Flaming June ?? Ha ...!

We spent the morning "mucking out" as they say in stable-speak - but this was house-based ! We are big on recycling at Chez Smiffy - big buckets marked "Glass", "Plastic" and "Cans" - if only Mossley had a cardboard skip as well .....

After a full morning (and part afternoon) tidying up, Mrs Smiffy and our Michelle went out shopping so I naturally felt the urge to do something despite the poo-weather - I went to watch the mighty Ingerland play the 132nd best team in the world ("Railway" in Greenfield - drinking E&S "Beyond the Pale") - and had that early chance gone in, and if the liner had been thinking "advantage to the attacking team"and "level", they'd have been two down in 20 minutes - once they were two up though there was no way back for Borat United .

65th anniversary of D-Day as well today - touched a few nerves for me this one, because five years ago there was a very very big "do" in France - for the 60th anniversary natch. Mrs Smiffy's dad was on one of those landing crafts (LCT 150 if I remember rightly) going into Sword Beach, so we'd arranged all sorts of the stuff for Ted and Win to go over to the commemoration "stuff" - we were going to drive him over, we'd arranged accommodation (it was a fairly complex thing with many official forms to fill) .... sadly Ted died in May 2004, a month before it all went off ... so watching a programme on Five early this afternoon was a little bit upsetting - listening to the survivors and thinking "My Dad-in-Law was there" and "They could have been interviewing Ted" - he never told us much about the whole thing until 2004 - we never asked ..... we understood why - wouldn't you - especially when you listen to those still alive who do talk ...

Politics ?? Not tonight - I await (with dread ?) the Euro-results tomorrow - just to see how much people care about life outside "Little Britain" ........ ironic really when you've got stuff like UKIP and No2EU - truly a strange society in this country these days ...
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