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Hello again,

God I keep meaning to write stuff, but never seem to get round to it.  Lame, I know.

So, what’s been happening?  Not an awful lot, truth be known - work seems to be going pretty well, the new iPhone 3g is launching soon, so that’s kept me busy with the Apple.com account (even though now it seems they’re not selling it through the site.).

For some reason I don’t seem to have had a single night to myself lately, which isn’t a bad thing really.  I always seem to have someone round, or are going round to someone else’s house.  I’ve even been leaving work on time at 5.30pm so I can go and watch the Euro2008 highlights.  The live games are on at the rather awkward times of 2am and 4.45am here - so not conducive to watching and living a normal life…  One game I’m glad I did watch was the France Vs Netherlands game the other day.  I tipped the Dutch to win the tournament, and with the 3-0 win over the Italians and then the 4-1 crushing of the French yesterday, who’d bet against them?  They seem to be playing the sort of total voetbal that everyone has always imagined the Dutch play - even if the reality hasn’t always been that close to the myth since 1988!

I’ve always been a big fan of all things Dutch really!  The Dutch and the English always seem to get on with each other (some cynic suggested that it’s because we all don’t like the Germans - a bit harsh!), and I seem to get on with them when I meet them, as you do tend to quite a lot when travelling!  At the Euro’s I think there were 125,000 Dutch fans in Bern for the latest game (the only other team I can think of that would take such numbers aren’t in this tournament, despite being ranked 9th in the world, as opposed to Austria who are 90th!) and they always look resplendent in their swathes of Orange, and look like they’re having great fun.  They certainly give their team the confidence to play like this.  In spite of the impression I get that he’s a bit of a cock, I’ve always been impressed by Robin Van Persie, Arjen Robben is indisputedly talented and Cruyff, Van Basten, Davids, Bergkamp (so long as it’s not an away game) and Ruud Gullit are some of my favourite ever players.

Anyway, enough proselytising about the Dutch - I’ve got Portugal in the sweepstake at work - but I still hope the bastards lose!

OK - that will do for now, I hope everyone got their Dads a nice fathers’ day present - mine got a Turtley Amazing t-shirt.  Oh yeah.

Oh, and I missed Gorton’s wedding of the year - congratulations to Mr and Mrs Burrell!

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