I wasn't going to post this, but now it seems only fair. I heard this on the radio as an ad jingle prior to the World Cup:
Dive, dive, wherever we may be,
We come from a land called Italy!
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
C'mon Aussie, c'mon, c'mon
For the first time in my life I am very interested in the World Cup.
The England team is still in the competition which means the country is in rapt attention.
Better for Natalie and I, the Socceroos are still there after a tough fight in their pool. This has been great to watch, and by and large we have been getting good moral support from the English.
In Brugges last weekend, Natalie and I watched the Australia vs Brazil game in an English pub there. Inside English football supporters who were either going to or coming back from the World Cup were eagerly watching the game with us.
Still there are a few people who don't have anything positive to say about the Australian team - win, lose or draw. These tend to be Englishmen who one must think are scared that Australia might out-perform their team. Otherwise their comments are the noise of empty vessels signifying nothing.
With the next match for Australia being on Monday, Natalie gave me a great treat yesterday - an official Socceroos jersey. I will be wearing this to work on Monday. Very cool.
The England team is still in the competition which means the country is in rapt attention.
Better for Natalie and I, the Socceroos are still there after a tough fight in their pool. This has been great to watch, and by and large we have been getting good moral support from the English.
In Brugges last weekend, Natalie and I watched the Australia vs Brazil game in an English pub there. Inside English football supporters who were either going to or coming back from the World Cup were eagerly watching the game with us.
Still there are a few people who don't have anything positive to say about the Australian team - win, lose or draw. These tend to be Englishmen who one must think are scared that Australia might out-perform their team. Otherwise their comments are the noise of empty vessels signifying nothing.
With the next match for Australia being on Monday, Natalie gave me a great treat yesterday - an official Socceroos jersey. I will be wearing this to work on Monday. Very cool.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Summer!
Today we had summer.
Forget the World Cup, this was better. Perfect, not a cloud in the sky, sunny and warm weather.
It got up to 28 degrees celcius and so Natalie and I fired up the BBQ this afternoon and had a great time enjoying the weather.
And there is more to come tomorrow and into the working week.
The only problem now is getting the house cool at night so we can sleep easy.
Forget the World Cup, this was better. Perfect, not a cloud in the sky, sunny and warm weather.
It got up to 28 degrees celcius and so Natalie and I fired up the BBQ this afternoon and had a great time enjoying the weather.
And there is more to come tomorrow and into the working week.
The only problem now is getting the house cool at night so we can sleep easy.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Ferrari Blast
The summer has finally arrived. Yesterday saw temperatures reach the mid 20s and a very sunny day across England. Perfect weather for a drive in our new car - a 2002 Ford Focus, which should be far more reliable than our Megane.
So we took our car for a run up to Oxfordshire, as that is where I had to go to experience a gift Natalie gave me for our first wedding anniversary last year - a test drive of a Ferrari F355 spider.
Out on a taxiway on a disused military airbase in Heyford, Oxfordshire, you can dash around in Ferraris, a Porsche, a WRX a Lotus Elise and more.
I got four laps, each consisting of two long straights and a couple of large U-turns, adding up to almost 2 kms.
Now I haven't driven a manual in about 3 1/2 years, but I, with the asistance of a co-driver/instructor I quickly got into the groove and was able to get the Ferrai into fourth gear before having to brake to turn the car around. Certainly I wasn't the quickest out there but I had alot of fun and would love to have spent a little more time as by the fourth lap I was starting to find my form.
It was a great gift and I thoroughly enjoyed myself once I got into the car and found that it wasn't as difficult to drive as I thought it might be. Mind you, I wasn't pushing it to its limits. But what fun!
So we took our car for a run up to Oxfordshire, as that is where I had to go to experience a gift Natalie gave me for our first wedding anniversary last year - a test drive of a Ferrari F355 spider.
Out on a taxiway on a disused military airbase in Heyford, Oxfordshire, you can dash around in Ferraris, a Porsche, a WRX a Lotus Elise and more.
I got four laps, each consisting of two long straights and a couple of large U-turns, adding up to almost 2 kms.
Now I haven't driven a manual in about 3 1/2 years, but I, with the asistance of a co-driver/instructor I quickly got into the groove and was able to get the Ferrai into fourth gear before having to brake to turn the car around. Certainly I wasn't the quickest out there but I had alot of fun and would love to have spent a little more time as by the fourth lap I was starting to find my form.
It was a great gift and I thoroughly enjoyed myself once I got into the car and found that it wasn't as difficult to drive as I thought it might be. Mind you, I wasn't pushing it to its limits. But what fun!
Sunday, June 04, 2006
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