Manx For The Memories!

Found this at engrish.com. Funny stuff!

Manx friends, that is. Tonight at 8pm on the IOM.

"All I wanted was one tiny blog from you Emily.............something to reach out and touch your friends with"

"If you don't get your giant hand off my shoulder right this second Mr, I'm gonna reach out and open up a whole can of whoop ass on y'all'

Ya know, for a place where sandwiches and celery can be in short supply, there always seems to be an abundance of gum. There are even special gum receptacles on the streets! Too bad most of the gum still find their way straight to the ground and onto your shoes. There should be receptacles for empty bottles as well. Oh, yeah, that's Dave's old bedroom window.

Hello again.............. I found a link to a live webcam for Douglas promenade!!!!!!!! It refreshes every 15 seconds and you can see live evidence that the sun does shine on the Isle of Man!!!! (today anyway)

http://www.gov.im/tourism/webcam/Webcam.aspx

Once again I have to state that this is an external website and if you see anything you shouldn't, I hold no responsibility but it may provide some amusement.

For those of you with family here at the moment, you can see their apartments from this view. They are in the first section of white buildings on the left hand side

J'espère que vous avez eu un temps brillant........... voyez-vous bientôt !!!!

Hello India!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are our guys in the Isle of Man..........

Everyone seems to be having a good time and amazingly the sun has been shining for most of their visit. Hello to everyone back home.

Mummy loves you very very much and you will always be my most special puppy on the block.

But because I love you so much, I decided to get you a little friend to play with, just for you.

Deal with it kid, the cute gig's over. It's time to share the toys and the doggie treats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome little Sophie.

'SUP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

The apocalypse is near! The IOM is sunny and here I am hiking to my car in LA to get to work. Freaky man, just freaky.

OK well, apart from the thunder storms we had yesterday!!!!!!

The seagulls on the roof have kind of changed since you were here Joe!!!

As a welcome to our new crew, the lovely Anthony Bouchier took us all to Chillis on Douglas promenade. We ofcourse ordered far too much food, so I will personally be enjoying leftovers for the next couple of days!!


Many thanks to the lovely waiters

Thanks to our driver for the photo.

Ahhhhh, the tourist attractions of the Isle of Man. We headed up to the Laxey wheel at the weekend to take some photos. This was built in 1854 to pump water from the workings of the Great Laxey Mining Company. Mining was of considerable importance to the economy of Laxey and the Great Laxey Mine was one of the major producers of lead and zinc in the British Isles.

In 1929 when mining came to an end, the Lady Isabella was acquired by Mr Edwin Kneale of Laxey and it continued as a great tourist attraction. The wheel was as much associated with the Isle of Man as were the cats without tails and the world famous succulent kippers. In 1965 the Manx government bought the water wheel and the restoration work which followed, preserved it for future generations. Since 1989 it has been under the control of Manx National Heritage. The "Lady Isabella" is claimed to be the largest water wheel in Europe: possibly in the world.


These pictures were taken at the very top of the wheel - please don't be alarmed by Harvey's face; he looks incredibly miffed in this photo, but he was fine and only made one vain attempt to jump off the walk-way.




Then onto more important issues - such as the historical importance and social impact of Bushy's beer!!!Here we are in the Bushy's basement bar, there was a great DJ playing Funk Soul music to celebrate the bank holiday weekend.

More frivolity later.