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13 Oct 2012

Carshalton AFC 1 Hastings 0


A first win in the league for Carshalton since Easter monday and well deserved. Things have been a bit chaotic at Carshalton this last few weeks with many senior players departing, the manager changing and only an interim manager in place. So the fact that a young side was even competitive was impressive. There were actually three good goals in this game but according to the linesman, two of them were offside. Good atmosphere and good burger. The other bonus is that this was non-league day and Carshalton did everyone proud by allowing in free of charge anyone with a League club season-ticket or local residents. A moment of amusement when the girl on the turnstile had no idea that such a club as Brentford existed! I had to spell that one out. The person before me was a West Ham season-ticket holder.

Anyway the game was fast-paced and played in good spirit. Nick Hamann the Carshalton keeper was man of the match in my view making some impressive saves, suggesting that he could perform easily at Conference level if not in the league. But carshalton deserved the luck and in fact should have been 3-0 up by half time. This is a club well worth visiting. The fans are friendly and the football always interesting.

 

Carshalton football Club

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01 Feb 2012

Butterflies at Wisley RHS


Until Feb 26th in the large glasshouse at Wisley there are butterflies, hundreds maybe thousands of them flying and flapping around. a suggestion would be to avoid weekends as there was also a queue of 45 minutes to get in when we arrived and a queue of over 60 minutes by the time we left. An amazing sight it is though. It seemed everyone had cameras. Would thoroughly recommedn a visit. Here are a few photos to show you what you might see.

A painting of the Glasshouse at Wisley

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01 Feb 2012

Travel in UK


This morning it took me 47 minutes to travel 3 miles down the A3. Reason? A broken down coach blocking one lane of a two lane underpass at Hook in Surrey. Judging by the amount of traffic this has happened some time before. So, what Herculean efforts were going on? after all this was the rush hour on a wednesday morning. Well, one bored looking man standing next to the coach with a truck that looked like it would struggle to transport a small car let alone a coach. The coach had emblazoned on the back Oak Coache. I thought I would type into google the company name to see if there was anything interesting. a search revealed potentially there were 41.1 million interesting things. On narrowing things down and looking for Oak Coaches, there is such a company based in New Malden and the website invites folks to ” write a review”.  However on maybe 10 minutes searching, it seemed no website and no e-mail address could be found. Unusual for a business?

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29 Dec 2011

Xmas


xmas seems to have zoomed by fast. Silly amounts of food and wine. Little exercise. An appalling game of football on boxing day Brentford v bournemouth 1-1 which made me seriously wonder why I am a Brentford fan. However all presents seem liked! Tonight we went on a whim to the Rose Theatre in Kingston and saw the Snow Queen. this was fabulous. Well acted and in a great little theatre, so small that non-one is far from the front.

 

Swans in Painshill Park

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10 Dec 2011

Things that should not be grown in December in England


Although not exactly a farmer it is still challenging to grow things in a small garden a few yards from the A3 and in the inclement weather that the UK provides. But I must report some success. Some potatoes harvested today planted a few months back that claimed to be ready for xmas. Daffodils also made an early apprearance, not sure where from but purchased in the Co-op in New Malden for £2.

It was deemed by the head chef and main servant in the household that these were too good to put inot the oven tonight so will be eaten and relished tomorrow with some other more appropriate fare.

 

December Potatoes from the field of New Malden

Hungry for Potatoes?

Potatoes and Daffodils in December. It is not right in UK!

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