Posts by Ben Chapman
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Ryder seems to have that marvellous ability to be seeing and reacting at a sort of different rate than most.
Ryder's great to watch isn't he. I think he has more in common with Crowe than just his reaction time. He has a great range of shots and plays them instinctively.
Is he really a dividing figure? Maybe I haven't spoken to enough people about him but my impression is that to fans he is either a cult figure or simply liked, whereas amongst commentators he is either the great hope or too fat.
Actually I have just now read that he has been dropped for tomorrow match because of drinking indiscretions - link. As a fan, I'm rather divided on him. On the one hand I'm really excited about his potential, but resigned to the fact that his drinking problems may mean he never realises them.
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Yup. I felt kind of cheap for watching the one-dayer just because my side was playing, when there was something like thatgoing on on the next channel.
Heh. I feel cheap watching other teams just because the cricket is better.
The SCG match was one of those good ones to follow on Cricinfo – constantly updating to see if he survived the next ball.
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Woah - Adidas access and cricket freebies... you're making me think my blog needs to be less crap.
Surely the point is to be more crap, at least the crickety bits. (No reflection on Haydn's blog.)
Looking like the Windies will barely break a hundred. Wonder what Haydn's making of it.
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C'mon, the man is dealing with a whole new paradigm. He's on a journey...
Joining the discussion from the end, I thought you were talking about Hadyn going to the cricket.
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Christmas day and my family, consisting of four households, came together at a palatial home that my sister was house-sitting.
There was a mountain of presents, but the biggest prize of the day was watching the kids. With five-year-old nephew handing everything out, three-year-old son marvelling at everything as it was opened and one-year-old daughter crawling about and pulling the bows off the presents.
Each household brought enough food to feed the other three, as well as themselves. As we worked together to get the feast cooked, we snacked from a table laden down with cheese, bread, crackers, dips, cherries, chocolate and Turkish delight. So when dinner was finally ready to be served, we could barely contemplate eating the food we had prepared.
As we were gathering at the table and starting to fill the plates, nephew brought up a crimson mixture of cherries, chocolate and cherrios, delaying dinner as we cleaned up. Then, with that sorted, we gathered again at the table, only for nephew to bring up the rest of the contents of his tummy over half the carpet. We all quickly grabbed buckets and towels, and dinner was abandoned in some good humour.
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And I got Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion, 2nd edition, which I have coveted ever since it came out.
Ooh, good score. I used Stephanie's advice for glazing the Xmas ham.
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Hey can somebody explain the chucking thing?
I read that article a few times and couldn't work out what the fuss was. People do get righteous about chucking.
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Google Maps is so much fun.
I couldn't find my old apartment in downtown Osaka (I couldn't get down the street), but I did rediscover this gem from the old neighbourhood:
Hotel Little Chapel Christmas (for lovers)
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So Bracewell did better than 8th. Good luck to Moles he only has to do better than 5th :).
The new coach Moles has a bit of rebuilding to do with regard to ODIs. On the test front though, the only was is up – we'll be 8th on the test table by the end of this series.
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Nope -- Ed Wood, Jr. was just not so much a talent-free zone as a smoking irradiated wasteland where not even the cockroaches would survive. You can appreciate the man's work as disaster-pieces of straight-faced camp surrealism.
True enough, and the critique of Plan 9 was written tongue in cheek.
Though after the reviewer (Danny Peary) was ridiculed for his idea, he watched Glen and Glenda and claimed to be convinced that Ed Wood was a subversive mastermind.