Last Night's Lens Money Goes .....

..... elsewhere !!

Mrs Smiffy had to go to Blackburn today with work - she was given crap directions to a crap venue, arriving "a touch late".. we've been through this earlier this summer - where the car goes to a lot of places when the school holidays kick in (and I'm not available to drive due to non-school holidays) ...and this summer there's a few "non-standard trips" that will be taken while Mrs is on holiday and I'm not ... so the possibility of purchasing a sat-nav (gasp) was mooted several weeks ago. After today's experiences heading for the Enterprise Centre in Blackburn ... "go for it" was the cry this evening, so after an abortive trip to Tesco Stalybridge (cheapest was "out of stock") we did Asda Ashton and then sat in the carpark reading manuals and plugging it in to try and get home the "navman" way - it worked - Mrs Smiffy happy - and don't bother trying to rob the car cus said wotsit is in the house - and our cat is evil - and it's lying by the front door as we speak !!!

Football - well Germany eh ?? We - as in England - ought to learn from that performance, viz play crap and still win... You've got to feel for Turkey though - they've had a great tournament - a team that plays for the full 90 minutes (and more) in every game - and are always looking to get a result - a semi-final place is a big success for them (yeah they must be severely hacked off after tonight - but they've certainly put themselves on the footy map after this tourney).

Tomorrow - I'm cooking - and it's Russia/Spain - a bit like tonight really - you've got to go for the obvious (Spain) - but the other team might just .....

And don't ask me about Marcus Hallows ...... I find it sad that people - three years on - feel the need to look for recompense for possibly "nothing" - and some twat in the legal/litigation profession (viz "pond life") has "advised" on this course of action .... it beggars belief ... and the only losers will be EVERYONE (except the legal eagles - viz "pond life").

I've got a tale about the Simon Carves Pension Fund somewhere in my head - but I'm saving most of it up for another day - suffice to say the "buggers" are still set on closing it - as they are strangely at Bechtel (in fact at Bechtel their close date is EXACTLY the same date as ours - and they've had EXACTLY the same 60 day Consultation period - and guess what ..... our new CEO used to be a Director at .......................[fill in - first letter "B", last letter "L" with a smashing "ECHTE" in the middle] ...and I'm sure there's a lot of "pond life" involved in these 'events' as well ....

Must check tonight's lotto numbers ...