Wonderful things these clock radios. You set your alarm to half an hour before you want to get up and are arosed gently from your sleep. That is unless some half brained sports announcer is wetting his pants and yelling at you through the radio over the fact that some unknown Australian has kicked a round ball through a net in Greece.

Damn Olympics, it appears the soccer has started already and the usually sensible ABC has abandoned it's, normally sedate, early morning broadcast for coverage of the Olympics. Groan

How many days until they are over? Please let them end unexpectedly early.