Will Football Come Back to Me?
I checked the weather forecast for Saturday today and decided that it is just about good enough for me to be a a fair weather football supporter, perhaps for one day only. Yes, I have purchased tickets for me and the boys to watch my home team, Reading, take on Middlesbrough in an early season top of the table clash at the Madejski Stadium. Shortly after I purchased them, a friend of mine posted on Facebook a new club song, apparently ...
Going Back to Home Cooking ‘Avec Monsieur Lethaby’
One of the first things I enjoyed doing when I got my first house (which was after a divorce about 8 years ago), was embarking on home cooking, guided by various books put together by the likes of Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Rachel Allen (a personal favourite). However, after a period of 18 months where I moved around Hampshire I kind of lost my way and became over-reliant on my girlfriend, who coming from a background that includes ...
Rib Injury and Pig Gate Sends my Head in a Spin!
I had a somewhat bizarre accident on Sunday, featuring a classic male attempt at still being twenty years old as I ungracefully dived to stop a ball going for four runs in a cricket match. Remarkably I did stop the ball reaching the boundary rope but sadly, it was all a bit undignified, resulting in a crash landing that left the rock solid leather sphere wedged firmly in between my rib cage and the ground. This not only winded me quite ...
Rugby World Cup Highlights Pitiful State School Sport!
The Rugby World Cup commences today and such is its spectator popularity (driven by the high class marketing machine behind the RFU), that it will be the biggest rugby world cup ever and is now the third biggest sporting competition on the planet. In recent years, since professionalism has taken hold, rugby has become a frightening sport where huge guys made of iron smash into each other so hard that they are treated the next day for ...
Can I Save Someone by Singing to God?
Patriotism, or lack of it, seems all the rage at the moment, with the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, copping heavy stick from patriotic news groups, who are so patriotic they choose to be based in Bermuda to avoid the British taxation system. Having seen a screaming quote on The Daily Mail website which read "Sing you traitor, sing!" did make me laugh, and as a friend of mine said, the appointment of Corbyn could well see an epidemic of ...