A "Hoogland" arrives.

The above title is not a reference to Nicholas siring a love child, I repeat: I AM NOT PREGNANT. Rather it refers to one of his kind, his breed, brethren or species taking up residence in the flat. A flying Dutchman (of the kind that... fly in, rather than the locomotive variety) Jorrit (I am a little unsure of the name and it's spelling at the moment) has... flown in and become the latest addition to the flat. Actually I am suprised that this issue (Nick sporning new life, not Dutch tourists) has not come up before, his blog covers most other social problems I wouldn't be suprised in the future to hear that he's become pregnant through the somewhat lethal combination of persuant popping of "T's" and working his way through the aisles at his place of work as though he is one of the shoppers (this is an in-joke, sorry to those who don't get it... Nick are you up to aisle 3 yet?)

Re-reading this I am probably being a little harsh on the poor chap, sorry Nick I am sure that you will pay me back in kind one day.

Moving on, this Jorritt fellow seems quite interesting, he is a sports writer and journalist from Amsterdam and has written a book about Ajax Amsterdam training sessions. The book (rather unoriginally titled "Ajax training sessions") is in English as well as Dutch so I am reading a copy currently and it is quite an enjoyable read, I never realised there were so many jokes about Finnish football players; I don't think Jorrit likes the Finns (what did the Finns ever do though?). During his research for the book he spent a lot of time with the team, so has met amongst others Ronald Koeman (who was coaching Ajax at the time), of old Ronald (who wasn't a bad player during his time) Jorrit says he is a nice guy but a crap coach; "but I couldn't write that in the book".

Not much else to report. Although I will just mention that Jorrit and I are going to this weekends World Cup qualifying match between Chile and Bolivia. Those of you who are die-hard subscribers will remember that this blog used to feature the occasional Iron Chef's match report, so I hope to have another match report (Chile vs Bolivia) posted sometime next week. Watch this space.

Have a good weekend all. Happy birthday to the following people: Arif (21st), Krystle and Gryzby. Jason are you still alive? (Sorry I didn't get a birthday greeting to you in April but hopefully Nick passed on my regards as requested). Also where is Emil? The occasional profanity from your ill-informed mouth wouldn't go astray... anyway hope your well. Lastly hello blossom, are you out there?- Cherry.