'Fluffy' is not the opposite of 'wet'

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For the first time in a very long time (in fact, I can't even remember when this last happened) I had a nightmare last night. As is the case with most of my dreams, I can't actually remember what was giving me the spooks, I just remember that there was lots of screaming, lots of sirens, lots of distant explosions... and a single ghostly figure kept appearing. It was really quite terrifying.

I'm over it now.

My teams have had a mixed weekend. Dartford suffered another home defeat, which reduces our lead to just ten points (still with two games in hand). Admittedly, this doesn't sound like the most disastrous situation in the world, but it's never nice to start losing games. West Ham also managed to lose, which sees us slide back into the relegation zone. It would be nice to think that we're too good to go down (and there are certainly three teams in the Premier League worse than us), but football's a funny old game. Hopefully our new Brazilian Ilan can start bagging a few goals.

England kicked off their 6 Nations campaign in fairly convincing style, taking full advantage of Wales' sin-bin-affected spell. The football team has also been handed what I consider to be an extremely favourable draw for Euro 2012, so a pretty good weekend all-round for the nation I'd say.

Random of the week
Former Premier League footballer Dion Dublin has invented a new musical instrument, a cube-shaped drum, called The Dube. True story.

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