1. Airfix De Havilland Vampire Starter Kit

    A photo of the completed kit from above.

    De Havilland Vampire

    My nephew and I made the Airfix De Havilland Vampire Starter Kit over the weekend. It was a very easy kit to make, and perfect as a first time kit for a youngster.

    We didn’t use the supplied Humbrol cement, we stuck to the tried and tested Revell Contacta Professional.

    We also didn’t bother with the supplied acrylic paints, instead we sprayed it with some Halford’s Grey Primer and then some Halford’s Ford Caymen Blue to finish.

    A photo of the completed kit flying

    De Havilland Vampire

  2. Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma

    A photo of Pedro

    Pedro by Clément Bucco-Lechat / CC-BY-SA-3.0

    When Pedro signed a new contract with Barcelona in April, Barcelona reported his buyout clause would remain at 150 million euro. Now it seems that’s not the case.

    I was a bit disappointed at the size of the release clause, because I thought with Suarez after going from Liverpool to Barcelona last season, that there may be a very slim hope of Pedro going in the opposite direction this season.

    Pedro has so many qualities as a player, but he’s been at Barcelona during the clubs most successful period, when they’ve been well stocked with superstar forwards. As a result, Pedro hasn’t been able to establish himself as a regular starter, but he has scored some important goals for the club and has a record of scoring a goal every three and bit games. Not too shabby at all.

    He’s left-footed, hard working, and has wonderful technique.

    The rumours of him joining Manchester United have gathered momentum, and it’ll break a little bit of my heart if it goes through. If he does sign for them, I predict he’ll have a massive season.

    If the rumoured fee of 32 million euro is correct, then I’ll be doing a hell of a lot of head shaking, especially if Liverpool spend the guts of 47 million euro on Benteke.

  3. Instapaper Much Much Later

    A screenshot of the 318th page in my Instapaper account

    ‘Add to Instapaper’ has created a read much much later list for me. Only 12,682 posts to go. Given a two minute per post estimate, it would take me fifty-three eight hour days to read them all. Gulp!

  4. Tree at Sunset

    A photo of a tree with the sun setting behind it.

    Tree at Sunset

  5. Eircode – Smart Address Code

    From the Eircode website:

    Having an Eircode, will remove the hassle and mistakes out of finding addresses in Ireland.

    It seems that An Post disagree.

    A photo of two eircode letters to the same address.

    Eircode Brace