. Despite the departures of Humey and Taylor we've got a very good squad. It's worrying that Brian Little, who seems like a genuinely good bloke, doesn't seem to know how to get the best out of the players. In that respect he reminds me of Eriksson who is also a decent enough manager but who can't seem to get his team to reach the full potential they're capable of. (Now imagine if Murinho was in charge of England...)

Still, early doors and all that. Scunthorpe tomorrow night at Prenton Park and bizarrely we are the only team in the league not to have lost at home yet. We need three points - COME ON YOU WHITES!!!!