Feeling a bit ropey today, apparently it's to do with my body breaking down the radioactive iodine thingy which I had 48 hours ago. A bit like the sicky feeling you'd get when your body breaks down the anaesthetic after the dentist has numbed you up for a drilling!!! Doing my level best right now not to go talking to Himself down the big white telephone.
The dog is mightily fed up with me at the mo, you know he'd had that rawhide bone yesterday? Well, he finally decided he wasn't going to bury it anywhere, after much walking round the house and garden looking for somewhere suitable, at one point trying to bury it under a pile of CD's which were on the floor. He repaired to the garden and lay down facing away from us (so's we couldn't see him I guess) and starts wiring into it. Hubs goes out to check on him and finds he's been gnawing so hard on it he's made his gum bleed, so that had to go. Gave him a bonio and took the bone away while he wasn't looking, but he spent a long while looking for it cos he could still smell it out there, which is heartbreaking. Although he's fine today and the gum has stopped bleeding, it's not worth making him ill just to let him have this bone so it's gone now, suffice to say that that is why we haven't bought one for a while as it must have made his gum bleed last time. With the passage of time, I forgot that we don't give him these things for a reason, he's far too precious to me to let him loose on these things. Being a border collie he in intense, with everything, so whereas another dog would lick it slowly to soften it up for chewing, he just tries to eat the whole thing in one go. His toys are all the tough stuff as he has broken or ripped most of the other toys he had. His favourite is still the little blue bone.
He still doesn't understand why he can't sit next to me on the couch and is being moved to the required 3 feet away until I am no longer radioactive (next Sunday). Can't even cuddle hubs and having to observe strict routines like keeping my towels away from his, not using cutlery that I have used in cooking, say I'd tasted something I'm cooking - I can't then put the spoon back into the food, just little things like that, keeping toothbrushes and cups etc away from his, and flushing the loo twice just in case there's a pesky bit of radioactivity lingering. I know they said I won't glow in the dark but it would be helpful to see what is going where as if you can't see it you tend to think it's not there, but you can't take any chances. Little niggles which you wouldn't think are a problem, really are when you come to observe them.
I'm also aggrieved a bit whith the doctors at the hospital as they say I have to observe all these things but just say 'it's just a precaution so you don't give anyone a dose of radiation' when you ask why. I am curious enough (or just plain nosy if you will) as to what would actually happen if their observances were not adhered to!
And finally for today, the 4th ODI England v Australia
The dog is mightily fed up with me at the mo, you know he'd had that rawhide bone yesterday? Well, he finally decided he wasn't going to bury it anywhere, after much walking round the house and garden looking for somewhere suitable, at one point trying to bury it under a pile of CD's which were on the floor. He repaired to the garden and lay down facing away from us (so's we couldn't see him I guess) and starts wiring into it. Hubs goes out to check on him and finds he's been gnawing so hard on it he's made his gum bleed, so that had to go. Gave him a bonio and took the bone away while he wasn't looking, but he spent a long while looking for it cos he could still smell it out there, which is heartbreaking. Although he's fine today and the gum has stopped bleeding, it's not worth making him ill just to let him have this bone so it's gone now, suffice to say that that is why we haven't bought one for a while as it must have made his gum bleed last time. With the passage of time, I forgot that we don't give him these things for a reason, he's far too precious to me to let him loose on these things. Being a border collie he in intense, with everything, so whereas another dog would lick it slowly to soften it up for chewing, he just tries to eat the whole thing in one go. His toys are all the tough stuff as he has broken or ripped most of the other toys he had. His favourite is still the little blue bone.
He still doesn't understand why he can't sit next to me on the couch and is being moved to the required 3 feet away until I am no longer radioactive (next Sunday). Can't even cuddle hubs and having to observe strict routines like keeping my towels away from his, not using cutlery that I have used in cooking, say I'd tasted something I'm cooking - I can't then put the spoon back into the food, just little things like that, keeping toothbrushes and cups etc away from his, and flushing the loo twice just in case there's a pesky bit of radioactivity lingering. I know they said I won't glow in the dark but it would be helpful to see what is going where as if you can't see it you tend to think it's not there, but you can't take any chances. Little niggles which you wouldn't think are a problem, really are when you come to observe them.
I'm also aggrieved a bit whith the doctors at the hospital as they say I have to observe all these things but just say 'it's just a precaution so you don't give anyone a dose of radiation' when you ask why. I am curious enough (or just plain nosy if you will) as to what would actually happen if their observances were not adhered to!
And finally for today, the 4th ODI England v Australia
With the Aussies cruising steadily at 3-0, I ask myself what is the point of this current England Team. 'Resting' players is a misnomer, poor babies eh? - what they should say is replaced! I don't know what Ravi Bopara has over the team, but they will not drop him and replace him with someone who can score runs. Their present effort is a miserly 150+ which, in a limited over game is just not enough. I think Strauss does not understand that to win these types of games, as opposed to the longer test matches, you have to put runs on the board quickly, you cannot have the luxury of being 'in' for tow or three days to get a decent amount of runs on the board. Blocking and defensive playing is not what ODI's are all about. It really annoys me that there are so many great players out there in county cricket who never even get a sniff at playing for their country in favour of the current mollycoddled players out there at the moment. The rest of the world must be laughing their socks off at this lot, I know I am and it's a joke.
If our Women's Cricket team can play AND WIN their ODI's and their Ashes series consistently then why do the men find it so hard? Answer: The women have the right mental attitude, they want to win and they see Australia as equal; so they play accordingly, they do not see Australia, like the men seem to do, as conquerors. It's so depressing to see this lot almost quaking at the crease, turning away from the ball as if they don't want to hit it, or be hit by the ball, it's daft to the point of nonsense. I doubt that England (men's team) will ever be good enough, until they change the way they think about the game. We are not the sum total of one or two batsmen (Flintoff and Pietersen) there is no I in team; they need to realise that they themselves are capabe of winning every match they play but they lose so much that that is what they expect and so that is what happens ... with monotonous regularity. I just wonder how many more times the crowd will be willing to get behind such a losing side time and again, and how many times they will be willing to fork out all this money to see them play at these expensive venues, watching the team lose again and again and again. Ok, they may win today but can you see them winning the next 4 matches? me neither. How they ever wrestled The Ashes back is beyond me, it really is. Australia must be having a good laugh at us in private, they know we are weak and now so do I.
© silversapphire 2009If our Women's Cricket team can play AND WIN their ODI's and their Ashes series consistently then why do the men find it so hard? Answer: The women have the right mental attitude, they want to win and they see Australia as equal; so they play accordingly, they do not see Australia, like the men seem to do, as conquerors. It's so depressing to see this lot almost quaking at the crease, turning away from the ball as if they don't want to hit it, or be hit by the ball, it's daft to the point of nonsense. I doubt that England (men's team) will ever be good enough, until they change the way they think about the game. We are not the sum total of one or two batsmen (Flintoff and Pietersen) there is no I in team; they need to realise that they themselves are capabe of winning every match they play but they lose so much that that is what they expect and so that is what happens ... with monotonous regularity. I just wonder how many more times the crowd will be willing to get behind such a losing side time and again, and how many times they will be willing to fork out all this money to see them play at these expensive venues, watching the team lose again and again and again. Ok, they may win today but can you see them winning the next 4 matches? me neither. How they ever wrestled The Ashes back is beyond me, it really is. Australia must be having a good laugh at us in private, they know we are weak and now so do I.
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