Spring arrived last week as we celebrated Easter 2009. The long sleaved shirts have been put away for another year.

Since we last spoke the Six Nations came to an interesting end. Wales lost both to France 21-16 on a Friday night in Paris in February, just how cold was that and then with the last kick of the game they lost just to Ireland who win their first Grand Slam since 1948, and their first Triple Crown since 2007 and their first Championship since 1985 and the days of Michael Kiernan, Nigel Carr and Brian Spillane. Since then we have had a round or two of the Magners, this has to be nailed on for Munster right now. The quarters of the Heineken Cup which saw wins for Munster, Leinster, Leicester and Cardiff Blues who did just for Toulouse. Yesterday the Blues beat Gloucester 50-12 to win the EDF in the last form that we know it. The English are not too happy and the Cup will now be played during the Six Nations and the Autumn Internationals. So there goes the Blues chance of retaining. Still here is a picture of the immense Paul Tito with the trophy.

Possibly I get a bit cynical and think that the boys could have scored more. Perhaps Roland might have asked his assistant to investigate Allen's push on Lee Halfpenny perhaps he could have carded Allen and Lamb for their antics. The evening saw the Ospreys win at Parc Y Scarlets it was good to see a crowd of over 11,000 at Parc y Turco makes a change from 4 fat blokes with body odour who won't sit next to each other, won't even sit in the same row!!!

American Sports in the form of NHL & NBA are now into their playoffs and yesterday Chicargo beat Boston, what has suprised me is how far and how fast Detroit Pistons have fallen to become 8th seed in the East. Whilst the Lakers continue to dominate in the West they may come across a banana skin by the name of Portland who have a good home record aginst them. We shall see.

Moving on Facebook had an application which asked for your top 5 of things. One of the more interesting ones was TOP5 Beers. So here it is

1. Brains S.A

2. Wobbly Bob

3. Kwak

4. La Morte Subite

5. Old Tom

An interesting call where the two communities in Belgium tie with the North West but Skull Attack comes out top.

Another interesting list which it requested was top 5 tv which is heavilly influenced by my current viewing habits which saw

1. Battlestar Galactica

2. Damages

3. Fringe

4. Engrenages

5. Lost

Last year we were denied Season 4 of Bsg as Virgin and Sky were engaged in their petty dispute which saw the viewers as the victims. This meant that last year Damages & Fringe tied as favourite show, this year BSG came back with a storming conclusion, the other shows are good just not that good . Engrenages has been repeated on BBC 4 and with my latest gadget I have managed to copy the episodes onto a dvd. And lost has improved and continues to gow on me. As for Dr who, easter saturday saw the first of the 4 specials in lieu of a series whilst David Tennant played Hamlet at Stratford upon Avon. And it was good, but in the words of "dead ringers" Docotr #10 is "Jarvis Cocker in space" but not for much longer. It was good and for terrestrial it was very good SF but not better than BSG, Fringe or Lost from that genre right now.

Speak to you all soon when I will look at the Politics situation both here and abroad.

See you soon