First half was okay. Second was just painful.

Okay, okay. England did play well - powerful, accurate and fast. Wales need to take the way they played in the first half, add that little extra oomph, and then keep it up for a whole match. From what I saw of Italy - Ireland it doesn’t look like a very promising start for the Irish either. So let’s see how France and Scotland fair tomorrow, but, so far, if the English keep this up all through the tournament then there won’t be any stopping them.

In other news I got my hair cut today. First time since the wedding; that’s five months. Lettice will be sad - she would like to turn me into a James May clone (except younger, non-smoking and less sexist, I presume) - but at least it’s now somewhere near to controllable.