Patrick Kagoul Notes from the Frontline Part 5

February: you stand accused of being both short, even with a bonus day, cold and slightly dull. How do you plead"?

Bored, bored, bored, bored, and bored. And I assume so are you if your reading this, if your not you will be. It's February a horrible little month that hangs onto the coat tails of winter without offering the respite of spring. Too cold to be bothered to go out and still too skint to go anywhere. That's February. The only things of note that it has to offer are the main one - Valentines Day. Not of too much relevance if like me you are terminally single. But the nice people at the Football Association have scheduled the 5th round of the F.A. Cup and then there's the start of the 6 nations all in the same w/e, which kind of takes the edge of being single this w/e, as I'll be sat watching all the sport that a man can digest and not having to justify it to anyone. Ah the last bastion of the unattached.
The other thing that February offers is the American festival that Channel 5 seems to have adopted, namely 'Groundhog Day'. The second of February and for the second year running the people at Channel 5 have shown the excellent film starring Bill Murray. What's particularly worrying is that for the second year running I have sat in exactly the same place, on the same sofa, watching the same telly with the same flat mate staring at the telly then back round the room, then at the telly, then back round the room, then at the telly, then back round the room, then at the telly, then back round the room, then at the telly, then back round the room, then at the telly and wondering if the events of the film were beginning to happen to me.
That's when it's time to either
A - Get a new job,
B - Go on holiday,
C - Get in a relationship
or
D - Turn over.

So far I've gone for E, my plan for Valentines Day and the whole of February and ignore that it's happening and wait for it to go away.
So I'll see you in Mad March!


Patrick Kagoul