5-0, 5-0, 5-0

Not sure if anyone knows but I am a huge fan of the cricket - always have been and always will. I think its the only thing my wife and I disagree on. I love it, she finds it as exciting as watching the grass grow :). Suffice to say she was pretty happy when I told her the test matches were over (5-0 to the Aussies!), but it was funny to see her face fall when I then said the one-dayers were about to start! :)

A few friends of mine were over in England in 2005 when England regained the Ashes and reckoned it was a place NOT to be if you were an Aussie! MD, I agree the English went a bit "over the top" with their celebrations on winning the Ashes - not quite sure if they needed to be awarded MBE's? Still people celebrate differently I guess :-)
The stamps do look good....given we are about 100 metres from 2 post offices it might be an idea to take a closer look at them.......

Oh another thing, besides being a mad cricket fan, I used to play at a fairly decent level. Actually played against Brett Lee a few years back. Managed to score 80 against him....who said he was quick *laughs* :) Its nice to see people I have played with and against go onto bigger things in cricket. I was also fortunate enough to play against Stephen Fleming (the NZ captain) many years back - even then he was seen as a superstar in the making. I managed to catch him out (I say the catch was a full length dive in front of 1st slip, everyone else thinks I didn't need the dive!), but only after he scored 90-odd :)

CLS