Today I planted my first ever shrubs! Oh and a lanky Jasmine floozy!
Will see how they go!
Author Archives: Antikrish
Diwali.
Got asked today if I celebrate Diwali??
Yeah…..once a year, I love a cheeky cockney walk down the Ganges, have a paratha and light up a few candles, innit!!!
Robert Re-Plant-er
My company decided to get rid of their old plants and introduce new ones into our office; rather generously, they offered them to the staff.
So, I had a look and quickly deduced that I could cold repot the strongest o
f the remaining plants and then try to breathe new life into the planters.
So at 6am, I loaded my car up and made 2 trips back to the house! Almost killed me lugging it all around!!!!!!! Here are the spoils!
The planters are actually plastic, so I drilled drainage holes in the bottom, added soil, various bulbs for next year along with some Autumnal plants and flowers which already seem to be doing ok thanks to mild weather!
Thanks to assistant gardener Cheeks
Madam Tussauds London – Star Wars
I made my first ever visit to Madam Tussauds on Friday the 16th of October, 2015. It was rather good!
I quite enjoyed seeing the wax doppelgangers of Bobby Moore, Jimi Hendrix and Nelson Mandela.
It was a shame though that everyone queued to have their photos taken with Barrack Obama, while Winston Churchill stood somewhat neglected until I stood by to admire him.
There was also my chance meeting with Ghandi; I’m clearly the taller Indian and have a better barnet of hair.
I rather enjoyed the figures of history ad well, particularly Albert Einstein and a very unexpected surprise of seeing Dr Stephen Hawking; wish you could have made his computer talk…..guess they didn’t have that in the budget?
The main reason for my visit was to see the Star Wars section, if you are a fan, you simply have to go and have your picture taken with various characters.
Such as:
Perving Leia in her slave costume
Arguing with Chewie in the Falcon
Hanging out with R2D2 and C3P0
Chilling with Han Solo
Me with a homosexual Stormtrooper
Yoda
Darth Vader
Time for a haircut!
I sheared Cheeks today; little guy needed a good shave after the top half of him had come to look like a bush!??
BEFORE
AFTER
Sneezey etiquette for atheists
The seriously awkward moment when you can’t decide whether or not to say ‘bless you!’ following an ambiguous sneeze or cough. AND being an atheist.
It’s one of those moments where you truly realise you have been conditioned by society?!!
When you robotically respond to a medieval Christian response to a sneeze?!
It’s much like saying oi oi oi! After Oggy Oggy Oggy? You can’t help it?
From now on, I refuse to say ‘bless you’ any more.
Bollocks to it!
Behtareen – Indian Street Food – East Croydon
Behtareen is a funky new Indian-style cafe in Dingwall Road which is just down from East Croydon train station.
At the risk of sounding Tolkienesque, you will find Behtareen next door to Zabardast! The observant souls amongst you will probably notice that the cafe and Indian sandwich shop are both owned by the same people!
Simply put, there are times where I **NEED** curry and have become something of a regular to Zabardast since it opened in 2014 (fueling my Seekh kebab roll addiction on a Friday!).
Therefore, I was overjoyed when Bethareen sprang up because Croydon has been lacking a decent Indian cafe since ‘Spice Cafe’ left Surrey Street many moons ago.
Inside, the cafe’s decor is visibly very bright and clean with park/pub bench style tables; if you look around, you’ll also notice a load of Indian ‘stuff’ in frames up on the walls.
I’ve only used the very swift take-away option so far (they conveniently have a card machine for payment!), but I took the time to observe the friendly table service whilst I waited for my food and have vowed to sit in there in the near future.
So far, I’ve tried the lamb biriyani, tandoori paneer and paratha; all of which were very tasty and reasonably priced!!!
Anyway, give it a whirl sometime! Antikrish recommends!
Here’s the menu! behtareen menu
On fire, Alexander Chernikov jumps 30 meters into snow from a building
Want to see a guy set himself on fire and jump 30 meters off of a resident building into snow?
Alexander Chernikov, founder of extreme sports movement DBA – ‘Dominance, fearlessness, Adrenaline) did just that this week in Novoaltaysk, Russia.
He popped on an extra layer of trousers, doused himself in petrol, lit himself with a flaming torch and jumped off a building.
Quite frankly, I’ve never seen anything like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s genuinely quite funny seeing his head sticking out of the snow after his landing, before being hauled out by friends and then taken into custody by local police (who you’ll notice, don’t call him an ambulance!).
Gotta love crazy Russian videos???
Hayseed Dixie – Brooklyn Bowling London 06.02.15
Hayseed Dixie are a fantastic band to see live and I absolutely guarantee that their unique bluegrass cover versions of classic rock songs will have you grinning from ear to ear!
The musicianship between all four band members is impressive (unless you’re a complete git); acoustic bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, acoustic and (occasionally) violin vary the tunes out so well that things never sound repetitive. In fact, banjo solos never get old do they!?
The arrangements are so damned clever that you can easily distinguish and identify songs that randomly find their way into others halfway through (‘War’ and ‘Lets get it on’ is a beautiful marriage!).
Quite frankly, you’d have to be some kind of massive prat not to enjoy the humour and atmosphere that saunters around a Hayseed Dixie gig, all the while they play up to their gimmick/cult band tag.
Folk music has taken over the UK music industry like the ‘blob’ and I find it repugnant how much the scene is up its own arse in faux intellectualism; so to hear a song about a poo in a jar about an ex girlfriend was incredibly righteous.
Favourite moments for me, hearing them belt out ‘War Pigs’ by Black Sabbath and ‘Ace Of Spades’ by Motorhead. Fucking brilliant.
And now, some video that I recorded!
The Antikrish 
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