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Remembrance Day Vox Pop

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Jaguar E-Type

Think to the 1960's, think of a car, what car comes into your head. In my mind I get a image of a beautifully designed car. A car with that certain something that wants to make you stare until it leaves your sight off into the horizon. I am talking about the Jaguar E-type, a two door wonder with the long front and sharp end. The hard top of course, the convertible version just doesn't do it for me. It looks like the driver is trying too hard for attention. While the hard top showed elegance, not trying to be there in your face, it just gets you to stand back and think, damn that's a nice car.

I will be honest here and say I don't know much about cars, I know nothing about engine size, performance or any of those sort of things. I'm going purely on looks here and I will like you to find one person on this planet to say the Jaguar E-Type is an ugly car. The E-Type is a work of art, a cult classic and a truly magnificent looking car. Another wonder about the car is that its a British car. Cars of today with any such elegance to the Jag would be made in Italy or Germany. But neither country would come close to the masterpiece assembled in a factory in Coventry.

I am not the only person to say this, on its release Enzo Ferrari called it “The most beautiful car ever made” and I think he knows what he is talking about. Every detail on the car looks like it has been carefully thought of, drawn on a piece of paper and constantly changed and changed back until they got the perfect look. The wheel trims were something special, when seeing them it was like being a child staring at a full moon for the first time. The light leather interior oozed elegance. The headlights were like something off a fictional space ship and the unique shape of the car stuck in your mind.

I'm obviously too young to remember when they first came out, my fascination of them when my dad took me to a classic car auction and I saw it glistening out from all the other dusty antiques sitting there. The Jaguar E-Type is just not a car but a piece of art. A cult icon of the British 60's and a car that any British citizen would be proud of to say that we produced that.

Ascot

Me and Dan headed to Ascot on Saturday for something to do, we paid for Premier admission as it wasn't that badly priced. We didn't win much but we met West Ham player Scott Parker who owns a horse but was told off of one of his entourage that it wasn't worth betting on. It was quite expensive especially in the premier area where it was £6.50 for a gamin sandwich, we ended up buying the most poshest chips and cheese I have ever seen, were nice though!

Shall I be blowing bubbles

After being dragged to Upton Park and my first Barclay's Premier League match by Dan, I could say I'm hooked. I met a "legend" although I didn't know he was, there were four goals, a penalty and a sending off. Albeit it was against Fulham and the atmosphere wasn't that good and I was surrounded by Italians that orgasmed every time Alessandro Diamanti touched the ball, it was still a good game and would like to go again. One problem, ticket availability! The next few home games coming up like Arsenal will be a challenge to get tickets. So the solution would be to buy a season ticket, but would it be a good investment. It would cost me £239 which actually isn't bad when it would let me see Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd etc and would get me cheap away tickets. So will I buy a West Ham United season ticket, I still don't know but I will update this when the decision has been made.

Michael McIntyre

Well after finally getting tickets for Michael McIntyre at Wembley Arena, we set off. Dan was driving, me in the passenger seat and Katie in the back. The drive went well until we got close to Wembley where we all encountered the longest 0.8 miles of our lives. After parking up in some ladies drive way (she sold us it for the night at a £10) we headed off to find a KFC. The gig itself was really good albeit he stole a Lee Evans joke but I love the man so much I will let him off with it and seeing that Dan won big in the bookies meant he was paying for the drinks so it was all good. Next up is Rhod Gilbert, the welsh funny man, a lot more of us going next time so should be good.