Thursday, August 16, 2007

MACCLESFIELD TOWN 0 LEEDS UNITED 1

As special guests at Macclesfield Town Football Club we chose to arrive late to make sure our presence was noticed. Kerry's suggestion to take the Burger King's "drive through" route (meaning circumnavigate) ensured this. Announcing ourselves at the secretaries office as fans from Melbourne, we were duly allowed to purchase two tickets, but only if we agrreed to be in the stand cordened off for the Leeds fans. 'Ay' we said, and so were duly escorted by security guards through two large iron gates into the chanting crowd. Kerry ensured our integration by singing " We luv Leeds forever" and "What a load of Macca's." Her vocabulary was also broadened greatly during the match. Luckily for us, Leeds won, or else we could have been given a police escort out of Macclesfield.

The match was rather tame and so to crank up the excitement, the next day we took a walk through the Dove Valley. Kerry spotted a dead body floating in the water and took a photograph. It was camouflaged in a florescent red plastic cover and the stench was appalling. We took the concerned citizens position and told no one, hoping that one of the other many walkers would be even more consciencious and then we wouldn't look alarmist.


RIVER DOVE


DEAD BODY




2 comments:

Lucyvale Larrikans said...

Your Grandchildren are a little concerned with the level of risk you are taking! Sounds just like being at a Kalkee 2's game in the Wimmera.

the richo's said...

This trip sounds like altogether too much fun, so many highlights that you can even afford to pass an opportunity to practice up on your forensics!
We hope the soon to be opened european magazines prove as exciting as the english ones.... (Is Bella crossing the channel by boat, plane or dog paddle?)