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The Other Twenty-20 World Cup
I'm not sure what percentage of my cricket-following friends routinely keep up with Women's Cricket, but I've just been keeping track of the [Edit: semi-final final group stage match] of the Women's T20 World Cup, between England Women and Australia Women, and I have to say, Sarah Taylor is just phenomenal. England Women have quite a wealth of ( Read more... ) -
Base 12 For the Win!
I've always had a bit of an issue with the decimal system, which can be summed up as this ( Read more... ) -
The wages of spin. Rashid vs Wainwright.
Over the last few years, Yorkshire CCC have somewhat broken with their own traditions, and have been turning out more than a few promising spin bowlers. It's not totally unheard of, "Deadly" Hedley Verity was Headingley born and bred, but Yorkshire's bowling traditions have been mostly pace men of the "Fiery" Fred Trueman/Darren "the Dazzler" ( Read more... ) -
Rain, rain, go away...
It is one of the eternal verities of cricket, that it is the most weather-affected of major sports. Any more than the slightest haze of rain is enough to call a halt to proceedings, and there are times when (on a purely partisan basis) this is welcome, and there are times when it is not...
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Boosting the Signal (Very Slightly)
Many of you will have seen this already on her own LJ, but for those that are unfortunate enough not to know her, my friend caffeine_fairy works at a charity called Sutton Mencap*, and they (along with quite a few other people I would hazard) have put together this video, which is just wonderful, and has put a much-needed smile on my face this morning.
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Petition about My Children's School
As I explained in my previous post, my children's school is due to be closed, and in violation of assurances given by the Council beforehand, this closure has been announced to take place before new facilities (a planned new school) is has been completed ( Read more... ) -
Representing the Community
There are plans afoot in Powys to reorganise primary schools. Refurbish some, rebuild others, and close still others. My own children's school (Llanigon) is sadly in the latter category. No great surprise to anyone really; the student population has been hovering around the 20 mark for a couple of years now, and financially, that isn't viable ( Read more... ) -
Smoke and Mummers
There is a Youtube vido that has been put up, of one of our WassailsIt contains a short stint of Morris dancing in the smokey darkness of a torch and bonfire-lit orchard (you won't be able to make me out, in fact apart from the torches and the smoke, it's hard to make out very much ( Read more... ) -
Dear Lazyweb...
A friend of mine is wanting to record an MP3 and sell it as a download, presumably via the usual Web outlets for selling music MP3s, to raise money for Help for Heroes.
She's a bloody good singer (she is the lead tenor in the Village Quire, which I may have mentioned in the past, and has one of the best folk-voices I've heard, on-stage or off), ( Read more... )
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