Cleveleys News

WEEK ENDING 9th FEB 2018 Riverdance 10th anniversary So it was 10 years since roll-on-roll-off ferry MS Riverdance was shipwrecked at Cleveleys? Big deal. It was 56 years ago that we all climbed about the SS Happy Wanderer with none other than the Carry On crew! If only the Riverdance had been under the command of Captain Crowther (hilariously portrayed by the late Sid James) I am confident that it would not have got into the silly trouble that it did. And if they had, at least they would have had Kenneth Connor’s hilarious ship’s doctor on board to help out with any casualties. Although I imagine that these days with all the ridiculous ‘political correctness’ a doctor who pushed his face into an unconscious woman’s bosom would be stuck off from general practice. Well you PC brigade have got the Riverdance disaster on your consciences. Barry Bispham Switch Me Off Another series of ‘ Take Me Out ’ has begun on ITV with the “hilarious” Paddy McGuinness overseeing a team o...

Nothing particularly exciting has really happened in the Cleveleys area recently. I did hear something about some famous Blackpool footballer or other, but as I have only ever played FIFA on consoles and have no interest in real sport it didn’t really seem that significant. This weekend however promises to be all kinds of geek heaven when retro-gaming event PLAY returns to Blackpool. For those of you who aren’t cool like me and don’t even understand what ‘retro-gaming’ is, let me put it into non-nerdy terms that even neuro-typicals can understand - you know how Doctor Who can go back in time by travelling in his TARDIS through the time vortex? It’s a bit like that. A retro-gaming event is one that hosts loads of classic video games and you can imagine you are back in the 1980s, which was an amazing time for emerging gaming technology, even though they didn’t have the internet which must have been rubbish. So join me as I cover all the coolest bits of this amazing dork-fest…. ...