Not Yorkshire!

Run miles

Rain was predicted. Not just that. Rain was predicted in Wales. Where it rains whenever it feels like it. That's often. Regardless of the predicted weather. Regardless, there was a sellout crowd in the SWALEC stadium. They were rewarded with a day where just a few isolated showers failed to interrupt the cricket.

Yorkshire beat Sussex. Thankfully, G's back on the treatment table popping the painkillers and unable to talk us through the game, ball by ball, only stopping for the occasional breath and to gloat. Sussex had Scott Styris back from Sri Lanka. Mush was expected from him, but he didn't come off.

That's why sport isn't entertainment, no matter what some say. It's entertaining (at times, along with frustrating, enthralling, fascinating and disappointing) but not entertainment. Would you go to see a stand up comedian who might make an error, first gag, and be dismissed (like a bat out first ball) and have to leave the stage. Would you go to see a musical (say) where the cast might have and off night and withdraw from the stage after the first number? There was great expectancy when Styris came out to bat. His first big hit wasn't big enough and he was caught. Eight runs from eight balls. That's a huge carbon footprint on a per run basis. Styris' eight runs came at (assuming Sri Lanka to the UK is 5,454 miles, a 10,908 mile return trip) 1,364 miles each. That's not very green. He also took three wickets. At 3,636 miles per wicket.

Pizza

Home made. Onion, mozzarella, sweetcorn and mushrooms (LPL); onion, sweetcorn, anchovy and mozzarella (BLISS); and onion, mushroom, green chilli, anchovy and cheese (no mozzarella left) for me. These are green, because even though the oven is on full pelt, they cook quickly and can be done in series, only pre-heating the once.

Not so green is the additional washing of my clothes, as I inevitably get myself smothered in flour.

Dead Man Walking

Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. Watched this with BLISS and LPL. Based on a true story of a nun in a small and directly affected community who takes on the case of a death row prisoner. As BLISS said they should dhow it in schools because it would generate so much discussion.

“We gave you a Ferrari...

...and you treated it like a lawnmower” (said Stacy Keach in the Bourne Legacy, in a favourite line) “you break it, you buy it. It was ever thus.”

Walking off when you're out...

...can be difficult enough. Can't imagine what it's with a PA system blazing nananana hey hey hey, goodbye, or I get knocked down, or worse of all quacking noises. Almost as bad must be walking out when team mates have completed the responses to favourite band, guilty pleasure and sporting hero questions on your behalf.