Right! That's that over and done with...

...so Armstrong has confessed.

He doped.

He lied.

He cheated.

He bullied people.

And I was wrong when I said that his Oprah appearance was just going to be a "fluff" programme where he turned on the charisma and made it sound as though he was not such a bad guy after all.

Right, moving on:

Hello, Schlecklanders! Greeting from England: see that white blob just beyond the low wall? That's my car.

It's been snowing for a couple of hours, and it's forecast to go on for two days solid, stop for a day, then another several days of it.  We're not set up for it, you know! We don't have a chance to get used to it, we're not like those tough folk in Canada or Sweden (for example) - most years, we barely see any snow at all. And tomorrow LLB and I have a 175 mile journey right up the middle of the country. Lovely!

Meanwhile, what of Schleckland?

Well, it hasn't felt right, to be writing about Our Andy while Frankie is still waiting with the Doom of Damocles hanging over his head. It felt particularly wrong to be thinking of writing any humorous at this time. And of course we haven't had much input, as there's not much going on - apart from team-jumping, sponsor-abandonment, and prep for the Tour Down Under.

Ahh, the Tour Down Under.  On the BBC news today, squeezed right down the bottom under screaming headlines of "Snow paralyses UK!"  "schools close due to snow!" (most school children in the UK can WALK to their schools, huh, when I was at school we didn't get a day off just because of snow, we were expected to get there and get on with it, grumble grumble) "Someone Killed Due To Snow" etc etc, there was a tiny mention that Sydney is having the scorchingest day ever.

Wonder how early Andy and the others are going to go out there to acclimatise? Mondorf - pause while I check the traffic cameras - looks pretty much like England at the moment, so let's hope they've already gone out there.

I thought I remembered a mention that Andy was planning to go to Australia a couple of weeks early, anyone know if he did?