World Cricket 2015 competition

The world cricket competition 2015

Whilst this competition is an excellent idea and brings the cricketing nations of the world together, some of the events that occur on the playing field should be amended.

# Drink breaks should be confined to the official breaks it merely slows the game down.These are impromptu breaks not official one knows it gets hot however I never see Soccer, Rugby, Aussie rules footie  players doing this.

# Electronic reviews should be mandatory for all umpiring decisions

# Fast bowlers should be warned once regarding high deliveries, if breached sent off for a stipulated time.

# Apart from these instances as there are many more it does supposedly bring cricketing nations together every couple of years.

The England team this time were knocked out by Bangladesh who fought hard made a few errors but survived. The English coach and team should be ashamed.

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  My own team Australia are just as guilty at times in breaching these conditions.
The idea I guess is to bring nations who play cricket together, a great idea, I'm in favour of that
Similar breaches are also made in test cricket but not as bad as the one day competitions, whilst on that subject why won't the ICC permit Pakistan to play in their own country again lets face it they have been exiled to the Arab emirates in the Persian gulf for quite a few years now

Some StumbleUpon Tips for Newbie’s

Just a few tips for stumblers new at this and also for a lot of older ones who oddly enough do not know all of them; I was much the same until a friend told me, so we are or have been guilty at some time.
Here is one that a lot do not know about at all your shares; if someone sends you shares and the message vanishes it is easily found.
It is in your inbox the place you try not to use and send a message via the toolbar; which is a bad habit.
I sent the whole page to a friend once, her reply was; all I received was your page; not true.
When you go to your inbox it says Inbox. View Shares, the image below shows this.
All images are clickable

Sharing, a thorny issue at times lots will not use the bulk share option, if you favourite a site by thumbing up just use the bulk share method, one friend who has over 40 thousand shares cannot do this, the image below shows you, where it says share.

Click on the share button this is what you will see, merely tick all you wish to share to and it goes to your friends e-mail and their toolbar.

If you scroll down before you decide who to share it will show you who has this share; another thorny issue as people just share without looking so consequently you may well get the same share several times.


This is all mentioned on your page if you scroll to the bottom and click on help or FAQ’s.
However nobody takes any notice they share without checking to see if you have it on the info bar, MOST DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE IT IS.

Finland’s civil war a brief account

In 1917 the Russian revolution was whistling along to supposedly free Russian citizens from the Tsar’s yoke; this did not happen in fact it was worse for the poor Russian citizens; however the Russian fleet, which was in Helsinki Finland at the time mutinied; in my day military personnel do not mutiny.

The provisional government of the day in Helsinki cancelled most if not all of the Tsar’s government policies in regard to its neighbour Finland; to be blunt they wanted independence and frankly I don’t blame them.

Both the Tsar’s and the new communist regime were both degrading and shocking.

In these troubled times Finland was not ruled by a government per se, most of the power came from what was known as strike committees, breaking that down middle class and working class; this happened once before in 1905; same rules applied, they even had their own private armies or militias, police were replaced; that sort of thing, in fact things were sticky all round.

Unease set in, arguments, violence; and then the so called power act was passed which led to the making of decisions highly unpopular.

Finland’s government was then dissolved (and we think we have problems) murders were committed, in fact a highly unpleasant atmosphere was abroad.

Cutting to the chase non socialists won, in fact socialists had 92 seats out of 200.

Man being the beast he is (still can be at times) made the socialists royally pissed off, in fact Finnish society was gradually splitting up into two camps; both armed and damned dangerous and I bet you thought they were gentle people; they were not at that time I assure you.

Then along came the Bolshevik takeover in Russia; middle class Finns quite naturally dreaded this; not so the workers who thought quite differently.

However in November a middle class government of Finland was established; run efficiently by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, on December 6 1917 Finland was declared independent.

Bolshie Lenin (and to think he lived in London once, relax he was in gaol there) recognised Finland’s independence; December 6 has been known to Finns as their independence day; it is still celebrated as such.

Finland’s point of no return came when Svinhufvud’s government authorised the white guard to be the security force, and try and establish law and order, as by this time it had all but broken down.

Returned German guards transformed this white guard into a very credible fighting force; run by a former fighting Tsarist General, named Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, this General was a Finn but a Swedish speaking one; he also had a number of professional Swedish Military officers to aid and abet his cause

Military action was called for on Jan 27-28 1918; foreign intervention helped a little in this struggle

After the Brest-Litovsk treaty was signed artillery troops were withdrawn, the conflict was finally resolved; General Mannerheim entered Helsinki on May 16 1918 just to end the conflict on a formal note.

Strangely every year until WWll was celebrated as a kind of second Independence Day.

This tragedy was really because of the horrific terror released by reds and whites. In hindsight it should have been nipped in the bud; I have never met anyone with hindsight; it could well have prevented many wars

Finland’s civil war was a catastrophe, in a few months around 30,000 were wiped out, society was divided; I won’t go into the fine details, I would never finish (excuse the pun) this blog