All wear bowlers

Last night Natalie and I went off to the theatre.

I saw a review for a small theatrical production at the London Barbican centre recently and decided it looked like fun. The show is titled 'All wear Bowlers' and is the story of two silent movie characters who escape of the screen and end up in front of the audience in real life. The two characters are at first confused then scared and then try to plan an escape, without much success.

The show consists of alot of magic-style tricks and slapstick, including eggs which seem to continually appear out of nowhere.

It is amazing to watch two performers (that is the entire cast) go for 70 minutes. It must be draining and they are amazing to watch.

It was alot of fun and Natalie and I both agreed a good find. On the link above you can watch film of some of the antics the two performers get up to.

Snow Fun!

Overnight winter truly arrived. It was only a month late!

The last few days have seen the weather cool to true London winter temperatures. We have seen days of top temperatures below five degrees centigrade and overnight temperatures below zero.

A clear night eventually gave way to cloud and this morning we awoke to the most snow we have seen since we arrived in London.

Before driving to work I dusted off about two centimetres of snow from our car. And while the local streets were a little tricky once I got on the main road there was little trouble.

That was virtually all the snow we have seen since. While at work I saw one brief snow shower but it was bright and sunny for much of the day.

Overnight there may be more snow but the forecast is for south-eastern London to receive most of that. We will see.

Off to work: Natalie walks down the street in the snow this morning.

Proposed changes for the next Ashes series

There are suggestions that there should be a handicapping system for the next Ashes series so that England can be competitive. Some of the suggestions include:

• All Australian batsmen have to bat in the opposite way to their normal batting. Eg. Right-handed batmen bat left-handed.
  
• While England are fielding, the one bounce, one hand rule will apply.
  
• In a move to particularly target the likes of Andrew Symonds, during Australian innings’ the “six and out” rule will apply.
  
• Australia will be limited to bowling their ‘real’ bowlers to 20 overs an innings. The rest of the innings will be bowled by either:


• A bowling machine


• The wicket keeper


• The Australian batsmen


• Billy Bowden


• Billy Lawry’s pigeons


• England will start each of their innings with a score of 100.