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UFOs Over Farnham?

June 26, 2009
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UFO over Farnham details

At roughly 00:38 on Friday 26th Jun (today as I type this) I was looking out of my bedroom window into the darkness when I spotted a bright orange light taking off on a curved take-off trajectory, gaining height to just above the tree line and maintaining a steady, level flight silently for a few minutes. This was followed, initially by 2 or 3 more shortly after one another, all performing in exactly the same fashion.

I tried grabbing my video camera, which promptly died due to uncharged battery, so grabbed my digital camera instead, sprinted downstairs but couldn’t see them outside for long enough to get a picture as they were going behind the trees.

Thinking “well, that was bizarre” I popped back upstairs and posted up on Twitter only to see two more take off. So, back down we go, and I managed to snap some pictures of the UFOs passing by. Now, by UFO I don’t mean aliens, by UFO I mean Unidentified Flying Object…which was what they were.

So, yes, they were seen flying over Farnham, Surrey. I’m intrigued as to what they were. Excited and intrigued. Could it be aliens? (okay, no, highly unlikely!) Could it be some sort of government conspiracy, or testing of secret drones by the military and air force? Okay I’m just toying with you to increase the excitement. Sorry!

The pictures can be found at the top of the blog, they are 100% crops of the originals but scaled slightly to fit into the blog post. Click the link to open them up to their 100% scale.

If anyone saw the same thing please email me at graham@letmerephrasethat.com with a subject like “Farnham UFO” so I don’t think it’s spam!

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IRON MAN

June 12, 2009

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Whilst there is a red suit type thing involved, I’m afraid there’s no Marvel character to be seen. For those of you who don’t know what the Iron Man is, it’s a triathlon of mind-boggling scale. A triathlon in the sense that you swim, run and cycle over a set distance but unlike most triathlon the distances of each phase are slightly longer. Many triathlons stick to a formula similar to 400m swim, 21km cycle finished up with a 5km run, or suchlike. The Iron Man is broken down as follows:

  1. 2.4 mile open water swim
  2. 112 mile bike ride
  3. 26.2 mile run (a marathon)

joe_blogBut why am I telling you all this? Well, in August this year, my brother in law will be running the UK Iron Man for Help for Heroes. Help for Heroes are a charity who support our wounded and provide practical direct support to those servicemen and women wounded in the line of duty in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Having family and friends in the armed forces I think H4H do fantastic work and I’m happy to support them.

At the moment we’re in the processes of raising money for Help for Heroes for the UK Iron Man challenge, which is just epic. Rather him than me!

If you would like to support H4H and my brother in law please visit the links below:

www.justgiving.com/joe-walker

www.helpforheroes.org.uk

There’s also a Facebook group which I set up to raise some more awareness.

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Night Elf LOLcats

June 4, 2009

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I, like many others who play Druids on WoW, have been rather excited recently about the new Druid forms coming in patch 3.2.  When I first created my Druid it was really because I loved kitty form, I called him Shadowpaws…and ended up as a healer. Go figure! My main spec is Restoration, as some of you will know, but at heart I love kitty form. I recently made Feral my offspec in order to run through dailies with a bit more fun and to get some paws back into ‘paws.

I knew they were being released soon but with my new PC being delivered today I completely lost track of things due to the oodles of ‘to do’s’ running through my head at the time, until Nassira reminded me on Twitter.

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The above tweet, as you can imagine, had me somewhat worried. I shot over to WoW.com, leaving my lvl 39 Paladin to get munched in Dustwallow Marsh by a blasted Crocolisk, and was immediately befuddled. The previous shots of the Tauren and Night Elf bear forms, and the Tauren kitty forms had immediate, final decisions from me. The Night Elf kitty forms, on first impression, had me laughing. After looking at them for a while I couldn’t decide whether I liked or disliked them. Actually, my immediate impression was of familiarity. I looked upon the kitty forms and cast my eyes to the one looking directly at me. I couldn’t help but feel I’ve seen that face before…

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Thoughts? Am I wrong? Anyway, I love Sir Ian, I think he’s fabulous and a brilliant actor, but (and in no way is this related to Sir Ian) I couldn’t help but feel these cats look a tad on the camp side. I can see a lot of the female WoW players going for the pink and white kitties, I’m sure a few of the lasses in <Ferocity> will be happy to have them.

I love the build of them and I adore the markings (they’re my favourite part of the new Night Elf bear forms too) but as a whole, I’m not too sure. I think the only way to tell will be to wait til 3.2 and see how it looks.

Be prepared to see a lot of Druids lined up outside your barber shops though!

One final thing; Kikirowr posted a fantastic image on Twitter, which she cannot take credit for, of photoshopped Nelf Kitty forms.  Click the link above to check it out.

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