The Aussie friend of the senior son in law will need to wait revenge at Rugby against England a bit longer. Tucked away in the smallest of small print in AustraliaÂs only newspaper of record
Sydney Morning Herald are the results of an Internation Rugby Sevens Tournament played at Twickenham this weekend. England, of course, won beating OZ in the quarter finals andNew Zealandd in the final. The paper, reluctantly, gave the scores but refrained from comment.
Much more space was afforded to Australia's stunning draw 2-2 against the SolomonIslands (Pop 75?) in a qualifying soccer match in the Oceania Group for the the next World Cup. What is needed says a pundit is for an annual match against England-a sort of Football Ashes series to give the Aussies a taste of the real game. And he adds let us remove 'friendly' from the description of this international. That shouldn't be a problem. Friendly games at any sport between the Poms and the Aussies are the most classic of Oxymorons.
Mr Fish disappearedeared from BBC World. So the weather is back to a the normal Canberra late autumn. -7C at night, 12C by day. But it is so dry that 12 feels like 25 in Hutton If that unlikely event ever came to pass. But people complain that it is cold and like the Merse there is very little evidence of life on the streets. Good for us hardy northerners-parks empty and the grandson can have the playgrounds to himself. Yet come this holiday weekend all Canberra flocks to the beaches of New South Wales 150 Ks to the south-where the temperatures are even lower. Strange.
