No comment on the title it is just a reflection on yesterday’s rugby! I went to Cardiff on Friday night, a treat from my son David. We saw the All Blacks play Georgia. A wonderful evening and not quite the one-sided game we expected.  It was interesting to compare the rugby with the football I watched on Tuesday. There are many pauses in a rugby match whereas even low-level football has much more action and if you get distracted at football you can easily miss something.

This weekend saw the start of the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Saw two good sessions yesterday; the first saw a historian and a Pablo Picasso expert discussing Guernica both the history and the painting. It was interesting to hear about the technical side of the painting and also the subsequent history of the picture. We followed that with listening to an entertaining  talk on Waterloo by Dan and Peter Snow.   Today I went to a talk about Clive James. It was both humourous and moving. We are lucky to be so close the festival. I cycled home yesterday because Clare stayed on for another couple of events. A couple more events this week to look forward to.