2019 June – Women’s World Cup, France 2019

Nice

Mum has abandoned me and gone here.

She has headed off with the offspring to watch some of the Women’s World Cup footy in La France.

I’m not entirely sure why I couldn’t have gone along as well.  Dogs can get passports too you know.

Mind you I usually puncture footballs, so if I got onto the pitch it might get quite interesting, quite quickly.

 

They are doing air b and b.

Fancy.

And sipping cocktails on a rooftop terrace and admiring the view apparently…

 

followed by ice cream (cactus flavour?) and macarons.

 

Extra fancy.

And then the match…England v Japan

Good match.

England 2 – Japan 0

And this is what I got up to:

It’s not quite the same is it?

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music: We’re going a little skittish this month and plumping for Take That.  Formed in 1990, they’ve had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles, 12 of which have reached number one.  The most successful boy band in the UK.   You will definitely know these tracks.

Back for Good

A Million Love songs

Pray

Greatest Day

Patience (probably one of the best come-back songs ever)

These Days

The Flood

Shine

 

Reading: The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey, published by Orbit. Also a film.  Sci-fi in a dystopian future where most adults have been wiped out by a fungus thingy.  Nicely done.  Worth a look – book or film – whichever suits you.

 

Films: Salt – american action thriller starring Angelina Jolie, accused of being a Russian sleeper and goes on the run to clear her name.  Also starring Liev Schreiber (who you’ll know as Wolverine’s brother of course). Kinda James Bond-ish but easy watching.  Angelina has always been pretty good at the action stuff – look at Tomb Raider…

If you’re not in the mood for Salt, then try Mr and Mrs Smith – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as assassins belonging to competing agencies and assigned to kill each other.    Life (sort of) mirroring fiction in this case…maybe???   They met on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith. 

 

In the news:

 U.S. President Donald Trump begins a three-day state visit to the UK

PM Theresa May announces a new legally binding target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, making the United Kingdom the first major industrialised nation to propose this goal

and then ….PM Theresa May resigns, paving the way for a leadership contest

The Met Office records some of the hottest UK temperatures for June in 40 years

In the UEFA Champions League, Liverpool defeat Spurs 2-0.  This is Liverpool’s sixth European Cup title