Countdown to Cleethorpes Rocks

Yay! I am going to Cleethorpes Rocks tomorrow, Cleethorpes first ever Rock Festival. Bought my ticket about a month ago (see left).

Looking forward to seeing The Proclaimers, New Beautiful South and The Zutons - who are the Headline act - in particular. Don't really know any of the supporting acts on the bill but having heard some samples, I quite like their sound all the same.

Cleethorpes Rocks is being held at Meridian Park situated next to the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway station. It is being promoted by Grimsby's Solid Entertainments.

This will be my first time to a concert. Do not consider helping out at the Grimsby Jazz Festivals a few years after I left school as properly attending. I am going on my own as the friends I invited to come with me are unable to make it. Should be a nice day. For more info on the concert go to: http://www.cleethorpesrocks.co.uk/

Our local paper will be covering the event with a special spread next monday. Read this small article on the Grimsby Telegraph website: http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Resort-ready-rock-festival-fever-hits/article-1251884-detail/article.html

As always I will be going armed with my camera. Talking of which, for those who have never been to Meridian Park, here is what it looks like:

Door Repairs

The day after I had seen the damage done to the door at the club, the door had been replaced as you can see from this photo taken on my new Nokia 6303 classic.













The inside of the door.
















Exactly 24 hours after that the door was reinforced with a thin sheet of steel. Obviously took this photo when the club was closed.

All photos on this post taken with my new Nokia 6303 classic.

An Act of Vandalism and some nice Napoleonics

Before I begin I should say that my previous post was actually my 300th post. Don't think we should break out the champagne till the 500th though.

Dropping in on the wargames club last night for a chat and to see what games were going on, I learned the clubhouse had been vandalised the night before. It was impossible not to notice it really. The Vandals had somehow managed to do some considerable damage to the bottom half of the door. Bearing in mind that we also have a gate, which is also padlocked and usually covers the door. Apparently it happened sometime several hours after the computer club had left on Sunday night. As you can see, it was patched up as best as possible.

The patching up on the inside of the door.

Not sure if there have been any occurrences of this in the past but either way it will still cost the club some funds to have the door repaired or replaced which it should not have to do.

On a positive note, Mike Barnatt and Mark Alcock were there playing a nice big Napoleonics game using the In the Grand Manner rules. Our own Tony Walmsley was watching the game (see right).

Below are a few more pics of the game from various angles.