Yes, Friends, you'll be forgiven for not even realising that soccer's prestigious "World Cup" even has started, across "the pond"! For some people, it's golf that's still trumping soccer, seemingly !!!
golf - an endlessly fascinating subject - for some people!!!!
Fortunately, however, today's Onion News, or "Golf Gazette" as my wife Lois and I call it (!), brings a welcome, but vapid smile, to our faces this afternoon, here at our home in semi-attractive Liphook, Hampshire, to put it mildly!
me and my wife Lois, pictured this afternoon on our sofa
Fascinating stuff, isn't it!
Who knew? !!!!!
Well, who can blame Lois and me for having an easy day today, because we've just returned from a nice mini-break in the Oxford area, seeing our old friend Jen, and going to Lois's great niece Lauren's wedding to Eoine (pronounced Owen would you believe!).
And now, despite feeling pleasantly exhausted after all the mayhem (!), we're having to adjust to our so-called 'normal life' again, stocking up with food and all that malarkey!!!!
the scene in Liphook this morning, as Lois and I visit the local Sainsbury's
supermarket to 'stock up' on food, after our 4 day mini-break in Oxford
What madness, isn't it - but we've got to eat!!!!
[Is that all you two 'noggins' have done today, Colin? Done a bit of food shopping, and looked at the Susie Dent column in the Radio Times? - Ed]
Well, no, absolutely not, seeing as how you're asking!
You see, already, with our Oxford 'mini-break' now over, the next big event on mine and Lois's busy social calendar is already beginning to 'loom dangerously on the horizon', to put it mildly!
Busy, busy, busy! In just under two weeks' time, and moving perilously closer all the time, is a 3 week visit from our daughter Sarah, who lives in Perth, Australia with husband Francis and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica, who'll be here on what we hope will be their annual visit to the UK.
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flashback to last July: Lois, with our daughter Sarah, plus Sarah's husband
Francis, and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica, on the banks of the Thames,
against a backdrop of 'the Mother of Parliaments' on the horizon
The family came here last July, partly funded by Sarah's so-called 'second job', would you believe!
Yes, Sarah 'Two Jobs', as we call her (!), is doing a full-time accountancy job in Perth, while somehow finding time to simultaneously still do her old accountancy job in Evesham UK. What madness, isn't it !!!!
another flashback to July 2025: Lois and me on a River Thames
sight-seeing cruise, here passing London's tallest building,
the Shard, which appears to grow out of Lois's head - what madness!!!
Ironically, in that picture above, our River Thames sightseeing cruise is just passing the 'pointy' building known as the Shard apparently growing out of Lois's head - not for real, it's just a trick of the camera!, I must stress!
[You don't say! - Ed]
The Shard is the tallest building not just in the UK, but also in the whole of Western Europe, would you believe, at just over 1000 ft high, which is totally mad! In Europe, only buildings in crazy Russia are taller, which kind of makes sense!!!
And during Sarah and family's upcoming trip to the UK, they want to go up the Shard with us, and see the view from the top, after, first, us all going for a lunch cruise on the river. They've asked me to plan the day in London, which I'm struggling with, to be frank. Well, I'm not a travel agent, so haven't got the training, but I'm doing my best!
[My sympathies are with the family, Colin, if you're the one doing the so-called 'planning'! - Ed]
the view from the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building
Reportedly, to get to the top of the Shard not using the lift, you have to climb 2907 steps. And during the building of the Shard, an urban fox called Romeo famously climbed to the top - perhaps because the lift was full (?).
What a crazy country we live in !!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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