The Rain in Portugal Falls Mainly on the Italians

So, nights are drawing in, soon be Christmas, the warm summer weather has become a cold windy drenching East Atlantic storm across most of Europe and Italy (!) are out of Euro 2004

Not that Italy are my favourite team.. but in comparison to Bulgaria they are saintly figures who always play fair, never foul, and tend to just shrug off an injury and soldier on bravely for the honour of team and country.
I avoided the England - Croatia game on Monday by going to Brighton beach with my true love and enjoying bright sunshine until 9.30pm

Considering it was midsummer's day there was a quite a cool breeze (hey!) and so we walked to keep warm and drank a bottle of non-French bubbly and reminded ourselves that the universe is a big wonderful place and that we are small wonderful parts of it. We drank to small wonderful parts. Then we had chips and came back to London which had contrived to rain in our absence. Well Done London ! May you always rain when I am not around, keeping the parks and gardens green and me dry.
I have just seen that my old pal Lagowski has a Blog habit: - go marvel at the boy genius. Gosh he does know how to bleep murmur rumble and crunch...