Cup Success

Lie in until 11.30 with a double helping of rampant sex. L claims she is on a 'green' week, so it's best to stock pile.

Then we take Doggo for a circuit of park and pond, running. Doggo is brave to join us, as it's drizzling. We even manage to find the flashing light off Doggo's running jacket which he lost the previous day when out with L.

L and I plan to meet up at the beer festival later, so I get the bus over to Derby for the annual FA Cup humiliation rather than drive. The bus is predictably 5 mins early, so I miss it and have to wait for the next one. The next bus is due 15 minutes later and is predictably late.

I'm in shock as Derby actually win a cup game against lower league opposition. This really is becoming a season of firsts. They win 3-1. Lupoli, the man who doesn't get picked because he's too skilful, gets a game because Jon Stead had returned to Sunderland after his loan period finished. Lupoli scores all three goals. Would have been a easy victory had we not let them back in the game when it was 2-0 by Bob Malcolm attempting a suicidal back pass.

After the game I walk back into Derby and meet L. We go to the Winter Beer Festival where there are some excellent ales. We hadn't planned on staying for long but we stay most of the night. We don't really touch anything of less than 5% and I think we have 8 halves. Even get a decent cottage pie.

We leave around 9.30 and get the bus home. Where Son has ignored the single portion of chilli that L left for him in the oven and instead cleaned out the entire pan which had contained the double portion that L and I were going to share. Luckily L had also done some veggie chilli as well, so we topped up on that. I think she was hoping they'd be enough to freeze for another day. Afraid not.

After we eat, I struggle to stay awake during match of the day but manage to catch the highlights of Lupoli's hat-trick, just.