The Gardeners' World Blog

Hello everyone,

As many of you will have noticed, we were struck by severe technical problems today, just as the all-important fifth day of the third Test between England and West Indies was about to get under way.

It happens to the best of them, unfortunately - websites do go down and whilst our technical experts worked feverishly to fix things, we weren't able to keep you updated in all the ways you would normally expect us to for the first hour or so of play today.

So let us first apologise for that, and rest assured that we are looking into what went wrong and also reviewing our procedures for what we do when this happens.

I’ve seen thousands of football matches in my time – but never one played at 11,333 feet above sea level on an Alpine glacier.

That was Switzerland’s way of launching the countdown to Euro 2008 which it is jointly staging next summer with neighbours Austria.

Original definitely, if not a little dangerous for the 400-odd people invited to watch the event who had to risk their limbs sliding around on the snow at the top of the Jungfrau.