No more Deutschland über alles, ja? Spain beat Germany 1-0 and stopped their advance to the World Cup Final. There will be a great deal of mourning and teeth-gnashing all over the old Vaterland today and for days and weeks to come.
Never mind, the morning looks beautiful at "Riverbend" and the earlier thick fog cover on the river promises another perfect day. I've just fed the wild birds and the wild ducks and the one lonely rabbit who feeds with them and probably thinks he is a duck, and I exchanged glances with "Skippy" grazing in the back-paddock.
I am now back in front of the screen and the rest of the world looks pretty good, too: the Dow Jones is again above 10,000, copper on the London Metals Exchange is above $3 a pound once more, BHP jumped 3.38% in New York overnight, and the ASX Futures are up 85 points. Locally, BHP should bounce back above $38 today which is still a long way off my target of $48 but every little bit helps. (For more information on BHP [click here]).
