Home-grown hero’s real life adventure
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- Home-grown hero’s real life adventure
- Flintoff given go-ahead to make it even more difficult for opponents
- Gardening forum
- Disaster by the Bay
Home-grown hero’s real life adventure
NEWS.com.au – Jun 3, 2005
The blunt and idealistic grazier found the machinations of government to be awkward and unsavoury at times, and an unsuccessful attempt to unseat the prime minister saw Wienholt temporarily abandon politics and fulfil a long-held ambition by going big game hunting. Safaris were a popular pastime for wealthy Englishmen eager to test their masculinity, but Wienholt’s decision to head straight for “the toughest, most uninhabited and most uncivilised parts of South West Africa” demonstrated that he was braver – or perhaps more foolhardy – than most. After months of hard living, with most of his hunting party falling sick or injured and returning home, he paid for his arrogance when he was mauled and permanently disfigured by a crazed lion. He was in hospital recuperating from the attack when he learned of the outbreak of World War I. By the time Siemon has finished describing Wienholt’s daring exploits as a guerilla soldier battling Germans in the African jungle, we’re barely a third of the way through the book, and his adventures only get more incredible as the narrative progresses. Wienholt returned to Australia as a war hero, became a wildly popular federal politician, steered his financial empire through drought and depression, married the woman whom he’d been courting for almost a decade, sired a daughter and spent more and more time hunting lions in Africa. He wrote several books about his jungle-set exploits, which were widely reported in the Australian media and earned him further notoriety.
Flintoff given go-ahead to make it even more difficult for opponents
Times Online – Jun 3, 2005
Whether there will be much of a match left by Sunday should an unchanged England win the toss, field first again and bowl rather better with the new ball than they did last week at Lord’s, of course, is another matter. The match pitch had lost some of its early greenness yesterday after a brush and a mow — albeit by a groundsman ominously shod in wellington boots. Even though the colour of the grass is now white, however, it looks unusually thick for an English pitch, inviting the seam to grip, one reason, perhaps, why Durham’s exciting home-grown crop of fast and fast-medium bowlers has propelled them to the top of the second division. In his 100th Test, Graham Thorpe’s ability to play the ball late may be needed. The combination of recent moist weather and the history of the pitches at the Riverside suggests that either captain, if for slightly different reasons perhaps, is certain to choose to bowl if the coin falls right. Michael Vaughan might make that decision with even greater confidence this morning knowing that he has now been given leave to let Andrew Flintoff loose for as long as it is necessary or sensible. Having been obliged to treat his all-rounder with caution at Lord’s, because of his ankle operation in January, the orders now are to “get some mileage into his legs”…
Their other change is definitely voluntary. Tapash Baisya, who has passed a fitness test and takes over as Mashrafe Mortaza’s opening partner from young Shahahdat Hossain, is, with Mohammad Rafique, his country’s most experienced Test bowler. His record, mainly because of unhelpful pitches at home, does not compare, however. From 19 matches Rafique has 68 wickets at 34; from 20 Baisya has 36 at 57. This game is a curiosity for its Friday start. Thursday has been the traditional starting day for Tests in England since 1948, when five-day Tests began. The last to start on Friday was the fourth against Australia at Headingley in 1938.
Gardening forum
Times Online – Jun 3, 2005
Do you think that gardening has any relevance to G8? Do you intend to follow Geldof’s call to arms?Name and address withheldWe all have relevance to the issues raised by G8 and so does everything we do including gardening. I do not intend to go to Edinburgh at the moment but, for any gardeners that do, may I suggest that you pack a few home-grown plants and a trowel and plant up any spaces that look as if they need it. More seriously if we took down some of our trade barriers and began to pay developing world farmers properly the extremes of wealth and poverty might begin to even out a little.
Disaster by the Bay
Weekly Standard – The Weekly Standard – Jun 3, 2005
Minus their one superstar, Barry Bonds, the Giants are a sub-. 500 outfit (think of the California Republican Party, minus the Governator). Not that Bonds seems to care; he’s rarely a presence at home games, rehabilitating his injured knee in Los Angeles and issuing medical updates in al-Zarqawi fashion, via the slugger’s personal website. Meanwhile, the Oakland Athletics have gone from perennial playoff contender to dead-last in the American League West. Moneyball Oakland GM Billy Beane’s low-budget philosophy of blending cheap young players with inexpensive veteran cast-offs seems bankrupt; now the A’s are finally paying the price for letting go of home-grown talent like shortstop Miguel Tejada and pitchers Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder). In Oakland, it’s what happens in the stands that makes headlines: this year a fan tossing a beer at Jason Giambi; last season, a Texas Rangers’ pitcher tossing a chair at a heckler. CONTINUED1 2 Next >Print This Article…
Not that Bonds seems to care; he’s rarely a presence at home games, rehabilitating his injured knee in Los Angeles and issuing medical updates in al-Zarqawi fashion, via the slugger’s personal website. Meanwhile, the Oakland Athletics have gone from perennial playoff contender to dead-last in the American League West. Moneyball Oakland GM Billy Beane’s low-budget philosophy of blending cheap young players with inexpensive veteran cast-offs seems bankrupt; now the A’s are finally paying the price for letting go of home-grown talent like shortstop Miguel Tejada and pitchers Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder). In Oakland, it’s what happens in the stands that makes headlines: this year a fan tossing a beer at Jason Giambi; last season, a Texas Rangers’ pitcher tossing a chair at a heckler. CONTINUED1 2 Next >Print This Article. style2 { font-size: 9px; color: #003366; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;}.