Cricket:

I've been watching the cricket recently, and I've actually basically figured out what's going on. I think cricket is not a game that can be watched without beer. It's looking pretty good for Australia right now (and it turns out that even if Australia goes up 3-nil, they play the last two games in Sydney and Melbourne which must be a lot of fun for England...). I would like to inform the English side that sunscreen actually still works if you rub it in, rather than having a centimeter thick coating on your nose.

Also, Bill Bryson had a great cricket- and Australia-related quote. "I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished over night and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other." Which sounds about right. I did see some AFL and rugby union when I first arrived.