The week that is!! Although yesterdays match for Liverpool away to Birmingham was pretty much same old, same old as some of the dross that was turned out last season where we just cant seem to penetrated defences. Luckily, Reina was on form or we would have lost.
I think my main concern is why Roy Hodgson seems to be playing the team in the same way that Rafa did last season, same structure, same waster in the middle of the park. I think that Liverpool have managed to sign the only Brazilian footballer who got citizenship as he was born there while his parents were on holiday from Torquay. Lucas has had 1 decent game for us and that is all IMO.
Roy should shake it up, leave him out, bring Babel in, use Pacheco, Shelvey - Paulson also looked like he didn't want to pass the ball forward, it is just so very frustrating.
Please Roy, change it or we are in the shit!
Life
My wife's, cousins, Dad is seriously ill in hospital. I refer to him in that way as he divorced my wife's aunt after only a couple of years of marriage, due to his mother committing suicide as he married a non Jew! Something I can only imagine weighs heavy on the shoulders of those closest and from the age of 2 my wife's cousin was raised by her aunt.
I don't know too much detail, but from what I understand, the uncle had an influential life in the medical world, he travelled across Africa, living rough with a band of assistants carrying out operations to tribes people that no one else would do or had done, he was involved at a high level with the world aids council and with organisations that help people on a global scale from a medical perspective.
I may not have the facts right, hence I have not named him, but I guess the point is, for someone who helped so many, travelled so much and lived in many places around the world to help people it is very sad to see him in hospital, with stage 5 Parkinson's disease, pneumonia and cancer and for him to be told this and that he has days to live, is a sad thing.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
TFI Friday!
At last its the end of a busy week.
The week started with the kids going back to school after the summer holidays, but with all the preparations even that wasn't easy. Seb started at junior school and he said he had butterflies for a week or so before hand, after his trip to Anfield on the Saturday before he went with his Carra scarf, Liverpool ruck sack and Liverpool p.e bag! Good lad!
Ellie was a little more chilled going to year 2 and staying in the infants school.
Work has been ok, with the week ending fortunately with a redesign of one of our website being available which is desperately needed.
Not sure why but been feeling a bit 'strange' the last couple of days, nothing specific but a tad lethargic, and a bit of discomfort in my tummy. I think I have eaten something that has not agreed with me, and I keep having waves where I feel I make be sick or get stomach cramps prior to a big pooh, but had neither!
I had my first night back at cubs after the summer break, training to be a leader! I had about 4 nights before the break and also have another leader starting, a female whom I am not too sure about.
I have come away feeling 'not sure' about the whole thing, more so because I can't be arsed to compete. My co-trainee leader- we'll call her J, is a real Johnny 2 shits. From the first time I met her I felt a competitive edge and I was so right. When we started and we were given our learner packs, she was already ahead of the game as she had her CRB certificate already, new about health and safety from work, then the next time she had already completed one module of the training book, but she is quick to tell me. She doesn't say hi Jez how are you? Have you managed to look at the manual, it's hi, how many modules have you completed? I have done module 1 already.
I don't see any rush or competitiveness in this, but we have been interviewed by the district commissioner etc, her interview a week before mine and we need to attend a module 1-3 training morning. I have been scheduled in for 2nd October. So tonight, J is straight up to me, so have you done any courses yet? Not yet, I reply I am going on 2nd October , J they had me down for that one but I had already booked myself in for tomorrows one! Ok cool, it just pisses me off.
There was also a term planning meeting last week that she went to but not sure why, but she made it known to me that she called to find out where it was, yet no one managed to call me! Just felt left out and unsure of why she is so competitive and it doesn't matter what or how many times i have done something, she has done it once more than me! Hence i have had 1 shit, she'd have had 2!
Not sure how much sense this makes but i feel better to get it out of my system, or exactly why it has made me feel like this as it shouldn't!
Thank you for reading
The week started with the kids going back to school after the summer holidays, but with all the preparations even that wasn't easy. Seb started at junior school and he said he had butterflies for a week or so before hand, after his trip to Anfield on the Saturday before he went with his Carra scarf, Liverpool ruck sack and Liverpool p.e bag! Good lad!
Ellie was a little more chilled going to year 2 and staying in the infants school.
Work has been ok, with the week ending fortunately with a redesign of one of our website being available which is desperately needed.
Not sure why but been feeling a bit 'strange' the last couple of days, nothing specific but a tad lethargic, and a bit of discomfort in my tummy. I think I have eaten something that has not agreed with me, and I keep having waves where I feel I make be sick or get stomach cramps prior to a big pooh, but had neither!
I had my first night back at cubs after the summer break, training to be a leader! I had about 4 nights before the break and also have another leader starting, a female whom I am not too sure about.
I have come away feeling 'not sure' about the whole thing, more so because I can't be arsed to compete. My co-trainee leader- we'll call her J, is a real Johnny 2 shits. From the first time I met her I felt a competitive edge and I was so right. When we started and we were given our learner packs, she was already ahead of the game as she had her CRB certificate already, new about health and safety from work, then the next time she had already completed one module of the training book, but she is quick to tell me. She doesn't say hi Jez how are you? Have you managed to look at the manual, it's hi, how many modules have you completed? I have done module 1 already.
I don't see any rush or competitiveness in this, but we have been interviewed by the district commissioner etc, her interview a week before mine and we need to attend a module 1-3 training morning. I have been scheduled in for 2nd October. So tonight, J is straight up to me, so have you done any courses yet? Not yet, I reply I am going on 2nd October , J they had me down for that one but I had already booked myself in for tomorrows one! Ok cool, it just pisses me off.
There was also a term planning meeting last week that she went to but not sure why, but she made it known to me that she called to find out where it was, yet no one managed to call me! Just felt left out and unsure of why she is so competitive and it doesn't matter what or how many times i have done something, she has done it once more than me! Hence i have had 1 shit, she'd have had 2!
Not sure how much sense this makes but i feel better to get it out of my system, or exactly why it has made me feel like this as it shouldn't!
Thank you for reading
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Gerrard Triumphant for England
Despite there being no Liverpool to watch, there has been England! 2 wins out of 2 so far in the 2012 qualifiers.
I will put a disclaimer in at this point of "in my opinion" as it is! But, I think England's last 2 games have been 2 of the best under Capello, the disappointment and disgrace of the world cup is in the past and as a national side we need to move forward - simple! But more importantly Steven Gerrard is emerging as an excellent England captain and rightfully deserves the armband on merit - not as a stand in for Terry or Ferdinand. He has handled the media well also in respect of Shrek's off the pitch antics and supported his team mate's capabilities as a pleyer. On the pitch he has performed well, motivated the players and been the good player we know he is. But as importantly as this, Stevie and the team have performed well without Fat Frank! All these years of trying to play them together, one always out of position never worked and now this has been proven and is fact! Frank Lampard is a waste of space when playing for England, running round like a 7 year old wanting to take all the free kicks, penalties, corners etc etc, hopefully he will realise and retire from International football - oh and don't get me started on his goal celebrations!
And for anyone interested in a pretty good assessment of Rafa, click here to read more!
1st Day Back
I did say when I started this blog there were reasons for me doing it! One to help be dump my thoughts and feelings if I need to about stuff relevant to me, but may ring bells with others out there!
Well, I go back to see my counsellor today, or pshycotherapist or whatever people want to call her! I am looking forward to sharing the revelation of the 'My Logicality' blog and talking through with her how I am trying to use it and how it is supposed to help me.
I'm not too sure if or how it is working though, as I still lose my temper at appropriate moments, maybe not as bad, but my counting is getting really good from 1-10 as that helps! But as I never had an anger problem in the first place, in my opinion, its tricky to see the improvements, but whatever, working from home, a wife, 2 kids, another on the way, running a business, sometimes its just as therapeutic to get out and talk to someone who wont form an opinion on me - even of they do think I'm a tosser - lol (just kidding NC if you read this!!)
I will put a disclaimer in at this point of "in my opinion" as it is! But, I think England's last 2 games have been 2 of the best under Capello, the disappointment and disgrace of the world cup is in the past and as a national side we need to move forward - simple! But more importantly Steven Gerrard is emerging as an excellent England captain and rightfully deserves the armband on merit - not as a stand in for Terry or Ferdinand. He has handled the media well also in respect of Shrek's off the pitch antics and supported his team mate's capabilities as a pleyer. On the pitch he has performed well, motivated the players and been the good player we know he is. But as importantly as this, Stevie and the team have performed well without Fat Frank! All these years of trying to play them together, one always out of position never worked and now this has been proven and is fact! Frank Lampard is a waste of space when playing for England, running round like a 7 year old wanting to take all the free kicks, penalties, corners etc etc, hopefully he will realise and retire from International football - oh and don't get me started on his goal celebrations!
And for anyone interested in a pretty good assessment of Rafa, click here to read more!
1st Day Back
I did say when I started this blog there were reasons for me doing it! One to help be dump my thoughts and feelings if I need to about stuff relevant to me, but may ring bells with others out there!
Well, I go back to see my counsellor today, or pshycotherapist or whatever people want to call her! I am looking forward to sharing the revelation of the 'My Logicality' blog and talking through with her how I am trying to use it and how it is supposed to help me.
I'm not too sure if or how it is working though, as I still lose my temper at appropriate moments, maybe not as bad, but my counting is getting really good from 1-10 as that helps! But as I never had an anger problem in the first place, in my opinion, its tricky to see the improvements, but whatever, working from home, a wife, 2 kids, another on the way, running a business, sometimes its just as therapeutic to get out and talk to someone who wont form an opinion on me - even of they do think I'm a tosser - lol (just kidding NC if you read this!!)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Thanks Carra
Yesterday was a great day out! We left home at about 7.30 am and were parked near Anfield by about 11.30, one stop on the way and a bit of congestion but nothing too bad.
I was surprised at how many people were already around Anfield even at that time, but a tribute to Carra's popularity.
I took Seb into the shop to get him a shirt and scarf, which ended up being a home shirt and goalies kit and a rucksack for school! We definitely picked the wrong queue which took 45 minutes to get served, while all the others were going about 3 times our speed.
I think at this pony Seb was a bit overwhelmed with so many people, all liverpool fans in one place.
We got to our seats to see the end of the exhibition game, which the people in front of us informed us had paid £12,500 per team to play, raising £25,000 for the 23 foundation.
Then the players came out to warm up and what a surprise to see Stevie G come out! He only played an easy 15 minutes but a great gesture and added treat to all those who were there and expected him not to be there due to his England duties.
The game was good entertainment, all played in the spirit of the day, great goal by Garcia, Babel and Joe Cole there and from what I saw of shelvey I was impressed.
I thought I heard them say that there was about 36,000 people there! Not a bad turnout by anyones standards.
But we got home at about 8.30pm and Seb said he had the best day od his life, he was shattered and had been a good lad all day and can't wait to go again.
Its a bit scary when you consider that we were out for 13hrs for 90 minutes of football, the cost of the tickets, petrol, club shop and other bits an pieces does make for an expensive trip, but as we don't get a chance to go often, all worth while.
Thanks Carra.
Thank you for reading
I was surprised at how many people were already around Anfield even at that time, but a tribute to Carra's popularity.
I took Seb into the shop to get him a shirt and scarf, which ended up being a home shirt and goalies kit and a rucksack for school! We definitely picked the wrong queue which took 45 minutes to get served, while all the others were going about 3 times our speed.
I think at this pony Seb was a bit overwhelmed with so many people, all liverpool fans in one place.
We got to our seats to see the end of the exhibition game, which the people in front of us informed us had paid £12,500 per team to play, raising £25,000 for the 23 foundation.
Then the players came out to warm up and what a surprise to see Stevie G come out! He only played an easy 15 minutes but a great gesture and added treat to all those who were there and expected him not to be there due to his England duties.
The game was good entertainment, all played in the spirit of the day, great goal by Garcia, Babel and Joe Cole there and from what I saw of shelvey I was impressed.
I thought I heard them say that there was about 36,000 people there! Not a bad turnout by anyones standards.
But we got home at about 8.30pm and Seb said he had the best day od his life, he was shattered and had been a good lad all day and can't wait to go again.
Its a bit scary when you consider that we were out for 13hrs for 90 minutes of football, the cost of the tickets, petrol, club shop and other bits an pieces does make for an expensive trip, but as we don't get a chance to go often, all worth while.
Thanks Carra.
Thank you for reading
Friday, September 3, 2010
Jamie Carraghers Testimonial Tomorrow
And I cannot wait!! I am taking my 7 yr old son Seb for his first trip to Gods Country - Anfield. I figured for a 7 year old it should be fun, should be a good atmosphere and some good banter to add to a great day out! I am under instructions however to get a rucksack for his new school and a new football shirt, so all being well should get there with plenty of time to have a look around the shop and savour the atmosphere, and get ready to boo Michael Owen! lol.
Badminton
I played badminton last night, the first time in a few weeks due to holiday, Liverpool being on, and I was a bit concerned about my 'scar' bleeding from Tuesday but it was fine! However, the last game I went to play a shot and had this almighty pain shoot through the ball of my foot, I have no idea what I stepped on, but it had that feeling like when you step on a plug! Today, it is very very painful
News in General
My wife had her 20 week scan yesterday, accompanied by myself and the 2 kids! All went well and seems good, it looks like it is going to be a baby girl!! This was met with a great reaction from my daughter, to one of total disappointment from my son! who's words were along the line of "we have enough girls in the house, Mum, Ellie who is a pain, 9 girl chickens and even the dog is a girl, well I hope she is a tom boy!" Happy Days!
Analytics
I would recommend that anyone who is setting up a website gets some form of analytics on it, as soon as you can. Whether its a blog or a full on e-commerce website, seeing how many visitors you have, how many are new and returning, how many pages they are looking at all helps, over time to build up a picture of how people navigate your site. It may seem pointless or complicated, but spend a little time looking through it and start with the basics. At some point, you will probably look to change or re-design your site and this data can be invaluable in trying to conclude what is good, bad and indifferent with your site - giving you pointers on how to change the messages you put across or where to position them.
I am happy yo help anyone who is starting out down this road, just leave a comment or DM me @jezzat your email address and i'll do what I can - all free of course.
There are a number of packages out there, some you pay for, some you don't, but for a freebie, it's hard to beat google analytics, if you don't have a google account, set one up and follow the instructions. You may your developer to implement the code if you get a bit stuck, but its a quick and easy process for them.
Badminton
I played badminton last night, the first time in a few weeks due to holiday, Liverpool being on, and I was a bit concerned about my 'scar' bleeding from Tuesday but it was fine! However, the last game I went to play a shot and had this almighty pain shoot through the ball of my foot, I have no idea what I stepped on, but it had that feeling like when you step on a plug! Today, it is very very painful
News in General
My wife had her 20 week scan yesterday, accompanied by myself and the 2 kids! All went well and seems good, it looks like it is going to be a baby girl!! This was met with a great reaction from my daughter, to one of total disappointment from my son! who's words were along the line of "we have enough girls in the house, Mum, Ellie who is a pain, 9 girl chickens and even the dog is a girl, well I hope she is a tom boy!" Happy Days!
Analytics
I would recommend that anyone who is setting up a website gets some form of analytics on it, as soon as you can. Whether its a blog or a full on e-commerce website, seeing how many visitors you have, how many are new and returning, how many pages they are looking at all helps, over time to build up a picture of how people navigate your site. It may seem pointless or complicated, but spend a little time looking through it and start with the basics. At some point, you will probably look to change or re-design your site and this data can be invaluable in trying to conclude what is good, bad and indifferent with your site - giving you pointers on how to change the messages you put across or where to position them.
I am happy yo help anyone who is starting out down this road, just leave a comment or DM me @jezzat your email address and i'll do what I can - all free of course.
There are a number of packages out there, some you pay for, some you don't, but for a freebie, it's hard to beat google analytics, if you don't have a google account, set one up and follow the instructions. You may your developer to implement the code if you get a bit stuck, but its a quick and easy process for them.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Minor Surgery!
Well, I had to try and make it sound more dramatic than it really was. I had this skin tag at the top of my leg, that over the last year has grown! Well last week I decided it was time to get it chopped off.
I went to see the doc last Friday and she took great delight in telling me she loved 'whipping' ones like that off! Shit!
So at 3pm today I went back, I had to wait as the operation had to be carried out in the nurses room, fair enough! Well, I lay on the operating table and the tag is high on my leg, so I rolled my shorts up to give access, but I wasn't aware that the nurse would hold them, conveniently for her resting her hands across my bits - well I wasn't expecting the injected anaesthetic, more serious than I had expected I was thinking.
That soon took effect then the doc was standing there with a soldering iron looking thing, said, you may smell burning flesh, but don't worry! Ffftft ffffft fffft rising smoke, vial smell, there you go mr turner, all done. Weyhey, not much bleeding, but take it easy for a couple of days incase the stalk does bleed, then apply pressure. I am officially getting old.
A pic from my holiday!
Thought I would throw this in as I would like to be back in the warm again.
Transfer window closes.
Thank god, maybe things will settle down, lots of slagging off for not getting another striker, but would we have got anyone better than what we have? Or just added depth? At least it's over now so we can get on with the season and climb the table.
I went to see the doc last Friday and she took great delight in telling me she loved 'whipping' ones like that off! Shit!
So at 3pm today I went back, I had to wait as the operation had to be carried out in the nurses room, fair enough! Well, I lay on the operating table and the tag is high on my leg, so I rolled my shorts up to give access, but I wasn't aware that the nurse would hold them, conveniently for her resting her hands across my bits - well I wasn't expecting the injected anaesthetic, more serious than I had expected I was thinking.
That soon took effect then the doc was standing there with a soldering iron looking thing, said, you may smell burning flesh, but don't worry! Ffftft ffffft fffft rising smoke, vial smell, there you go mr turner, all done. Weyhey, not much bleeding, but take it easy for a couple of days incase the stalk does bleed, then apply pressure. I am officially getting old.
A pic from my holiday!
Thought I would throw this in as I would like to be back in the warm again.
Transfer window closes.
Thank god, maybe things will settle down, lots of slagging off for not getting another striker, but would we have got anyone better than what we have? Or just added depth? At least it's over now so we can get on with the season and climb the table.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Holiday Blues
Well its been 3 days since returning from my holiday in Spain!
Work all seems ok, other than the issues I needed to resolve before I went away, still need to be resolved - but I knew that anyway and I also have to work out how to take on the book keeping, should be interesting if nothing else!
I was amazed to see how green the garden was when we got back, so whilst we were enjoying hot, dry sunny weather in Spain, it must have rained quite a bit here.
Liverpool
Well we lost 3-0 to Man City on Monday night, not the best way to end my first day back after holiday. What happened? I thought we looked like we lost focus and concentration for some bizarre reason.
I think we do have players that are good enough, but they don't try hard enough or have a confidence issue or just are different to Liverpool legends of the past in their approach. Why wait to go 2-0 down before really having a go?
In addition, the commentators drooling over Gareth Barry and James Milner makes me want to be sick! Barry is a waste of space I don't know how he plays for England or what people see in him. Then you get the "city have thumped Liverpool 3-0" crap, well you only need to look at the stats to see that they actually only had 3 shots on target and it happened that they all went in! Reina did not have 1 save to make - fact!
Yet again, we don't get any luck, When Stevie hit the post and it came back and hit Hart, if that was us, it would have gone in a la v Arsenal!
I also don't get why some people are giving Hodgson a hard time and harping on about Rafa! Yes he did ok, but, if Istanbul wouldn't have happened it would all be so different. Rafa didn't finish top 4 in his 1st season or his last, he made amazingly negative substitutions at times that I never understood - so all I say is let Roy get on with it, 2 down, 36 to go!
Starting an E-commerce Website
I have been asked a few times in recent months about setting up and starting an e-commerce website and I am happy to help and offer advice. Having created 3 or 4 to date, the creation is one thing, understanding what to look for etc and then marketing it (theres no point having the best website in the world if no one visits it) is not really difficult, but it takes time and can be very expensive without some guidance from someone who has done it to help you avoid the pitfalls!
I am putting together a guide, all free, for that process so that I can help others create what they want, and avoid the big pitfalls. At the end of the day you learn by your mistakes, so you will still make some, but, with some guidance you will be able to avoid a lot and understand why they are not right for your business or project. One thing that often doesn't get counted is the cost of time! It takes time finding out things things and I mean say months, so if you project you can make £4k profit a month, but it take 4 months to figure out why something doesn't work, that cost could be £16k!!
If you want to follow, or have friends or colleagues you thing this may be of interest to, get them to register for the email updates.
Work all seems ok, other than the issues I needed to resolve before I went away, still need to be resolved - but I knew that anyway and I also have to work out how to take on the book keeping, should be interesting if nothing else!
I was amazed to see how green the garden was when we got back, so whilst we were enjoying hot, dry sunny weather in Spain, it must have rained quite a bit here.
Liverpool
Well we lost 3-0 to Man City on Monday night, not the best way to end my first day back after holiday. What happened? I thought we looked like we lost focus and concentration for some bizarre reason.
I think we do have players that are good enough, but they don't try hard enough or have a confidence issue or just are different to Liverpool legends of the past in their approach. Why wait to go 2-0 down before really having a go?
In addition, the commentators drooling over Gareth Barry and James Milner makes me want to be sick! Barry is a waste of space I don't know how he plays for England or what people see in him. Then you get the "city have thumped Liverpool 3-0" crap, well you only need to look at the stats to see that they actually only had 3 shots on target and it happened that they all went in! Reina did not have 1 save to make - fact!
Yet again, we don't get any luck, When Stevie hit the post and it came back and hit Hart, if that was us, it would have gone in a la v Arsenal!
I also don't get why some people are giving Hodgson a hard time and harping on about Rafa! Yes he did ok, but, if Istanbul wouldn't have happened it would all be so different. Rafa didn't finish top 4 in his 1st season or his last, he made amazingly negative substitutions at times that I never understood - so all I say is let Roy get on with it, 2 down, 36 to go!
Starting an E-commerce Website
I have been asked a few times in recent months about setting up and starting an e-commerce website and I am happy to help and offer advice. Having created 3 or 4 to date, the creation is one thing, understanding what to look for etc and then marketing it (theres no point having the best website in the world if no one visits it) is not really difficult, but it takes time and can be very expensive without some guidance from someone who has done it to help you avoid the pitfalls!
I am putting together a guide, all free, for that process so that I can help others create what they want, and avoid the big pitfalls. At the end of the day you learn by your mistakes, so you will still make some, but, with some guidance you will be able to avoid a lot and understand why they are not right for your business or project. One thing that often doesn't get counted is the cost of time! It takes time finding out things things and I mean say months, so if you project you can make £4k profit a month, but it take 4 months to figure out why something doesn't work, that cost could be £16k!!
If you want to follow, or have friends or colleagues you thing this may be of interest to, get them to register for the email updates.
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