Football ? It's Christmas ....

... yep, thin on the ground this (early) week - naturally the next "biggie" is the next exciting episode in the new FA Cup "soap" called Chesterfield v Droylsden v Chesterfield v Droylsden v Chesterfield - of course it's the departmental "bash" from work tomorrow (far more enticing then the official "company bash" @ the Village in Cheadle last week - less likely to hit someone/call someone a plonker etc etc !).

For those in need - check out this place late tomorrow - the home of Droylsden's top snapper - aka"Carlf" ..

http://bloods.fotopic.net/

..for the best of the action to find out who will be travelling to Ipswich early next year ...(tell him "Mozzer" sent you !)

For me - and others - the next game is a trip down to the Tameside Stadium on Boxing Day to see Mossley take on Curzon Ashton. The last game twixt the two was a bit of a "downer" in many ways for me ...Dad not well - FA Cup - missing most of game - no camera - losing game

That Game (and other stuff !!)

With it being Boxing Day - all the shops will be open - but no trains/no buses etc .. never mind there's no Congestion Charge in Ashton .. need to check this out but I'm up for walking down - we've done it before (but Ashton United is a "touch" closer !!!) - must check this out with the rest of the "eco-crew" ...

Until then - good luck Droylsden - this episode needs closing off !!

Trains - today - hmmm - 0724 from Mossley - OK - 0734 from Stalybridge ....................38 minutes late - fortunately - ha !! - the 0744 was only 5 late, enabling me to miss the 0807 to Cheadle Hulme, enabling me to get the Greggs coffee and hang around until 0838 for the next one to Cheadle Hulme ... so ... leave home 0715 - arrive work 0900 - go figure - so today's "w*nker" award is returned to First Trans-Pennine - a morning not unlike the Monday of a couple of weeks ago as in

Incompentent Rail TOCs (Trans-Pennine edition)

..although - not to be outdone - the 1842 off Stalybridge tonight was - at 1841 - according to the costly Train Information System - "On Time" - but when 1842 arrived ... it slipped ... and slipped .. and slipped .. finally arriving at 1851 - so tonight was useless hardware and Northern Fail grabbing the "w*nker baton" from First Trans-Pillock...

Never mind - it's Richard Branson's fault - got an e-mail to prove it ...re-nationalisation is too good for all of them ..
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