… my musings on, er, "stuff"
Track of the week 26/3/17
A slice of pure cheese on toast this week.
Not sure why its been in my head this week, but it has. Am absolute belter!
The comments on YouTube are worth reading, too. I think this is my favourite:
Who dressed this girl? Those clothes look like a cross between a garage mechanic and Marty McFly!
Pic of the week 26/3/17
She’s only gone and done it!
On Monday (20/3/17) Sophie passed her driving test at the first time of asking – an impressive achievement of which we are very proud.
My pocket has taken a hit – to add her to our insurance for next 7 months is costing an additional £620, plus we have to have a tracker fitted, much to Becky’s chagrin. (As a super safe driver already, it doesn’t bother me …!)
Track of the week 19/3/17
Heard this on the radio today – what a great song.
First encountered it on Billy Bragg’s Life’s a Riot with Spy v Spy album, but I do think that this is a better version. (I think Billy agrees, too!)
Pic of the week 19/3/17
A few weeks ago I rocked up to ref an U15 game between Wessex Youth and Wells City. The Wells City manager was Mark Cornish, who I used to play with many years ago, as boy. Barry Dickens, who also played in the team, is the Wessex manager.
This week, Mark sent me the above photo. Not sure how old we were then, I’m going to guess U14 or U13. A few I can name, but too many I can’t.
A great pic.
Track of the week 12/3/17
Bit of a left field choice for TotW the week, but I do like this track, and the film.
Haven’t watched the film for many years, but I do like the story and I like the sentiment of the lyrics of the song. Probably burnt a few bridges myself down the years, but I’ve always had a tendency to look forward rather than back, and I think that that is a good thing.
Pic of the week
The weather is turning, it is definitely starting to feel a little warmer and one gets the wonderful sense that Spring is just around the corner. The pic above is the Magnolia tree in our front garden taken today (12/3/17) – just about to flower and blossom can be seen on some other trees, the hydrangea plants leaf buds are turning into to leaves.
Yesterday I made my debut in the middle of a 1st XI game. Wasn’t meant to be – I was supposed to be running the line but Paul, who was to be the man in the middle, hurt his toe and by kick off time could barely walk, so it was my time to step up to the mark.
Really enjoyed the game, v Weston FC U18s, think I handled it well (am looking forward to getting my hands on the video so I can analyse fully my performance – I few possible fouls I may have missed at the start of the second half. Gave a pen in the first half, stonewall, good decision. It probably helped that our 1st XI ran out 9 – 0 victors in a friendly game, making it easy to officiate. Am surprised how much physically harder it was than any other games I’ve done – I had the fitness, but knew about it at the end of the game. A significant (and surprising) step up from the 2nd XI.