Got back from Cuba on Thursday and I will post about that trip soon.
I just had to post after England's less than glorious defeat against Germany. Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, Rooney, Defoe,Johnson et al- you were an embarrassment to your country today. Schoolboy defending errors a complete lack of positional sense and just no ideas. I had given you the benefit of the doubt after USA and Algeria and had even allowed a bit of hope to creep into my heart after Slovenia but today you were woeful.
Not that any of you are admitting it on 5 Live.
Oh and Alan Green you must be the only person to think that Gerrard has had a good World Cup
Sunday 27 June 2010
Wednesday 9 June 2010
The Beautiful Game
I wrote a while ago about this but long time favourite of mine Billy Franks (Faith Brothers) has recorded his World Cup 2010 song called The Beautiful Game . All proceeds go to charity. You can buy it from iTunes or HMV.
See the video here
It is at thoughtful record at a time of football fever . My thoughts on England's chances are quarter finals and a predictable exit on penalties.
It has been as cold this week as it was hot last week. Tipping it down with rain and flippin' miserable. I am sat here with the heating on, in June for chrissakes!!!
Never mind Cuba beckons....
My daughter is finishing off her AS exams. My son has his German pal, Alex, over for the week. His exams are finished. Alex is a bit of a beer monster. God knows what they will be doing (clue; it will involve Pubs)
See the video here
It is at thoughtful record at a time of football fever . My thoughts on England's chances are quarter finals and a predictable exit on penalties.
It has been as cold this week as it was hot last week. Tipping it down with rain and flippin' miserable. I am sat here with the heating on, in June for chrissakes!!!
Never mind Cuba beckons....
My daughter is finishing off her AS exams. My son has his German pal, Alex, over for the week. His exams are finished. Alex is a bit of a beer monster. God knows what they will be doing (clue; it will involve Pubs)
Friday 4 June 2010
Feeling Hot Hot Hot (again)
Unbelievably good weather this week has had me feeling quite serene and mellow. At least until today when I get dropped the bombshell at work that one of my best staff is being moved a week on Monday. Just to sort out some idiot who is causing problems elsewhere. At least he is not coming to my office. So what was all that "lets talk about staff moves in our monthly meeting" shit our dimwitted boss talked about a week ago??? Shit just like everything else at my place.
Running is going well. I am feeling it tonight. I have knocked 1 and a half minutes off my time home on my run from work in two weeks. Not bad, for an old bloke.
Not long til Cuba. I am getting excited. So is the daughter with her threats of "housies" in our absence. She has been warned.
It being so hot we have been sleeping with the window open. I got woken up this morning by a very weird bird call that I had never heard before. This sent me to the RSPB website here and listening to all the birds I could think of that might have made it. I discovered amongst other things that the irritating little fucker that sings from about four o'clock each morning is the Coal Tit. Finally after listening to the Kestrel - a bird we have seen several times out the back and the Greater Spotted Woodpecker we saw one Saturday morning on a bit of a hunch I typed in Red Kite and listening to it that was definitely what I heard.
There are some breeding pairs over at Gibside so they must be widening their area.
Under two miles from the City Centre and its like living in the country side with all this wildlife around us.We have seen rabbits and lots of hedgehogs and voles (and rats) over the years. No foxes yet but they are moving into the city and we are having problems at work on one of our estates near Jesmond Dene with foxes burrows in back gardens.
Running is going well. I am feeling it tonight. I have knocked 1 and a half minutes off my time home on my run from work in two weeks. Not bad, for an old bloke.
Not long til Cuba. I am getting excited. So is the daughter with her threats of "housies" in our absence. She has been warned.
It being so hot we have been sleeping with the window open. I got woken up this morning by a very weird bird call that I had never heard before. This sent me to the RSPB website here and listening to all the birds I could think of that might have made it. I discovered amongst other things that the irritating little fucker that sings from about four o'clock each morning is the Coal Tit. Finally after listening to the Kestrel - a bird we have seen several times out the back and the Greater Spotted Woodpecker we saw one Saturday morning on a bit of a hunch I typed in Red Kite and listening to it that was definitely what I heard.
There are some breeding pairs over at Gibside so they must be widening their area.
Under two miles from the City Centre and its like living in the country side with all this wildlife around us.We have seen rabbits and lots of hedgehogs and voles (and rats) over the years. No foxes yet but they are moving into the city and we are having problems at work on one of our estates near Jesmond Dene with foxes burrows in back gardens.
Tuesday 1 June 2010
Humdrum days
I've been a bit quiet on the posting front. Nothing to write about I suppose is the honest answer. That and the fact that I have been a bit busy work wise. A new month is as good a time as any to promise more postings on things about my life and obsessions and more music too.
See you soon
See you soon
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