I have recently been playing a game called Stick Cricket and I have started to hate the game and the people who make the game, mainly because I can not complete the game if I am honest with myself.

- The ball swerves like nothing I have ever seen in a real cricket match.

- The bowler will sometimes hurl the ball at you (like they do in baseball) and it will smash you in the face and you fall onto your wicket and you are still out!

- When you hit a ball and the fielder catches it you can quite clearly see they have dropped the ball but you are still out!

- Sometimes you are out BEFORE you have even hit the bloody ball!

I was playing their World Domination game. The premise is pretty clear, you have an all-star team and you must take on other countries and be the best in the world. You start off by facing Bermuda who laughingly always have a score of over 200.

Whenever I get to about 150 my men start falling like a row of dominoes, as I type this I have just lost five men on the trot! All for ducks!

Maybe it is their plan to have games that are inaccurate as it makes you want to play again and beat them but obviously only the sad people who spend every waking hour on the game will ever get anywhere with it.

I’ve just read that last paragraph out loud to myself and it sounds like sour grapes on my part.

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AFC Ealing played a friendly on Thursday and within the first three minutes of the game I went into a tackle and twisted my knee, the pain was so bad that everytime I ran or touched the ball the vibrations went to my knee and made the pain even worse.

Like an idiot I tried to grit my teeth and suck up the pain but it got worse and it got to the point where I could barely walk let alone run. The pain went away as I got the train home but when I woke up the next morning my knee had swollen up and I had to walk around like I had a lump of wood down my trouser leg.

It is now Tuesday afternoon and the swelling is still there and the pain is especially still there.

I was contemplating contacting Jayson and telling him that I could not make training this week but last night I got a phone call from Kerry saying we had another friendly on Sunday. This is our third friendly and the last two we only had about 8 players turn up and we had to ask the opposition to lend us some of their players. How embarrassing is that?!

If I tell Jayson that I can not make it to training I know for sure that I will try and play the game on Sunday even if I am 5% fit and I know that Jayson will think I am skiving off.

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To be honest although it is a great competition I did become a little bit sad when I discovered that the promotion had nothing to do with the classic quiz show hosted by the awesome Henry Kelly.

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I was invited to Eddie’s birthday bash at Ryan’s Bar in Stoke Newington last night. I decided to get there early with Reiss as he was asked to help blow up balloons but we simply sat with Alfie & Wes and drank wine like sophisticated middle-class people.

I decided to play some jokes on Alfie so I stole a joke from the TV series Bottom where Eddie buys Ritchie an empty miniture bottle of Malibu for Christmas and then gives him a piece of paper with the words Madam Swish written on it (Ritchie thinks it is a date with a whore but it is a horse) for his bithday.

I told Reiss about this and he decided to steal a joke where Eddie gives Ritchie a used toilet roll with a piece of paper taped over one end with a drawing on it. It ended up upstaging my joke! (I left the piece of paper at home by mistake) How dare he upstage me with his creative drawing of Sue Carpenter in a bikini!

Will, Jen and her husband (I have never actually been introduced so have no idea what his name is) turned up, I have not seen Jen and Will in a while so it was nice to catch up and hang with them for an evening. Jen was going to take care of the music but I think Reiss was trying to take over because I was hanging out near the decks when Jen grabbed me and asked me to look after the music and don’t let Reiss near the decks until she got back.

I had no idea what I was doing, some lovely lady came to my aide and was basically standing next to me picking and playing the songs and I was taking credit for them like some kind of solo version of Milli Vanilli.

A message for Jen: Never ask a man who is 75% blind, and does not wear his glasses outside, to take over the decks, especially when the room is poorly lit!

Reiss got a bit upset for some reason, I went outside to say goodbye to Alfie, Eddie, Will, Wes & Jen and saw Reiss sitting inside at a table looking dejected; like he had received a promise from a liar.

We ended up walking to the bus stop and Reiss got very upset and angry when he found out that the number 106 bus that we normally get had been cut and in his anger he not only became quite abusive to an innocent woman but he also kicked a brick wall and hurt his foot.

He then started shouting at a bus driver and it was at this point that I decided to walk home. I stopped off at the chip shop for my ritual bag of chips but I when I got home I fell sleep and forgot to eat them. The thought of cold chips made me feel sick so I chucked them out.

I had a really nice time, apart from Reiss picking a fight with a wall, it is Will’s birthday this Friday and I’ve been invited so hopefully it will be just as good. Although the start of it will be in a pub called The Intrepid Fox which is possibly the hottest pub in the bloody world! I swear they leave the heating on full blast all year round just to get the punters drinking more!

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Moving house can be a very trying time. My mum would move on a basis of once every three months (although as a kid it seemed like every week!) and she would send us down to the local supermarkets and street markets in a bid to collect cardboard boxes that could be used to store htings in for the move.

Sometimes finding boxes that are suitable is almost as trying as moving house itself.

I remember when I moved out I ended up putting everything I owned into two shopping trollies because I could not find boxes. Thanks to the internet something like this will not happen to me again.

Companies like packnboxnow.com are on hand to sell you boxes at very reasonable prices. They have never been used so you do no have to worry about finding unwanted animals and bodily fluids in them like you might find if you pick up boxes outside.

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