My White Bicycle (and other stories)
Why oh why has Manchester City become the 'agony aunt' of the Premiership? Hello Mr McCLaren. Not won away all season? Have a chat with City - I'm sure they can sort you out. Hell they'll probably even score for you if you explain the problem. How you doing Eddie Gray? In the middle of a freefall where you just can't grab a point? Never fear, the Man City Claire Raynor will allow you to flatter to deceive and return home happy in the knowledge that the rot has been stopped. Oh it's that nice Mr Owen with his annual goal-drought problem. There you go, have one on us.After the euphoria of last Wednesday I am fast beginning to realise just what trouble we are in. Six points from a possible 42 measures up to the worse form in the Prem.
In my book it looks like relegation. We need at least an other 16 points to avoid the drop and, looking at our fixture list I can't see where they are going to come from.
I'm reading 'His Dark Materials' at the moment. Simply because it was one of the Big Read top twenty-ones and so many *intellectual* celebs have insisted that I must. Added to this was the lure provided by a particularly devout reviewer on Amazon.com who denounced the work thus:-
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"I simply must go against the grain of all the 5 star reviews of this series. The big, niggling detractor for me throughout my reading experience was the overt and blatant promotion of atheism and renouncement of all things "Christian" in this work
The first two parts of the trilogy have been, for a kid's book, brilliantly imaginative and inventive page-turners. I'm almost frightened of starting on the third in case disappointment kicks in - as it often does, for me at least, with trilogies. Here's hoping.
Dearest has inexplicably become a fan of 'I'm a Celeb...'. How this happened I know not and neither does she. But, glued to the box as she is every night, she's finding it hard to deny.
To baffle me even more, she actually voted! For Jennie Bond?
"You'll be wearing a Burberry baseball cap, wearing ostentatious 9 carat gold and hankering after a Pit Bull next." I told her.
Her reply, though not as course as John Lydon's was, nonetheless, to the point and just as pithy
Started biking to work again yesterday. This means riding in the dark for the first time since I was a kid. I can't tell you just how much child-like pleasure can be gained from pedalling along with lights - yes lights - on your bike. Shining into the darkness like an Aldis lamp. Nine years old again......
Mind you, I feel anything but child-like as I dismount at the end of another day at the coalface we call 'Desktop Support". (Cue: stirring music of an unthreatening yet patriotic nature.)
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