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Tales From The Hardware Store The start of each and every New Year is so exciting isn’t it? Aside from the usual partying and Jools Holland, there’s such a strong feeling of looking forward to a fresh start. It’s a great time also to reflect on the 12 months which have just passed by. This year is even more special as we look back and contemplate the happenings of the first decade of the new millennium. If you ask people in this area what was their highlight of 2009, and certainly the highlight of the whole decade, they will tell you it was the 25th May when Burnley FC were at Wembley in the Championship Play-offs. The day itself was totally outstanding, but the build-up in the weeks leading up to that Bank Holiday Monday was pretty stunning too. Much has already been written about the match itself and if I’m honest I can’t recall detail about what happened on the pitch because I was totally carried away from when the sound of the Kings of Leon started blasting out 10 minutes prior to kick off, to when the whistle blew! There are no words to describe the noise from the crowd that afternoon. It was totally amazing, an excitement never to be forgotten. Something I can easily forget though was the food on offer at this multi -million pound venue. I’d had a peek at the Wembley website prior to our departure and read about the concourses filled with quality food and drink outlets. I had pictured in my mind Champagne Bars rather like you see at the Races, emblazoned with banners advertising Veuve Clicquot. So after we finally alighted from the coach on what was now a rather warm afternoon I was looking forward to having a sip of chilled champagne to celebrate Burnley’s achievement of getting to Wembley. (I mentioned this to Eric and he indicated not to get my hopes up, with something along the lines of…’don’t be stupid, you’re going to a football match’ but I thought he was just being a little grumpy after the long coach journey). As we made our way along the concourse I scanned the food outlets looking for something resembling a champagne bar. What did I find? ….Nothing, just the usual bars that you would find at any Arena! So we proceeded to our seats and after we’d got settled down Eric went in search of beer. I asked him to get me something ‘nice’ as by then I was feeling quite hungry. The match result and associated euphoria that followed, more than made up for the plastic bottle of water that had to be transferred into a plastic cup before it could be consumed in the stadium. And then there was the £8 Hot Dog which consisted of a dry hot dog sausage in a dry roll in a cellophane pack. It needed something to make it edible, tomato ketchup was a must, but….did anyone else struggle to get the ketchup onto the hot dog without first fully removing it from its wrapper? Without the wrapper it wasn’t easy to eat as the now ‘loose’ sausage seemed to take on a life of it’s own Now between you and me, I don’t think we as a nation are ever going to slim down whilst it is acceptable to be served such ‘trash’ at National Sporting Venues. I do accept that catering for such huge numbers of people must be a major challenge but surely they should and could do better? It should be the ‘law’ that only fair-priced, healthy food can be bought at this type of sporting venue. Maybe it’s a tall order to hope they can get their act together ready for the Olympics 2012! As you know I’m not one to gossip but I found out several weeks later from a very ‘well connected’ friend of ours, that there was plenty of champagne flowing that afternoon in the Royal Box! But I wouldn’t have changed our day for anything. My tepid water in a plastic cup, tasted like champagne to me that afternoon when that fantastic goal was scored. In the excitement, what was left of the over-priced hot dog hit the floor….which was actually the only place it was fit for. As I look back on the first decade of this millennium, and think about all I have learned on this part of life’s journey, one important lesson springs to mind; If you’re truly happy water can taste like champagne, so don’t waste your money on the fizzy stuff – just ‘be happy’ with your lot. Wishing you and yours peace, love and contentment throughout 2010 and beyond…. Carol Broadbelt
It Happened in January. 1999 Official launch of the new 'Euro' currency. Made up of eleven European Union (E.U.) nations (Austria, Belgium, Fin- land, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Nether- lands, Portugal and Spain), 1979 Sid Vicious (real name Simon John Ritchie-Beverly), from the punk-rock band The Sex Pistols, goes on trial in New York for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Sungen. Having been released on bail, Vicious died from a drugs overdose. 1976 : First Concorde Flight Takes Off. The first Concorde jets carrying commercial passengers simultaneously take off from London's Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris. 1974 American President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. 1972 Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman to be appointed a judge at the Old Bailey Court in London, England. 1959 Alaska becomes the 49th, American State. 1936 Billboard Magazine publishes the first popular music chart, with rankings based on national sales figures. 1928 : Stalin Banishes Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He lives there in internal exile for a year before being banished from the USSR forever by Stalin 1888 : National Geographic Society founded 1885 The first successful appendix operation is performed by Dr William West Grant in Iowa, U.S.A. 1877 : Crazy Horse fights last battle Crazy Horse and his warriors - outnumbered, low on ammunition and forced to use outdated weapons to defend themselves - fight their final losing battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana. 1838 : Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph. 1818 Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is published. 1642 Under the orders of King Charles I, armed soldiers enter Parliament. The English Civil War starts shortly afterwards.
AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it. 'Impossible!' says the doctor. 'Show me.' The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed even more. She pushed her knee and screamed; likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream. The doctor said, 'You're not really a redhead, are you? 'Well, no' she said, 'I'm actually a blonde.' 'I thought so,' the doctor said, 'Your finger’s broken.'
1901 : Queen Victoria Dies Queen Victoria dies on 22 January 1901, ending an era in which most of her British subjects knew no other monarch. Spanning more than a half-century, her reign, the longest in British history, saw the growth of an empire on which the sun never set. As an 18-year-old woman ascending to the throne, her future husband described her as one whose extreme obstinacy was constantly at war with her good nature. She proposed to Albert, her first cousin and a German prince, in 1939, and when he died in 1861 she entered a 40-year period of mourning for a love that had bequeathed her no fewer than 37 surviving great-grandchildren. When she died in 1901, so many of her descendants had married with other monarchies that she was called the grandmother of Europe.
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