If only...

Irish sea dog - one, originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

... Thierry Henry had held his hands like this well-behaved Irishman yesterday evening, maybe Ireland would be going to South Africa and not those wretched French!

Hard luck on Ukraine and Russia on missing out as well.

I am hoping to go to South Africa sometime next year but I see a colleague has already picked teh favoured February slot (cold here and warm there!) so maybe I will have to wait until the summer or go there the year after... a pity!