The Ashes, I love thee.

I love it indeed.
Live coverage from the BBc homepage.
Kleine Nickeligkeiten.
Can you believe it?
4 years on.
Everything has changed.
Not only for the better.


John, York: "So we're having a great series but I don't think we should get ahead of ourselves, gloat or rub the Aussies' noses in it. Let's recognise that Australia are still the best in the world in many areas. When it comes to Aussie Rules Football, Ballroom Dancing Films and Transvestite Road Movies nobody else gets close to them."

Alan, London: Back to work tomorrow? I can feel your collective depression. Let's hope England can make that journey in a little bit more bearable (as you nuzzle someone's armpit on the Bakerloo before finally getting a seat at Oxford Circus only to discover you've sat on a blob of chewing gum)... the hulking Chris Tremlett with the first over of the day - Hussey watchful, it's a maiden...

Josh in Somerset: "Re your comment about 'nuzzling someone's armpit on the Bakerloo, can I remind you, as the BBC seems often to forget, that most of us do not live in London? Hard as it seems to be for the BBC to comprehend, many of us live out in the sticks, or in one of Britain's (indeed the world's) other great cities."

Alan, London: "Are there any cities in Somerset, let alone great ones?"

Josh in Somerset: "Alan in London (see below) should have paid more attention in Geography lessons. As well as learning about oxbow lakes and morraine, he would have learnt that there are two cities in Somerset: Wells and Bath. I can also confirm that both are indeed great."

0018 - Aus 169-5
Not much happening out there folks, which might explain why the last 200 emails and texts I've had have been about either Bath, Wells or both. Smith pushes down the ground for a single before Hussey snuffs out the rest of Swann's over... scratch that, Hussey drives the final ball of the over into the covers for one...

That's it for me, as well.
Hier ist es immerhin schon halb zwei.
Good luck, England.


via alte Tante bbc