Monday, April 10, 2006

The perils of living close to a football ground

Just bought tickets for tomorrow night's game against Hartlepool at Layer Road - it'll be my fourth game of the season (Toni's third). We'll miss the last two home games of the season - next Monday we'll no doubt be stuck in traffic between mid Wales and Essex, while the following Saturday we'll probably be hard at work putting up Toni's new workshop, which arrived on a pallet this morning, but is thankfully in small enough bits to have been safely ferried into the conservatory. Luckily everyone gets a week off from ground levelling and workshop building as it's Easter and we'll be in Wales for a belated birthday for my cousin, the Exeter University President-Elect. There might be one more home game - Colchester could still make the play offs, although their current run of form makes that anything but a formality, but it's unlikely we'd be able to get tickets for that.

We had another good - if less productive day - yesterday. Toni's cousin and her family popped up from Chelmsford and I spent most of the day setting up Toni's old PC as their new PC. Took a phone call this morning - idiot boy here forgot they have a 14-inch monitor so they can't actually use the PC (resolution set too high) until they upgrade the monitor, which is something they'd planned anyway. Toni's parents managed to escape mid-afternoon, but Scott bought us a Chinese for tea (it would have been fish and chips, but idiot boy here - clearly on fine form - forgot it's closed on a Sunday). Very nice, but too filling and not very healthy!

[Listening to: Analogue - A-Ha]

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