They've done it

I write this with literally tears of joy in my eyes on one of the most memorable days of my life... England have just regained the Ashes....still can't believe it...oh, what a maddening and beatiful thing is this thing called Sport...Wow.

9/11

And I looked and I beheld a pale horse and the name that sat on him was Death and, Hell followed with him.

It's hard to believe that its been a full four years since that fateful tuesday. The subsequent war on terror has been quite successful. Al-Qaeda is on the run, it is very desperate and therefore at its most dangerous. Its looking for soft targets and using the most deadliest weapon of all- the suicide attacker; created in the Middle East but now a global menace.Why would a person ever become a suicide bomber? I might grow to be a wise, old man and might someday be able to answer some of life's toughest questions but i don't think i'll ever be able to answer that question. Of course, i've heard all the rationalisations-of the bitterness and rage caused by oppression and exploitation, of the anger,of the helplessness but its never made sense to me. I'm sorry, but its simply unfathomable and very,very sad. That a human imagination can be so limited that it sees its own extinction as victory.

it always begins badly

The first month is always the toughest.Like last year, it had tension,pressure,arguments,loads of late-night discussions,tons of work and worst of all, terrible coughs and colds.But now its over and normal service can be resumed.

Getting to other matters, the most important test match in a generation begins tomorrow at the Oval. It seems to me that God,Destiny and dare i say it, the better players are on England's side.