Sorry I haven’t been updating this blog for so long. Caught up with some family matters and then there’s the Eh Poh Nim manuscript to edit. It’s scheduled to be released next year.

Read about Saint Berba in today’s Star.

Dimitar Berbatov says he won’t give Sir Alex Ferguson any disciplinary problems, because he never swears and carries his Bible everywhere.

Berbatov: Says he’ll be good for Ferguson

Berbatov moved to Manchester United from Spurs for £30.75million on transfer deadline day after a protracted transfer saga. The whole story raised question marks about the 27-year-old Bulgarian’s temperament.

But Berbatov himself says despite sometimes going off the rails when he was younger, he is now a changed man.

He told The Sun: “I’ve done many stupid things because of my stubbornness, only because I didn’t want to listen to my parents’ advice.

“And then it always turned out that they were right.”

The talented striker added: “Besides, I am religious and I take The Bible everywhere with me. There are many good pieces of advice for those like me in The Bible.”

Berbatov also says that bad language is not something he indulges in either.

“This is a matter of good upbringing. I don’t swear in my daily life,” he added.

“I try to do everything with style – not only in football. And if I manage to give any positive examples then that is great.”

(This wasn’t on Star’s online portal, so I nicked it from teamtalk.com.

This is uplifting news in a world that’s being polluted more and more by swear words. I don’t swear either and feel uncomfortable when people do so, especially when they swear using Jesus Christ’s name.

Not swearing presents a minor problem. What do you say when you get riled? ‘Expert’ drivers like me often get irritated by incompetent drivers. I know this is a problem which I have to work on. Patience, patience. My son is beginning to drive like me, spouting Stupid! behind the wheel intermittently. Stupid should be banned from my vocabulary unless it is meant in the actual sense of the word, like why are you so stupid that you don’t know red means stop.

Similarly ‘monkey’ should be banished from my lips unless it refers to those creatures swinging along electric cables somwhere near my place. Two days ago I was just telling no. 2 that instead of saying ‘monkey’ I should say ‘mung bean’. Why? Usually the word slips out involuntarily, like when a driver turns without signalling. I’d go ‘Mong….” then oops… “bean!” Mung bean has never been a bad word as far as I know.