In 11 years at Everton manager David Moyes failed to get them above Manchester United in the league. This year he has managed it in just 6 games.

An interesting weekend football wise.  Arsenal won.  Again!  We are top of the league!  I doubt it will last long, we have to play some hard teams and of course, there is Southampton who are a team that can be underestimated.  I guess the result of the Scum and Chelski was the best available as well, interesting with the red card being given in that match considering that the player should have been sent off when he got his yelllow!Anyway, my wife, who has been ill recently, is getting better.  I had to do the school run in the afternoon during the week, which while hard for me from a work perspective, was amazing when it comes to being a father.  Moments like that are moments I have to treasure as they do grow up so fast!

Anyway, I hope you like the advert.  Many fell for it and ruined their phones!  I found it amusing. 

Mezut Ozil has announced he joined Arsenal cause he wants to pick up trophies. He's going to be as disappointed as the time I went to a gay club and tried to pick up women.

Well, we did win something last season, the best Premier league photo of last season.  Okay, we did not win it, a photographer called Adrian Dennis did, but the photo featured us and that has to count for something right?

Saying that, at the moment, things are looking good.  We won away to Sunderland thanks to a dodgy referee decision.  Sunderland had scored a goal that should have put them level at 2-2, the referee had already blown for a free kick when he could have played advantage, which could be argued to be one bad decision, but as a goal was scored, which he disallowed, technically it was a goal scoring opportunity and therefore I feel that we should have been down to ten men, which means that Ramsey would probably not have scored his second goal to make things 3-1.  Last season we gained quite a few points thanks to decisions going our way, which makes a change as in previous seasons we actually lose quite a few points due to this.  Instead that well loved right winger was sent off instead!  Our new signing was great and it is nice to be top of the table, be it only for less than twenty four hours.

Red Sky July at Little Rabbit Barn

Last night was a great night, a trip to watch Red Sky July again, and again at Little Rabbit Barn which is a great place to listen to them.  Last year we decided to go back again to listen to other acts, and so far we have not, but both my wife and I intend to go back again if we can. Then the acts before Red Sky July was a girl, her brother helping as well, Rafferty & Logan McKelvey and they were then followed by Jakob Deist.  Jakob Deist was on last night as well as a joung girl called Hannah Kessler.  As before, I loved the night. 

Thanks to my Mum for baby sitting the kids who seem to have adapted well to going back to school.  My daughter is now in the Juniors and is about to experience the loss of her last break soon.  The kids seem to be settling into their new classes and I will get to meet the teachers later this month.  My wife has met at least one before.  Anyway, time to go now...

Stress Free Airport Parking

Stress Free Parking my big fat bottom!  We arrived in Luton and as instructed rang them once we had collected our luggage.  We were warned at that time that there would be a wait, and there was one. The reason for this was traffic, not something that we were told about.  Now, I understand that there will be times that things like this will happen in any job, but considering that they had our mobile telephone numbers, I guess there was always the option of ringing us to warn us about the wait, or sending us a text, or even looking at the arrivals information that is available to send the cars round anyway.

So yes, I am annoyed as despite paying for a service where we do not have to wait too long for our car to arrive we had to wait.  At least it was not raining.  The down side was that I did not get home quickly enough to watch the winning goal in todays game.  No big deal really, but we are all knackered from our journey.  I am almost looking forwards to my return to work on Tuesday to mention this to the manager at work...

After the Champions League draw, Arsenal fans are saying that they're opimistic that their club can emulate what Man Utd and Chelsea did in recent years. Play in the Europa League.

Of course, I am more nervous of the game on Sunday than I am of our poor prospects in the European Cup.  Players apparently want to join the club, but they just seem not to be doing so and the Scum keep on buying.  Unless you count our two free transfers!  Anyway, it is the last day of our holiday, time to pack...

The beach at Alvor (Portimão)

Today we went somewhere different.  To Alvor where there was a different beach to try.  While it was a great place to go, I have to say that I prefer Praia dos Caneiros as the sun loungers that you can hire are closer to the sea and the sand is finer as well as the view in my opinion being more spectaculor.  The beach at Alvor is much larger, and when I say that one beach is better than this, that is not to say that this is not a great place.  There are more places to eat at Alvor, there is more parking, the beach being larger means that there are more places to be when you are there.  And we had a great time here, the kids loved swimming in the sea and making loads of things on the beach with the buckets and spades that we brought from the UK.  Afterwards a quick trip to Carvoeiro for lunch and to pay our toll charge for using the motorway.

While I type this, the kids are sleeping, having had a busy few days.  One thing that we felt we had to do to make the most of the day was to arrive at the beaches early to to get parking, more of an issue yesterday compared to today though and this has had to mean that while the kids have had late nights, they have continued to rise early in the morning.  So, while typing, I am also reading about the Arsenal draw for the European Cup as it looks that Arsenal are in the group of doom.  Saying that, when our backs have been up against the wall, we have managed to get some great results, but time will tell if our squad will be enough for this season or not.

Praia dos Caneiros

Today was a trip to the beach finally, and to a beach that we have been to before.  When we were there before, we had explored the rock pools.  My son got cold feet, not literally, which was a shame as he did not get to see as many of the creatures that are there which my daughter did instead.  So far he has told my mother that I told him to leave, but my daughter remembers that he got scared.  It was great looking at the different animals that we found and later we are going to look up more of them on-line.  They are knackered at present and I have got them watching a DVD, Wreck-It Ralph which my son has said is more scary than Star Wars!  A great film that I think shows that team work is important and that while some people may do jobs that no one likes, those jobs are important anyway.