What made you happy today?

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The first test. I posted this in other sports but a great article by the impressive Mathew Knox:

"...Here is a frame for the week’s extraordinary events in Birmingham. As they walked up the players’ race to their Edgbaston cricket ground changing room, dismissed Australian batsmen in the first Ashes Test match were told they were cheats and losers who had let their team down.

Grown men – and here, cricket crowds are more male-dominated than most places – jumped to their feet to mock the Australians as cry-babies and hypocrites. This very personal taunting was the up-close focus against a general background of songs and chants, some of it good-natured, some of it the kind of nastiness that is only good-natured in the self-congratulatory minds of those delivering it...."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/the-crowd-mocked-the-australians-as-cheats-they-responded-with-cricket-magic-20190806-p52e5w.html

Reading quality writing about cricket is simply wonderful.

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It was good writing, I read a bit of that this morning including perusing the English papers online which did make me very happy indeed.

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Can't be the same guy, can it? Err... looks like it is. Both are said to have written a book called "The Life".

What did you like about it?

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If you want really good pretty cheap food, more beer than you can handle, and one hell of a fun atmosphere, come to Germany!

Cologne is amazing, fun, vibrant, old new friendly, I love it!

And I just ate my weight in smoked salmon and creamed horseradish! OMG, after the pastries and cheese of Paris I could call this trip breakfast around the world!

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I read the first line and thought you were about to say Fremont St in Vegas.

I can't take smoked Salmon, you can have it. Yuch.

Bit into a sandwich at a meeting one time that I though had rare roast beef in it, chewed a bit and asked someone "WTF is that stuff" cos it tasted fkn horrible. They told me it was smoked Salmon, I spat the mouthful of food into a napkin and put it in the bin.

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Just did a 1/2 day downhill bike trip. Only 2 others (a young Dutch couple): we were driven to a coffee place where we given a brief tour, sampled some coffee while having a pre-prepared rice flour pancake with banana. Drove to the top or thereabouts of a volcano then driven a bit further. On our (ill - fitting) but fine mountain bikes for 26 km’s downhill: along narrow winding roads, stopping at a local village house, visiting a relatively new apiarist of local bee species set in beautiful garden allotment ( bought some local honey), then ride thru narrow paths slicing thru rice paddies: spectacular. Finished close to where we are staying and had a massive lunch if magnificent Balinese food.

There was: indonesian fried chicken pieces; fish on skewers; a salad of peanuts, green chilli, garlic and onion; a water-spinach dish, corn fritters, a vegetable stew / curry; fried tempeh; rice and noodles. There were two large bowls of sauce: a peanut satay sauce and a chilli sambal sauce. Magnificent: all you could eat. This was followed by some sliced local mango.

A great trip.

Tomorrow I’m doing a 90 km or thereabouts road bike trip with a 1.5 km ascent with a much longer descent. I have my own helmet, gloves, shoes (cleats) & jersey for the ride.

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What happened to the meat, fat and no carb diet?

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Cool, hope it goes well.

You're idea of a holiday though is clearly different to mine. Riding a bike downhill to different food stops I could manage, anything even slightly uphill I want a motor please.

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