Tuesday 28 June 2016

Viking invasion next


My Hamburg mate has just sent me this picture with the comment that no English football team has ever won a match against an Icelandic one in the European championship in the past, so not to feel so bad about it.

And I thought that I would not be mentioning England's exit from Europe again today. You never know how things are going to turn out.

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  1. Your Hamburg friend is too kind.

    Don't you think there is a delicious irony in England being kicked out of the "European" championship by their own ineptness? The timing couldn't have been better. Not that I don't feel sorry for them. English football - when challenged outside their own borders - has always been a bit of a hit and miss. No doubt frustrating for them. Why else did they dine out on 1966 for decades? Rachel may now hate me (again) - not, of course, that it takes much to raise her ire.

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    1. We only took up the 1966 victory over Germany because people were getting fed up with our 1945 one.

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  2. When I saw the word 'Viking' I thought we were having a post about hottie Ragnar Lothbrok.

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  3. I like the colors in the picture and also the way the fish in the water are depicted.

    Best wishes.

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  4. I am in such a black mood tonight, that I really do not want to say anything but this.

    I heard of the death of a friend of mine through cancer (a female lawyer who I knew was ill) at the same time as seeing a drunken domestic whilst reading the text message.

    A pregnant woman was swearing at what I believe may be the father of at least one of her children, outside a pub. She hit the man, who responded by throwing her handbag over the road and into the bushes.

    All the while, a boy of about 7 was watching and screaming for them to please stop, and she told him to 'get back into the fucking pub', which he did.

    As a stranger retrieved her handbag, the father came back out of the pub, pushing a double buggy with 2 more small children into it.

    A little after, the small boy also came out of the pub, pushing another buggy with what I presume was his baby sister.

    They all trouped up the street. This is Bath, so I don't know how it is for all you up in Birkenhead.

    I had been primed t all of this by the news this morning that numb-scull BNP are now attacking Polish people who have lived in GB for about 15 years. Christ knows where I am ever going to find a good plumber now.

    And people like Rachel think I should shut up and stop moaning about the referendum outcome, 4 days in?

    I do not recall being so depressed about this country since learning about WW2 when I was a kid.

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    1. Dark, dark, dark, dark, and nothing you can say could drag me out of it.

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    2. I feel for those children. Their lives are burdened from the get-go.

      I am hanging my head down the loo myself at the moment. My 88-year old mother seems to have decided that she will leave her house to a 28-year old handyman, whom she calls "my lover' instead of to her two daughters. This after he drove to the bank with her, told her to withdraw 5 thousand Euros, took those from her and later claimed to have lost the total sum due to a break-in at his house. But, hey, she loves him.

      Right now, everything sucks all around. There.

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    3. Do something about that 28 year-old before it is too late. I know what I would do, especially tonight. Fuck the money and the house - it is the principle - or lack of them - which would get me right on to that little bastard.

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  5. Despair is a black companion. I am sorry for your friend. Seeing children suffer, as these do and will, is wrenching.

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    1. Those sort of social service problems don't very often play out on the streets here.

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  6. I wish I could send some comforting words..sadly it is only time that will help.

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    1. I'm feeling a bit better than last night, thanks Libby. I don't very often get into that sort of mood, only when the country is facing a ten-year recession, like eight years ago.

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  7. Are those two Vikings 'walking the plank' or landing on foreign soil? I notice that the other boats don't seem to have their own planks, so maybe they thought just two Vikings were enough to defeat a whole nation.

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    1. I think they are taking advantage of Britain's National Health System - or they maybe are just popping over to have a meal in a reasonably priced restaurant. Have you ever eaten out in Scandinavia? One pizza = about £45.

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  8. Being Vikings, Cro, they would do it in an orderly fashion - no pushing from the back. They don't look very keen do they? Hope they didn't choose a Bank Holiday !

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    1. We had King Alfred, but in the end he didn't win against the French, which is somewhat extraordinary.

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    2. Presumably on a Bank Holiday it would have been raining, everyone indoors playing Snakes and Ladders, leaving the Vikings to pillage alone.

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    3. Of course, it was Harold who was not playing snakes and ladders at Hastings in 1066. To give him his due, he may have been a little battle-weary. He had just marched from Stamford Bridge where he fought off some more Vikings before having to deal with the Normans.

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  9. Sometimes one can only give a hug - and can't say anything solacing. (I'm not speaking of the Vikings). Hug. xx

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