I gently simmer under for most of the season, as I am systematically banished from the lounge for my irritating comments mid-match, left to sweep up kitchen mud eminating from six encrusted football boots, with only the goldfish for company.

And am now longing for that little oasis, now boiled down, it seems, to a matter of weeks, of football-free summer bliss.

But before then though I might well reach boiling point with it all. And may well have to set up a support group for outnumbered folk who live amid the football-obsessed.

It is not that I dislike football. It is the amount of football. And, more specifically the amount of football on TV.

And it is all reaching fever pitch now with, let me see, the end of the Premier league season, the FA Cup, Champions League, relegations and promotions and play-offs, not to mention the Italian and Spanish league finals.

It never seems to end, I tell you, and I am gritting teeth, ready to flip at any moment, as I time - mug that I am - Sunday roasts to fit round the latest semi-final or final that takes on the viewing significance for my lot of the moon landings.

Is it just me? I think not, and any message of sympathy and support at this difficult time would be very much appreciated.



* I care not a jot about it, but, as usual, found myself watching when the votes came in on the Eurovision Song Contest.

It was a mystifying landslide for Norway with the most votes cast for a song in the history of the event - a rubbish plinkety-plonk number.

It was universally acknowledged, it would appear, that the young man singing the song was fairly cute, and, at the risk of sounding a tad sexist, votes may have been cast, I feel, for the singer rather than the song.

Much of his appeal appeared to eminate from his rather fetching eyebrows which were the right side of bushy. So, and bear with me here please, I believe the annual Eurofest may have been won by a bushy brow and its twin. Which seems as good a reason as any, n'est ce pa?


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