Well the Boxing Day test is over for another year - within 3 days! Australia have beaten England, the traditional rival, by an innings and are now ahead 4-0 in a 5 test series. Warne and McGrath's last test in Melbourne was very memorable. Feel pretty sorry for BB and NickP 'tho - they'll miss out on the big fourth day they'd planned in the Long Room.
Have had a great couple of days at the Boxing Day test. Yesterday morning England's 159 first innings score was starting to look pretty good, until Hayden and Symonds destroyed the bowling. The English team are really going to need some counselling when they get home; their confidence must be totally shot by now. Every time things start to look up, fate (or Australia) kicks them in the face.
Have been using the new(ish) IE for a while now - have been having trouble getting the latest version of Firefox to start up on my computer. It's now starting up (although every time it asks whether I want to restore the old session - which it claims crashed - or to start a new session), but when I look at my blog on Firefox the formatting is F*CKED - whereas it looks totally fine on IE. Is this a common problem?
Good day at the Boxing Day test today... 5 wickets to Warne (including his 700th) in his last home-ground test as England collapsed (again), sat with M and her family in great seats, spent some time with BB in the Long Room and spent some time with S up in the nosebleed seats. And killer left-over xmas turkey sandwiches provided by Sam. The weather was f*cked, 'though. Cold, windy, mid-winter, horrible.
I may not celebrate Christmas, but there is still plenty to like about the Christmas period. Traffic and shopping are not among them. But there is plenty to like.
Such as ... Christmas pudding with brandy cream. Turkey. People starting to wind down for the year. Christmas carols. Watching people try to work out the politically correct thing to say to a jewish person instead of merry christmas. [handy hint: happy chanukah, while the obvious answer, is sort of silly] Big lunches The Boxing Day test The smell of christmas trees The angels on top of christmas trees And so much more
Becoming an overnight sensation, then an overnight pariah for doing nothing other than being a normal teenage chick wouldn't be that much fun. Good on her for getting back up on the horse.
In 2006/7 popularity cycles are faster than ever; it's like a human version of Moore's Law. But for time instead of miniaturisation.
