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Wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:37 +0100

Wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date a wedding took place. Traditional names exist for most of them: for instance, 50 years of marriage is called a “golden wedding anniversary” or simply a “golden anniversary”.

Sir Cliff Richard, Kt., OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:14 +0100

Sir Cliff Richard, Kt., OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in the United Kingdom’s history, with total sales of over 21 million in the UK and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.

With his backing group the Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single “Move It” is often described as Britain’s first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that “before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.” Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into gospel music.

Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in five consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 1990s.

Richard has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling “Devil Woman” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”, the latter becoming the first to reach the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40 in the 1980s by a singer who had been in the top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Canada, Richard achieved moderate success in the 1980s with several albums reaching platinum status. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and he retains a following in other countries.

Don’t fret, we’re not dead! Just I’ve been on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:36 +0100

Don’t fret, we’re not dead! Just I’ve been on holiday and we’re a bit overworked in the office…. blogging will recommence periodically from today!

Finished Paccar We recently posted a picture of this guy’s...

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:31 +0100

Finished Paccar

We recently posted a picture of this guy’s car at our office, well he’s added a few ghosts in now, looks like the finished article.

Photo

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:01:01 +0100

Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was...

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:30:32 +0100

Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English graphic designer, best known for his work for rock artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Europe, Catherine Wheel, Bruce Dickinson, Dream Theater, The Cranberries, The Mars Volta, Muse and Biffy Clyro.

Baby Toupees

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:01:03 +0100

Baby Toupees

A potted meat food product or potted meat is a food, similar to...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:30:40 +0100

A potted meat food product or potted meat is a food, similar to a pâté, made using a method of food preservation, canning, consisting of cooked meat product, seasoned, often puréed, minced, or ground, which is heat processed and sealed into cans.

Various meats, such as beef, pork, chicken, turkey and variety (nonskeletal) meats are used. It is produced internationally as a source of affordable meat. Its long shelf life and cooked state make it suitable for emergency food supplies, and for military and camping uses, although the high content of fat, and/or preservatives may make it unsuitable for frequent consumption. The final product typically has a spreadable consistency, and typically contains high amounts of salt as a preservative.

Armour Star Ingredients: Mechanically separated chicken, beef tripe, water, salt, and less than 2%: mustard, natural flavor, garlic powder, vinegar, dextrose, sodium erythorbate, and sodium nitrite.

An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane found in urban areas,...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:01:09 +0100

An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane found in urban areas, often for pedestrians only, which usually runs between or behind buildings. In older cities and towns in Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network, or a right of way or ancient footpath in an urban setting. In older urban development, alleys were built to allow for deliveries such as coal to the rear of houses. Alleys may be paved, or simply dirt tracks. A blind alley has no outlet at one end and is thus a cul-de-sac.

In England there are numerous words used locally to describe alleys that are narrow pavements between or behind buildings.

Jennel, which may be spelt gennel or ginnel, is common in Manchester, Lancashire, Sheffield, Leeds and other parts of Yorkshire.^[4] It is also used in Oldham. In some cases, “ginnel” may be used to describe a covered or roofed passage, as distinct from an open alley.

Twitten is a Sussex dialect word, used in both East and West Sussex, for a path or alleyway. It is still in official use in some towns including Brighton and Cuckfield.^[5]

In Nottinghamshire, north-west Essex and east Hertfordshire, twichell is common.

In Liverpool the term entry, jigger or snicket is more common. “Entry” is also used in some parts of Lancashire, Manchester, though not in South Manchester. This usually refers to a walkway between two adjoining terraced houses, which leads from the street to the rear yard or garden.

The word jitty or gitties is often found in Derbyshire and Leicestershire and gulley is a term used in the Black Country..

In north-east England they can be called chares, and in Plymouth, opes.

In Shropshire (especially Shrewsbury) they are called shuts.

Other terms in use are cuttings, 8-foots, 10-foots (in Scunthorpe and Hull), and snicket.

In York, local author Mark W. Jones devised the word snickelway in 1983 as a portmanteau of the words snicket, ginnel and alleyway. Although the word is a neologism, it quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents, for example when giving notice of temporary footpath closures.

Proper arguments in the office over Snicket, Twichell & Ginnel!

best-likes: Remember how totally awesome 90s fashion was? These...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:30:33 +0100

best-likes:

Remember how totally awesome 90s fashion was? These trends will take you back, especially #2 from Clueless! http://bit.ly/11Nmbau

Emu on Parkinson (1970s) Rodney Stephen Hull (13 August 1935 –...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:38 +0100

Emu on Parkinson (1970s)

Rodney Stephen Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999), better known as Rod Hull, was a popular entertainer on British television in the 1970s and 1980s. He rarely appeared without Emu, a mute, highly aggressive arm-length puppet of the flightless emu bird.

The Hand (1981) Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:01:10 +0100

The Hand (1981)

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

The Cinnamon Challenge by GloZell

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:30:26 +0100

The Cinnamon Challenge by GloZell

Commando (1985) A retired special agent named John Matrix led...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:01:23 +0100

Commando (1985)

A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix’ friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix’ unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:00:59 +0100

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six keys appearing on the top left letter row of the keyboard and read from left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in use on electronic keyboards due to the network effect of a standard layout and a belief that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantages. The use and adoption of the QWERTY keyboard is often viewed as one of the most important case studies in open standards because of the widespread, collective adoption and use of the product.

Still used to this day, the QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee. In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé.

he construction of the “Type Writer” had two flaws that made the product susceptible to jams. Firstly, characters were mounted on metal arms or typebars, which would clash and jam if neighboring arms were pressed at the same time or in rapid succession. Secondly, its printing point was located beneath the paper carriage, invisible to the operator, a so-called “up-stroke” design. Consequently, jams were especially serious, because the typist could only discover the mishap by raising the carriage to inspect what he had typed. The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like “th” or “st”) so that their typebars were not neighboring, avoiding jams. Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing by preventing jams. (Incidentally, there is evidence that, aside from the issue of jamming, keys being further apart increases typist speed on its own, since it encourages alternation between the hands.) Almost every word in the English language contains at least one vowel, but on the QWERTY keyboard only the vowel “A” is located on the home row, which requires the typist’s fingers to leave the home row for most words.

Evan’s Lightning McQueen At the age of 2 Evan received...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:30:22 +0100

Evan’s Lightning McQueen

At the age of 2 Evan received his Lightning McQueen Powerwheel for christmas of 2009. After three years of use he had worn through the plastic wheels. We decided to upgrade the oem plastic wheels to metal rims with rubber tires. From that point more modifications were added every few weeks. Now, Evans Lightning McQueen Powerwheel is equipped with an aluminum back half chassis, dual sealed gel batteries with an output of 24 volts, a 500 watt .66 horsepower electric motor, disk brake, throttle modulated variable speed control with reverse and sparco battery cut off switch.

Pac-car This is what one of the lads in the Factory at our...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:30:47 +0100

Pac-car

This is what one of the lads in the Factory at our Office did to his car! Mezzin!

We’re on Twitter too, follow...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:01:12 +0100

We’re on Twitter too, follow here: https://twitter.com/TTWGAW

One Direction launch 1D World pop-up shop in the...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:30:37 +0100

One Direction launch 1D World pop-up shop in the UK

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Hedgehog Toblerone Cake

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:30:30 +0100

Hedgehog Toblerone Cake