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Author: Michael James

  • Week 203 – Feb 2nd – Bristol City v Leeds United

    Bristol City 0 – Leeds United 1 – HT 0-0

    Gnonto (47′)

    Assists

    Bamford (47′)

    Leeds United moved up to second in the Championship as they continued their fine form in 2024 with victory at Bristol City.

    Wilfried Gnonto broke the deadlock early in the second half, firing in from just inside the box, with only his second goal of the season and on his first league start since 29 December.

    Bristol City goalkeeper Max O’Leary made a number of key saves in the first half to keep his side in the game, including denying Georginio Rutter from a few yards out.

    Glen Kamara came closest to doubling the tally for Leeds minutes after Gnonto’s goal, but saw his shot trickle wide.

    Leeds keeper Illan Meslier by comparison had little to do all night as out of form Bristol City’s winless league run stretched to six games, while Daniel Farke’s side have won five in a row.

    Leeds last won five successive league matches in July 2020, the season where they won promotion to the Premier League.

    Their victory at Ashton Gate moves them up from fourth into the automatic promotion places for the first time this campaign, ahead of Ipswich and Southampton who both play on Saturday.

    What a start we have had to 2024, hopefully as mentioned above, we do as we did in 2020 and get promoted back to the Premier League.

    1st time we have been in the top 2, but want to be there after 46 games.

    As well as this winning run in 2024, we are not conceding, so building up a good goal difference, we could be crucial come the end of the season.

    Keep going Leeds.

    Marching On Together

    League position 2nd after 30 games

  • Week 203 – Feb 2nd – Eye Test

    Today, I finally got to the opticians to have my eyes tested, after the issues with the car. Have been using this optician for over 50 years.

    As my prescription as slightly changed, I will need to have new glasses. Which are not cheap. What is these days?

    An extra check, I paid for diabetic eye check, which was all clear.

    I like that I can see parts of my previous eye tests from other years on the computer and thankfully they have hardly changed.

  • Week 203 – Jan 31st – Financial review

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  • Week 202 – Jan 28th – By the Thames – Part 2

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  • Week 202 – Jan 28th – By the Thames – Part 1

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  • Week 202 – Jan 26th – The moon over shopping

    As I walking back to the car this morning, after doing the weekly shop, I noticed the full moon, well its one day after the full moon to be accurate and I thought that I was nice clear picture to take.

    So a couple of pictures, enjoy.

    Moon
    The moon as I came out from shopping this morning.

    Moon

  • Week 202 – Jan 25th – Excellent customer service

    Earlier in the week, I tried to order some clothing from English cricket board.

    As mentioned in a previous blog late last year, I had been offered a discount voucher due to the issues with delivery of the previous order.

    I tried a couple of times with this order, but the discount wouldn’t apply.

    As seems to be common these, I could only contact them via email.

    During the communication, they asked for the email with the voucher discount, I had kept this.

    I have to admit, the service provided was excellent, keeping me in formed throughout the issue, which was resolved today by them applying the discount on my order.

    So never delete useful communication.

    I just wished you could pick up a phone to speak to someone.

  • Week 202 – Jan 24th – No fault found

    After the incident on Friday with the car, I had been communicating with Kia, even had the engineer call me that had been dealing with the issue so he could hear what actually happened on the day.

    All the testing they had done, whether with the computer system or manually, they found no fault.

    They had searched there knowledge base and it hadn’t been reported before.

    I was kindly taken down to the garage, by Ziya.

    When I was at the garage, I enquired how they got the car started again.

    An engineer saw me and took me to the car and on the driver’s side, there is a button that you can press that will reset the car. So they are becoming more and more like computers. (Reboot – lol)

    I wished I had been told about that, when I purchased the car.

    Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again. At least it was all covered under warranty.

  • Week 202 – Jan 23rd – Financial feedback

    Always good to hear good news regarding finance.

    Some feedback from my financial advisor.

    “We’ve had quite a turnaround in Market sentiment this last few months, led by inflation and therefore interest rate expectations (which have dominated everything for a couple of years now). Very positively for November and December, which gave us overall a very good 2023 and we arrived into 2024 with a good outlook, albeit a slightly poor start in January has restrained some of that positivity.”

    Just need the inflation rate to come down to force the interest rates down.

    Plus all the war madness to end too, to make the markets even better.

    As posted before, always happy to recommend my financial advisor.

  • Week 201 – Jan 20th – State pension

    I received an email overnight, as I mentioned in a previous blog posting, I had signed a petition to have the state pension, tax free. There was a meeting in the house of common regarding this earlier in the week and this link takes you to the meeting –

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/HoC%20Debate/2024-01-16/debates/0972D88A-20DC-4229-B1A2-249B77610C62/web/

    After reading the meeting, I don’t see any mention of stopping the tax on the state pension. So what was the point?

    If you sign a petition and it reaches a certain total, you expect that to be action, don’t you?

    Be interested to see what other people think, feel free to comment, but please keep it civil.

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