chionomaniac

I will take a medium size case alongside a hand luggage case. I haven’t decided whether to take my tripod or buy a cheap one out there. Here is a great beginners guide to supercells and what to look out for if you are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time!

It will be well worth getting the RadarScope app and having a little play with it. It’s not satellite linked like I think the barons is, but still gives great data about the forming storms.

No. There must be more than one of us lol. But I am the original 😁

Hi all. I mistakenly thought that I was on tour 2, and I had a right panic when I actually read the email from Paul saying that I am on tour 1! Anyway I am all sorted flight wise now and will arrive on the 7th in the evening at 19:53 via Fort Lauderdale. I can’t wait to meet everyone and as far as I am concerned my holiday hasj ust been brought forward by 10 days.

When you think that you are on tour 2 but in reality booked tour 1. Oops what a numpty. Enjoy tour 2 guys, I am moving over to the tour 1 thread lol,

Ok well I am happy to admit I may be wrong over Lehmann if that is the case. I still believe he is brash and uncouth and should know what members of his team were plotting. He still should have faced the media I still find it difficult to believe that this was an isolated incident and that the bowlers weren’t aware that half the ball had been sandpapered. So another question - where did they get the yellow sandpaper from? Did they go to a DIY store in Cape Town after the previous days play as one would expect if they only thought of it at the time? Or did they have it before the tour started? If they did then that suggests more than an isolated incident and planning to cheat even before the tour started. Something just doesn’t feel right...

Look at all the tweets posted by the ex cricketers - those in the game know the real score. I suspect that Bancroft put sugar in his pocket during the ashes tour just in case a supporter offered him a cup of tea as well. LOL about the integrity officers - because it is not as if the team hadn't had time to get their story worked out prior to Sutherland's arrival. Warner was reported to have bragged to the English batsmen at the post ashes get together that they had tampered with the ball in the series. I guess all his Australian team mates where out of earshot when that happened too....

I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. I suspect that the majority of the team knew what was going on but those that didn't approve dared not say anything because the bullying culture was not just limited to opponents... yes Lehmann may have been gagged by CA but if he was not complicit then he should have been sat next to Sutherland today.

If Lehmann is so innocent why hasn't he faced the press and condemned the cheating that he knew nothing about? Walkie talkie to twelfth man " Go and tell Bancroft that he has been rumbled for cheating that I know nothing about " As if? If he knew nothing about it then he would have been shouting it from the rooftops and at the very least saying how disappointed he was with his team to resort to that. But nothing. Zilch. Nada. Why? Because he knew all along?

That CA news conference raises more questions than it answers imo. I can’t believe that the leadership group was just the three of them. Bancroft is a rookie after all. When they sent the message onto the field that Bancroft had been rumbled was that really the first time that the others became aware? Did the bowlers not know? And even if Lehmann didn’t know ( which is difficult to believe) surely the coach has responsibilities for the team and should go as well?

Did anyone see the clip of Bancroft through a window putting sugar in his pocket during the Ashes. And with Vaughan saying that there was a lot of tape on the mid on and mid off fielders hands one can only guess that this may have been going on some time. The sugar is the sand in the sand paper mix and the tape easily removed from the fingers. The SA TV guys were told to keep an eye on it by the players and once they homed in on Bancroft it was only a matter of time, so well done to them. It's a pity that the Aussie TV wasn't so vigilant, but they wouldn't be would they?

heavy graupel here with snow levels getting 1cm plus

Need to keep an eye on tomorrow. In the meantime expecting a heavier pulse here

Light but thick snow here presently. Still not sticking on warmer pavements but 1cm otherwise

Lo behold, snowing moderately from this direction now!