In the very early days there was no time limit just play two innings for a result.

At last a fresher feel today. week ahead is hit and miss, Monday looks a right royal right off.

Did somebody say it's raining in Manchester :hmm2::)

With 7 Aussie wickets down England fancied their chances of winning this on the final day.

We have been having one of the most moderate years temperature wise that I can ever recall. Our lows in Jan & Feb were around 10 degrees C higher then average. Usually our coldest months with temps sometimes in the -23 to -30C for weeks at a time yet we never got below -20C. Now this summer has been cooler then average, usually in the 20-25C range which suits me just fine. Of course for some daft reason, people are complaining about the summer that never was but these same folks seem to change their tune pretty quickly whenever we have a temps in the 25 to +30C range. A week of that and they are practically begging to see some relief.

We sure had one heck of a June in regards to rain. It wasn't to bad until about the 3rd week in June and then the mountain regions received 200-300 mm's in a relatively short span. We had a one in 200 year flood event back in 2005 but the volume recorded at a couple sites this year was at least 3 times that. One small town named appropriately "HighRiver" just south of us was about 80% underwater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9Iwd6uzMk

So much for the British heatwave....it rained all day in Manchester so England retained the Ashes :sunny:

And cricket fans are the poorer for it :O:

Sore loser....Clarke was much more in touch with reality :smug:

We lost our chance of winning on day 3 whilst the sun was still shining.

I thought a bot of both days 3 and 4.

I must admit to being impressed by just about all the Clarke interviews I've seen.

The rain forecasted all day yesterday was bull, it didn't start raining to around 4pm. All day my big fat hairy arse.:O:

Not yet anyway.:haha:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...60_788183c.jpg

Sounds delish...when's dinner?

http://images.moneysavingexpert.com/...rdon_Brown.jpg

Good oh, Snorkers ala Steed! With gravy!
When's dinner.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...n_2218480a.jpg

I think I fancy some Irish cookin' tonight...
Bangers McSteed and mash.

When's dinner.

^^^
:har::har: STEED going to love that :03: