Would you believe it….Portsmouth versus Tottenham for the cup semi-finals.? You couldn´t have written a better script for Harry Redknapp and the boys, could you? Chelsea will also find Villa difficult but it does look like a Chelsea v Tottenham final. We´ll wait and see. Elsewhere, Everton move up to 8th after thumping Hull 5-1, England is now looking at the cost of its investment in Tennis after lowly Lithuania see them off and shocks galore in both rugby codes. An interesting week for sport.
The twists of fate are quite acute
For soccer managers ..some very astute
Redknapp´s the manager for any team
And falls on his feet every time it would seem
Southampton and Portsmouth shared Harry´s charms
Then off to Tottenham without many qualms
Success seems to follow wherever he goes
Harry´s had highs but he´s also had lows
Tottenham´s success means Harry is up
Who´d bet against Harry winning this next FA Cup?
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Well the day started off miserable and wet but just as I´m writing this blog the clouds are clearing and there´s enough blue sky to make a pair of sailor´s trousers. I´m told this augurs well………………
There will be people who have never seen me do my Rocking Rupert. Here´s a link to a recent show.
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Here´s the weather for Alicante Province…don´t forget Benidorm has its micro climate..if the sun´s about Benidorm will find it…
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
 13° C | 3° C
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 14° C | 2° C
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 17° C | 4° C
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14° C | 6° C
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11° C | 6° C
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| Chance of Rain
30% chance of precipitation
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Scattered Clouds | Clear | Clear | Chance of Rain |
You’ve Got Mail
Working at the post office, I’m used to dealing with a moody public. So, when one irate customer stormed my desk, I responded in my calmest voice, “What’s the trouble?”
“I went out this morning,” she began, “and when I came home, I found a card saying the mailman tried to deliver a package, but no one was home. I’ll have you know, my husband was in all morning! He never heard a thing!”
After apologizing, I got her parcel.
“Oh good!” she gushed. “We’ve been waiting for this for ages!”
“What is it?” I asked.
“My husband’s new hearing aid.”
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Scent of a woman gets men going
Ladies, if you’re looking to grab a man by his nose and get a reaction from another part of his body, forget the usual pricey and toxic chemical perfumes.
Your own natural body odor will do just fine if you use it right.
I know what you’re thinking… B.O. = P.U.!
But a new study finds that all it takes is a whiff of an ovulating woman to get a man literally drooling with extra testosterone. You can’t put that in a bottle — but there’s already talk of trying.
Researchers found two women who were ovulating, two who were not and gave each a plain white T-shirt. Then, they told the gals to sleep in those shirts each night for three straight nights.
Hey, I know people who’ve gone much longer without changing their shirt — so why not?
The shirts were then labeled and frozen while they gathered some men to come and take a whiff of the ladies’ laundry. Shouldn’t have been too hard to find volunteers — I read about these sniffers being arrested all the time.
As the men sniffed, researchers collected saliva samples for testosterone tests. And it turns out there’s nothing like the smell of the egg factory kicking into overdrive to get a man going: Men who sniffed the shirts of the ovulating women had 37 percent more testosterone than those who sniffed the shirts of the non-ovulating women.
In a second experiment, they had some men sniff the shirts of the ovulating women, while others sniffed plain shirts that had never been worn. Men sniffing the shirts of the ovulating women had, on average, 15 percent more testosterone than those who sniffed the new shirts, according to a recent paper in Psychological Science.
Of course, these are shirts frozen in plastic bags like peas and carrots — I expect the scent of a real, live highly fertile woman would give most red-blooded men an even bigger testosterone boost.
Ladies, remember: If men were attracted to perfume, we’d be three-deep at the cosmetics counters just hoping for a whiff, instead of standing impatiently off to the side holding your bags.
What’s more, those perfumes are packed with completely unregulated chemical scents. They also contain phthalates — a powerful chemical linked to sexual dysfunction in men. If you’ve been forcing him to inhale that junk, no wonder he’s not in the mood anymore.
So next time, skip the toilet water and bask in your own odor instead. You might be surprised at the results.
Sniffing out the truth,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Word of the Day
engorroso ehn-goh-rroh’-so (adjective)
bothersome, cumbersome, troublesome, trying; awkward, difficult, complicated, thorny
EXAMPLES
Es un asunto algo engorroso. – It’s a thorny situation.
Tengo problemas con la traducción de este párrafo engorroso. – I have problems with the translation of this troublesome paragraph.
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Music Stuff March 8th
1961, The Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool at lunchtime.
1962, The Beatles made their radio debut on the BBC’s ‘Teenagers Turn’, (Here We Go), singing Roy Orbison’s ‘Dream Baby’.
1966, Lulu became the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron curtain, when she toured Poland with The Hollies.
1966, Bob Dylan recorded ‘Just Like A Woman’
1969, The Small Faces split up after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.
1970, Diana Ross made her first performance as a solo act
1973, Paul McCartney was fined £100 for growing cannabis at his farm in Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow.
1986, Diana Ross was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the ‘Chain Reaction.’ Written and produced by the Bee Gees, (who also provided the backing vocals for the single).
2003, singer, actor Adam Faith died.
2004, Westlife singer Bryan McFadden told the Daily Star he was quitting the group to spend more time with he wife and two children.
2008, Bjork caused controversy by shouting “Tibet, Tibet” at a Shanghai concert after a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence was considered taboo in China, which had ruled the territory since 1951.
2009, A blue heritage plaque in honour of The Who drummer Keith Moon was unveiled on the site of the Marquee Club in Soho, London, where in 1964 the band played the first of 29 gigs there.
2009, Malcolm Jones, guitarist with Scottish band Runrig, was seriously ill in hospital after collapsing at Waverley rail station in Edinburgh.
Birthday Boys and Girls March 8th
1942, Ralph Ellis, The Swinging Blue Jeans
1943,Andrew Semple, guitar, vocals, The Fortunes
1945, Michael Dolenz, vocals, drums, The Monkees
1946, Carole Bayer Sager, singer, songwriter. Wrote ‘Groovy Kind Of Love’, hit for The Mindbenders and Phil Collins.
1954, Cheryl Baker, Bucks Fizz
1958, Gary Numan,
