It's de-lovely

I tried to avoid it. Really I tried. Whilst I'm not proud to proclaim ignorance on any subject there are some things I just seem to be happier off not knowing anything about. Like sport. And on today of all days, rugby.

But some things, alas, are nigh unavoidable. Here's what I learned today:

1) England won an important rugby tournament

2) The England ruby strip has a mostly white top with some red and blue bits.

3) England supporters like to sing "Sweet Chariot" a lot. And I mean a lot. I don't know why but they do. Mostly it's sung rather badly, although in at least one case I heard a rather moving rendition of it.

Regardless, I decided to escape the seemingly all encompassing insanity and went off to see Anything Goes instead. It wasn't my first choice admittedly (that honour went to Jerry Springer The Opera which was unfortunately sold out), but it was still something I'd wanted to see and was the perfect way to get away from anything remotely relating to rugby for a while.

The show was thoroughly enjoyable. I can't say that I learned anything new about the human condition, but it wasn't that sort of show. It was particularly interesting to see/hear many songs that have long since filtered into the collective consciousness in their proper context at last - songs like "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "You're The Top" and, of course "Anything Goes" (which I remember from "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom" and which is probably the reason why I wanted to see it). The cast were pretty good, but special mention must be made to Sally Ann Triplett as Reno who carried most of the major numbers and did so astonishly well.

Good clean rugby free fun for all the family.