Cup Fever

3 hours 35 minutes until kick-off.

If Luton Town win today then their Press Officer is going to have to start claiming newspaper purchases on expenses. In fact, he’s probably already spent a sizeable amount this morning, having made a supermarket-style dash round his local newsagent. A win today could set him back the equivalent of a decent take-out and a well-chilled bottle of something fizzy and suitably celebratory.

In case you’ve missed it, or have absolutely zero interest in football (in which case I’d skip a few paras), today the Hatters play Millwall in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup having overturned Norwich City at Carrow Road a few weeks back.

I should also say at this point, if you’re reading and hoping for some inside information on team selection or whether Paul Buckle will choose a flat-back four or a 5-2-3 formation you’re in the wrong place, predominantly because I’m not entirely clear what a flat-back four is. It’s quite possibly something a chiropractor could help with.

Boobs, bravery and brilliance.

This is a wee piece about boobs, but if it’s a thrill-fest you’re after, you’re in for crashing disappointment. It’s also, mostly, about someone else’s boobs.

Sexist? Gender stereo-typing? Load of nonsense.

On Twitter this morning, there was plenty of coverage concerning the ASA’s verdict on the ASDA Christmas 2012 ad “Behind every great Christmas is a great mum”.

The ASA were bombarded with hundreds of claims stating the ad was sexist and furthermore flamed the rampant gender stereo-typing prevalent across the media.

But did it? Really?

The football thing…

The football thing is getting worse. Quietly ignoring the 3-0 defeat to Grimsby this evening in the FA Trophy, we thoroughly ruffled feathers at Carrow Road on Saturday beating Norwich to go through to the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Frankly you’d have had to be blind or deaf not to see the coverage in the media.

That my husband, mother and sister texted, called and Facebooked me following the result is the surprising bit.

Many, many games in the coming weeks. Fully expect to be called up to reserve team in manner of Territorial Army.

A view from the sidelines

#COYH

It’s a hashtag that 15 months ago didn’t mean much more than something I would add on to the end of a tweet to @LTFC_Official. It was just something I did, just to be nice y’know? Naturally I wanted to do a good job and keep the client happy but as for the Hatters, their fortunes and misfortunes? I’d by lying if I said that I cared.

Where have you been?

Busy. Very, very busy. Due in part to having another one of these. (see pic!) Meghan Alexander is now nine months old and showing every sign of being a proper handful. She’s pretty cute though so I can forgive her.

Good stuff!

So I know the blog is massively, embarrassingly out of date. I’ve no excuses, not good ones anyway so I won’t try to justify myself.

Instead however I’m going to make the first (!!!) post of 2012 a bit of an update in what’s been happening both personally and professionally.