Saturday morning means a bit of a lie-in. After a cooked breakfast, Sara and Mary went into Salisbury for Mary's ballet lesson whilst Tom and I stayed in Winterslow. I wrote my Intercessionary Prayers for tomorrow's church service at All Saints and Tom went out on his bike to play football on the rec. The writing of the intercessions was much easier than anticipated and, using the precedent of some I had written for last June, was able to easily adapt them for tomorrow using some of the techniques and thoughts from the Alpha Course. Tom and I left home at around 12.30 p.m. for Southampton to watch the Saints game against QPR. I had high hopes that if all the results went the right way, the Saints might get out of the relegation zone today. A win for Saints and a heavy loss for Barnsley or Nottingham Forest would see us out of the bottom three. We made our usual visit to the fish and chip shop in St. Mary's Road before the game. Unfortunately the match was dreadful with Saints missing some easy opportunities to score and narrowly escaping some good attempts on goal by QPR. A final score of 0-0 was of little help to Saints. This result was even more significant when we discovered that Nottingham Forest had lost 5-0 at Burnley. If Saints had only managed to score one simple goal we would indeed have risen above the bottom three. A win by Norwich saw that team move up and Saints remain two points adrift from safety as Barnsley also lost at home to Blackpool. It is really looking bleak for Saints. Grimsby had an all important match against fellow strugglers Chester but despite a 1-0 lead at half time ended the game in a 1-1 draw which sees the Mariners rooted to the bottom and facing non-league football next season. The silver lining to the footballing day was Liverpool's magnificent 4-1 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford to narrow United's lead at the top of the Premier League. Tonight Sarah and Molly came round - Molly to stay overnight. We had a long chat with Sarah discussing Alpha and choir matters. Sara mentioned that she and Mary had visited St. Paul's when they were in Salisbury and were very impressed (see my blog for Saturday 7th March for a description) and we will all try and attend a service there when the whole family is together. I spent the evening writing up my Night Sky article for the Parish Magazine once Sarah had gone.
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