sEx Lies & nORTHEN rOCK

David Cameron has done himself few favours with his attacks on the P.M over Northern Rock especially when you consider what his friends in the Press were saying:

January 2007 - The Times "a new era of bigger returns for shareholders"

April 2007 - The Telegraph " discovered the most virtous of cycles"

June 2007 despite a profits warning, The Times gave the launch of its "silver savings online account" for the over 50's "an unequivocal thumbs up"

The slide in share prices according to the Telegraph offered "a buying opportunity" and "a risk investors should take"

August 2007 "are customers safe ?" " yes" said the Telegraph.

This comes to you care of Peter Wilby of Media Guardian.

The Rugby World Cup started with a bang as Argentina won 17-12 at Stade De France.

We have been lucky enough to see 2 games Wales 20 - 32 Australia and Fiji 29- 16 Canada.

Attached are photo's from those games. So far New Zealand and South Africa are clever favourites with Australia coming up on the rails. So far France, Ireland and England have failed to shine whilst Italy have been poor. Scotland continue to defy their 6 Nations form and could be the Northern Hemisphere team to go the furthest .Though the odds on a Southern final 4 can not be discounted.

Of course there is the latest addition to the family in Elin Cerys who is 1 inNovember.

Tomorrow my wife and elder step daughter go back to work as teachers. Summer has truely ended. It is raining in Stockport what more can I add.

I missed on the end of Tony Blair's reign, well it came to an end and he was gone quicker than you could say Idaho senator in a Minnapolois toilet.

As the B-52's song goes "You're living in your own private Idaho"

The All Blacks won the Tri Nations and must be favourites for the 6th World Cup which starts Friday. More of which over the next months as we go to games in Cardiff and Marseille.

Here is a list of the games I have been to across the last 20 years of Rugby World Cups.

1987 - 0 games

1991- 2 games Italy vs Usa and Wales vs Argentina.

1995 - 0 games

1999 - 2 games Samoa vs Japan & New Zealand vs Italy plus watched the q/f in a Cardiff pub.

2003 - 0 games

2007 - 3 games more to follow.

Rome came to a glorious if expected end, for what happens next see I Clavidivs.

We signed up to Lovefilm and are enjoying it hugely. The picture shown above is from Bonbon El Perro a wonderful Argentine Film.

More later this month.