To The Hive To See Ipswich Town
Barnet have a new ground called The Hive and I went there yesterday to see Ipswich play.
As new grounds go, it is a good attempt to create a 6,000 or so capacity stadium.
Note Edgar Davids playing for Barnet and Titus Bramble for Ipswich.
Distance Runners Just Do Not Do This!
The statement above is in a report in today’s Times about Mo Farah’s breaking of the UK and European records for 1,500 metres in Monaco last night. The BBC report is here.
I have tickets for the athletics in the Olympic stadium on Friday and Saturday, where Mo should be making an appearance, before going to the World Championships in Moscow.
I’m looking forward to what should be a really great night.
The Dangers Of Eating Pies
As a coeliac, I don’t eat pies unless they have a potato topping, rather than a pastry one. But this story, should be a warning to us all.
Aystralia seems to be going rather soft these days, what with the rugby and now the cricket.
Do We Rely On Cars Too Much?
This story from Birmingham shows the problems you get when you close a major route through a city centre so important maintenance can be carried out.
Birmingham to me, is one of the least pedestrian friendly cities in the UK and it seems to an outsider that everything has been given over to the car. On my last visit for example, I found no walking maps at all. I also went to St. Andrews to see Ipswich play Birmingham City last year and walking to the ground was a dangerous experience.
But then nothing must detract from the experience of driving!
Rape Justice – Dubai Style
This story is horrific.
Why anybody would want to go to such an awful place, I do not know. I went once with C and we we found it a hot concrete jungle with no soul.
Children Should Go Free On The Buses
This story from the BBC says that the Liberal Democrats want all children to go free on the buses.
Not having been a child for many years and having no contact with any now, I thought that as in London, all children do go free.
But they don’t!
I think it will be a good idea, especially as reports in London recently have shown that this policy has cut the number of children getting injured on the roads.
It is interesting that the BBC illustrates their story with one of the Hackney Eight.
The Anonymous Widower 