Wednesday 10th November

I know it's not cool to blog about one's blog - but the fact is that this evening is mostly spent catching up with Along Presently posts. Keeping to a daily blog is tricky - and I've spent much of the last month at least a week behind. There have been times when I've considered drawing a line under it and concentrating on other things, particularly when I have a few days to catch up on, which then takes up all the time I have for writing. I've kept going though, mostly because it's a lot of fun to look back on - and I can't help but think of the landmarks. If I stopped now I'd have done a daily blog for 242 days of my life. What's that? That's meaningless. A year is much more impressive - though that means carrying on well into next March. I'd also quite like to have the blog cover all the build-up to the wedding, since it covered the engagement. The wedding is 282 days away, which would take the blog to an impressive (yet still maddeningly non-rounded) 524 days. So I'm not stopping quite yet.

Tonight is productive, at least in terms of this blog, as I get 9 days-worth written down before K gets back from her gig, bringing me up to date for the first time in ages.

I also find time to rig up a dodgy online feed to watch the Chelsea v Fulham game - managing to tune into Fox Soccer Channel live from the US. The commentators are, thankfully, British, but the half-time report is full of amusing pronuciation of names and peculiar American soccer slang. The voice-over refers to the post as something funny, but I forget now what it is. As far as the game goes, Chelsea overcome Fulham 1-0 (as they are expected to do) but do it without ever really playing any scintillating football. The dominance is total in the first half, but later on in the game Fulham seem to grow in confidence and the last ten minutes look very dodgy indeed. Still, it's 3 points on a night when Man United and Man City play out a tedious 0-0 draw at Eastlands, meaning Chelsea have a four-point cushion with just under a third of the season played. The real tests though, are very much still to come.