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Sean Davies

A strange kind of fever (5)

Cardiff
It鈥檚 been a strange sort of pre-World Cup fever in Wales, a summer sickness in the August warm-up games cooling the volatile passion of the fans.

Last year, Gareth Jenkins and his coaching team were talking confidently of .

It鈥檚 fair to say that the fans never really bought into that, yet, despite a record of just , the buoyant background mood inside the camp seemed to hold true 鈥 until last month鈥檚 .

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Alastair Hignell

Saying it in style (6)

Versailles

It is not every day that England hold media briefings in council offices.

Mind you, not every council office can compare with those in . Beneath three massive chandeliers, in a vast room decorated with huge paintings, lashings of gilt and ornate furniture, England head coach Brian Ashton produced some exquisite Lancastrian Franglais in response to a florid welcome by local dignitaries, before handing down his .

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Tom Fordyce

Up with les oiseaux (29)

Day three 鈥 somewhere near

Lesson number 62 of motorhome camping 鈥 don鈥檛 leave the window and skylight open when you crawl into your bunk at night.

Someone 鈥 I鈥檓 not naming names, but since it wasn鈥檛 me, you can probably guess who it might have been 鈥 also inadvertently turned the electricity off in the middle of the night.

鈥淚 thought I was switching the lights off,鈥 was the mumbled excuse at dawn this morning, when the brutal reality of sub-zero temperatures in the van woke both of us up before the sun had even cleared the horizon.

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