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I know everyone has seen this before a thousand times over but in celebration of England’s 2-1 defeat of Uruguay last night, uninspired or not, and the fact we are only 100 days from the World Cup, let’s revisit:

the badgers celebrating Euro 2004

It only comes round once a year and often the build-up is more worthy than the game itself but this year I was enthralled by a greatly entertaining match. And a great result, too, its not often that Scotland beats France in Rugby Union, or indeed at anything for that matter.

Truly an event worth having a big screen TV for! Too bad I couldn’t get to watch it live. And England beat Wales the day before so a great sporting weekend all round. Well, if you ignore that tedious crap they call football in this country, then it was a great sporting weekend. Fortunately I tuned to the paint drying channel and was way more entertained than had I been watching that other event. Wow, just thinking about American Football makes me sleepy.

So I have this sexy new iPod and not enough content for it – what to do? Grab podcasts!! And in my search for entertainment I found a series of podcasts from the very funny Ricky Gervais, he of The Office fame (the original funny one, not to be confused with the lame NBC version). Anyway, look it up in iTunes or go straight to the source for the first two episodes.

Today was the draw for the World Cup Finals being held in Germany next year. England are in Group B with Paraguay, Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden. Of course all games at this level are difficult (and any game involving England is ten times more difficult than it needs to be) but one would expect us to have a very good chance of progressing to the next round. You can see the rest of the groups here at the BBC.

Enough ranting and moaning, here are a couple of pictures from a trip I took with my Dad to Marwell Zoo last month; to see all of them go to this Flickr photo set.