And all the peacemaker turn war officer/Hear what I say

Sunday 21 October. More like one Big Second-Place Weekend. After an excellent effort by both players to get to 5-5, Ronnie suddenly seemed to get bored by proceedings and finally crashed out at 6-9. Hamilton came unstuck at Interlagos with an unnecessarily attempt to re-pass his team-mate on the outside into the Subida da Lago corner and ended up in the run-off area. He then skipped out of gear on lap 8. Lewis spent the rest of the race desperately trying to cawl his way up the field, only to be pipped at the post, denied world champion status by 1 point. Ooh, and United Northern got beaten 18-25 by the All Golds. Ho hum.

I won’t be making the Breathing Space album launch on Friday 26 October at the PO Club in Marygate as I have family visiting. Can someone let me know how it goes?

Saturday 20 October. My statement is now signed off but we had to go to the police station for my daughter’s as it hadn’t been typed up correctly and we wanted it to be right. Today is the start of one Big Weekend of sport. Oops, England lost to RSA. Well, it was a good match and I think they did really well to get to the final. Ronnie O’Sullivan is through to the final of the Royal London Watches Grand Prix and Hamilton is in P2 for tomorrow’s F1 race from Brazil.

Friday 19 October. I had the day off work today, but everything that I was going to do was cancelled, so I ended up working on my book. It was productive day in the end. Didn’t go out, so no musical news.

Thursday 18 October. The police came for our statements, now they just have to be typed up and signed. After the policeman left I had to make a trip to A&E to ferry one of my daughters and her family back home. It’s all in a day’s work!

Webby

Webby awards – so the 11th webby award winners have been announced and what a brilliant line-up. A Lifetime Achievement for David Bowie, Green my Apple at http://www.greenpeace.org/apple, and the awesome personal site of Jonathan Yuen at http://www.jonathanyuen.com.

Social – In the snooker it was good to see Ronnie finally getting the wind beneath his wings and making the quarter-final. No rest for the wicked though as he’s playing again tonight. Peter Ebdon knocked out by Mark Selby, brilliant stuff. At last the competition is coming alive. Oh, and I’ve set up a Facebook entry today.

Moon Day

Genealogy – Received two death certificates at the weekend, both were spot on. The first was for 3rd great-grandfather John Burton. He died of old age in 1871 aged 96, another long-lived ancestor. The other was for his son, Henry Burton, who I found in Winchester hospital in in the 1841 census. It turned out that he died in hospital in 1847 of ucleration of the small intestine. The Burton line web pages need to be regenerated and published as there’s lots of new details.

Social – Is it me or are most of the snooker games dragging on at the moment? O’Sullivan and Carter seem to be the only ones making an effort, the rest are bogged down in either excessive safety play or poor potting accuracy. Let’s hope the games get a bit more exciting.