Saturday 14th may 2011

So, asked Jools, when does the football season finish?

This, of course, raises the question of what do we mean when we say end of the football season. For Norwich and most of the teams of the Football League and non-league pyramid, the season is over, with just the play offs to complete. The Premier league finishes next weekend, and the final of the Champions League is the weekend after, along with the play-off finals.



So, the answer to that question is, last week, next week and in two weeks. All of which are correct and possibly annoying. And today, the 14th, was the FA Cup Final; Manchester City winning 1-0 against Stoke in a dull-as-dishwater game. And that after Man Utd won their 19th title as some league games took place on cup final day for the first time in 60 years> Heresy I say.



It has been a quiet week with us working the first five day week in a month, although it has felt longer. Nothing much exciting happened in the office, just the usual as i battle to write new procedures and struggle with the most user-unfriendly computer system since the RAF got LITS to find the information I needed.



Anyway, there was football every night, and with fine weather, the chance to walk in the evening. But, as I have felt so crap for the past three weeks, we only did that twice.I won't go into details, but I will be so relieved to feel better and not be such a moaner. Anyway, on with the other stuff.



Out of the blue on Wednesday, my employer announced that intends to build the largest wind turbine production facility less than an hour away from home on the Isle of Sheppy. We area long,long way from it happening, but the opportunity it could offer me for work and advancement are only now coming clear. All turbine components will be made there, and all pre-assembly activity done as well, before loading onto construction ships. I would just love to see this built as the scale is going to be so huge and create up to 2,000 jobs for the area. It all depends on the government and orders for the next generation of turbines coming through. we shall see, but it all rather exciting at the moment.



And in gardening news, I did not kill the grass with the lawn treatment I put down before we went on holiday, and a lot of the weeds have indeed died off. Whatever next?