Scrape

Two days without posting, very sloppy from me so apologies there. Today I have mostly been crashing my car and yesterday was spent mostly running, yes, a varied few days it has been!
I saw the tallest man in Devon on Wednesday, Scott Bevan, it was great to see the big fella and his lovely (trapped) girlfriend Kim. I had also totally forgotten about asking for a skinny latte at a coffee shop, so thanks for reminding that fat is not allowed in the diet - you would be very disappointed with my diet at the moment though, obviously I am still ripped, but my press up average has dipped to about five hundred a week, and my cheese, beer, and wine allowance, has quadrupled.


HOME FRONT
The children are busy bees at the moment what with school, clubs, pets, and sport. Hattie has just returned from the school disco having boogied her way through the last hour, Issy has now realised that her pet rabbit (Flopsy Peppa Marley Pip) is a one woman poo machine, and Cameron is making 'Sport Billy' look like a couch potato. Finally, my wife is absolutely delighted that it is the weekend, and I am.......rushing into the kitchen as World War three is kicking off. Gotta go.

Good luck to all this weekend.

CH

Debate

Three main points tonight, firstly I cannot believe the furore (great word) surrounding the case of a fourteen year old being left at home with their three year old sibling. Mum had only nipped to the shop (not to Majorca for a week, or down to the Nags Head), and the elder child was extremely responsible, and yet Mum has now been suspended until further notice and effectively banned from working with children for ten years. Basically a woman already trying to juggle having a job and looking after her children is now even worse off, unable to work and labelled irresponsible. For Christ sake someone show some sense here.
Secondly, Gypsy sites, and we have to be careful here because I am all for the free spirit and traveler in us - I am also well versed in the common rendition of 'Where's your caravan' having had it sung to me over the last fifteen years or so (this also happens to be the title of my second book DUE OUT IN AUGUST 'ish' and available at all good bookshops!), but, and it is a big but, the words 'permanent site' cannot sit comfortably with everyone, after all isn't it an ever so slight contradiction for the gypsy and traveler community?

Thirdly, our cricketers have returned from Australia having won the Ashes, and, well no one is really bothered. Why? because it was about six weeks ago, and also because the team had to play in the one day series which was duly lost 7-1. A brilliant achievement like winning the Ashes should have been celebrated straight away, not after a one day series that no one wanted to play in!
Discuss!!!



CH

Phone talk

Hard to concentrate tonight as my wife is yapping away next to me at around thirty words per minute, incredible really considering if she wasn't on the phone their would be no talking whatsoever! Yes I could go upstairs, and yes I could probably wait, but I was here first so I will try to sit it out and watch my programme - which incidently is the excellent Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol.
I shall join you again tomorrow.

P.S Love you my darling - she is still next to me

CH

Pop

Happy Birthday Martin Hargreaves, motorcycling mafia to the masses and one hell of a bloke!


In Football news;
50 million pounds, a 1-0 loss at home, and only sixty seven minutes played, not a great afternoon for the most expensive Premiership player ever. I cannot believe Carlo Ancelotti felt the need to drag off his most expensive player, surely for the amount of money paid, the type of player he is, the team he was playing against, and the sheer fact that it was his debut, warranted a full ninety minutes. I smell danger ahead.
On the home front;
Swimming, coffee and cake, and a roast at the Millers. Not a bad Sunday at all.

Gotta keep driving on, do not ask the Lord, just thank if you receive.

Amen

CH

Radio Ga Ga

I attempted to turn the radio on today but it was no good, after a couple of minutes of searching for a decent station I gave up such was the dross on offer. I listened to seven consecutive adverts on Talksport then gave up, I listened to a very annoying upper middle class conversation on Radio 2 (I do like Chris Evans show in the morning though), and finally I turned to Radio 1 to hear the lyrics rapped to me "You woulda taken the bullet, if you coulda".
Please someone, just talk normally, I don't want to listen to a loop tape of 'Safestyle' window offers, I don't want to hear some toff harping on about their many woes, and I'm not sure I want to listen to Dr Dread and his guns. Or maybe I was just a little impatient, after all I was late, and I was also stuck behind a man with a huge boil on his right foot!!!

Have a great weekend one and all

P.S Good luck to my two old muckers Benyon and Wroe. All good things come to an end


CH

Decisions

A tough night in a tough game.

CH

Loads of money!!

I have just realised that Blackpool's kit sponsor is non other than Wonga, the money loaning outfit. It seems funny really (well actually not very for the poor sods who are tempted in) that with all the money flying about in the Premiership recently, and with Charlie Adam's five to ten million pound on off transfer talk, that a club would want to advertise a company who no doubt provide misery to many people who are desperately in need of a few quid. For the five hundred grand, or whatever Wonga paid Blackpool to have their logo splashed all over the team shirts, they will most probably be getting ten fold back by charging an extortionate interest on loans that quite clearly can't and won't be paid back in the allotted time.
There is no real reason for this rant, I just don't like the fact that a player can be playing for a Premiership team, and earning thirty or forty grand a week, whilst endorsing a company who are very obviously preying on the financially vulnerable. Rant over.
In other news, I had a close shave with axe today, I cannot believe the ineligibility issue, and I am in desperate need of something wet to drink.

Over and out.

CH