To escape the footy (est ce-que possible?)and the stygian gloom if we lost (est ce-que possible?) I took a day out to the local NEMA airport. Better than train spotting, dear reader. I was delighted to get a very cheap fare of a whole quid on the skylink bus and spent a few hours pretending that I was going on my a holiday and was thrilled to discover that Ryanair do lots of flights from the East Mids to France.
See www.ryanair.com.

After a coffee I went for a walk firstly to see if I could see any planes landing and saw a charter flight land and cruise on the tarmac and I also saw a red admiral butterfly land on some nettles. The sun shone throughout the afternoon. I then took myself of to a little village called Diseworth (about a mile from the airport and close to Donnington). It was a sweet little village with no litter and was pretty much deserted by pedestrians and traffic, assumedly because of the footy. I spent about an hour wandering around and taking photographs. Thirsty, I stopped at The Plough pub for a pint and packet of crisps. It was like being on holiday. The sun was great and I had a good look around the village church.

About five I made my way back to the airport and took the return bus back into Nottingham. Apart from the driver there was just me and another bloke on the bus. Back in the city I made my way to the Broadway cinema where I went to see a documentary called 'Wal-mart - the high cost of low price'. I will certainly think twice about shopping at my local ASDA after learning about this companies exploitative methods of operating in particular their shameful record of abusing foreign workers in the Honduras and China amongst others. Official site. http://www.walmartmovie.com/

Later on I came home, had some healthy chips with curry sauce and stayed up late cruising the internet and half watching a dreadful film showing the a very young Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek. It was called Breakup and scored a pathetic one star in the tv mag review section. Went to bed to the sound of smashing glass in the pub car park next door. Did England lose then? Hey on Friday night a bloke was encouraging his drunken 'friend' to head butt our wooden gate! what is wrong with these people? Slept well and the sun is shining again today. Happy Sunday everyone.