No Sauce in Herring Hell

I opened a can of John West "Herring Fillets in Tomato Sauce" this morning, only to find the herring was sauceless!! No sauce!! Unsatisfactory. This is the second such can in the past week. I took a photo:

Fred Trueman

Imagine being a batsman and having to face this?! Yorkshiremen know how to bend their backs!

Clouds

I took these photos on my iphone. The same piece of sky, five days apart. Nice pics.

Storm coming

Early evening

London Sculpture

I wanted to show some more London photos. It seems the link here is public sculpture, of which London is overflowing. Everywhere you look, there is some piece of sculpture or monument.

Latest ICC Rankings

Cricinfo.com:

Australia have dropped to fifth place in the ICC Test rankings following their 2-0 series defeat in India and are placed below England for the first time since the rankings were introduced in 2003.


Australia and India entered the two-Test series on 113 and 127 points and the hosts' wins in Mohali and Bangalore earned them three more points, taking them 11 clear of South Africa, who are in second place.
In contrast, Australia conceded three points and slipped to 110, two behind England. It is their lowest ranking ever. However, they will have the opportunity to reclaim fourth place when England travel to Australia for the Ashes in November.

Is this an accurate reflection of world cricket? Whatever one may think, the forthcoming Ashes series is looming as the most exciting in decades.

Back Home: Trains, Planes and Automobiles

We are finally back home, after a 40 hour journey!! Trains from Halifax to London, planes from England to Australia, bus from Sydney to Newcastle. 40 hours!! Words cannot describe how exhausting this was.

I am typing this in the public library because my computer is not working at the moment. According to my computer-genius teenage son, the problem is either a "start-up virus" or a "logic bomb". I'll leave it to you to Google those terms. Personaly, I have no idea what it all means. Suffice to say that any more holiday photographs will have to wait until I get the computer fixed.

Until that happy day, stay tuned.

From London to Halifax

After the sprawl and noise of London, we made our way north to visit my home town of Halifax. I hadn't been back in 33 years! Nothing much had changed - the same cobbled streets, every street with a pub. I explored the parks in which I played as a boy and viewed the homes in which I lived. An emotional time.



Halifax's famous Piece Hall, shrouded in early morning fog



Images of Yorkshire, taken by yours truly

On the second day we rode a steam train to the village of Goathland, better known in the TV series "Heartbeat" as Aidensfield. 



A common sight in rural Yorkshire



Stay tuned for more to come.