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<h1 class="entry-title">I Know, I Know, I Promised To Write About Books . . .</h1>

<p class="date-posted">Posted  7 January 2009 in <span class="category"><a rel="tag" href="http://circulatinglibrary.net/category/Random-Photographs/">Random Photographs</a></span> by Catriona</p>

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	<p>But with a day divided between excavating the skeleton of my argument from a journal article that has been provisionally accepted (but needs to have its theoretical and methodological framework refined before the 31st of January) and being really, really annoyed that Australia won the Sydney test (even though it was a dead game with the series already won) when Graham Smith had gone through the effort of batting when he has both a severely damaged elbow <em>and</em> a broken hand&#8212;well, I&#8217;m a little tired.</p>

	<p>So I&#8217;m wimping out on the update and loading some more photographs of my parents&#8217; beautiful garden, which is largely the handiwork of my brother the horticulturalist.</p>

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	<p>See? Nice and soothing. Now I can go back to what I&#8217;m calling theoretical archaeology (why, yes: I am rather pretentious) to the calm, illusionary sound of a water garden that&#8217;s actually one thousand kilometres away.</p>

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<p class="date-posted">Wendy wrote at <a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net/archives/i-know-i-know-i-promised-to-write-about-books#c001559" id="c001559">Jan  7, 08:27 PM</a></p>

	<p>&#8220;theoretical archaeology&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s great!<br />
yes &#8211; that cricket was so annoying when Australia won&#8230;and the tension was almost unbearable at the end when Smith came out to bat.</p>

	<p>beautiful photos though!</p>



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<p class="date-posted"><a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net" rel="nofollow">Catriona</a> wrote at <a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net/archives/i-know-i-know-i-promised-to-write-about-books#c001560" id="c001560">Jan  7, 09:00 PM</a></p>

	<p>I spent the last six or seven overs, however long Smith had until Johnson clean-bowled him, pacing round and round the living room and wincing every time he had to play a shot. </p>

	<p>And I was ropeable when the commentators said something along the lines of &#8220;Well, of course you&#8217;d bring Johnson in to bowl to Smith&#8212;after all, he&#8217;s the one who broke Smith&#8217;s hand.&#8221; So, that&#8217;s a good thing, now, is it?</p>

	<p>Still, it&#8217;s been a fantastic series&#8212;best I&#8217;ve seen in years. And South Africa won, which is brilliant. I just wish he&#8217;d managed to last another fifteen balls, to force the draw and deny Australia even the victory of the dead match. I do so love it when Australia lose cricket games.</p>



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<p class="date-posted">Wendy wrote at <a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net/archives/i-know-i-know-i-promised-to-write-about-books#c001561" id="c001561">Jan  7, 09:43 PM</a></p>

	<p>yes I thought that comment was awful too! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time&#8230;it has been a great series because it was actually competitive! And Australia couldn&#8217;t just coast through to meaningless victories!</p>

	<p>(please don&#8217;t report me to the bureau for un-australian activities and sentiments)</p>

	<p>:)</p>



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<p class="date-posted"><a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net" rel="nofollow">Catriona</a> wrote at <a href="http://circulatinglibrary.net/archives/i-know-i-know-i-promised-to-write-about-books#c001562" id="c001562">Jan  7, 09:52 PM</a></p>

	<p>If I report you, I have to report myself&#8212;I am, technically, an Australian citizen, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I want them to win the cricket.</p>

	<p>I remember when an Australian victory wasn&#8217;t always assured. Bring back those days! And Curtly Ambrose!</p>



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