Goooooooooooooooooooooooool
The sun has got his hat on, hip-hip-hip-hooray!! The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out to play!For the Non-English amongst you this is a song (albeit an abridged version)
which British parents use to torture their offspring at an early stage of pre-pubescent development. But let's be fair about this, sunshine in Britain has to be a big event because we all know that in England it rains all the time, doesn't it. I
must say, though, big thumbs up to the Met Office, as their metereological prediction skills (with the one famous exception of hurricanes on a (supposedly) sunny day) is far superior to that of Madrid, which are, not to put too fine a point on it, crap!! I say Madrid, because they seem to get the rest of the country ok, but for some reason there is some big blackhole around the capital and the weather does what it pleases!!!!
Still, it hasn't rained since October and there is a predicted drought, inspite the fact that up on the mountains (i.e. where the reservoirs are) there was 5 feet of snow, which of course melted. Now I'm no scientist, but isn't that what we call water??? The more conspirational of you might like the explanation of a bus driver,whereby the water company didn't close the dam(n!!!) gates so that the water could escape and they could hike the prices up!!!!
But anyway, the sun's shining so it can't all be bad.
Hope everyone is well. Sorry for being away for so long. I can imagine all the tears that have been shed, and after some soul searching I figured that it was time for another tome.
The main reason of course is that precious little of interest actually happens. Life continues along the same highway. Well, apart from in Madrid it does!!! Every bloody road has some kind of roadworks on it!!
The 2012 slogan is Preparados para ti (Ready for you), and it's going to take the next 7 years to get the place cleaned up and ready, let alone build a stadium, swimming pool, housing...
Funny that if you read about the different candidate cities, most people put Paris as number one choice (at least they did until the strike during the IOC visit) and then Madrid and London. The order depends who you speak to. The English say London, and the Spanish Madrid.
Still, this bias is nothing compare to that of some of the football commentators in Spain. Last night was el clasico: Madrid - Barça (4-2) Interestingly, they call it a derby (El derbi- pronounced how non-English people pronounce the city in the East Midlands!) in some parts of the media. I always thought that a derby, was two local teams???? BCN is bloody miles (sorry kilometres) away.
I was listening to the match on the bus home- it was either that or some dreadful Dutch movie. At least, I think it was Dutch. I mean, they looked Dutch, but they could just as well have been Swedish, or Norwegian, or some other Viking like race. Not that I would ever make any sweeping statements about tall blond people.
But back to the footie. I was listening to Madrid f.m, or at least it might just as well have been called that cos everytime Madrid scored it was "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!" (Not nice when you're using headphones) Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool"
But more or less stunned silence whenever Barcelona scored. And let's be fair here, they're not that bad a team.
Interestingly, this match was not on terrestrial TV, but PayPerView instead, which meant that I could only see the highlights. Ok, I saw them 10 minutes after the match ended, but highlights none theless.
Apparently, the match was very good, and it seemed like 90 minutes of highlights to those who were watching it!!!
So, there are now 7 points in it and 7 games to go.
And still no sign of Jon Woodgate- That was a good purchase, Florentino!!!
posted by SG @ 2:55 p. m.
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