The moodlifter

Not the greatest of weeks here but it may get better by next, as I type this in a new splint, the seems to be a amazing mood about the Country.

Yes, England have made it to the finals of Euro 2020+1 which apart from giving many people over what has been a pretty rubbish 16 months since lockdown began something to cheer about it has been quite interesting to see the number of women and girls taking interest in it, attending the many fan zones set up.

Part of that is that the female game has come of age with both Premiership Clubs operating quality female teams and the increased numbers of girls taking part in football, even joining girls own teams, having their own heroines.

Certainly it was a rare thing when I went to school to see girls playing in PE/sports or in the playground although my Mom was one of handful that did play the game with her brother and his friends and yet today it is by no means uncommon to see a girl bouncing her football enroute for the park for a game and for it to be offered to girls as team sport in school.

In the crazy world here, the new Fridge has arrived as I left the one and only grump to get on with moving the old one out, sweeping god know how many years of dust and that where it was before unboxing and installing the new one.

I don't need the static of arguments often stupid ones born of an unwillingness to discuss and agree a timetable for doing things rather than just doing it when he wants and then have fuss because others are already halfway through things they've started.

Thankfully it was dry and fairly pleasant so  spent that time walking and watching the world go by before settling in to children's programming on the BBC in the afternoon.