Has anyone seen a hamster???? Or heard strange crunching noises in the night????? Hedgepig(the hedgehog) has moved up a rank in friendliness, from grumpy old man to a shy person!!!!!!!! Also Houdini(the hamster and true to his name) has been escaping again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kim, if you go to central mexico could you take a picture of the Templo Mayor( Great temple) From Elena
Its not totally believable but riots are starting off all over UK. Mainly mindless thuggery with looting and cars being set on fire. London has been the worst, mainly East end areas but huge areas of Croydon town centre were fire bombed and destroyed last night. Nothing near us thankfully, although Clapham is not so far. The England friendly game at Wembley has been cancelled wednesday and tonight league cup games were cancelled at Charlton and West Ham and Palace. Kind of crazy.
Manchester has been the worst tonight so far, although Wolverhampton and Liverpool are also bad.
Brentford have lost their league cup tie away at Hereford 1-0 to a 90th minute goal and apparently they missed loads of chances though. They were playing what almost amounts to a second team………
The news here falls into two headings both equally depressing. The value of shares is plummeting for reasons that I dont understand. And there are riots breaking out all over UK. Mainly London area, like Brixton, Lewisham, Hackney and tottenham. Tonight Lavender hill in Clapham is being looted. Birmingham also. Reasons? Again no idea other than mindless psychopathic violence.
My contribution to Twitterland today was to inform that if you drive down the M3 and A33 to southampton, on the outskirts there is a Total garage, very exciting, but it does hot southern fried chicken burgers! And they do these with a bottle of Pepsi for 3£……….so in these times of financial paucity this is a fact to be relished.
My next book chapter on Prolactin is due out soon, not exactly JK Rowling, but better than nothing.
Hedgepig is fine and has stopped that silly chuffing and reverses far less. He lets us handle him and even feed him those lovely mealworms. Houdini now lives in his cage on top of Hedgepig. Like a high rise Animal apartment block.
Charles has had grief with his car. The clutch cable went on friday and we persuaded Gary to go over to Paley Street to fix it today. All done. One happy Charles……….
Elena has discovered the David Lloyd Gym. They have a kids exercise session and she came back muttering mutterances about cross-trainers, whatever they are……….but likes it. Bizarre.
Cannot wait to go to Spain in two weeks and our challenge is finding Hedgepig sitters while we are away, he may have to have a temporary holiday back at Paley street if thats permitted. And the lost tortoise has been found uneaten!
Went to see Harry Potter tonight and have to say a seriously average film. Bit of a mystery film really with the mystery being where is the acting? The main characters remind me of table football when you spin the men in a line, they walked around in a line all the time with expressions not far off gormless. Bit of fighting and thats it. Did I understand the ending, well not really. Was Snape Harry’s father? Who knows. And as for the scene 19 years on, they looked like 19 minutes older……….
The high point of the evning though was dinner at Red Peppers in Esher. Using my magical tastecard ( the 50% discount card etc….), whole meal for 3 came to £30 ( of which 15£ was alcohol). Food was great, chicken burrito, yum.
Today I have learnt a few proverbs that I have successfuly failed to learn in 53 years. for example a 17th century proverb ” Fine words butter no parsnips” and ” A drowning man is not troubled by rain”………… these gems are things that the 10 year old is expected to know for a shot at a good school at her sort of 11+ exam thing………Question. How many parents doing successful professional jobs would get in?
Anyway off to update the websites
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Uwe Rosler. A pointing sort of manager
As they say ” we are too big for this league……the barcelona of the lower leagues”. Nonsense really but what a great start to the season yesterday. Brentford winning 2-0 against a decent yoevil team. Crowd of 6300. Great atmosphere. Team played well, worked hard and we saw one of the best celebrations ever seen at Griffin Park. double somersault and flip from Shaleum Logan, the right back who scored the second goal. A little story here. He was given a free transfer from Man city end of last season and is a bit like Ijah Anderson ( if anyone remembers him). Was frozen out at Man city and was not allowed to train with the first team ( suspect some things we dont know about). First goal was a penalty from Gary Alexander who was wearing what charles cruelly described as a turban ( 7 stiches from training accident, presume not a fialed lobotomy). Team were high tempo, and one of the most high tempo games seen for a long while. Yoevil, decent side but not brilliant finishers. Richard Lee made 2 good saves, and has emailed me again to ask if I mind him putting the photos I took and sent him on his website. Of course not!
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