Give me an R, give me an O… and so on. Croatia’s famous victory over Germany puts them at the top of group B and, more importantly, puts me one step closer to winning the office sweepstake. Slaven Bilic’s boys done good!
Entries Tagged as 'Europe'
It just gets better
June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
The Dutch were great yesterday, but Spain were magnificent today when they took Russia apart. I was worried that a lack of home nations in the finals might make it hard to keep an interest in Euro 2008, but now I’m hooked.
Euro 2008 finally kicks off
June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
OK, so it officially started at the weekend, but it hasn’t been terribly exciting before today. The Croatia result was good for those of us who drew them in the sweepstake1 but it was hardly a game to remember. Today though: the Holland/Italy game was as brilliant as the France/Romania one was dull. having the [...]
Tags: Europe·Football·Netherlands
Come on Croatia!
June 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
During Euro 2008 I shall be cheering on the team from Croatia. There are three reasons for this:
Back from Paris
June 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Jane
Well, we are back from our flying visit to Paris. Many photos to download and label – mostly flowers. My best advice to anyone visiting Paris is don’t try to do Giverney and the Louvre on the same day! We couldn’t do anything on our last day apart from moan about how tired our legs [...]
Eurovision
May 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Music
Why don’t we just accept the situation and next year adapt a football chant for Eurovision? The Millwall one would be particularly appropriate… “no-one likes us. We don’t care.”
Tags: Europe
Sudden death
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Life
The European cup final was close again.  How happy we were to see Ronaldo’s cocky penalty get saved, only for John Terry to cock up his chance to seal the victory and save Ronaldo from being the player to lose the game. I know that Ronaldo is an outstanding player, but just because he has [...]
The longest day
May 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
It has been a long day today, and it feels even longer.  I was staying overnight in Versailles so I could go to a meeting this morning and I got up extra early so I could go out and take some photos in the town before breakfast.  As it happens I was up before the [...]
A Bullseye moment
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
I really enjoyed watching the Liverpool/Arsenal game the other night. I had been out at a Unite Against Fascism meeting and only caught the last 15 minutes but I was disturbing the rest of the family in the next room with all my shouts of disbelief.
Well done Liverpool!
March 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Its great to see four English teams in the last eight of the Champions League. Quite a remarkable achievement.  I’m not sure we can take much patriotic pride in it though.
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