Day 1800

Day 1800:

19.59 was my BMI, 12,513 steps which was 8.10 km and 882 kcal, apparently.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, apple, orange and pear.

Lunch: sandwich (sardine,tomato paste in white bread), lemon cake, batternburg and chocolate chip shortbread.

Dinner: ham, egg, chips, peas, fish finger, Amaretti, strawberries, ice cream and chocolate cheesecake.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash, cold coffee and hot chocolate.

Today I have heard another woman cyclist talking about a woman’s Tour de France, she said that she’d like it but it’s not to be as far as the men’s Tour, but the women’s Tour de France happens a full day earlier than the mans Tour, which their was a woman who is riding in it talking to the presenters of the Tour de France, which they weren’t actually racing for it it was more of a way for them to prove themselves in such ways as, some, men have to prove themselves like the ways that some men have to have some great financial success before they allow themselves to get close to a woman, so they can provide for them. Which I know that may even be some old times though process, not the kinds of a millennial, or the “Me, Me, Me” generation, which oddly enough I am part of; as you could have undoubtedly told from the subtext under the heading of this accursed blog, I am honestly that selfish and self obsessed, with the majority of topics that I cover being about me. Anyway I’m guessing that those thoughts are looked down upon, nowadays, in the western world there’s only enough room for the fat liberals and there skinny enablers. Everyone else be dammed, freedom of speech and expression, as long as they are the Politically Correct (Politically Censored) speeches and expressions.

Now today I have been out on a tandem with Mich again, now today we did test ride on the older tandem to see if it had been fixed good enough for a little ride we are apparently going to do tomorrow.

Day 1799

Day 1799;

My BMI was 19.56, 21,909 steps, 14.19, 1158 kcal apparently.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, apple, orange and pear
Lunch: I forgot what I had.
Dinner: pasta bolognaise and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit juice, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

I started off my day with breakfast as usual, then I had a hundred minute walk on the treadmill, just so I was all warmed up for my cycle ride of the afternoon.

The cycle turned out to be a pitiful experience, with there being many incidents. The first of which was I slipped off the peddles, then the bike accident broke, the brakes came off of the back wheel then I think that Mich’s feet left the peddles. I can’t remember all of the incidents but there was quite a few more.

Then in the Tour de France today it was another win for Geraint Thomas which strengthened his lead in the yellow jersey, over Tom and Chris.

Day 1798

Day 1798;

My BMI was 19.59, I had only taken 17,512 steps which was 11.34 km and I had burned off 1013 kcal, according to Wii Fit.

Breakfast: cereal, orange, apple, banana and pear.
Lunch: I’ve forgotten.
Dinner: battered fish, chips, curry sauce and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit juice, fruit squash, water and hot chocolate.
Snacks: half a banana.

Now today I have had I have had a bit of a nothing morning. Then just before lunch I had a tiny walk on the treadmill, but then after lunch I had a longer walk on the treadmill. But that was it of my activity for today, until the cycle I did later on before we had our take-away dinner, of fish and chips, but I had extra chips to save them from going to waste; not that me eating them isn’t a waste.

Then we watched the highlights of the Tour de France, team Sky came to the fore in today’s stage, with Geraint Thomas taking the yellow jersey with his team mate just 20 seconds behind him, in Third but he’s on the same time as Tom Dumoulan who finished in second. So GC is looking interesting with Geraint Thomas now in first, Chris Froome in second and Tom Dumoulan in third, 29 seconds off Froome. But Mark Caverndish of team Dimension Data, failed to make the cut, by 1 hour 5 minutes, so his tour is now over.

Day 1797

Day 1797;

My BMI was 19.40, I had made 14,176 steps which were calculated at 9.18 km and I have burned off 866 kcal, apparently.

Breakfast: cereal, orange, banana, apple and pear.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese, salad in white bread), Maltese biscuits and batternburg.
Dinner: chicken, carrots, cauliflower, green beans, croquet potatoes and summer trifle.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash
Snacks: chocolate.

Today I have been ready to go cycling minus socks for the majority of the morning, and I have been listening to La Course which this year has taken a step back in equality with Le Tour, I think it was because some of the women were saying that it was too much of a challenge last year, being a year that it was a 2 day stage last year but it was only a one day race this year. So disappointing for all the women that say whatever a man can do they can also do, or women can also do.

But then I had to get changed into a pair of trousers and t-shirt as I had to go on a walk to the hair dressers, to get my hair cut so I had my hair cut then we walked back. Then after I had my lunch I was waiting for ages, not literally just a very long time, for the cycling time, but when I had got bored of waiting I started having a go on the treadmill it was supposed to be an hour long walk, but it was only a 3/4 of an hour, as Mich came by and told me that he was ready for a little cycle, which didn’t go very well today, as we had a puncture, which I am thinking was a preexisting puncture, as we hadn’t managed to get to speeds of anything like 15mph since before that stop by the pond sometime last weekend, I think. So I am thinking that we picked up the puncture in between our final sub 20 minute mile and us stopping at the pond.

Day 1796

Day 1796

19.30 was my BMI, I had only made 8211 steps which was the equivalent to 5.32 km and I had burned off 1085 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, apple, pear and orange.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese, pickle and salad), batternburg and lemon cake.

Dinner: chicken, green beans, rice, 

Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice, water, Lucozade sport (raspberry) and hot chocolate.

Snacks: fruit cake (wedding cake).

Now today I have been to the gym and to athletics and I still haven’t made my step goal, but I haven’t set a kcal goal, I’m unsure about that also, as what should it be? I am not even sure of how many Kcal I consume. But then today I also have had the best part of getting married, the cake, but then I haven’t had anything to do with the marriage, I don’t even know the two people involved in the marriage.

So now I have discovered how you are supposed to get a woman pregnant, I know that it’s sex basically, but I have just discovered how much sex you should have and you shouldn’t drink alcohol, smoke or abuse drugs ; but how you are supposed to abuse drugs is anyone’s guess, as I’d get it if it was to say you shouldn’t abuse druggies as if you do then you could be arrested for abusing another person, but I’m just unsure of how you’re supposed to abuse drugs? It could be that cutting through the Cocaine with a credit card could be considered abusive to the drug, but I just don’t know. Then the other 3 “helps”  are literally use an ovulation kit, have sex before ovulation and don’t use the calendar method of prediction, but I am thinking why bother with any of those 3 tips, if you’re having sex 3 times a week say on Monday, Thursday and Saturday then over the course of a 52 week year that should be 156 sexy times per year then, that should be enough and it just takes 1 of those 156/365 to conside with ovulation, I know that semen maybe weak but it could last for up-to 7 days in a women’s vagina so even if the sperm is weak then it could keep the woman fertilised for the year. But other reports say that: 

Sperm in the vagina don't live more than minutes, the ph is too acidic for them. Sperm in the cervix/cervical crypts on the other hand live at least 48-72 hours, some reports do suggest up to 5 days

Source: HealthTap, https://www.healthtap.com/user_questions/319667-how-long-does-sperm-last-in-the-vagina-i-hear-3-5-4-5-5-7-what-is-the-correct-answer

Day 1795

Day 1795;

My BMI was 19.43, I had made 19,607 steps which was 12.69 km and I had burned off 894 kcal, according to Wii Fit.

Breakfast: 

Lunch: prawns, picked eggs, bread, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and scone (jam and cream).

Dinner: chicken, carrots, green beans, rice, scone (cream and jam) and summer trifle.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice, cider and hot chocolate.

Today was the day that France was declared to be the football World champions by beating Croatia by 4 goals to 2, but then 2 of the goals that France scored were by some very contentious refereeing decisions. But I thought that VAR was supposed to be used to eradicate the contentiousness in the referee’s decision making, not create a whole load more that potentially effected the result of the match.

But then also today I have been on a cycle ride, it was a near enough 45 mile ride. I was thinking that we hadn’t done very well on the ride today but we had broke a considerable number of our personal records.

Day 1794

Day 1794;

My BMI had increased again 19.71, my steps had decreased again to 2480 steps which was only a pathetic 1.61 km and I only burned off 555 kcal, today.

Breakfast: cereal.
Lunch: sausages, carrots, peas, broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, potatoes, banana, strawberries and ice cream.
Dinner: cheese sandwich (white bread), batternburg and fruit cake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

Today was set up to be another lazy day, as I had boccia practice to go to in the morning, ah I can still remember when my Saturdays were my favourite days of the week, as I would get to do a proper sport on Saturday mornings, it started off with a 1 hour session but then I went to the full 3 hours, which was first up was the Pee Wee hour, which was followed by a Youth hour before finally settling down into a game hour/Junior and Senior, Pee Wee, Youth, Junior, Senior are 4 of the age groups, for roller hockey.

But then today I have also watched the England vs Belgium football match, which was a win for Belgium by 2 goals to 0. 

Day 1793

Day 1793:

19.66 was my BMI of the day, 16,074 steps which were worth 10.41 km and I had burned off 1170 kca, according to Wii Fit. But my watch tells me that I have only taken 6782 steps but I’d moved 45,0 km which could be down to the 37.17 km that we rode on the tandem.

Breakfast: cereal, raspberries, banana, pear, apple and orange.

Lunch: sausages roll, potato salad and Belgium bun.

Dinner: cod in batter, chips, curry sauce and tiramisu.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

So in the morning I had done a little jog on the treadmill which got me upto about 6000 steps by my watch, then my time of the day in between then and now, I cannot remember what I have been doing for the majority of it, at least until we went out on the tandem which was where the vast majority on my distance traveled today has been. As I have spent 37.17 km on the tandem today, but then today we managed to max out at some speed of a tiny bit more than 30 mph, as I was looking at my watch at a time during the ride and it told me that I was traveling at something like 29 mph and I thought that we had just been moving faster, then when we’d finished I asked Mich and he told me that our max speed was at 30.2 mph. But because Mike had quit before our final assent of the ride we were 14 seconds down on our PR which we had set yesterday/that 14 seconds is how much worse I am without Mich’ Input.

Day 1792

Day 1792;

My BMI was 19.62 for today, the number of steps that I did was 19,697 which was 12.75 km and I have also burned off 1841 kcal, according to Wii Fit. But my watch tells me that I have done 10,365 steps which was 47.5 km I have burned off 3260 calories which was 1768 rest and 1492 active.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, apple, pear and orange.
Lunch: baked beans on toast with mini sausages, batternburg and fruit cake.
Dinner: chicken pie, broccoli, vanilla cheesecake and raspberries.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice and hot chocolate.

Now on this day I first off went for a jog on the treadmill. Next up I had gone on a couple, at least, of walks to the town centre and down to the local grassy fields, which have had quite the makeover since the last time that we had been down to them, but I was more interested in what a state the pieceof land that the scout hut is on, is in. As I am unsure if it has always been as overgrown with weeds, out back, but I can remember guess to one birthday party which was there and I don’t think that it was as overgrown as it is now.

Then myself and Mich went on a, but we managed to get our average speed of 15.6 mph for our total ride, which may seem like nothing to be honest, especially when the speed of life is rocketing, so I had an idea 

Day 1791

Day 1791;

My BMI was 19.82, steps were 9390 and my distance was 6.08 and I have burned 801 kcal. But my watch tells me that I had done over 10,000 steps.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, apple, orange and pear
Lunch: I’ve forgotten.
Dinner: pasta bolognaise and vanilla cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice and hot chocolate.

So it was today that the dream died, for the next 4 years at least, England won’t be lifting the World Cup in Russia, Croatia has seen to that. But England still have one more match to win, in order to come third in the tournament and cement their place as the second best English team/the best on foreign soil to have ever come out of England. Anyway Harry Kane still has one more match to nail the golden boots to his feet. As he is still only got the 6 of them and I can’t help thinking that there was another player creeping up on his score, and he hasn’t scored now since the last 16 stage, I think.

Day 1790

Day 1790;

My BMI has increased slightly on yesterday’s results 20.50, 4789 steps which was 3.10 km and I burned off 580 kcal.

Breakfast: raspberries, strawberries and weetabix.
Lunch: cheese omelette, muller corner yogurt (lemon) and a banana.
Dinner: macaroni cheese,frankfurter sausages and summer trifle.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot chocolate

Today I have been having another lazy day all that I have done today is go on a short walk on the treadmill. But I ate my weetabix for breakfast today, and I watched France beat Belgium in the first semifinal match of the World Cup, which puts them up against the winners of the match between Croatia and England and the losing team plays Belgium, in the third place playoff.

Day 1789

Day 1789;

BMI for today was 19.53, my steps were a bit on the low side being 1754 which was 1.13 km and I had burned off 498 kcal, according to Wii Fit.

Breakfast: cereal.

Lunch: cheese omelette, 

Dinner: macaroni cheese and summer trifle.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

Snacks: raspberries, banana and strawberries.

Now today I have had a Wisdom tooth removed, local anaesthetic is what the lower left hand side of my mouth was put under. My only thoughts of the operation was that anaesthetic tastes bad and the woman that was there to hold my hand was pretty irrelevant and a bit of a discomfort for me; as that was the most uncomfortable part of the whole process having to have a person hold my hand, I have no idea why she had to hold my hand, it wasn’t going to hit anybody nor did it clench, which could have been as she was holding it so I was making an effort not to clench around her hand. So it happened with drills and a device for removing the shards of the tooth from my mouth, now how the doctor preceded with the operation was drill my tooth to break the tooth into pieces, then he used the other piece of equipment to pick out all of the pieces of root and tooth, hearing my tooth crack was a sound that I heard.

But my compliance was appreciated by the doctor, or so he said. Besides all I did was follow his instructions like open your mouth, bite down on the mouth stop thing and move your tounge over. I had no feeling in the part of my mouth that he was operating on so it I was to state it hurt me would be totally dishonest, as how could it my mouth was numb. So I had a nice rest, I was lying down for the whole experience, but when they were taking me back to Mich, who transported me to the hospital, they used a wheelchair to transport me back to Mich, which I thought was irritating, as I could still walk.

After there was no football on the box, so instead I watched the Tour de France, Wimbledon and I’m thinking that I watched the medallion, which was a Jackie Chan film. Where his character Jimmy gets shot and he comes back with superpowers thanks to the medallion that a child gave him.

Day 1788

Day 1788;

Today on Wii Fit I had a BMI of 19.30,steps of 18,324 which gave me 11.86 km that I had apparently walked and 1075 kcal burned off.

Breakfast: cereal, raspberries, banana, orange, apple and pear.
Lunch: prawn salad sandwich, peaches, strawberries, raspberries and ice cream.
Dinner: chicken, rice, broccoli, runner beans, something, strawberries and vanilla cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice and hot chocolate.

Today I have been on a 42 mile tandem ride, with Mich. Which was good for my Wii Fit steps, how ever very poor for my watch steps. Well they were 2226 on my watch which is pretty appalling. But my watch tells me that I have moved 42 miles.

After my morning cycle I spent the rest of the morning being lazy, and that continued until I checked my watch, and up until then I had done approximately 600 steps, so I went to the make-shift gym and I noted that it was way too hot to be working out in that room, so I went for a walk outside, then I made it up to 2000 steps , by stepping around the garden.

Day 1787

Day 1787;

My BMI was up again to 19.53, my steps were seriously down to 1864 which was a small 1.21 km and I had only burned off 489 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, orange, banana, pear, apple and strawberries .
Lunch: sandwich (cheese and pickle), strawberries, ice cream, cake bars and batternburg.
Dinner: omelette (cheese, mushroom and ham)
Drinks: milk, fruit juice, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

First up today was Boccia, which is a “sport” for the clinically lazy, like me; for today at least. As on this day I have been playing boccia, then sitting down for my lunch before taking my seat for the afternoon kickoff, which was between Sweden and England, of which the result was 0 - 2 to England, which sets them up nicely for the semifinal which was decided later on today.

Then up next on the box was the game between Kyle Edmund and Novak Djokovic, Kyle Edmund was looking good for the first set, if you think that good is wasting the majority of your first serves but then he took the first set, so that should probably mean that Djokovic wasn’t on as top form as he usually is, in a break between the sets I decided to have a go on the rowing machine, which I did for 5 minutes

Before the final match of the day, I’d already gone to eat my dinner before watching the game which was between Russia and Croatia, to find out who’d be England’s opposition for only their third ever semifinal at a World Cup, their first was back in 1966 where they won the competition, the second was in 1990, when a German side clad in green, beat them in a penalty shootout. The third I know it’s against the Croatia team that has managed to get through 2 penalty consecutive penalty shootouts, to get this far, England haven’t even managed to get through 2 penalty shootouts in their history, so what’s the betting that Croatia will be dragging England to England’s second and Croatia’s third in the tournament, penalty shootout? Which will make more history whichever way the place in the final goes.

 Now it’s onto next Tuesday and Wednesday, to see which of the four semi finalists have got what it takes to make it to the final, next Sunday?

Day 1786

Day 1786:

Today I had a BMI of 19.36, I had done 13,750 steps which was a distance of 8.90 km I burned off 1112 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, orange, banana, pear and apple.
Lunch: cheese and pickle sandwich I think.
Dinner: fish, potatoes, carrots , broccoli, cauliflower, tomato and panacotta with raspberries.
Drinks: fruit squash, milk, cider and hot chocolate.
Snacks: cupcake, batternburg and a little cake bar.

So today I was treading on the mill, on the treadmill, for only approximately 40 minutes, so I was being a bit lazy today. Then I’m thinking that I’ve forgotten just about everything that I’ve been doing in between then and the football match that was won by France, 0 - 2,  it was the first of quarterfinal matches of the World Cup. But then later on Brazil got knocked out, which made it the first World Cup which hasn’t had either Argentina, Brazil or Germany contesting a place in the final. But so now it’s Belgium v France in the first semifinal.

But then I have been out on the tandem today also, between the two matches so we had done 15 miles in the hour, on our little excursion.

Day 1785

Day 1785;

BMI was down to 19.33, steps were up, not difficult I know, to 15,823 which was 10.24 km and I had burned 1209 kcal. 

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, pear and apple.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese, pickle In white bread and a chocolate brownie.

Dinner: turkey, broccoli, cauliflower, runner beans, carrots, potatoes and a little pot of like cheesecake.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash, water and hot chocolate.

So today I have kind of found myself, in part at least, if I was lost yesterday. As this morning I got back to doing a bit of jogging which was before I had another go at the abdominal exercises. Then I did a load of shenanigans for Mich, like dragging the dustbin back onto the property.

Later on we went out on the tandem, it was a twenty mile ride which we averaged at 14.4 mph today which was a disappointing speed, but the temperature was his excuse for our drop in form. We shouldn’t be making excuses, we should have just knuckled our heads down and produced results, but we failed at doing that there’s nothing else to state.

Day 1784

Day 1784;

BMI was 19.59, steps I had taken were only 1402, I had only walked 0.91 km and I burned off 520 kcal,so I know that I had a lazy day of the highest order.

Breakfast: cereal, grapes, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries.
Lunch: sandwich (sausage, bacon, eggs in brown bread), mango, raspberries and apple.
Dinner: pasta bolognaise and a cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot chocolate.
Snacks: grapes, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries.

Now today I didn’t know what to do with myself as I had to let the piano movers come in to collect the piano, so they could move it on to it’s new home which is with Emu and and C, to actually get some use out of the old thing. Which was more than it was getting here, as it was just sitting here gathering dust, like me in general especially when there’s the World Cup on the box, which there wasn’t yesterday.

I didn’t have a jog on the treadmill, yesterday I was too lazy, instead I had a slight row on the rowing machine, but I was going to do a 30 minute row today, I only got 15 minutes of the way through and I noticed that Flow had arrived so I got myself up and let her in the house it was as there was some paperwork for her to collect so she collected it and then I got her to have a go on the rowing machine, which was a result.

Day 1783

Day 1783;

BMI 19.59, steps 13,587, distance 8.80 km and I burned 926 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, grapes, strawberries, blueberries and blackberry.
Lunch: sandwich (chicken roast with white bread), grapes, strawberries, banana and apple.
Dinner: chicken, carrots, green bean like things, baked potatoes, croquet potatoes and pot of some fruity yogurt stuff.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, cider and hot chocolate.
Snacks: muller corner yoghurt.

So today I have been on the treadmill, for a short jog, then I have taken my t-shirt off (as it was drenched in sweat) before I did another one of my little abs workouts, then took a small jog around the lounge to get my steps up and I managed to get my pocket step counter to 10,000 before my watch, as I’m thinking that my pocket was beeping around about 11:30, but it was not until a bit later that I’d finally completed my 10,000 steps on my watch.

Then I sat down eating my lunch for what seemed like hours, but then Tini showed up, I thought ‘that’s wrong, isn’t she supposed to be covering for her colleague today’, then Tini revealed that it’s now going to be on a different day, but it was going to be today.

Later on today the game kicked off, the game between Sweden and Switzerland, Sweden won, so that was one yellow team beating a team in red. But then the reds struck back in the second match of the day, between Columbia and England, of which England won it and it ended in a penalty shootout. Which is apparently a first experience, as in England have never won a penalty shootout before. But I’m unsure about that it maybe that was the case for in the World Cup, but I’m just unsure. But anyway by hook or by crook England have made it through there first knockout game in a major tournament for quite some time, and it was done by means of penalties. But then there’s also the matter of how they managed to do it in the end, as I think it was the English 3rd penalty taker that had his saved, which was after the opposition had scored their 3rd penalty so they were a goal behind and the next player up, a Columbian, struck the ball so it rebounded off the post and it didn’t cross the line, the score was still 3 - 2 on penalties then up came the English 4th penalty taker and scored his shot to level it up at 3 - 3, next up was the 5th man from Columbia he took his shot it was saved by Pickford so we’d come down to the tenth of the chosen penalty takers, it was an Englishman if he scored it England would win, they’d be through to the quarterfinals, so the little Englishman struck the ball the net rippled and the English went wild, it was as if they had won the whole competition. But there’s still three more rounds to go and potentially 3 more penalty shootouts to endure.

Day 1782

Day 1782;

BMI was 19,33 today, I had taken 11,717 steps which was the equivalent of 7.59 km and I had burned off 967 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, strawberries and banana.
Lunch: I’ve forgotten.
Dinner: sweet n sour chicken, rice, noodles, chocolate ice cream and apple.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, cider and hot chocolate.
Snacks: mango, raspberry and apple pot.

Now today I have only done a short jog on the treadmill this morning then after I went outside for another jog around, it’s to clear my airways of the pollen, apparently. Then later on today I went to the gym and I completed my 10,000 steps, for the day, on the lateral trainer.

Later on today I watched the football, after a slow in the first Brazil eventually managed to score, in the second half then just before full time they managed to score a second time, which may have flattered the Brazilians in making it look easier than it was. But then the second match came on today, Japan v Belgium, and it looked like there was going to be another upset on the cards thanks to Japan and they’re quick two goal lead at the start of the second half,  but then by the full time was due to be called the score was two goals each, before the fourth official put up his board which said 4 minutes of indury timeto be played, and then in the fourth minute of stoppage time Belgium won the game. 

Day 1781

Day 1781;

BMI of 19.98, steps 7083 and I walked 4.59 km I burned off 826 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, orange, banana and pear.

Lunch: roasted chicken, butternut squash, lettuce, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and strawberry Eton mess.

Dinner: cheese sandwich and summer trifle.

Drinks: milk, fruit juice, fruit squash and hot chocolate.

Snacks: chocolate biscuit and tic-tac.

This morning I’ve heard a sharp squeaking sound, I would probably say that it was like a mouse, if I was asked, but I wasn’t so I’ll just keep my opinions to myself. Anyway it wasn’t long until the squeaking sound was drowned out by the usual sound of our mornings, the pigeons cooing. But then I’m guessing that the sharp squeakers have vamoosed before the birds pluck them from their safe spaces and devour them.

 But then I have had a lazy day today as I have been traveling in a car for some of the day, as I have been having to go to the location that Emu and C live, which was disappointing as both Mich and I had got a cycle ride to go on, one which had a bbq at the other end also and I know that I had the idea of getting them, Emu and C, a bbq which was at least a few years ago now and they’ve received it and it’s in a box on their patio as they still haven’t used it. I started unpacking it today for them but they just repacked it away and they keep saying that they are going to use it but they never do. Then we had a slight walk to a place to eat then around the city/town that they live in, before going back to their home which we did so we could get back in the car and return to our home.

But then we were just in the car on the way home, and Mich had made a crack about how I always go to sleep on car journeys, and I am willing to admit that I close my eyes when I’m in a car, but I was still listening to the radio and from what the commentators were saying was that the referee bottled it on his decision not to award Spain a penalty in the second half of additional time which could have changed the result, as if they’d have scored it then then the resulting penalty shootout wouldn’t have happened and Uruguay would have won the tie.

But as it happened:

Russia get through, knocking Spain out on penalties, woah. We got to hear that result before we went into the tunnel the score was 3 - 4 in the penalty shootout, the Spanish man scored his first penalty, Russia scored, Spain scored, Russia scored, Spain missed, Russia scored, Spain scored, Russia scored, Spain missed, so Russia managed to get through with a penalty to spare. The score was 1 - 1 by halftime, then after full-time the score was the same, the result hadn’t changed after 30 minutes of additional time before the previous happened the result of the game was 4 - 5 after the game had been played.

Then in the other match of the day the first goal was scored by the Danes in the first minute of the match, then the Crows scored their equaliser in the first four minutes so it was level pegging, at 1 - 1, the score stayed the same for the whole game up until additional time had almost ran out, and the Danes gave away a penalty. Then Casper, the Danish goalkeeper saved the shot so it was all up to spot kicks. From the spot kick’s the score was 3 - 2 to the Crows, so the final score was 4 - 3 to the Crows, so they will be Russia’s opponent for the quarterfinals.