In from watching Australia reach the second round of the World Cup after a 2-2 draw with Croatia in a totally bizarre game of football. The bar I was in seemed to be boasting every Aussie in London and the two Irishmen in the corner were cheering them (almost) as hard as any of them...

An email from South Africa winged its way to me this evening...Bizarre to look at photos of Cape Town and know that Rhodes and others are in amongst that landscape right about now...they seem to be having a special time...great to hear. I am of course really sorry not to be there and missing Rhodes a great deal...

I will have to console myself with happy memories of old...