Eeyore’s Gloomy Place

Oh, if only we’d played that well against QPR, Luton, and all the other sides over the last two months. We wouldn’t be where we are now…
Still, I did say beforehand that we need five wins from these final seven games. One down, four to go!

So… it was Jo’s 30th birthday night-out last Thursday. A couple of the chaps hadn’t shaved, as part of a new look they were trying. And I mentioned that I used to have  great ‘gaucho’ ‘tasche when I was younger (much younger).
So… I’ve spent the last few days not dragging the shaver over my top lip. [...]

Oh well… one out of three ain’t bad!
Apparently, I share my birthday with Therese Russell and Spike Lee (both 50), Holly Hunter, Steve McFadden, William Hurt, Vera Lynn, Michael Redgrave, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henrik Ibsen and Ovid. And lots of other people, too. And Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity today in 1913.
And my lovely colleagues, [...]

The new £20 note. It’s gorgeous!
It’s also wonderfully retro, despite the hi-tech security. Like this web site, it uses a seriffed font, instead of the sans-seriffed one of its predecessor. One in the eye for people who keep saying that sans-serif is easier to read. Look at your average newspaper, and ponder a while on [...]

March’s poem - which always tickles when I’m on the Piccadilly Line in London, and is dedicated to my friend Pam - is by Adrian Mitchell.
When I am sad and weary,
When I think all hope has gone;
When I walk along High Holborn,
I think of you with nothing on.
 Update. I realise I’d forgotten the title originally, and that [...]