Free Falling Foxes

See the match headlines now: 10 man Ipswich get first win.

Couple of young lads with a 'Penny for the Guy' outside the Co-Op in Braunstone Frith. Cannot remember the last time I saw that.

Mrs. FFF and our heating is a strange relationship to fathom. Colder evenings in late August and well into September, the thought process is; it's too early to have the heating on. Then into October and onwards, it's often on, even on mild days. I've just walked into the house and it's like a bloody furnace. By no stretch is it cold today. To summarise: Aug/Sept: Heating off, no matter if cold. Oct/Nov: Heating on, no matter if mild.

Flew by hasn't it?

I was on a very early visit to Bradgate Park one summer morning and just arrived at Old John. The need to go came on quite quickly so had no choice but to squat in that walled, wooded area nearby. To keep my balance, I grabbed hold of some bracken. Unfortunately, just after completing a rather loose poo, the bracken came away in my hand. To this day, I've no idea how I managed to avoid sitting back in my own shite. I can only assume I managed a super human, quick and instinctive avoiding reaction or even defied gravity for a split second which bought me valuable time.

Or, a woman pregnant with twins giving birth to the first.

I seem to recall in our Premier league winning season and for two or three seasons thereafter, we had very few Saturday 3pm ko. Might be my memory but that's how I remember it.

I've been receiving notifications on YouTube recently for some short videos called Now and Then. They are usually a series of photographs from the second world war, compared with the same scene today. Unsurprisingly, the war pictures often show bomb damaged buildings and, sometimes, bodies. One scene couldn't have been more worlds apart. The original showed a cobbled street with a dead soldier lying across a pavement. The 'Now' picture showed the exact same buildings and cobbled road, which is now a busy shopping street with dozens of folk going about their daily and peaceful everyday lives, walking over the exact same spot where that particular warrior had died. That soldier was somebodies son, brother, perhaps a father himself. No memorial of course marking the place he died, there were far too many for that to be possible. I found it quite powerful.

I like to think I would be aware if I became unsafe on the roads and 'self-regulate'. In fact, I have already done so. I will not now drive in the dark for example, as I find too many oncoming vehicle lights dazzling. I would also welcome views of any family/friends who may notice any less than competent driving on my part. That said, I agree that a formal and regular assessment as to your driving and awareness should happen after the age of 70 or 75 and these should be at least yearly for even older drivers.

Every generation can point to hardships they endured compared to previous or following ones. It seems many on here think that an exception to that however, are those born late 40s to early 70s. Nonsense. {Engage 4 Yorkshiremen mode} Many folk still lived in slums. Rationing still in place for a few years at the start of that period. Very few went to university . Nuclear War was very possible. Unmarried mums had their children taken at birth - many never seeing them again. Corporal punshment in schools (I still protest it wasn't me sir. Still got a whack though) Started work at 15/16. Seems barbaric now. Schools built with asbestos present and decorated with lead paint. And so on. Stop it. 'Boomers' had their (un)fair share too.

Interesting that an entire demographic - so called 'boomers' - can be vilified. I accept that much is just a wind up or just a cheap criticism of a group of folk that belong to to another generation. However, if posters wrote similar diatribe but instead of 'boomer' wrote such generalisation of Gypsies, Asians, blacks, muslims, jews, women, and so, it would an 'ism' and rightly called out. As far as FT is concerned, posts would be deleated, posters banned - and rightly so. I'm baffed as to why one age group/generation is fair game.

Does this include the ones who grew up in poverty, lived in a slum area, did national service, barely survived TB, received no handouts, no central heating in two of the worst winters on record..... I could go on but suspect you are on a wind up or massively ill informed.

The figure standing on the right doesn't look 1890s me thinks? Time traveller perhaps?

Equally, that asylum hotel rioter who was jailed has died in prison. Very little media coverage in comparison. Suspect there would have been far more if the fella was black.

So............

Pinch their stadium design and keep pinching points.

Perhaps the Premier League and the refs aren't out to get us after all, when Ayew got away with that shirt pull

I'll steer well clear of 606 tonight, cannot do with Sutton saying we only want him out because he's ex Forest.

Something positive at last - my stream has died.

I wish they were clever enough to know I scroll straight past them - always and in the case of YouTube, skip as soon as poss.

Ahh, the good ole days before football was played on grass.

School dentist and the 'Nit' nurse.

And these; Jumping Jacks.