Test Match Special - No Balls: Hundred success and presenting mishaps

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Kate Cross and Alex Hartley return, and Kate is loving life as the Northern Superchargers enjoy a strong campaign in the Hundred. She tells us all about that and why teammate Annabel Sutherland could become one of the game's best players. Alex has tales, good and bad, from her presenting exploits. And we've got plenty of time for listeners' questions.

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beeps them out, but we might sometimes say, sheesh kebab, flippin' heck. That's a swear word. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Oh, that's... Boulder, Boulder, leaving a ball alone, Litchfield.

I think it's the wobble ball and it just nips back it jags back it's the nipbacker that is a beauty from Kate Cross an absolute seed that is a beauty

for Cross so Crossy says 321 and we both press record at the same time she's done it here hello welcome to No Balls a great podcast with me

Alex Hartley and you Kate Cross and I'll fill in the context because no Hartley context no context Hartley we're in the same room yes I

organised dinner tonight and with one of your team mates and one of my ex-teamates and totally forgot you were going to be here and then I was like crossies around yes our schedules have been mad though haven't we we tried to meet up in London last week and you thought you're staying near me it turns out it was a 45 minute tube journey you were like can't be bothered with that I was like don't bother with that so we didn't see each other even though we're in the capital and now we're both in the capital of Wales and we're here in the same room and this is one of the first podcasts we've done together for months. It feels like it, doesn't it?

Months and months. Well, that's because it is. Possibly. I don't know. I don't even remember what we spoke about on the last one, so. No, we were just like, should we just listen to it for five minutes? I think last time you just presented your first BBC TV show. I played a game.

Had we tied? No, I don't think you'd had the tie. So there's been two ties. No, we have. We have, because I said how I felt like we'd lost the game for my team for Phase5. So we had done the tie. Yeah. Anyway, how are you? Superchargers are winning. I'm great. How good? You're actually not winning. You're dominating.

We have had, in fact, I'm going to read this out so I get this right, because this is a good stat. Superchargers, in the last five days, have completed three of the five biggest wins by runs in Women's 100. So we beat the Invincibles by 8 to 2 runs on Friday, beat the originals by 46 runs on Sunday, and then beat the Phoenix by 61 runs yesterday. flying. How good. So we're due a bad game. Yeah. Yeah, you are. Hopefully it's against the Welsh fire. We're due to play the Welsh fire tomorrow. However, it's wet. Very wet. Very wet. As in like, could be a completely wasted trip to Cardiff.

Could be like no men's cricket either. Like not a single ball, could be ball tomorrow. This podcast will probably come out afterwards, so in hindsight, everyone will know. Yeah. We don't know yet. It's rained. It's raining. It's rained, it's going to rain. You just told me, if it rains tomorrow, you can't finish top. Yes, we can, but it's out of our hands.

So if we won tomorrow and won all our other games, we could finish top. Yeah. Tomorrow would be shared points, which would then mean if Welshfire win their games, we cannot finish top. Yeah. So we have to rely on Welshfire to lose then. We're halfway through. Just over. Just over.

You've got three games left? Yes. Plus finals. Hopefully. Touch would. Hopefully. Sorry, by the way, if you can hear fizzying, fizziness, so I'll sparkling water.

Top up, thank you. You told me off-reating strawberries on the podcast last week. It's like there's podcasts out there that drink like alcohol on theirs. We drink sparkling water because you're an athlete, and I'm not drinking at the minute. She's off here? I am. Because you've been so much. Tell everyone where you think, because you'd actually done this on the last podcast.

but we didn't know whether to talk about it because we didn't know whether you'd hate it. I went to run club. She's been to run club. Oh my God, it was so hard. How, on average, what was the average age of people there? 40? Yeah, okay.

And then it was honestly cross. It was so hard. I could taste blood. I could smell blood. I felt like I was dying. So you drove, you actually drove 30 minutes to go to this run club because you don't want to do the run club on your doorstep in case you saw it.

anyone you knew so you drove 30 minutes what's my ex-boyfriend's there well you keep bumping into him so it doesn't matter well up but then you message me at like 8 p.m saying just done and you started at 6 I know I was like where have you been what have you run where have you run to trail running I was Birmingham trail running I was through the forest I was tripping over twigs the chest was burning so I started out out I started out in the medium group and it was like first rep where you do a warm-up first rep was like a 580 metres sprint so I was thinking okay that's 580 meters yeah so I'm thinking it's half a K in it or whatever it must have just been the loop field 180 meters is not half a K is it is 500 is yeah

well just over so I'm thinking okay back in the day it's like one and a bit laps of the track I can do that easy I went out I was sprinting I was catching up to the fast group second time same again I was doing the same again anyway the next lot of runs was A kilometre run. Right. I ended up in a slow group. Okay. So you burnt out early.

Yeah, yeah. It went out too fast. Nice to be back running though. Around 6K. Really proud of you. And then they were like, okay, run club's done. We're going to finish with some hill sprints. No, I'm not.

No, no. I sat and watched. And when we ran up that thing in Perth, is it called Jacob's Ladder? And we were like, right, we'll just sprint up here. It was probably about a kilometer up, about 3,000 steps. We got to the top and we were both vomiting. And we got to the top and you were like, I'm going to down three times a week.

Yeah. not done it, except my calves, I'm in the same. I had Dom's on the plane home. I did as well a week later. Well, well done you. I've also been dieting, I've been exercising. I ran yesterday, ran 4K. Nice. And then I watched the 1,500 metre sprint in the Olympics. And they look so slow compared to me, who just ran 4K in 23 minutes. They are a joke, by the way. We were watching this the other day. And we run 5Ks, don't we? So you can put it into context, like, context. Context. Context. Not concept. Context. And the guys that finished last, I'm like, you're crap.

16 minutes that bloated it in. The winner's doing it in 12. I know. 12 minute 5K. 12 minutes. That's a sprint. That, have you seen the clip on the BBC of the people trying to keep up with Oh, Hodgkinson?

On the, when they're on the treadmill. Yeah, and they do it for like 12 seconds. 12 seconds. Yeah, it's crazy, crazy, crazy. But otherwise, you will. I thought you were. You are. I'm good.

I am good. I am a bit under the weather today, actually. it's because I think I've been bitten and I think it's got into my blood okay it's not like that was last week but it won't go down but do you know when you're just a bit like me I had a lay night

we're mid-hundred I know fatiguing tournament how are you finding it because it's shorter than last year shorter and more manic we are we're travelling after every game at the minute because

that's a shame I know we're playing travelling that evening day off the next day in different city playing the next day so it's full on at the minute it. But we win in, so it's really handy to have the momentum. I think if we were in a bad place at the minute, it would be a tough part of the...

Like Manchester. It'd be a tough part of the schedule. But I think since we beat the Oval at the Oval, we've, I don't know, we just seem to have gained the confidence that we kind of lacked in the first two games. Okay. So as a group, we're in a great place. I'm in a good place. I'm just tired, but it's 100, so you're going to be tired. You're bowling well, though? I'm bowling all right. I'm actually, I don't feel very good. I don't feel like I'm bowling well She does this all the time She puts herself down

But you know what When you're not in your rhythm Yeah Here we go How many no balls have you bowed Four That's all right That's normal

That's okay Uphill at Headingly though Anyway Anyway playing yesterday at Edge Baston I'm at Anna's end Oh yes I give her my cap Give her my sonny

She goes When is this golf day I was like Oh Anna Yeah I'm right I'm over I'm 17th of September Or 18th I was like, we'll get it in the group chat later, so we need to put that.

Okay, we can do that. Put it on the to-do list. Straight after this, we'll do that. Have you got anything on you sticking out? Anna, actually. Anna Harris. Yeah? Same Anna, big up, Anna.

A blue bomber, sorry about that, Anna. I'm just going to read that now. Are you commentating at Edgebaston today? I said, I'm not. I'm at Trent Bridge. Ah, good. Trent Bridge tomorrow, said, no, Cardiff Thursday. She said, ah, Trent Bridge tomorrow, Edgebaston, Thursday,

one day, Cup, Cardiff, Saturday. So I'm even in the wrong place as Anna is. It's hard. The 100 schedule is crazy. My schedule has been lovely. Yeah, you've had loads of time off for the first time ever. Yeah, but it doesn't feel like time off crossy because I'm so tired from actually working. From running? From running.

Running 6K. I ran on Wednesday and then on Tuesday, so that's not even a week between. Wow, we. No, but this week on, what day is it now? Wednesday. So I do Thursday, Saturday. Yeah. Oh, I did it. No.

This is my commentary schedule. I interviewed Rashid Khan. Oh yes. He followed me on Instagram. Did he? Yes. Nice. What was it about?

What were you chatting about? We were chatting about bowling. We were chatting about like his routines, his variations. He showed me a secret ball that he's never shown anyone before on camera. And then I got him to bowl with a rugby ball, a football, a squash ball, a baseball. Of course you did. Alex Hartley does the 100. Of course you did.

Was he good? Was he nice? He was so nice. I didn't think about that We tried So disclaimer We tried to get Annabelle Sutherland We tried to get Holly Armitage

That's probably where we drew the line Because we fed up with people saying no to us Everyone says no to us It's getting disheartening actually Actually isn't it Maybe we go back to Glenn again Glenn will always say yes Stephen Finn will say yes

He's working on four times He's working 11 days out of 12 He'll be fine Right we need to get him on So when does that interview with Rashid can't come out Saturday okay that's quite a long time ago away well that's when they next play they play today on the TV I gotcha I'm thinking how am I going to throw to it because obviously I'm presenting

and I'm with Rashid Khan doesn't make sense and earlier in the week I got to catch up with Rashid Khan yeah okay because you're not with him now it's not like an optical illusion I might get him to come in do it all again like yeah talk to me um you had a bad day presenting actually didn't you know we're touching on it I cried crossy I cried at work. It was so stressful. Like, I've got so much respect for Ishigua, because I now know what she goes through

and I know it was hard anyway. But, I'm mid-presenting and I had me and Jason Roy, great man, by the way, and we're talking, and then we bring in Stephen Finn. And as soon as we kept bringing in the third guest, I lost all

comms communication to the truck, couldn't hear the guests. All I knew is that we'd plan that I had to go to this VT and that VT so I'm thinking remember it in the right order remember it in the right order do it okay say I can't hear you in the truck we'll sort it out for the mid-innings break the same happened

again I was stressed I threw to the wrong thing I was just overthinking it so I cried so for anyone that doesn't understand TV we have ear pieces in and the people in your ear are telling you everything they're counting down the VTs they're counting down well you don't have breaks on BBC do you so they're counting down until you

go into the next thing they're saying when people are available to come into screen. They're telling you when you're on screen. They're telling... So everything is communicated by that little earpiece and that's what you lost. And I lost all communication. It was so stressful.

So I hope it's fixed for tomorrow. Oh gosh. Did anyone message you saying like it was obvious or did no one really pick up on it? Oh right. So that's fine. And I went and watched it because I was like, I must have been sat there, stood there,

but arms in the air being like, what? And they were like, next time you're a piece goes, just touch your ears to like to like tell us that you've lost ears rather than throw your arms in the air. Okay, but this is the learning, isn't it? This is the stuff that you don't know yet. I was like, I can't hear anything. Did you tell that to the TV?

No. Okay. No. I waited until the camera was just on a single of Finney. Maybe this is a little bit like when Stephen Finn got hit for the most amount of runs in the four sets that you bowled at Headingley that time. Like, it just can't get worse. It can't get worse. It might get worse, but it won't get worse.

Every time we've done something, something's gone wrong. So hopefully from now on, well, it's all a learning as well, is it. Yeah, and you've got to know how to deal with the things when they go wrong. But yeah, Isha, you're a hero. What a woman. Just out presenting the Olympics, by the way. I know. The Olympics, crossy.

Yeah, what about that rock climbing you put onto me the other day? Put me on to. The bouldering. They were no good. And then you said we'd be able to do it. Yeah, because all they do is get on the wall and fall off. The wall's too hard. They can't even climb it.

I saw them doing the actual rock climbing the other day, and they run up that like they're a lizard. The speed running up the... Yeah. Right? They run up a wall faster than I run on the concrete, I reckon. Easy. Most people would, I think. Oh, God. Right, where are you in the table? Second. Second at the minute?

Behind. Welshire. Yeah, they are. Top of the table. They've had a good summer, haven't they? Again. Four or five games, yeah. Got rid of some dead wood, has it got announced on the telly? Do you know what? Lydia, yesterday, I took a catch in the deep, and she was like,

the old girl still got it. There you green way. Coming for you. Are you old compared to your team, actually? So old. So, so old. I'm literally sat on the bus playing cards with them and I'm like, it's like I'm babysitting.

Also, talking of babysitting, Baby Grace has been to every cricket ground in the country. Yeah, she's flying around. Isn't she? Flying around. Loves it. Jen put her in Birmingham Phoenix College yesterday, though, which was a bit of a disappointment.

Yeah, where's the purple? Not got a purple. Speaking of purple. What's going on? Yeah, so you can't see this. because, again, we're not on the telly. But I'm gifted a lot of gifts in this hundred. All bracelets.

So many bracelets. So if anyone is looking at me playing going, what on earth is going on her left wrist. Do you just feel bad wearing one and not the other, is that? Yeah, so it started by Holly making me one that says VC on it, and it goes in the dark. What's that for? Vice Captain.

You've not announced that on the podcast. Congratulations. Same as last year. The rest of them have been children that have handed me gifts when I've gone around and signed things. You're running out of room on your arms. Yeah. But then the right wrist, so that was my left.

Left wrist is supercharger's wrist. Right wrist is no balls risk because we've been given matching bracelets that say no balls on them and then they've got our initials on them as well. For anyone that's making me bracelets and you're the age of seven to nine, our wrists will be the same size.

So these are very baggy. Yeah, Alex has got skinny wrist but Alex has got skinnier wrists. But I've got a bone to pick with actually some people that just outside our hotel in Cardiff which has been happening this year people are coming to our hotel waiting outside

and autograph hunting find it a bit weird one guy just came off the bus being at golf one guy goes shall I do a Welsh accent can I have your autograph that's a good one

it's a good one that so I said yeah sure yeah sure you went which one are you I went oh I'm not I'm not signing anything if you don't know who I am no you didn't I did and his mate was like

oh thank you Kate is that bit Welsh yeah that was Welsh so I signed his stuff and didn't sign the other guy's stuff. Crossy. I'm sorry, but that is annoying. Don't come to where we stay in and then...

Not know who you are. Not know who we are. And stop us in the middle of what we're up to. I had a middle-aged man pushing front of loads of kids the other day that annoyed me because the kids come first. Kids always do come first, yeah. I've got nothing else on my sticky note.

I am happy to go upstairs if you are because we've got a lot of emails. Yeah. Who with? Anna and Sue? Anna and Sue, sorry Anna, still not to text you back about the golf day. The Dakar Rally is the ultimate off-road challenge, perfect for the ultimate defender. The high-performance defender, Octa, 626 horsepower twin turbo V8 engine and intelligent 6D dynamics air suspension.

Learn more at Landrover.ca. Okay, this one is called podcast, and this is from Jaya. This is great because someone's phonetically spelled how they spell their name. So we often get these wrong. So thank you so much, J-O, because we don't want to look like idiots. I reckon I could get J-A right, though. It is J-A-Y-A. Hi, Kate and Alex.

I hope you're well. I'd like to say thank you to Alex for taking time to speak to me and my mum during the 100 game last week and I'd also like to apologise on behalf of my mum in case she scared you I was a bit lost for words so just allowed her to do all the talking my question for Alex is

do you ever get the urge to want to play cricket again when commentating? That's from Jaya and she's put a little picture of you two together cute but no Jaya I get asked this all the time every day do I miss it no I was so mentally unwell with cricket and I've been anxious but through different reasons

and I've not been anxious I've not been depressed and I just feel so like calm about life now so although I missed the 100 and the team environment like all the Welsh girls went out the other night and I was like

oh I'd love to be there How would you feel if you didn't have to do the dual role of commentating and cricket like do you think you could cricket again if you could just focus on cricket? No no not at all because I think you

declined when you had to do both roles. Yeah, when it got too much. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So, so, I didn't have a day off for two years. Yeah. Speaking of days off, we need to plan our holiday.

Yeah, we do. Right, well, last week it was all dedicated to me, so here's a cross, there's a cross everywhere, a Kate cross. It's clever. Hi, Kate and Alex, for the first time in my adult life, I found myself looking for somewhere to go on holiday on my own. I've recently got back from a surprisingly sunny week in Leeds, which I chose so I could take in some of, of the 100. I saw the matches against Trent Rockets and Southernbraith and thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many top players. I have a few questions inspired by my trip. The first is for Kate. There are a lot of posters of you around Headingley. You are also one of the main players on the big screen, asking

fans to bring the noise and advertising in the 100 app. Do you enjoy being such a public face of the game and how much do you think no balls has helped you become so recognisable? We say this a lot on the podcast, but I do think we're more recognised for podcasting than we are for cricket. You're not, I am. Okay, maybe fair. But I am still playing so it's relevant.

Holly Armitage actually jokes with me a lot about this because she says that I'm the face of Headingley. Yeah, you are. Even though she's the captain. She doesn't care. But like little things so one Beanie hat got given out for each team. You got it? I got it and I was the one that had to put it on social

media so in my head the hundred are smart because i have more followers than holly so in that regard advertising is a little bit easier i don't not enjoy it but i think if it was i was more nervous first year of the hundred because i did a lot of advertising for the hundred and i didn't know how i was going to be whereas now four years in i feel more settled i think my stats are okay so it means that i'm like i'm not i don't know i'm trying i do not i'm trying to say but It's not warranted, but... Your face is allowed to be on an advert because you're playing well. Basically, yeah.

Do you know what I would hate? And I really feel sorry for Ben Stokes this week because it's all been about him coming back. Got first baller. There has never been anything more short in the 100, the cricket in history that he was going to get first balled up yesterday. No. And I felt so sorry for him because they just made a big deal out of him.

And that is the price you pay for being famous. I'm good at cricket. Now a couple of other questions for you both It looked to me like the Trent Rockets women Had 10 genuine bowling options in their team Which teams would do well if every player had to bowl 10 balls? Not Birmingham Phoenix Because they've got four wicketkeepers

We've got We're decent because we've got six out and out Holly can bowl leggies Dav can bowl Dav can bowl everything. Can she? Leggy, Seymuk. Who's Davina Perrin?

Thank you. Sorry. We'd be decent, actually. I think the Welsh fire would be good as well. Tammy loves bowling offspin. Yeah, but just loving it doesn't mean you good at it. True. I'm not sure, because there's batters for a reason.

Two, in the 100 this year, we have Matt Short, not actually short, and Josh Little, not actually a little. Who else in the cricket has the wrong name? Kate Cross? I'm not cross You look cross a lot of the time Oh no I've tried really hard to work on that

Who else we got Well we call Matt tall now You Matt tall Not Matt tall Not Matt short Not Matt short Is there anyone called Long Phil Long the scorer

Is he long? No Everything long Apparently Josh isn't little either Okay leave it there this one's called the 100

hi Kate and Alex this is from Sue Redfern no Sue sharp Is she though Is she sharp though

Is she blunt Sue Blunt Sue Blunt Really enjoying the hundreds but especially angry by the difference

in crowd numbers between the women's and the men's matches What do you think is the answer Would it help if the women's games were in the evening

rather than during working day What about weekend differences to Be interested to hear your thoughts Sue Blunt Actually we've brought

broken loads of records this year. Yeah. So I'm not against the 100 crowds. I think they've been rubbish at Manchester. Cardiff have broken records because the crowds haven't been great at Cardiff over the last three years. I do think the game should swap round

every now and then. I do think, because the boys finish so late, sometimes they want to finish early as well. Yeah, I don't know why they haven't tried that yet because do you remember our first, first game in the 100? Manchester played Oval at Oval and we had 11,000 in that night. and I think if they did that now

they'd have easily 16,000, 17,000 easy on a Friday night Yeah, I think they should swap it round every now and then. I'm not sure I'm angry about it like Sue Blunt is though She's been quite blunt about it actually Yeah

It's quite a blunt email Yeah, but quite a sharp assessment This one is from Giles from York Annabelle Sutherland, Belsie Hi Kate and Cross Kate and Cross What? It doesn't say that at all.

No, I said Belsie. Hi, Kate and Alex. Doesn't say hi. No, I know. I just thought I was called Cross. Oh, God. Hi, Kate, Knots Across and Alex Big Hartley.

Big fan of the pod, Kate. Oh my God, I can't read. Big fan of the pod. Kate, I wanted to get your opinion on Annabelle Sutherland, your current teammate, who has been sensational in the 100 this season for the Northern Superchargers. Ashes 100, Test My

double hundred and several impressive spells for that Australia with a white ball bowling through tough overs in the death in white ball cricket in the past in the space of 12 months you get the gist do you think she will be as good as Elise Perry and become the leading all rounder in the next decade or so a really good question I think she absolutely could be better than Elise but the thing that makes Elise very great at what she does is that she's done it for a long time and she's continued to produce but Annabelle has impressed me so so much obviously you played with her at Welsh fire a couple years ago did you yeah got four ducks in six games cheers mate can't happen um but the thing that's

impressed me most about Belzee is her professionalism around training and this is what I think the hundred's great because this is this is the stuff that the young players get to see and learn from when the overseas players come into an environment um they just see how different internationals work it's not just you know you regional players you international regional players that come back in for a game or so like they they see differences um so her professionalism around training has been unbelievable um how she thinks about the game for a 22 year old is like pretty remarkable is she so young and she forget yeah i i her the brain that she has would make me think that she's played hundreds of more games than she has.

And her skill set is ridiculous. I don't think I quite realised how good a batter she is until I've seen her play for us. Yeah. She can hit, not many people can hit, in the women's game, can hit a ball off the back foot powerfully, and she hit one for six the other day, off the back foot. Can happen.

I only know Nat Siver to be able to do that. And Belsie. And Belsie. And also a great humour. Amazing. I'm really coming out of a shell as well. Do you know my favourite nightclub in Cardiff's called Heidi's? Yeah.

Her mum's called Heidi. Is she? Yeah, and she's now with her mum in Cardiff. Yeah, at Heidi's. Hopefully they've gone to Heidi. Have you still got your loyalty card for Heidi? Yeah, I'm going to get it out for tomorrow. Nice.

Yeah, get my free entry. So, yeah, I do think Bellsie could be one of, I mean, like, you don't score a test match double hundred without being ridiculously good. Did she get a double hundred? Yeah, is she going to be... Was it a double hundred or just a hundred? Double. You sure?

Yeah. I thought Tammy was the only one to get a double hundred in that game. No, it was that game Tammy was. They've played another test match. Oh, she did it. It wasn't against us. No. She got 100 against us, though.

Yeah. Yeah. Is she going to be better than Sivera? Different roles. Very, very different. I mean, she could. The game's going to evolve so much. Like, the thing that Elise and Nat haven't had, didn't get to do early in their careers

is go and play franchise cricket around the world and have that responsibility of being an overseas player, and she's doing that at 22 and she's won us two games so far already and she's, I'm pretty sure she's the MVP of the tournament at the minute in terms of like the most points gained from the MVP table

so to do that at 22 what were you doing at 22 cheat 19 on a Saturday you don't want to know why I was doing it 20 you don't you actually don't Robert says is there any no balls merchandise for sale no

not anymore well we gave away then three mugs. What are we thinking with that? That cost us so much money. 500 quid. Do you know, I can't walk down the street or drive down the street, Mancune Way, without seeing that one that we left to us. We still don't know if that guy got that. No, I never said

thank you. When are you next in Manchester? Sunday, Monday. And then I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday. Sunday, 100's done! It's gone so fast, actually, hasn't it? Why are you coming fast? I remember saying to myself last week, like, when we get to this point, it's going to fly now because we're on the road traveling plane.

and I was like make sure you take everything in and enjoy it all because it's going to be over like that Where are you off to have to Cardiff? Manchester Manchester, for Sunday For Sunday, for Father's Day

Oh, I might come Is it actually Father's Day on Sunday by the way? No? No, it's been a gone Yeah, Father's Day is ages ago Okay I might come to that then Okay

You start at three? Yeah No, yeah Oh, Derby Day Darby Day We beat them once Yeah it's really weird because obviously we both played for Manchester right I am obviously a Welsh fire fan

but I'm now massively Northern Superchargers because I love your team yeah we do have a really good team and actually the Derby day last week so we played them out Headingley on Sunday it didn't have I'll say this lightly because there was so much rivalry there don't get me wrong but it was so friendly at the same time like at the end of the game we were all stood around having a chat yeah and it was really nice to see Fee and Phoebe and and they were all, like, well-bowled. Everyone was just so lovely. I was going to see Fee today for a coffee, housemate Fee,

and she cancelled. Oh, busy. Busy girl, it's the 100 time. Yeah, forgive her. That's it, I'm done. Should we go for some tea? Let's go. No-ballers on.

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