 [Blog] Sweets for My Sweet - Sugar-Coated Betting Tips for Midweek and Weekend GamblersWritten by SE1blue on Monday, 10th Oct 2011 20:39 The international fixtures meant that I had a break from the bookies and betting slips last weekend and spent some quality time with the better half. Instead of sitting on the sofa hoping the vidiprinter would serve up a last minute draw, I was down at the Royal Albert Hall listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by candlelight. I know! I surprised myself. When I was 12 years old, my mum persuaded me to join her watching the National Youth Orchestra perform at the Mercury Theatre. I was young enough to be fooled by the promise of a large bag of Maltesers and a box of wine gums, so went along with her suggestion. Well, a couple of days later as the conductor and his orchestra were taking their bows, I had a chocolate moustache and an excitable, fruity, wine gum high that was making me grin like an idiot and wink more than was healthy for a boy of my age. It was at that moment, when my defences were weakened, that my mum turned to me and asked, “If you could choose any instrument to play, what would it be?†Hindsight, would have told me to say, “None of them mum. I’m going to play for Ipswich Town when I’m older and having to practice an instrument will only prevent this from happeningâ€. Sadly, and somewhat bizarrely, I replied with “The violin looks kind of funâ€. Stupid Wine Gums. The following weekend my parents presented me with a violin-shaped box, that did not contain a gangster’s gun, but an instrument that claimed many, many more victims, including yours truly. Every day I consider myself very lucky that Mother Nature provided me with five fingers, five toes and all the other important stuff in all the right places. However, where Mrs N failed miserably, was connecting my brain to the parts of my body below my chin. When it comes to co-ordination I am like a cross between Wurzel Gummidge and Frank Spencer. Those of you who can remember Sonia Jackson and her trumpet in Eastenders just need to picture a skinny kid with a violin. When bow hit fiddle it was like driving over a field of cats in a tractor, and then reversing back over it. It soon became apparent that this hobby was not going to be my route to fame and fortune. Tired waiters could have hired me to clear tables at the end of long evenings – I would have sidled over to a romantic couple in between the main and dessert and let rip with my unique version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. But my Flight of the Bumble Bee was more like Wasp in a Coke Can. Worse was to come though when my parents signed me up for the school orchestra. Nothing says “bully me†quite like a large musical instrument on a school bus. When my enormous buck-teeth and two-Shredded-Wheat-hairstyle weren’t enough of a magnet for the other kids fists, the violin never let me down. I can clearly remember struggling down the bus aisle with a PE kit bag, school satchel, Home Economics casserole dish and my violin hitting every seat because my movement was heavily restricted by the world’s heaviest duffel coat. Those were the days! But amidst the public humiliation and my murder of music there was something that I absorbed years ago, that has grown inside me, as I have grown older. The instrument that caused me (and anyone in earshot) so much pain during my teens is now literally music to my ears. In the right hands, and under the right chin, it’s the most beautiful instrument. I guess that in between the hours I spent pretending to practice in my bedroom (I was fiddling of sorts) and the long-winded story of dyspraxia I had told to my tutor, I must have fallen in love with the violin one way or other. With its perfect hourglass figure (curves in all the right places, pinched at the waist) and that long, slender neck and perfect scroll hair, it’s a foxy four-stringer with the voice of an angel… Stupid Wine Gums. Here are this week’s predictions that will hopefully have you fiddling for your wallet… Draw Doubles Midweek (Tuesday) Weekend Cardiff v Ipswich Birmingham v Leicester Accumulator Correct Score Prediction Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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