Scotland 5 -1 Bulgaria!

Examiners obey some sort of mutual exclusion principle. The availability of my two nominated examiners seem to be pi out of phase. On current form, I am looking at an August date! I'll have forgotten everything by then.

In the shorter term, more pleasant prospects are hove into view. Namely, a trip to the Comedy Store on Wednesday. In a pleasing symmetry Tim, Joe and I will be there on the same night as the Champions League final - exactly the same situation as happened last year. Let's hope that Arsenal can maintain that symmetry and beat Barcelona.

A wonderful thing happened yesterday: the Scottish football team gave Bulgaria a thrashing! 5-1 it was, and the BBC showed the match live on the web. Unfortunately, the Guardian failed to mention it anywhere in today's sport section. Shame! We take on Japan tomorrow.