Quiet Thoughts around the Football World Cup (after the euphoria)

• God bless English people for inventing football!!!
• Such a great party: every country showing proudly their own way of doing things, their different approaches to the game itself, to the way fans lively behave...but sharing it together.
• Africa. Surprising, brilliant. African players getting off the buses and entering the ground, amazing! The farewell ceremony, a colourful joy to behold.
• In the good days of prosperity many people don’t understand what can be considered a huge squandering. In these hard days it is good to see that there is a strong industry working and making money and creating jobs around the world, and specially helping us to forget a bit all the dark thoughts around the crisis.
• I hope it will be considered once and for all outdated the statement “women don’t like football”
• Spain proved something hard to believe in a world of great “Egos” (Proffesional football): trusting your mates and working as a team makes much more than the plain addition of individuals. It is easy for children or for less talented players, eh? But it is astonishing if you consider the names involved and their quality: Cesc in the bench, the goalkeepers...
• As for the goalkeepers: Pepe Reina running along the sideline to embrace Casillas when he saved the penalty to Paraguay. It was moving: his only chance to play would have been an injury or a bad performance from Casillas; but he prefers to back and cheers him up, standing by him against the attack some papers were making on him. Touching.
• Vicente del Bosque was not ellegant enough for the new project Florentino was launching for Real Madrid, and was sent off after winning the national league and the Champions League. Florentino still thinks ellegance can be shown in the way men wear suits, whoever with eyes on their face can compare del Bosque’s savoir-faire and good manners with some other managers that Florentino has contracted...Specially because of their ellegant behaviour, beyond any doubt...
• For the next time, if they only could solve the matches a bit earlier and with some more goals, for goodness sake! Too much suffering for me...
• Seedling for the future... http://barbadasbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/el-alevin-femenino-del-atletico-de.html
• Such a great month we lived...How hard getting back to normal, let’s go to South Africa again... Great being champions in Nelson Mandela’s country and presence...Great, Great!!!

La Cena - "Jacob's Join"

This is just say a BIG thank you to everyone who made this event so special.

Thanks to all those who came.

Thanks for all the wonderful food that people brought.

Thanks for the great company of this very special group.

We hope you all enjoyed it and found it a relaxing evening.

Have a great summer, love from

Paula y Bob

"Jacob's Join". The history!

This is a term not widely used outside Lancashire. This is what the website "Worldwide Words" has to say about it:

"Eric Partridge describes it as “the eating equivalent of a bottle party”, in which each participant brings along as much food as he or she is likely to want to eat, but puts it into a common stock for the communal meal.

The term Jacob’s join is well known in and around Lancashire. Eric Partridge and Nigel Rees both record that people from that English county have told them about it. However, nobody seems to know where it comes from. This is hardly surprising: there are many such sayings, often with quite wide circulations, whose origins are totally obscure. In this case, the connection is presumably with the biblical Jacob, he of Jacob’s ladder. Could it refer to the mess of pottage (a dish of stew, in modern language) for which, the Bible tells us, Esau sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob?"

There were many Methodist villages in rural Lancashire and it is my theory that the term comes from there. These communities did not have any pubs as they didn't drink alcohol so probably socialised by organising a Jacob's Join.

¡Qué buena pinta!

A pesar de los problemas de recortes presupuestarios, va a celebrarse. Siempre, al lado de la música. Y si es de Mezclas...más.

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