It ain’t over…

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I know not to count chickens. And I know that if there is ever drama to be had in football, then the playoff semi-finals is the place where it happens. It’s ten years to the day since that incredible Leicester v Watford game that everyone remembers so I don’t have to link to it here.

I know it ain’t over until the fat lady sings…

But she’s got to be warming up, right?

Four-nil! Four!

Lol.

And this just one day after our promotion parade. Delicious!

My city is very much Red and White. Mind the gap!

Ever hopeful

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Down at the cottage. Beautiful light on the way down here, but it was all about getting here and getting the braai lit.

Someone wanted a lamb chop.

Gazing wistfully into the braai doesn’t mean you’re getting what’s on the grid. But it’s always worth a try.

Top Tip: After playing football

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SAVE TIME on telling people which specific bits of you are hurting after playing football by hurting all over, and thus simply using the word “everything”.

I really enjoyed our win on Tuesday evening, and I ran around all over the place doing my best headless chicken impersonation. (3.2km, max HR 179, avg HR 149, max speed 19.7kph). But I am paying for it a little now.

It’s no big deal. The fact that it’s taken 36 hours to manifest just shows that I need a bit more fitness before I can start to recover more quickly. And that’s always on the way, so I’m not concerned. But a bit of a rest day seems like a good idea today. It wasn’t like I felt like running in the rain anyway.

Back to it tomorrow though, with the plan to not feel quite as broken this time next week.

Terms and conditions apply.

Very shiny thing coming

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It’s just over 17 months until C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) reaches perihelion, but I’m already quite excited.

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is a comet, and if you can recall just how much I enjoyed getting a photo of C/2021 A1 (Leonard), and then you realise that this one could be many orders of magnitude brighter, then maybe you can understand my excitement.

There are always a lot of unknowns and maybes with comets, because we don’t really understand them completely, and they can behave unpredictable, but we should be able to start seeing C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in about a year from now, and it should actually be quite difficult to miss in September and October next year. Again, nothing set in stone yet, but there are predictions of it having an apparent visual magnitude (brightness) of up to -5 (bright). That’s brighter than Venus in the night sky. And Venus is second only in magnitude to the moon.

There’s always that chance that C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) doesn’t make it: it could fall apart before it gets here. But if everything goes well, in comet terms, we could get quite a show next year.