
NO doubt like me, you enjoyed the festive frivolities and over did it with all the food and drink.
Point of View (or POV for those who are big social media buffs), is it me or are the Christmas sweet tins half the size they were? Either that or my hands are getting bigger.
Because I remember when you’d open up the Quality Street (not my favourites by the way, I’m a Celebrations kind of chap) on Christmas Eve and they’d last until New Year’s Eve.
Not now, oh no my friends, not now. In our household the Quality Street, Heroes and Celebrations were all prized open Christmas Eve night and didn’t even make it to the King's speech! Well apart from the little Double Deckers in Heroes - no-one really liked them!
Back on the football pitch and Leiston certainly treated their fans to a Boxing Day bonanza as they rattled in seven goals.
I can’t remember the last time they scored seven goals at home (must have been in black and white) and I certainly wouldn’t be able to recall a time when we scored seven against Lowestoft (better take a trip to the library when it re-opens to sort out the facts).
I stood with Tik Tok and he was going bananas when the sixth went it. Honestly, half a pint of shandy and he's a nightmare. His rendition of 'Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the goals are so delightful', was almost pitch perfect, if hadn't slurred so much.
Anyhow, no doubt the locals in the swelled gate must have been thinking, is it like this all the time? Maybe the win will encourage those fans who don’t normally attend to return in the New Year, here’s hoping.
Either way, the result was very timely for the time of year and no doubt for the next few seasons we may just dine out on it, just like we enjoy the ever-festive TV repeats.
Talking of repeats If you weren't at the Watson & Hillhouse Stadium on Boxing Day (where were you BTW?), I suppose you could have been at home watching a classic film on BBC-2. Yep, at 2.25pm (just as GQ netted his second), 'The Magnificent Seven', was airing on our TV screens. How apt!