A BABE A DAY + Daliy moans 

A hot babe

After a couple of days of sunshine it is back to the overcast dull weather that has filled most of 2006 so far.

Having missed Invasion on Sunday, we made sure that we saw “Supernatural” last night and I also watched (alone) the brilliant “New Tricks”, with Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong, James Bowlem and Amanda Redmond. James Bowlem was of course in “When the boat comes in” and his TV sister from that series is the Alun Armstron characters wife.

My TV comments obviously illustrate the fact that I have nothing else to write about today. More people were killed by a Muslim bomb yesterday, this time in Egypt, and no doubt Iraq will continue its death toll over the next few days. But on a happier note, I am still alive.

Here is the babe.

A babe and nothing to do with Galicia

We annoyingly missed “Invasion” last night. It is on 3 or 4 times over the course of each week, but we (stupidly) watch it on the last repeat on ITV1 and, having had a visitor over for a meal, completely forgot about it.

Later Ray Liotta played Frank Sinatra in a film about the “Rat pack”. His ability to overact at a level beyond any other actor is amazing, how he gtes cast for anything I do not know.

Raffael Nadal beat Roger Federer in the Monte Carlo Open 3 sets to one giving him a head to head of 4 to 1 and victories in their last 3 meetings. Federer said he felt he was close to beating Nadal this time – I suggest he takes a look at the score and thinks again, he has only won 2 out of the last 8 sets they have played against one another.

No DVD movie over the weekend, we were out Saturday night eating “a la carte” at our favourite French restaurant. The food was supreme.

Anyway, here is the carefully sourced babe (after I mention Galicia, Santiago and Spain), to keep the theme of last week going she is oriental.

Rose McGowan

The London marathon has just been on TV for about 200 hours – at least it felt that way. The only reason we now have this “paint drying” exercise on TV is because the BBC have no rights to show any real sport, other than 1st and 2nd division football.

I am making a concerted effort to try and get excited over our Galicia holiday in July, but as yet to no avail. Everyone seems to be talking about planning or having just booked a holiday at this time of year, yet I seem non plussed by it!

Anyway here is a babe (rose mcgowan – her freaky exes wife was on a chat show on Friday night).

Music in Spain , a moan and a babe

Just been listening to an album by Formula Abierta, a band from Spain (now defunct I think), who won some version of Spanish “pop stars” in either 2002 or 2003. I hate manufactured bands, but we continually heard one of this group’s songs at a festival in 2003 and it got under our skin. A waitress that we got to know asked her sister to put a copy on CD for us and we have periodically (normally during summer) listened to it ever since. It is pop, salsa, dance and a whole range of other things mixed in – ultimately very summery.

I won’t moan about google today (oh I just did). I will however moan about TV “celebrity chefs”. How is a chef a celebrity – just because they can cook!

Every Saturday morning British TV is peppered with cooking programs hosted by these prats and there is no escape from them. Today a female version suggested a concoction of her own in a TV voting poll. The recipe was nothing more than black pudding with a layer of mash potato above and below. Amazing. What will she come up with next week – bread with butter on top and maybe even some jam too! I rekon I must be a celebrity chef too. I cook every day of the week and usually use 6 or 7 ingredients at a time.

Anyway I must be off – I am going to pitch an idea for a TV show. The idea is that I line up all the TV chefs, gardeners, house make-over designers and the like and then decapitate them. I then explode their heads in a microwave before planting their eye balls in well composted pots and placing them in strategic positions on window sills in my house. It sound good to me.

http://www.galiciaguide.com

Babes for this week

just a few pics of the babes featured recently.

Tax payers hair bills + Zhang Zi Yi again.

My never ending disgust with the Labour party continues, this time with the revelation that Blair’s appalling wife claimed £7700 pound for hair styling during the election campaign.

No excuse, explanation or defence has been made, we are supposed to accept that tax payers should cover the cost of the Prime Ministers wife’s hair dressing bill.

To put this in context Blair’s government directed the National Health Service not to prescribe the anti-Cancer drug (available in the USA, Germany, France and Spain) last year because the cost was too high. The drug has a 95% plus success rate and costs per patient are just over £7000 annually.

Clearly Blair considers the importance of his repulsive wife’s hair of more value than the lives of those recovering from cancer.

A Labour party spokesperson, when asked to comment on the “hair escapade” said, “so what, we won”.

Are we really paying tax for these purposes and what level, if any, of accountability now exists in British politics. I am as ever disgusted.

Here is today’s babe, the lovely Zhang Zi Yi again.

Today's babe is Zhang Zi Yi

I never mentioned that I watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (or something like that) at the weekend again. I remembered it as being OK, but it really is excellent. The choreography of the fight scenes is amazing and the stunning Zhang Zi Yi (I don’t know if that is her real name or not) is so beautiful I think she “may” even surpass the amazingly gorgeous Masako Natsume. They say that good things come in small packages and she certainly confirms that hypothesis! As Mary Poppins (my all time favourite babe) would say, “practically perfect in every way”. A picture of the stunning Zhang Zi Yi below.



Did I mention that I knew a Chinese student, 3 or 4 years ago, who really was better looking than either Masako or Zhang. I rate her as the second most beautiful woman I have ever seen and she spoke perfect English! Only my marital status got in the way.

Problems with my appalling broadband providers continue with both them (Tiscali, line rental) and the service provider (BT) both claiming that the other is responsible. BT actually threatened that if they make a call (which I have scheduled them to do) and find no fault that they will charge me! This after 11 years of suffering with a faulty line.

I have decided to take action against BT and will start tomorrow by formally complaining following which I will file in a small claims court. I don’t know why we have put up with them for so long and this is the final straw.

Yaba-daba-dooo

A combination of, for once having the remnants of a social life and also some annoying back problems, meant that I missed much of ITV4’s early 1970’s TV offerings last week. I saw but one Monkey, no Planet of the Apes and no UFO, Champions etc.

The younger wife of one of my friends told me that “Monkey” scared her when she watched it (it must have been repeated some years later). She also seemed far from convinced that I new Tripitaka (Masako Natsume) was a girl when I confessed my interest in her at the time the show was on.

I see that the Conservative’s under their brilliant, inspiring, charismatic and “idea rich” new leader have come up with a mind blowing slogan. I goes something along the lines of “vote blue to be green”! and then they wonder why no one actually does vote for them.

Peugeot close down a British car factory with another 2000 jobs down the drain. Again it is far cheaper to sack people in the UK than any other European state, making British workers the first in line when it comes to multi-national and multi site based production redundancies. It could never happen in Spain, France or Germany where the government takes a “golden share” in all manufacturing industries to secure the job forces future. It seems we take all the crap from Europe, but none of the things that would actually benefit us. Thanks, Heath, Major and the Blair (witch).

Here is the babe for today.

Babe for today

Google wipe another 100 of my pages off their index, I have no idea why. Perhaps I have committed the crime of having real content, no adverts, very little on page code and of course I am generally trying to create a real resource about Galicia. The pages that remain are of no value to anyone and my search hits have dropped accordingly.
(below the babe for today)


It is easy to understand the frustration many feel with google. They have massive domination of the search market, but in truth pay little head to the quality of pages that they index and rank. I know that many in the SEO and webmaster arenas believe that google have lost control of their algorithm and that it is an out of control and spiralling collection of random and sometimes “at odds” modules of code –I have to agree. Further, despite their constant claims to the contrary, backlinks are all that count with google and “on page” features (what searchers are actually looking for) fail to register any real value with them.

Pointer, Blair and Babe

One of the Pointer sisters has dies in her early 50’s. I certainly recall the likes of “Automatic” and “Jump for my love” in the 80‘s, the later being covered appallingly by some fake British girl band a year or two back..

My long term frustration with google continues as they suddenly drop 80- of my pages from their index. This, despite the fact that the site has not been re-indexed and the that the google index is being expanded at a massive rate. Every page I have has html links, no javascript and is W3C compliant. It just goes to show that playing by the rules does not work with google!

I see that the fantastic and dynamic Tony Blair has decided to forgo his Easter holiday to take control of the National Health Service crisis – God help us! I suspect his real motivation is to avoid having to spend any more time in the company of his “coat hanger” mouthed wife.

My holiday to Galicia is now looming, although still 3 months away – so here is a bit of totty, the babe for today.