Can the week get any better? Bien bloody sur - I had a drop at a place that repaired and serviced the lifeboats from ships,by lifeboats I mean the white pods that are slung from ships and have blow up orange rafts inside them.All of my life I have wanted to know whats inside them,how long they last and how they work.Well now I know!!. Not only that but I came away with gifts - I got my grubby trotters on two first aid packs and an emergancy ration pack.As the stuff has to have a long use by date stuff with short dates is just binned.The first aid packs have just about everything in and are 100 times better than the bog standard one I have in my cab,from burns stuff to plasters it is the mutts nuts.The ration pack was an eye opener,I have had my fair share of rations and this is way down the list,it was a compressed cake style thing with all the nutrients and calories you need for a week.It tasted like shortbread pastry with digestives and nuts all crushed up in it,it didnt dry out your mouth and I am sure that if you were just sat on your arse in the middle of the Atlantic for days on end it would keep you alive.The water however was a bit crappy.It was in small bags around about 250ml big,it tasted like distilled water but there was'nt a great deal of it.The man said that some rafts have de-salination pumps on board but the one he was doing was only a small one.The rafts themselves last for around 25 - 30 years.

He was talking about the crowd trouble in Manchester, and had a bloke on whos written a book on the root cause of the problem with crowd trouble and how to deal with it,Jon Gaunt could'nt get his head around the mans case and kept on talking over him - his bog standard response to a caller he cant cope with I think - but the caller just kept on laughing at him and his stupidity.It was fantastic radio.The other time he showed his true colours he asked the traffic girl I think it was if she had her American Knickers on - one yank and they are down? Now what a thing to say to a poor girl live on national radio where she has no way of answering him and shes only doing her job.What a nutter.I listen now in the hope that the plug will be pulled on him live on air.What is that station thinking of ,paying his wages and sacking a radio legend like James Whale.His shows just one long plug for his live show and ridiculing his co-workers.

The photograph at the bottom is of the shale at the powerstation,it is realy flakey and soft like mud but the layers were all twisted and mixed up.