Well its official, everything in Afghanistan is now ok! Yesterday the peace keeping forces managed to arrange a football match in the national stadium in Kabul. 35,000 people managed to get in to see the match between a team made up of locals aginst a team made up of mainly British soldiers. Of cousre football being the game it is, shots had to be fired in the air, to scare away the multitudes without tickets that were storming the stadium. Pleased to see that nobody was injured but if this had happened in England football would have been castigated as the source of all the evil in the world. The local team were managed by former England number two Lawrie McMenemy, whilst the forces team were lead by our local boy made good Gary Mabbutt. One day I will bore you all with the story of the day I played against Mr Mabbutt and in my opinion played him off the pitch. Gary went onto captin Spurs and play for England, whilst I ended up with the mighty Fishponds Albion!!

Orynthia is excited at the moment having just spotted a female Blackcap in our back garden. We are very lucky, to have some interesting birds visiting us. The Blackcap was enjoying a splendid breakfast of Holly berries on this dry but nippy morning.

Things have been a bit techy on the computer front this week. Thanks to skills of Jon Collins our IMAC is now working on OS X. It looks great but we do have to learn a new way of using the computer, which for someone like me is not easy.!

Off to Ashton Gate now to see City v. Oldham. Can't imagine that the atmosphere will quite the same as the game in Kabul yesterday. Maybe it's will be time to reflect on our good fortune in being able to enjoy the simple pleasures that a game of football can bring to people.