Spent today at home. In fact, spent the whole morning completing my tax return which involved delving back into my share records which have been quite complicated over the last twelve months with the takeover of Friends Provident, rights issues, scrip issues and share purchase schemes for these and other shares. I also needed to get tax deduction information from various banks and list all my gift aid donations to the church and other charities. At the end of this extensive exercise I simply needed to fill in four boxes and sign and date the form! Sara went out this morning shopping and came back with cold meats and other bits and pieces for a lunch she was to give for our friend Jan(et) tomorrow. Jan has now decided to have an afternoon tea instead so Sara and I sat down to eat cold meat salad with new potatoes and fresh "on the vine" tomatoes. Quite yummy. When Tom got home we had half an hour before we set off for Yeovil to support Saints at Huish Park. Due to a bad accident the link road between the A303 and the football ground was closed (and remained closed throughout the evening) and we had to negotiate several narrow county lanes to get to the ground. We arrived ni good time, however, and after a burger supper we entered the Cowlin Stand which provided a limited amount of undercover seating for the away fans. This was just as well as the main terraces for the Saints' supporters were open to elements and facing the wind. As the evening progressed it started to rain heavily and those on the open terraces got soaked. Saints scored first in the 56th minute but this lead was soon pegged back by a penalty scored by Yeovil. Despite several attempts on goal by both sides - especially from Southampton towards the end of the game inside the 5 minutes of extra time, the score remained at 1-1. A draw was not very good for either side but at the end of the evening Saints had gone up a place in the table and Yeovil down (into the relegation zone). Elsewhere, Leeds suffered a crushing blow from Preston at Elland Road. Leeds were 4-1 up at half-time but Preston came back in the second half to win 4-6! Apparently quite a few Preston fans left the ground at half-time! It took us about half an hour to get out of the car park this evening and instead of joining the queue to find a way through the back roads to the A303, I drove in the opposite direction through Yeovil town centre and back to Salisbury on the A30. We arrived back home at ten minutes to midnight. I stayed up with Sara until about 1 a.m. watching a programme about women who kill their husbands. Sara seems mightily interested in this series for some reason. I do remind her that they all got caught in the end!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Away to the Glovers
Spent today at home. In fact, spent the whole morning completing my tax return which involved delving back into my share records which have been quite complicated over the last twelve months with the takeover of Friends Provident, rights issues, scrip issues and share purchase schemes for these and other shares. I also needed to get tax deduction information from various banks and list all my gift aid donations to the church and other charities. At the end of this extensive exercise I simply needed to fill in four boxes and sign and date the form! Sara went out this morning shopping and came back with cold meats and other bits and pieces for a lunch she was to give for our friend Jan(et) tomorrow. Jan has now decided to have an afternoon tea instead so Sara and I sat down to eat cold meat salad with new potatoes and fresh "on the vine" tomatoes. Quite yummy. When Tom got home we had half an hour before we set off for Yeovil to support Saints at Huish Park. Due to a bad accident the link road between the A303 and the football ground was closed (and remained closed throughout the evening) and we had to negotiate several narrow county lanes to get to the ground. We arrived ni good time, however, and after a burger supper we entered the Cowlin Stand which provided a limited amount of undercover seating for the away fans. This was just as well as the main terraces for the Saints' supporters were open to elements and facing the wind. As the evening progressed it started to rain heavily and those on the open terraces got soaked. Saints scored first in the 56th minute but this lead was soon pegged back by a penalty scored by Yeovil. Despite several attempts on goal by both sides - especially from Southampton towards the end of the game inside the 5 minutes of extra time, the score remained at 1-1. A draw was not very good for either side but at the end of the evening Saints had gone up a place in the table and Yeovil down (into the relegation zone). Elsewhere, Leeds suffered a crushing blow from Preston at Elland Road. Leeds were 4-1 up at half-time but Preston came back in the second half to win 4-6! Apparently quite a few Preston fans left the ground at half-time! It took us about half an hour to get out of the car park this evening and instead of joining the queue to find a way through the back roads to the A303, I drove in the opposite direction through Yeovil town centre and back to Salisbury on the A30. We arrived back home at ten minutes to midnight. I stayed up with Sara until about 1 a.m. watching a programme about women who kill their husbands. Sara seems mightily interested in this series for some reason. I do remind her that they all got caught in the end!
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