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I was wondering how my lettuces were surviving this year and I found this as the answer in amongst them.

Frog eating all the slugs

I thought I’d be blogging a bit more, but seem to be migrating to Twitter!  Still they all link to each other so no bother.

The Joint Captaincy with Dave of the 2′s has been up and down - exhilarating one minute and annoying the next with poor availability affecting the whole of the hockey club.  However, the buzz of getting another player into the squad to play and play well is just tremendous.  I’m also really enjoying watching the youngsters play some superb hockey and the older players helping out and playing well – one of the youngsters is consistently the outstanding player on the pitch.  I’m also really enjoying the fun element, we’ve brought back fines after the game and an element of fancy dress – though oddly I was the only one to turn up in fancy dress before the game today – plenty after the game back at the bar.  The positive vibes of the two’s is now also translating to performances on the pitch – we drew 2-2 today and came back from 2-0 down showing some real grit and character, it also helped everyone stayed in their positions unlike the first half lol

Today’s fancy dress was Halloween, and Zoe very kindly lent me some items to wear – the picture of me dressed as a witch is on Facebook.  Here is the picture of Rebecca and Jamie with Zoe’s broomstick!

Witches broom fancy dress Rebecca and Jamie

Next week’s theme is Guy Fawks night (though no live fireworks – after going to my parents and doing a firework ‘display’ and one of the rockets shot sideways into next door therefore having real fireworks by the pitch won’t be a great idea… anyway I digress) then the following week is Remembrance weekend so poppy’s and maybe army camouflage gear (the opposition will never find us on the pitch surely).  I had a vision last night in the middle of Revolutions in Beaconsfield at about 2am of 12 Elvis’s in white jumpsuits turning up – that surely would be hilarious…

Work has been very busy as usual not helped though by not having 24 hours of my live as a result of AVG thinking it found a virus on my machine but turned out it was my scanner drivers – which now doesn’t work.

I also popped down to Eastbourne at the beginning of the week, helped out Sarah (sister) with her laptop and the children had a great time as they hadn’t seen each other for ages.  We also walked down to Crowlink and the cliffs – which is the first time I’ve done that.  We didn’t realise it was a cliff until we got there and after we reached Jamie who had run very fast to it and had started throwing stones of the edge… palpatations.

Half Term in Eastbourne - Crowlink Cliffs near to Birling Gap and Beachy Head

Very tired now as I was out late last night but very enjoyable.  My calves are aching but I think that was from po-going to the music last night rather than the hockey today…

I must admit I’m rather liking WordPress now be interesting to see how it handles loads of pages rather than just a few.  Also need to do a lot more work on the site and see if I can build a revenue stream from it through Amazon affiliate links and Google Adwords.

Plenty more but you are probably bored already – went to Hayley and Vicki’s wedding last week which was very enjoyable and lots of work but will cover that another time…

The Lake at Chalfont Park a cycle ride from the hockey club

Ash and Debs came down to Chalfont to visit us for the weekend. Unfortunately it was dominated by hockey and we didn’t get as much quality time with them as we hoped.  The good thing was though we managed to get Ash back on a hockey pitch for the first time er since he last played for us – with a snapped achilles in between.

The hockey was unbearably hot in the late 20 degrees C but the opposition also had the same problem.  We lost 4-1 which was a real shame but we were pretty disjointed as we have a brand new team playing together.

After hockey we had a wander down to the ‘Water Splash’ Chalfont Park lake which was stunningly beautiful as always.  We then had a bar-b-q until late with them and Catherine and Al who arrived.

Sunday morning started exhausted at Junior hockey – 70 of them at the first hour followed by a cycle ride to the Dumb Bell for lunch which was very good – especially as Martin and Connor also joined us.  Unfortunately, Rebecca was very tired all day and kept melting down – Dad was pretty grumpy too…

Oh my Goodness, it cannot be September 2011 already can it…. Jamie and Rebecca have gone back to school this week – Rebecca has moved up to the middle school / KS2 and now wearing a school tie!!

We have had a splendid August – I sort of took most of it off to look after them and be with them for some quality time and enjoyed almost every minute of it – absolutely fabulous. Had a list of things to do and didn’t get round to doing half of them.

Anyway, back to work – and plenty of it to get through.

Made another trip to Amazon this week to top up my music collection. This week’s new CD’s are:

• Lou Reed – Berlin & Transformer
• Yazoo – In you Room (box set of everything
• Velvet Underground & Nico Deluxe
• Yuck – Yuck
• Television – Marquee Moon
• Adventure – Lesser Known

Off to see Adam Ant soon which should be a laugh. Yuck are playing at the Scala next Wednesday which is tempting though it is sold out, few tickets on ebay though.

Played for the Summer 1st XI on Tuesday which was a laugh – I was playing sweeper which was good fun. Achilles and more worryingly the groin were hurting – still hurting five days later – oh what an athlete.

Went to Robertswood Rangers fun day today and also to CSG driving range with R & J and S. Noticed a few PCSO’s at the school event and then wandering home noticed that i’m assuming they’d booked a load of cars for bad parking – which is odd as I’m wondering why they don’t do it more in central CSP or GX outside Marks and Spencer.

Also went to the Life Member’s Evening last night at the Sports Club which was a good evening out and met a few old faces – I must confess that Cash and I did have the odd glass of port though.

Flat out with work as well recently hence not many new posts. Still waiting for my web host company to upgrade my control panel so I can move this blog again (blog.watsy.com) by updating the cname – was supposed to be completed by the end of April – bit frustrating.