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The End of The Year

Dad on the Line . I’m playing in this big game New kit, great pitch Proper goals with proper nets All of a sudden With rattle and scarf And a flask of tea … there’s Dad Come on, my son! says Dad Square ball! says Dad We are the champions! says Dad Que sera, sera. […]

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Geordie Hopping

Geordie was a villian. Geordie Crump was a villian Geordie Crump was really hard Geordie Crump did sliding tackles In Windy Nook school yard………ouch But I had too much skill for him Nutmegged him once or twice But for making a mug of Geordie I paid a hefty price. While waiting for a corner kick […]

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Northern ‘Ventures

Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, Aa’ll tell yer aall and aaful story, Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ Aal tell yer ’bout the woorm. . One Sunday morn young Lambton went A-fishing in the Wear An’ catched a fish upon he’s heuk He thowt leuk’t varry queer But whatt’n a kind of fish it was […]

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Like Stout Cortez

  On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did […]

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In The Bleak Mid-Winter!

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter. by Christina Rossetti There was no Monday night match this week, instead, once again, I was committed to the cinema and a ‘feel good’ romp […]

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Holiday Jinx

Holiday Jinx Decided to take in a week’s holiday in a cottage just outside Colne, Lancashire, at a place a little indelicately named Foulridge. We had rented a cottage called “Toad Hall”, although the only connection with toads was a small stone effigy outside the front door. I had hoped that I might get five […]

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