So it had to happen...

On Sunday my recently-moved friends Steve and Christina had a housewarming-cum-birthday BBQ. Once sufficient food and drink had been consumed all attention was diverted to the Wii and the Wii-virgins amongst us had a chance to see what all the fuss is about.

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We, being the Villa faithful, were all shocked by Gareth Barry's exclusion from the squad to play Israel next week. Well today, in light of the injury to Gary Neville, he has been called up. I think it would have been the biggest kick in the teeth possible if he hadn't been. He's played for England several times, under 5 different managers, and ( Read more... )

I'm well aware that my prolonged absence from general LJ matters and my sporadic contributions to the blogosphere are causing great consternation amongst my loyal disciples readers and I promise you I will be trying my hardest in the coming days and weeks to rectify this gross misdemeanour. In the meantime, I hope you're enjoying looking at my ( Read more... )

This weekend saw the last ever Distraction. Well...maybe. I quote from the official e-mail:

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So I went to the chiropracter this afternoon. The woman's a miracle worker. She commended me for putting ice on it and then scolded me for doing it often enough! She was visibly shocked when she felt the size of my huge bulge - the one in my back which is causing all the problems at the moment. She dug her elbow into a little to help it go down. ( Read more... )

It's been a funny few days in the world of football. First we've had Walter Smith's return to Rangers where, they hope, he will succeed in bringing back the trophies which were a permanent fixture of the Ibrox cabinet when he was last there. He's taken Ally McCoist with him and if they're anything like as successful as they have been for the ( Read more... )

So 2006 is sooo last year, new year is now old hat and Christmas is but a distant memory. So far I've enjoyed the televisual treat of This Life +10 which exceeded my expectations - but then my expectations were pretty low anyway. I also missed about the last minute of it so I don't actually know how it ends - this was due to my father failing to ( Read more... )

This week at work has been predictably hectic. On Monday morning we went into work early for some a Christmas breakfast, courtesy of the boss. The options for such things in Oldbury are quite limited so we had breakfast baguettes from one of the local sandwich emporia which were very nice ( Read more... )

It's not often enough that you get to witness pure genius at work. Apparently, rather like buses, you can wait a while and then two come along almost at once. The first goes by the name of Matt Bellamy whose three-piece band, Muse, have recently released their fourth studio album. You may have heard of them. You may even like them. If you don't, ( Read more... )

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