Can't make your birthday Stu!

Sorry Stu, I'm out of town the weekend of your birthday. Have a great time and I'll see you at the Fleet Christmas night out!

I love the fleet - it doesn't matter what your real age is, everyone's fleet age is "juvenile" ;o)

Founder member

:)

Just to cap it all off

How can they be jamming us if they don't know we're coming?

Doubly SMART

Or just foolish??

You little beauty!

Get yer lederhosen out!

Colonel schnapps oompah band!

Breakfast

Wholesome. :)

Note to all

c9ckburn is now publishing pictures on the blog as ZooLdaFooL as well as me (kev).  Just in case you think i'm responsible for all this tripe!

BLOG IT!!!

Do as you're told!!

Who's this?

Lock up your children

The c9ck Is out :):):):)

Ummmm???

Got any candy?

I'm interested in.....

Erm?

Ohhhhhhhkaaaaaaaay!!!!

Money for Nothing via Cashback

Here's the multi-step guide to making money for nothing via cashback.

Before i start, i don't guarantee this working for everyone and you have to follow these steps exactly.  No complaints if you muck up :p

1) Register with your preferred cashback site, from those above.  I'll use www.wepromisto.co.uk in this example.  You might find that the others offer a better rate than the example here, so always check that out before you try.  I'm using wepromiseto as I find that they track your activity quicker.....  Wepromiseto is a cashback site which works by tracking your activity on various sites (via cookies) and thus if you fullfill the requirements met on the wepromiseto site, you'll benefit to the tune of £x.

Example before we start.  If you set up an account with wepromiseto.co.uk and navigate to the No Spend Cashback link.  You will see that there are various companies offering £x.xx in cashback.  To check that your browser is working well with tracking of cashback, you might want to choose one of the DailyClick items for £0.02.  Try Cascade Compare.  Click on the box that looks like this:

....and then you'll be taken to a new window or tab with another link which says 'Take me to Cascade Compare'.  Click that link and you are taken to a site that has insurance offers on it.  All you need to do to get your 2pence is click the banner at the BOTTOM.  At the moment that's a banner for National Friendly.  It looks like this:

It will open up a new window.  Close it down.  You've just earned 2p.  IF IT TRACKS.  Wait a few hours (or up to a day) and you'll see your Wepromiseto.co.uk account balance go up to £0.02 ;)  You can do this once a day every day to earn 2p a day, but that's boring.  If it works, you know that you are at least set up to have cashback track to your account.  It was a zero risk test.  Up to you whether you do it or not :p

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Now onto business.  Make sure you are logged into your wepromiseto.co.uk account before we go for more cashback.  This time we will go for Sun Bingo.  Here's the link.  On the day of typing this article its at £15.  I quote from the terms:

• Get an increased £15.00 cashback when you open & fund a new account with £10 or more and play a real money game. Plus, enjoy a 200% cash match bonus. With a bingo budget of just £10 you can play bingo with £20!

So if you deposit £10.  You will get £15 in cashback.  You will also get £10 bonus credit added to your account on Sun Bingo.  That reads like you are already £5 up in terms of money in your pocket before you start.  You are.  Assuming you did as you did with the 2p chat above, clicked the link in wepromiseto and then signed up with a NEW account with a credit/debit card, validated your email address and deposited £10.  

Play Bingo with the £20 (your tenner plus a bonus £10).  I'd suggest the 90 ball bingo.  If you win anything great, if you lose, so what, you are a £5 up already. DO NOT PLAY SLOTS.  Just play bingo.  NOTHING ELSE.

If you win anything, superb, but it will be small prizes if anything, i'd guess.  It's all automatic - just buy the maximum amount of tickets and sit back.  I think it's £3.60 max per game, but that might have been another site, so don't quote me ;).  Keep an eye on the My Account/My balance screen back in your main browser (as the bingo software opens in a new flash window).  See this image here:

Keep an eye on the box on the bottom right.  You need to meet some wagering requirements in order to withdraw any winnings.  If you play slots, you'll not meet your wagering requirements.  Bingo is the way.

When that reaches 100%, withdraw anything you have left in your account.  You SHOULD have £10 left, as you only need to wager a tenner to meet the requirements.  That's £3.60, £3.60 and £2.80 for those that can't count, and any junior accountants.  You should have spent 20 mins tops to bet on three bingo games and come out with the £10 you put in (just withdraw it back to your card) and £15 cashback.  You are already £15 up minimum.  You hopefully won some of the Bingo as well :D  That should also be withdrawn.  Get your balance to £0.00 and never go back to the site again.  :)

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You can do exactly the same with Caesar's Bingo on wepromiseto.  It's the SAME bingo software that they use, so you can do exactly the same watching your Wagering percentage.  They match 200% of your initial deposit and give you £15 in cashback.  So basically you are playing with £30 when you start playing bingo.  Good luck and do the same as the Sun Bingo.

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News of the World Bingo is the same as Sun Bingo and offers £15 cashback.  I'm pretty sure that you can only do either Sun Bingo OR NotW Bingo for the £15 cashback :)  Up to you if you want to try.

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Bigger money can be had at Joyland and 21Nova Casinos.  £50 per casino in cashback.  You need to go through wepromiseto.  Click on the links to the appropriate site USING INTERNET EXPLORER.  I preferred to download their software when it asked me to (and uninstalled it through control panel / add/ remove software after i was finished).

You need to sign up with a NEW account with your debit or credit card and deposit £20.  If they ask you if you want a Bonus added to your deposit SAY NO.  Now, i've always said yes, but there are CRAZY wagering requirements that mean that although you might have more cash to play with, you'll never be able to withdraw a massive amount anyway, so you can do what you like here, as i'll explain both ways.....

Both casinos offer various bonuses to your £20 deposit.  Don't forget that if the cashback has tracked you are already £30 up ;)

Anyway, deposit £20 and say YES or NO to the bonus.  You get a lot more cash to play with if you say YES.  If you are EVER going to be able to withdraw anything you need to bet 18x £20 in total bets to get back out with cash.  One of the casinos is actually 20 x £20, i can't remember which.  If you say NO, you will find it easier to withdraw your money.  Look at their terms and conditions and see what games are not included in wagering requirements.  You find that all the usually popular games that don't involve luck are excluded.  Apart from Holdem.  So you will play Holdem and hope that you get lucky.  IF you don't.  You are £30 up.  There is no handy wagering requirments percentage box on these sites though i'm afraid.  You just have to keep a manual record of what you have wagered (first bet only per hand of cards).

Okay, so I used Pontoon (which is excluded from wagering) to build up my £46 (after bonus) on 21Nova to something like £175.  As Pontoon is excluded, i couldn't withdraw any of that.

I then hit Holdem.  Play that until you've bet around £400 in total and you'll probably be able to withdraw your cash.  If you chose not to add bonus to your account you'll find it is easier and earlier to withdraw, but you'll have less money to play with :)

So, either build the pot up with Pontoon, or don't that's up to you.  You are £30 up if the cashback tracks and you might win some stuff.  45 mins on each casino was all i needed.

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Paddy Power Bingo has a better rate on quidco.com than on wepromiseto.  Try that one too :)  Although i won diddly squat on that, i still made £10 for 20 mins work.

There are many other as well, but most of the sites are run by one group and once you've earned cashback on one of the group's sites, you might find that you can't earn on the others.....

I'll edit this if anyone points out that there are glaring issues!!

ZdF!

Testing the picture upload to the Facebook page for the Fleet

need to add in a photo to see if that gets published or just the random one from the banner on the homepage......

Summer Xtravaganza 2010

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Mayday, Mayday, calling the fleet - are you reading me?

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Testing iPhone blogging. Ta.

Sent from my iPhone, baby, yea!!

The Fleet Rock

Dear Fleet,

Thank you very much for my leaving present - it is truly visionary. We should all carry one!

Long live a younger Fleet!

Jim and Gav's LEJOG BLOG: You can donate at the following website...

Jim and Gav's LEJOG BLOG: You can donate at the following website...: "www.justgiving.com/JimandGavs Many thanks to those who already have!"

Get following :)

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Coco, listen up

http://recombu.com/news/iphone-4-uk-tariff-deals-is-o2-three-orange-tesco-or-vodafone-right-for-you_M11886.html


You can turn off again now :)

Hogmanay 2006 Flashback

Hogmanay 2006
Originally uploaded by ZooLdaFooL

stumbled over this on flickr! hahaha.

This was before the...

The carnage. :(

Test

Test

Testing old phone

Testing

Testing this phone

If Carlsberg did flat windows.....

then this would probably be the best in the world! ;-)

Yeeeeeaaassss!!!!!

Hello vicar :)

iPhone fleet team

All fleet members that have an iphone. Can you check out the App, 'Blogpress' and then sign in to your Google Account, and then select fleet blog from the list. Then try to post a blog, like this one, you can even attach a wee photo :)

Give it a whirl :)

If it doesn't work, I need to associate your google account with the blog, so tell me what your google account is :)


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Pennywell Rd,Edinburgh,United Kingdom

Fleet Photos

I've just finished (after about a week's work, on and off) organising and tagging all my photographs in Picasa (no changes to the online web albums as yet).

Tagging everyone's faces was a chore and a half.  Apparently I have photos that contain each of the following people x times:

Kevin Campbell - 947
Michael Hymers - 501
Gavin Stark - 397
Jonathan Bryce - 280
James Cockburn - 246
Robin Card - 224
Antonio Cervi - 158
Martin Urquhart - 115
Ollie Hughes - 81
Andrew Lumsden - 52
Stuart Milne - 47
Alisdair Wight - 43
Craig Paterson - 36

And you are all beautiful in ever single one of them :)

I'm about to lose days of my life

Only Zelda beats this. I am scared to press A+B.

Devil Woman

Starky - remember this woman!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Super Mario Galaxy 2

I better take some time off work :( AWESOME.

Percy's new shoes...

Treeeeeeemendous

Our sea marshall!

Edinburgh Double Parkrun 2010

Photo from Yester Year

hehehe

From

Captain P Card's 30th

Fleet,

For those that I haven't contacted on f**kbook or via text I'm commiserating my 30th on Saturday 8th May and you all must come - bring your better/worse halfs too. Except Tony...you can stay home if you want! ;-)

The venue is to be confirmed but celebrations will kick off from 7:30pm at a seady venue near you.

See you there.

CPC

Can I just say something here...?

...who votes for "no preference"?!

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football_poll.cfm?page=1595

8% apparently.

I propose immediate revoking of rights to apply for membership for these turkeys ... with immediate effect.

A meal for kings courtesy of truck

Haddow Fest 2011 Earlybird Tickets

Gentlemen.  Some of us were out and about at the Haddow Fest last month and it was pretty damn decent.  The format is such...
Meet for lunch at 12.30ish.  Have a few pints, but no too many as its a long day ;)  Take in some lesser known bands in some of Edinburgh's hidden venue gems.  Have a laugh.

The early bird tickets are on sale for £10 each right now.  The early bird tickets for this year were £15 so we're already saving.

Let's get involved :)

Who's in?

Tickets are available from seetickets. At this link.

Campbell

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T in the Park 2010 - Campbell Compilation :)

Gents, to all those that are going to T, you'll be delighted that i've created my usual compilation album to fine tune those lugs to the delightful bands that we many end up seeing :)

CDs will be in the post shortly to those that are attending and to some of you who might also be interested in coming along for one day or whatever :)

The day-by-day split has been announced and here's the state of play as it stands:

CLICK ON THE PIC PLEASE FOR FULL VERSION :)



Clashes are always an issue and so far, I've noted: Hot Chip and Faithless (although there is no contest!), Mumford / Eminem / Prodigy (argh!). But this isn't the final bill nor is there any real problem :)

Anyway, here's the playlist of the compilation:

1) La Roux - In for the Kill
2) Hot Chip - Over and Over
3) The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
4) Faithless - Insomnia
5) Muse - Uprising
6) Muse - Starlight
7) Shed Seven - Going for Gold
8) We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
9) The Courteeners - Not Nineeteen Forever
10) Vampire Weekend - A Punk
11) Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
12) Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
13) Delphic - Doubt
14) Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn
15) Two Door Cinema Club - What you Know
16) Kassidy - Stray Cat
17) Kassidy - Betrayal [working on a link for this]
18) Kasabian - L S F
19) Jay-Z - Big Pimpin' [for starj alone!]

That's the list. Roughly in the order you would exepct to see the bands, if indeed we were to see them all, which we won't.

Personal 'can't wait to see list' is as follows:

a) Kassidy
b) Two Door Cinema Club
c) Delphic
d) Hot Chip
e) Mumford and Sons
f) Shed Seven
g) Empire of the Sun
h) We are Scientists
i) Muse
j) Kasabian

Aarrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh!!! Them all. First two especially :) In the Pet Sounds Arena or Futures Tent on Sunday please :) OH YES!

Enjoy.

Campbell.

Fleet Challenge 2010: Event 3 Results & Overall Table

Gents, the 3rd Event has taken place with Campbell taking a maximum 25 points and the prize as the biggest loser due to the equipment that he had with him.

Final points scoring positions as follows, with scores in the final match in brackets (PS, Coco, accumulative scores didn't count and never ever would have counted):

Campbell, 168, 25pts
Coco, 152, 20pts
Lumbo, 131, 15pts
Craig, 102, 10pts
c9ck, 95, 8pts
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Hymers, 98, 6pts
Ali, 86, 5pts
Stu, 84, 4pts
Ollie, 83, 3pts
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Starj, ill, 0pts
Tony, declined, 0pts
Cardo, train holocaust, 0pts
Percy, erm?, 0pts


The overal table after three events looks like this:

1st) Craig, 40pts.
2nd) Coco, 34pts.
3rd=) Stu, 29pts.
3rd=) c9ck, 29pts.
5th) Ollie, 28pts.
6th) Campbell, 26pts.
7th) Cardo, 23pts.
8th=) Starj, 20pts.
8th=) Ali, 20pts.
10th) Lumbo, 15pts.
11th) Cervi, 8pts.
12th) Hymers, 6pts.
13th) Percy, 3pts.

It's all to play for.

The next events are as follows for Q2 of 2010:

Event 4: Wednesday April 21st (tbc). Subbuteo Championship (venue to be discussed). Need an organiser for this one please.
Event 5,6,7: "Super Saturday" : Saturday 29th May (tbc), Meadowbank & New Yorker. 400 metres, Long Jump and Billiards. (and beers and food). Coco is organising this one.

There will be NO JUNE EVENT, since Super Saturday will encompas 3 events in one day :)

All the photos and videos have been added to Picasa. Check them out :)

Campbell.

Cheers boys

To the fleet. I'm not too happy about it (understatement) but I now appear to be approaching the vicinity of the age of 40. My steadfast state of rightful denial has been tested and I'm touched by this tremendous present. But surely you should have waited until I'm actually closer to being nearly 40 for this :o)

Mating Cry of Howler Monkey

Which of the fleet members wrote this ad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDTLc-QN0U

C c c c cold

Who said this morning running was a good idea?

We seek him here...

We seek him there

Viva Espana!!

Who's in?

Scotland Supporters Club

If you are not a member, please register your details here.

Thanks ;)

New Fleet Members are Now Famous

Just go to the blog home page to see the sublime temporary edit to the picture. It's a wonder of Photoshop, I'll tell ya.

Edinburgh Parkrun #15 Photos

Now on Picasa. 24 secs better than last week, and that was with 3.5hrs sleep and 7 beers. So there's room to improve.

Stu, I'm delighted to say that all 182 people that turned up, thanked me, for organising this event.

See you all next week for some park running? :)

Oh yes.

Photos are here.

ZooLdaFooL's 2010 Running Schedule

May as well fill up my life with some activity i guess!! Get involved!!

Notwithstanding the Saturday Silverknowes Parkrun which i will try to get as much out of as possible, there are other races i will hopefully make this year, and here they are.....

Lasswade 10 mile, 7th March

Edinburgh 1/2 Marathon, 18th April

Great Edinburgh Run, 10k, early May

Mens Health Forum , 10k, June

Inverleith 5k, race 2, June

Great Scottish Run, September

Loch Ness Marathon, 3rd October - w0000f. Better aim high.

Get involved.

2010 Challenge - Event 1 Results

Group A with number of Wins

Stu "Big Fella" Milne W4

Ollie "Skipping Billy" Hughes W3

Rob "The Argonaut" Card W2

Craig "El Torro" Paterson W1

Kev "King Kong" Campbell W0 (lol)

Group B all won 2, but order was decided on nearest the bull.

Gav "Zulu Warrior" Stark

Ali "The Chairman" Wight

Coco "The Avenger" Bryce

Percy "Silk Finisher" Urquhart

Jim ""Howlin' Moose" C9ckburn

Knock Out Phase - Semis

Stu beat Ali

Ollie beat Gav

Cardo beat Percy

Coco beat Craig

Kev beat c9ck - c9ck was 'out' at this point, as Tony arrived to take his place in the wooden spoon match.

The Final Matches

Ollie beat Stu

Ali beat Gav

Cardo beat Coco

Craig beat Percy via walkover

Tony beat Kev

The Points

25 = Ollie

20 = Stu

15 = Ali

10 = Starj

8 = Cardo

6 = Coco

5 = Craig

4 = Percy

3 = Tony

2 = Campbell

1 = c9ck

0 = Hymers

0 = Andy

Next Event is Ping Pong in late Feb. c9ck is organising it ;)

Photos have been uplaoded to Picasa - click here.

Videos have been uploaded to YouTube - click here.

Big up Tony's shirt, Percy's claw, Stark's sytle(!) and Ali's day's growth.

Catch you all at the next event :)

Haddow Festival

28th March 2010 at various venues from 1.30pm.

The more the merrier :)

Do it. DO IT. I need a some BBB.

BBB Starj? Oh yes please ;)

Nb 373

Percy you know it. You know it!!!

Graze tower

My graze box tower before it was dismantled. :(. Boooooooooo to that.
It was an institution. Damn those Facilities ppl. Kinda.

Portland Bill

The adventures of Portland bill

Oh come with me to the rolling sea where the weather's calm and still.
And we'll have some fun as we often will, with the adventures of
portland bill.

Coco 'the power' taylor

Coco Bryce in potential cheating scandal? Who would have thought?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fAn8UOWsUo&feature=youtube_gdata

Sent from my iPhone, baby, yea!!

One of the Fleet is a Movie Star!

Can you spot him in this short clip?

Now we know why he's been so quiet of late :)

Here's the link : http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1263375833304RA37

Go go go go :)

Hello,

Here's a picture message you've been sent from 07950122388.

You can send a message back from your mobile phone. But don't reply to this
email.

Thanks,

O2

Caley 80

Gives good head

Kiss the guns

They'll get ya...every time

Fleet 2010 Challenge - *IMPORTANT NEWS*

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Fleet. Happy New Year to you all.

At the 2010 planning session, attended by Stu, Craig, Ali, Campbell, c9ck, Coco and Starjarama, the following (mega) idea was floated by Coco, Craig and Stu....

The Fleet 2010 Challenge will take the form of 12 events spread across the whole year with points awarded depending on where you rank at each event. As not all of us will be able to make all events, only the top 9 scores you receive will count in the final league table.

The Q1 events are as follows:

Event 1: Darts. This will take place on 21st January 2010 at either Campbell's Garage where Pool will also be available as a side entertainment, or at The New Yorker, where there are multiple Dart Boards.

Event 2: Table Tennis. This will take place on a PRELIMINARY DATE of 18th February 2010 at Meadowbank Sports Centre.

Event 3: Ten Pin Bowling. This will take place on a PRELINIARY DATE of 18th March 2010 at Fountain Park, Fountainbridge.

The following events are yet to be organised and may vary in their order depending on available dates and venues:

• Long Jump (@ Meadowbank)
• Archery (Cardo to organise for us all)
• Collie Buckie (@ c9ckburn street)
• 400 Metres (@ Meadowbank - you'll be missing this one Cervi, yeah?)
• Billiards (@ New Yorker or alternative full size snooker table venue)
• Sumo Wrestling (suits to be hired (Campbell has one already ;)), ring to be created in Coco's back garden)
• Go Karting (East or West Lothian to be decided - defo Q3 event)
• Subbuteo Championship (venue to be discussed)
• Assault Course Challange (@ Riccarton, Q2 event)

Backup events, that have been discussed that MAY be required, in order of possible additions to the script, are:

• Golf
• FIFA Evening
• Squash
• Chess
• Tennis
• Dominoes
• Cluedo
• Basketball
• Tiddly Winks
• Survivor
• World's Strongest Man
• Karaoke
• Diving
• Parachuting
• Bungie Jumping
• Chicken Fighting
• Greyhound Owning / Training / Racing
  
• Base Jumping
• It's a Knockout / Takeshi's Castle
• 10 lengths of a Swimming Pool
• Anal Penetration (non-barebacking event)

Point system and rules for each event to be discussed and circulated amongst all in due course.

The following participants have been automatically entered into the fold:

• Antonio Cervi
• Gavin Stark
• Robin Card
• Craig Paterson
• Jonathan Bryce
• Kevin Campbell
• Michael Hymers
• Martin Urquhart
• Stuart Milne
• Alisdair Wight
• Olliver Hughes
• James C9ckburn
• Andrew Lumsden

Finally, you will note that this is an ongoing series of Events that take place to crown the 2010 Challenge Champion. Again, i reiterate that you do not need to attend all 12 and there will be opportunities to attend two events in one sitting (Meadowbank Events, New Yorker Events for example), thus the comittment is lessened (don't panic everyone!!). We may also dovetail some events i.e. Collie Buckie, with another night out, for example the Xmas Night Out :p.

There are other proposed STAND-ALONE events for 2010 as well:

1) Cannonball Run - Provisional Date is Saturday 1st May 2010. Cardo's to Oban. 12 Tasks on route. This WILL happen in 2010.
2) 40-30 Celebrations - Q1 or Q2 event, I believe. Watch out for more on that as Cardo and c9ck turn 30 and 40.
3) Fleet Summer Xtravagnza 2010 / Coco's Ma's Birthday - Sat 21st August 2010 (no doubt).
4) Fleet School Sports Day - Q3 Event. More to follow.
5) Fleet Caption Competition - Q2 Event.

EXCO Campbell.