He’s talking bollocks as usual.

Definitely not without merit! I hope you can resume what you love doing very soon.

Speeches (not really interviews as Annabelle Croft hardly asked any questions) were nearly as long as the match. As the players are clearly schooled in what to say, the speeches/interviews are largely formulaic and thus a waste of time.

I listened to that interview with increasing horror - Gorka is a nasty piece of work. How Sarah Montague resisted the temptation to tell him to “go fuck himself” I don’t know. What a horrible man and what an insufferable arse.

17 days on, I feel liberated from the vileness of X and life is better for letting it go. Why did I wait so long?

Seems to be the way of the world. Significant rise in arseholery recently. Hope you are ok?

I hadn’t realised sheep ate curlew eggs. Here in the Peak District there is intensive grazing of cattle and sheep, but much of the problem for curlews and other ground nesting birds is the timing of grass cutting which takes no account of when there are eggs or chicks on the nest.