Chelsea 1, QPR 0

Posted: January 6, 2008 in football
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Ah well, the great upset never happened at Stamford Bridge. The Once and Soon-T0-Be-Again Mighty R’s fell to a freak own goal by keeper Lee Camp – Pizarro’s low shot hitting the post and going in off the diving keeper’s back. Still, we have the consolation that with the millions being poured into Loftus Road, we’ll be back in the Premier League before too long. As The Sunday Times commented this week:

“Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea squad was assembled for £227m. Andriy Shevchenko is their costliest signing at £30.8m, the same sum QPR owner Lakshmi Mittal paid for his daughter’s wedding.”

 

Resolute … for now, anyway

Posted: January 2, 2008 in miscellany
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New Year’s resolutions – why bother? I never remember them, never go back to check whether I lived up to them and best of all, no one else ever remembers that you made them in the first place. Maybe if I blogged them I’d keep to them … so here (in no particular order) are a few I’d like to do in 2008:

  1. Get back to playing tennis (a perennial this, since 1997)
  2. Finish watching The Sopranos
  3. Watch at least one DVD a week from the ever-growing Christmas collection of box sets I never get around to finishing (I’m just dying to find out how World At War turns out.)
  4. Just say no to desserts during the week. 
  5. Read at least one book a month
  6. Edit all the home video piling up on my HD camcorder once a month
  7. Buy an ocean kayak – and use it
  8. Take more naps 
  9. Resist the urge to buy an iPhone until they work legally in Bermuda
  10. Keep this blog going for at least a year

Ah, the wit of AA

Posted: January 2, 2008 in media
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One of the joys of Sunday (well, Monday in Bermuda by the time we get it) is the UK Sunday Times, mainly because it usually has the food and TV columns by the biting and witty AA Gill. This week’s TV column was another reminder of just why I love his writing. Of veteran British actor Derek Jacobi, he wrote: “[His] most successful and repeated thespian trick is to imitate the startled look of a homosexual mouse caught in flagrante by a marmalade cat with halitosis: a canny mixture of camp terror and disgust, which, frankly, I could watch for hours.” The man’s in a class of his own. Do search out his travel book, AA Gill Is Away and The Angy Island, about us Limeys – both are absolute treats.

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