St Patrick's Day

I Don't think I wore anything green today, I wanted to but I celebrated in spirit rather than attending any parades, maybe next year. A belated visit to an irish bar soon.

Today - it was not too windy, no rain, no snow, but bitterly cold. I've said in previous posts that I sensed Spring was just around the corner, forget that - the next Ice-Age maybe. If it wasn't for the song birds getting all animated recently you'd never know, but then the songbirds wouldn't sense it and would not not possess Spring time characteristics - ? - It's very cold, it doesn't feel like Spring, but the birds know it is. in fact some say St Patrick's Day is a pinpoint calander reminder of the start of Spring - maybe that's how the birds know?

Sport - Soccer - Eufa Cup
The Quarter Final Draw for the Eufa Cup took place today drawing second favorites Middlesbrough against unbeaten for months and top of the Swiss League Basle.
Other Ties saw Favorites Shalke drawn against Bulgarian side Levski Sofia.
THE FULL DRAW:
Quarter-finals
Sevilla (ESP) v St. Petersburg (RUS)
Basel (SUI) v Middlesbrough (ENG)
Rapid Bucharest (ROM) v Steaua Bucharest (ROM)
Levski Sofia (BUL) v Schalke 04 (GER)
(Matches to be played - 1st leg on March 30 and 2nd leg on April 6)
Semi-finals
Levski Sofia (BUL)/Schalke 04 (GER) v Seville (ESP)/St. Petersbourg (RUS)
Rapid Bucharest (ROM)/Steaua Bucharest (ROM) v Basel (SUI)/Middlesbrough (ENG)
(Matches to be played - 1st leg on April 20 and 2nd leg on April 27)

MELBOURNE 2006 Commonwealth Games - Table Tennis
Today saw Kenya bag their first win in the Table tennis with a 3.0 win over Tuvalu. Neither team has posted a win in the first four matches.
Both Kenya and Tuvalu are scheduled to play Guyana in their Final Pool matches.
Australia are still ahead in the Medal table.

Replying to Your Comments:
I don't get to see as much sport as I 'd like to. The Commonwealth games there in Melbourne looks pretty exciting, I'll try and bring some Games news everyday. As it would be overwhelming to cover all of the games. The more popular events such as Athletics and the aquatic events are covered more widely, I thought I would cover other events such as Table tennis and Badminton.
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