Summer ebbs away in the southern hemisphere, and its passing is most keenly felt in the memory of the pleasant glow generated by a cool glass of beer. Frosty on the outside, brimming on the inside with bubbly bitter goodness, beer is second only to sunscreen in the most valuable summer liquid stakes.
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Apr 07
Apr 07
A Good Tax
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you an eased conscience.
The UK media reminds us on a daily basis of the destruction and havoc we are wreaking on the planet through our unsustainable lifestyles.
It’s all to do with our carbon emissions and one of the worst culprits in creating these filthy fumes is the airplane.
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Apr 07
Apr 07
Young Guns v Black Caps – who’d win in a fight?
Expectations for this New Zealand cricket side have assumed proportions not reached since the glorious World Cup summer of 1992. Fond memories of sun-drenched days at Eden Park have not dimmed in the intervening years, and cricket fans don’t have to try too hard to once again summon up a mental snapshot of Harry’s sublime throw to run out Boony from side on, or the magnificent arc of another Paddy Greatbatch six.
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Apr 07
Apr 07
World Cup 2007 – Mid term report
As a 12 year old, listening to the radio commentary of New Zealand ’s tour of the West Indies , it was like cricket from another planet. There was Greenidge and Haynes, softening up the bowling in grand style, and once we got them, IVA Richards. He smouldered to the wicket, took a minute to assert his machismo, and then blasted it everywhere.
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Mar 07
Mar 07
Windies 2007 – the phony phony war, and other oddities
After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and inflicted a swift and violent defeat, Europe stood still and waited for the inevitable shift to the Third Reich’s next target, France. This shift ended up taking six months – a period known as the ‘phony war’ – while Hitler readied his forces and waited for winter to pass. This is how I was expecting to feel at this point in the Cricket World Cup, a lull with some action in isolated phases, maybe the odd raised eyebrow at a particular result. As it has turned out, we have had a dramatic group stage.