Author: snee

    What a day (so far)…

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    When my alarm went off, I decided to have a bit of a lie-in so I hit snooze (probably ‘cos I was texting Lisa until 1.15 this morning 😉 ). Anyway, got up, had a coffee and set off to work. Bearing in mind I work 2.5 miles away from my house, it usually takes 3-4 minutes. But not today. Oh no. Turns out a lorry fire in St Ives (12 miles away) had closed the A14, which meant all the traffic was coming down the A1, then heading east on the A428 (the road to work) resulting in total […]

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    Heh heh…

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    Another good Friday (that’d make a GREAT film name), spoke to Psycho Tony and made my point clear, drank the pub out of Stella, sent another text to Harriett declaring my undying love etc. then came home and opened a bottle of red wine. The travesty is, having risen from my pit, I noticed I’d not finished the bottle (my dad would’ve given me so much stick for that – it’s just not the Bennett/French way) so, glass of cheeky Merlot for pre-breakfast, then quick bath and down to the Gash for brekkie. As an aside: you know you were […]

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    The Andy Gray/Richard Keys ‘women in football’ fiasco…

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    Talk about being blown totally out of proportion…yes, it was a sexist comment saying women don’t understand the offside rule – there’s a lot of blokes that have trouble getting their heads around it too. But Sian Massey is a PROFESSIONAL REFEREE and had every right to ‘run the line’ during the Wolves vs Liverpool game on Saturday. She got is spot on for Torres’ first goal (I initially thought it was offside, but a replay showed it not to be). Anyway, all this fuss about women not knowing the offside rule, of course they do, courtesy of this explanation: […]

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    Shamelessly stolen from Sickipedia:

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    America, the language we speak in England is rich and varied, with an eclectic mix of accents and tones which are steeped in history and tradition. We have a knack of coining phrases which aptly and deftly describe in great detail, complexity and dexterity, exactly what we are aspiring to achieve with the fluent music of language. Our great nation has exposed to the English speaking world such marvelous manipulators of the spoken and written word. I propose to you: Shakespeare, William Blake, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Sir […]

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