Do you know what time it is? Hey y’all! Time is a pertinent subject. The passage of time has been on my mind a lot lately, for a variety of reasons. Going Up On the 15th my daughter finished her time with junior school. From the moment she started nursery to the 15th of July, […]
Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! Climate Change July began with the promise of gloriously hot weather – after the first week or so. Initially July followed the pattern of overcast and gloomy, continuing June’s miserable end. Loitering within the lure of nicer, brighter skies was a potential trap. The much-desired heatwave that summer should […]
It’s the 26th of June 1996. On a warm summer’s evening 25 year-old Gareth Southgate, at the time an Aston Villa player, stepped up to take England’s fifth penalty in a semi-final shootout with Germany. The quietly determined defender’s penalty was saved by ‘keeper Andreas Kopke, and Andreas Moller scored the next penalty to send […]
This is obviously a work of fiction, and it’s all in the name of fun. Enjoy! It’s December 2010. The FIFA Executive Committee has just announced that Russia and Qatar will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The decisions send shockwaves through the football world as suggestions of bribery and corruption hit FIFA and […]
We’re at the end of June people! This is not a drill – we are halfway through 2021! I know right? It doesn’t feel quite right, but here we are, and what have we learned and accomplished in the first half of 2021? But first, how does the first half of 2021 compare to the […]
Welcome back to your regular fix of Meerkat Musings! At the end of the previous Muse I’d remarked upon an upturn in the weather, and it took only a few days for this glorious sunny spell to come to an abrupt, ignoble end. This coincided with a scheduled trip into London (for the first time […]
Welcome one and all to the latest Meerkat Muse! What’s been happening to this meerkat these past couple of weeks? Well, I’ve continued to rejoice at the return of Formula 1, football has continued to provide frustrations (more on that below), we’re up and running at work, we’ve had family time, and the weather couldn’t […]
The first half of the season had produced a mixed bag. We were second in the standings, three points off Arsenal, and we’d had some amazing results – along side a disappointingly large number of defeats. We’d lost five of our 19 games, and won the other 14 – this Liverpool side didn’t know how […]
Last season had ended on the slightly sour note of losing in the Champions League Final. Ok ok, it was more than ‘slightly sour’. It hurt, as it naturally would. Leeds had been on the verge of glory, but the lottery of penalties hadn’t been kind. That was in the past. The 31/32 season was […]
We’d wound up third at the halfway mark of the 30/31 season, trailing league leaders Manchester United by six points. Our most recent result was a 3-0 defeat at Chelsea, where we never played particularly well. We needed to recover swiftly, starting by looking to get a good result away to Everton. Two goals from […]
Breached the 70K mark on my wip! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
This is just sheer absolute, exquisite beauty.
I have eaten too much pizza.
I don't think it's up to you to decide what's best for women, nor whether or not men can find them attractive...
In recent days I have been having a ‘back and forth’ with Citizen Tom on the subject of education. Tom believes that education should be in private hands, which he believes would therefore be subject to the whim and will of parents. He does not like what state education teaches, and considers it to immoral. […]
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