9.00 am Saturday morning, and it raining in `sunny` Bournemouth. And for once, I`m actually enjoying it. Besides the fact that it`s saving me a couple of hours work this morning watering the garden, the air this morning is delicious. Clean, fresh and sweet! After a week of streaming eyes and nose, dry throat and sneezing, I have had my first cup of coffee of the day out on the patio under the awning, and it was wonderful! One of nature`s free, but priceless, treats.

Not, however, good news for you BBs footballers - I am guessing that the weather is pretty much the same in London. Organising your kick around seems to have had the same effect as me deciding to have a BBQ! Hopefully, it will only be gentle summer rain (though it`s stottin` a bit now) or it will ruin my day out tomorrow too, Windsor Championship Dog Show. It`s held in Windsor Great Park, which is a lovely venue, with the castle behind as a back drop, and the most charming, old-fashioned, bowler hatted stewards I`ve ever come across.

Not good news for Pete either, as he intended to go to the British Superbikes at Silverstone.

What do the rest of you have planned for the weekend?(:o)

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

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Well Galaxy, I'm pleased to report that it's a fantastic morning in the Toon - first sunny morning we've had for about a week.
We're 'hosting' a friends surprise 50th birthday party this afternoon with around 50 guests expected - so preparations are in full swing. PLEASE stay sunny!!

Season tickets for SJP arrived this morning to get the adrenaline bubbling under. Tommorow it's relaxing - lie in with the Sunday newspapers, perhaps lunch out somewhere - as 'chef' will be understandably kitchen-averse by tonight - and then get set for the big game with a beer or two.
Life's not too bad is it? At least when the sun shines.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Beautiful morning in Geordieland; sun streaming in, shall cut the grass when the sun gets round the front, watch Grand Prix qualifying, start on painting the poxy kitchen, hurl cups of water at Tigger every time she shows her face and make lots of fuss over little Jack. Might even take Nicola out for a waddle later ;-) and keep inputting data for the league...just reached match 166 out of 234, Coventry at home 1998/99, 4-1: Shearer x 2, Speed and Saha - cracking game!

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Manchester - mega wet - so whats new - + hangover.

Morning

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

It's been a scorcher round here today. 30 odd degrees and a nice load of humidity to go with it. Thank the lord for air conditioners that's what I say.

had a bit of shakey this afternoon. What I thought was asmall earthwuake turns out to be 6.4 on the richter scale on an island some 80km away, some one died in a landslide as a direct result. It's funny I remember my first earthquake and at that time I wondered if it was just the tale end of a major one and then today I didn't bat an eyelid.>p?It's worrying how complacent I've become I suppose.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Scarey stuff Kegsy!

Good friends of ours were flying out to SanFransisco a few years ago. Their plane touched down at the very moment their last big quake stuck (the one where the flyover collapsed in Oakland, I think it was)! What a welcome! They said it was really scarey!(:o)

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

In Tokyo it was pretty much like a bus going past, a bit of a rattle and a little shakey, but I've seen the pictures from the island (near the one where I went camping a couple of months ago, where there were 4 landslides) and the landslides are scary. There's a hill, possibly the side of a volcano, which has moved somewhat, well about 60m of it are now on the road. I always thought landslides were just alittle bit of loose rubble moving (with the obvious exception of North Wales) but seeing pictures of half a mountain on the road and in the sea. Well it does make you think!

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Well it's pissin it down in Perth WA. We've had 28mm of rain overnight and it's pretty stormy. Roll on spring.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

It wasn't that bad Hiro, I played softball today down by the river. It started of sunny, a few showers but I did not get soaked.

Down side it was only 17 deg C. Who needs this in the middle of winter eh?

Hope it is OK for football the morra. I HATE running out when its raining!!

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Wow, Kegsy, can't believe you've gotten used to quakes. That's probably a good thing as it keeps you less stressed. ;-) I grew up near Los Angeles and never got used to them. Only experienced 1 major quake (in 1971), but still live with one effect from it...I can't sleep alone in a room without some kind of outside world contact(radio or tv). At least I managed to get over my terror at the sound of a VW Beetle(sound I heard immediately before the quake struck) after 10yrs or so. ;-)) Just can't handle anything so unpredictable, uncontrollable and unescapable.

Anyway, beautiful sunny day in Boston. Temp supposed to go into the 80's. Have finally caught up on sleep and laundry from my little tour. Will probably go to the gym this morning, then work on website updates before settling down to a footy feast this afternoon/evening. 2 MLS games sandwiching the Women's Gold Cup semi finals(which Mexico should have been in! *sob*). And if I'm still in need of watching more footy, I've got 4 tapes containing all the Euro2000 games I missed while away. 8-)

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Went to the Metro Centre this afternoon, not a drop of rain or an earthquake in site.

Tell you what though, those mackem tw*ts are getting very cocky these days, people wearing Slumland shirts are outnumbering the Mags about 3 to 1.

No doubt that will soon stop when the ba*tar*s get relegated next season.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

8-30am Oz time. Just looked out the window and it's looking pretty black and wet again. Looks like you might just get wet Gus. I've got to ref the kids game this morning so i mght get a soaking too.

What a minute! It's stopped raining. Children laughing! Children playing!

Free beer for anyone who can " Name that tune"

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

I used to obsessed about earthquakes and think about them every day. Then I had my only really large one. About 5.9 on the richter and I was near the epicenter, yestrerday was larger but I was far from the centre, I was in a really old train station. And this old woman houted earthquake, nobody could feel anything, then al of a sudden, the walls started banging and th light started swinging from side to side. That was quite scary as it went on for a bout one minute.
But I can imagine that if I was a child then it would really have had a different impact on me. 5.9, is still not very strong.

There's going to be a huge one soon. Tokyo is on 3 faults and they're all due to move within 10 years of each other. I reckon that it will happen during the world cup final in the year 2002. 'And Michael Owen steps up to take the penalty that will win England the wporld cup, he starts his run up, but wait he's disappeared, Germany win the world cup by default". Or something like that.

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

LOL, Kegsy. Either that or the press will go on about Owen's wonder goal causing an earthquake. ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 01, 2000

Hiro: the answer is Alan Sherman's truly terrible "Camp Granada". It's only other outing was in a Simpsons episode, where Bart swaps a tape of it with one from the answerphone containing a message from a security man about his shoplifting. "Now to put it where nobody will EVER look", he says, replacing the answerphone tape in the Alan Sherman cassette box...

I may be really sad for knowing all this, but I claim my free pint!

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2000

Scorching in Basel and still pissed from last night....

Whores everywhere!

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2000

Doc your a legend!

IOU one pint

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2000

Who got Poison Ivy?

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2000