Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Wolfgang Amadeus to John Winston

There was:

No hurricane, no blizzard, no earthquake or flood;

No lightning, no fog and no rain;

No terrorist attack or attempted hi-jack,

No strikes, no lost bags, no crashed plane.

Just a “little turbulence” over the Alps and a “stiff breeze” blowing up the Mersey. (Sorry, couldn’t get that bit to rhyme.)

With that, I completed my flight from the snow-dusted Alpine peaks around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Airport in Salzburg to John Winston Lennon Airport on the wind-gusted Mersey estuary.

To be more precise it was Munich - Schwabing to Aintree, Liverpool – including almost a tour de force of the various public transport systems: train from Munich to Salzburg, bus from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to the airport, plane to Liverpool Airport, bus to the centre of Liverpool and (ok, quick pint of life-saving Cains at this point) local train to Aintree.

All that, plus humping cumbersome suitcase and increasingly heavy-seeming laptop up and down stupid stairways and along twisting labyrinthine passageways and walkways; so it is no wonder I was knackered when I finally got to the house.

It didn’t stop me going down to the chippie later, though, for a pie dinner with chips and gravy.

So, I am here to do a bit of repair work on the house which, with my DIY disabilities, should be … fun.

But at least this time I made it here …

Monday, January 08, 2007

Well, Perhaps not SLAUGHTER Them...

...what was all that sentimental drivel in my last post? Spattering rain, squelching mud... romantic twaddle... total codswallop, rubbish...

Huh? The football...? The score..?? Did we win..???

Well, it's relative isn't it?

Win or lose, lose or win, lose or win, win or lose, bottle glass, glass, bottle, yin and yang, Laurel and Hardy, Morecombe and Wise...

NO, WE BLOODY LOST... AND THERE IS NO NEED TO RUB IT IN!

Saturday, January 06, 2007

FA Cup 3rd Round













Nothing conjures up for me an English January than the expression "FA Cup 3rd Round". Straight away I can picture grey, rain-spattered, muddy, cabbage patch pitches in ramshackle stadiums where non-league teams are taking on the top professionals and hoping somehow to upset the odds.

Of course I mean watching - not playing!

I did enough of playing on grey, rain-spattered, etc. Saturdays afternoons at school - rugby in our case not footie - getting soaked to the skin and streaked and smothered with good old north Liverpool mud.

Anyhow, we take on Arsenal this afternoon ... and we are going to slaughter them!