PASHA TRIP

2010-08-06T07:24:00.001+01:00

VISIT AT RUIN OF SALAMIS (TURKISH REPUBBLIC OF NORTH CYPRUS - CYPRUS)

HOME MADE TREE

2009-09-19T10:13:00.003+01:00

Last Dive with Laura

2009-08-06T11:16:00.000+01:00

SWIMMING POOL

2009-07-27T11:12:00.000+01:00

SPLISH SPLASH

2009-07-26T09:45:00.001+01:00

WORK OUT

2009-07-24T20:09:00.002+01:00

WORK OUT 2

2009-07-24T20:05:00.001+01:00

DANTE CAR

2009-07-23T16:31:00.003+01:00

LUNCH IN THE BEACH

2009-07-18T11:51:00.001+01:00

STORY TIME

2009-07-17T05:46:00.001+01:00

SINGING IN THE BED

2009-07-17T05:45:00.001+01:00

VIDEO 26-06-2009

2009-07-16T23:07:00.001+01:00

NEW VIDEO 25-06-2009

2009-07-16T23:06:00.002+01:00

COLLECTIONS PHOTOS

2009-06-17T09:26:00.003+01:00

BRAND NEW BOY...

2009-06-16T10:06:00.003+01:00

DANTE ROMA BLAND,,,, That's my name.
I was born the 10 june at 11.50 p.m.

One hour later...

With daddy in the hospital

Sleepping on mummy's breast...

It's not fair! Lay off, I'm having a nap!

After lunch...

BIG NEWS

2008-11-21T18:09:00.002Z

OK, so in case you haven't guessed from the photo, we're having a baby!!!!!

This is the first scan at 12 weeks. You can't see much but he/she measures 46mm.

All well so far. Due 7th June (or round about then!!)

ENGLAND & SCOTLAND TRIP 3

2008-10-22T20:28:00.002+01:00

The third and final part of our mini tour around Scotland and England ... Alnwick, Edinburgh, Lake District and York.

ENGLAND & SCOTLAND TRIP 2

2008-10-17T00:12:00.002+01:00

Second chapter, Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, Durham.

ENGLAND & SCOTLAND TRIP

2008-10-15T13:42:00.004+01:00

First chapter, Peterborough & Lincoln

NEW DIVING

2008-10-14T16:28:00.001+01:00

SHARON'S BIRTHDAY

2008-10-11T16:21:00.000+01:00

INTERVIEW BY STEVE BRADLEY TO RED 10 ANDY ROBINS

2008-10-08T00:18:00.002+01:00

AIRSHOW2008 INTERVIEW WITH CPT. HERMANN

2008-10-07T18:34:00.001+01:00

Waddington Air Show 2008

2008-10-04T19:17:00.001+01:00

Highlights from RAF Waddington Air Show July 2008, the first flight of the Vulcan in 15 yeras.

INTERVIEW

2008-10-02T21:22:00.002+01:00

Interview with Pat Bland, Flying display organizer of RAF Waddington Air show.

WRECK DIVE

2008-09-18T08:45:00.004+01:00

This is one of the best and biggest wrecks in Gran Canaria's waters. Sunk just outside of the port "muelle de la Luz" in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
It's fantastic, isn't it?

NEW VIDEO

2008-08-31T21:10:00.003+01:00

This is the last video made it in Sardina del Norte (Gran Canaria, Spain)

NEW PHOTOS

2008-08-31T12:57:00.000+01:00

MORE DIVING PHOTOS

2008-08-11T11:14:00.002+01:00

QUEIMADA

2008-08-05T16:21:00.002+01:00

Hi ...
Queimada is an alcoholic beverage of Galician tradition.
Queimada's characteristic blue fire.
Queimada has origins in the Pagan festivals of Galicia. It is a punch made from Galician Aguardiente(Orujo Gallego) - a spirit distilled from wine and flavoured with herbs or coffee, plus sugar, lemon peel, coffee beans and cinnamon.
Traditionally while preparing the punch a spell or incantation is recited, so that special powers are conferred to the queimada and those drinking it. Then the queimada is set alight, and slowly burns as more brandy is added.
The finality of the preparation ritual is to distance the bad spirits that, according with the tradition, lie in wait for men and women to try to curse them. All occasions are good for a queimada: a party, familiar meetings or gatherings of friends. After dinner, in the darkness of night (one of the best times for it), the people who take part in it gather around the container where it is prepared, ideally without lights, to cheer up the hearts and to be better friends. One of them ends the process of making the queimada while reciting the spell holding up the burning liquid in a ladle and pouring it slowly back into the container.

SPELL

In Galician language:

Mouchos, curuxas, sapos e bruxas.
Demos, trasgos e diaños, espíritos das neboadas veigas.
Corvos, píntegas e meigas: feitizos das menciñeiras.
Podres cañotas furadas, fogar dos vermes e alimañas.
Lume das Santas Compañas, mal de ollo, negros meigallos,
cheiro dos mortos, tronos e raios. Ouveo do can, pregón da morte;
fuciño do sátiro e pé do coello. Pecadora lingua da mala muller casada cun home vello.
Averno de Satán e Belcebú, lume dos cadáveres ardentes, corpos mutilados dos indecentes,
peidos dos infernais cus, muxido da mar embravecida.
Barriga inútil da muller solteira, falar dos gatos que andan á xaneira, guedella porca da cabra mal parida.
Con este fol levantarei as chamas deste lume que asemella ao do Inferno, e fuxirán as bruxas
a cabalo das súas vasoiras, índose bañar na praia das areas gordas.
¡Oíde, oíde! os ruxidos que dan as que non poden deixar de queimarse no augardente quedando así purificadas. E cando este beberaxe baixe polas nosas gorxas, quedaremos libres dos males
da nosa alma e de todo embruxamento. Forzas do ar, terra, mar e lume, a vós fago esta chamada: se é verdade que tendes máis poder que a humana xente, eiquí e agora, facede que os espíritos dos amigos que están fóra, participen con nós desta Queimada.

In English

Owls, white-owls, toads and witches. Demons, goblins and devils,spirits of the misty vales.
Crows, salamanders and mages, charms of the medics.
Rotten pierced canes,home of worms and vermins.
Wisps of the Holy Company, evil eye, black witchcraft, scent of the dead, thunders and ightnings.
Howl of the dog, omen the death, maws of the satyr and foot of the rabbit.
Sinful tongue of the bad woman married to an old man.
Satan and Beelzebub's Inferno, fire of the burning corpses, mutilated bodies of the indecent ones,
farts of the arses of doom, bellow of the enraged sea.
Useless belly of the unmarried woman, speech of the cats in heat, dirty turf of the wicked born goat.
With this bellows I will pump the flames of this fire which looks like from Hell, and witches will flee, straddling their brooms, going to bathe in the beach of the thick sands.
Hear! Hear the roars of those that cannot stop burning in the firewater, getting so that purified.
And when this beberage goes down our throats, we will get free of the evil of our soul and of any charm.
Forces of air, earth, sea and fire, to you I make this call: if it's truth that you have more power
than human people, here and now, make the spirits of the friends who are outside, take part with us in this Queimada.

FOTOS DE BUCEO

2008-07-31T12:26:00.006+01:00

YORK - UK -

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CARLISLE - UK -

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THE LAKE DISTRICT - UK -

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EDINBURGH - SCOTLAND - UK -

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ALNWICK CASTLE - UK -

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DURHAM - UK -

2008-07-15T19:06:00.007+01:00

AIR SHOW - RAF WADDINGTON - UK -

2008-07-05T21:34:00.000+01:00

NOTTINGHAM CASTLE - UK -

2008-07-04T19:59:00.000+01:00

SHERWOOD FOREST - NOTTINGHAM UK -

2008-07-03T22:36:00.001+01:00

LINCOLN - UNITED KINGDOM -

2008-07-03T22:11:00.002+01:00