Redknapp is reported to have said…!
It is rather cloudy this morning; the low clouds seem to have trapped the hot muggy air between us, and the clear blue sky above it. There appears really to be no relief from the hot weather. Heat without sunshine is so depressive, don’t you find?
My scribe says that she will return to not being interested in football after today. For this grain of sanity we must be grateful, as every time she decides to support a team, and actually watch with us on the sofa, they lose. So you can see by last night results, which team carried the dubious honour of carrying her favours in to battle. It is said that Spain had magnets on their boots and that the ball designed in Loughborough GB was an ingenious and deliberate attempt to subvert Germanys 4-2-3-1 system when used correctly. (Couldn’t someone have informed the England Team?)
We investigated the saga of the England team’s under 19s debacle mentioned in yesterday’s blog, and it appears, according to the Telegraph’s Henry Winter (who is still, we take it, Cape Town’s correspondent, though they don’t say so in print today), that Harry Redknapp does have the say as to whether the four youngsters could join the England Under-19 squad in France, mentioned yesterday. Redknapp is reported to have said ‘If they need the kids, we will get it sorted out.’ Is this the words of a man flexing his power muscles, or a man with an eye to his future, when the fabulous Capello makes the top job vacant? This is absolutely my last word on football, my scribe says.
My friends in the Lake District are very short on water, the news reports tell us. This is hard to believe having trawled through rain belts, carrying heavy downpours this time last year. I would not have believed the state of reservoirs if I had not seen them for myself two weeks ago. I hope both Rutland and the Lakes get some rain soon. As you know I don’t do the heat, and my river is turning into a stream very quickly.
I am of course
La Grande Sophie.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Yes, a hosepipe ban here from 6am tomorrow morning. I’ll have to go back to getting David to water my plants as I’d be there all night with my little watering can! (he won’t let me use the big one due to my condition!)
Sorry we missed you last weekend. Was looking forward to it. Another time soon I hope x
July 9th, 2010 at 11:13 am
At present no rain but they say there is plenty of water in the reservoirs. We will wait and see as Aylesbury Man uses a lot on his garden.
July 12th, 2010 at 10:50 am
We have rain today! Not enough to fill the butts yet! LGSX
July 12th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I very much missed coming to see you we have also had complaints from the people we promised to buy stuff for at Cosco on the way back as well as being disappointed too. These things happen she says, but hope to see you soon and no lifting heavy watering cans or anything else she says. !!!! LGSx