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So many great films...


Film meme from badasstronaut:

1. Pick ten films you love/thoroughly enjoy.
2. Find screen stills for each film.
3. See how many of them people get correct.

( The pictures )

ETA: 6,8 and 10 still looking for answers

Running in the rain

It's cool and raining lightly here this morning which is a good deal more conducive to running than the recent heat and humidity. It allowed me to run with some real attack instead of just being glad to make it round my circuit at all. All in all, a very satisfactory run.

Old Trafford - days 3 & 4

Yesterday was just frustrating not least because the day's play ended in bright sunshine owing to a peculiarly asinine ICC regulation.

Today, despite a dodgy start and an unthrilling end belonged to England but I reckon the odds on a draw must have shortened considerably. The Wheeliebin failed to add to his overnight tally and the flying pigs have been stood down indefinitely, notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the female half of the population of the West Midlands. The fact that Warne was a great deal more successful with bat than ball does not bode well for Giles (or England) tomorrow. Jones (SP) once again impressed and Hoggard was, again, noticeably absent.

An excellent knock by Strauss well supported by Trescothick and Bell and a late flurry by Jones (G) should make defeat for England all but impossible but can they bowl Australia out on what looks to be a rather benign track?

The timewasting by the convicts, both in the field and when batting, was absolutely shameful. If the match referee doesn't clobber both Ponting and Warne, one has to ask what on earth he is there for. That said, I don't expect any action. The ICC only goes after money making crowd pullers in the most extreme circumstances. The Speed-Mani doctrine is, and always has been, money above all.