I had a longish post on Phillip Henry Gosse (as requested by John Wilkins awhile back), but the gods of the internet were displeased and consigned it to the aether. I'll try and reconstruct it later.
In other news, that Germany / Italy was quite good wasn't it? Have to say, I wanted Germany to win and those two quick goals were nice (though brutal). Here's hoping France move on today (prediction: 2-0) and we get a reasonable final out off all of this.
Woke up this morning and it's raining here ... in Tempe ... in July ... during the day. What's going on?
And a day late ...
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