Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon

[poliphilo]

I didn't watch the England-Germany match. It was a sunny day, so I sat in the yard and read about the execution of Louis XVI. Louis was a lousy politician but a man of personal courage and dignity. He made a good show on the scaffold- just like Charles I. After a while I heard whistles and cheering and assumed England had scored- and so they had- only Germany had already scored twice- with two more to come. Frankly, I'm not surprised. Later I watched Ray Davies (on the BBC) singing his biggest hits at Glastonbury- on the pyramidal stage, with the Tor on the skyline. We may be useless at football, but we're really good at pop music.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You're good at Tors, too. Or you used to be.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We are, we are.....:)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

My 60th birthday present to myself is going to be a trip to Scotland. Partly because of another LJ friend who is a really good photographer. I've never been an Anglophile, but your photos of the places you've been have certainly tempted me to become one. Maybe for my 65th...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That'd be really cool. If you come, you must drop by and see us.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Absolutely--but this is years away, and I have to be steadily employed the whole time for this to work. That's a real trick these days.:(

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

I flipped to the BBC home page when I judged the match might be over to see what sort of mood the fans would be coming home in. Sorry to say I roared with laughter when I saw the score. Beyond feeble!

Now, if only the damn world-cup-related adverts would go away, we can be through with this nonsense.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I just looked out the window. No flags! yay!!!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Overlooked in all the gloom is the quite extraordinary news that our cricketers have been comprehensively thrashing the Aussies.

We've picked the wrong national game to obsess about.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

Don't we always? *g* Though I'm afraid that for me, cricket is a good picnic spoiled, in the same way that golf is a good walk ruined. ;-)

Just kidding. The one-day matches can be fun and I used to love watching Dickie Bird hopping about whenever the scores stuck on 111. LOL. In fact we used (some years ago now) to watch the TV with the sound turned down and listen to the radio commentary, which was far more entertaining.

Aah, well, it's nice to know the cricketers are having a decent time at least.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Test cricket is the ultimate game. I love how it lasts for days and just how much psychology and morale and stuff like that come into it.

Of course, it can also be insufferably tedious.

But so, in my humble submission, is football.