Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 23:26

One of these ten points was written wearing no socks. Can you guess which?

1. Kenny Daglish has been sacked as Liverpool manager. The England European Championship squad has been announced, and the surprises include John Ruddy, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Andy Carroll included, and Rio Ferdinand omitted.

2. I remember sitting in the back of my parents car one evening, in a car park behind a local sports club, reading a book of Edward Lear poems. We were waiting for my Dad to finish his squash game inside the club - he was playing a man who later was my English teacher.

3. This evening I looked online, and found that my local council is introducing a scheme where streetlights in the area will come on at dusk, then turn off at midnight and not come back on till half five or so.. remaining on till dawn breaks. I think this is a pretty sensible idea - they've obviously put some thought into the green issues versus the potential for crime and accidents and shit. I'll be interested to see how it affects the pleasant stillness and darkness of the night. I may buy myself an astonomy book too, I have for a while wanted to know what I am looking at when I'm stargazing.

4. Ah, but would I rather be stuck in a lift with Dr Alice Roberts, or the middle one from JLS? Throw in a bucket of chicken, and I'm sold.

5. The novel I'm reading ('Let The Right One In') is proving to be very compelling indeed so far. Yep, I'm only thirty or so pages in, but I am enjoying it, and had to force myself to stop and go to sleep last night at about one a.m. Involving shit for sure, and not suffering from the awkward distraction of not being able to remember the characters names and who was who (like I found Stieg Larsson's to be a tad blunted by).

6. Out Stack is little more than a rocky outcrop, and is uninhabited. It has been described as "the full stop at the end of Britain". Travellers do not encounter any further land masses between Out Stack and the North Pole if heading directly north.

7. Maria Bieşu died today. Vissi d'arte indeed, she did give her life to her art. ..perché, perché, Signore, ah, perché me ne rimuneri così?

8. For some reason I surfed from the above deceased Moldovan opera diva to the Israeli yodelling pop singers Esther & Abi Ofarim, doing 'Cinderella Rockefella'. It turned out that she wasn't the lady that he loved - the couple divorced in 1970, just a couple of years after the song hit the tops of pop charts worldwide.

9. Prentice this evening was good (nb. freaky co-incidence is that I put 'prentice' into wikipedia to find out what it actually meant, and it came up with the names of several people, including a Alta Rockefeller Prentice and John Rockefeller Prentice, both of whom are related to the oil tycoon John D Rockefeller.. and I went and mentioned Rockerfeller in the previous paragraph from completely unrelated reasons). Jenna went, after directing an overly cheesy advert for English Sparkling Wine. Justified firing, though unpopular Stephen could have gone. On AYF she came over as likeable and genuine and not overly inflated with pretention, which I like in a person. I have in fact dated a few women who Jenna reminded me of in some ways.

10. Reet, off to do a very big poo as I feel very bloated. It could just require me to emit flatus, and I have a suspicion that some of the bloat is due to coffee and beer (which will need weeing out, not pooing out - as I am sure you are aware). I will then retire to bed with my John Ajvide Lindqvist novel.