We Lost

it’s fine, I don’t mind. We were shit!
/me goes off to play Zelda The Twilight Princess

Germany in the Final

As people will know by now (if they’re bothered about football..), Germany are in the final. Just a wee comment about the BBC reporting about the Germany-Turkey match - there’s an anti-German bias there, which annoys me:

Philipp Lahm’s last-minute winner sent Germany into the Euro 2008 final and sank a desperately unlucky Turkey.
Lahm stole in [...]

Never Write Off Germany

Beautiful, beautiful win yesterday against Portugal in the Euro 08 quarter-final.

Once again Teutonic grit and nous has outdone Latin flair.
Never ever write off Germany…The supreme masters of International competition football…

Read more coverage on the BBC - but the most interesting discussions are always the fans’ comments on 606 (BBC football ‘discussion board’ - i.e. people [...]

Germany v. Austria tonight

Tonight I’ll be watching Germany v. Austria. I might even go and see it in a pub somewhere - I’d phone my male friend J. as he always watches ‘the footie’ in a pub.
On the other hand, I don’t fancy cycling there and back, what with work etc. the next morning (without a car, you [...]

My German Friends have left; Car is Gone

My German friends who had visited me from last Tuesday left today. We had a great time - luckily they were qutie independent, hiring mountain bikes and exploring Edinburgh by themselves.
Today was also the day that I took my rubbish car to the breaker’s yard, where it fetched over £80!! I thought I had to [...]

Germany v Croatia tonight

I won’t be able to watch the next match as I work until 6pm, and the match starts at 5pm. I’ll just have to get the updates via the BBC website as it happens. Let’s hope Germany wins - and I may even be home in time to catch the tail end

Glasgow is Surprisingly Good

I’ve always been firmly on the Edinburgh side, and am known to mock my Glesga colleagues occasionally by slagging off their city (harmless fun to me – potentially seriously offensive to them :P  ).
However I’m pleasantly surprised how the city has come on since I’ve last been there (I’ve only been once, and it was [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 09

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Today I took my mum and her hubby back to the airport - they should be back home by now.
This means I’m entering the final phase of my holiday - the three phases are thus:

Brief holiday with BF (last Fri-Sun)
Mix of work and family time (last Sun-today, i.e. Sat)
Time by myself to think&read [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 04

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We cut the grass today with the shiny new strimmer. My mum’s husband was quite good at it - he just wouldn’t stop till the job was finished (great pleasure to work with. Why on earth is he a fucking fork-lift driver on a low wage? He’s got the drive and motivation to [...]

Italy Holiday: Day 03

Today I picked up my mum and her husband from the airport. We bought a petrol strimmer (for €€€ ) and tomorrow we’re going to start work.
The hot water is working now, but we’ve discovered a leak and a dead bird behind the door. The Internet is slow as fuck and unreliable.
Tomorrow, we’ll be [...]