First game of the season in the Pennine league. St Brendans won it by (i think) 2 points, close hard fought game, with plenty of incident including a particularly nasty injury to a St lawrence player that required an ambulance.

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Dunluce Castle, Co Antrim

This was my local castle- I have been trying to figure out some new software for dealing with my back catalogue of photographs and came across this pic from years back – not much photoshop on it other than levels – the sun was setting so the castle walls had that reddy glow off them, there was some more scaffolding on the walls to the left, but i removed any that was against the sky.

Uther Pendragon was reputed to have found and battled a large dragon-like serpent while in Cumbria – perhaps this was the reason he decided to found his kingdom in Mallerstang. Pendragon Castle, situated four miles south of Kirkby Stephen, is built on what’s thought to be the site of Uther’s castle, which would have been built some 600 years earlier. According to legend, Uther tried to re-route the River Eden to create a moat for the castle.

Pendragon Castle itself is now in ruins, having been built in the 1100’s by Hugh de Morville – one of the knights who killed Thomas of Canterbury.

Update: Problem sorted

can’t update the site with pics at the moment as the spam database seems to have become full of the evil from ghostbusters 2…. if anyone knows anything about repairing WP databases when your ISP doesn’t allow telnet or SSH i would be most grateful if you could drop me a line

Did you know that this weekend you are statistically highly likely to have someone tell you that you are statistically more likely to have a white easter than a white Christmas?