England v Australia - 28th June - Edgbaston

[Richard Jenkins]

Thanks tigerlilly

[cantplaycantalk]

Originally Posted by Kirsty Harris

I saw that Hayden got rather hot under the collar with Simon Jones and (of all people!) Paul Collingwood after that little incident! I'd love to know what Colly said to him!!

Collingwood is from Sunderland, are you sure you would have understood what he said?
(Collys a mackem, recken yed ken wor e wez gannen on bout hinney?)

[Ernest]

This was the real winner.



This was how it happened.

[Occasional Fan]

Wow! Great photo - and you wouldn't get me standing out on the middle of the square with that sort of stuff flying around. We had a Brit struck dead on a golf course about 40km out of Prague last weekend - the only guy who was playing on through a vicious storm. I'm sorry for the bloke and his family, but you do sometimes wonder where people were when the brains were being handed out. I mean - middle of a golf course and swinging your personal lightning conductor around!?

[Collyisamackem]

I've been caught on top of a hill in a storm before - I was doing fieldwork for my dissertation and just had to run for a stone wall which was the only thing even slightly resembling shelter!


They had some impressive storms at The Wanderers over the last winter, from the pictures I saw.

[Goatman]

Originally Posted by Collyisamackem

I've been caught on top of a hill in a storm before - I was doing fieldwork for my dissertation and just had to run for a stone wall which was the only thing even slightly resembling shelter.

What's your subject Colly? During my fieldwork (Geology) I had the misfortune to be busily mapping a large iron deposit at the top of a 2000m mountain in north Spain when a huge storm boiled up out of nowhere....It was like being in the middle or an air raid, lightening coming down all round me......not nice at all........

[Collyisamackem]

Originally Posted by Goatman

What's your subject Colly? During my fieldwork (Geology) I had the misfortune to be busily mapping a large iron deposit at the top of a 2000m mountain in north Spain when a huge storm boiled up out of nowhere....It was like being in the middle or an air raid, lightening coming down all round me......not nice at all........

Geography (just graduated yesterday from Durham). I was in Cumbria last August, just at the time things turned really nasty. The storms were so frequent there were times when it all just seemed like one great storm, but they didn't start until I'd gone out there! I came within 20 metres of being struck 3 times - the cracks were really loud and terrifying, and really was a sitting duck until I got to that wall and got underneath a rock that jutted out. The people at the farm I was staying at thought I was dead when they saw the lightning hitting the top of the hill (about 400m asl). The first thing they said when they saw me returning was "You are so lucky to be alive!"

I went home that day and abandoned the field work until three weeks later (now in September), when it was unbroken, warm sunshine for a week and I got a tan!

[Goatman]

Originally Posted by Collyisamackem

Geography (just graduated yesterday from Durham).

Durham! You'll know my mate Jamie Casford then?

[Collyisamackem]

Originally Posted by Goatman

Durham! You'll know my mate Jamie Casford then?

Yes!

What a small world we live in! How do you know Jamie?

[Goatman]

Originally Posted by Collyisamackem

What a small world we live in! How do you know Jamie?

We did our PhD's together in Scumton. Is he as useless at teaching as he is at research!