Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Unable to string three passes together...

Playlist
Rush – Snakes and Arrows
Various – Tighten Up Vol 1
Faust – Faust IV

Rush on the cans today – a much under-rated band in the world of music – superb musicicanship and excellent, thought provoking lyrics...

I stepped up to the bat, so to speak, re the five a sides tonight as numbers had dwindled due to injuries...

Although my toe’s not quite right yet, I took a place in the starting 10, sporting different trainers but took along the trusty Adidas Sambas - just as well, the new(er) shoes were a disaster – as was (as is sadly becoming the norm) my playing...

In the event we only managed to scrape together nine players – I was in the five man team but we were handicapped by not being allowed to score from our own half or without first having completed three passes...

This latter rule seemed to make it almost impossible for us to score, while we leaked goals like an old leaky thing that leaks and, duly, ran out losers...

The journey to and from the debacle was soundtracked by some tasty reggae sounds...

Back home to a lovely tea of steak, onions, mushrooms and fries as we finished off last night’s rose...

Watched “Masterchef” and “Grand Designs” while enjoying a lovely cup of coffee...



“Grand Designs” featured a couple in their early thirties, he a “marketing consultant”, she a “manager” (not for long though as she had a kid a couple of months into the project) who paid £400k for a derelict building and probably another £600k doing it up...

It was beautiful but (as with all these programmes) I was left wondering where in heaven’s name all the cash came from??

Watched the last half hour or so (extra time and penalties) of Celtic joining Rangers in this year’s CIS League Cup Final by beating Dundee Utd...



How galling must it be to score 10 penalties in a shoot out and still lose?

Meg the Black Cat didn’t care as long as the fire was on...



Ended the day writing this drivel to the sounds of Faust – quite weird first time around when I owned it in 1974 along with, mainly, pop singles of the time...

Strangely “normal” to my ears these days though...

I love music...

Exec Producer’s birthday tomorrow – 21 again...

Highlight of the Day : It’s good to be alive...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your coffee looks a bit milky!

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Yep - just the way I like it...

Tasty...