The last few weeks have been glorious. The sun has shone, the skies have been blue. All is good, even the temperature control in my office has worked properly for the first time in 14 years. Obviously these things can't be rushed. Tied in with this has been some great sport. A couple of long winded events are taking place. The Ashes and Tour de France are occupying quite a lot of my time. I've been watching TDF on and off since the mid 1980s when C4 started showing highlights, probably around the time Stephen Roche won the event. This sort of fell away when C4 decided Hollyoaks was a priority. The discovery footage was shown live on Eurosport was a revelation. At the time they only used one commentator for the whole show, sometimes up to 6 hours. It's no wonder he used to wax lyrical about crème brulee.
There's plenty of local interest in this year's tour with both Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh taking part. Cav's capabilities are well known but I've been very impressed with the Olympic gold medallist from Onchan. He's put in several Herculean efforts at the front to get his Team Sky leader Chris Froome into the yellow jersey although he does now appear to have some sizable bags under his eyes.
As they would no doubt say in France:
Chapeau Peter Kennaugh.
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