Posts by Rachel Prosser
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What is it exactly that Andrew Mehrtens is doing at the beginning?
The first - double arms aloft thing - is that putting the bulls bullfingers back?
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I just have to come in on the "spider" theme
When I lived with my ex-boyfriend the role of spider-wrangler was definitely mine. He didn't like them. At all. I was fine with bugs, flies, spiders and insects. I was also the light-bulb changer (even though he was a foot taller)
However, he would have been on his own, and I would have been on a chair if we had to deal with rats or mice.
As it happened the mouse moved in after he moved out, so I ended up dealing with my worst phobia myself. At 3am.
Urrgh!
On the topic of spiders: I'd never come across anyone who had been bitten by one until recently. Since December I've met three who have been bitten, one of them on 3 separate occasions. What gives?
One of them said she has a body temperature half a degree above normal, and that attracts insects. But that doesn't explain why I now hear of spider biting when I had never done so before. Are there more of them now?
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Was there anyone he liked?
I was surprised when I read Paul's letters properly. I came to the conclusion that I don't think I'd enjoy his company.
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<quote> I'm betting it's one of Paul's. </unquote>
It is. Titus lived on Crete, was bishop there I think.
I lived on Crete, in a bay called Agios Pavlos (St Paul) where we had a small cave, with a tiny church carved into rock, where St Paul apparently took shelter at one time (Acts Chapter 27 as I recall)
From memory, Paul is pretty swingeing in his criticisms of Cretans in his letter to Titus.
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There aren't many places where as a paying customer you are treated like a smuggler when you go in and potential pitch invader while you are there, wherever you are seated.
I remember the happy days at Lancaster Park, where the crowd wandered onto the field at half-time to look at the (roped-off) pitch while the kids played cricket round the boundary.
It was a great pressure release valve. I loved it.
I also loved taking my thermos - nothing like a cup of tea while watching the cricket.
I did drink Pimms at cricket once, my one and only test at Lords. At £12 a jug, at Lords, one jug between friends was enough!
I think Cricket has struggled since it went on SKY, as it has a more limited audience than the old free-to-air. It used to feel like everyone watched it - on TVs in shops, on Sports round-up.
It's popularity has waned.I also wonder how many kids who might be the BlackCapsoftheFuture are not playing back-yard cricket because they live in in-fill houses with no back yard.
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It seems the 92nd.
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Hmmm, now I'm musing - both posts above say I have made 91 posts on PA.
Is this the 91st all over again, or the 93rd?
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Oh, and Happy New Year everyone!
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The answers to the six questions were C, B, D, C, C, D.
I've long had a romantic notion that an english multi-choice test would have answers in sonnet form:
A B A B C D C D E F E F G G
It just appeals to the orderly bit of my mind.
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What is the most important thing for you in a sports competition? If you answered "a close competition" then you are in agreement with most sports fans around the world.
Oh Hadyn, you come with your logic and statistics, and like a dyed-in-the wool "insert party" voter, I will remain a bonus point devotee, and no amount of analysis will convince me otherwise.
I just enjoy watching games with the bonus point way too much (and support a team which gets lots of them). When watching Canterbury get 3 tries in the first half, it makes that fourth try extra special. It's like your team gets to win the match twice!
While the competition as a whole may be more "interesting" in the eyes of "most sports fans" who like a "close competition" I will remain devoted to the bonus point as making individual matches much more interesting in rugby.
Cricket, maybe not.