Patricia isn't actually writing this post but, if she was, she might just be making the gentle point that she skillfully organised for us to be well out of South Africa before the World Cup was underway, sneaking out in April forestalling any possible argument that maybe we could stay a week or two and see a couple of games. Then she organised for us to be in France during the lead-up games, and we all know what happened to them. Almost mucked it up with Italy, hanging around for a long time, but then, in the places she selected to stay there were rarely TVs anyway. Who would have thought that Espagna would get right through to the Final and, that according to our rough plan, we would be in that very country. She didn't.
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