Well Australia won the Cricket World Cup by 53 runs (D/L) in extraordinary circumstances and the pitch dark. A farcical end to a poor competition that went on far too long and provided no surprises. They were deserved winners, the best team in the competition by a country mile.
The end of the game was ridiculous [...]

The mighty Boro have ’shit on Man U’s strawberries’ in the race for this year’s Premiership with a great draw at Old Trafford last night. Actually ‘we was robbed’ when we had a stonewall penalty turned down in the dying minutes of the game.
After a disasterous start, with Richardson scoring in the opening minutes of the game, [...]

The West Indies and England played out a thriller in Barbados yesterday. In a dead rubber that was possibly the best game of this World Cup so far we successfully chased down 300 for a final over, skin of the teeth win.
It was a thrilling match and was what the World Cup has been crying [...]

Sex dolls for dogs!

England went out of the Cricket World Cup with a whimper yesterday. Another pitiful display with the bat made their job almost impossible and South Africa knocked off the 150 odd runs in less than 20 overs. They were as poor and just downright embarrassing to watch as they were in the Boxing Day test at [...]

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This weekend my nephews Tom and Clyde came to stay. After an early start - I sent them back to bed for an hour when I was rudely awoken at 6am - we got the train set out and then switched the ‘pooter on for some cbeebies, played snakes and ladders and did some colouring [...]

Yesterday I went to my Mum’s for amongstother things an enormous plateful of beautiful roast rib of beef with multitudinous roast vegetables and yorkdhire pudding. My brother and his family were there and we went for a wander in the hills that lie behind Mum’s house. It’s all Forestry Commission land so is mainly coniferous, [...]