First the Lions go and thrash Australia in Sydney, then Andy Murray wins Wimbledon by beating the best tennis player in the world in straight sets.
What an amazing weekend for British sport.
No wait, that’s not quite right. What a wonderful few days for British and Irish sport.
Sorry, still not got it spot on. What a fantastic 48 hours for British and Irish and Scottish sport.
I think that covers everything.
Congratulations to the British and Irish Lions for winning their first series in 16 years by beating Australia 41-16 on Saturday.
And well done to Andy Murray for taking the Wimbledon men singles title the following day – the first male British champion since Fred Perry in 1936. Or maybe that should be the first Scottish winner since Edinburgh’s Harold Mahony in 1896.
Given next year’s independence referendum there was bound to be a squabble about who got to bask in the glory of Murray’s achievement.
Anyone who still clings to the cliché that “sport and politics don’t mix” should look at the reactions of the leaders of the UK’s two governments at Centre Court on Sunday.
As Dunblane’s finest celebrated his win, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond unfurled a Saltire in the royal box and waved it behind the Prime Minister’s head in an effort to hijack the victory for the yes campaign.
David Cameron’s reaction to Murray’s achievement was more subtle, but no less political.
The Prime Minister models himself on Tony Blair, but he reminded us again on Sunday that he remains a pale imitation of his predecessor at Number 10.
The Labour man is an actor to his fingertips – but he’s a good actor.
When Mr Blair carefully inserted an Alastair Campbell soundbite into an answer he usually sounded convincing as if the prepared line had just that moment popped into his head. “She was the people’s princess” etc.
But with Mr Cameron you can always see the join.
The pre-cooked line is served up with all the plausibility of a pupil in a school play. Mr Blair was primetime. Mr Cameron is panto season.
So when the Prime Minister said in an interview right after Murray’s victory that it was “an incredible day for British tennis and for Britain” it was obvious that this patriotic platitude had not just drifted into his head.
Just as Mr Salmond tried to claim the win for the pro-independence camp, Mr Cameron wanted to boost the unionist case by stressing how British the whole occasion was.
All that was missing was for the third member of the Centre Court ticket-poncers club – Labour’s Ed Miliband – to claim that Murray had shown the same decisiveness against Novak Djokovic as he had just demonstrated against Len McCluskey.
Sunday’s grasping for Murray’s reflective glory may have been a little pathetic, but it was nothing new. Sport and politics mix together like gin and tonic.
The Olympics are perhaps the best example. Everyone from the Nazis to the Soviets to the Chinese communists have used the games to showcase their supposedly superior societies.
London 2012 – both during the nomination process and the opening ceremony – celebrated a vision of multicultural Britain which is often more of a dream than a reality.
The 1984 games in LA were an advertisement for Reagan capitalism. Tokyo in 1960 and Seoul in 1988 announced the arrival of two Asian powers on the world stage.
The Rio Olympics in 2016 – and the World Cup two years earlier – are meant to do the same for Brazil, another global power in the making. The people protesting on the streets of Sao Paolo and other cities know this only too well.
The Bahrain regime clings to its Grand Prix because of the respectability which Formula 1 brings, even as protestors are being shot in the streets.
And then there were the white South Africans whose lives were barely touched by economic sanctions in the 1980s but who hurt like hell when the rest of the world stopped playing them at rugby and cricket.
The 19th Century writer Carl von Clausewitz once observed that war is politics by other means. Had he been around today he might add that sport is politics by other means too.
If you still don’t believe me that sport and politics mix all the time, just think about next year’s Scottish independence referendum.
After Sunday, do you think Mr Cameron and Mr Salmond are keen to win the public backing of a certain A Murray of Dunblane for their respective campaigns?
Just a tiny wee bit, I would humbly suggest.