A Star is Born

One of the kids I coached in 2007, Zoltan Kevsehi, has just made the Hungarian U18 side. OK, Hungary are ranked 64th in the world (between the Cayman Islands and Colombia) but it's still the first time someone I've coached had made a national side.

Glorious mud

It's raining and very windy so I don't think I'll get a bike ride in today. I did go for a ride yesterday; up the Don and Taylor Creek to Victoria Park Ave and then south to the Balmy Beach Club and home via Cherry Beach. It was a pleasant hour and a half ride but the bit along Taylor Creek was muddy; very muddy. There was even some ice left in a few places.

Recent reading

I just finished MRD Foot's SOE; a history of the Special Operations Executive, the British organisation responsible for sabotage and resistance in enemy territory during WW2. You would think it hard to make such a subject dull but Foot manages to pull it off. Maybe he considered the more exciting bits too well known to be worth repeating. The main feeling I got from reading the book was "how on earth did the allies manage to win despite their apparent complete incompetence?" I suspect that the answer to that, like most "how on earth did the allies win"? questions boils down to the Soviet Union though in this case the almost equal ineptitude of German counter intelligence seems to have played a major role.