Still got it.

Sorry for the temporary lack of blogging but I have been trying for the last 3 days to work out the instructions BW sent me.

I promise, I will get around to learning this stuff but when you get out of bed at 6a.m. and don`t get home to eat until some godforsaken hour, by which time the family have filled your diary for the next 3 days and emptied your wallet in the process, then you start, if start is the right place to begin, to envy those people that are either time rich and cash poor or vice-versa!

Is there ever a time in the future that someone will guarantee me that I will have a bit of either? - I know, not so long as the kids are at home!

So stuff it, the wife and I are going on holiday.

Don`t know where, don`t care, we just need to get away from everything and sleep for 7 days, either in bed, on the beach, by the pool, or on a clothes-line!

Footie was great last night! - we won our league game and in a "friendly" second game we won 5-4 and I scored 4 goals!!

I ache a lot today, astroturf is the most unforgiving surface, and once again for the wrong reasons my groins are agony and I have burns on my knees!

This result, unremarkable as it may seem, is from a five man team in which four of us are 45 years old or older,and the combined age of the team last night was well over 200 years old! and we play against much younger, fitter guys, so we should get hammered!

So the lesson I have learned from this is that like most aspects of modern day life, my generation is physically and mentally tougher than the present one.

Without being patronising or pleading poverty we had less to entertain ourselves with in our junior years, so a football was your best friend, and as such we played with it all day long. As a consequence, at this time in our lives, when we should all be overweight, bald and contemplating which Parker-Knoll recliner we are going to buy next, we are instead reasonably healthy, reasonably fit and technically still able to play the ar*e off kids half our age!

And they hate losing to us, and when they shake your hand at the end of the game you can see in their eyes that they are thinking, how come these old gits just mullered us?

Love it!!!

There is no point in getting older unless you get wiser!

So having spent a not inconsiderable amount of money today on a computer for my sons 20th birhday so that he can take it to Uni to help him with his studies, (or more likely burn CD`s and DVD`s!)should I have bought him a new football and replica kit and dispatched him to the park at 8am to play with his friends?

Now, where`s the suntan oil?