Hello, and thanks for your concern, aristo and pastille. No problems here, just a strange and interesting few days which have diverted me from my normal routine. It started on Saturday at my son's football match. He plays for the next village and I write a match report and take a few photos for the club website. So... about ten minutes into the game the referee stopped the game because of a pitch invasion --- by a cow. She was a big beast and wandered around the pitch terrorising the players until the referee showed her a red card, which caused her to give him a pat in return (a cowpat that is) before leaving the pitch. I sent one of the pictures to a local paper which printed it on Tuesday, leading to a photo agency calling me and offering to try to sell it and any others I had to the national press (for a fee, obviously). Since then the world has gone cow-crazy! The pictures appeared in the Daily Mail online (
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056194/Cow-given-red-card-invades-amateur-football-match-Potterspury.html?ito=feeds-newsxml) and the Daily Mirror paper and online editions, before being picked up by various other websites, and the team manager and captain have been interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live, Talksport, and BBC Radio Northants, and the incident was also discussed on Chris Evans' Breakfast Show on Radio 2.
The agent is now trying to sell the picture to various magazines, and there's a mobile phone video which should appear on Sky TV's Soccer AM on Saturday. Hopefully we can translate all this publicity into some sponsorship for the team!
So, today life has returned to normal (at least until the offers start coming in from Hollywood) and the first thing to do is congratulate pastille on her triumph in Clueless. Well done!