So life update, its all work, world cup & gridiron these days. Well yes, Rachel is still there, don't worry, we're getting on great, and Rach seems to have everything planned for the wedding which is brilliant. But aside from mundane, cooking dinner, watching tv, chatting about stuff, life on the home front continues normally.

I'll get to the main thrust of this post, through the read more, it's not about life but vicarious matters, so read on if you're interested.

Work is very busy and intense of late, under a lot of pressure and struggling to keep up, but I am enjoying the challenge and fighting to do better, both in coping with the work load and improving results & my performance. Can't and won't go into more detail here on work front.

But I will say on related topic, that TBG on Tour is quite the experience. Last weekend, half the office went to Barcelona for 3 nights, we arrived late on Thursday night and flew back on Sunday afternoon. In between can only be described as epic, as we were treated on both Friday night & Saturday night to high living drinking in night clubs. Whilst during the day, the weather was amazing and there was football. On the Sunday in the airport though was surreal, we watched the crunch England v Germany game on laptops, using Iraqi tv! We watched the first half landside with a big crowd of Germans watching on, one, Karl, had following us through the airport and sat with us, giving us wine and dis-proofed the myth that Germans have no sense of humour by offering tissues around after Germany scored, as "we would need these now". Love it! The second half was seen the other side of security, but again on laptops as no tvs with the match could be found. This time we acquired English fans waiting on the same plane as us, but the mood was less jubilant with "Lampard's goal" and Germany's efficient display killing the mood. Still a brilliant trip, had a great time.

So the World Cup you say, what's that. I have being consuming everything I can about this tournament, watching nearly every match, or least a half of them, taking lunch breaks to coincide with games, listening to games on the radio and tuning in to key moments and of course, watching every evening game. I haven't been to board games during the World Cup, I've kinda put my life on hold during it, but its the final week and its been an amazing tournament, back to normality next week. I put money on the Dutch at the start of the tournament and was ridiculed for backing them, lets see if they can come good this coming week.