TUF Heavyweights

The Ultimate Fighter - The Heavyweights

Been watching this with interest on the FIVE USA Channel on Saturday nights.

I can only think so far that Dana White must be incredibly disappointed with Rampage Jackson as a coach. As his fighters have lost he's started to disown them after the fights leaving Rashad and his coaches to console them! Plus, his pre-coaching of Zak Jensen was absolutely appalling.

Instead of coaching the guy he just continually went on about Darrill Schoonover having "titties". Jensen looked embarrassed at times and it was cringing to watch. I bet most of his team wish they had Rashad Evans coaching them!

Ross Noble's Tour Of Australia

Great viewing on Channel 5 (always on Sky+ though so I can whizz through the boring adverts). Ross is a lucky boy, travelling on his motorbike to see remote parts of Australia that few of us will ever get to see.

Saw him at Cheltenham Town Hall a few years back and he was great. I do wonder where they store the giant inflatable balls on the road mind!

Sunderland 0 Aston Villa 0 (1-3 on Penalties)

Brad Guzan - penalty king! Not only saving the day in normal time with the save from Kenwyn Jones but to save so many in the shootout was amazing.

Massive well done to the club for laying on free transport too. Something they were not obliged to do but did it nonetheless.

The last time a Villa goalkeeper had a blinder at Sunderland in a League Cup match (Mark Bosnich at Roker Park - his best ever game IMO), we did rather well in the following ties I seem to recall.....

5FDP Review

Five Finger Death Punch - My Review

I have to admit really liking these guys after hearing their debut album and then the follow up which has not long been released.

I've always liked hard rock / various forms of metal but never particularly liked screamed vocals - this has plenty, but also has enough good clean vocals to clamp people like me, and now I'm hooked.

The first album (The Way Of The Fist) is heavier than the second in my opinion, not that the second is soft but the slower ones are definitely not as heavy. Probably like many people I heard "The Bleeding" and thought it was excellent and went from there with the rest of the album. Most of the record follows a "screamed/growled" verse and "sung" chorus which works very well.



Certainly on the first album there isn't a track I don't like whereas on the second there are a couple which get skipped. On the second CD (War Is The Answer),"Dying Breed" is a really brutal start and "Hard To See" is a great single. "No One Gets Left Behind" is my personal fave.



I've since bought a few albums from bands I probably wouldn't have before. 36 Crazyfists, All That Remains and Atreyu, finding some really good stuff in there. It would appear my musical taste has certainly got heavier in the last few months having had no temptation to buy albums from Muse and Editors who I've followed both from the start due to very average sounding singles.

Lyrically there may be a flaw or two with 5FDP but I'm not going to argue with Ivan and his boys! I'd love to see em' live!

Treetops Nursery

TreeTops Nursery, Hucclecote

I just wanted to give them a shout out and to say thankyou for a great 3 months Daniel had with them before he started school.

He learned more and was stimulated way better than at his previous nursery where things had become very disorganised and stale. The move was the best thing we did and 3 months later Daniel was as prepared as possible for school life.

He really enjoyed his time there - we actually looked into Treetops years ago but they were too expensive at that time. When we enquired after All My Friends decided to close we found their prices were marginally CHEAPER!

The staff were great - we would happily recommend them to anyone and they are head and shoulders apart in quality from All My Friends (formally Tiddlywinks).