Wednesday 29 November 2006 - it's at least 7.45 pm...
So LuclyL played another day / night cricket match Wednesday night, against a team from the South of Johannesburg. Not a team we normally play against, but we needed a warm up match for the day / night final we are playing on the 8th December.
The other team won the toss, and elected to bat. 30 overs, 260 runs! Too many wides and no balls, but their opening batsman did get 159! (This is under 13's, in case you were wondering).
LuckyL got a bowl, and took a wicket, so I was chuffed (look it up) for him. He went in to bat in 4th position, and faced his first couple of balls well.
While watching, I was listening to South Africa trash India in the day night one day match 244 / 161 all out, using the Princess's cellphone and headphones. And as is usual, I dropped one, thinking I got it out quietly, till I got this sharp, pained look of surprise from the Princess. I took out the earpiece, and said "What?"
"I heard that!! And so did everyone else!"
I looked around, and didn't see anyone looking, so I apologised to the Princess... And replaced the earpiece.
Anyway, back to the cricket - LuckyL's partner went out 3 balls into L's innings, and so he was in with another new batsman. Kevin is also under 13, but only about 136mm tall! Really, he's not much taller than the stumps!
L facing again - 4 off the first ball. Dot, dot, mmm..... He's not keeping his eye on the ball. Kevin's out... L to stand with another new batsman.. This is not good. There is no way they will get 100 runs out of this game now.
Anyway, it's another tough day in Africa. Sitting out here, under the trees, watching the kids play cricket. It's 10.30pm, and still pleasant out, even if Princess and some of the others are wearing light jackets.
Another 2... Ball stopped 30mm from the boundary... And another nice shot over the top.... For 1 run. Two bad shots... But he's still there. End of the over, and I'm shouting advice from the line... Never played a game in my life, but guess who's the pro here!
Gman is at home alone. He'd been to Sun City (look it up) for the day with the church youth, and so when he got back we were already away.
Another wicket down. LuckyL is still in there.... Maybe we can get home before the new day.
End of the over, and L's going to face again.. And I'm coaching from the side again. Princess is giving me the beady eye.
OUT!!! Dammit. 7 runs....
His team managed to get to 173, and not all out, but they ran out of overs. Not a bad innings, just shy of 6 runs per over, but they were outplayed. Game over by 10.45pm, and we got home at 11.45. Way too late for a weeknight...
Salagatle!
LIU - Look It Up!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
In a previous post...
I got this comment from a regular reader:-
Solomonster said...
Who the hell is Seaman R/Bay - the friggin encyclopedia britannica?And yes, that is a RHETORICAL question.
he is refering to the fact that Seaman R/Bay very often will research and post information about various subjects as they are raised in everyday conversation / posts. His motivation is a) he wants to confirm that his understanding / knowledge of a certain subject is correct, and then b) share this with any other readers who might want to know, but are not apt to looking it up, or think they know, and can now confirm their knowlegde. No harm no foul. I enjoy it at times, other times he may post a bit too much info. But, hey, the space is cheap / free......
Salagatle!
Solomonster said...
Who the hell is Seaman R/Bay - the friggin encyclopedia britannica?And yes, that is a RHETORICAL question.
he is refering to the fact that Seaman R/Bay very often will research and post information about various subjects as they are raised in everyday conversation / posts. His motivation is a) he wants to confirm that his understanding / knowledge of a certain subject is correct, and then b) share this with any other readers who might want to know, but are not apt to looking it up, or think they know, and can now confirm their knowlegde. No harm no foul. I enjoy it at times, other times he may post a bit too much info. But, hey, the space is cheap / free......
Salagatle!
Casino
It's so consuming
Ever demanding
Eating into your time, and wallet
Never out of your mind
It's not evil, and it's fun
Yet, it is destructive, boring
Challenging, A waste
Of time and money
It's not criminal, yet
can cause criminal intent
It's small, big, legal, and illegal
It's the gamblers nightmare
Casino, or backyard game
Pub fruit machine, or Lotto
Horse racing, dogs
It's all the same, all the above.
Salagatle!
Ever demanding
Eating into your time, and wallet
Never out of your mind
It's not evil, and it's fun
Yet, it is destructive, boring
Challenging, A waste
Of time and money
It's not criminal, yet
can cause criminal intent
It's small, big, legal, and illegal
It's the gamblers nightmare
Casino, or backyard game
Pub fruit machine, or Lotto
Horse racing, dogs
It's all the same, all the above.
Salagatle!
Secret Project
For a few months now I have been working on a special secter project. This should come to fruition in the next week or two, at which point I will be able to post a write up, and pictures. I do believe this to another of my successes, but only time will tell.
Salagatle!
Salagatle!
London running.....
From the Sunday Times - 26 / 11 / 2006 - http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=326780
and no, I didn't ask for permission... I'm giving them free advertising space....
Immigration sparks white exodus from UK Rowan Philp:
London26 November 2006
White Britons, alarmed at immigration, are fleeing the capital and even the country in record numbers in a “white flight” that mirrors South Africa’s exodus.
And this week a controversial new book which seeks to explain their flight, encouraged young British-born families to leave in the face of unchecked immigration . A report by Britain’s chief immigration think-tank, Migrationwatch, said more than 100000 British-born Londoners have left the UK capital this year as immigrants stream into the city. Meanwhile, another report by private analysts predicts that the white exodus is set to accelerate further, and that London’s immigrant population will jump from 40% to 60% i n just 12 years. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said the departing whites were being replaced by other ethnic minorities in their neighbourhoods, leading to a “very unfortunate” apartheid-style segregation of the capital.
The report said it was a potential disaster for integration and race relations in Britain. “The effect is a rapid increase in the ethnic minority composition of some boroughs, resulting from an outflow of the white population and an inflow of African and Asian international migrants.”
While white South Africans fled Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban for either suburban security complexes or foreign shores in the mid-1990s, experts said whites in London and cities like Birmingham and Bradford were fleeing to rural “market towns” — and, increasingly, abroad.
In his seemingly xenophobic book, Time to Emigrate? George Walden, who was education minister under Margaret Thatcher, had no doubt about the cause. I mmigration had created “unacceptable” terrorist and crime risks, and had doomed British culture .
Walden told the Sunday Times: “I’m not saying all our national problems are due to immigration . . . but this is the greatest gamble this country has ever taken and it is totally unplanned.
“Already, we’re seeing the failure of the policy of multiculturalism, which — as Trevor Phillips, our race relations tsar has pointed out — has come down to separate development; in other words, apartheid. We have a dangerous mixture of people who do have colonial resentments; who have fundamentalist beliefs; and who have absolutely no desire to integrate.”
In his book he predicts London, in a decade, will be “a three-ring circus without the laughs” — including largely white inner and outer rings bristling with security, and a “multicultural ring” exclusively made up of “ethnic immigrants”.
“The rougher parts of the multicultural ring will be ghettoes of crime, poverty and racialism in reverse.”
The scary thing for me is:-
All these people emigrate to the UK for a better life. Only because wherever they have come from they have "pulled it all through their ......."
They emigrate because they can see how well the British are living. They bring nothing to the party. They add no value. The EXPECT to be taken care off. They revert to their lives of crime (mostly), and will cause a general degadation of their immediate surroundings, forcing, via criminal action, all others to desert the place.
The same scenario is playing out in France, Italy, Greece....
If the government of the day, and more importantly, the citizens (read WHITE, original British) don't raise their voices, then soon London / Paris / Rome will become the ghetto's of Europe. They will become unmanageable. They will degenerate to the point which the Johannesburg CBD now finds itself. Refer to http://www.deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/ for a better insight.
You cannot run away from this. It's not someone else's problem.
Take a stand. Challenge the system. Have the riff raff thrown offshore / sent back to that self made cess pool they call home. At the end of the day, in most instances, these invaders come from countries which may have been colonised by the British many years ago. They were eventually given back to the people in good, working condition, with strong economies and good infrastructure. By their own doing these people have systematically destroyed everything that was in place, and will do the same to Europe, given the chance.
The days of self brow beating and apologising for the sins of our fore fathers are long gone. Be silent now and forever pay the price!!!
Salagatle!
and no, I didn't ask for permission... I'm giving them free advertising space....
Immigration sparks white exodus from UK Rowan Philp:
London26 November 2006
White Britons, alarmed at immigration, are fleeing the capital and even the country in record numbers in a “white flight” that mirrors South Africa’s exodus.
And this week a controversial new book which seeks to explain their flight, encouraged young British-born families to leave in the face of unchecked immigration . A report by Britain’s chief immigration think-tank, Migrationwatch, said more than 100000 British-born Londoners have left the UK capital this year as immigrants stream into the city. Meanwhile, another report by private analysts predicts that the white exodus is set to accelerate further, and that London’s immigrant population will jump from 40% to 60% i n just 12 years. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said the departing whites were being replaced by other ethnic minorities in their neighbourhoods, leading to a “very unfortunate” apartheid-style segregation of the capital.
The report said it was a potential disaster for integration and race relations in Britain. “The effect is a rapid increase in the ethnic minority composition of some boroughs, resulting from an outflow of the white population and an inflow of African and Asian international migrants.”
While white South Africans fled Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban for either suburban security complexes or foreign shores in the mid-1990s, experts said whites in London and cities like Birmingham and Bradford were fleeing to rural “market towns” — and, increasingly, abroad.
In his seemingly xenophobic book, Time to Emigrate? George Walden, who was education minister under Margaret Thatcher, had no doubt about the cause. I mmigration had created “unacceptable” terrorist and crime risks, and had doomed British culture .
Walden told the Sunday Times: “I’m not saying all our national problems are due to immigration . . . but this is the greatest gamble this country has ever taken and it is totally unplanned.
“Already, we’re seeing the failure of the policy of multiculturalism, which — as Trevor Phillips, our race relations tsar has pointed out — has come down to separate development; in other words, apartheid. We have a dangerous mixture of people who do have colonial resentments; who have fundamentalist beliefs; and who have absolutely no desire to integrate.”
In his book he predicts London, in a decade, will be “a three-ring circus without the laughs” — including largely white inner and outer rings bristling with security, and a “multicultural ring” exclusively made up of “ethnic immigrants”.
“The rougher parts of the multicultural ring will be ghettoes of crime, poverty and racialism in reverse.”
The scary thing for me is:-
All these people emigrate to the UK for a better life. Only because wherever they have come from they have "pulled it all through their ......."
They emigrate because they can see how well the British are living. They bring nothing to the party. They add no value. The EXPECT to be taken care off. They revert to their lives of crime (mostly), and will cause a general degadation of their immediate surroundings, forcing, via criminal action, all others to desert the place.
The same scenario is playing out in France, Italy, Greece....
If the government of the day, and more importantly, the citizens (read WHITE, original British) don't raise their voices, then soon London / Paris / Rome will become the ghetto's of Europe. They will become unmanageable. They will degenerate to the point which the Johannesburg CBD now finds itself. Refer to http://www.deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/ for a better insight.
You cannot run away from this. It's not someone else's problem.
Take a stand. Challenge the system. Have the riff raff thrown offshore / sent back to that self made cess pool they call home. At the end of the day, in most instances, these invaders come from countries which may have been colonised by the British many years ago. They were eventually given back to the people in good, working condition, with strong economies and good infrastructure. By their own doing these people have systematically destroyed everything that was in place, and will do the same to Europe, given the chance.
The days of self brow beating and apologising for the sins of our fore fathers are long gone. Be silent now and forever pay the price!!!
Salagatle!
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