Rugby

England - more dynamic at the breakdown with if you have to kick hit land not hand and take your chances especially you Monye.

Wales - Andy Powell gets laughed at for heading to the M4 in a golf buggy whilst under the influence.

Scotland - get well soon Thom Evans

Ireland - Flannery - enjoy your ban

Milton Jones

Fuuny and everywhere

Norwich City 3 drew with UEA 2 9:9

The thing with UEA is that as students they are young, pretty fit and very physical. The problem with our team is that we aren't. However we have experience but they learn quickly. We had a lead for most of the game but never more than two goals and usually one. The referee was awarding a lot of penalties for contact ( we had seven -1 at our end which I scored 6 at the other end with Phil scoring three). We also used up all our tricks early on with my most favourite move netting me a goal but sadly they adapted so it only worked once. My second favourite move almost got me a goal but it rolled around the rim. The only contentious issue was when leading by one goal we were awarded a free pass. We used our secret non-standard move and it worked a treat but the referee dis-allowed it as the opponents were too close and he seemed not to play any advantage. In conclusion a fair result. Ache a lot now though.

Norwich City 4 beat Norwich City 3 by 5 goals to 3

This tema usually beat us by quite a lot so it was nice to win however it was more their inability to score than our over powering performance. We usually score about 5 goals and concede 10 but they had a lot of shots but just not dropping. It can happen someitmes and is very annoying but that is the beauty of sport. I was able to score early in our opening burst of three goals. We defender was marking me tightly but we were a long way from the basic. A kick nod to a team mate, a feint forward followed by a sprint towards the basket kept hime off balance. Cutting across his trail meant that he was unlikely to get round me and I was bale to take the over the head pass and slot the goal away. The only unsavoury momnet was when we were defending and I was calling out to my team the defensive formation without realising that the ball was at the other end of the pitch. it is considered good manners for your opponent to tell you if the ball has gone and you don't see it. To laugh at them was uncalled for but balanced by the fact we won and I outplayed him.

Minibus Test

Next week I have to re-take my minibus test. It is seven years since I did it originally and it needs to be renewed. This is not a DVLA thing but a Norfolk County Council thing and I am a bit nervous. We use the minibuses a lot for trips and I might do 10 days of driving in a year including Duke of Edinburgh. It is not a strict test with major and minor faults but a 90 minute overall assessment of my driving and if I fail I have to do another 90 mins with the instructor. Despite this I am still very nervous as I have a number of bad habits to try and cure in the next 10 days, I hope that the different vehicle will help, and have to do the manoeuvres in a much larger vehicle. Tricky times!

Up in the AIr

The latest offering from George Clooney starting a man who travels the US firing people. In his life he spends as much time on the road(in the air) as possible and has no attachments back in his home town of Omaha, Nebraska. All of his flights and hotels are paid for on expenses and in a time of financial meltdown this has to stop so he has to take the new whizzkid on the road so that they can streamline the operation and do it via video conference. As an experienced traveller he has all the nous and all the loyalty cards to make life easier. This is the film that shows what can happen on the road.
Why I liked this film
1. The aerial shots of cities and landscapes
2. The scenes going through airports - after some of my epic trips I recognised some of the sequences such as choosing the correct lane in security. Children and OAP's always take ages.
3. George Clooney's performance - he was playing himself -as a smooth operator but it is fun to watch
4. The scene where the new girl has to try to fire George.
5. The party scenes
What jarred
1. Te character ark that George went through - for a man so emotional detached he sure changed fast.
2. Product Placement - lots of it
3. The end - I would have loved it if the new girl had had to fire George as the final scene - via video.

London

Last weekend we went to London to see the shows and have some time away. The first was Les Miserables based on the book by Victor Hugo based in the early 19th Century and with the themes of redemption, poverty and singlemindedness at heart. I thought that show was captivated and it drew me in and get me glued to the stage for the whole show. There were a couple of plotlines I did not catch such as the suicide of Javert but the generally the lyrics were clear and the music haunting. The sight of the bodies lying over the barricade was moving and the acting/ singing of the main characters, especially Jean Valjean, were sensational. The only disappointment were the seats. They were not sold as an obstructed view yet the upper tier cut the top of the vista and the legroom was tiny and I was in pain from the metal bracket jabbing into my knee for three hours.
This was my favourite song.




The second show was a good balance to the serious atmosphere of the first and was called Avenue Q - a rundown street on the outskirts of New York inhabited by the newly graduated who had yet to find their chosen career. There were also a couple of monsters. All the characters are played by people holding puppets and the synchronicity between the person and the puppet was great as seen here.



It was just a feel good time and with songs like Everyone's a Little Bit Racist and The Internet is for Porn as well as characters such as Lucy the Slut shows the level of the humour but seeing the puppets having sex was one of the funniest thing that you can see. The two Bad Idea bears who kept giving bad advice were hilarious and Trekkie Monster were also very funny.

On Sunday after a slow start we had a look at the Westfield Mall which annoying bit not open any shops till 12. I know that they can only have 6 hours but 10-4 and 11-5 is a bit more reasonable. On the train home I soundly defeated Angela's phone at Backgammon.


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