Not much has happened since the carnival on Saturday. This is because it has rained much of the time limiting opportunity to get out. I suspect Wales is having now what we have had much of today. Good luck with that!
I also have museum work which means looking up things I have forgotten, searching for items I wrote long ago and discovering they have disappeared, and having to rewrite in simple language what little I have found.
This interferes with my need to sleep, visit Tescos and read papers and books. It also leads to eating badly and putting back the weight I lost last week. Tomorrow I restart my diet again. Foolishly I bought two big papers at the weekend, something I never do, and have been ploughing through them all week, in the Loo. Once I have separated the many parts, dumped half off them, began reading the interesting bits I find it is Tuesday! The colour supplements are glossy but full of middle class writers, mostly women, saying nothing. The items inside are uninteresting and aimed at those with too much money and a desire to keep up with their peers, rarely do such mags actually contain something worthwhile, it is all image! Clearly not my image.
There is no doubt that apart from the owners bias these papers do at least contain journalists, even if some of them are far from reality. The writing is better, some of it is worth reading and the spelling superior to that found in the Daily Mail. Even the Guardian has got a spellchecker, whoever she is. I will be through them in time for next weeks, if I can afford £2-3 for a paper.
I have watched some of the girly football on offer these days and was impressed by some of it. Scotland as we know was again cheated by the English with a dubious penalty but put on a good show anyway. Many teams do show hard work and good skill, not too sure women and made to be goalkeepers mind, and altogether it is not as bad as I feared.
It must be said it is not equal to the men's game and it is annoying to hear some of these females grumbling that they want the same money as the men. In their minds they are some sort of superior sport but in reality they are far from that. In fact they get paid much more than men playing for many teams, Cowdenbeath players would like these girls advantages, however if we put Cowdenbeath up against the Scots or English international women's side Cowden would win quite easily. If you wish to increase cash you must increase the numbers watching, even Cowdenbeath struggle with that.
