andycoll

Just finished watching 'Rambo, Last Blood'. Glad it only went for 89 minutes.

This, a very weird book.

Good win to Australia. 2 nil up with one to go. The big question now is with all the fires burning around Sydney, will they have to cancel the test due to lack of visibility.

NZ all out for 148 halfway through the second session. Australia not enforcing the follow on.

Australia all out for 467. NZ 2-44 at stumps. OZ on top at the moment. Going to be hot one tomorrow out in the middle of the "G".

Was watching the Boxing Day test between Australia and New Zealand. A good days cricket, points go to Australia. On the news they showed the first drunk being ejected. A kiwi, before the game had even started. No sense of tradition, your supposed to wait until the last session before being ejected. Then its back to the Cricketers Arms or the Royal to wait for your mates whilst perving on the topless barmaids.

Well that explains the make up of the crowds on walking street and the clientele of the GoGo bars.

Secret Army by Barry Stone. The force made up of members of the British empire in 1918 to go and fight in the Caucuses for an ever changing variety of ultimately futile reasons. Interesting if a bit light on.

Well I was watching the T20 match between the Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers in Canberra. Unfortunately at 4.2 overs into the second session the umpires stopped the game due to smoke from the bush fires, which are encircling Sydney, rolled in. Luckily there is another game about to start which is being played in Perth. So I can have that on in the background while I finish reading my book and listen to some music.

The only injection in the arse cheeks that I can remember was way back in my army days. It was a penicillin jab for an abscess of the throat. Hurt for days. And yes, I had showered before going to the RAP.

Time for bed now.

Still watching the cricket.

Rise and Fall, A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern. Interesting without being heavy going as it was only 250 pages long.

Watching the Aus v NZ test match at home here in Melbourne.

Joe Abercrombies latest. Full of blood, violence and a certain amount of crude sex. All in all a very pleasant read.

Ah yes the original Peppermint. Had many lovely ladies out of there.

Dominion by Tom Holland. A very heavy read as to be expected from a book spanning 2500 years. So much so that I stopped after the 1st 1000 years. Interesting but there is only so much religious discussion l can take at any one time.

For those who believe Cheats should never prosper, you are going to be disappointed. Unfortunately David Warner has just scored 335 not out. Admittedly it was against a very pedestrian Pakistan attack, but, nevertheless, there it is

Good question. In the interview with Lee Child he asked that same question and asked his many fans to put forward suggestions. The only person I could think of was Sam Elliot but he is to old. Steven Seagal is also to old, as well as fat for mine. Also I don't know if there will be a next movie as he said they are turning it into a TV series, which with 23 books and numerous short stories makes sense.

Me neither.

This. I reckon Reacher is getting more blood thirsty as he goes along. I think he killed about 60 people in 4 days without a cop in sight. On the plus side Lee Child has said no more Tom Cruise playing Reacher in any further movies, to short.

A good read.

That story about Hidden a go go was interesting because of a conversation I had with a lady friend who used to work their before it closed and then reopened. She left, as did quite a few of the other dancers and staff, due to trouble with the boss, a Korean, and one of the Mamasans. According to her, when he went to reopen it he tried to get a lot of his staff to come back, at higher salaries, but none of them would. I asked her if she wanted to go in for a drink after it reopened and she got very animated. Said she would never go into a bar he ran and hoped to see him out in the street so she could attack him. Apparently some of the other ladies felt the same. Now it looks like he has made more enemies. I hope they fix the fucker up.

I know that it's cheating but I'll go see "Rocketman" the movie instead.

Those Chinese are pretty smart putting an Exchange booth at the front door. Now all they need is an ATM inside.