Avoiding the World Cup: Day Two

World Cup, 1, Avoiding it, nil.

Wouldn't you believe it, now it's in my mailbox. I've just been sent a link to The Barmy World Cup Sheep song . It's bloody awful, frankly, but what next? Football playing cats?
(Actually. maybe I should just video our one cat that loves football and add a music track to the video...)

It turns out that the guy who came up with this, Charley Darbeyshire of Bright Blue Studios , Ulverston, is actually the cousin of Designer Bob in our office. (The video was filmed by Tony Wilkinson of Red Onion Video ).

Also disappointed that little old lady in our street has put England flags in her window. But so far, only two cars with flags (according to some boffin, these add to your fuel consumption by an astonishing litre a day if you drive at 70 mph . Like anyone can get up to that kind of speed around Lancaster).

There was a discussion on BBC2 last night where film director Richard Eyre challenged all the flag waving, particuarly by politicians (a discussion made interesting only by Michael Portillo describing David Cameron as "naff" for doing it too). It's all bread and circuses, apparently, which is why the whole thing's got hyped to distraction. I think there's some truth in that.

Still, avoided any metatarsal-oriented news reports by going to see The Da Vinci Code, but what a dull film. Even an assesment of Trinidad and Tobago's chances would have been more interesting...