I’ve never been to a rugby match before and it was a great experiance.

Started off playing paintball at a Delta Force site and managed to smash my knee in the second from last game. It wasn’t too serious (so I played the last game ) however it reeaally hurt to kneel down on it. My team won, which was good, and I got a decent kill/death ratio, so at the end of the day I hobbled home feeling quite pleased with myself.

I have now bought a pair of second hand kneepads from a guy over at www.p8ntballer-forums.com so I should now be fairly safe from knee related paintball injuries!

My knee was feeling much better on Monday so I went out with family and friends up to Dovedale and did the up Thorpe Cloud and over the stepping stones round trip from the Dovedale car park.

We then went on to Ilam where we decided to play a game of rugby, and to cut a short story even shorter, I managed to get a knee smack in the middle of my cheekbone whilst making a diving tackle within the first two minutes of play.

I have never come across concussion before, but … according to my very worried Mum, my Dad, and a nurse that Mum found (that is a long story…) I definitely had it.

Hence I wasn’t allowed to do much on Tuesday except read the course books for my next OU course (Fortunately I am allowed to go back to normal work in Leicester tomorrow).

My latest course in my epic journey towards a degree is M366 Natural and Artificial Intelligence which has it’s first tutorial this Saturday.

Block 1 is quite interesting and I’m looking forward to meeting my new tutor at the tutorial.

Anyway must go, I apparently can’t stay up til my usual 1am as it’s bad for the concussion… bye!

Amazing finish to the match tonight!

Jonny seems to have found his kicking touch again.

On to the final England …