Well I've spent that long trying to set this up I'm not sure if I can be bothered to write anything just yet. Most of that time was taken up with trying to come up with a URL address that had not already been taken. Still I'm here now for a little while whilst the baby snoozes.
   First a biographical checkpoint to get my bearings so that if I should look back in future years I know when I started this - also if anybody else is bored enough to be reading this it would be polite to introduce myself. I am 38 years old living in Darlington and working in Hartlepool; this week I am on nights so I'm offering that as an excuse for the poor quality on display here. I have been married for nearly 3 years and have an 8 month old daughter who has just started to crawl but has given me an insight into a new guilty pleasure that is CBeebies. Like her if they are wearing a monkey suit and start singing then I'm hooked. Obviously not all programmes are going to work and for every genius Carrie and David's Pop Shop there is the rather sinister Same Smile where some woman turns up to a school / nursery with 3 stuffed pandas. She sends 2 children out with a panda each to make them file a video report for her on whatever subject is the theme whilst she remains behind with the rest of the class and the 3rd panda to play with whatever is in her case. The "video reporters" return with their report and a present for HER after which she packs up her case with the toys, pandas and her presents and just leaves.
   As you may tell, I will probably wander off on various tangents but that will do for now as tea is nearly ready and then I'll get prepared for work. If I have enough time I might start watching England's brave new dawn as they take on the mighty Hungary. I could have sworn Capello was going to blood youngsters, and not just have a couple of Arsenal kids on the bench whilst Terry, Lampard, Gerrard et al continue as if nothing happened. This investment in youth has already seen 2 squad members retire!
  
   Oh well there's the oven.