Sunday, 8 March 2015

The Price of Football


The Wednesday Revolution
   
For those of you not familiar with Sheffield Wednesday, the club is going through a quiet revolution. We have been bought out by a Thai business man Dejphon Chansiri for £37.5m, His family control Thai Union Frozen Products, the worlds largest producer of tinned tuna. Its fair to say that I have never bought so much tuna, the cupboards are overflowing and we are now stacking it in the garage. Alison despairs at me, but the cats of Baston have never been so well fed!

Saturday, 28 February 2015

It Finished Where it all Started

Ellie & Meg on the boat with me
I've been back at work for 4 months now and it's always been on my mind that I have not kept my cult following (well follower) up to date with the closing stages of my Long Leave. So here goes.

I guess reality started to dawn that my long leave wouldn't go on for ever about four weeks before I was due to go back to work. I'd had a taste of freedom and now in a cruel twist of fate,  I had to return to the shackles of 9-5, train journeys and corporate speak - just on the subject of corporate speak, my favourite expressions since I have returned to work have been:-