A Lovely Weekend Ends In Gloom
I spent a relaxing weekend down in Brougton this week, having a lovely meal at The Plough in Sparsholt on Friday before getting a bit ripped off in The Greyhound in Broughton. How is it you can spend £45.00 in a lovely country pub on two fine home cooked meals, two large glasses of white wine, and two pints of real ale, then get charged £10.00 for 1 small glass of unpleasant Pinot Grigio and and a large glass of passable red wine? The Greyho...
83 Years On And Reading Reach Another FA Cup Quarter Final
What a great night for Reading FC last night, as they reached their first FA Cup quarter final since 1927, the same year the Harlem Globe Trotters played their first game, Charles Lindbergh completed the first transatlantic crossing, Stalin came to power, and Adolf was still a popular German family name. Gyliffi Siggurdson celebrates his extra time winner Not to be one to miss out on a bit of sentiment, I watched the game on "live ...
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Television Gold!
The cold miserable wintry weather has continued this week with a mixture of low temperatures rain sleet and snow across the South, so it has been a godsend that some brilliant TV has been on our screens to cheer me up.Firstly, the latest series of Shameless has in my opinion surpassed expectations, it is great TV including high drama, scandal, and laugh out loud comedy in a moral free sink estate in Manchester. With it's opening strap line "Make ...
Is Football Homophobic?
I have just had a lovely weekend, taking in the theatre in Bagnor on Friday, an Indian meal on Saturday a lovely, if not freezing walk through the water meadows around Stockbridge yesterday followed by a lovely dinner. I also somehow found the time to take the boys to rousing cup tie at Reading (a 2-2 draw with West Brom) which restored my faith in the beautiful game, at least temporarily. It was firecracker of a game, and leads me smoothly in ...