We have spent more money in the last five years upgrading and expanding services than we have in the last 95 years. It has been a significant investment for the organization and people of the community.

Interest in the hospital has grown in the community. They are proud of the hospital and see a bright future for it. Without their support we wouldn't exist.

It does seem very strange. Typically if your spouse takes all your money, you'd need to keep on working, not stop. I don't know if there is some legal or financial reason why he couldn't work past the end of 2008, but I don't get it.

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.

We played hard, we came to compete, and it's nice to start the season with a win.