In the time that I’ve been blogging I’ve found some really great blogs written by people that if given half a chance I’d love to sit and have dinner with. One of the people whose blog I have enjoyed for a while now is Mr. Nota Bene’s  Don’t Panic RTFM . When I think of him I imagine him as this classy gentleman who is living the life that I’d love to live – if I had class. His blog tells the tales of his life as a single father raising his teenage son. Not only is a great blogger, he’s an amazing photographer. I’m always amazed by his pictures.

Please check out his blog  and you’ll see exactly what I mean

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Football
by: Nota Bene

"I’ve enjoyed reading Tony’s posts for a long time now…he’s a great story teller.  I don’t mean he tells stories, it’s just that he brings his life to, erm, erm life in  an interesting way.  So he gets great respect from me for that.  But sometimes I can see he has poor judgement.  Frankly it’s rubbish.  Seriously flawed.  Once before he asked me to do a guest blog, which I did, and he’s done it again.  That would be fine other than I don’t write in the same colourful, detailed and character giving way.  And I’m hopeless with deadlines.  If we ever arrange to meet, make sure you’re at least half an hour late, otherwise you’ll be standing around in the cold and wet.  So here’s a guest post.  It’s only a bit late.  And even HERE, I’m not sure what I’m going to blog about.
 
Knowing that football is your favourite sport in the States, I thought I would give you the benefit of the rules of our national sport.  I’m doing this because at the moment England is playing Australia for The Ashes…and our hopes are high.  I’m sure if you look on the TV schedule, you’ll be able to find the coverage.  It’s a game that runs for five DAYS.  And we’re playing for  a trophy which is a little over three inches high.  Filled with the burnt ashes of some bales…they’re the short bits of wood that go between the stumps.  Those are the long sticks of wood that stick up from the ground.  Anyway, I suspect that a prize like that would have much appeal over there.  Over here, the last time we won, some of the team were given medals…proper medals, like you’d get if you went to war…
 
Anyway, here are the rules:
 
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!"