Hi, I thought it would be a nice idea for members to leave a message when they expect to be temporarily away for sometime so the rest of us don't pine too much while you're gone. Add your absent notice to this thread.

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I'll be on holiday from the 9th of August until the 19th August.

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Good idea Mike,have a nice holiday Richard,somwhere exotic no doubt

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Ern

I'm off to Côtes de Armour in Northern France with my bucket and spade and plastic bat and ball in a vain attempt to teach them 'french people' beach cricket.i'll also be practicing my Pentanque.
I remember many happy days playing beach cricket at the sea side. If you hit the surf it was out, but you got 4 if it bounced before and six if it didn't; one bounce one hand for catches, three players (or occassionally 6 if the whole family chipped in). Ah. Ice creams all round afterwards and sand flavoured sanwiches.
The afternoons were always filled with beachcoming exercises or rock pool exploring whilst mum and dad went off 'for a lie down' now I know where my third brother came from!)or to the pub etc.Although as we grew older beach coming became a very different 'sport'/excuse(totty spotting on the beach).
Happy days.

Exotic? Na, its like someone from England going to Blackpool or Margate. I live in France and the last exotic place I visited was................. England!

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Sounds good to me Richard,afraid it's day trips this year for us,wife breeds budgies,and we have no bird sitter this year,and birds believe it or not,are high up on the list of theaves booty.

Beach cricket,sounds good,I will have a bash with my youngest daughter,who appeared 17 years after the eldest.

Must be nice living in france with all that lovely plonk,Rhone reds are my tipple.

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Ern

no malteasers - well Malta. I off from 6th to the 17th of August on a lastminute holiday!

Anyone been to Malta - any suggestions ?

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As requested, posting to say i'll be away from the board for 9 months as i travel the world I'll try posting when i can but i can't for the life of me remember my password or how i type in my username (spaces or no spaces?) as i log in automatically on this computer, perhaps i'll make a new account of "Vic on tour" or something

I shall be taking ONE day off tomorrow the 19th August.
I will queuing early on outside the aforementioned venue for an arena ticket to watch a nineteenth century opera.

Possibly not an ideal use of ones day off... seeing as how it's the first day of the Oval Test... but I like Wagner too.

I shall listen out for further mentions of Dwayne Bravo's name. I didn't know he was such a talented and internationally recognised musician.

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ONE whole day off Oliver!? How will we manage without you...

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NZBETH

I reckoned you'd probably manage fine... but I thought that I should enter into the spirit of the thread, by explaining why I couldn't possibly make any further comments - during the first day of the Oval Test - about this glorious all-conquering (well Kiwi and West Indian) England side.

How did it go Beth?

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