The weather continues glorious. The scaffolding outside the Hove-l is still up, and I am now resigned to its remaining there forever, and I still have no fridge. I think once you have demonstrated that you can live without a fridge for four months during the warmest part of the year, then you can put up with pretty much any hardship ordinary life can throw at you. Harder, and more worrying, is surviving without money. I ran out yesterday but someone should be paying me tomorrow.
So what is there to do but watch sport? There might be no more Test cricket until August – which is in itself an outrage – but a quick look at the schedule reveals that there are other ball games available. My esteemed colleague Hunter Davies is writing about the World Cup, so I leave that to him, except to say that so far the nerves of England supporters have been tested to the point of maximum stress.
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