Back down to earth?

That is what I'm expecting anyway

After a terriffic week, basking in our stunning win away against the old enemy, we today play Everton .

Everton are a team we never beat, whatever the occasion. It's now I think twelve or thirteen games since we beat them, and they have a very good team indeed.

I will be delighted with a draw if we can get one. We need another five or six points to stay up, and one of them today would be a mighty help.

Come on lads, surprise me again!

Human folly on a grand scale.

Teeside Wind Farm.

On the left is a picture of Teeside wind farm .I gather it is about 60% through its construction stage.

These things are ruinously expensive to build, so expensive they are attracting a 200%  subsidy, all paid for of course by us mugs in the UK. People here are now starting to notice that their energy bills are rising at an almost exponential rate. This is little wonder when costs such as the above and other green lunacies are top loaded  onto them before they thud, ever heavier onto the front door mat.

We must be mad, truly mad to put up with this. Maybe it will take the brown outs and the rationing of electricity that will surely come within the next five years to bring us to our senses. Buy candles! But a generator.! Move to a sane country! Do one of these things or something similar if you  have a need for constant light and electricity in the years to come.

Although on the flip side there will be employment on the maintenance of these installations. They will go wrong, and will need reasonably regular attention, although parking for your van looks a bit limited, so it will have to be a boat. But  that is just another cost they can load onto the bills.

We must truly be mad.

Newcastle 0-3 Sunderland!!!!!!!!!!!

A staggering upset today at st James' Park.

We have looked so flat all season that a performance of that kind was impossible to imagine. We were so committed, fired up and brave that, looking back on it, it would have been a surprise if we hadn't won. Much more to do of course, we'll need another two wins I think, but if we play with that fire we have a real chance.

I'm hearing predictable stories of Newcastle supporters causing mayhem and destruction in their own city. This has happened repeatedly down the years when they have lost a big game they thought they were going to win. I've never heard of this happening anywhere else. Defeat comes, why can they not just accept this?

But I will enjoy a beer or two tonight. Well done lads and thanks, you have given me and my sons one of those days.