No I haven’t done anything unprofessional or gone to the shops in my nightwear at least I don’t think so. It was watching my football team this afternoon, I think they forgot to get off the bus! They gave two goals away in the first ten minutes all gift wrapped and carried on in than generous vein for the rest of the game. It is lucky there is no proverbial cat around at the moment!

One good thing to report our first Blackcap of the winter appeared today in the garden it was a male-hopefully will be around to be photographed in the coming days. We rarely see them in the garden in the summer but I see plenty around locally then but we always get a male and female during the winter.

Yesterday’s Answers on Fog

a) John Carpenter directed the film The Fog    b) Sandberg wrote the poem  c) The Great Smog of December 52 killed 12,000 people in London. d)  Lindisfarne sang Fog on the Tyne e) It was written by band member Alan Hull

Today’s Quiz I thought should be on losses following my comments on the football.

a) The Spanish Armada was a famous loss how many ships out of the 130 that sailed did they lose?   b) The 1945 General Election was a famous victory for Clement Attlee how many seats did Winston Churchill lose?  c) Who was “The Wally with the Brolly” after a famous England football defeat?  d) Where did General Custer suffer his last stand in 1876?  e) Lord Cardigan led his men to what catastrophic defeat?