Pictures and footie...

Today I've added a new link - to "Pictures Of The Day", which documents shots taken with my £25 Praktica Slimpix camera - which, when I bought it, the man in the shop said was "rubbish"....

I think it produces reasonable results - take a look by clicking on the link....http://crispycat-pics.blogspot.com/



I hope you like it...

Now - we have a situation here - the mighty MIGHTY JAM TARTS today THRASHED the current Champions, Glasgow Rangers 1-0 at Tynecastle..

Hearts have now won a club record equalling* eight games in a row since the start of the season and are 11 points clear of the boys in blue...

The joint record is held by the Hearts team of 1914/15 season* who started off with eight wins but who's squad was eventually decimated by the First World War, ending the season second to Glasgow Celtic...

Well done the JTs - you are a credit to your Heart of Midlothian forefathers!!

Now let's just hope it doesn't all go tits up next week against Falkirk...

The ELO CD arrived this morning and "Oh No Not Susan" is as good as I remembered...and, despite being a Russian pressing, it doesn't seem dodgy at all although it probably is somehow...

Spent the entire day at the computer creating the new blog and posting all the pictures and uploading back catalogues of Peter Gabriel, Genesis (only up to "Duke") and Gentle Giant onto the jukebox, whilst wiping every track on it (probably around 500) which was unidentified in one way or another- the net result is just under 1,000 albums and just over 10,000 tracks now stored for my listening pleasure...it was a nice day outside but I did not venture forth..

Our neighbour tore up his front garden (or rather one of his minions did) and replaced all the lovely (but, by now, neglected) plants our previous, now deceased and no doubt spinning in his grave/urn, neighbour had lovingly planted and tended with....some stones...

At least he kept the tree I suppose....

*apparently the team of season 1894/95 won 11 games in a row - but not from the start of the season - Hearts, not surprisingly, won the league that season - Hearts also won the league in seasons 1896/97, 1957/58 and 1959/60 - since 1960 only Dundee (1961/62), Kilmarnock (1964/65), Aberdeen (1980/81, 1983/84. 1984/85) and Dundee United (1982/83) have beaten either Rangers or Celtic to the title - in fact the Championship has only ever been won by teams other than Rangers or Celtic on 18 occasions since the League's inception in 1891 (although Dumbarton did share the first ever title with Rangers)...