Endure Wimbledon

What do you mean two weeks of Sue Barker talking to Martina Navratilova, laughing with John McInroe and flirting with Pat Cash isn't the best way to get over a boring Euro 2008?

Pray for contact

NASA's Phoenix spacecraft will land on Mars on the 25th May, with the sole intention of looking for water. Contact with another species would definitely take Euro 2008 out of the headlines.

Watch Indiana Jones

An aging veteran still playing a role his younger contemporaries should be able to do better? No Not Teddy Sheringham but the return of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, out May 2008.

Sing to Eurovision

You either love it or hate it. But with nothing else to cheer our respective sides in this summer, you might as well try to love it when it arrives with a fresh dose of patronising Wogan in May.

Take in the Olympics

England have probably got more chance of winning the European Championships even though they aren't in it than Britain have of coming top in the medals table, but at least we're there.