The Time Is Nigh...

...for the Web Ellis Cup to depart for sunnier climbs and head back to the Southern Hemisphere.

The Rugby World Cup started yesterday with a marvellous clash between France and Argentina. It got to be edge of the seat stuff as France attacked and were rebuffed by Argentina time and time again. The Argentinian boys played very competent, controlled rugby and France simply couldn't get their game together. On last night's showing, Argentina are the team to beat in that group.

Today has a grand set of games:

New Zealand v Italy
Australia v Japan
England v USA

Tomorrow, also looks like a serious set of game:

Wales v Canada
South Africa v Samoa
Scotland v Portugal
Ireland v Namibia

We have a sweep stake running at work, I drew Namibia - so that may well be an interesting game to watch...


In last week's episode, Tony Smith and Ciaran O'Carroll - the Master Minds and guiding lights - of Starship Sofa mentioned Terra Incognita. If you haven't had a listen to The Boys From The Sofa, all their previous episodes are available for download. There's also a fairly lively forum for all things Science Fiction and that can be found here.

I'll be getting Episode 12 of the Terra Incognita Podiobook together and uploaded today. I've also decided that a trivia quiz on Terra Incognita may be a bit of fun, so have set a question here. The prize is the entire podiobook on CD, when it's completed of course. Depending on how this goes, I may do another couple of trivia competitions. I've also been speaking to Kevin, the Narrator, we will be aiming to release two episodes a week from now on - hopefully this will work out!

We have also been talking about an added 'bonus' episode when TI is complete. This will most likely be a Q&A style thing - any questions or comments, email me at gary@gary-hicks.com - we may also include a teaser for Praedari, the sequel to Terra Incognita, but that really has to be worked out in a bit more detail as yet ;-)