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Grunger

I love watching Cricket at Scarborough - during a rainbreak I had a conversation with an elderly gentleman who witnessed Bradman's last innings for Australia at the 1949 Festival there.

I take no pleasure from the troubles at LCCC and hope the Members get the Club back on the right path. Bumble often turns up at Scarborough - he is well liked there and will be upset at events at OT. The YCCC Board are currently trying to persuade Members to vote for demutualisation - I'm waiting for them to give us full details before I decide.

Tyke

Does that mean Yorks want to become a limited company? I dont know what Lancs are.

Grunger

The Board are still looking at the 'best' way to demutualise ensuring that Members' interests are protected.
Having spent most of my working life employed by a Mutual Insurance Society I believe in the concept of mutuality. I understand the Club need to bring in finance to ensure Headingley is fit to host Test Matches in the future.
The fact that neither Old Trafford nor Headingley host an Ashes Test next year seems to give credence to the Board's view.

@ grunger 70

As a pensioner living in south Wales, journeys to Old Trafford are, I'm afraid, out of the question.

Anyway, as a Liverpudlian, applying for a visa and getting lots of jabs for travel to alien places would be too much of a faff.

Old Trafford seems to be concentrating on commercial success while forgetting its core business. A bit like the other Old Trafford.

swarbrules

jigjag is also from Liverpool but lives in N Wales I think.

Swarbrules

I had a few days in S Wales the other week. My son is a Swansea City supporter so we went to a match there and visited the old Vetch Field.
Also visited the Football and rugby grounds in Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr. Very enjoyable.

Swarbrules

I went to Yorkshire's CC game against Glamorgan at Sophia Gadens a few years ago. We made them follow on but a combination of Welsh rain and weak Yorks bowling saw the game end up in a draw.
I loved the ground and the Cardiff night life.
Years ago I went to Ninian Park and have, more recently, visited the Rugby ground and the new Cardiff City Stadium.

A rather specialist one, but a frequent annoyance for me.

RT 42 Trigger for pet with a spoken register (8)

CATALYST.

Catalysr is to often used as a synonym for "trigger", but it's quite wrong. A trigger starts something off; a catalyst doesn't - it speeds up something that was happening anyway, however slowly.

Chrise
Thanks. I think we made oxygen in the lab using a catalyst. I never understood how it remained unchanged. One of the many things I didnt understand in chemistry.

Just heard a good one on the rugby. The Canadian commentator pronounced Keighley "Kayleigh"!

[grunger - you would probably have made oxygen from hydrogen peroxide, using manganese(IV) oxide as the catalyst. This oxidises the hydrogen peroxide to oxygen, being reduced to manganese(II) oxide; this is then oxidised back to manganese(IV) oxide by more hydrogen peroxide, so as result overall remains unchanged.]