March 15, 2021

 

 

and when I thought all hope was gone,

my watch had stopped at five to one.

 

and then I thought ‘what can I do’,

by which time it was ten past two.

 

I’d lost my mind, which worried me,

until it returned at quarter to three.

 

I showered and dressed, and opened the door,

by which time it was twenty to four.

 

I breathed fresh air, and felt alive,

as the town hall clock struck dead on five.

 

I walked for miles – my mind to fix,

by now it was six minutes past six.

 

I talked to people, it felt like heaven,

then wandered home at half past seven.

 

I took a path, which wasn’t straight,

that got me home just after eight.

 

I cooked some food, and drank some wine,

then read in bed, til well past nine.

 

‘I simply must do this again’,

‘to hell’, I thought, ‘with News at Ten’.

 

written by Harriet Blackbury

 

March 14, 2021

 

 

‘I’m a ‘Youth Dew’ girl,

she would always insist to me.

 

I told her that I found it

a little over-powering,

and that maybe she

should use a tad less.

 

I would sneeze as soon as

she clambered into my car.

We would give each other

that same knowing look.

 

Her first words always the same:

‘You’re flaming crackers, and you

can turn that racket off the radio too –

lets talk instead’.

 

That’s how it was, mile after mile.

She talked and talked. I listened 

and occasionally butted in.

I’d heard every word many times.

 

She loved dogs and trees,

and ten people and me,

but the rest of the universe

could all ‘sod off’.

 

In an attempt to suppress

another imminent sneeze,

I would mischievously press

the passenger window switch,

 

and her window would come

flying down, letting in some

lovely, cool clear air, and scaring

her witless, in the process.

 

‘Put this window back up,

you damned idiot’, she would

demand, closing her eyes and

shaking her head in dismay.

 

Oh. what I would give to

smell the perfume on her today!

 

Now, more than a decade on,

I occasionally catch the aroma

of Youth Dew on someone that

I pass in the street. and choking back

tears, face all the comeuppance

I deserve.

 

Sorry for being such a bitch Mum

Love you tons.

 

written by Harriet Blackbury

March 12, 2021

 

1     WILFRIED ZAHA

2     ROY HODGSON

3     CHRISTIAN BENTEKE

4     AARON WAN-BISSAKA

5     LUKA MILIVOJEVIC

6     GARY CAHILL

7     IAN WRIGHT

8     DWIGHT GAYLE

9     CHRIS COLEMAN

10    GARETH SOUTHGATE

11    JACK BUTLAND

12    STEVE KEMBER

13    VINCE HILAIRE

14    GLENN MURRAY

15    ANDY GRAY

16    ANDREW JOHNSON

17    GEORGE WOODGER

18    ANDROS TOWNSEND

19    KENNY SANSOM

20    GERRY FRANCIS

21    MEL BLYTH

22    JULIAN SPERONI

23    TYRICK MITCHELL

24    PATRICK VAN AANHOLT

25    JOHN JACKSON

26    CHEIKHOU KOUYATE

27    GEOFF THOMAS

28    JAMES MCARTHUR

29    ALAN PARDEW

30    WAYNE HENNESSEY

31    MAMADOU SAKHO

32    IAIN DOWIE

33    STEVE COPPELL

34    JORDAN AYEW

35    PAUL HINSHELWOOD

36    MARK BRIGHT

37    JASON PUNCHEON

38    ATTILIO LOMBARDO

39    SCOTT DANN

40    CHRIS ARMSTRONG

41    JIM CANNON

42    VICENTE GUAITA

43    JOHNNY BYRNE

44    CONNOR WICKHAM

45    ALBERT HARRY

46    YANNICK BOLASIE

47    STEPHEN HENDERSON

48    MILE JEDINAK

49    DANNY BUTTERFIELD

50    TOMAS BROLIN

51    MARTIN KELLY

52    DAMIEN DELANEY

53    JEFFREY SCHLUPP

54    DOUGIE FREEDMAN

55    JOHN SALAKO

56    SHEFKI KUQI

57    YOHAN CABAYE

58    JAMES MCCARTHY

59    PETER TAYLOR

60    NATHANIEL CLYNE

61    JAIRO RIEDEWALD

62    MICHY BATSHUAYL

63    JOEL WARD

64    CLINTON MORRISON

65    EBERECHI EZE

66    HAYDEN MULLINS

67    NIGEL MARTYN

68    JAMES TOMKINS

69    JEAN PHILIPPE MATETA

70    TERRY FENWICK

71    ROY SUMMERSBY

72    PETER BURRIDGE

73    DAVE SWINDLEHURST

74    BOBBY WOODRUFF

75    JIMMY BAUCHOP

76    DARREN AMBROSE

77    JERRY MURPHY

78    EDWIN SMITH

79    BILLY GILBERT

80    FRED KURZ

81    RONNIE ALLEN

82    TOM SOARES

83    JIMMY WILLIAMS

84    CLIFF HOLTON

85    SHAUN DERRY

86    GEORGE CLARKE

87    PHIL BARBER

88    BEN WATSON

89    PETER SIMPSON

90    MIKE DEAKIN

91    RUBEN IRA LOFTUS-CHEEK ( on loan )

 

Compiled by Harriet Blackbury

February 2021

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Many Thanks for visiting my website  Regards Harriet

 

March 11, 2021

 

 

So many stories

rolled into one.

People we met,

battles we won

 

whilst on the journey

that took us to this point.

The madness of youth,

didn’t disappoint.

 

Freedom from responsibility

and wanting it all.

Never stopping to measure

the risks far too tall.

 

Living each day as our last,

with time melting away.

Until the moment of truth,

when the gods had their say.

 

 

 

 

and people came and fitted in.

A new life willing to begin.

No sea too risky or too deep,

to sap their strength – no time to weep.

 

Each one fighting for their right.

A life of freedom now in sight.

Survivors of life’s cruelest game –

to live in peace, their only aim.

 

 

 

 

and sunlight came today,

I gave myself a break,

away from a self absorbed existence,

a breathe of fresh air to partake.

 

and vision came today,

depression to replace.

My mind flooding with ideas,

I re-joined the human race.

 

and hope came by today,

a future I could see.

Solitude, a draughty corridor

that nearly was the death of me.

 

 

 

 

and for the umpteenth

time that day,

the mind unsettled –

in disarray.

 

and birds that came

for daily bread,

absent from the air –

the world seemed dead.

 

So still, too still,

pressure intense.

That day so different,

nothing made sense.

 

and for the umpteenth

time that day,

all sense of reason

went away.

 

any chance of hope

inside my head,

quickly replaced

by fear and dread.

 

What point – no point

to life, I thought,

when at rock bottom

some help I sought.

 

 

March 6, 2021

 

118   ELLIOTT ANDERSON

119   ANDY CARROLL

120   JOE LINTON

121   ALLAN SAINT – MAXIMIN

122   JOE WILLOCK

123   MIGUEL ALMIRON

124   KARL DARLOW

125   JAVIER MANQUILLO

126   FABIAN SCHAR

127   JAMAL LEWIS

128   JEFF HENDRICK

129   EMIL KRAFTH

130   PAUL DUMMETT

131   CALLUM WILSON

132   RYAN FRASER

133   CHRISTIAN ATSU

134   HENRI SAIVET

135   CIARAN CLARK

136   DWIGHT GAYLE

137   MATT RITCHIE

138   MARTIN DUBRAVKA 

 

Compiled by Harriet Blackbury

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Thank you for visiting my website  Regards Harriet

 

 

1     JACKIE MILBURN

2     KEVIN KEEGAN

3     MICHAEL OWEN

4     ALAN SHEARER

5     JIMMY LAWRENCE

6     FRANK CLARK

7     PAUL GASCOIGNE

8     DAVID GINOLA

9     MALCOLM  MACDONALD

10    BOBBY ROBSON

11    ANDY COLE

12    GARY SPEED

13    CHRIS WADDLE

14    TIM KRUL

15    LES FERDINAND

16    JIM ILEY

17    LEE CLARK

18    BOBBY MONCUR

19    DAVID CRAIG

20    PETER BEARDSLEY

21    BOB STOKOE

22    KEVIN NOLAN

23    JONJO SHELVEY

24    NOLBERTO SOLANO

25    RONNIE SIMPSON

26    JOE HARVEY

27    DAVID KELLY

28    ALAN KENNEDY   (also No.90)

29    SHAY GIVEN

30    BARRY VENISON

31    JIMMY BOYD

32    BILL MCCRACKEN

33    YOHAN CABAYE

34    PAPISS CISSE

35    CHEICK TIOTE

36    HUGHIE GALLACHER

37    STEVE HOWEY   (also No.105)

38    OBAFEMI MARTINS

39    STEVE BRUCE

40    BOBBY MITCHELL

41    KIERON DYER

42    POP ROBSON

43    CRAIG BELLAMY

44    DANNY SIMPSON

45    ROB LEE

46    STEVEN TAYLOR

47    JOHN BERESFORD

48    ALF MCMICHAEL

49    JONATHAN WOODGATE

50    GAVIN PEACOCK

51    FAUSTINO ASPRILLA

52    HATEM BEN ARFA

53    WILLIE MCFAUL

54    SHOLA AMEOBI

55    JOEY BARTON

56    DEMBA BA

57    WYN DAVIES

58    LAURENT ROBERT

59    JERMAINE JENAS

60    NEIL MCDONALD

61    ROBBIE ELLIOTT

62    JONAS GUTIERREZ

63    FABRICIO COLOCCINI

64    ISAAC HAYDEN

65    TERRY HIBBITT

66    PHILIPPE ALBERT

67    ALBERT SHEPERD

68    JOSE ENRIQUE

69    WILF LOWE

70    STEVE HARPER

71    JOCK RUTHERFORD

72    NIKOS DABIZAS

73    TERRY MCDERMOTT

74    FRANK HUDSPETH

75    TOMMY MCDONALD

76    LEN WHITE

77    JACK COLBACK

78    STAN SEYMOUR

79    ALAN GOWLING

80    MARC HOTTIGER

81    JIMMY STEWART

82    KENNY WHARTON

83    GLENN ROEDER

84    MARK MCGHEE

85    JIM SMITH

86    KEVIN BROCK

87    MICKY BURNS

88    CLARENCE ACUNA

89    JOHN GALLAGHER

90    ALAN KENNEDY   (also No.28)

91    KEVIN DILLON

92    TOMMY CRAIG

93    MICKY QUINN

94    MARK STIMSON

95    JOHN BIRD

96    JOHN ANDERSON

97    MICK MAHONEY

98    JOHN BURRIDGE

99    DAVID MCCREERY

100   LOMANA LUALUA

101   STEWART BARROWCLOUGH

102   TOMMY CASSIDY

103   IRVING NATTRESS

104   KEVIN SCOTT

105   STEVE HOWEY   (also No.37)

106    PAVEL SMICEK

107   DARREN PEACOCK

108   WARREN BARTON

109   KEITH GILLESPIE

110   DAVID BATTY

111   AARON HUGHES

112   OLIVIER BERNARD

113   NICKY BUTT

114   CHARLES N’ZOGBIA

115   RYAN TAYLOR

116   YOAN GOUFFRAN

117   VURNON ANITA

 

Compiled by Harriet Blackbury

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Thank you for visiting my website  Regards Harriet

 

March 2, 2021

 

 

In 83, ‘Money Go Round (Part 1)’, reached No.11,

for Style Council, on Polydor.

And in 85, ‘Money For Nothing’, on Vertigo,

gave Dire Straits, a US No.1 & UK Top 4.

 

In 75, ‘Money Honey’, made the Top  3,

for The Bay City Rollers, on Bell.

And in 2000, ‘Money’, on Parlophone Rhythm,

for Jamelia ft Beenie Man, a Top 5 sell.

 

In 85, ‘Money’s Too Tight To Mention’, on Elektra,

(their first hit) rose to No.13,  for Simply Red.

And in 98, Money Mark, had a Top 40,

on Mo Wax with ‘Hand In Your Head’.

 

In 66, ‘Big Time Operator’, on Columbia,

made No.25, for Zoot Money & The Big Roll Band.

And in 94, ‘Money’, on Virgin,

reached No.48, for The Backbeat Band.

 

In 98, ‘Money’, on Epic,

was at No.12, for Charli Baltimore.

And in 05, ‘Rich Girl’, on Interscope,

gave Gwen Stefani, a Top 4.

 

In 90, ‘Moneytalks’ on Atco,

for AC/DC peaked at No.36.

And in 76, ‘Money Money Money’, on Epic,

gave Abba, a gold selling Top 3, ending this mix.

 

 

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