:(

England were robbed

No Disappointment

The wait is over and Sean didn't disappoint, obviously, not only that he delivered more than I could have ever hoped for.   I got back to my flat at 7.30 after thinking Yodel had failed me and there was a huge box, after preparing the evening's schnitzel (of which there are photos later)  we opened it up not really noticing how a box for 2 pies would be a lot smaller...

This is what I found

Thanks O2

Uhoh, 8 whole cans of Greene King IPA, 4 Full English Breakfast pies, 4 Bean Egg and Mushroom pies, 2 ice packs and most importantly - as can be seen in the top right of the box - a George flag!  Ahh Sean you are more perfect than I ever though possible.  I sense The Twps agrees.

Pieminister: A Pie for All Seasons (this is a pie recipe book)

So if ever I needed a reason for England to go further it's for the chance to get another one of these legit good times.  There was also 50p off a beer in a pub but I would probably be ashamed using that.

Here's the schnitzel, bit of tarragon sauce and German dark beer.  For extra health we made them using Best of Both breadcrumbs, yes please fibre with the taste of white bread.

Sean Bean is bringing me pies!

Terrible phone reception is work has finally paid off, Sean Bean (O2) and the England rugby team and delivering pies and beer to my house before England dominate France next weekend.  Apparently they will phone around Thursday and ask when it would suit for my priority to be the priority of the Yorkshire courier.

Of course I'm a liar and Britain's Second Greatest Current Actor isn't really bringing me any pies but I think he did speak on the advert and due to his talent it's all set, he compromised my reality in a way Andy Townsend's analysis couldn't.

Back to rugby, still haven't thought of anything to give up when England win, maybe not using my phone for a month while I'm using the toilet.  I think given the emphatic win on Saturday that England are assured of glory, also I guaranteed 100% that during his and my entire lifetimes Chris Ashton will never drop the ball while doing his dive thing, so that's a relief i haven't just doomed us both.

Unrelated to rugger, X Factor actually gave me a few surprises tonight in spite of the clear give away extended footage of the obvious going through people.  We feel that they may bring back some mainly because it seemed obvious they wanted the Scottish girl who hated her home town through.  My main disappointment was that The Keys with their big arms didn't go through (except the small armed one) while The Risk did :| they suck.  I'm going for Liverpool hairdresser, Gav's was the same but for competitions sake is going for Irish yellow nailed girl.  I've only heard my guy sing once but at least he's from Liverpool like Rebecca the best, I should probably follow him on Twitter.

What would I give up for England winning the World Cup

After a discussion the answered seemed to be very little.

Having read that something like 65% of Welshmen would give up sex for a year if Wales were Rugby World Champions I have a think for a while about my options.

I think I could give up curry for 1 week, maybe crisps and chips for 2 weeks, I could probably give up kayaking for a year but I'd enjoy the laziness of it, other than that for a whole year there's pretty much nothing I like that could do without that long.  Possibly champagne if I could still drink goodish cava.  Internet? no, Burger King? no, Living like a king? No :(

Here's the problem - after a month or so I wouldn't think about the victory again, other than 6 nations time, but the year of losing something would be going on and what's life without BK?

A Philosophical Question

Here it is:

If you had 1000 giraffes, 1,000,000 lions, 1000,000,000,000 ducks and infinity shrews and they were fighting to the death, last species wins, who would win?  The battle ground would be a 2 kilometer cubed field, clouds at the top and 1 small 2cm deep 1 foot wide river.  The time limit would be 16,9999 hours.


An interesting side note, 10,000 of the ducks have no beaks.

Lockout Shmockout?

Two posts within the same month means that I am tripping.  I think it's because a laptop I bought broke after 25 days of buying it (refurbished mind) and me thinking I had a year warranty suddenly realising it was actually 30 days and that I was in fact very lucky it broke so quickly.  I just had an email saying I was getting my refund so at least it isn't getting sent back to me telling me I'm wrong and suck.  I assume this is what you get for buying a well speced laptopfor £230 - saying that my living-on-the-edge-mind is to buy one of the same value again and hope it too breaks and then I will get another and so on for maybe a year or two until I've sample every laptop and have lost important files (I have no such files) and unbacked up photos continually for a year.

Moving on from that sorry tale, the current predicament is that my annual fear of the months between June and October, while the NBAseason isn't on, is in full swing with the Internet becoming a really dull place.  In fact the probable reason I got obsessed with buying a new computer was because finding deals and spending money was my replacement for basketball interneting.

This is all amplified due to the lockout, where no basketball is played, everyone wants more money and no one wants to compromise to benefit me, which means there's a good chance there will be no season for even longer or even at all.  I'd imagine this will make me go back to Baseball :( although that ends in September I think and St Louis' star player has a broken arm or some such misery, and I can't trust Liverpool to make me happy.  Any sport ideas would be well received, specifically if they have a lot of stats I can geek over.

On a side note, this book is awesome and doesn't require imagination like a story book

particularly if you love numbers and money, not at all if you don't :-|

 Speaking of economics, I made my too patient girlfriend go here with me when we had like 1 day in London:

A few months of stuff

Another huge wait and this time it was worth it.  At the end of May things got way too real when Mered of Iechyd Da fame peer pressured us into attending the gym's open evening at the bowls club.  Not knowing if we were good at bowls but knowing we were good at other stuff we figured we'd be pretty good at bowls and turned up 2nd to an empty green ready to be bowlt upon.  We did this and the proof is below.

 

Because I am crude I can morally reveal I won 5-3.  There were a few shots where we couldn't contain ourselves from whooping and others like my first bowl that went straight off the far end that were real bad.  Overall it would have been good if it wasn't really windy and if we'd been challenged to a 2 on 2 game, we weren't going to challenge anyone ourselves.

Since then other things of happened, one of which involved going to Buffalos and another where I made risotto with laver bread and bara brith  (bara brith  is a lie)..

I also saw Ferraris I like in London but can't afford :(

If I ever manage to post again I hope it's better than this.