the minders have gone away

Dear Reader,

I would like to inform you that I am all alone in this big castle of mine now that my minders have gone away to Corsica for two weeks of relaxation, hiking and sunshine. Now I have the house, it is all mine and it is eeerily quiet. Or it would be, if I weren’t pumping out the most foul blood-churning dance music I could find at full volume. Fergie has been a radio1 dj for 5 yrs and last night was his last night as a regular dj and radio1 celebrated with his excellent essential mix [available until 01/10/2006]. Yeh, yeh, yeh… bmp, bmp, bmp… whoeee!!!

Making excellent use of the fact that I have the house to myself I read the newspaper (the excellent Observer – my minders do not get this paper as they are subscribers to <em>the Sunday Times</em> which I cannot read without wanting to vomit blood, if I get as far as actually noticing it has words in it, such is the horrific state that it leaves me in… does anyone out there read this paper, how can you read that crap???). I have found about wi-fi in Taipei, the Killers, Janet-Street-Porter, news of the Reading-Manchester United 1-1 draw and other interesting and informative bites of wordage.

I heard that this weekend is the cross-over weekend between summer sports and winter sports. There certainly is a lot of sport going on. On TV was the World Road Cycling Championship (won by Bettini, just ahead of Zabel), Davis Cup tennis (Great Britain beat Ukraine 3-2 and remain in the second division), the World Badminton Championships (Emms and Robertson won the mixed doubles final) and the Ryder Cup Golf (I am not a golf fan but any victory for Europe against America has to be heartily celebrated!!!).

Time for din-dins…