This afternoon we met up with Claire’s godson Jack at Bluewater and had a lovely time catching up with him and how his university was going. Whilst there, we also had Stephanie join us of course at Costa. What would Claire do without her Costa?
Category: General
General life story
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Week 228 – July 26th – Another lottery win
Well we must have done something good, as we managed to get another 3 ball win on the National Lottery.
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Week 226 – July 14th – England v Spain
England 1 Spain 2 – HT 0-0
C. Palmer (73′) Nico Williams (47′), Mikel Oyarzabal (86′)
Assists –
J. Bellingham (73′) Lamine Yamal (47′), Marc Cucurella (86′)
Venue: Olympiastadion Berlin Attendance: 65,600
So for the 1st time in their history, England have made a final on foreign soil. Can they win?
Well there against the best team in tournament, so it would be some achievement and surprise if they did.
Let’s sit down in front of the TV and see what happens.
England’s quest to end 58 years of pain and disappointment ended in failure as they were beaten by Spain in the Euro 2024 final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion.
Gareth Southgate’s side were sunk by Mikel Oyarzabal’s late winner to leave England heartbroken again in a second successive European Championship final and unable to end the long wait for success for the men’s team.
Spain’s young star wingers combined to give them the lead two minutes after the break as Lamine Yamal’s pass opened up space for Nico Williams to beat England keeper Jordan Pickford with a powerful low finish.
England captain Harry Kane was out of sorts once more and was substituted on the hour and it was Cole Palmer – on for Kobbie Mainoo – who raised hopes of another dramatic comeback with a composed left-foot strike after 73 minutes.
It was Spain, however, who snatched the win four minutes from time as Oyarzabal slid home Marc Cucurella’s cross to leave England the nearly men once more.
Well the best team won, but we should be proud that we have made the final again. Not played the best football, but England stuck together and battled to get there.
I doubt Gareth Southgate will stay, even though he has one of the best England’s records ever, just because of the way he has been treated earlier in the tournament, would you want that in your job?
Will England win a World Cup or Euro Final in my life time (well I was alive when we won in 1966), I think only if they win the World Cup or Euro’s in the next 4 years and the players play as they do for their clubs.
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Week 226 – July 13th – Beverley Hills Cop. AxelF
Can’t believe its 40 years since the 1st Beverley Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy hardly looked any different, though the other two main returning characters, you couldn’t say that.
Instead of 1st showing in the cinema, this was on Netflix.
I didn’t realise until looking into, Eddie, he didn’t like the 3rd film.
It was ok film, made for an enjoyable evening, before the big match tomorrow night.
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Week 226 – July 13th – Bird crazy
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Week 226 – July 10th – Petition time
This afternoon, I signed a petition regarding toll prices for using the Blackwall tunnel, which has been free for over 100 years and now they want to charge to help pay for the new SilverTown tunnel, which I don’t see of any benefit to or a lot of people.
I doubt anything will come of it, because Khan seems to get way on anything and everything. Especially when it involves grabbing money of people..
But as they say, if you don’t try or do something, you don’t know.
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Week 225 – July 7th – British Grand Prix
As the weather hadn’t been brilliant since Thursday and for the only time of the year, a grand prix race is shown live on free to air television, we decided to watch the British Grand Prix.
What a race it was with 3 British drivers taking the top 3 grid places, which hadn’t ever for the British Grand Prix.
The race was great as there was a lot of overtaking and especially the final result, as Claire favourite Lewis Hamilton won his final British Grand Prix race as a Mercedes driver and was his first win in 945 days.
Even on the television, the noise of the crowd was incredible and Lewis was very emotional.
Great race and result.
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Week 225 – July 5th – Not again
Trying to start the car again. Claire had a day off today, so we decided to go up to Ruxley garden centre for breakfast.
Had a good breakfast and went back to the car to go elsewhere and NO. The car wouldn’t go into gear, like what happened in January.
We checked in the manual after what the car mechanic had shown me and I pressed the button to reset the car, but nothing happened.
So I called the RAC to send someone.
After x amount of time, the car lost all power, thankfully this time we were parked on a flat surface, so no fear of rolling.
I tried the reset button again and the power came back, but the car wouldn’t respond.
Left it for some time waiting for the RAC to turn up, then I thought, why is the car camera working and Claire’s phone charging?
So I tried to start the car again and this time everything worked. Phew
The manual recommends that you drive for at least 30 minutes, so we took a drive, cancelled the RAC.
We stopped after about an hour to put petrol into car, and thankfully the car started again after it had been fuelled up.
Why has this happened again, especially after the long drive yesterday to Norwich?
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Week 225 – July 5th – Another small win
The small wins keep coming for us on the national lottery.
As the jackpot wasn’t won, it was a roll down to all the other prices, which meant as well as winning 2 lucky dip tickets, we also won £10.
Is there a big one around the corner?
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Week 225 – July 5th – New government
Well the Conservatives took a right bashing in the general election, not surprising after the party gate scandal, the handling of the pandemic, then the mess of Liz Truss leadership, followed by the cost living crisis which they didn’t really help with at all.
The worrying thing, is that this was the second lowest turnout by people to vote, don’t they care about the country?
It shows voting is important, as 7 of the constituency were by won less than 100 votes.
So a Labour government after 14 years, good luck and I hope we can see some help for the people.
