GOOD NEWS...........

Well it has been confirmed. I am off back to Malaysia with my current project. The timings are yet to be decided, but it looks to be around the middle to end of April for 6 + months.

I am really looking forward to it, the sun, the food, the work. Obviously there are the down sides to it. It will mean another 6 months without the family.

Catherine and the kids will be coming out in the summer holidays though, hopefully for a month. That will be really good. We intend going to several places in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, then maybe the Cameron Highlands, and then an elephant sanctuary. I am not sure about another Isalnd trip, not after the disaster we had last time! If we did I think we will go to Rawa Safari, as it is a lot nicer and a dam site closer to the mainland!!!!!

Of course, we will also visit Singapore.

UP THE ARSENAL

Well the time had come to visit the new home of football. It was a cold night when Sam, Zoe and I undertook the long drive and tube ride to The Emirates Stadium to watch us play CSKA Moscow.

I had been to Highbury so many times both as a kid and with the kids, so this was going to be something mighty strange. I looked at the Transport for London website to find where was best to get off the tube, they told me Holloway Road instead of Arsenal. What the forget to tell you is that the bastards close Holloway Road tube station on match days.

The stadium is fantastic, the seats are a good size, and padded. We were seven rows from the front out wide to the left of the goal. The match itself was crap. A very boreing 0 - 0 draw.

Getting home took for ever. The Police stop you from getting in the station in groups of more than a few dozen, do with 60,000 people there you can guess the length of the queue!!!! It was then an hour on the tube and 80 minutes drive home, all for a crap 0 - 0 draw! Why do I bother!