You Da Vinci Some, You Da Loosi Some

In the words (or rather exclamation) of Nelson in the Simpsons, "ha..haaa"!

I worked out the password for the second cryptex before Robert Langdon did!!

Huh? What?? Oh, sorry, I have just been speeding through the copy of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" which Nicky left here and I have just got to the bit where... well, either you know what I mean or you don't...

Meanwhile, it seems there is some football game or other in Munich today... yes, the World Cup is finally upon us here in deepest Bavaria and if I see one more interview with old German footballers who insist the ball wasn't over the line at Wembley in 1966 I will go nuts!!!

I realise my own writing style has become a little cryptic due to reading these infernal thrillers.

At least I have not yet slipped in to iambics...

(... or have I?)

Anyway, beautiful sunny day here in Munich - after weeks and weeks of rain and freezing temperatures. The Germans really know how to sort out the weather for these big events...

Everywhere you look there are displays counting down the minutes and seconds until the big kick off at 6p.m. here today.

Hmm...I seem incapable of stringing together coherent sentences ...I think I will have to go and read the last few pages of this bloody book... perhaps I will just have an apple first though...