Poor old England so close. They must be feeling gutted. Still there is Saturday to prove themselves against France and take home the third place honors.
Sir David Beckham has been so supportive of the teams efforts so it’s fitting that the last game will be held at his Miami stadium.
He’s such a great guy.
Let’s hope that Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham follow in his footsteps and become knights too someday.
Can you see it? King William and his round table with the three of them beside him.
Who else would be there apart from me and Kate of course?
Ma is a crazy person. When she starts something she can’t stop.
Yesterday her lovely tenants moved out of the apartment above the tearoom to the house they’d just bought. She loved those kids and they left the apartment IMMACULATE. Everything was shining but there were a few areas of paint in the bathroom that had peeled off so Ma went to fix it.
That done she then decided that since she had paint she should “refresh” two walls in the living room.
By six o’clock she was still not home so Dad sent out a search party aka the Bro. She was just locking up as he arrived at the place.
Any other ancient working alone on a ladder might have thought to call and give a status report but not Ma.
She left the ladder and paint at the apartment so depending on how she feels about how things look today she may or may not paint some more.
I fear for her sanity. I wonder was Michelangelo like that when he started the Sistine Chapel?
Ma was in and out of the house like a cuckoo clock yesterday.
First for our trot then to church then the groceries and finally to see a show.
Having the theatre so close makes it very tempting and she’s going much more often than she ever did in the past.
Yesterday it was a local production of A CHORUS LINE. By all accounts it was phenomenal.
The niece and I were subjected to some singing when she got back. You know I think Ma thinks she could be a star. Here’s the thing though she can’t sing to save her life.
Best to just let her get on with it but since she sings outside also I do wonder what the neighbors think.
Maybe they assume we have a colony of chirruping cats!
We’re late on the Banter because we were up half the night with the footie.
The England Norway game was exciting and to make it atmospheric we had fish and chips and Ma drank beer.
As you’ll know by now England managed to pull off a winner in extra time. So on Wednesday we may anticipate more screaming. In the meantime we must raise our glasses to the kingdom of Norway for their great patriotic performance spurred along by the presence of their Crown Prince.
By the way that is a hint to Prince William that he needs to book a ticket for the mid week match!!!
On then to Switzerland and Argentina. Oh my Ma was eating her fingers and closing her eyes and praying but in what seemed like the very last minutes before a penalty shoot off Argentina did the deed. What an effort by the Swiss.
Remarkable that both Norway and Switzerland have populations of only seven million that less than the size of Chicago or New York so you have to give it to them they are exceptional soccer peoples!!!
Ma likes to stay connected to “home”. For those of you who don’t know that’s Northern Ireland. Until recently she listened to a radio station called U105 that was mostly pop music and chat. That got cut off from streaming in our area some months ago.
We found BBC Radio Ulster as an alternative and this has been a great discovery as it has lots of variety.
When we wake up we listen to the news and current affairs program for a little while before we plunge into the day.
After that when we’re having our brekkie we listen to Hugo. He’s an older guy who plays tunes from the sixties and seventies and a lot of country music. He talks a lot and makes us laugh.
On the way to work it’s time for some pop with Conor. He is youthful and chatty and gives us a boost.
There is a gap while Ma’s at the tearoom but now when she gets home we switch on again and listen to the mellow music of the night on the deck.
Sundays are especially good if you have a long drive because they also through in gardening and opera and religious programming.
All this to say that sometimes when something stops something better starts or as the old adage goes “when one door closes another one opens” and it turns out to be for the best.
Precious Peeps it’s Pits here PERFECT as ever and ready to heave you over the humpty.
Well Switzerland is celebrating. They are through to the quarterfinals. All our friends are ecstatic.
We crunched our way through the penalty kick off with cherries. Granny says that they spell summer.
As we were eating them Granny told me that she never tasted a cherry until she was 12. She says when she was young they had strawberries as a treat in summer. They weren’t available all year round like they are now so everyone looked forward to having them.
That’s the way it is now with cherries. They probably can be found in mid winter but you’d have to do research to find them but in summer they are in all the stores for a month or so.
I like them very much but Granny always has to take the stone out of them before I get one which mean they come with some of her slobber. That’s OK she’s a sweet old soul for sharing.
I hope you enjoy some too. Remember “life isn’t always a bowl of cherries” but it is when you have some.
Well that’s it for the USA at the World Cup. If you didn’t see the match they tried real hard but Belgium finished their opportunities much better.
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Today we’re rooting for Switzerland as the hoomans lived there for a long time and have many friends there. If they get though it will be the first time the Swiss get into the quarter finals since 1954!
Ma is already planning what she’ll do for food on Saturday for the England game. Should we have fish and chips? Should we make sausage rolls? Or should we have the most popular dish in the UK that is chicken tikka masala!
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