Curly's Capers

League One Predictions 1 Portsmouth 2 Lincoln City 3 Sunderland Portsmouth should be better than this League. The large Pompey fanbase should ring those bells and climb  into the Championship. The Cowley Brothers who have coached Lincoln up into League 1  continue to amaze  and one feels,  they are not finished yet. Their dedicated  and growing fans should  see Lincoln City  grab a second successive  promotion spot. I thought Sunderland were a  certainty last season to advance from this League, They made the play-offs, but lost 0-1 Charlton in the Final. They will surely make amends in 2020. League Two Predictions 1 Salford City 2  Leyton Orient 3  Plymouth Salford City, propelled by ex Man.Utd players financial support have risen through the lower leagues into League 2 and are probably with this momentum ready to take higher honours. Leyton Orient, who dropped through the...

With the Charity Shield  playing this Sunday (4th August ) and the Championship starting this weekend, it's high time I gave my predictions for The Premiership and  Championship Football Leagues. So here goes: Premiership 1 Manchester City 2  Liverpool 3  Tottenham Hotspur 4   Chelsea. It is impossible to see beyond City or Liverpool for the title. Spurs should carry on their impressive progress. They are safely bedded down in their new ground and seem sure to give a good account of themselves. Chelsea are my wild card. I am hoping, under the new stewardship of Frank Lampard, they will regain discipline and begin to play to their undoubted strengths. I am of course, wary of Manchester United, who must, at some time regain their form and strive for the top again. I give them another year in transition.  So, for me, two from the north west  and two  from the capital. Championship 1  L...

The Garden  1 "  We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time ' Time that impudent jester leads us merrily down the  valley of confusion. A few wakes, a few sleeps and here we are back  treading the paths with  Clarence. The crisp, warm air brings  vaulted scents of perfume,  pipe smoke, laughter and  honest toil and sweat. It is that delicacy of creation; that perfection of colour and shade that shows God's microcosm of Earthly delight; contained within  the petals of a flower. What mind devised that vibrancy of colour? beyond the painter's imagination, transfixing us, to the spot; whilst  the iPhone armada  point and click    leaving  us a digital reminder  of location,  time  and memory,  with...

TS4-Teaser. Lets take this review in easy stages: 1 'Give It Up ' for the Late  Steve Jobs. He made Pixar possible by financing the project; when it looked a very risky venture. From that early inception, the company has never sold the genre of animation short on quality and minute attention to detail. Its first film was " Toy Story" in 1995 and to date twenty one films have been made by Pixar.  Collaboration with Disney, who now own Pixar started in 2005. " Toy Story 2 " appeared in 1999 and the trilogy was completed in 2010 with " Toy Story 3" 2   Many people believe that the trilogy was equal to any made. It appeared to be  a finished project. Why then after nine years was Toy Story 4 made ? Was it a shameless exercise in bean-counting in the expectation of profits at the box-office ? Could it offer a new dimension for the toys? Yes it could. 3 This film moved the centre of stage from the children to the toys themselves. In doing s...

The English Football Season (2018/9) has virtually limped to a finish, saving a few playoff finals. The Premier League's top four are the following: Manchester City   98  points Liverpool              97 points. Chelsea                 72 points Tottenham             71 points. My predictions  were as follows: Manchester City Liverpool Manchester United Chelsea. As you can see I was completely wrong about United, who  only finished the season in 6th place with 66 points; a full 32 points behind Man. City ! Indeed the most notable  feature of the season was the eclipsing of the others, by the top two clubs, who fought to the end, with Liverpool going under by a mere point. The Premier League said goodbye to Huddersfield; Fulham and Cardiff City. In their place we welcomed Norwich City and Sheffield United and either Aston...

Rising and Falling. The Rise of the Ones and Noughts. Stop and Go hide and seek up and down on and off  binary choices recorded and filmed  heard and seen, often   unknowingly in our collective digital print. Snap is an ungrateful word. Like slap it stops your actions, freezing you for a second. To pose is also to impose upon you. Where is the soul and inner spirit in a photograph ? A mere passing reality. Whereas The painter and sculptor look inward  teasing out  a lasting essence  of the subject. The chosen media imprints a personalised appreciation. It lives on. 💁💁💁💁💁💁 Death Mask. Unlike Dante, I'll not be requiring a death mask. All that oil and plaster. No thanks. Such vanity. And, if I asked for one to be  made , where would it lie? As a bookend for my Game of Thrones books;   in a box with my Beefheart disks or Iionically, ...