My shiney new phone!

Well, the Hubster said I could get a contract phone and he would pay for it (so who am I to argue!) I think maybe the reason is he has just got a very flash phone on contract, and my pink, Pay and Go Samsung d900i went kaput on me a week or so ago.
Anyway, I was looking through the contract phones on O2 and didn't fancy many of them, (mostly because none where pink) then I saw the LG Viewty. I was a bit iffy about it being a touch screen phone, (and its not pink) but I shouldn't have worried. It is absolutely fab! So clever! There is a little stylus to click on things but I don't have to use it much, nails work just as well. (thanks to Mam for stopping me biting my nails!)
Anyway, I'm well made up with it. Lets hope it lasts me a bit longer than my last phone!
(Oh, and I've ordered a pink case off ebay for it! )

Semi Final Highlights.

Here's some highlights of Sunday's Challenge Cup semi final. Thanks to all the posters on You Tube for their uploads!
Highlights of the game:


Next is after match celebrations, Hull FC Scrum half, Adam Dykes is the player that sprays and gives away his Man of the Match Champagne away in this video.


And finally, we'll have a bit of this on Cup Final day please!!



COME ON YOU HULLLLAHHHH!!!!

Woo Hoo!

We did it! Were off to Wembley! I have never seen my lads play at Wembley so I'm going to go of I can. I've managed to get the day after off work, so at least I'll get some recovery time.
The only Challenge Cup final I have ever got too was 2005 in Cardiff, and we won. So I have a good record to protect. :)
I will try and post some highlights as soon as I can.
Yipppeeeeeeeee!!!!
(Five worked)!

Semi final day.

Just a quick post to wish my darling lads all the best in the Challenge Cup semi -final against Wakefield today. Go get em lads!!
Just to fulfil a bit of a superstition, as I have explained before, here's Five, with 'Keep on Moving'

Forgetting their roots.

I have posted about this subject before and I return to it now in the light of the Glasgow East by-election defeat for the Labour government. Although the SNP only won by 300+ votes a majority of 13,507 was overturned.
By all accounts Glasgow East isn't a salubrious place. I heard a fact on the radio that was quite stunning. One part of the constituency has a male life expectancy of 53! Yes you read that right, 53. Although we are a rich country, well rich enough to give millions of aid away abroad, we still have pockets of poverty in this country that are a disgrace!
The Labour Party was founded in 1900, and evolved primarily through the trade union movement to be a voice for the ordinary working man.
Well that goal was turned away from in my opinion with the arrival of Tony Blair, the party sold their soul for power, and now it's starting to bite them in the arse. I come from a family and an area of Labour voters where it was nigh on a sin to vote for anyone else. (I still could never vote for the Conservatives) But you are seeing the rock base of Labour turning away. My area hasn't in a general election yet, but we have locally by electing a Lib-Dem Council.
Labour has got to start listening to people and fast, because God help us if that fop Cameron gets in!
Come on Gordon Brown, I thought you would be better than this, remember no matter how high and mighty you are, and how little democracy we really have in this country, you are in charge because of the people, the ordinary working people of the UK!

Tries from Sunday's Derby:

Just the FC tries unfortunately (snigger) as whoever has uploaded the video has edited the Sith out! (Outrageous, I know ......)
Lets hope the lads form keeps up for Sunday's semi-final.

Just to cap off a good week!

I've had a very nice week, I've been on holiday, my daughter graduated on Thursday, my nephew got married yesterday, and today my darling boys nailed the Sith, 44-18!
Yes, a very nice week indeed..........

Graduation pics

Just a couple of pics from my daughters graduation. They're not brilliant as I took them with my phone. Hopefully the Hubster will have some better ones.
Here's Kirsty in her robes:
And here she is with my eldest daughter Michelle:
Here's all the Graduates standing under Queen Victoria's statue. Just before the Town Crier spoke and they all threw there hats in the air.

Just checking in.

I'd thought I'd better check in as I haven't posted for a while. I'm on holiday this week and have been keeping busy lately. Tomorrow my youngest daughter Kirsty graduates from University. The ceremony will be held at the City Hall in Hull. Hopefully it will be all done by dinner time, and then its off to the pub! If I get any good photos of her in her Batman costume I will post them on here!
Saturday my nephew Danny gets married, so there's another busy day!




Sunday is the Derby between The FC and The Sith. I wont be attending unfortunately as all the steps etc at the KC are a bit of a struggle nowadays. I hope for a win, but with us having a Challenge cup semi final the next weekend, it will be interesting to see what sort of a team we'll put out. We're due a win, but it doesn't seem as important as it usually is.

Here we go again!

And there's me thinking this season couldn't get any worse. Silly me! Hull FC prop Gareth Carvell, signed a 3 year contract with us, after a lot of messing about. 24 hours later he's changed his mind and wants out!
Now I've met Gareth once and he's a lovely chap, but he's absolutely played us like a kipper here (if that's the right term!)
I wouldn't play the bugger for the rest of this season, even though we're so strapped for players!
This all whiffs a bit it must be said, and points to an illegal tap up by another club. (You can't talk to players until September)
Surely Gareth wouldn't throw away a 3 year contract and a testimonial season, that can earn a player upwards of a £100,000, without some sort of 'back up' hmmm?
In the meantime we have apparently missed out on a couple of signings whilst awaiting Mr Carvells decision, and other contract talks with existing players have been put on hold. Considering Superleague clubs operate under a salary cap for players, he really has put a spanner in the works.
One thing that is good about this is his considerable wages will be freed up and we should get a transfer fee for any move.
It's never dull supporting Hull!