Posts Tagged with 'australia'

24 Nov 2007

Interesting Links for 25 Oct 07 - 23 Nov 07

Interesting links for 25 Oct 07 - 23 Nov 07:

Beer set to hit four quid a pint - Noooo!!!
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds - Apparently people want to get rid of the leap second in favour of a leap hour in about 600 years time. You just know someone will forget to write this [...]

19 Dec 2006

Australia Win the Ashes With Ease

Australia have won The Ashes, again.
It’s such a pity it wasn’t much of a contest this year either. I was really hoping it would be a great battle between two sides that would see the final test deciding who got to “keep” The Ashes for the year. But it wasn’t to be. [...]

  • → England crumbled in the 2nd Ashes Test and managed to lose. How on earth did that happen? Well, England can add another record to the books: No team in history has EVER lost after declaring on a higher total than England’s 551-6 batting first in a Test. Well done chaps. Better luck next time. Remember, it’s the taking part that counts (he says in a posh English accent). ( 0 )
23 Oct 2006

Yanks Ban Vegemite

The US have decided that expat Aussies can’t have Vegemite in the US anymore because it contains folate (ie folic acid) and the only things that can have folate added to them in the US are bread and cereals.
I think this is rich coming from a nation with soooo many preservatives and other GM junk [...]

13 Mar 2006

Un-Bloody-Believable

Oh what a day it was for cricket yesterday. It was a beautiful sunny day at The Wanderers in Johannesburg with Australia set to take on South Africa in the deciding match for the 1 day series.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat. What a good decision - Australia started off slow, [...]

11 Sep 2005

45.4 Overs, 165 Runs, 2 Wickets and 3 Rain Delays

The Ashes series has been fantastic this year with England repeatedly out playing Australia. As a result, cricket has gathered quite a following from the usually football crazy English population. England went into this final match 2-1 up in the series of 5 games playing for a draw at the least in order [...]

19 Jun 2005

Who’d Have Thunk It?