Football crowd banter that didn't make me laugh
"Come on you black sod..." said the bald man who lead the banter sat behind me.
"Hang on a minute." said a man in front
"I was talking about the referee - the man in black", said balding
"You've got to be careful about that sort of thing" said someone else.
"Yes" said a woman behind me sat next to balding "and I'm wearing a 'Kick racism out of football' sticker today so you need to watch what you say".
"I don't really agree with all that" said balding "But I suppose its alright because there aren't any p***s playing".

Football crowd banter that made me laugh
"Go on aren't you going to say it", said the grey haired man sat diagaonally in front on me turning his head to the balding man behind me.
"What?" said balding.
"Aren't you going to say your phrase? repeated grey.
Balding man behind me was one of those men in the football crowd who held court all the way through the game. He commented loudly on everything - sometimes wittily - sometimes he was just crass. Everyone knew him by name and all the conversations in the 20 person circle around him went through him. He annoyed me by asking me not to lean forward and calling me mate.
He remembered his phrase and sang loudly "We don't score from corners".
Others laughed and repated the chant.
Cardiff took the corner.
We scored.
"We don't score from corners" he sang again.

Half term
Been off work this week for half term(It's not really called that anymore.) I thought I'd have loads of time to do all the things I never have time or energy to do when I'm at work. In reality - I have. I've painted the living room; spent a day with a woman and her children including going swimming; I've sorted a few things out in the house; I've helped out with our new (incontinent) cat and today I've taken him(my son - not the cat) to longleat.






























Tomorrow I'm going to my mothers to sort out her bradband - which she doesn't really want but got because it is cheaper than not having it and saturday I going to her's again as I'm going to a footabll match. (I have to return in between to look after the incontinent one.)

Then its sunday and back to work monday. The question is - would I have felt better if I had done nothing?

Snippets
They're taking the iron people off the beach. I've got a bit of a sore throat. Aman I've groan to dislike called Roger is on the verge of agreeing to replace my replacement MP3 player. The labout party are making veiled threats. One of my friends is half way to ninety. Our new cat pissed on my Ikea chair. I've got a week off work. I might paint the living room and go to Longleat. My brother is in the country and he might be here tommorow. I'm ashamed about what he might tell his wife about the state of my house. I had a thought this week about getting rid of the telly. A friend made contact this week after being too depressed to talk to anyone for fourteen months. I have a web cam but I'm not sure why. My partner suggested getting a juicer so that we don't waste so many vegetables from our organic box.

For Pod's Sake
I'm so fed up. I love my MP3 player. I listen to it in my car. A fews weeks ago it stopped working. I eventually realised it was under guarentee. After about a weeks worth of email communication with thiercustomer support people (Her name was Sasa and I think she was lovely) - they agreed to send a replacement. It arrived yesterday.

I charged it last night and eagerly put my new cd's on it. Twenty minutes later in the car it broke again. I have spent the last 2 hours on the internet trying to fix it. I have sent a desperate email to Sasa asking for help.

I'm glad I don't believe in fate - otherwise I might say something like "I'm not meant to have an MP3 Player. "

Outing 5 Football 1

I took my son to his first live football match - Wales v Slovakia at the Millenium stadium. He was very excited but took some convincing that there wouldn't be a commentary in the stadium.

"How will we know what's happening/", he said.

This was a pub near the ground

This is the stadium from outside

This is our view of the pitch. We were quite low down










This free kick was Wales's only goal.

My son was chuffed he'd been to a game. I was gutted that Wales lost 5-1.