Second Test and time displacement activity

Hmm. I'm at something of a loss for something to do right now. I can play on the computer, but as I have three torrents downloading, I am loath to do anything that may slow them down, which really rather limits the amount of surfing I can do. I think this is a hangover from my dial up days; there's really no reason not to carry on as normal when you have 2mb broadband, but somehow it doesn't feel right. I'm sure that I'll wean myself off this bizarre self imposed inhibition at some point.

I might try and do a little writing afterwards, though I have to admit that I am not really in the mood. I feel like doing something time-wastingly pointless, but which doesn't require a great deal of effort. Which is pretty much what I've been doing all day, really, and using the cricket as a vehicle for my laziness.

The third day's play in the 2nd Test at Edgbaston has been one of those that only the Ashes series can kick out. England looked to be going for one of their characteristically useless second innings, and undoing all the fine work they had put in during their and the Aussies' first innings, and then came in Freddie Flintoff who almost single-handedly turned things around with 73 runs (including a 50 partnership for the final wicket), and this with an injured left shoulder. Then, during the Aussies' second innings, just as it looked as though the English bowlers were going to let them off lightly, Vaughan calls Freddie back into the attack, and he takes two wickets in one over, and suddenly the game has swung back our way.

At the end of play, Australia were 175-8. Two tail-enders left to try and get 107 runs tomorrow. If they were playing anyone other than England, I would expect it to be over by lunchtime with the Aussies dead and buried.

But.

Still, a good day's entertainment, and we should level up the series ahead of the third test next week.

But it's the Ashes...

Second Test and time displacement activity

Hmm. I'm at something of a loss for something to do right now. I can play on the computer, but as I have three torrents downloading, I am loath to do anything that may slow them down, which really rather limits the amount of surfing I can do. I think this is a hangover from my dial up days; there's really no reason not to carry on as normal when you have 2mb broadband, but somehow it doesn't feel right. I'm sure that I'll wean myself off this bizarre self imposed inhibition at some point.

I might try and do a little writing afterwards, though I have to admit that I am not really in the mood. I feel like doing something time-wastingly pointless, but which doesn't require a great deal of effort. Which is pretty much what I've been doing all day, really, and using the cricket as a vehicle for my laziness.

The third day's play in the 2nd Test at Edgbaston has been one of those that only the Ashes series can kick out. England looked to be going for one of their characteristically useless second innings, and undoing all the fine work they had put in during their and the Aussies' first innings, and then came in Freddie Flintoff who almost single-handedly turned things around with 73 runs (including a 50 partnership for the final wicket), and this with an injured left shoulder. Then, during the Aussies' second innings, just as it looked as though the English bowlers were going to let them off lightly, Vaughan calls Freddie back into the attack, and he takes two wickets in one over, and suddenly the game has swung back our way.

At the end of play, Australia were 175-8. Two tail-enders left to try and get 107 runs tomorrow. If they were playing anyone other than England, I would expect it to be over by lunchtime with the Aussies dead and buried.

But.

Still, a good day's entertainment, and we should level up the series ahead of the third test next week.

But it's the Ashes...

Another Statesman

I see erstwhile Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook MP has died while hill walking in Scotland. He was 59.

He seemed like a decent enough cove in his own way.

Another Statesman

I see erstwhile Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook MP has died while hill walking in Scotland. He was 59.

He seemed like a decent enough cove in his own way.