Well it's hard to imagine but we've been here in England a full week now; the weather has been very kind to us, way better than the long range weather forecast would have had us believe; it's way cooler than a normal Ontario June but it's been sunny and you can't ask for much more than that.

Doom and Gloom Jr went surfing at Fistral Beach; supposedly the best surfing in Britain. After checking out the waves here I think maybe we should market Southampton in August and September as being the surfing capital of Canada.

The wet suits essential as the air temperature and water temperature were 14 degrees

Football has been plentiful but not overly inspiring; of course that will all change when England play again tomorrow. We can only hope for a better performance and a much better result.

Last Saturday when England played the pubs were full of England fans getting their game faces on even at noon; I didn't stick around to see how they were doing by the end of the game but I don't imagine it would have been pretty.

Long walk yesterday to Hollywell, about a two hour trek around the cliff tops

Here we see Doomette tucking into strawberries and ice cream in the beer gardens at St Piran's Inn. The boys were drinking Doom Bar; just for a change.

Here we see Doom and Gloom in a calmer moment; I can't imagine it will be like this at game time tomorrow.