It's Saturday. The sun's out here in France. England are being humiliated by India at Trent Bridge and I believe the state of terrorist alert has fallen from red to amber. Incidentally, here is the official terrorist position.

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist
threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved".
Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or
even "A Bit Cross". Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the
blitz began in 1940 and tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have
been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance". The last
time the British issued "A Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during
the great fire of 1666.

I stop there because the rest of the joke was too anti French, German and Spanish for me to risk losing friends.

Back to cricket and Jonny Borrell. Here is the link to the teatime interview with him. I have pinched the BBC headline as the title of today's blog as an example of a contradiction in terms.

Of course, we all know that Australia rules the cricket world but I was delighted to hear that Macmillan Education Australia won both Primary Publisher of the Year and Secondary Publisher of the Year at the annual Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing in Melbourne last week.