Danny Hutchins signs up

Some good news - Former loanee Danny Hutchins has signed a 2-year deal at the club. Danny, a right-back by choice who can cover at left-back and in the midfield, was released by Spurs a couple of weeks ago. He spent the last couple of months of the season on loan at Huish Park, originally as cover for the then injured Craig Alcock but kept his place even after Craig was fit, and impressed just about everyone with his composure, pace and defensive nous as well as looking dangerous going forward. An excellent signing then and one that gives real hope that maybe - just maybe - there'll be more to come as the summer goes on. Good work by Skivo and the club.

Not much else to report at present, other than the teams that will play in Skivo's testimonial game on July 4th have been named as a 'Yeovil Town XI 2002-03' versus a 'Terry Skiverton Select XI'. So basically the side that won promotion from the Conference against a team of Skivo's mates, which rumour has it, could include the likes of John Terry and Frank Lampard from Skivo's Chelsea days.

Currently reading: Line War by Neal Asher. Wow! Can't understand why I've not read much Asher before this, because this ticks all the boxes. Space opera again, but superior space opera, extremely well-written and an utterly believable universe, quite similar to Ian Banks Culture universe but with enough differences to make it original. Asher's creation, the Polity, shares intelligent AI's, drones, augmented humans and the like with the Culture, but adds its own twists and turns to make it distinctive. Thoroughly enjoyed this one and am looking forward to getting to know the rest of the author's rather extensive output. Highly recommended.