Category Archives: Lockdown

The best laid plans of TLFs

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Sophie

The opening weekend of the Premier League tends to follow a pattern. TLF misses it. Simples. Because it tends to coincide with the musical extravaganza and Stella fuelled shenanigans that are the Cropredy Festival. But not in 2021. Cropredy was … Continue reading →

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Football is dead to me….maybe

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Sophie

Well okay maybe that is a small exaggeration but it is holding on by a thread. The patient started to look a bit ropey when Lesta went down a goal to 10 man Southampton. Even the equaliser barely increased the … Continue reading →

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Kitchen wars: still an occasional series Part 2

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Sophie

He’s still got it… Exhibit A Exhibit B So where does the potato masher go? Still counting to ten and moving the masher Fox

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Redeeming Features

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Sophie

It’s been tough, but I know you will have been worrying about me, so just to reassure you I am now over my severe bout of PTWHDD (post traumatic West Ham defeat disorder). Symptoms are of course exacerbated with the … Continue reading →

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Good Omens

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Sophie

As regular readers will kno, this TLF is a superstitious TLF. Lucky socks, lucky pants, lucky comestibles; blue cheeseburgers (Mighty Foxes), bacon fries (Mighty Saints). It’s not just about good luck is it though? There can be signs, portents of … Continue reading →

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Tumbling down

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Sophie

While last weekend was all silver linings without the clouds on the football front, TLF is sad to report that here at TLF Towers we witnessed a construction tragedy in the kitchen. After a goodly seven or eight weeks of … Continue reading →

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Fox in the box

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Sophie

Football definition: a player who when they are positioned in the penalty area is an excellent goalscorer. Lockdown definition: a TLF positioned in a house that has just taken receipt of a very large item and has too much time … Continue reading →

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Insult to injuries

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Sophie

After Lesta got dumped out of Europe, closely followed by a bit of a spanking by Arsenal, TLF needed cheering up. Sadly the ‘injury table’ that accompanied an article on the chase for 2nd to 4th in the Premier League … Continue reading →

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Hair raising

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Sophie

Everyone has their tipping point. Or indeed trimming point. And with TLF, it was reached last weekend. When you are used to a haircut every 5 weeks, and the last time you visited the hairdresser was 15 December, desperate times … Continue reading →

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The Shrove Tuesday Cup

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Sophie

In a moment (and there are many) of Lockdown 3 boredom, TLF decides it was time to dip a paw in a new cookery league. Yep, 51 years young and never made a pancake. Pre-match signs were good. Team selection … Continue reading →

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