2007 - March

[El Gordo]

Best of luck with your writing adventure, Andy. I´d like to have encouraged you to write it in Almería but I was not with you when you talked about the topic. I´m sure we all will enjoy reading the book. Actually, I´m looking forward to it. If you want it to be translated into Spanish, just tell me.

Regards

Antonio

Thanks Antonio, much appreciated. I've actually edited that bit out again for the moment. Will probably put it back later but need to avoid sounding complacent about it.

[Sweder]

Be careful what you offer, Antonio; There may be some discomfort involved

Actually I think Andy's book - and I think it's great that we're talking about it as something that is, not something that might be - will be very well received in Espana.

[Sweder]

As I've said elsewhere recently, you don't always - or often - get what you deserve in football.

For much of last night it looked as though QPR would upset a whole queue of applecarts by taking all three points against high-flying Derby. Then not only do the Rams force home an equaliser, but the hard-earned point fails to stop the hoops slipping into the relegation zone.

Sorry, this wasn't intended to dampen your ardour.
If you need cheering up on the football front my old mate Ronaldo (the gifted one that plays in Manchester, not the Milanese pie-eater) went arse over tit in spectacular fashion during last night's ludicrous MU Rowdies versus Europe-and-Brazil palaver at the Devil Bowl. If you can, catch the footage; the boy ties himself in so many knots he almost ends up in tears. Of course redemption was just around the corner when he stunned Casillas with possibly the best 40-yard+ free kick since that flukey beach-football swerver from Roberto Carlos.

[Sweder]

Have at it old boy; it'll be a corker, of that there is no doubt

[glaconman]

Ah, good to hear some positive noises coming from your corner Andy.

I'm ordering a new suit for your Booker party (or wtf they call it these days).

No pressure.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/article...35,00.html

[glaconman]

Bit of a faux pas there. The Booker is fiction of course. Which brings us nicely back to your Darjeeling Fling. Haha.

[El Gordo]

Bit of a faux pas there. The Booker is fiction of course. Which brings us nicely back to your Darjeeling Fling. Haha.

:p

You have to give the punters what they want. It's what made the Sun a great newspaper.


Did I really write that?

[stillwaddler]

Scribble on Andy, hope you are going to include us all in your dedication;-) Really looking forweard to reading it, have you got a publisher in mind?

[El Gordo]

Scribble on Andy, hope you are going to include us all in your dedication;-) Really looking forweard to reading it, have you got a publisher in mind?

Hi SW. I don't think it's going to be that easy, somehow, though I appreciate the sentiment.

I've made some contacts and have a plan, but I can't afford to get ahead of myself. I've done the training -- though not as well as I should have done. The race itself is yet to be done, and it's a tough one. Most don't make it...

[Sweder]

When I read that the magpies were after Andy’s tadpoles I was worried this might be some terrible euphemism for a Geordie-lead attack on our glorious leader’s conceptual swimmers. Having just found a generous deposit of glutinous mass in my frog-pond this morning I know what he’s on about now.

Sadly I’m all out of spare sorrow; mine’s been converted into self-pity. Not only do I have the mother of all hangovers (carried forward from Monday night) I’ve also managed to re-awaken my old mucker Ruptured Disc in my lower back. Provided this is a repeat of historical damage it's unlikely to affect my running, but I’ll be typing reports from the horizontal for a while. Bugger.

The New Resolve is already shining through in your posts, Andy. There’s a freedom (and frequency) in your writing lately that I’ve not noticed for some time, an indication that, like the tubes in an old black and white telly-box, the synapses are really starting to heat up. With this return to form, the rustle of some quality diarists emerging from hibernation and the arrival of the incomparable Ana I reckon we Forum Junkies are in for a rare old treat.

[stillwaddler]

Am really worried about your tadpoles, please will you go and scoop a few up and raise them indoors until they are nice little froglets?

Ours are still frogspawn :-)

[El Gordo]

Am really worried about your tadpoles, please will you go and scoop a few up and raise them indoors until they are nice little froglets?

Tadpole bulletin to be posted later...

[Sweder]

Tadpole bulletin to be posted later...

Hey!!! How about a Tad-Cam!
'Live . . . from Andy's pond . . . '

I always wanted to do that with our froglets.
Might still give it a whirl . . .





[SIZE="1"]It was just a thought; there's no need to shout.[/SIZE]

[El Gordo]

Hey!!! How about a Tad-Cam!
'Live . . . from Andy's pond . . . '
I always wanted to do that with our froglets.
Might still give it a whirl . . .

Well, I was saying to my neighbour just the other day as we (and two of her young children) gazed in awe at these little blobs in various stages of development, that a pond can be better than watching TV. There's always something happening, and you never know quite what's going to go off next.

A TadCam though? Hmm.....

[Gersrunning]

Andy,

Some nice writing going on there.Seriously,you have a way with the pen ( Or mouse and keyboard).


Keep it going

Ger

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Yep, that last entry (Mar 19) has gone straight into my "best of RC" file. Sweder's right - something very positive's a afoot in the Andy camp. Nice work.

[El Gordo]

Enough already....

:o

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Anyway, the bulletin that the world has been waiting for: At seven o'clock this morning, with the temperature at one degree Celsius, I could be found at the end of the garden in my dressing gown and flip-flops, punching holes in the crust of ice on the pond. I felt like god.

My emphasis in the above. This is history folks - the first recorded instance of the great man himself using the Celsius scale of temperature.

Miracles do happen!

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

If I had a pound for every time I'd heard someone say
(If I had a pound for every time I'd heard someone say
(If I had a pound for every time I'd heard someone say
(If I had a pound for every time I'd heard someone say _
I'd like to be a computer _
programmer I'd _
be a rich man) _
I'd be a rich man)
I'd be a rich man)
I'd be able to
buy a gun and
shoot myself.

Precisely why I refuse to work in IT. The sad part is, I actually understand it.

[El Gordo]

My emphasis in the above. This is history folks - the first recorded instance of the great man himself using the Celsius scale of temperature. Miracles do happen!

You wouldn't believe how I agonised over that one.

Seriously.