Thursday Jan 15th:
Brisbane is a beautiful city. Modern and bright but with a sense of old colonial. Laid back but exciting on many levels, and of course ther is the GABBA cricket ground, which is as legendary as "the Forum" in Canada and "MSG" in New York. Of course the "SCG" and "MCG" would probably argue that!
I was trying to get tickets to go and see a live match, but ended up working all night in a bakery...well, we all have priorities.
Although 5 day international test matches are still played, the buzz now is the limited overs games. 50/50 which lasts about 8 hours and 20/20 which lasts about the same as a soccer/rugby/baseball game. The short games are fast and exciting and have thrown the traditional rules out the window. My old head master, Stanley Stubbs would turn in his grave! (In my all-boys school it was the custom to have one lad in the back of the class, with an ear-piece and a transistor radio, report on the progress of the test matches from the BBC)
Remind me when we have 6 or 7 hours to spare to explain the rules of the game.
Anyway, the real reason for me being in Bris. was to visit SOL breads....post to follow...
PS and they don't where whites any more....all day-glo coloured uniforms
Brisbane is a beautiful city. Modern and bright but with a sense of old colonial. Laid back but exciting on many levels, and of course ther is the GABBA cricket ground, which is as legendary as "the Forum" in Canada and "MSG" in New York. Of course the "SCG" and "MCG" would probably argue that!
I was trying to get tickets to go and see a live match, but ended up working all night in a bakery...well, we all have priorities.
Although 5 day international test matches are still played, the buzz now is the limited overs games. 50/50 which lasts about 8 hours and 20/20 which lasts about the same as a soccer/rugby/baseball game. The short games are fast and exciting and have thrown the traditional rules out the window. My old head master, Stanley Stubbs would turn in his grave! (In my all-boys school it was the custom to have one lad in the back of the class, with an ear-piece and a transistor radio, report on the progress of the test matches from the BBC)
Remind me when we have 6 or 7 hours to spare to explain the rules of the game.
Anyway, the real reason for me being in Bris. was to visit SOL breads....post to follow...
PS and they don't where whites any more....all day-glo coloured uniforms
1 comment:
Hey pretty cool Martin. I was online looking for a flourless peanut butter cookie recipe and came across this neat Balaboosta blog, and there you were! Small cyber world.
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