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Hmmm police find Raoul Moat as on way up to Scotland to find that pharmacist who mis-diagnosed him???? got your fancy dress / disguise maids outfit on today Caniggia33?
Hey all
Hi all, another week of fun here at the office of misery!!!! Did some running last night, up a big big hill then back home again. Knee seems to be fine which is a major relief as I have the Northumberland Coastal Run next Sunday and have forked out for accommodation the night before and at the moment every penny is getting tighter.
Afternoon..... it is a tad hot here in London-stan today and not the weather for suit and tie on the tube. I forgot just how hot the tube gets in the summer - God knows what they will do for 2012 short of current advice to bring a bottle of water. Perhaps TFL should speak with the mob behind the Edinburgh marathon for rehydration ideas
Had a conversation with a man today who will hopefully rescue me from the grasps of my current employer. Fingers x'd.
Heading home this afternoon and planning LSR tomorrow. Have some infamation at bottom of left knee cap that I just can't shift. Cho-pat brace keeps it fine for running but would really like to cure this as opposed to having an aching knee a couple of hours after exercise
Fingers xd then markk!!
Looks like November here!
No Raoulover then Can
Oh I'll give up now if that's ok....
20 mile LSR this morning which was quite nice apart from the last 2 miles which were uphill and hurt like feck. Still feel better for it with Clyde Stride next wekeend.
EDIT - FFS... Son#1 has just done a projectile arc vomit in the hall, the kind of thing you see in documentaries about people coming off herion in Thai retreats. Many thanks to my OH for taking him to play with his mates yesterday, all of whom had been ill in the last 48 hours.... really fab idea.
Aye Markk no Raoulover. I've found it quite sad to see someone I knew and actually quite liked completely flipping their lid in a way you wouldn't believe was possible and for the whole thing to be horrifically played out live on national TV. Raoul was a hard bloke but in the dim and distant past he used to be one of the good guys. My security guard knew him since he was a kid and was a tough guy too who also went off and topped himself completely unexpectedly. These guys spend so much time trying not to look soft to survive in the brutally tough area they come from that you never really know what is going on behind the tough exterior. When they crack they seem to crack big style unfortunately although not noramally quite as spectacularly as Raoul managed to. The whole sad end last night brought back some pretty bad memories about John who was a good friend and the things you could have done or didn't do to help. Still miss him.
Thank feck im not at T in the park looks better on the telly than being there, im sitting nice and warm watching it with a nice cold beveridge in hand and all warm them chunts are freezing,covered in mud and surrounded by neds. As they say in glasgow t in the park is the annual ned holiday and as an added bonus Dundee had a much lower proportion of gadgies today than is normally the case on a saturday afternoon.
Morning all.
Can not sure about the Ned reading in Glasgow yesterday, but the Jake levels were off the scale as I ran along the Forth & Clyde. I was very touched by the gang of Jakes complete with the sterotypical cans of Special Brew who took great interest in the various runners going past them. So much so that one of them did a very good set of press-ups as I approached, without knocking over his 2ltr bottle of cider. That takes great skill when the bottle is close to your mouth.
Legs feel a wee bit nippy this moring but changing the insoles in my road shoes has had mixed results. Heel blisters have stopped, but has increased impact on the soles of my feet in what are already stiff shoes which means any prolonged running on hard surfaces is tough going. I reckon that the shoes in question will be finished after the Clyde Stride next weekened, but they've served me well.
Booooooooooooooooooo the cheating spanish won.
I was hoping Holland would win as they played football as most football fans love to see it played by tough men willing to give and take a challenge. None of that tippy tappy, diving, bleating, trying to get folk sent off poofs stuff that Spain offered for the entire competition. How Webb managed to send off the dutch defender for iniesta going down so softly but left Puyol on I'll never understand. The commentators were all moaning about the rough dutch players but I thought Iniesta was the luckiest man to still be on the park to score after 2 dives, an evil tackle on Schneider and an off the ball assault on Van Bommel. Webb bought every sneaky dive and engineered trip from a spanish player all night before "missing" one up the other end that led to the goal, the puyol rugby tackle and the free kick that kit the wall and the goalkeeper on the way out. He was just as bad as you would expect him to be. Up the other end those would have been a free kicks, bookings and corners all night long. Unfortunately if the soft wee gits dont like to take what they give out. Get rid of the cheats, midgets and jessies and bring back real football where men were men, tackles were hard and poor people could afford to watch. Tonight that was a crap end to a crap world cup.
Oh and last rant why did Sepp Blatter feel compelled to hand over the world cup. Bet Nelson Mandella felt like a right spare prick. We will invite you, drive you around on a golf cart and then forget you are even there. Instead of the most iconic man in South Africa being pictured handing over the trophy to symbolise the world cup being in south africa we will have sepp's ugly pus yet again. I hope he doesn't put his huge ego in his suitcase on the way home I dont think he could afford to pay the excess baggage.
Can you have got to be taking the pi$$??? Holland were a disgrace. Even Vinnie Jones would have blushed at their efforts to play the ball and not the man. They were lucky not to be at least one man down by half time with De Jong's kung-fu effort. The right teamwon - OLE!!!!!
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The Dutch are however the new world champions at crying over split milk. What possible good can it do to gang up on the Ref AFTER the final whistle has blown? I mean it's not like he was suddenlt going to say "I'll tell you what, I'll give Robben a penalty just to shut the little pr*ck up". At least the Dutch coach said the right team won, Graceful unlike his players. Good summary of the game here with some interesting facts that you wont find elsewhere. Fatherless-pig-dog indeed...
Do agree with you about Mandela - surely he should have handed the Cup over as opposed to that usless git Blatter.
so much peace that everybody has stopped posting!!!!!!
Dundee are off and running a week on saturday, Make the most of the next week and a half bedshaped real football is back soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!