Evening all. Kids are fine today. My daughter asked my wife for some conkers. Why, I do not know as she is not playing conkers. My wife asked her to keep some for herself. At the end of the day, all had been given away. Me, I would have predicted it. My wife, the optimist, thought that things would work out otherwise. Which is worse? Me for having so little faith in my lovely daughter, or my wife for having too much faith in her?
Anyway, that son of mine went to his nursery today. When he was picked up, my wife was told that he had a great sense of humour and that the nursery nurses fought over who would get to look after him. Apparently, they love him. He only comes once a week and they think he is lovely, while there are other kids...
CREDIT CRUNCH MOVIE NAMES
Lidl Shop of Horrors
Thunderbirds Are Clamped
The Devil Wears Primark
28 Days Notice
Bin City
Me, Myself and Giro
Pre-Pay Sim City
Wall-e-Mart
Brassic Park
1 Dalmatian
Nightmare on Wall Street
Alice in Poundland
The hills have P45's
Northern Rocky IV
Terminator 2: County Court Judgement Day
The Shawshank Redundancy
Good Will Job Hunting
Total Product Recall
Trainhopping
Iceland Age
The Loan Arranger
P.S I owe you
Bronzefinger
Four Civil-Ceremonys & an Eviction
The Empire Cuts Back
Womb Raider
Spongebob No Pants
I still know what you Spent Last Summer
3 Men and a Baby P
Financial Fantasy
Jobless in Seattle
Terminator 2: Redundancy Pay
I.O.U robot
Winnie The Poor
Spar Trek
This Tory government is much like a rainbow. It looks good from a distance, but on close inspection it has no real substance, you can see right through it and it's only there because of the sun.
My wife is making me watch the X factor. So I have posted a few answers on Yahoo Answers.
My thoughts are that I suspect that not all will like the answer to one of the questions, that being about the stance of the Catholic church on contraception. My view is that people are going to have sex outside marriage. Ideally monogamy is going to be the best thing to reduce the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, but it is not for everyone. And just because one person is monogamous, that does mean that the other person is going to be.
Anyway, Arsenal lost. Not that it was a surprise. At least we tried. And I can pretend that the injuries that we have made a difference to the outcome. I did not get to watch as much of the match as I would have liked. My son wanted some attention, and considering that I hardly see him, how could I deny that to him. And when my daughter got back from her party, she wanted to read to me, something I had to force her to do in the past.
Even when they drive me mad, I love them loads.
Why Indian students are disliked in the US (I saw this posted by someone born in India who moved over a few years ago on an internet forum I am a member of a few days ago).
It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.
The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'?"
She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up: 'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said.
'Very good! Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?''
Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar. 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar.
The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about our history than you do.'
She heard a loud whisper: 'F ___ the Indians.'
'Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up. 'General Custer, 1862.'
At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.'
The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?' Again, Chandrasekhar says, 'George H. W. Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.'
Now furious, another student yells, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!'
Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher, 'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997'.
Now with almost mob hysteria someone said 'You little shit. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.' Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice, ' Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him, 2004.'
The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around her on the floor, someone said, 'Oh shit, we're screwed!' And Chandrasekhar said quietly, 'I think it was Lehmann Brothers, November 4th, 2008'.
I tried to post an entry about the score in the game. And also have a slight political rant. But the post was lost!
Anyway, let me post the gist again.
Arsenal are 1-0 down against Chelski. Drogba scored. Again. Git. And it looked like we had a chance for a while. Mind you, we often do look like that.
My reaction woke my son up who was sleeping next to me while his sister has gone to a birthday party with my wife.
So onto politics.
Liam Fox has had a letter he sent to David Cameron leaked. In it he makes a very good point. The Tories were elected saying they would protect the armed forces from cuts. And now, with the spending cuts that the government are imposing, they look like they might risk the loss of a lot of political capital.
Morning all. I am knackered. And guilty. And ill. I was meant to see my mother, cousin and her son this weekend as well.
But I am not going to make the drive down to London to do so. And in fact, feeling sorry for myself, I am probably going to go to bed. I doubt I am going to feel much better either later today. Arsenal are going to be thrashed by Chelski this weekend. We had an excellent result during the week in the European Cup. (I refuse to call it the Champions League as many entrants are not champions, Arsenal included!) Wenger thinks that we can win. Which makes me laugh. You never know, Jack Wilshere might be able to make the difference this time. He has been amazing in the last few games and might be the key to unlocking Chelski.
Anyway, I think I am adapting to work. It is much harder than where I used to work, and in addition to going in early, I am having to go in on weekends. It has taken me time to realise that, which means that I have a big backlog of work to get through, but I am confident I can do that. I would help if I was able to get myself out of bed to go in early to do that, but I am hoping that this week, I will start doing that. If not, I am screwed!
Politics has been interesting in the last few weeks. The Labour party has electedRed Ed and the Tories are laughing. A move to the left for Labour means that the battleground between the big two parties looks like it will return to the old system that I grew up with. Mind you, David Millband's election team underestimated Ed, and maybe the Tories will do the same. I suspect though that the next election is one for the Tories to lose. If they ruin the economy well, then they will get in. If they ruin it, then I see Ed Milliband being the next Prime Minister. As a champagne socialist (what others call me by the way, I love beer) I am in a win-win situation. If the economy does well, then I will do better under a Conservative government. If the coalition ruins things, then Labour will get in and have the chance to run the country for the benefit of all again. Though to be fair, I want what is best for the nation. If that means that Labour does not take power again, then so be it. It is just that I do not see the Con-Dems as being the best for the nation.
On the bright side, the BNP are experiencing problems. I guess it would have had more coverage in the news if not for the Labour Party conference and the soap opera with the two brothers. But the party is going through a few challenges! But that I am laughing. Muhahahahahaha! To be fair, they are a legal political party. Though they are one that thrives on creating hatred and intolerance by spreading lies and creating fear.
Anyway, back to the kids. My daughter seems to be doing well at school. The girl who hates to read, loves to read at school. Apparently the kids are put into different reading groups at school and my wife thinks that she has worked out which fruit is what. And it appears that my daughter is in the clever group for reading! My son at nursery is doing well. They run a memory game there and he is the best at it. In fact, when they run it, he gets bored getting everything right and leaves the group to play with the toys, shouting out the answers without looking and gets most of them right anyway! He must get his memory from his mother as I have a crap one.
A married man was visiting his "girlfriend" when she requested that he shave his beard. "Oh James, I like your beard, but I would really love to see your handsome face."
James replied, "My wife loves this beard, I couldn't possibly do it, she would kill me!!"
"Oh please?" the girlfriend asked again, in a sexy little voice...
"Oh really, I can't," he replies..."My wife loves this beard!!"
The girlfriend asked once more, and he sighs and finally gives in. That night James crawls into bed with his wife while she was sleeping.
The wife is awakened somewhat, feels his face and replies "Oh Michael, you shouldn't be here, my husband will be home soon!"
Let me go back to Saturday, but this being last week. I had to work in the morning, and also moonlight in the evening. But at lunch, I got to meet up with the kids who were going to the Colchester Free Festival. Where we live, there are many people called Jo (I do think my wife befriends them as she knows it confuses me) but there is only one Jo (no offense meant to the many other Jo's that we know). Anyway, she was involved in the kids section of the festival telling stories in the story wigwam. There were loads of volunteers, many of whom spent loads more time there than my wife did, and they were much appreciated. After her stint there, where she was heckled by a seven year old, we went round the rest of the festival, enjoying things like the human jukebox, making postcards, going for a donkey ride, face painting, and the human fruit machine.
On Sunday, my wife had a much deserved, but not needed beauty treatment. I say not needed, because she is gorgeous. While she was being pampered, I took the kids to the park in town. They had a great time, and loved the helter-skelter. After lunch in town, we went back to the park, which needless to say, they liked (okay, that is an understatement).
On Wednesday, due to only working in the morning, I surprised by daughter by picking her up from school. If all goes well with an interview I had the week before, I might get to do that more often. I was in a good mood then thanks to the result in the game the night before. A shame that we dropped two points the game before against Sunderland, let alone the loss yesterday. While we were unlucky at times going forwards, the big problem was that our midfield just stood back and watched as the West Brom players ran through us. With a lack of team defending like that, it was no wonder that we went three goals down.
Anyway, I hope you like the joke...
Went to the planetarium with my family this afternoon.
Imagine my wife's surprise when she discovered she's not the centre of the universe!
What a game, and what a score! It is still a group that can cause problems, but with that score, it is very unlikely that we will finish bottom. Unlike many, I do not underestimate the other teams in the European League group that Arsenal are in. I refuse to call it the Champions League as there are loads of teams (Arsenal included) that are not champions and are in it. While the world cup has taken a lot out of our players, Vela seems to have done really well out of it. He is oozing confidence.
Anyway, worked late last night, so I did not get to see my kids. But got to see my son at lunch as I was able to come home for lunch. He loved it. He had been out to Mersea Island with my wife and friends. By the time he got back, he was a bit tired, but loved being able to sit with me. My daughter got an award this week for being so good in class! On walking home with my wife, she said nothing had happened at school, and on getting home pulled out a certificate that she had been given in assembly today!
Kids eh?
Anyway, take care and good night.
I saw a woman about to park outside my house and said, "I don't think you can park there, love".
She said, "Sorry, I'll move it over there".
I said, "You probably can't park there either"
She said, "Why not?"
I said, "Because you're a woman".
God gave me the choice of having a good memory or a big willy, but I can't remember which one I picked...
My daughter finished her first full day at school today. We were given pictures of her first week at school and she has come back with 'homework' which was some books that school would like her to read. She has not wanted to read in the past, hopefully, peer pressure will have an effect.
My son meanwhile has been at nursery and has started to use the toilet! Yes, my life is that exciting that I have to inform the world about such news!
Anyway, in the news, there has been a sort of validation about my vote that was cast earlier this year. I voted Liberal Democrat. And of course, I know regret my vote. However, my MP has had the balls to stand up and challenge the government on claims it has made. It might make a difference come the next time I cast by vote...
Just read a book entitled 'The French Army During World War II, 1939 to 1945'. For those not familiar with the 24 Hour clock, that's twenty one minutes to eight until a quarter to eight at night.
