The end of Spotify in Ireland *insert sad face*

So today the dreaded email came:

"We're writing to you in regards to your Spotify account which up until now you've been using free of charge.  While we are really happy that you are enthusiastically using Spotify, we are unfortunately going to have to restrict access to your free account."

It seems as though everyone outside Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, France and the UK has received an email to confirm that their accounts will be effectively suspended.

There are two reasons this annoys me: 1) I am in the south of Ireland, but only about 20 minutes away from the UK border, and 2) I do live in the UK, I'm just staying for a while.

There shouldn't have been an option to change location if this wasn't allowed in the first place, so while I understand why they have to do it, this situation should never have been allowed to occur.

Anyway, I'm going back to England in a few weeks, and my account better come back!

Making the most of having music in my life for as long as it lasts, so current track is Lily Allen - 22.

There's a few things in football...

...that can't be helped!

For any readers of the other other side of the pond, I mean soccer, real football.

Watching FA Cup highlights on ITV tonight and I realised that I certainly can't look at Fellaini of Everton fame, without saying in my head "whoa that's mad hair!" It also seems as though it doesn't escape the minds of the commentators too, no matter what channel!

So this got me thinking about how many other things I just do automatically, even if I bore myself by doing it! Here are just a few things:

• Bite my nails at the sight of a bad injury
• "Boooooo" at the sight of Jermaine Defoe
• Utter silent expletives every time I lay eyes on Frank Lampard
• Stare at Tevez's scar, even though I know it's rude (I know he can't see me!)
• Say "Robbie Savage has such girly hair", every time
• See Freddie Ljumgberg in tight underpants every time I see him (also a suggestion of my boyfriend, worryingly!)
• Smile and say "awwww" when Beckham is being interviewed
• Being at a game and shouting "hand ball" or "penalty" even if you would need X-Ray vision to possibly know

That is to name but a few. I could probably sit here all night reminiscing about my season ticket days and think of many more.

The same also goes for every life though...staring at people's unfortunate features is one thing that we all do, and can't help. I chose to write about football just because I wanted an excuse to put in a picture of Fellaini and his hair...Whoa that's mad hair! (DAMN!)

May I also take this opportunity to admit my mistake, and apologise on behalf of Valon Behrami. He led me to believe that he would miss the season, and silly me did a big emotional blog about it, and now it seems he may actually be back before the end of this season. Hurrah!

Good job I didn't do the same for Collison, because it seems now as he may be back in two weeks.

Valon Behrami

I really do love that man. Today he has confirmed that he will miss the rest of West Ham's season, but it is not yet known if he will need surgery for cruciate ligament damage. I hope not :(

The injury looked awful, and it certainly left me and many others feeling a bit down. He is a fantastic footballer and really has played a major role in getting our season really going. He also seems like a really lovely man.

I suppose I am mainly writing this blog a) because I'm bored and b) because there is no obvious way of telling Behrami how much he means to West Ham fans. That has become very clear in the last few months.

So, we wish all the best to Behrami and hope next season he is able to return to his best again.

No snow in Chester, but I still managed to get stuck!

On Sunday night I was in the car with my Dad, taking my sister to Beverley in Yorkshire. We were travelling from Sale in Cheshire, and there had been some snow there earlier in the day, but nothing that settled.

Getting to Yorkshire was a completely different kettle of fish!

In my 21 years (nearly!) I don't think I've ever seen snow so bad. Beverley is sort of in the middle of nowhere, well to the like of me who only knows towns! So we turned off the motorway and hit country roads.

Already along the way we had experienced very heavy fog, and very heavy snowfall coming at the windscreen, so this was the icing on the cake.

We got STUCK!

Quite a few cars also did, but we had the sense to at least attempt a 3 point turn and head for main roads. I saw "we", I can take no credit!

It was so thick on the ground that the wheels on the car were spinning, and braking proved to be difficult. One car had already given up on going further and had pulled over, probably for the night.

So that was that excitement. We had to go through Hull and use main roads.

Such a shame that it was too dark to take pictures with my phone :(

West Ham United

I LOVE THEM!

Football is a strange thing. You find yourself addicted. It takes over your life sometimes, and then you realise that it's 22 overpaid men kicking a ball and falling over. But it's great!!!

Today I watched West Ham V Fulham and we played brilliantly. Zola is really starting to prove that he can infuse confidence, belief and tactics into a decent side. We've always been capable of being a good side, but we don't always execute it. Winning in such style as today is a joy. It lifts my spirits no matter what!

Oh, and as for Bellamy he is no longer wanted by West Ham fans. After chanting "Are you watching Bellamy" whilst being 3-1 up, I think that made it pretty clear!

Thank you West Ham for providing some of the happiest moments of my life over the past 20 years! I was lucky enough to be a season ticket holder for about 5 years, and witnessed the likes of Paulo Di Canio, Carlos Tevez, Teddy Sherringham, Joe Cole and Vladamir Labant!!!

(Photo courtesy of BBC News)

While we are on the subject of football, the current transfer rumour is that Kaka is going to fully loaded Man City for £100million. This is an absurd amount of money to put on a mans head. He would apparently be paid £500,000 per week. I couldn't take that money and be proud of myself. There are children starving in the world. By all means I would love to see someone of his stature in the English Premier League, but not for those prices.