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Friday, October 06, 2006

Blogger Updated

I think I have just updated my Blog Page to a newer format with more features!

I think Chris, Kate and Kim can now post on this Blog Page.

Anyone can now leave comments, i.e. you don't have to to be a 'registered' user.

Cricket Climax

About 40 years ago I was playing in the local Dandenong Cricket Competition when I was invited by Fred Pereira to have a try for the Dandenong Sub District side. I managed to be selected soon after and spent a few years playing with them. Fred now resides here on the Sunshine Coast and is heavily involved with umpiring. He umpired the final day's 50 over match between Tasmania and South Australia yesterday.

The photo is of Fred and Greg Blewett. Click on the photo for a larger shot.

For a short while, yesterday's Maroochydore Cricket Ground was almost the centre of sport news in Australia when Dan Cullen was plucked from the game to pack his bags and join the Australian ICC Cup Squad heading to India. He was bowling in the match. Jason Gillespie was having the game off and was heavily involved with a mobile phone call. A few minutes later Cullen was called from the ground and was seen on the phone.

Then he was no longer to be seen.

He rushed to Brisbane where he caught a plane to Adelaide to pack and get his passport. Then there was a quick flight to Melbourne to collect his Visa, then up to Brisbane to join other members of the Australian team for their departure today!

Tasmania won the game by 5 runs.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

More Cricket!

I again journeyed to Maroochydore Cricket Ground and enjoyed a 20/20 match between Tasmania and South Australia. The first ball was bowled at 9:30 a.m. and everyone was on their way home before 12:15 pm. Lots of 6's, plenty of lusty hitting and some great running catches ensured the crowd of a couple of hundred had heaps of entertainment. Most enjoyable. South Australia won when Tasmania lost too many early wickets. It was one of those days when balls hit in the air saw a fielder stand on his head and take great catches.

The photo shows Cosgrove and Blewett having some catching practice earlier this week.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Cricket On The Coast

Much of the last two days has been spent about 20 minutes north of home here at Maroochydore Cricket Ground where the Tasmanian and South Australian State cricket squads have been having a pre season cricket camp. All the squad members are in attendance and it is great to rub shoulders with Sean Tait, Jason Gillespie, Mark Cosgrove, Dan Cullen, Greg Blewett, Michael Bevan and Matthew Elliott all of whom have represented Australia on the playing field.

Both teams are giving their bowlers a good work out. Sean Tait opened the bowling for Australia against England last year and watching him come in to bowl to Michael Bevan was fantastic. Tait is pretty quick I can tell you.

I was also interested to see Cullen bowl 'in the flesh'. Some tipsters are touting him to be the next big thing in spin bowling for Australia.

There was a 2 day game on Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow there is to be a 20/20 match and then on Thursday both states will field full strength teams in a 50 over match.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Monday Update

Trish and I had a wonderful meal on Thursday night at the Spirit Of Tibet Restaurant in Mooloolaba. It was good that I had booked as, being school holiday time, the place was very busy.

On Saturday Det and Brenda (a couple we met on our Vietnam China trip) drove up from the Gold Coast to watch the AFL Gr and Final and stay the night with us. We had kilos of prawns and oysters and litres of alcohol! Det does a day's work in the smallgoods industry so he came suitably armed with a variety of meats too. He is also just into home brewing so plenty of 'cross sampling' was enjoyed.

The match on TV was a cracker and their company was fantastic. They left Sunday afternoon about 4 pm after a few hours at the Caloundra RSL. Trish left the RSL $50 better off thanks to the pokies. That night the Broncos beat Storm in the Rugby League Grand Final.

Whilst up here, Arj carried out some adju stments on my sound systerm. By increasing the subwoofer output the sound improved remarkaby. However on Sunday the subwoofer stopped working. About 12 hours later I tracked the problem down to the extra vibrations of the subwoofer had loosened the power connection so that it eventually fell out! Plug it back in and I was back on the air.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

A Wet Night

Yesterday it was bright and sunny at 3 pm.


By 4:30 pm the sky was an ugly black and rain was falling in the distance.

Shortly afterwards this shot was taken from the front door looking seawards. The clouds were moving in but there was still sunshine out to the horizon. The storm was on its way.

Later the rain set in.
This morning I tipped 18 ml from the rain gauge. The storm had lost a lot of its power by the time it got to us. However the pool was topped up, the garden had a good drink and the lawn at the front was watered too!

It rained on and off into the night.

Been a busy day today, bottling a new brew, cleaning the sun blinds at the back of the house (this is a big and messy annual chore) and giving the front lawn a mow.