What is the perfect Sunday? For some it's a roast dinner, family, friends, wine, kip and Sunday papers. For others it's a 6 hour cycle in the country, stopping at cafes for coffee and cake. For some it's an all day club for the come down from a big Saturday night, for others it's a day for religious celebration and contemplation (not many of those granted)
Me? Well today i put on my Lycra triathlon suit and flip flops and attacked the overgrown front garden with a strimmer and sheers. Granted it wasn't typical garden wear but i got a good tan.
I've never seen the point of gardening. For me it is what's known in the trade as an 'inconvenience'. Valuable porning time is wasted pruning rose bushes, strimming the grass and trimming bushes, though to be fair those phrases wouldn't be out of place in the porn industry.
I've never really 'got' gardening, probably because I've never actually had one. If i did it would probably end up looking pikey. You know the one all neighbours hate as it's unkempt & overgrown, looking like an Eastern European Weight lifter's snatch during a razor shortage.
I can understand it, open air, growing your own plants, colour, relaxation, aesthetically pleasing. But it's as boring as Chris Moyles. It's just not for me, but who knows, maybe when i turn 60 I'll be all over it, but lets see.
Big day today for Brad Wiggins who won the Tour De France. An incredibly insane cycle race over 2,500 miles in France over 21 days. He pissed it and became the first Brit to win the race in 100 years. All achieved with a massive pair of sideburns. It's refreshing to see a sportsman retain some kind of originality and chops in an age of banal soundbite robots. Good on yer lad.
Papers full of chat about the impending Olympics. Can't believe it starts on Friday. Seems like only yesterday we became underwhelmed Seb Coe and Co won the bid for 2012. So, despite G4s doing their best to fuck up security, and around £2billion of our cash. It's finally going to happen. Even the Sun has made an appearance.
There seems to be some kind of media propaganda campaign to make it unpopular to be sceptical and negative about the Games. Like we should get behind it as an event to make you proud to be British and of your country. They are forgetting we are critical bastards in this country, particularly after £2billion's been spunked down the drain on stadiums no-one is going to use after the games.
I on the other hand am looking forward to the games, fired up at the prospect of Badminton, Equestrian, Archery and Sailing, and frankly semi hard at the thought of Judo. It's going to be epic.
The air is full of the smell of BBQ's, the hot weather has finally made an appearance so i think everyone should get a month off. Kids are on holiday so we should 'break up' too. Long lazy summer days spent doing nothing but running around, firing people with water pistols (why didn't the dude in USA do that instead of real life ammunition what the fuck is wrong with people?) lolling about in Parks, reading, sunning, kicking a ball round aimlessly, getting hard on's at inappropriate times and then having to discreetly place 'The Times' in front of it so you don't get arrested and placed on the register.
Park life in the Summer is a total British classic. In fact someone should write a song about that.
I had a good day today, enjoyable, relaxed and pleasing. The good weather helps of course. It means you don't have to do anything special, just sit out. Us Brits are hardy souls. We brave the elements all year and then at the first sight of sun, put our living rooms outside for the afternoon in the Park or Garden on a big blanket and sit around but in sunlight. Easily pleased.
This can then be extended into something called 'a holiday' for camping or caravaning. Where you take your house with you and place in a smaller space. Again typically British. They should have included this in the Olympic Games. That and teenage pregnancy, underage binge drinking and obesity would have made us gold medal favourites at these disciplines. Throw in Queueing and rioting and we would have cleaned up
If feel Todays blog was a little uninspired & boring, as you can tell i had no chat, no subject and little in the way of creative inspiration. I would mark it as a 3 out of 10 day, but thats OK. I am wanting topics for Monday please readers, like a form of Blog jukebox.
Give me some inspiration people, i'm running dry here
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