OMG I just LOOOOVVVVVE Australia. I’ve been here less than 24 hours and Spurs beat Arsenal. At the Emirates!!! I love this place. It has a magic that… which… I feel…

We beat Arsenal. And we beat them in their house. And we kept a clean sheet which we haven’t done in an away match against them since 1988. Australia wasn’t even born in 1988. I don’t think. History lessons start here today.

Well, in fact history of wine lessons start today because we’re in the Hunter Valley. Unfortunately so far (drove up from Sydney yesterday afternoon, its now early morn) its been, in turns, cloudy, tiny bit sunny, more cloudy, pissing down thunderstormy, and now just warm and cloudy again. But this may change.

What won’t change is the football result from last night. Or from ‘this morning’ as we call ‘last night’ round here. That’s still 2 nil, Spurs still won, Arsenal still… are unfortunately Arsenal.

Hunter Valley is where they make the wine. Well, they make it all over Australia but the decent stuff comes from round here. The stuff they make in Darwin probably doesn’t make it to Tescos in Highgate Village, but Hunter Valley is ‘proper’. So we’re going to a winery or two and also cheese, they make that round here too. Who’d’a known? It’s like Australia’s own Alp. But without much of a visible mountain. Though its very pretty, green and winey and… green.

Today’s photo is our arrival in Sydney proper. Arrival at our mates’ house. Even though they weren’t there. Cloudy and grey but if you enlarge it a bit, you can see The Bridge. And as any view of that round here has ‘a price above rubies’, you should enjoy. Even in the cloud.

I don’t care if its only the Caribou Cup. It’s fucking Arsenal! And we won.

Very happy Thursday

A xxxx