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Poor York City FC

No I don't mean York City FC were poor on Saturday, although they were actually. I mean poor York City FC as they are still suffering the effects of losing almost all of the funds they had built up of generations. The reason YCFC struggle is that they can't afford to keep enough players on the books, they can't gamble on player by giving them longer contracts, and they can't pay enough to keep the good players from moving on.

Home is where the house is?

Just come back from a bargain week on the fragrant island of Menorca. Wonderful to enjoy some Sunshine when it’s rainy and cold at home. “Shall we move out here?” is a thought that strikes most of us wherever we go on holiday and have a good time. It’s that little word “home” that’s the problem.

Ow Do on Helvellyn

Enthused with the walk up and down Penny Ghent three friends and I have done another walk. We went to the Lake District and walked from Glenridding, up to the top of Helvellyn via Striding Edge and down via Swirrel Edge back to Glenridding. Fabulous views on the way up, until we ascended into the cloud for the last 500 feet, and fabulous views when we came back down out of the low cloud.

Normans Rule OK

I've been on holiday in France, in Normandy to be precise where they treat the English as distant relatives and where round every corner is another perfect village. Each seems to have a massive Norman stone church (well they all are there) older than York Minster by centuries.

Ow Do?

Ouch, my aching legs..!

Bye Bye Blah

Thank goodness for that... Tony Blah has finally left the building... to become some sort of ambassador in the Middle East…. unbelievable! Who dreamed that one up?

Pot Calling Kettle

I shouldn't be surprised but there he goes again. Tony Blah just doesn't seem to understand that people stopped believing what he said a long time ago.

Cutty Sark

How sad to see the Cutty Sark reduced to ashes. We only went there a couple of months ago and she was looking good in the sunshine as we arrived by boat from Westminster.

Happy Saint George's Day

How sickening that after all the commercialisation and celebration around St Patrick's Day, I didn't see one mention on TV today of our English Patron Saint.

Celebrate or Apologise?

200 years ago slavery was abolished in the British Empire. This was 70 odd years before anyone in my family was granted the right to vote as we were only common people, but I like to think we were right minded and celebrated in our homes and our churches.