Saturday November 9th 2024 "Are women's sports as good as the men's ones? - talking point (!)"

Friends, isn't it wonderful how women's sports have suddenly become accepted now, don't you think? And it's a sign of that acceptance that even women's sports bras, having conquered the world of women's sports, have now "invaded" the non-sporting female world; surely proof, if any were needed, that women's sports and their bras have finally "arrived". Don't you think?

Witness this "doozy" of a story in today's local Onion News West Worcestershire print edition - just thumb through to page 94 for this little "doozy", if your thumb can take it, that is !!!

Even pay-to-view TV sports channels are beginning to "court" the female viewer, surely a "sign of the times", if ever there was one. The local Onion News, again, has more....

And my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I think - if you want our two penn'orth, that is (!) [No I don't, thanks! - Ed] - it's that Sky Sports has finally hit the jackpot locally and that women's sports are really taking off around these parts. 

Even local schoolgirls are joining in the fun, to put it mildly, as we discover on our morning walk today past prestigious local private boarding-school Malvern College, alma mater to CS "Narnia" Lewis, TV journalist and quiz host Jeremy "Paxo" Paxman, and TV's "Mr. Gardening" Monty Don, not to mention other luminaries (!).

we make our way, on this dull, damp November morning, past

the premises of the hush-hush barbed-wire-encircled Ministry of 

Defence contractor Qinetiqm and down to the gates of prestigious

local boarding school, Malvern College, alma mater to

CS "Narnia" Lewis and TV's "Mr Gardening" Monty Don

Malvern College female boarders playing soccer this 

morning as Lois and I walk on past the school grounds

Yes, Monty Don - TV's "Mr Gardening" - once played sports on these fields too, back in the early 1960's. 

To see Monty calmly and laconically tending the fruit and vegetables in his "TV Garden" today, you'd never guess the man's turbulent educational back-story. Aged 7, he was thrown out of his junior school, Wokingham's appropriately named "Bigshotte School", for being "too boisterous", before starting at Malvern College, which he reportedly 'hated'. What madness !!!!

ex-Malvern College student Monty Don, featured

here on the cover of the BBC's "Gardeners' World" magazine

And this morning Lois and I are wishing he were here with us here in our kitchen, to catch a glimpse of Lois's "whoppers" - some of her latest carrots, the fruits of her patient labour after what's been her first growing season here in the new-build home in Malvern where we've lived for the last 2 years.

and if only ex-Malvern College schoolboy Monty Don,

TV's "Mr Gardening" could be here this morning

to catch a glimpse of Lois's "whoppers"

Come back, Monty, all is forgiven haha !!!!

19:00 Lois and I have spent all day talking  on and off about the US Presidential Election this week, and tonight we look at the feature in Lois's copy of "The Week" magazine, which "plopped" through our letter-box yesterday afternoon.

Why did Donald Trump win? Or is it just that Kamala Harris lost? I think we should be told, don't you? And on page 5 of the magazine we are, which is nice!

And it's particularly interesting for us to read that Tim Stanley in the Daily Telegraph concentrates on Kamala Harris's "poor" campaign.

And later we tune in to last night's Channel 4 programme "The Last Leg", which, as always, took a comedic look back at the week's highlights, in the company of celebrity guests.

Presenter, Australian Adam Hills says, "Kamala may not have led the best campaign, maybe because she only had 107 days before the election, but also because she was directly linked to the guy who's been blamed for the state of the US economy." 

And Hills added, "However, in hindsight, this underwhelming answer [on an ABC TV chat show] may have been the moment she lost it....":

Yes, Harris was asked, 'Is there anything you would have done differently from President Biden? during the past four years?' And only after several seconds pause for thought, she responded hesitantly, 'There... is not... a thing that ... comes to mind'."

Oh dear, I really don't think Kamala had even thought of that one before, had she. What madness!!!!

I wonder.....!

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!