Gareth wins

Well done Gareth. You had the winning team. That makes you a winner! As your prize you can claim a hug off any/all the Armstrong's. I'm told the final was a good game. I couldn't watch it coz it made me feel too nervous. I watched Top Gear instead. It wasn't so funny this week, and there was a lot in about cars. Dr Who was good this week. Does anyone know if he actually regenerates? It's just that normally you hear about that kind of thing in the news, and I've not heard anything. Today I heard some of my least favourite words. They are 'with Scott Mills coz Chris is on holiday'. I don't like those words very much. But it does mean I get ready quicker in the morning coz I spend less time lying in bed listening to the radio.

Ring and camera

About six months ago I lost a very lovely ring that my wonderful Paul had bought me for a birthday several years ago. I was rather upset that I had lost it. I had looked and looked and looked for it, and I had got other people to look for it in case I had lost at their houses.

A few weeks ago I lost my camera. Couldn't find it anywhere. I was fairly sure it was somewhere in my flat, but really didn't know where.

Today I thought I would just check those bags on top of the wardrobe in case I had taken my camera somewhere in one of them and left it in there. My camera was not in them. BUT my ring was!!!!! Yipeeeeee. Woohoo! Whoop whoop! I was so excited I did a little dance and then rang Paul to tell him I had found it. Hurrah!

As I went to pick up my phone from the base where it doth rest, right next to it sat there looking at me all forlorn was my camera!!! Double joy!

Footballs

Listening to the footballs on my radio I found myself thinking 'ooo how exciting, we have an all Europe final'. I'm thinking maybe I missed the slight clue in the whole competition being called 'euro 08'. I blame this entirely on tiredness and not at all on lack of brain cells.

Bananaman

Last week I got a Bananaman costume. It is possibly the most exciting thing I have ever owned. After my megaphone. I am very very excited about wearing it. So much so in fact that I keep on putting it on around the house just to have a little practice at being Bananaman. My life rocks!

Two football stories that amused me, taken from the BBC football gossip page

Switzerland's railway staff will now wear yellow vests instead of orange ones after Dutch fans followed a worker onto the tracks as they thought he was a football fan. (Daily Telegraph)

French coach Raymond Domenech knows exactly why his side failed so miserably at Euro 2008. It was the team's hotel. "The layout of the hotel was all wrong," he said. "It was in a kind of cul-de-sac with only one route in and out. Plus, there were no proper directives from the Swiss about gatherings of people watching us eat." (Daily Express)

Footballs and non-uniform

Portugal are out. Doh.

The school over the road from where I work has a non-uniform day today. If children come in non-uniform they have to bring in £2 or a bottle of wine for the school summer fayre.

Quarter finals

Spain (Gareth), Holland (Steve), Italy (Paul) and Portugal (me) are all through to the quarter finals. Spain will play either Holland or Italy, so one of you will knock one of the others out, so to speak. I've not seen loads of the games, but what I have seen has been enjoyable and entertaining.

In other news, in my dreams last night I was engaged to someone, but I have no idea who. I'm not entirely sure I was happy about being engaged either, so maybe it was someone I didn't want to be engaged to, or maybe I wasn't happy at not knowing who it was.

The Apprentice

Tonight I am going to watch the final of The Apprentice. I have been quite enjoying this series. I think it's only fault has been that Michael should've gone much much sooner. The interviews last week were rather interesting. Lee was maybe slightly daft to do his strange dinosaur impression, but I think if someone asked me to do something in an interview I would probably do it. It was interesting to see all those that had done the interviews not quite agreeing with each other, and there was no one clear person tat stood out head and shoulders above the rest. I was really surprised when Sir Alan kept four of them, so surprised that I rang my bro and asked him if he was watching. He was. And he graciously spoke to me for a few minutes before telling me that actually he was still tyring to watch, but couldn't with me wittering in his ear. So we put the phone down.

While I am looking forward to the final, I am wondering if the Radio Times is giving something away. On their website the description for tonight's You're Fired says 'we meet the two who almost made it but fell at the final hurdle.' So there are four people left in the final. We are expecting one person to be hired. The Radio Times are saying two people fell at the final hurdle, that suggests to me that two did not fall. I think the people most likely to win are Clare and/Alex. I think Helen is not so good, and Lee is OK but would be fairly annoying to work with.

Footballs

Portugal won 2-0 yesterday. I saw the tail end of the game. It was good.

Steve is supporting Holland.