Sarah's Not Nice

Well we didn't have to wait long to get tickets for South Shields comedian Sarah Millican, I got them for a surprise Christmas present for that beautiful lady in my life and we went along at the weekend. She was absolutely great again, with her 'Not Nice' set with jokes about her divorce and life after. We got to hear her new material too which was just as good. I think Sarah is something special on the comedy circuit at the moment, great comedy timing and I reckon she will go far.

We can't work it out

Yoko Ono is mental. We went to see her Art Exhibition and were confonted by a stack of black umbrellas, piles of books, bottles of water and a video of her getting her clothes cut with scissors. What a mess, I just wanted to tidy it all up. I reckon John Lennon is still alive, he just needed to get away from her, now he's a Nowhere Man.

How do you get a traffic warden out of a tree? Cut the rope.

Put your hands up if you hate traffic wardens? Put them down, you stink. Anyway, how come the council are cleverly making car spaces to look like parking bays? I parked in what I thought was a space, it had no yellow lines, no 'Loading Bay' markings, no other signs and parking meters either side. It was in between two parked cars and the length was just right for a car. I got a valid ticket only to come back to a ticket for £30 on my windscreen. I'm appealing of course but I'm sure they will win with their crazy rules even though there was a 20cm faint trace of what could be a yellow line just before my front wheel. Feel free to punch a traffic warden in the face for me.

Scarey Sky

I just had to take this photo, really spooky, very eerie, the birds stopped singing, the air was thin. Everything was really really quiet. Until I pumped.

Forget pub crawling

You're supposed to start the new year off watching what you eat but circumstances led us to visit 3 restaurants in 2 days. The first being Danielle's in Hexham. Ran by an over-enthusiastic Italian fella, he loved touching my shoulders as he put down my lamb shank which was a treat in its red onion gravy! The next day we went to Uno's for lunch on Newcastle Quayside, it used to be the place to go. In contrast to Danielle's, they were a bit unfriendly when we asked for a table for 5 as if we were putting them out. The food is bog standard, bog being the operative word. For dinner, we went off to Zeera's in South Shields, a contemporary Indian restaurant. A great menu (away from the norm along that street), especially the fish. The lamb should be so tender in my Pasanda but wasn't, I would still go back though to try the fish. They did try and keep the change from the bill at first, a misunderstanding...mmmm.

Wheely silly

It's not every day you go for a nice walk along the beautiful coastline and see someone riding a unicycle, but I managed to snap this fella just before he fell off. It was really funny, I felt like I'd got to see a clown in practice. I wonder how he rings his bell?

Chef for a day

Well I got the best Xmas present ever this year from the beautiful lady in my life. Masterchef finalist David Hall is going to come round my house and give me some professional cooking advice, let me decide on a 4 course meal to make and be shown all the techniques and how to cook it to perfection. Very exciting, can't wait. Just got to think of four ways to make beans on toast now ;) Of course I will blog it when it all happens.