5-4-Friday… 5 14-year old son things
I may have mentioned it in passing before now but, for those who it might have passed by, I once wrote a book, you know?. Actually, I wrote three, and they’re all available to buy via some very popular websites, like Amazon, and some pretty obscure ones too, like my...
5-4-Friday… 5 2018 World Cup things
The 2018 World Cup gets underway in Russia on Thursday. As with the 2016 European Championships, Chris Griffin Says is hosting a prediction competition to raise funds for The Bring Joy Foundation, the charitable arm of Home Instead Senior Care UK. Wednesday, 13th June...
5-4-Friday… 5 TV Nonsenses
I watch a lot of television. That’s not strictly true, actually. My wife and son watch a lot of actual television, whereas I watch a lot of television shows on Netflix peering at my laptop or iPad. The wife watches a lot of those so-called reality shows where real...
5-4-Friday… 5 day off things
It’s coming to the end of the holiday year at work and so, as usual toward the end of March, I have found myself trying to shoe-horn in the odd day off to avoid losing them completely. Here are a few things I have noticed from being at home during the day, things I...
5-4-Friday… 5 nauseating phrases #2
A while back, May 2014 to be exact, I wrote a blog bemoaning the use of nauseating phrases in the workplace, particularly in meetings. Taking people on a journey down their happy path, warming them up and informing parts of projects are all phrases that, normally...
5-4-Friday… 5 Chris Griffins
It’s always been a bit of a dilemma having work colleagues and associates as Facebook friends, for me. At best it’s style-cramping, at worst, career-threatening. I’ve managed to avoid it thus far, only starting to stalk/bore the life out of colleagues once I have...
Goals From All Areas Can Keep Wigan On Track for Promotion
Goals From All Areas Can Keep Wigan On Track for Promotion Image Source: Wigan Athletic via Twitter The surge up to the Premier League and battling amongst the English elite, reaching the League Cup final or winning the FA Cup and even briefly playing in the...
5-4-Friday… 5 random rants
I’m quite a busy lad these days, as you may have surmised\been relieved by my recent lack of 54Fridays and general blogging. Well, what can I say, I really like my job and it keeps me gainfully occupied for the vast majority of the time. However, this week, a number...
5-4-Friday… 5 Daylight Saving Things
My wife rarely travels abroad, yet she still suffers from jet lag twice a year. She doesn’t really get jet lag, of course, she just gets very confused when the clocks go back in October and again when they go forward in March. It’s worse in March than it is in...
5-4-Friday… 5 Swiss Things
My Facebook page keeps telling me that I haven’t posted anything from Chris Griffin Says since last November. Oh, you lucky, lucky people! Since the turn of the year, I have been meaning to get back on the horse, at least the 5-4-Friday horse, but something has always...
For as long as I can remember, certainly since the advent of email, the end of the working week has always been marked by someone circulating a joke, or an amusing picture or article – the Friday Funny, as it became known. I have now evolved this into a regular blog that I call 5-4-Friday, a light-hearted list of 5 favourite things or 5 pet hates ideally related to some burning issue of the day or week.
View From the West is a regular football-based blog with the subject matter normally focusing on events at the club I support, Wigan Athletic, as I see them unfold from my vantage point in the West Stand of the DW Stadium. For non-Wigan fans, wider football issues and talking points will also be given an airing. For a bit of fun, I will scour social and digital media and various fan forums to identify a Hit of the Week, a Miss of the Week and a Pic of the Week.
54T is an occasional variation on 5-4-Friday in which a friend of the site, a minor celebrity (or, god-willing, if it takes off, a not-so-minor celebrity) will tell us which four famous people they would invite round to share a Friday evening chippy tea. We will learn what they would feed them, what drinks would be chilling in the fridge and, when the stimulating conversation dries up, what music they would listen to, what films would they stick in the DVD player and what entertaining games they would play.
3in! is a friendly football prediction competition that has been running for around twelve years now. Participants have to predict the outcome of just three fixtures from the weekend’s football programme with bigger rewards available the more off-the-wall you are prepared to go. It’s my type of gambling – all hypothetical, no real money involved. All the news for the 3in! players can be found on Chris Griffin Says…
Dream League is now beyond its 30th year. It is a fantasy football competition with a difference. Each of the 16 Owners (who should be old enough to know better) buys a squad of players and pits their team against the other 15 Owners in a traditional, home and away league season. Goals your players score are netted off against goals your defenders concede. Out-perform your opponent in the week and you win. Simples! Again, all the up to date news can be found here.
I hope you enjoy the site.
Griff
October, 2012
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