Excitement

This morning, as I walked Django in dull but dry weather, I was following the final 90 minutes of England's remarkable test cricket win over India, reflecting the West Indies' earlier win over Australia.

Back home, I started to put slides together for a seminar that I'm giving on Wednesday, until I cooked a mid-afternoon main meal. Eating early meant that I could watch all of United's FA Cup tie. It began and ended comfortably for United, but got uncomfortably exciting for a while.

Kermit still likes his orange-box bed