England Rugby / Cricket and last weekend

Following on from my entry last week (see here) and my negatvity about English Rugby / Cricket I'm glad to say I was proved at least 50% wrong! Very pleased and surprised to see such a good victory in the rugby for England against France. England looked like a different team to the team thrashed by Ireland in the previous game though that was actually partly true considering how many players were either dropped or injured, and the new look team did play well especially in the 2nd half. Having said that France were particularly poor so it's not time to get too excited about the 'English revival' yet - as the papers seem to so easily! Was disappointed in how poor the Irish played against Scotland, but at least they snook the win - by a massive 1 point! Looking forward to the final round of matches tomorrow and hoping that Ireland will hammer Italy, and then Scotland do something good against France to give the Irish a St Patricks Day to remember with a 6 nations championship victory - you never know! Think that's a more likely outcome than both Ireland and France doing badly enough to give England a chance of the title.

The English cricketers have still to prove my negativity about their World Cup chances wrong though after they were beaten easily by New Zealand in their 1st game of the tournament today - very disappointing. Quick improvement needed! In terms of other matches so far, I've been keeping an eye on Dwayne's progress with Bermuda after talking about him last week - but he only managed 1 wicket and 1 run as they got hammered by Sri Lanka, a South African batsman managed the remarkable feat of 6 6's in 1 over in their match against the Netherlands, and trust the Irish to liven the tournament up with a remarkable draw against Zimbabwe!

Changing subject, had a great time last weekend with really good friends who came down from Liverpool with their 3 month old to see us. Really cool to see and have time with them. Weather was fantastic, and I'm really proud of a couple of photo's I took at Kings College in Cambridge, so thought I'd show them off on here:



Weather like we had at the weekend and for most of this week, and shots like these really remind me of the privilege of living somewhere like this for a while!