Hot curry competition.

My mate Anthony challenged the chef at my take-away to a how hot can I eat competition. Here are the photos.

Anthony is the first pic, before eating the meal. next is the 9 Narga chilli's (the hottest in the world) the other 30 normal chilli's I didn't bother getting a pic of, finally the finished curry.

To be honest I'm surprised it didn't take the glaze off the plate, it was lethal, I wouldn't have eaten it. To his credit Anthony eat over half the large plate full before giving up, I suspect he'll be ill later, certainly he'll have a bad stomach in the morning (if he survives lol)

Respect man!

Gnoll park waterfalls (part two)

Heres the second part of my Gnoll park images. Enjoy. Wayne

Gnoll park waterfalls (part one)

My backs been pretty bad recently (old injury) so I decided to go for a little walk to exercise it gently, I chose the Gnoll park in Neath. They have got the cascade working again so here are some photos of it. I took quite a lot of waterfall pictures mixed with a few other shots, I'll post a few each day till I run out.

Enjoy. Wayne

Curry and waterfalls.

First the waterfall picture, this was taken a while back but reworked to get more mid tone detail. Not a great shot, but a pic for the blog at any rate.

Now the curry bit. Yesterday I was in my take-away with a few mates, when one who likes hot-ish curry decided to challenge the chef to a how hot can I eat competition!.
Challenging a chef is never a great idea. I find it's best not to upset the person whose cooking my food, but Anthony thought it was a good idea.
I think it's a silly idea. You see the chef eats really hot spicy food all the time, Anthony on the other hand doesn't, and he also has what we suspect to be an ulcer, not a great combination to tackle a warp strength curry.
A normal curry sends him running for the loo with a bad stomach for days, this idea could put him in hospital if he's daft enough to actually do it.
Time will tell. Me I'm going to watch if it happens, I might even take the camera!

Happy Halloween.

Have a happy Halloween everybody!

Here's a couple of shots for the weekend, ones a shot from the Brecon Beacons Corn-du taken from Pen-y-fan, the others.... well self explanatory really, it's a Halloween shot!

Slow on the uptake!

It's never been said that the British government were quick on the uptake, indeed any slower and they would go backwards. With Prime minister Gordon (personality missing) Brown at the helm it's moving so slowly continental drift has overtaken it.
Now with the death of the highest ranking officer in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, it's emerged traveling by road in hostile country is dangerous, indeed just about everybody including the Colonel knew that, he even told them so less than a month ago. But to be honest it shouldn't have come as a surprise.
Just over 30 years ago 18 soldiers of the parachute regiment were killed at Warrenpoint in Ireland, they were killed by a roadside bombing, or an IED (improvised explosive devise) the same sort of of ambush used to kill Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and countless other soldiers in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Even then 30 years ago it was well known that to travel by vehicle in "bandit country" as some parts of Northern Ireland were then called was pure suicide. Yet 30 years later the lessons haven't been learned. Oh the soldiers know it well enough, as do the officers, it's the government's who don't learn, or want to learn.

Sea Dog.

Not an old salty seadog, a sea dog! spotted this today when I was out walking with a friends and her dogs, couldn't resist a quick shot of it.