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The Wolstanton International, 2016 1st and Last Edition!! The Wolstanton International World Wide Website is best viewed using your eyes. WARNING! Occasionally items are not entirely true. But then there's nothing stranger than the truth. Posted 31/12/2016 |
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The Editor is ashamed of himself. It's a year since he posted anything from Wolstanton |
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Jokes of the year |
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Genuine News From Wolstanton!!!!!! Click Here for the BBC article. |
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The Editor has moved. The Editor often moves. This time it was moving house. The Editor and the 1st Mrs Pointon are now living is separate houses. We're still in Wolstanton and only one street apart. To be honest, we're making a pig's ear of splitting up. We eat together most days and on Christmas day all the surviving family got together as usual. Custody of the kids was settled over Christmas. Whoever got the most Christmas cards with their name on won. I lost. |
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This is just an actricle about Rudyard Lake I found particularly interesting: |
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Top Celebrity Deaths for the whole of 2016. It's been a baaaaad year for celebrities! Eric "Winkle" Brown If you don't read anything else here, Click Here to find out who Eric was. Carrie Fisher and one day later her mother Debbie Reynolds Greg Lake Rick Parfitt 04/06/2016 Mahamad Ali. Float like a butterfly, stings like a bee, dies like the rest of us, Ali. R.I.P. Ali. It took me a long time to get what he was all about. He deserves far greater respect than my poem. 24/05/2016 Burt Kwouk, best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato Fong in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 85. 21/04/2016 The Artist Formerly Known As Symbol, Prince, dies today aged 57. Ironically, Prince died on the Queen's 90th Birthday. 20/04/2016 Victoria Wood. Died aged 62 from cancer. 62 is not old. I'll be 62 in 7 years. R.I.P. Victoria. 31/03/2016 Ronnie Corbett. Stars don't get bigger than Ronnie. Four Candles have been lit in his memory. 24/03/2016 Netherlands great Johan Cruyff dies of cancer aged 68. In the 1970's Wolstanton Marsh was full of boys trying to emulate Cruyff's move, with very limited success. 17/03/2016 You'll like this one, not-a-lot. Paul Daniels disappeared today aged 77. 16/03/2016 Thunderbirds: Co-creator Sylvia Anderson dies aged 88. She was the voice of Lady Penelope. 11/03/2016 Keith Emerson. One third of ELP. Don't think the reunion will be on now. 09/03/2016 George Martin. Producer of The Beatles and many, many more. Died today aged 90. 29/02/2016 George Kennedy, Star of Police Squad, Naked Gun and many many more films, died today aged 91. 31/01/2016 Terry Wogan 10/01/2016 David Bowie Rick Wakeman's Tribute Bowie with Pink Floyd Bowie with Pink Floyd. Arnold Lane Original Major Tom from 1969 (1992) David Bowie+Mick Ronson+Queen+Ian Hunter / All The Young Dudes Mott The Hoople R.I.P. Terence Dale Griffin, 1948 - 2016 |
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Jolly Boys Biking Trips of 2016
Trip 1. Scotland. A long weekend of riding bikes, drinking beer, eating meat and talking nonsense. Life doesn't get any better for three middle aged men. This is the best kind of escapism known to Man. Trip 2. Ireland A long week of riding bikes, drinking beer, eating meat and talking nonsense. Life doesn't get any better for three middle aged men. This is the best kind of escapism known to Man. |
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Now the sport:
2016 Football: Stoke have conceeded four goals more times than I care to count in 2016. Port Vale Vale havejust lost another manager. Crewe Alexandra Turns out The Alex coach has been fiddling with boys for a long time Tennis: Sir Andy Murray finishes the year as world No.1 and a Knighthood. |
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