Sunday

Determined to make today at least slightly more productive than yesterday, I hop out of bed at around 10.30 and, after watching some old Lee & Herring videos on YouTube, wander up to Wood Green to visit Wilkinson's. Now that our back garden has weeds in it that are over six feet tall and with stalks as thick as my arm, I thought it might be time to tool up and hack away at some of it before it develops it's own separate, ungodly eco-system or something.

Happily, I find a large pair of fairly devastating-looking shears for the fairly devastatingly low price of £2.97, some gloves for 97p and a big roll of garden rubbish bags for 98p. Good old Wilkos. The weather isn't great so I plan to do a little bit of trimming before the inevitable rain, but it actually brightens up and I spend a good hour and a half hacking away at the ridiculous garden. To give an idea of the scale of the problem, I give up with about a third of it cleared. I do manage to rescue the 'lawn furniture' and a deckchair full of rusty water, however, so there is a certain amount of satisfaction to be had.

After all this manly outdoor work I'm a bit sweaty and bored, so I retire to the living room to watch the Italy v New Zealand match, while Alex comes round for a quick visit. After the match I get on the tube to South London once again in order to meet the boys and finally record the podcast we had meant to get done on Wednesday night. It turns out to be a really fun and unusual one as we manage to get Seb on the line via Skype, all the way from Soccer City in Johannesburg, where he is working for ITV throughout the World Cup. We spend the first 20 minutes of the podcast interviewing Seb about his experiences and generally getting rather jealous - especially when he informs us that he is about to walk down to the stadium to watch Brazil v Ivory Coast, which we can only watch on TV. Hmmph.