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Crazy Cat

You remember that crazy cat I told you about some time ago? She has just discovered flys well fly I guess. Never been to hot on the hunting thing she has endless hours of amusement (mainly because she cannot catch them)chasing them around the room. The other day she found one on a chair leg and got sniffing (sure this as a primery form of attack is where she falls down)this sniffing became more and more frantic so I suspect someone had come in and left some scent for her.

As I was watching this I was reading a new book i bought by Shappi Khorsandi an Iranian comic about her early life in England with her crazy family. I think Buffy may just have become Shappi's father in feline form

7th May

I forgot to post anything about the outcome of the season for my sad addiction.
I guess this was caused by my belief that I am a jinx for my team but also an excuse to wait for the availability of the post season open top bus tour of the team. Is this common in other countries or one of those peculiarly British things I wonder?

Anyway joy knows no bounds because as well as thumping Wigan on the last day of the season 8-0 we went on to win the FA Cup final against Portsmouth. Many commentators were puzzled as to why we only managed to do this by a single goal but I can now reveal that I watched the match live until the point where Portsmouth were awarded a penalty. At this point I turned off the TV Petr Cech saved the kick and Didier Drogba went on to score that winning goal thus bringing us the Double for the first time in our clubs history.

Cricket

Well the cricket season is well underway and of course that means, not so much England beating Australia to become World 20/20 champions, as the the Men vs Women's match in Harberton.

For many years organised and directed by Alick & Peggy Whittle since their departure for Tetbury the baton has been passed to two of the long standing members of the team. However this year the tactics seem to have changed from one of strict practice makes if not perfect, at least in with a fighting chance, to one of a wing and a prayer. Perhaps of more significance is that the men seem to be taking it all more seriously and the ladies have lost some of their star younger players to college etc. So this years match is very much up for grabs. I'll let you know the outcome as we are going for the 2nd of June rather than the end of season match we used to have lets hope the weather is better than August or September, those autumn showers and wind played havoc with the hairdos as well as requiring the application of emergency makeup at the crease.

Panto time

It seems only a few weeks since the end of our last village panto but the time to start work on next years is approaching fast. For those of you who do not have panto in your country it is an ancient form of play where the dame is the man comic character played by a man, the principal boy is always a girl......confused yet?

Our small village has a reputation for producing pantos and in some style as well. We are blessed with a range of talents and always seem to have people coming through either adults who get hijacked into playing or kids who grow up with it and some who progress to take leading roles. Of course a village panto will inevitably have local references to characters familiar to the native audience but incomprehensible to anyone from outside the parish, thus making West End transfers unlikely.

Last year we gave our version of The Wizard of Oz which we thought would be hampered by not being able to use the songs from the film due to copyright. However we managed to find other works, that although not being Over the Rainbow, fitted the show well. We were also lucky that the script was written by a local man from Totnes that went along at pace (even though our director complained it did not have our traditional fight scene at the end, she's so blood thirsty)

The Last Day

Tommorow is the last day of the football season (well if you don't count the World Cup that starts in June)and unusually the championship has gone down to the last day with still all to play for between Chelsea (remember the sad addiction) and Manchester United. If Chelsea win their match they win if they draw and Man Utd win MU win if Man U lose or draw we would win. I don't think I will be able to watch, which of course I wouldn't as I am a well known curse on my team if I watch them, hence the sad affliction to something I love but can never dare to watch live!