Archive for August, 2008

The voice of an angel

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 22:19

Simon Cowell is a bastard. This rendition of the theme from Titanic was brilliant. Had the contestant not been so young back in 1997, I am sure she would have done a better job than that horse-faced Celine Dion! I would certanly buy her music.

Bring Guylene back!

Winged monster

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 21:15

I’ve just had to kill a massive moth that was flying around the flat. At least I think it was a moth… going by the size of the beast, it may have been a type of bat.

Selling ice to Eskimos

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 15:37

I have spent the afternoon defrosting my freezer. It had got to the stage where the door wouldn’t close because it was so full of ice, so I thought I should clean it – after all I haven’t done so since I moved in 18 months ago.

I was amazed that the small box on top of the fridge could produce so much ice. I know the ice caps are melting in the Arctic – well I have plenty of the stuff sitting in my kitchen sink if the Eskimos want to buy any.

Bath City 2-2 Wimbledon

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 22:20

I don’t understand tennis terminology, but as both teams drew, don’t they call that ‘juice’?

A spot of tennis

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 11:32

This afternoon I will be watching Bath City play Wimbledon. No, the players haven’t given up on football and turned to tennis; although Manchester United’s Paul Scholes last night quit the game to start a career in volleyball.

Wimbledon are a famous football club who were formed in the olden days (152 BC to be exact), working their way up from non-league to the Premiership. Many well-known players represented them over the years including Dennis Wise (the player, not my pet hamster) and Hollywood superstars Vinnie Jones and Samuel L Jackson.

A few years ago, they ran into a spot of financial trouble when someone forgot to pay the gas bill. The club was sold to a man with a lot of money and not many brains. This man thought it would be a laugh to move the football club from their London-based home all the way to Milton Keynes. To add to the joke, he renamed the club to MK Dons.

The Wimbledon fans thought this joke was as funny as the BBC TV series My Family, and decided to set up their own football club in non-league. This newly formed team, known as AFC Wimbledon, have done rather well lately; so much so they have found their way into Bath City’s highly prestige league – the Conference South.

The supporters are well known for their massive fanbase and are often bring in excess of 2,000 away fans – exactly 2,000 more than Team Bath brought to Twerton last week.

It should be a cracking game! In their league days, Wimbledon were famous for conceding some amazing goals. Take a look at this beauty from Leeds United’s Tony Yeboah.

Apparently David Beckham scored a good goal against them, but I don’t remember it (it can’t have been that famous) have a look on Youtube :o)

Euromillions

Friday, August 29th, 2008 @ 17:44

As there is a £70millon jackpot this week, I thought I would buy a ticket.

I know I won’t win and my money will probably go to a Frenchman, so I may as well have thrown £1.50 down the drain.

Back to blogging

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 11:57

It has been ages since I last blogged. I have no excuses really, so have to put it down to pure laziness and lack of motivation. This is made even worse by the fact than I am on annual leave this week and next, so should have loads of time on my hands and things to blog about.

On Monday I went to Worcester to watch Bath City play. I had been looking forward to this game for ages, but things didn’t go exactly to plan. Claire had an accident and broke her wrist. I won’t go into too much detail, but a ball was mis-kicked and hit her in the arm. The player responsible… Bath City’s all-time top goal scorer! I know that doesn’t say a lot for the quality we have at the club!

This meant we spent most of Tuesday in the RUH. I didn’t really expect to be back at the very place I work, while I was on annual leave. The good news is that Claire is feeling a lot better and is on the mend. I think she will be leaving the goalkeeping to the professionals from now on.

Leeds United stunned me on Tuesday night. After they embarrassingly failed to beat the farmers from Yeovil on Saturday, the Mighty Whites destroyed Crystal Palace on Tuesday night, winning 4-0. I stayed up until gone midnight to watch the 10 seconds of highlights on TV – when your team falls out of the Premiership, it’s a rare treat to see them on telly.

I was very pleased, but not as much as this man. Not only does he seem the jolliest Leeds fan ever, but quiet possibly the happiest man on the planet.

Rubbish

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 @ 22:12

That reminds me. I have to put the rubbish out for the binmen tomorrow…

It’s all kicking off #2

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 @ 17:06

Due to last Saturday’s catastrophic start to Bath City’s season, followed by me being too ill to travel on Tuesday, I felt this weekend was the real start of the football season.

The season opener against Bishop’s Stortford was superb – a 2-0 win for the City :o)

It’s a pity the age old rule that whenever Bath City win, Leeds United don’t, seems to remain. My team from the north lost 2-0 at home. Shame.

Going down a Storm

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 @ 19:43

Notice any downtime or strange-goings-on on my blog the last day? I’ve changed site hosts (Storm Internet). Hopefully all the files, folders, etc have migrated across to the new server; but if you do notice anything wrong, please let me know.