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More Cricketing Trivia
I have refrained from posting about the Perth Test, where both teams appear to be intent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but I cannot resist pasting this extract from an article penned by...
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Déjà vu?
Following Soutie’s lead, here’s another colourful picture to brighten the Chariot. 3/335, with Pup on 140 and Punter on 137. Sydney revisited? Let’s hope so. If this means nothing to you, please...
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Australia Day 2012
Thursday 26th January is Australia Day. It’s also Republic Day in India, but more about that later. It’s a national holiday when we all enjoy ourselves, hold citizenship ceremonies and generally...
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Poetry Competition Verdict
Heartfelt thanks to the four brave Charioteers who entered January’s competition. I must confess that I was disappointed not to see a contribution from our Edinburgh lawyer, but that’s the way the...
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Intellectual Honesty
It was in my first year at college (read Uni these days) that I realised that many people hate to admit that they don’t understand something, or that they are unfamiliar with something or someone. My...
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Thanks everyone!
It’s been heart-warming to read (now that I can read again) all your good wishes and remarks, and it’s about time that I thanked you, individually and as a group, for your support and encouragement....
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Encounter with a latter-day Saviour
This is a bit personal, and it’s real, but I have permission from Boadicea to publish it. So delicate flowers should perhaps read no further … He was a dynamic young chap in his spotless scrub-suit...
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So as you know …
Boadicea and I will be absent from The Chariot from some time early on the 11th July (next Wednesday) until the evening of Saturday the 14th (3 days later), if all eventuates in accordance with the...
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Well, how about that?
Today was the day I’d been waiting for, with equal measures of hope and dread. Following the MRI scan and a few other tests, the chief neurosurgeon consultant was finally to deliver her verdict and...
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How Things Change …
When I arrived in Australia, some 23 years ago, one of the first things I learnt was that sausages were never called bangers. Their colloquial name, all over the Lucky Country, was snags. Never...
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Celebration – with more than a few tinnies!
Big smiles all round. Four years is a long time to be away.
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It’s Pink Day at the SCG …
If you follow Aussie Cricket you’ll already know who this handsome fellow is, and what Pink Day is all about. If you don’t, you can suss it out on The McGrath Foundation web site. Just remember,...
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So you thought you were going to win at last?
Second ODI between England and Australia. The ninth wicket fell at 244, leaving James Faulkner and Clint McKay to face the music for the last six overs, 57 runs behind the target of 301. Now James is...
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I am delighted . . .
. . . to find that WordPress have finally upgraded their comment preprocessor so that images can be posted in comments by merely including their url – a facility that was always present in posts but...
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Little things please little minds . . .
While sipping my second restorative mug of tea this morning, I chuckled quietly at the good-humoured badinage, subsequently removed, between Janus and Christopher on the subtleties of ‘council’ versus...
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Nous suivons Charlie
We recently had the Siege of Martin Place, eventually resolved by the swift execution of the Muslim nutter after he murdered two innocent hostages. We don’t muck about in Australia, given half a...
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Willkommen in der Chariot
Nice to meet you, Frau ohne Eigenschaften. Your chosen alias, for some obscure reason, puts me in mind of La belle dame sans merci – by Kelly or Sheets, or one of that ilk, but no matter, it’s good to...
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Better late than never . . .
A good few months ago, Boadicea mentioned that she had taken a visiting friend to see Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) and promised to post a picture of herself mounted on a camel, of...
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