Kevin Pocock

Well this is the first Monday Mandible, in which I’ll wax lyrical about whatever happens to be on my mind. Which at the moment is tennis. Wimbledon. Andy Murray causing anguish in the Pocock household by taking off where ‘Go On Tim!’ Henman left us hoping for someone to shout at and project our own hopes and dreams onto. 

My word! I mean, I thought it took me a long time to get home after two and a half hours because of a line-side fire at London Bridge, but a four hour or so game of tennis? They must be shattered, I know I bloody well am! Fair play to the gent though – he’s through to the Quarter Finals and a step closer to being the Brit we Brits hoped would once again win Wimbledon…and the Scot he hoped would. It’s not the same thing, but anyway, most people tend not to notice…

I am slightly perturbed by one thing however, and that’s my mum’s insistance that ‘that could’ve been you playing at Wimbledon’, soon to be followed by a comment along the lines of ‘You like his [Murray's] girlfriend, don’t you’, after my purely innocent comment that I thought she had a hell of a lot of hair (she does). Two things wrong with that. One, I never seriously played tennis when younger, and two, that might be the most bizarre compliment likely to mean you like someone ever. I can see me trying that one out in Central London. 

“Excuse me random lady, you appear to have loads of hair.”

“Oh, my, they say that about Murray’s girlfirend – you must really like me.”

No. Exactly. By the by, another golden parental moment was when she randomly said at a happy lady in the crowd (on the TV, may I remind you) ‘Yes alright, Boobs McGraw’… but I suppose you had to be there for that.

Anyway, aside from my Mum’s insistance that I could have been Andy Murray, though as my mum, she should realise I could never have been, and the insistence I want his woman, I must admit to feeling a little lost as I do when I watch most sports I enjoy. I really wanted to be a pro sportsman when I was younger. Immensely so. Now it’s rather grating that I probably can’t ever be, but there we go, horses, courses, roads and forks etc.

To be honest, I’m just glad that I’ve managed to fill the first Monday Mandible with some words. Oh and that I can go to bed Murray’s through.

G’night.

Ok, so the trick to keeping attention on a blog seems – fairly obviously, granted – to keep posting and to do so regularly. It also keeps me writing and tip-top in the typing stakes….So, inspired by a musician/writer colleague of mine by the name of John Moore I’ve decided to come up with some regular updates for certain days.

Now you’ll already have noticed ‘The Friday Digest’ in the last post – what I’m considering now is a ‘Monday Musings’ piece (or something with a much snappier title, like Monday’s Mandibles. Combined with a mid-week YouTube Pick Of The Week, and the aforementioned Friday postings, that’s at least three out of a possible sevent posts per week. I know, it’s like, almost productive or something! So, this is a pre-Monday post (which will come later).

….Just to clue you in on the happenings on this ‘ere site.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I bring you Rise Against’s Paper Wings from the album Siren Song Of The Counter Culture. Lyrics are here.

Judge my choice of song, and the track itself. I think it’s pretty, bloody good.

Cheers,

Kev