The Time Bubble

Since I have become a famous blogger, I have started to receive a lot of correspondence in the form of letters from my readership. In fact I have so much that my sacks are quite literally bursting, and need to be emptied. Sadly I do not have sufficient time to reply to all of you individually, therefore I thought today's entry might take a "Points Of View" style approach to give me a chance to answer some of your letters. Here goes, kicking off with a response to my recent Aldi entry. Sir, As a fellow afficionado of cheese snack products, I was most interested to learn of your exciting Cheese Puff discovery as mentioned in your recent blog about Aldi. Full of excitement I rushed down there this morning to buy some, sadly I was very disappointed to discover that they were out of stock. Apparently a rotund man in his late 30s/ early 40s had been in shortly before me and cleaned out the store of their complete stocks. I was very disappointed, however the manager did sa...

Now I guess I shall have to come clean - this blog is about football and specifically England's Euro 2012 prospects. Now before all of you who hate football groan and decide not to bother reading it, all I can say is, bear with me. It will not be in the style of some pundit advising on tactics and which players Roy Hodgson should pick (he's the England manager for the really uninitiated). There's plenty of that gubbins in the newspaper. Instead I thought I would take a light-hearted look at what is really likely to happen, and how we as a country are likely to react. By doing this I will do my bit to help England - as my doom and gloom predictions may be just what is needed to inspire them to tournament glory - just to prove me wrong. Basically every two years we have either the World Cup or the European Championships - both of which England have a long history of failure in. This year it's the Euros, not quite as big as the World Cup but big nonetheless. Not as big...

I wish more people would blog. By that I mean people I know, and also people who live locally who I don't know but who interact within the same community. Perhaps I am a little parochial, but I am far more interested in what is going on within my local community than in the wider world. Yes obviously I read the paper every day to keep up on what is happening in the wider world, but it's the world I directly live in that interests and affects me. For example the headlines today are all about a new EU plan to stop the banks failing. Now whilst I don't deny that all of this has some long term affect on my personal prosperity it does not affect how I live my life on a daily basis - and it won't have any influence on whether I decide to go to the shops or to the park today. I am interested in people - and by that I mean real people. Sadly it seems that we as a culture are generally obsessed only with the celebrity. I never read the red top tabloids because they hold no...