Nice place Conflans st Honorine. There were tennis courts next to the football pitches and I felt more inclined to go and play tennis.
Well at least we got beaten on grass. That was a nice experience. They were better. But it still gets me when people start doing all that holding on stuff at corners. This is not professional football.
But clearly it makes people feel better.
One of their blokes kicked the ball away when it was our goal kick. It was a bizarre moment. They were 4-1 up with 10 or so minutes to go and he did that.
I can't get my head around that. And that's probably why we should be in division two rather than in division one with such idiots.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009
The Peace Prize
Must say I was quite surprised that Barack Obama was handed the Nobel Peace Prize. It was clearly a slow news day because there were enough people on the box wondering whether he deserved it.
I visited the Nobel foundation place while in Stockholm a few summers back just to get a flavour of the whole thing. My attitude is: I'm never likely to win one so well done to anyone who does.
I visited the Nobel foundation place while in Stockholm a few summers back just to get a flavour of the whole thing. My attitude is: I'm never likely to win one so well done to anyone who does.
Matchday I 09
First taste of the big league in the morning. Preparation was hit by the cancellation of the yoga class. How can I be as one with the ball without my Hatha session from the night before.
Questions. Perhaps getting a decent night's sleep might help.
I was ousted from the sofa by the middle child after being shunted from the bed by the boy. Well at least it meant an early breakfast and an episode of Star Trek to keep me going.
Went back to bed after I'd taken them all to school and visited the town hall.
Had to do that to get the railway discount card. Proof that I am in a couple.
Would have thought the bags under the eyes was testament enough.
Questions. Perhaps getting a decent night's sleep might help.
I was ousted from the sofa by the middle child after being shunted from the bed by the boy. Well at least it meant an early breakfast and an episode of Star Trek to keep me going.
Went back to bed after I'd taken them all to school and visited the town hall.
Had to do that to get the railway discount card. Proof that I am in a couple.
Would have thought the bags under the eyes was testament enough.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
The Bee Book II
Have started the book about bees. First chapter tells the importance of bee imagery throughout the centuries, throughout the millennia.
Everyone has had a wise word about the insect and as for the work they do in pollinating crops. Ooh they're busy.
Everyone has had a wise word about the insect and as for the work they do in pollinating crops. Ooh they're busy.
The Fashion Crowd
I joined the fashion gang today. Lunching with the in crowd at the Palais Royal. Well it was an old friend of mine who was in town for the Paris fashion shows.
We ate and then I accompanied her to her next show at the Carré du Louvre. There was lots of flash photography and in she went into the melee.
What a life. I awaited the bus to take me to the radio station to find out the latest about the wide wonderful world of sports.
Before I got the bus I did notice a few of the late arrivals racing for the door. But they were all in these high heels and unable to advance very swiftly or gracefully.
Good looking girls in a hurry. Most unappetizing.
We ate and then I accompanied her to her next show at the Carré du Louvre. There was lots of flash photography and in she went into the melee.
What a life. I awaited the bus to take me to the radio station to find out the latest about the wide wonderful world of sports.
Before I got the bus I did notice a few of the late arrivals racing for the door. But they were all in these high heels and unable to advance very swiftly or gracefully.
Good looking girls in a hurry. Most unappetizing.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The Next Book
After getting through Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, I have moved onto something no less important.
It is written by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum and called A World Without Bees. Subtitled The Mysterious Decline of the Honeybee and What It Means For Us.
Well I know it won't mean blood drenched fields mutilation and rampant nationalism but I will dive in and learn and keep blog readers posted.
It is written by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum and called A World Without Bees. Subtitled The Mysterious Decline of the Honeybee and What It Means For Us.
Well I know it won't mean blood drenched fields mutilation and rampant nationalism but I will dive in and learn and keep blog readers posted.
The Retro Journey
There's been a calculated policy of avoiding politics in the blog - you don't want to put people off - but there comes a time when you just have to have a say.
My nanny - the lady who looked after me when I was a kid and mum was out at work - told me that thee were a couple of things I shouldn't do.
1 Don't smoke
2 Don't tell anyone your politics
Being an obedient kind of kid, I have followed her counsel to the letter.
Of course over the years there's a natural assumption that because I work for the Guardian that I must be some furrow browed liberal.
But I'm a complex chap and I have learned over the years that many a prejudice emerges from assumption.
I've been working on the politics website over the past couple of weeks and it's been party conference time in Britain.
The Labour one was full of fighting talk about the party not going lamely to the gallows of the next election.
The Lib Dems seemed to be saying we've got some very good ideas and on Monday the Tories seemed to be saying we will mess up our chances of a whopping victory by reminding people exactly why they voted for Labour back in 1997.
The election has to be held before June 2010 and so far there's been talk of chopping benefits, making the NHS more efficient by offering people a "post bureaucratic" landscape.
And then there's a kerfuffle over participation in Europe. A desire to maintain certain powers for the national government rather than have a European wide modus operandi.
I just love it. I said to one of my colleagues listening to the radio before I went to work made me feel I was back in 1993 when this was the talk on the airwaves.
No need for rejuvenating facelifts. Just bring on the timewarp Tories and feel as if you have not developed.
A very sharp contrast to The Tomorrow People.
My nanny - the lady who looked after me when I was a kid and mum was out at work - told me that thee were a couple of things I shouldn't do.
1 Don't smoke
2 Don't tell anyone your politics
Being an obedient kind of kid, I have followed her counsel to the letter.
Of course over the years there's a natural assumption that because I work for the Guardian that I must be some furrow browed liberal.
But I'm a complex chap and I have learned over the years that many a prejudice emerges from assumption.
I've been working on the politics website over the past couple of weeks and it's been party conference time in Britain.
The Labour one was full of fighting talk about the party not going lamely to the gallows of the next election.
The Lib Dems seemed to be saying we've got some very good ideas and on Monday the Tories seemed to be saying we will mess up our chances of a whopping victory by reminding people exactly why they voted for Labour back in 1997.
The election has to be held before June 2010 and so far there's been talk of chopping benefits, making the NHS more efficient by offering people a "post bureaucratic" landscape.
And then there's a kerfuffle over participation in Europe. A desire to maintain certain powers for the national government rather than have a European wide modus operandi.
I just love it. I said to one of my colleagues listening to the radio before I went to work made me feel I was back in 1993 when this was the talk on the airwaves.
No need for rejuvenating facelifts. Just bring on the timewarp Tories and feel as if you have not developed.
A very sharp contrast to The Tomorrow People.
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