Mick's outback camp at night

This is an imaginary view painted in acrylic on a 5x7inch canvas, it shows Mick stirring the billy on his campfire under the starry West Australian sky while out gold prospecting,  after varnishing  it I may add some specks of gold leaf  to the scene,makes you bloody jealous of him doesn't it?

Forza Italia !

Well as I forecast my  Italy are the team to beat,trounced the "Aryan" race last night and what a strange coincidence I had a conversation with a German who stopped to ask the location of any b and b's nearby just before the game.,Even more unusual we conversed in Italian due to my limited German and his limited English.and of course my limited English.
.So now it's "FORZA ITALIA" aganst the bull baiters from Spain ,seems we did the Germans a bad turn by allowing the Italians to play them instead of us,had it been us,  one feels the "Master Race" would have gone into the final.
Went into the town to  post a parcel and saw a car flying the Italian flag must be the ice cream bloke,I'm with him for the final.

Not the sistine chapel

 

This is my sistine chapel. Not the quality of commission Michelangelo enjoyed but better than nowt I suppose .It keeps me away from adding to the canvases which are stacking up nicely for Gina to dispose of after I "shuffle off this mortal coil,".Which bit of the bard brings me to an excellent programme  at 9pm Friday about that illustrious bloke. It may surprise non devotees of  shakespeare  how interesting it can be.

My attention was drawn to an alien ie; US citizen criticising our football team and using the WE word while doing so,this is not cricket and will not be accepted as valid criticism,which is our English national sport and reserved for inhabitants of this sceptic isle.
Meanwhile I on the other hand ,a long standing resident of this green and pleasant land, am well within the parameters outlined above and hereby state that in my opinion the three Man U players in the England team, strangely enough managed by a Scotsman ( read what you will into that)) against my alter ego land Italy, gave the most lacklustre performances and one had a laughable toupee on his head throughout the game which resulted in him fearing to head the ball due to the possibility of dislodging the obscenity,
I single out for praise all the other team members,and statistics so beloved of our US friends mean nothing if the opponents score more goals ,this is how you win football matches nothing to do with square" tic tac" passes, in fact the Italians long balled it to the Pilkington alike Mario Doolaliotelli with almost dire results for England.

Gazzer! Ronaldo! Rooney?

For all his massive ego Ronaldo was the winner for Portugal against the Czechs and with a little more accuracy could have scored 3 or 4 times,makes you wish we could swap him for overated Rooney,I remember a brilliant Gazzer who  could be forgiven most things as a likable Geordie lad, and don't see how Rooney can be mentioned in the same breath,but then what do I know there must be summat in all the adulation he seems to enjoy,its not the rug he wears on his head that I do know,I really must stop allowing my dislike for the arrogant Ferguson and his team to cloud my thinking.

Brisbane Wolves

I have just listened to a radio interview on "washingline"of Sam the pom, coach of Brisbane Wolves  and I think this bloke talks a lot of sense about football made more profound by the elocution lessons me and Mick Mcarthy seem to have unwittingly provided,( just a little joke I don't want his missis getting all irate) but  it's not how you say it,its what you say that counts and the bloke knows his onions,and I think its only a matter of time before some big Ozzie club poaches him.

Dismal

Watched a dismal England performance last night there appears to be some problem about a disallowed Ukraine goal the fact is that offside should have been given against them and this would mean the goal is not valid even though it crossed the line so in the end it was a poor refereeing decision.
These are not the England teams we are used to seeing and maybe the massive influx of foreign mercenaries into our leagues has rubbed off on home grown players who now consider feigning injury and cheating in general as part of the game ,amazing how all the emigres from our shores still feel they are England supporters,when you leave and become a resident in a foreign land you should become a supporter of your new country.