Archive for June 2010

Grass in a Box

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

My nephew is planning to replace someone’s lawn. Sorry, “replacing” is the wrong word as it suggests he has some remaining grass work with when what he is faced with is an overgrown garden stuffed with weeds or bare earth.

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Last Word

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

On England, the World Cup and the Vuvuzela from Dave Henson.

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Actually, Blame Stuart Hall

Monday, 28 June 2010

Forget Sepp Blatter, the goal that wasn’t given or a rank bad English display, I reckon the cause of our demise was the curse of Stuart Hall, Gary Lineker and Walkers Crisps. If you haven’t seen the tv ads, they have produced fifteen flavours for the World Cup, and see where it got the teams?

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Blame Blatter

Sunday, 27 June 2010

I used to have quite strong views about the introduction of goal-line technology in footie, but after events today, I am having to reconsider.

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Psychic Cricket

Sunday, 27 June 2010

I new it would happen eventually — I’m beginning to feel stuffed and overfaced by the orgy of sport on the telly this week. Having wall to wall World Cup and Wimbledon is like a diet of burgers and strawberries and cream. A nice enough idea, but you’ll be craving salad and Ryvita before too long.

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Flying the Flag

Saturday, 26 June 2010

No posts for a few days because I’ve been busy on other things, still to do with the blog. Not least, I’ve changed the layout so that there are two sidebars so that I can give more prominence to my links, especially Polly’s Crackers.

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Positively Testcard

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

I’ve finally discovered who it is that play the theme music for Danny Baker’s World Cup Show on BBC Radio Five. The laidback version of Match of the Day is by South London based Positively Testcard and is available to download from Amazon for 79p. 03 – Match of the Day Theme (Offside)

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Superstition Ain’t the Way

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Among the upmty-seven hours of continuous radio coverage ahead of England’s match with Slovenia today, there was an interview with Clive Woodward on how he would advise them to prepare. Towards the end he was asked if he had any pre-match superstitions and he said that no, he wasn’t a superstitious person.

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Life’s Little Irritants – No 15

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

There isn’t much that gets me shouting at the tv and radio. Well not since the last England game. Oh, and the budget earlier today. And whenever that stupid Go Compare advert appears. And… Okay, so maybe I shout at inanimate objects more than is healthy, but it is absolutely guaranteed when people start mangling the language. I was wandering through the living room last night and caught some of those “Police! Stop! Death! Smash!” programmes and there was an officer on the phone to some woman. He was telling [...]

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