The Thompsons on the World Cup, 2023 and Moon Landings

Saturday 14 January 2023
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The World Cup
At least England lost fair and square. It makes a change from going out on penalties. However, we didn’t actually watch any of the tournament, except seeing the odd goal on the news. We weren’t boycotting it, we just don’t really like watching football.

2023
We bought ourselves a new amplifier for Christmas so we can enjoy playing some music at home again. We’ve got ourselves a good record player already, but certain records like Rocket by Def Leppard just need to be played louder - and now we can do it. So that’s our January nights in sorted! We might take up yoga again. Other than that, it’s just going to be business as usual.

Moon Landings
They’ve already got up there once, fifty-odd years ago. I don’t know why they’re so bothered about trying to get up there again. Is it just some rich man’s escape plan if climate change becomes a real problem? They’re not exactly going to be able to fit eight billion of us up there, are they? It’s one rule for Elon Musk and it’s Logan’s Run for the rest of us.  

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