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Where would you recommend for me and my family to stay that would have easy access to Portman Road? I am not very mobile but also not disabled so wouldn't need any additional resources. Could do with, but not essential, would be a charging point for a Tesla. I have got season tickets but live in Devon so will come up on a Friday and return on the Sunday.
I escaped to Devon in 1990 and have never looked back. Lowestoft was a great place to live in the 70's and 80' but it then started to be ruined by successive councils and a total lack of funding. There had been a decent amount of industry and even some decent wages on offer.
Then one by one they started shutting down as the infrastructure was never upgraded to a decent level and no efforts made to get the Goddamn 3rd Crossing built. Traffic was becoming constantly grid locked, money was disappearing from the High Street due to many jobs being lost. Then there were terrible links to the rest of the the region and also the country as a whole.
I still go home a few every year, usually to get to see ITFC and it is so sad to see how stuck in the bad times Lowestoft is, but just outside the main town are some fabulous places Oulton Broad, Oulton Village, Lound, Somerleyton, Blunderston, Beccles, Ellough and many many more.
My biggest disappointments are always the state of the piers and the loss of sand from the South Beach. On the plus side some of the best chip shops, pubs and cafes in the country are in and about Lowestoft.
I have been to Ibrox quite a few times (never against Celtic mind) and always found the supporters to be excellent and having a very deep passion not just for their team but football as a whole. Never a seconds trouble, fantastic Scotch Pies and I was a young(ish) lad from Lowestoft with a Scottish family relations in Glasgow.
I also attended a family wedding at the conference suite next to Ibrox and run by Rangers. It was matchday and half a dozen players turned up after the game to wish the happy couple well. I was totally made up. The one thing that sticks in my mind was the effort the club itself were putting into trying to stamp out the Sectarianism rubbish and it was great that we even had Celtic supporters on the guest list and all got on really well.
Anyway well done today to Rangers this season and lets hope our own mighty Blues can replicate their success down here in England where to be fair we ain't usually that nice to our own nemesis in yellow and green. COYB
Would definitely recommend "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe" ( https://www.theskepticsguide.org/) it is a science based podcast which analyses all the latest news and breaks it down into facts and fiction. Very enjoyable and will change the way you look at life.
Something to cheer me up through the doom and gloom. I read them all about 30 years ago but enjoyed them so much more this time as I understood his humour so much more.
Spike Milligan war memoirs:
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall Rommel? Gunner Who? Monty: His Part in My Victory Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall Where Have All the Bullets Gone? Goodbye Soldier
(3 books left for lockdown part 2: The Boris Strikes Back!)
Top class silliness and a wonderful way to see the world in the face of such awful times of death and destruct. Still as funny as ever from alt Comedies Great Grandfather!!!!
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