westlondonfan

Season ticket holders buy beer too. I imagine the number of season ticket holders has gone down since the price was more than doubled.

If you mean financially, that is not necessarily the case, if half the spectators paid only paid £1 or £5 at Wimbledon. This was probably the case yesterday if there were 400 Widnes fans present.

Unless you count beer I didn’t see anything. I really think they could of done a one-off T-shirt like Wigan did at the Den. A one-off off programme with an introduction to the rules, a short biography of each player and a photo, a shortish history of the club, a preview of the World Cup and a list of the home fixtures for the rest of the season would have been very useful for new Wimbledon fans to take away and to have a look at when they got home. As I said before the match it’s like we are expecting AFC Wimbledon to supply us with some fans. Wimbledon did their side of the bargain and it is a nice stadium but I am not sure what the Broncos did other than put a team out. Sadly I think the attendances will drop off markedly in the next few matches unless the same effort is made for every match for the rest of the season. It was a good afternoon and it was nice to see old friends but where we go from here is dependent on what plans are put in place to build on yesterday’s match and attendance I think?

True but Dons season ticket holders could get in for a pound today. If they have to pay. Full price will they come on a regular basis? I hope so but I am not sure that they will.

There is no London strategy, if there was we would stay at Trailfinders and move from a position of strength and not expect a football club to supply us with some new fans.

I watched it’s a wonderful life in colour this year. I also watched once upon a time in the west. with the family I watched fantastic beasts one and two. I like the first one but the second one was a little dark I thought.

I am reading this at the moment.

I have been to Sri Lanka too. There is a place where the road to Kandy (?) crosses a river and there are literally hundreds of huge fruit bats in the trees on both sides of the road.

Reading/listening to Hard Times. Is it just me or is Charles Dickens a bit wordy, sentimental and unnecessarily long winded? Perhaps it is the antiquated language I suppose. His stories make superb television programs and films though.

To play devils advocate I think trimming 20-30 minutes from Once Upon a Time in America spoilt the last third of the film . I used to totally agree with your view but I think that I have just grown accustomed to long films. As an exception Sexy Beast was quite short and pithy and probably benefited from that.

I watched JFK the other day for the first time. I have to confess that I have never been a big fan of Kevin Costner but I found it a very entertaining film.

My interest in red wine is deepening. Marks and Spencer do some nice reds grown on the sides of Mt. Etna.

Where do you find it? I was talking to someone last night whose parents are Croatian and he didn’t know!

I bought a Bulgarian Shiraz from Waitrose the other day. Very nice.

‘Left’ in Italian is ‘sinistra’.

Don’t seem to much music these days but listened to Shuggie Otis’s original version of Strawberry Letter 23 last night. Really worth a listen if you like the more famous Brothers Johnson version from 1977 (as featured in a Quintin Tarantino film). Shuggie Otis is a very underestimated artist.

Reading Sideways by Rex Pickett.

I listen to it all the time instead of listening to radio in the car and before I go to sleep etc. Listen to the sample before you buy as some narrators are brilliant and a few not so good.I often have one or two history or science books and one novel on the go at same time. If you get successful modern books and classics like Charles Dickens, Moby Dick, James Joyce , etc the reading is especially good I find.

Listening to John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, ‘Citizen Clem’. One of the best books about history/politics I have ever read.

Great book. If you fancy a quick read after that try Ulysses? ?

I saw Paddington 2 with the family at Park Royal a little while back and I agree with Bedford Roughyed it is a really good film.

I have seen a lot of toads in the ponds near us this year.

Snowing in West London . That’s a three rest from digging my mum’s pond then!?

I am in the process of digging a pond in my mum’s garden at the moment so I hope the ground doesn’t freeze for another week or so otherwise that is going to be a very difficult job!

Elvis’s guitarist at the time couldn’t make it sound as good as Jerry Reed’s original ( which was played on nylon strings ) so they got Jerry Reed to come in and play on Elvis’s version too.