The week drew to a close with the news that our youngest gnome had found a new job doubles all round as this should ease the strain on our finances, in the long term at least in the short term of course I will have to shell out for his fuel etc for a couple of weeks and the chances of me getting any of that back are slim to zero but then what?s new?
Saturday came with a trip to Seaham in the north east to watch the afore mentioned sprog play rugby in the national vase, Seaham itself is an interesting place (if you like that sort of thing) it used to be a prosperous coal mining town with pits that burrowed out under the north sea Margret Thatcher put a stop to that of course in the 80?s and now most of the inhabitants seem to exist by stealing each others washing and mugging lost tourists from nearby Sunderland, but as always when a Bramley team travels north the opposition seems to be bloody huge being big however is no substitute for being any good, and within the first ten minutes it became obvious that there would only ever be one winner
When this eventually dawned on the opposition they of course reverted to plan b , physical intimidation, we had 3 players with gouged eyes in the space of around 15 mins, then someone hit someone else who then passed it on this became popular the second half continued in a similar fashion until with around 5 minutes to go when with my previously mentioned offspring lining up yet another conversion the mother of all brawls erupted on the halfway line, the referee who by this time resembled a nervous wreck blew the pea out of his whistle, jumped in his car (a Bently no less) and did one at high speed because the ?game? had gone more than 60 mins the result stands apparently, anyway I still cant believe I drove 80 miles to watch that crap but a wins a win I suppose
Sunday was cold and grey like the inside of a ping pong ball and the whole tribe had agreed to go to a charity fun day type thing to raise some cash for a little girl near us who is very ill and needs to go to the US for treatment, and though the day was pleasant enough and ridiculously busy I couldn?t help thinking they would have done better either indoors or in summer anyway I hope they raised a lot and look forward to finding out.
Back to work today I wonder what the week will bring???