Let the weekend begin

right! I'm up and dressed and about to walk to the sorting office, then onto the decorating thing! however this weekend sees  me being slightly saddened by a couple of old friends from London who have on a whim bought a house in France and moved. A chat with them last night has opened my eyes to the fact that  when things are not going well for you, its easy to take it out on others.

House bought on first sight  and now sadly turns out to be a shambles.
They  want to only spend time with English people who actually are not interested in them.
neither of them speak French and have no intention of learning , and so are living in the middle of nowhere sad and lonely.

as they had not switched off their phone at the end of a 'whatsapp' call, it was interesting to hear what they really thought of me.

I guess its true that eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves,

So back to today, and what's happening in the cricket world,

well every form of social media was alive yesterday with the news about Tim Paine being selected for Australia, it appears that he is not a popular choice. For some reason though my computer corrected his name to Tim Peake, now that would  have been 'out of this world' if he had been selected!!!

Jake Ball is expected to be fit for the first test , which is good news.

England drew their last warm up match against Australia XI, and we now move onto the main event this week.

Sophie and I are both suffering from 'fanxiety', this little known affliction is caused by the long drawn out wait for the fixture list to be released.
the only known antidote for this, is the ECB getting their finger out and give us the news we have been waiting for.

I am sure that their are a lot of you out their with the same symptoms as us,

irritability, from the wait.

finger ache from constantly tapping on any ECB posts on twitter

crossed eyes from staring at your phone or media device for too long.

inflamed liver from drinking to while away the off season.

well, we will be waiting a little bit longer for the news, so off to the sorting office I go.

happy Saturday, one and all.