jinx ended?

2 years ago i watched only 1 match in euro2004 and it was the match that england lost to portugal, ending their hopes that year...

don't know how but i've managed to gather a superstitious feeling around me & england matches, hugely infrequent football watcher as i am... the jinx has had no chance to either be confirmed or denied as i simply don't watch football...

but it's the world cup... and more particularly spski has been following it so i joined him for tonight's match against sweden, felt the joy as joe cole scored in the first half, felt my spirits dampened as sweden played better than england throughout the second half, equalizing early, conceding another england goal only 5 minutes before the end, by now it seemed fairly likely that they would score again and lo & behold they did...

it must hurt to be an england supporter... they are so good at losing...

anyway, apparently it doesn't make any difference at this point in the tournament, a draw is as good as a win because we still finish top of our group... but it's disheartening...

in other news i've been playing through some old tunes, finding the way through to maybe playing them in a set... i got my keyboard back from the wedding yesterday, along with the rather nice journal that was a present from the happy couple to say thankyou for singing... odd to have a real life physical journal along with this one, i intend to use it to keep track of compositions... so many unfinished things floating about...

i'm about to go downstairs and plug my keyboard in, relish the grand piano sound that i was going on about the other day... see how certain tunes work/don't work with it... one tune i wrote years ago, preblogging days, for K who i partly wrote harbour walls for (one of the tracks on my mypace (slow) if you want to hear it), this one never saw the light of performance, i used to do it with my quartet that never gigged, i'm gradually reviving it, partly because when i finished rereading the emigrants the other day i found a long and involved piece of writing that i'd put in the last few blank pages, (similar in some ways to this) deep in the dream of this woman as i was... this song describes that dream and also predicts that i'll wake up from it... and it's odd, being in love as i am, i still somehow need K to hear this song that i wrote for her back then...

dinah has been out today in an amazing hat @ ascot, no doubt now she's at work performing her job meticulously through a haze of alcohol... her dad's birthday today - Wfloopy (shaman) who has the longest name of anyone in this blog...

it looks as though me & D are going to head down to blewbury just over a week late for our dad's birthday, to reenact a photograph that's over 30 years old now...

D who has been commenting a fair bit recently and who has finally joined the blogging community with a gardening & cycling blog...

me & felinity have been waiting for him to do that for years...

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