Yes, congrats to Blighty. Their victory is a combination of generally superb play by them and generally woeful play by the Aussies. Who to sack? The Aussie selectors...

Which ever idiot refuses to play Hodge............Sack him for starters.

WICKET! Beer 2 b Tremlett (Australia 281)

I've never enjoyed typing one little line more than this - England have won the Ashes, 3-1.

OK, that's it for 3 1/2 years.

Best series since Len Hutton took a great English team down under.

Strauss will also feature as a great captain. Well done!

What do you call an Australian with a bottle of champagne?

Waiter!

Not sure if this will work, talk about second sight......................

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/reasons-why-poms-wont-win/story-e6frey50-1225955985591

Not sure if this will work, talk about second sight......................

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/reasons-why-poms-wont-win/story-e6frey50-1225955985591

It worked after a fashion. But that's the DT for you.

Last night and this morning I've been watching the latest on the Queensland floods. Toowoomba has had a flash flood that has killed 8 people and there are 72 missing. This was a surprise flood in the middle of all the other devastation - one minute the main streets were dry, the next there was a wall of water sweeping down the road, throwing cars on top of each other, sweeping everything away. People clinging to trees and light-poles, still being dragged away. Rescuers tied to safety lines wading out into this torrent to save people being swept past, dodging cars and debris to do so.

The biggest tragedy so far of this flood disaster.

Although it is taking place in only a part of Queensland, it is an area the size of France and Germany together that is affected. And now there is a possibility of Brisbane being inundated - the upstream dam that holds back floods is 140% over capacity (that is - there is 40% more water in the reservoir behind it than it was designed to contain). The authorities are releasing water as fast as they dare, but it is still building up behind the dam. 2 million megalitres of water being released every 24 hours at the moment, which is an awful lot of Aussie-quality beer. But maybe not enough. This really is a disaster on the scale of the Pakistani floods of last year, but without the vast number of people involved. And so far very few deaths or missing (despite Toowoomba yesterday) due to the precautions put in place since the floods of the mid-1970s. Basically being handled by the Queensland state authorities, volunteers and emergency help from NSW and Victoria.

And this hasn't finished yet. As with the Pakistani floods, it is possible to forecast the onward flow of this flood, currently reaching the head of the Murray, through the next few weeks. And there is heavy rain in Brisbane today ...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40996681/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Well that nice Welsh lady we gave them will have to step up to the plate wont she ( as an aside, no, we don't want her back ).

Hope she can read, that nice chap Jason Wood who the Aussies thought would be a jolly good fellow to lead the way, can't read !!!!!!

Watched all the videos on the Bearmeisters link..............OMG

For any Bedlamites with family or friends there, best wishes and I hope they are all safe............................No more jokes on this topic, bloody awful.

Not sure if this will work, talk about second sight......................

http://www.dailytele...0-1225955985591

It worked after a fashion. But that's the DT for you.

Last night and this morning I've been watching the latest on the Queensland floods. Toowoomba has had a flash flood that has killed 8 people and there are 72 missing. This was a surprise flood in the middle of all the other devastation - one minute the main streets were dry, the next there was a wall of water sweeping down the road, throwing cars on top of each other, sweeping everything away. People clinging to trees and light-poles, still being dragged away. Rescuers tied to safety lines wading out into this torrent to save people being swept past, dodging cars and debris to do so.

The biggest tragedy so far of this flood disaster.

Although it is taking place in only a part of Queensland, it is an area the size of France and Germany together that is affected. And now there is a possibility of Brisbane being inundated - the upstream dam that holds back floods is 140% over capacity (that is - there is 40% more water in the reservoir behind it than it was designed to contain). The authorities are releasing water as fast as they dare, but it is still building up behind the dam. 2 million megalitres of water being released every 24 hours at the moment, which is an awful lot of Aussie-quality beer. But maybe not enough. This really is a disaster on the scale of the Pakistani floods of last year, but without the vast number of people involved. And so far very few deaths or missing (despite Toowoomba yesterday) due to the precautions put in place since the floods of the mid-1970s. Basically being handled by the Queensland state authorities, volunteers and emergency help from NSW and Victoria.

And this hasn't finished yet. As with the Pakistani floods, it is possible to forecast the onward flow of this flood, currently reaching the head of the Murray, through the next few weeks. And there is heavy rain in Brisbane today ...

http://today.msnbc.m...ws-asiapacific/

Its not looking too good. Parts of Brisbane are in the process of being evacuated as I type. The 1974 floods saw the Bne river peak around 18.4 metres & some are predicting that it may peak tommorrow somewhere between 21 & 22 metres, which is like bullshit amount of water.

I read another report that the Wivanhoe Dam was in excess of 178% & at 200% its game over & I wouldnt want to be at the bottom of that baby when it reached that amount of water. Of course 200% doesnt mean catestrophic dam failure just no ability to control the excess water.......AND ITS STILL PISSING DOWN IN THE Catchment area. .

RIP to all the people killed in this. I hope some of the missing are safe & just unable to contact anyone. Its hard to get my head around after having just been in Toowoomba in November & also the SE area of Qld being so bloody dry during the past few years. Typically, when it rains it really rains.

UK Sky News just concurred mate, levels expected to be far worse than 1974.........Bugger.

UK Sky News just concurred mate, levels expected to be far worse than 1974.........Bugger.

Yeah its a real bugger.

ps: the footage at 1:15 in in town, like this is almost the middle of toowoomba

tis all fekked up

Terrible stuff.

I've seen first hand the damage that so much water can do and it is scary stuff, the power of that much waster is absolute. Hopefully the rains will stop and the water will drain away as soon as possible

Terrible stuff.

I've seen first hand the damage that so much water can do and it is scary stuff, the power of that much waster is absolute. Hopefully the rains will stop and the water will drain away as soon as possible

im not a fan of the new avatar old mate........you won't be allowed into Oz looking like that

Terrible stuff.

I've seen first hand the damage that so much water can do and it is scary stuff, the power of that much waster is absolute. Hopefully the rains will stop and the water will drain away as soon as possible

im not a fan of the new avatar old mate........you won't be allowed into Oz looking like that

Hey bridesmaid, love the beard. Gives me something to hold on to.

^too much info

24 hr abc

http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

News @ 9pm (qld time) put the Wivenhoe at 193%.

I referred earlier to 74 floods and river peaks around 18 metres, that was for Ipswich, which they are now predicting will exceed 22 metres. I think they are talking in excess of 5.5 metres in brissy itself. Its hard to get your head around until you see the pictures.

I was living in Brisbane in 1974. ( Up the hill to the north of the city so clear of the floods) It was a much smaller town then, and I think for some of us who were unaffected, it was more a novalty, not a big deal.

The city is built on several bends of the river and when it floods the water cuts across the corners.

From memory the Botanic gardens and a few streets at the bottom of the city were flooded, as were houses in low lying suburbs.

Many, many more houses and suburbs are built along the river now and much more infastructure along the river bank in the city. It will be a lot more damaging this time.

The Wivenhoe dam was built after this flood and was supposed to prevent any future floods. A couple of years ago Queensland was in a drought and that dam was at about 18% capacity!

Ten people confirmed dead now. Many more bodies have been sighted in the waters.

The death toll will be much higher.

Ten people confirmed dead now. Many more bodies have been sighted in the waters.

The death toll will be much higher.

A beautiful part of the world totally devastated. .............Bugger.

Something close to your heart old croc.

I saw a photo of a Salt Water Crocodile sitting in a park in Gympie. Now, last time I check Gympie didnt have Crocs. I am imagining that more of these maneaters are going to be washed down the coast & dispite the colder climate some of which may even put in a bit of a show for a lifestyle down south.

Im not sure about you, but if they are already in Gympie, then Brissy really isnt that far away . Scary thought!

Man-eating reptiles, even "Bugger" doesn't cover that............

Man-eating reptiles, even "Bugger" doesn't cover that............

Yeah, I remember clapping my eyes on one of those babies when I was in the water with it once & it was a life changing moment. They scare the living shit out of me.

Even if a Salty is full of food & can't eat another whatever, he will still attack you and take you away to store for a later snack. There is a reason they have lived for so long & I reakon that it would have to rate fairly highly as a method of death, being slowly drowned whilst teeth pierced your body and crushed your bones - feekkk that!

I wonder what their habitat range was pre-European era?

They had no natural predators back then so there's no reason they couldn't have been a lot further south.

Maybe they need mangrove swamps to breed?

I wonder what their habitat range was pre-European era?

They had no natural predators back then so there's no reason they couldn't have been a lot further south.

Maybe they need mangrove swamps to breed?

and probably other crocodiles................

I wonder what their habitat range was pre-European era?

They had no natural predators back then so there's no reason they couldn't have been a lot further south.

Maybe they need mangrove swamps to breed?

Temperature is a big thing with the crocs. Of course it can get warm all around Oz but down in those parts its rather cold in the winter times.

i dunno, im not croc expert but the big teeth and shitty attitudes scare me a little bit.

There's been reports of salties being sighted near Carnarvon in WA. They're certainly as far south as Port Hedland and even Exmouth.

I've swum in Geike George, Katherine George and Lake Argyle, all of which have had Salties in them at various times. They're certainly all full of freshwater crocs, I've seen them in the 10 - 12 foot range.

A group of us were fishing and swimming in the Ord River, below the diversion dam, for an afternoon some years ago.

Talked to a guy in town the next day who said he was surprised to see us swimming there because he had sighted a monster around the next bend where he was fishing. Thanks for telling us!

I swam the Daintree River at high tide in 1976.

You could walk across where I was, just up from the town of Daintree, at low tide but I decided to cross when it was on the full and ended up having to swim.

Certainly a silly thing to do, there's all sorts in those tidal rivers... sharks, stingrays...