Bolton Wanderers FC

And you find Ali in a quiet, reflective, fairly peaceful-of-mind mode today. Greetings!

What I’m aiming for now (pretty much, so I’m led to believe, in keeping with the new outlook of our esteemed blog editor) is quality over quantity. Proving a point to others by adding dull and meaningless posts isn’t what it’s all about and I’ll be attempting to make my posts either meaningful, insightful, thought-provoking or just downright surreal/slightly bonkers (but hopefully in a mildly amusing manner). Whilst the monthly awards are a nice added bonus, it’s primarily about the quality of the blog. That’s what counts and that’s what will make people read what you’re writing here. I put it down to the book Mrs Al-Habsi bought me at Tesco last week – ‘Be Yourself and Be Happy – Don’t Get Dragged Down By Others’, by Brian from Big Brother. It’s a reet good read! Peace and love. Ali. x

- Ali saw Al Murray live in Blackburn on Friday night. And I have to say, he was bloody hilarious. One of the best stand-ups I’ve seen in a long while.

- Kelly Clarkson has her first UK No.1? Good – I like a good female pop/rock vocalist and she’s one of the best out there.

- Though not quite as good as Pink, who Ali is going watching at the MEN in April. Great voice and a feisty mamma to boot. Hubba hubba.

- How the hell has Dec (of ‘Dec & Ant’ fame) pulled the delightful Georgie Thompson from Sky Sports News? Yes – I know I’ve mentioned it before but I just can’t figure it out. He’s batting well above his average there.

- I can’t believe Enoch Hewis didn’t get Vanilla Ice’s real name in the quiz last Thursday. I don’t know – Ali goes missing for one night to have a Wetherspoons curry and the team goes to shit…

- Ali is sick of paying Sky’s extortionate prices and seriously needs to look into what these Freesat boxes can do.

- I should get time to do that now as I’m out injured for a couple of weeks. I burnt my bollocks on the George Foreman grill the other day. It’s a long story – I’ll tell it some other time, when my knackers have healed…