Zeusblog

I read that Suffolk County Council are planning to outsource almost all of their services. What I don’t get is how are they going to collect the bins from India?

One of our clients is an occupational therapist called Laura Slader. Julia recently designed her logo and a website for her (www.neuro-occupational-therapist.co.uk). Anyway, Laura was recently filmed helping Kirsty and Phil on ‘Location Location Location’. Laura had to check whether their suggested property was suitable for her client to live in independently – as it would need special equipment and adaptions. It’s on this Thursday at 8pm on Channel 4. Don’t miss it, or you’ll miss the chance to say “There’s that woman who Chalky and Julia know”.

Pity the poor old Americans who can’t share the joy of today with us. Because they get their months and days entirely the wrong way round, they are all thinking today is 9.8.10. But because we do things properly here in the UK, we can all enjoy the fact that today is 8.9.10! We’ll have to wait until the 9th October 2011 for the next time that the date is as exciting as today’s. Enjoy!

I see EUFA are banning Vuvuzelas from their matches as they feel it might spoil people’s enjoyment of the games. I totally agree with them, but why stop at annoying plastic trumpets? There are plenty of other things that spoil my enjoyment of the beautiful game that should all be banned forthwith. Like the annoying really loud music (usually some kind of power ballad) they play at the end of cup finals which drown out the fans just as effectively as vuvuzelas – it’s almost like they think we don’t know how to celebrate (as a Villa fan I am forgetting what it’s like to celebrate a big win, but that’s another matter). ITV commentators and pundits. The ridiculous hype surrounding the England team. The England team itself – surely club comes before country? Fans who don’t like you criticising your own overpaid stars. Overpaid stars. Overpaid journeymen footballers. Footballers with no sense of loyalty or pride in their shirt. Footballers who aren’t honest about why they are moving club – they never say it’s for the money. Football agents. Orange WAGs. Greedy clubs pricing proper fans out of the game. Greedy clubs ripping off their supporters by constantly changing their overpriced kit. The terrible food they serve these days inside grounds (what happened to good old fashioned terrible food like pies and bovril?). The price of terrible food inside grounds. People who leave before the game is finished. The word ‘soccer’. The idea that we should have to give £750 million to football projects around the world in order to host the world cup – if it’s not coming here because this is the home of football and we already have great infrastructure, the best league and the best fans, then we don’t want it. The inevitable spurious estimate of how much the World Cup would be worth to the country. Oh yes, and David Cameron being a Villa fan.