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Ricky Ponting Retires

Ricky Ponting former Australian test Cricket Captain has announced his retirement from test cricket following the 3rd test against South Africa starting tomorrow.
Uncle Harry was right.
In about 1990 I spent a memorable day at the cricket with my wife's Uncle harry.
He was 90 at the time.
We sat in the Edwin Smith Stand watching Australia play the West Indies.
He did not miss a ball and made some astute comments on the game as we went.
He told me how he remembered Kippax rattling the pickets at the Adelaide Oval.
He also told me Ricky Ponting will Captain Australia.
He was right.
What a marvellous player,captain and  champion of the game both on and off the field.
Below is a link to how the ABC news reported this.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-29/ponting-retires-from-test-cricket/4399042

Also I have attached some pics from the record breaking partnership between Ricky and Michael Clarke at Adelaide Oval in January this year.
Well done Ricky.











From the Wayside Chapel by Graham Long





Dear Inner Circle,

Two little girls sitting in the back seat of my car were in discussion about what the rudest word in the world might be. Eventually they decided that the word was "cr*p". They agreed that the word was so rude that only a parent could say it and then only if they dropped their phone. The five year old said, "Wow, so if you're a kid and you drop your phone, all you can say is, 'Oh, I dropped the phone.'" I happen to know that the girls' mummy dropped her phone about a week ago and I've got a fair idea of what she said at the time.

Yesterday, I had an appointment waiting for me at a local cafe and I needed to get out of the building without being caught at the front. I decided to exit via the Op Shop then into the back alley and then out through a back gate. As I stepped through the gate and out into the lane way, a woman was waiting for me with a pen and paper in her hand. "Farva," she said, "You know that prayer that Jesus said every day to make things go better for him, could you write that down on this piece of paper?" She turned around and I wrote the Our Father by leaning on her back. She turned around and said indignantly, "Not that one, everyone knows that one". I thought she might have Catholic background and so she turned around again and I wrote the Hail Mary. "That's not it," she insisted. She turned around again and I thought I'd cover a wider base and I wrote the Shema. "That's not it either," she said. We discussed options because there wasn't much room on the paper by now. "Is it 'Make me a channel of your peace?'" I asked. "That's probably it," she said. I didn't explain that St Augustine lived a long time after Jesus but I just wrote the prayer. When that was done the lady embraced me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. The act had a distinct flavour of a consolation prize as I was so stupid that I didn't really know what she was talking about and yet I tried. I guess there is no such thing as a quick getaway from Wayside.

They've been so many ambulances here this week. It's probably fair to say that maybe 3 or 4 or more life and death situations have happened every day here. Everything from a picture perfect young person self harming to an assortment of people who were living the worst day of their lives and who decided that this might as well be their last day. The staff in in our Community Service Centre are well trained and it would be hard to imagine a better and safer pair of hands than they each give. If it was my own son or my own daughter, I'd be mightily comforted if my child were to walk into Wayside on the worst day of their life.

At this time of year Wayside is in a more privileged position than most because we get to see a tremendous outpouring of goodwill from people wanting to help us. Our neighbours in the Horizon building gathered together last Friday night to raise around $50,000 for Wayside at a wonderful event that was a true demonstration of love. Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped organise the evening and to everyone who attended.

A few weeks ago I told you of a woman who recently found out that she was five months pregnant to her partner who died three months ago. She is so sad and weeks ago she told me that she would be giving the baby for adoption. Today she's softened a little because she told me, "One day at a time. I'll see how I feel at the time. Probably DoCS would take it off me anyway". If I could tell you the horrendous history of this woman, you'd understand her sense of fatalism. She had her first child at just 13 years of age and the father of that child was her own father. All I could say today was, "Well, if you want to fight to raise this child, we'll fight with you and if you can't do that, we'll love you anyway."

Thanks for being part of our inner circle,

Graham

PS. Registrations for volunteer shifts at our Christmas Day Street Party open on Monday, 3 December at 9am. If you'd like to register for a shift, go to www.thewaysidechapel.com at 9am on Monday and fill out the online form.

Rev Graham Long
Pastor and CEO
The Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
http://www.thewaysidechapel.com/

Monday, November 26, 2012

Australia V South Africa Day 5 Gallery

Well the Adelaide test match is over and ended in a tense draw.
Man of the match was South African batsman Faf Du Plessis who followed up his first innings 78 with an unbeaten century today.
He batted all day today and some of yesterday and this was his first test match.
Australia had there chances to win but it wasn't to be.
A memorable test match with some amazing individual performances and also sheer grit from both teams.
I think it was appropriate it was a draw.
Now it's to Perth on Friday for the last of the three test series.
I won't be there.
Here are some more pics from today taken on my Canon 600d.
All pics are copyright Geoff Thompson 2012.
Ps Any Cricketers who want to have their wedding photographed by Geoff Thompson are welcome to email me.















Chloe Saltau Chief Cricket writer for the Age and Malcolm Conn of News Limited
see link to interview on the Channel Nine Cricket Show



http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/cricket/cricketshow/


































































Final Score

Man of the Match presentation to Faf Du Plessis






Australian Captain Michael Clarke


Man of the Match

South African Captain Graeme Smith

Michael Clarke being interviewed by ABC' Grandstand's Peter Walsh
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-26/interview-michael-clarke/4393144?section=sport
Faf Du Plessis is interviewed by former South Australian Mike Haysman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Haysman 


How the ABC reported it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-26/as-it-happened-second-test-day-five/4391624