Oh piss ...

[blamebrampton]

I was watching the cricket this morning, which was a bit ordinary, but I told shocolate  that it was bound to improve.

Them the lovely pseudicide  PMed me and inveigled me into comic-buying adventures rather than my planned day. I came home, and it had improved! So I started to watch again. And Australian Peter Siddle took a hat trick -- which is to say claimed the wickets of three England players for you turkey-stuffed and stuffing Americans and yes, that is bad because I support England in cricket. And the last one was Stuart Broad and I was looking forward to watching him get all sweaty.

So now I have turned the telly off, in hopes of a fine display of tail-end batting away from my bad influence.

Comments

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

Shocking state of affairs! Here, for old time's sake, let us admire raitala's Stuart icon.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Life is so unkind! I can only console myself that it will bring on a stint of him bowling all the sooner and if I am very lucky he will have time to smooth his sweaty hair back between taking Australian wickets.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Well buggar! They bowled Malfoy out?

*sadface*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether I want to console Stuart or Bradley, now ...

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

Hee hee..."tail end batting".

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Your choices are SO hard. :D

I'm happy to share the burden. That's what friends are for, right?

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Shakes head sorrowfully

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

I leave you in charge, and I wake up to a hat trick!!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's even worse than that: I waited an hour and thought 'Look, it can't possibly hurt ...', clicked over, ten seconds later ... I turned the whole thing off and decided to test my powers of evil to see if they work for fall of Australian wickets, too.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's the lack of Broad that hurts most of all. Still, I look forward to him carving up the Australians: I fell asleep on the sofa and dreamed he had taken six wickets and the Aussies were at 8/104.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh, you! It's all just a series of giggleworthy moments for you, young lady ;-) (Waxing my Barbour!)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Can we take it in turns with each so we don't need to play favourites? Though given our relative heights, I should probably let you have Stuart ...

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

I am easily amused, it's sad but true. :D

Been wearing my hat every single day. It's cold as a witch's tit in London and I am SO grateful to have a warm head, you don't even KNOW. Getting something into the mail for you shortly...

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

Excuse my butting-in here, just wanted to say I read this post out of pure curiosity, and found it very amusing because it's like I'm reading a foreign language (the only thing I know of cricket is the name, and the fact that, apparently, England and Australia have an on-going vendetta at it :P).

I'll just let you guys go back to it now... :P

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

CLEARLY I need to finish up my travel posts so that I can make a post explaining the delights of cricket to my non-cricketing-nations readership. It will ENRICH YOUR LIFE!! Or give you an excuse to skive off for days on end as you follow a match ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad you like it. I hear it is going to snow this weekend, I may need to grab some possum wool when I am next in New Zealand and make you a more insulated one with ear flaps ...

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

oh yes,please do! The game makes me curious (and fills me with dread, because rumour has it only the British and you guys down under can understand cricket...).

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That rumour is a dreadful lie -- India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, New Zealand (which may count as Down Under), and Sri Lanka are all major cricketing nations, that's more than a billion people right there!

And there are fine cricketers from China and Scandinavia, and many other African nations, especially in East Africa. Really, it's only the Americas that missed the sport, continent-wise.

It's not that hard to understand, and it has Stuart Broad, which is incentive enough for anyone!

[jolinar-rosha.livejournal.com]

I googled him.
Yum.

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

Possum wool. POSSUM? Like:



POSSUM?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Alas, the photo is not working, but if that was a cute Australian possum, then yes. They are feral in New Zealand and destroying habitats left right and centre, so there is an industry built up around the necessary cull of them. They're still protected in Australia, though, because they are very cute and appropriate here! Not the slightly evil American sort, because they'd take your fingers off.

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

And the Netherlands weirdly. To my knowledge the only non-Commonwealth nation to compete internationally. I miss the times when cricket was on the BBC. Since it has been snapped by Sky and Channel 4, I can never see a match. :(