Lost vs Soceroos

World Cup is on at the moment. Doesn't interest me much but it's a bit hard to escape*. Did my bit and bought an Aussie flag in Manor on Thursday which we hung over the balcony (to add to the Swiss, French, Italian, Spanish ones we can see on other balconies).

Thursday night Australia played Croatia. Match started at 9pm. But Lost started at 9.05pm. No dilemma in my mind. I love Lost and we watch it every Thursday. They've been running three back-to-back episodes, so you get a good dose of Lost in one night. We're now halfway through Season 2 and amazingly ahead of England (according to where Christine said they're up to). So there was no way I was going to miss my triple dose.

But it was a dilemma for MK. He thought and thought (he also enjoys Lost) and eventually decided that we could watch Lost if he could tape the match. The plan was to not see the final score till he'd watched it all the way through. And amazingly he achieved this. He went into work that night (late, courtesy of a flexible colleague), slept the next day, then got up and watched the match. Without knowing in advance the outcome.

Which was a draw, 2 - 2.

*But it does sort of amaze me we've been here that long that we were here for the last World Cup, 4 years ago. Made as much of an impression that time as this one likely will. Unless Australia wins of course.