Gallows Gallery
Last night was the 2008 Unofficial Onsite Christmas Party. Wait a minute! I hear you say, this is 2009! FTW? Well, allow me to explain, Nick had failed to organise a Christmas Party last year and the last one the company had was in 2007. This involved a Chinese meal, drink, Karaoke, drink, gravy for Sir Stanners, drink, more drunken karaoke a

Anglo-Saxon Peasant Metal
On Saturday, as I mentioned on my last post, I went to see a Pagan/Folk Metal gig. There were four bands, Andraste, Annwn, Ravenage, with Northern Oak headlining. I'm not going to give you a massive breakdown of what I thought about these bands. For a start it doesn't fucking matter, what I want to do is have a look at the third band Ravenage. They were a Viking Metal band from Hull, I

Blast from the Past
I went to see Up on Wednesday (Orange two for one offer...). It's brilliant, it's probably one of the best films this year, if not the best film of the year. For a cartoon it has so much depth it's mind blowing. Of course it has all it's little Pixar moments, it has its chases and it has its very funny moments but beyond that is the human touch it offers the audience. I don't want to spoil it for people who haven't seen it but one of the most affecting moments for me was when Carl puts his hand on the hand print of his wife on the mailbox. There are so many other tiny subtleties (the perfectl

Tree Beard's Revenge
We have been slowly winding down at Nostell, there is only a couple of soak aways to dig before we move off the carpark site. Duck L'Orange and I have been trowelling the natural in one for the past two days. We passed the time mainly by me shouting at Duck L'Orange about people being unhappy and accepting it rather than actually doing something that quite obviously would make them happy. Sir Stanners and

If you know of a better 'ole...then go to it pt6
There was a massive cull at Arcus after the Broad Street gig had finished. This is typical of shortsighted archaeological contractors. A big job finishes and rather than finding all the well trained staff something to do, like cleaning finds or other post excavation work, they let them all go. Two weeks later another big job comes up and they have to start hiring again, but by that time all the well trained and competent ones have already got off their arses and found themselves a new job. This leaves the