Wednesday May 6th 2026 "Have YOU ever found yourself stuck behind some 'freak' at a concert? Not good, is it!!!!"

Yes, Friends, have YOU ever found yourself stuck behind an example of the increasingly numerous 'freaks' that are attending concerts these days?

It happened to one local woman recently, according to this morning's Onion News for East Hampshire. See my 'potted' version here, for your reading convenience!

Poor Wolf !!!!!!

And surely, surely, the time's coming when these modern-day 'expanding men' should be banned from events, especially when there are also any known short people in the audience? But let me know what YOU think - postcards only haha!!

Certainly, here in semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, my wife Lois and me are getting a bit anxious, because we'll be attending a couple of live 'gigs' by our 15-year-old grandson Isaac's band New Horizon in the next month or two. 

10:00 And in the meantime, we'll be taking extra-special care of our toes, in case we have to stand on them to see over any "expanding people", when Isaac really "rocking out" locally, that's for sure!!! Hence our visit this morning to see Janice, our new "toes-woman" over in nearby Hindhead.

(above) our grandson Isaac with his boy-girl band New Horizon, and (below) 

Lois and me this morning in our new 'toes-woman' Janice's back garden,

waiting to have our toenails clipped in her tiny back-yard 'toe-clinic' (!) 

Busy busy busy once again! And to think that when Lois and I first retired, aged 60, like, a billion years ago (!), back in 2006, we thought we'd be able to put our feet up for the next few decades. How wrong can you be !!!!!

At least when Janice calls us in, we do get to put our feet up (physically at least !!!!) for a change of pace, so that she can clip our toenails and 'oil' our feet with her TLC and her aromatic "herbs and spices" !!!!

Busy busy busy! And today there isn't even time for our usual afternoon in bed, would you believe, because we've also to get our eyes checked out instead this afternoon, at Liphook's nearby 'eye-conic' (geddit!!!) Eye Care optician service, would you believe!!!

(above) Liphook's 'eye-conic' optical service, Eye Care, and (below, left) me sitting

 in the service's comfy 'waiting area' reading the brochures, while (below right)  

Lois discusses her new prescription, and possible new frames, with optician Ali

15:30 At last our frantic day of appointments is over, and with hearts, and also our wallets (!) considerably lighter (!!!), Lois and I walk out of the shop and into the late afternoon sunshine.

Unfortunately we're just in time to get caught up in Liphook's manic twice-a-day 'school-run' hour, when all the local mums descend on this tiny town's 'central area' called "The Square", the area consisting of a lunatic arrangement of three almost-adjacent mini-roundabouts: this 'regiment of mums' (!) come either to drop off, or to pick up, their little offspring from the local comprehensive school - and it's all total mayhem, as I expect you've heard !!!! 

tiny Liphook's town centre, with its lunatic arrangement

of three near-contiguous mini-roundabouts - what utter madness, isn't it!!!

Luckily, a few years ago, local 'ideas-man' Peter came up with a set of sensible rules on social media, back in 2014, which should eventually improve things a little, hopefully (!). New ideas, however, take time to be accepted 'in these here parts', as people say in these here parts! But kudos for trying, Peter!!!

What utter utter utter madness, though, isn't it!!!!

And what a day poor old Lois and I have had - yet again !!!!

21:00 And unfortunately there's more madness for Lois and me to cope with this evening, watching "Twenty Twenty Six", the fascinating reality documentary series following the trials and tribulations of the FIFA World Cup international planning committee based in Miami, Florida, now hitting problems with the actual balls to be used in the tournament, which is weird!

This week, more problems hi-jack the poor World Cup Planning Committee's progress, after a conspiracy theorist starts claiming, on social media, that the footballs to be used in the tournament all have Chinese-made chips in them!

And the poor committee members spend a miserable half-hour one morning listening to the guy's rantings, which are by now going viral, which is a pity!

And later in the morning, things take a decided turn for the worse, when there's political intervention, and intervention at a pretty high level, which is another headache for the committee!

Amidst additional worrying, bottom-of-the-screen, fast-breaking newsflashes advising "weather warnings now in place across 9 states, as predicted forecasters make landfall", the poor Planning Committee members then have to spend another miserable hour digesting this new political bombshell and thinking up new ways of 'damage limitation'.

Apparently, President BLEEP wants FIFA to get rid of the Chinese chip, and replace it with an American chip, which, he says, "is far superior anyway".

Fortunately, says President BLEEP, there's one such 'far superior chip' manufactured by one of President BLEEP's own corporations, which suggests a ready-made, 'instant' solution in the eyes of some of the Committee members, at least!

But what madness!!!! And Lois and I are beginning to worry that this World Cup will never take place, certainly not at the rate the Committee's so-called "planning" is going!!!!

What a crazy world we live in!!!!

[That's enough madness! - Ed]

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

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