Britain On Tour

Le Tour de Grande-Bretagne (as I'm sure ITV4 have tried branding it, as we all know the French invented cycle races...) finished one of its stages in Burnham yesterday, and was greeted by "enthusiastic school children" who had been let out of school early to see it.
Its not surprising that this isn't one of the great tours (like France, Spain and Italy), since the Tour de France takes the competitors through the Alps and Pyrenees, past vineyards and gothic cathedral-like structures in glorious summer sunshine. And what do they get on the Tour of Britain? Some hills over Exmoor, a burnt out pub, the Woodpile, and the glamorous finishing straight with the Bejing Buffet and JPS. All in the rain.
And theres been a lot of rain. Usually on the other tours all the talk is about what tactics are going to be used, and which riders will get to the front when. But as soon as they hit Somerset the whole pre-race chatter is about waterproofs.
Summer came and went, but nobody thought to tell the cyclists.

Boje

Its All Very Exciting

I'm going down to the JobCentre again today, to try and get another £90 out of the government for spending two weeks doing nothing, and one evening frantically scribbling in jobs I might have applied for. And one of the ones I did apply for (Yeovalley) has given me an interview for tomorrow at 10.30. In the morning. Not in the evening. You may know of the Yeovalley in Highbridge, which would be the one sensible people would apply for. Not me though. I've gone for Blagdon, which according to Google Maps, is 17.6 miles, and 32 minutes away. All this means I'll have less time (and fewer minutes) to play computer games and tell people about them. Which leads me nicely to...:

UPDATES AND RESPONSES:

In reply to Markus (for that is his name) who doesn't smoke (for that is what he doesn't do. Decide amongst yourselves whether or not to take into account the double negative), I have played the Total War series. I have on this computer Shogun Total War - Warlord Edition. I have also had some experience of Rome and the two Medievals, but found them less fun, and more confusing than Shogun. Rome was one of the games that got us through the month in Scotland last year, along with Age of Empires, and the ever present Football Manager.

And on the recommendation of Benji K, I have obtained a copy of Republic: The Revolution. It seems a very good game, although I feel it may take some getting into. It feels a bit like Age of Empires crossed with Hooligans, with a bit of Risk chucked in. I'm also looking into getting Democracy, or Democracy 2 if I can find the real nations mod first, which was made by one of the programmers who worked on Republic.

And a Football Manager update : I decided against a team in the Conference South, mainly because no one would sign for me. Apparently they didn't see the draw of moving to Burnham to play at Rosewood Park.
So I started a game with Dundee United in the Scottish Premier. Didn't do any fiddling about with it, had the starting budget of £20 million, and won the league and both cups. I, like Arsene Wenger, make a point of only buying young players (apart from when he bought Silvestre), so my teams average age is just 20, with a youth team full of talented 15/16/17 year olds, and a new youth academy on the way. I think I'll be staying in Dundee for a bit, and then moving on to see if I can win things in England, Spain and Italy.

Boje