Christmas Jumpers…

…nothing more to add surely?!?!? Surprisingly, everyone was jealous of our fashion sense…

Tasha’s idea, and a good one it was too. Actually, it was her idea of the kids to have them but mine to make the whole family have one.

Current favourite track..

My music tastes change all the time I appreciate but currently I can’t get enough of Swedish House Mafia…which is a shame because they’ve split up!! Anyway they’re astoundingly good and perhaps I am too old to be listening to them but this track is on my playlist all the time ratcheted up to full volume!!!

Mind you, there is also Miami to Ibiza and One…but this is great…

Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia

A new heir to the throne..

So it was announced, early I suspect, that Kate and William are expecting their first baby. I say early, I think she’s only something like 13 weeks gone but went into hospital with acute morning sickness, apparently a strain of morning sickness implies she might be expecting twins! So you can well imagine the fuss the press are making, but it’s nice and they’re taking it in their stride. However…

Some Aussie DJs phoned the hospital pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and were actually put through to the ward and spoke to one of the nurses and she gave out various details thinking it was genuinely them! I don’t think the details were particularly sensitive, I haven’t listened to the recording but that was that and a pretty harmless practical joke was played out…not so harmless though…

Two days after the prank call (and I must stress there was no uproar or disciplinary action that we’re aware of) the nurse who took the call was found dead, an apparent suicide.

Can you imagine how fucked up that is???

As you can imagine, Twitter went into meltdown, journalists and all sorts got into a lather lambasting the DJs and they’ve gone into hiding. It’s calmed down a bit now, this is being written a couple of days later but I can’t help feel for all concerned.

The DJs were just simply carrying out nothing more harmful than an April Fools joke, but the person it was played on was clearly more fragile than they could possibly have expected and it backfired in a devastatingly tragic manner. I can’t see how anything can come of this in terms of punishing the DJs, it will be interesting to see what action if any does occur.

All very sad in what should be a truly celebratory time for the Windsors!

Xmas Present arrives early

Our TV has been on the way out for God knows how long, you basically can’t read the text at any time, so Tash and I decided to get a new one and went for it without telling the kids. It was only about £300 so decent one and decent 42 inch size. Tash took some convincing on that score but I won for once!

Had a bit of concern about the website buying this from but they kept saying it was on its way.

What was odd though is that2 days after placing the order the existing telly refused to work any more, just wouldn’t turn on, it was like it knew! So we were without TV for a week which was actually quite nice!

Another odd thing was on Friday the BT Engineer was round and upgraded us to BT Infinity, and the the delivery of a picture frame took place and as the engineer left I made some toast and said to myself, “All I need now to make the weekend is the TV to be delivered”

Almost immediately, within about 5 seconds, the doorbell went and I ‘knew’ who it was, sure enough a huge great TV was being delivered – how spooky is that?!?!?

So even though I should have been working I quickly put it together and got it working…it’s gorgeous!! I didn’t waste too much time on it and when Tash went out in the evening I sorted it out so that it connects to all the external devices and I’ve finally got surround sound working for all the devices as well, I am a very happy bunny…Tash not so…

Piss-taking banter…

Nothing more to say other than check out this link for the banter one of the lads has started on the Oxford City message board…

OCFC Veteran Lookalikes

Terrible news…

I had a text from one of the lads on Sunday saying, “Isn’t that awful about Andy Parsons?”. Assuming he’d died I asked what happened, I wasn’t prepared for the reply… “He’s stabbed his wife to death!”

Un…be..lieve…able!!!

All sorts of accusations and rumours are flying around as you might expect but he’s been charged with murder and more will happen next Monday. I’ve known him since being a player at Thame but not really had any more contact with him. Although we were due to play him yesterday as the vets team were against Thame in the cup but it was postponed because of this tragic event.

Nikkie has been keeping us informed as people have visited Andy and the stories are contrasting. I won’t type anything now because it’s not appropriate. As you can imagine it was all over Facebook and made front page of the Oxford and Daily Mail (Link)

It’s obviously a tragic story and there are two young children involved and the wife was incredibly attractive, but then so’s he…it’s simply astonishing this sort of thing can happen but then it’s happening all the time all over the world, it’s the law of averages that it’s going to happen close by but you don’t expect to know the person involved.

Awful