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I must say that I find it a little difficult to get used to Cardiff being a Test Match venue - and then I realise that it is the closest one to where I live!

So Kenyatta, does that mean you will get there to see it 'for real' as opposed to watching it on TV.

Don't understand the game myself (of course! not many French people do!) but my late husband always told me that watching from the cricket ground with cup of tea/ cakes or a beer made it a very pleasant afternoon.

I agree with your late husband it is a very restful game apart when Australia is playing and I have been known to take a book with me

Pigale. Your late husband was obviously a man of taste.

Unfortunately, cricket is no longer on terrestrial TV in the UK any more - only highlights in the evening. I am fortunate to be able to go Lords once a year. It is a wonderful day - even if the cricket is dull!

You know Kenyatta, I have listened to hundreds of Test Match Special on Radio 4, and I do know the terminology even though I don't know what it stands for .

I mean things like 'the end of the overs' for example; to me, something that is 'over' is something that has ended anyway..... As for leg before wicket, leg over wicket etc............. ! Need I say more?

hi pigale
I left you a reply to yours on post 1936.
I am off for tbe rest of the evening now.
Will check in tomorrow..
Night

TMS is a wonderful programme. Some people say it is at its best when 'rain stopped play'.
I have a faded tea towel which has the rules of cricket printed on it. It is mostly concerned with being 'in', 'out', 'not out' and so on. Crazy but wonderful.
What would you expect from a game with fielding positions such as Silly mid-on, Gully and Third man?

Hey Jazzy, am just going to google Champniers now.
Have a nice rest and hope tomorrow will be kinder.
TTFN

Quite! To me the terminology can be high in colour and I sometimes wished that I were a cartoonist - I could have drawn many a funny pictures from what these words triggered in my head !

I did see one of the tea towel in a shop window once in a village but it was half day closing and I never got it - shame because I never came across another one.

And yes, rainy days are nice because of the chat going on. Jeffrey Boycott (hope name not mispelt) amuses me - when he has a bee in his bonnet there is no getting him off the subject!

~Anyway, what would the UK be without Cricket, tea and of course Royalty . To most foreigners this is what makes the country - full of traditions different to our own.

Evening, Rusty!
Sania Mirza is Martina's Ladies Doubles partner - they must be through to the Semis? I didn't know that?
With Freeview, the main matches I usually get to see are the Mens' and Ladies' Singles - very occasionally Doubles. It's only when it gets to the Semis and Finals that the other matches are shown.
Perhaps you get much better coverage on Eurosport?
Anyway, you have told me something that I didn't know!
I haven't heard the result of the Maria / Serena match yet - must google it! unless you know?
Muguruza won the other Semi final, beating Radwanska.
I'm glad you had a good outing with Miss L-Plate! It was good to have her advice on buying a vacuum cleaner - did you get the one from Tesco?
We had a great time with our granddaughter! she is a gorgeous little girl! Yes, her school isn't all that far away- it's in South Croydon where they live.
How did your golf go today?