Chieftains 5 Jets 6 (after penalties)

Sam and I headed into town on the bus to watch the hockey, it's been a while since we have had to do that!

We decided to kill time in Starbucks where I caught him unawares:


Hockey wasn't great. First two periods were woeful with the scoreline ending 1 - 2 at the end of the first and then 3 - 4 at the end of the second. Chieftains just didn;t look like a team that were fighting for a play off spot. It looked like things were ready to kick off when the second period ended so we were hopeful for the third.

Third period was MUCH better with the Chieftains equalising (and a wonderful chant of FOUR, SKINNS for the Jets goalie) and then taking the score to 5 - 4 before conceding one more in the last minute to take the game to overtime. Despite the Jets outshooting the Chieftains by 8 shots to 1 on goal overtime ended a 5 - 5 draw and onto the nerve wracking penalty shoot out. Unfortunately Jets came out on top but the Chieftains played well and at least they got a point.

Someone was talking to Slough player Les Millie tonight and it seems that things could get interesting in Romford next Sunday! A few of us have decided that if the Chieftains lose on Saturday (effectively putting them out of the play off race) then we might all go to Romford instead to see if things kick off. Due to timing we could still make it back for half of the Chieftains game.

Here are a couple of silly pictures:
Our usual seats:


A view of the ice:



Capitals made it a four point weekend with a 3 - 4 overtime win against Basingstoke last night and a good 1 - 3 road win against league leaders Coventry Blaze. This now takes the Capitals into 8th place in the league and in with the chance of a play off spot (as long as they can keep it together and Basingstoke don't).

Another day of taking it easy

Woke up at a reasonable hour and started doing a bit of tidying up and laundry.
Toni had to leave by 11 as she was picking up Jade, Aaron and Gemima and taking them over to her nan's, where her much was as well so they could all spend Mother's Day together.

I managed to finally get Hazel's website finished, take a look here: www.hvphotography.co.uk

Sam and I watched some the second series of The Young Ones and had a late lunch before moving on to The Comic Strip Presents: Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door. After that it was time to get ready for the good old hockey game.

Lazy Saturday

Having got in at 08:30 it was time for some much needed sleep and a day of not doing very much. Toni had to go into Chelmsford to but some presents for Mother's Day so we headed in late afternoon. Just before we left there was a bit of a crisis with Nick and Aaron and Gemima that Toni had start sorting out. We did a little shopping and picked up some stuff for tea and then headed back home.

When we got back Hazel rang to see if we were still popping over tonight so we said we'd go around for about 20:00.

Settled down to a nice tex-mex style dinner and watched The Young Ones DVD. Toni popped upstairs to make a "quick" call to Nick which turned out to be a very long slog. I ended up crashing out on the sofa. Toni came downstairs just after nine so I text Hazel to see if she still wanted us which she did. Toni, Sam and I drove over with a bottle of wine for a short while but we left around 22:45 as we were all knackered, was nice to go and be social for a short while though.