How can a team that everyone said played the best football in the league (and had one of the best defences) - and in my opinion outplayed Liverpool in the CL final (even though we lost) - fall from grace so badly?
I now feel I want to pluck my eyes out after I've watched them. Brighton, my birth town team, play better football than us - I'm not sure 99% of the league don't.
In between the naff football AND the Numan ads it's like self flagellation eh? Aaaaaarrrrrgggggh.
Are you like me as well, in as much when they play badly I feel that it somehow reflects on me - as though I'm in some way inferior because of it?
I lay awake last night listening to what I thought was dripping from thawing snow. Got up this morning to discover 3 holes in the new bedroom carpet where it's been scratched at, presumably by a mouse. Bedroom is now carpeted with mousetraps....
I developed a mindfulness technique for getting rid of hiccups. It involves closing your eyes and breathing slowly while focusing your mind on relaxing your diaphragm. It feels like inflating and deflating a small balloon just beneath your lungs. Hard to describe but it works every time for me.
Anyway another unexpected consequence of Covid: I needed to buy some crickets to feed my lizard but the shop were sold out and not expecting any for a few days. As I'm limiting my trips out as much as possible I bought alternative bugs instead of going back later in the week. Live mealworms always go down well so I got a tub of those, but they're not very good food and can get a bit addictive for her so I bought a pack of dubia roaches as well. I've never tried them before but they're supposed to be really good food for lizards so I thought why not. The problem is that there's one roach in the pack that's too large for my lizard to eat. They're supposed to be graded by size but a stray big one must have sneaked in. So now I seem to have a pet cockroach It's actually quite a nice little creature, they're slow moving and don't smell, and they have quite nice markings but I didn't particularly want a pet cockroach...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Hiccups cure - kapalabhati yoga breathing works for me.
Inhale pushing your abdomen out forwards then exhale sharply pulling your abdomen in. Repeat quickly 20 times, then rest taking a few deep slow breaths and repeat.
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I still subject myself to watching every game, but there is no pleasure in it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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