Australia through to the knockout stages for the first time (no thanks to Graham Poll the English ref), great stuff, but please do something about your fans before the game with Italy - this is not the way you watch ‘football’. pyMac’s suspicion is these guys just like looking at the players legs.

still fairly recent if you haven’t seen it, take a look and pass it along - not sure if there is a part two but there are further links here

well it was a whirl wind trip to say the least - 12 days on english soil - a pub full of friends to catch up with, several times over - 2 new little persons to meet for the first time - a wedding - a sister and her bloke - a mum and dad - grandparents and uncle to boot. so considering the extent of our short endeavour we did bloody well, with a few exceptions we got to see more than a few of you, special thank you’s to those who gave us beds, food, a lift from the airport, a baby to hug, a beer or soft beverage, or just a thoroughly memorable time. congratulations to Sarah and Jason on their brilliant wedding day, and to Col, Jay’s brother and best-man for the shout out in his brilliant speech. i guess he won’t read this but you never know, so thanks again to gramps for the money towards our flights. thank you Mr Bobbin for the great birthday card (you should be selling those in some wanky art/design bookstore). if you were all trying to remind pyMac how much we love you all and how much we should miss you, we have this to say, tough you failed and you still all suck ; ) NOT, we do and we do as it were. guess the next time we see any of you will be down under so maybe Mac needs to get on and ask py ‘the question’ soon…

... to be continued

just a quick post to say we are back in the UK at the moment. by this time tomorrow our very good friends Jason and Sarah will be happily married, the best of luck to them both for the big day, and so glad we could make it back to be there. nothing much has changed of note, London is still one of the best cities in the world, but after Melbourne it certainly seems so much more hassle than it used to. all our buddies seem to be well, and it has been good to catch up with them… now back up to Macs folks for a couple of days either side of Jason and Sarah’s wedding, before we head down to London for one last fairwell then back to Melbourne. thanks to everyone who has been able to catch up with us so far…