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football season begins....gooooooooooooooo irish!!! first game this coming saturday....

I have just found a sport I find interesting. Well, not the game, but look at all those eligible fit healthy sweaty players. Smorgasbord.



I suspect they could give the English team a run for their money
and Scots LOVE their footie. Just a question of finding the biggest local clubs, I reckon.

Wonder if they'd let me play?

OK so I'm settling down for a lazy Sunday watching Arsenal v West Ham and Pool v Stoke...
And yes I love football, I love the Premiership, but a few times recently when I've said this, the first comment I've had from people isn't concerning the football... it's concerning the money involved and the money paid to the players.

So I'm just musing on why it's such an issue when so many other people get paid utterly ridiculous amounts of money for what they do without censure.

Would you not watch a brilliant film because you object to the amount of money your favourite actor was paid to star in it?

Would you take your money out of a bank because of the fat cats lining their pockets?

Would F1 fans complain about the amount of money spent developing the cars... let alone what the drivers get paid?

Would you refuse to listen to your favourite band because the netted millions on their last tour?

Anyway you get the idea....

Its still the beautiful game, so why shouldn't they get paid every penny they can get, while they can get it, when they have to have the talent to get to that level in the first place and careers can be cut short so easily.

And yes I do understand the offside rule before anyone asks.....

I have a snail halfway up the kitchen wall, and would like to offer it to sale to the highest bidder.

I have to say right away I have not seen this snail in action. However, its presence on the wall argues a speed which would encourage breeders and owners of racing snails to add it to their stable.

Firstly, I live in Scotland, therefore my doors and windows have impressive seals. Draughts are not encouraged in a cool country known for gale-force winds 350 days of the year. For the same reason the door did not remain open at any point for long enough to allow normal entry.

Secondly, there is a dog flap in the door. Not a cat flap, which a sufficiently determined and muscular snail could perhaps push open. This is a foot-square dog flap. Even the cat has to exert some force to open it. The snail is a mere inch and a half long.

It is therefore clear that this snail lurked either on the doorstep and shot inside when I was taking out the trash – impressive enough in itself – or waited patiently for the dog or cat to thrust a nose out, listen to the creatures of the night, and pass through the flap to use the toilet that was once my courtyard. It is a fairly quick process - maximum 50 seconds.

QED. This is a quick snail.

"Arms in the hand of the citizen may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny, or private self defense." John Adams, 2nd US President

Or just having fun in the backyard.





Actually I made 4 videos today, but for some weird reason my pocket camera only photographed two of them, and only video'd two of them. So this next one will seem to be out of sequence and I will re-do what preceded it tomorrow. I am shooting more or less empty cans of spray paint. The cans are steel, but the scrap yard won't take steel aerosol cans unless they have been punctured first. As you will see, not all of the cans are quite empty. If anyone is wondering, yes, all 4 of them were hit (some twice), but only one was still pressurized enough to show it.

Here is video #3 filmed today.





I will redo the missing videos (#s 2 and 4) tomorrow, weather permitting.

In lighter news, I don't know what's up with the deer out here today. I saw several walking around today, but as you can see, they aren't making much of a dent in the raspberries this year. Usually they get them all in just a day or two, but there are tens of thousands of them still untouched.

They call to me.



So I picked until i got bored. I should put a sign at my driveway I think. "Raspberries, all you can pick for $4."

Problem is if the people driving by live on this road, there yard probably looks exactly the same, so why pay money for what is free at home?

This was my boredom point today.

This is the best game ever played on horseback, and the chances anyone out there in blogland knows it at all are close to non-existent - but this is a US video, who knows. Maybe. It's big in South Africa, Australia, NZ. Back in the day I played for about 10 years, and my knees still give me gyp from those high-speed collisions, but what a rush.

Crank the sound up, it's a good soundtrack. Blow your mind a little bit.

Manchester United has more tradition than any other club
Any where in the world. As well as one of the biggest it is also
Among the richest. I was privelleged to see them twice last
Season.

There is a fabulous history and tradition attached to the club.
Munich (1958 plane crash) is a huge part of that. Our players
Were returning having won a European Cup Quarter Final but
Several died tragically.

Before that our stadium (Old Trafford) was bombed by the Germans
During World War 2. We had to share Maine Road with Manchester
City for several seasons while our Theatre of Dreams was restored
To the marvel it is today.

Prior to this we (along with other clubs) lost players and supporters who
Left to fight for their country in WW1 and WW2.
Sandy Turnbull to name just one.
This club is steeped in tradition.

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~JOHN~

Yesterday I saw the huge 10k race. Great. As always a guy from Kenya won the mens' part of the race!

Some say it's fixed, most say no.

Some say rematch will come, some still say no (at least in my circle). I don't know about you.

But money made and Mayweather being the highest paid athlete ever, just might say okay. .

I did lose a lot of money. ...

But it is what it is...

Having a great breakfast. ..

What about our blog land?

Good morning guys. ..