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Ashes Cricket Tour 2005 - REVIEW

"...we learned about many things, for example, King Puck the goat. Once a year, someone selects a goat from the local community and makes it King. There’s a big party. The goat is given significant power, then it all fades away. Hearing this I decided that we in Australia have an equivalent festival, except we call ours ‘Local Government’..."

- AST Tour Member Ian Brown puts a musical spin on his Ashes experience.

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Ashes Cricket Tour 2005 - REVIEW

"...eventually we got to a small town called Dorridge for another 10 minute stop - a joyous place to send any loving mother in law. Well, the train turned up 30 minutes later, but at least we were on the right train and heading off to see all the jousting and feeding of the vultures that the Mac brothers ensured us was a "must see..."

- AST Tour Member Nick Lloyd reports on how he spent his free day when the Edgbaston Test finished early.

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Ashes Cricket Tour 2005 - REVIEW

"...England were reeling at 5 for 21 with McGrath taking 5 for 11 of 9 overs. What a spell! What a rollercoaster ride! We were devastated one minute and celebrating the next and all this on the first day - could my nerves take this? Of course they could! This is what Test cricket was all about! By the end of the first day England were 7 for 92 and we were back in the hotel bar talking about the days cricket with Geoff Lawson and Damien Fleming... could it get any better?..."

- AST Tour Member Paul "Richo" Richardson reports on the rollercoaster ride that was the Lords Test.

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Ashes Cricket Tour 2005 - REVIEW

"...the short trip to Lords took 45 minutes and showed us more of the Monopoly sites that we missed yesterday. I nearly had enough properties now for a hotel! We should have all collected £200 as we must have passed "GO", at least twice..."

- AST Tour Members Dave and Richard Flanders give their account of the Lords Test.

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Ashes Cricket Tour 2005 - SHORT STORIES

"In a word... AWESOME!" - by AST Tour member Karen Benfield

"Beer, Bombs and Babies" - by AST tour members John and Callie Foran

"A long way from Nowra" - by AST tour member Bill Huntriss

"Limericks" - a selection of limericks from the Clarke's Clowns bus

"Ode to Clarke's Clowns" - by AST tour member Sharon Beavis

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