I cannot tell a lie. Unlike England I didn’t lose anything at the Adelaide Oval yesterday, and certainly not my mobile phone. Drop-kicked straight out over the George Giffen Stand one bounce into the River Torrens with my trusty left thong, weaker foot too.
In Acerbic Rememberance
of
English Cricket
which died at The Adelaide Oval
on
Tuesday 6th December 2007
Bitterly lamented by a large circle
of sorrowing friends
and acquaintances
RIP
n.b. The body will be cremated
and its ashes retained by Australia
if its spirit fails to fight back
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The Sick Team
Red Rose, thou are sick!
The Indivisible Warne
That beats you in flight
When you bat without gorm
Has spun out [...]
The analysis of a body in order to establish cause of death, and thereby prevent similar recurrences
“Like medieval royals with syphilis, they went suddenly mad… But the real crumbling was in the English minds.”
So wrote Greg Baum in Wednesday’s Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/columns/how-could-it-be-england-falls-apart/2006/12/05/1165080950737.html
I took this to start my sonnet The English Disease in Requiem for [...]
It started before I stepped on Australian soil. The Customs Man asked where my tissues were, I’d need them. I replied that I didn’t have them down for cry-babies. We were both right.
Trekking along the Torrens on my way to the ground I overtake an elderly English couple with MCC straw hat (him) and matching cushions (her). She speeds up to overtake me.
Poetry -writing & reading
Poetry is just about the most environmentally positive art-form around, especially when viewed on the internet or listened to on the radio. It’s also one of the oldest. No one quite knows how human communication developed, but as a prehistorian I’d put my money on song and dance – it’s memorable and [...]
Just as I fire up my palm-top Hoggard fires out Hayden caught behind 2 for 35, or 35 for 2. Whichever way you look at it, needing 352 just to avoid the follow-on, Australia are starting to stare down the barrel.
It is a very English morning, I’m still wearing jacket and jeans as the sun just starts to come out after lunch.
Happy Birthday To You, Mr President
a cool morning’s start. blustery,
overcast, almost a two sweater day,
Collingwood’s very English century
made in very English conditions
i’ve come from the fun of the eighteenth
Test Match Brekkie. seven hundred in [...]
If The Gabba was the Strineship Enterprise, then the Adelaide Oval is The Way We Used to Be. Never saw a drop of paint (or rain) at The Gabba. Adelaide is an all pastel colour card from Dulux.
Balance The World On The Edge Of A Blade
We’re 33,000 feet above a globe flying from one point to its antipode. Do the Australians refer to the British Isles as the Antipodes? In terms of relative size the antipodean equivalent of Australia is Europe, including Russia to the Urals. It’s all a question of geography, [...]
