My advice to you, on this Independence Day, is not to wear a red tie while at Heathrow Airport, standing anywhere near the Virgin Atlantic ticket sales desk. About three different people came up to me, thinking I worked there. Perhaps one of the strangest questions I have ever been asked, “Are you with Virgin?”. I was dropping off my relatives for their flight back to India and happened to be waiting as they checked in. I thought nothing of it when I put on the red tie yesterday morning but was coming to regret the decision some 12 hours later, while waiting in terminal two. This is not the first time I have been mistaken for a member of staff. Whenever I go to John Lewis, my local department store, after work or in the morning before work I always get pestered by people. Just like to put on the record that I have never worked on the shop floor of any department store, anywhere in the UK. Knowing how things are going and both my poor selling skills and absolutely atrocious customer facing skills.

So England are out of the World Cup, plenty has been written already, plenty has been discussed on the phone-in shows, on television and in message boards and forums across the land. Instead, if you are still feeling low, just go and firstly read this blog posting then watch the BBC montage one last time with a tear in your eye. I suppose like all things, we expect so much in the beginning and then when it is taken away from us, we are completely inconsolable. I took it more in my stride this time around, perhaps penalties become easier to swallow, if not actually watch. Unlike many people I quite enjoy the drama of penalty shootouts, but perhaps they way the bring to an end over 120 minutes of football, is at times unjust. Then again, I expect my team, my England team to win the game over ninety minutes in open play.

Great to see one of my favourite movies of all time, being listed on the current affairs blog from the Guardian. Hope Nike get those trainers in production before 2015! In a related issue, the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London (formerly the UCI) is screening the original Back To The Future movie on screen one from this Friday to Thursday next week. I may pop down on Saturday morning, as I have inside knowledge that a replica DeLorean time machine will be there. Great scott!

So many things coming up this month, plus with the great weather it should make for some interesting times. Plus the football season is just over forty days away. Bring it on. In terms of the blog, I really want to go back to writing classic entries as I did in my final year at University. It will take some work, but I want to improve the quality of postings, rather than long unreadable entries. Yes readers, I do pay attention to the comments you leave.