Because of their awful, embarrassing behaviour in South Africa, the French footie team has been sacked for their next friendly match ( Read more... )

Congratulations, Australia, who have won the ICC tournament for the third time in a row. And well played Shane Watson, 100 not out. The only tension in the second half of the match was whether he'd reach a ton!

Well, well, well. Our Brave Lads are really doing quite well in this cricket match.

(That's an English 'quite well' meaning 'fairly well' or 'rather well' not the American 'quite' which I gather means 'very well.')

GO ENGERLAND!

Oh, no, no, no. The Bearded Wonder has died.

RIP, Bill.

My, oh my!

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I'm getting really worried at the amount of bowling Freddie is doing. We don't just need batsmen who know one end of the bat from the other*, we need bwlers to back Freddie up.

What's Simon Jones doing next week?

*which in our case we have not got

wtf?

What next? Barbie as wicket-keeper?

This week I have been mostly making a mediaeval dress for my daughter. Why do the intstructions make it all sound so simple ( Read more... )

Oh fuck

What a game! What a game! South Africa needing 2 runs to win, Sri Lanka needing one wicket... (Of course, I know my American friends are now totally confused, but what this means is that it was a really, REALLY close, thrilling match ( Read more... )