For reasons unknown, Nicky and I were both awake really early, so we came and made ourselves some coffees and took them back to bed for a while. A pretty quiet morning, the highlight of which was a full English (and when I say full, I really mean it - sausage, bacon, fried bread, beans, black pudding, mushrooms, fried egg).
Nicky and I took the dog out for a walk in the woods, and that helped to finish off clearing my head from the remains of yesterday's headache. We stopped in at Oaks Dene, and while we were there we booked up tickets for this afternoon's Gillingham v Rotherham game (Granddad's treat - thanks very much), and once we'd walked the dog back home, and Jake and I had enjoyed a few games of table tennis (I lost the decider) Nicky gave me, Jake and Granddad a lift over to Gillingham to the football ground.
Despite having lived in the area for almost my entire life and Gillingham being my closest league team, this was my very first trip to the stadium. Granddad explained that he'd been to see the same fixture back in 1971, and despite his team going up, that time Gillingham ended up winning 3-1.
Well, today's game was a belter. Rotherham opened the scoring within the first minute and pretty much dominated the first half of the first half, but in one of Gillingham's rare visits to the opposing penalty area, their man mountain of a centre forward headed an equaliser from a free kick. This inspired the home team and they ended up going in 2-1 up.
Rotherham equalised early in the second half, and the scoreline stayed that way for most of the second half, but with about ten minutes to go on of the Rotherham defenders was dispossessed on the edge of his own area, and the Gillingham forward took the ball on before confidently chipping the keeper. The crowd went potty, and it looked like we were on for a home win, but amazingly the away team scored twice in the last five minutes, and the Gills found themselves on the wrong end of a seven goal thriller.
The funniest thing was that we were sat with the home fans, and one member of our party was finding it quite difficult to contain his delight towards the end of the game. Thankfully we didn't get thrown out.
Our taxi service did a great job of picking us up at the end of the game, and back home this evening we've enjoyed a yummy home made lasagne, before sitting down for film night with popcorn and maltesers.
And, I am delighted to say that the film was tremendous. Walt Disney Animation have been relying on Pixar to deliver the blockbusters for far too long, but in "Frozen" they've come up trumps with a classic that over the years will no doubt take its rightful place alongside the likes of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. No wonder it has become the highest grossing animated film of all time (surpassing Toy Story 3). We failed to get to see it at the cinema, and so I made a point of getting the Blue-ray as soon as it came out (along with Saving Mr Banks, so we can look forward to another film night some time soon).
The film's score was great - some fantastic songs - I think I might have to buy the CD. Nicky is trying to decide whether Olaf or Sven was her favourite character.
Right, that's enough from me for now, I'm going to watch MOTD - mind you, none of those games will be a seven goal thriller.